My top few things from day one or OR10.
- From the keynote, which was a presentation by David De Roure, professor of eResearch from Oxford. He looked at the way the research process is making its way onto the web.
He said something along the lines of “Methods are first-class citizens”, which made me think of the ANDS IS O2146 data model for describing research data: Collections, Parties, Services and Activities. And now, along comes ‘methods’. How to adapt? I think it’s worth ANDS considering an information architecture which is flexible enough to adapt to insights like this, and emerging needs – there a few of us suggesting that using RDF metadata might be a way forward.
- BibApp is an interesting bit of software. [PDF] It’s built around the idea of researcher profiles, and includes services for name-disambiguation, along the lines of the work done by NicNames and the forthcoming ARDC-PIP. Tim Sherrat of ANDS pointed it out to the ANDS eList recently.
- There was a presentation on an ongoing repository evaluation process [PDF]– which was possibly a bit long-winded for what amounted to a description of a methodology, we’ll see how useful this is, but I think that ‘objective’ measures of software are much less important than narrative that helps you to understand what it does (benchmarks like whether it actually works for more than five repository items are important of course).
- From the poster sessions:CAIRSS and the NLA probably need to talk to OCLC [PDF], as we have been doing with the Google Scholar team, to see how we can make sure we’re feeding the best possible quality data through to their open-access aggregator.
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