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OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014
Web-Based Journal System – Links to Articles
• Special-purpose archival solutions
for articles
• Rosenthal finds that what is archived
is too few, too healthy, too easy
• Attempts with the Keepers Registry
to map out what is archived
• Based on [ISSN, volume, issue],
not on DOI, HTTP URI
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A Perspective on Archiving the Scholarly Record
The document presents a comprehensive overview of the evolving functions of scholarly communication, emphasizing registration, certification, awareness, and archiving in both traditional and digital contexts. It highlights the need for new approaches to archiving given the dynamic and interconnected nature of contemporary scholarly objects. The author calls for a focus on proactive capture strategies to ensure persistent access to the scholarly record amidst changing technologies and platforms.
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A Perspective on Archiving the Scholarly Record
- 1. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Archiving the Evolving Scholarly Record: A Perspective Herbert Van de Sompel @hvdsomp Los Alamos National Laboratory Acknowledgments: Andrew Treloar, @atreloar , ANDS
- 2. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 In This Talk 1. Functions of scholarly communication 2. Pointers to the future 3. Characterizing the future 1. Archiving the future
- 3. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Functions of Scholarly Communication • Registration: Allows claims of precedence for a scholarly finding • Certification: Establishes validity of the claim • Awareness: Allows actors in the system to remain aware of new claims • Archiving: Preserves the scholarly record over time Roosendaal, H, Geurts, C. (1997) Forces and functions in scientific communication http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/conferences/crisp97/roosendaal.html
- 4. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 System of Journals, Paper Version • Registration: Manuscript submission • Certification: Peer review • Awareness: alerts, library shelf surfing • Archiving: Journals in library stacks
- 5. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 System of Journals, Digital Version • Registration: Manuscript submission • Certification: Peer review • Awareness: Various web discovery services • Archiving: Special purpose archives (e.g. Portico), publishers
- 6. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 In This Talk 1. Functions of scholarly communication 2. Pointers to the future 3. Characterizing the future 1. Archiving the future
- 7. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Pointers to the Future “The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed” William Gibson Gibson, W. (1999) The Science in Science FIction, NPR Interview http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1067220
- 8. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Registration - BioRxiv http://biorxiv.org
- 9. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Registration - GitHub http://github.com
- 10. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Registration – slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/hvdsomp/presentations
- 11. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Registration - WikiPathways http://wikipathways.org/index.php/WikiPathways
- 12. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Registration - Neurolex http://neurolex.org/wiki/Category:Olfactory_cortex_horizontal_cell
- 13. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Registration – Research Objects http://researchobject.org/
- 14. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Registration - Observations • Registration of wide variety of objects • dynamic, compound, inter-related, distributed across the web • Decoupling registration from certification • Time stamping, versioning
- 15. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Certification – PubMed Commons http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/
- 16. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Certification – The Open Journal http://theoj.org
- 17. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Certification – slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/hvdsomp/presentations
- 18. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Certification – Project FeederWatch http://feederwatch.org
- 19. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Certification - Observations • Certification decoupled from registration • Certification of various types of objects • Social interactions validating • Machines validating
- 20. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Awareness – Twitter http://twitter.com
- 21. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Awareness – myexperiment http://myexperiment.org/
- 22. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Awareness – NARCIS http://narcis.nl/
- 23. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Awareness – eLabNoteBook RSS Feeds http://malaria.ourexperiment.org/feeds
- 24. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Awareness - Observations • Awareness for various types of objects • Real time awareness • Awareness through social media
- 25. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Archiving – CLOCKSS http://www.clockss.org/
- 26. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Archiving – DANS Easy http://easy.dans.knaw.nl/
- 27. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Archiving – Australian Antarctic Data Centre http://data.aad.gov.au/
- 28. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Archiving – perma.cc http://perma.cc
- 29. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Archiving – EU Trusted Digital Repositories http://trusteddigitalrepository.eu/Site/Welcome.html
- 30. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Archiving - Observations • Archiving/Archives for various types of objects • Distributed archives • Archival consortia • Audit for trustworthiness
- 31. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 In This Talk 1. Functions of scholarly communication 2. Pointers to the future 3. Characterizing the future 1. Archiving the future
