Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:19:13 BST CiteULike: simeon_warner's library [5 articles] http://www.citeulike.org/user/simeon_warner CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/simeon_warner/article/2689596 <i>(16 Apr 2008)</i><br /><br />Access to previous results is of paramount importance in the scientific process. Recent progress in information management focuses on building e-infrastructures for the optimization of the research workflow, through both policy-driven and user-pulled dynamics. For decades, High-Energy Physics (HEP) has pioneered innovative solutions in the field of information management and dissemination. In light of a transforming information environment, it is important to assess the current usage of information resources by researchers and HEP provides a unique test-bed for this assessment. A survey of about 10% of practitioners in the field reveals usage trends and information needs. Community-based services, such as the pioneering arXiv and SPIRES systems, largely answer the need of the scientists, with a limited but increasing fraction of younger users relying on Google. Commercial services offered by publishers or database vendors are essentially unused in the field. The survey offers an insight into the most important features that users require to optimize their research workflow. These results inform the future evolution of information management in HEP and, as these researchers are traditionally “early adopters” of innovation in scholarly communication, can inspire developments of disciplinary repositories serving other communities. Information Resources in High-Energy Physics: Surveying the Present Landscape and Charting the Future Course Anne Gentil-Beccot Salvatore Mele Annette Holtkamp Heath O&#x27;connell Travis Brooks (16 Apr 2008) 2008-04-18T21:48:45-00:00 2008 hep http://www.citeulike.org/user/simeon_warner/article/753053 <i></i> Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries 2006-07-11T19:50:25-00:00 no-tag http://www.citeulike.org/user/simeon_warner/article/961204 <i></i> A Framework for Digital Library Research: Broadening the Vision 2006-11-24T22:07:23-00:00 dlvision http://www.citeulike.org/user/simeon_warner/article/2741685 <i>(24 May 2006)</i><br /><br />Although recording of usage data is common in scholarly information services, its exploitation for the creation of value-added services remains limited due to concerns regarding, among others, user privacy, data validity, and the lack of accepted standards for the representation, sharing and aggregation of usage data. This paper presents a technical, standards-based architecture for sharing usage information, which we have designed and implemented. In this architecture, OpenURL-compliant linking servers aggregate usage information of a specific user community as it navigates the distributed information environment that it has access to. This usage information is made OAI-PMH harvestable so that usage information exposed by many linking servers can be aggregated to facilitate the creation of value-added services with a reach beyond that of a single community or a single information service. This paper also discusses issues that were encountered when implementing the proposed approach, and it presents preliminary results obtained from analyzing a usage data set containing about 3,500,000 requests aggregated by a federation of linking servers at the California State University system over a 20 month period. An Architecture for the Aggregation and Analysis of Scholarly Usage Data Johan Bollen Herbert Van de Sompel (24 May 2006) 2008-05-01T04:00:28-00:00 2006 bibliometrics http://www.citeulike.org/user/simeon_warner/article/2741675 <i></i> Object Re-Use & Exchange: A Resource-Centric Approach 2008-05-01T03:52:35-00:00 oai-ore