- 32. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 The Future • Registration • Wide variety of objects • Versions of objects • Interrelated, interdependent objects • Certification • Variety of certification mechanisms • Decoupled from / Overlaid upon Registration • Awareness • Real-time • Social • Variety of objects • Archiving …
- 33. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Characterizing the Future – Scholarly Communication
- 34. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Characterizing the Future – Communicated Objects
- 35. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 In This Talk 1. Functions of scholarly communication 2. Pointers to the future 3. Characterizing the future 1. Archiving the future
- 36. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 The Future – Core Observations • The research process, not just its outcome, is becoming visible … on the web • Massive extension of the scholarly record with an enormous variety of novel objects • The objects are heterogeneous, dynamic, compound, inter-related and distributed across the web • The objects are often hosted on common web platforms that are not dedicated to scholarship The archival paradigm must take these characteristics into account
- 37. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Considerations about Archiving • On the right track? • Capturing paradigms • Pockets of persistence • Recording versus Archiving • A perspective on scholarly infrastructure
- 38. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Considerations about Archiving • On the right track? • Capturing paradigms • Pockets of persistence • Recording versus Archiving • A perspective on scholarly infrastructure
- 39. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Web-Based Journal System – Links to Articles • Special-purpose archival solutions for articles • Rosenthal finds that what is archived is too few, too healthy, too easy • Attempts with the Keepers Registry to map out what is archived • Based on [ISSN, volume, issue], not on DOI, HTTP URI David Rosenthal (2013) Patio Perspectives at ANADP II: Preserving the Other Half http://blog.dshr.org/2013/11/patio-perspectives-at-anadp-ii.html
- 40. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Web-Based Journal System – Links to Articles Peter Burnhill (2014) Ensuring access to digital back copy http://www.cni.org/topics/digital-preservation/ensuring-access-to-digital-back-copy/
- 41. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Web-Based Journal System – Links to Web at Large Resources • Web archives contain snapshots, the result of incidental archiving • The Hiberlink project finds that for the large majority of these “Web at Large” resources, no temporally appropriate archived versions exist • Memento infrastructure allows auditing what is globally archived based on HTTP URI http://hiberlink.org
- 42. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Links Abstracted to Top Level Domain Targets Martin Klein, Herbert Van de Sompel et al. (2014) Scholarly context not found To appear in PLoS ONE on December 26 2014
- 43. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Loss of Current Context – Link Rot Martin Klein, Herbert Van de Sompel et al. (2014) Scholarly context not found To appear in PLoS ONE on December 26 2014
- 44. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Loss of Past Context – Archival Status (14 day window) Martin Klein, Herbert Van de Sompel et al. (2014) Scholarly context not found To appear in PLoS ONE on December 26 2014
- 45. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Considerations about Archiving • On the right track? • Capturing paradigms • Pockets of persistence • Recording versus Archiving • A perspective on scholarly infrastructure
- 46. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Perspective on “Repository” Capture Paradigm • Atomic object • Finalized object • Removal of context • Perspective on object: file in a file system • Capture request by owner of object • Capture time decided by owner of object
- 47. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Perspective on “Web” Capture Paradigm • Compound object (context essential) • Constituents of compound object in flux • Perspective on constituents: resources with URIs on the web • Capture request by user of the constituents, owned by self, owned by 3rd parties • Capture time decided by user of the constituents
- 48. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Considerations about Archiving • On the right track? • Capturing paradigms • Pockets of persistence • Recording versus Archiving • A perspective on scholarly infrastructure
- 49. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Creating Pockets of Persistence How to achieve the ability to: • Persistently • Precisely • Seamlessly revisit the Scholarly Web of the Past and of the Now at some point in the Future
- 50. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Creating Pockets of Persistence How to achieve the ability to: • Persistently • Precisely • Seamlessly revisit the Scholarly Web of the Past and of the Now at some point in the Future This challenge exists for the entire web, but some communities actually care about addressing it: • scholarly communication, • legal publications, • journalism, • Wikipedia, • …
- 51. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Pro-Active Capture for a Seed Collection • Seed Collection - Starting point for capture is a seed collection of interest to communities that care, e.g. o Scholarly literature o Legal documents o On-Line journalism o Wikipedia articles • Lifecycle Events – Intervene at critical moments in the lifecycle of items in these collections to pro-actively capture o Collection items – some solutions in place o Web resources referenced in collection items
- 52. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Pro-Active Capture for a Seed Collection • Request by user of a A to capture A, B, C, D, E • Request for capture may result in • In-situ or remote capture • Creation of snapshot or creation of trace • Archival URI, capture datetime • Interoperability for on-demand capture • Orchestration of capture process
- 53. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Pro-Active Capture for Seed Collection • What those crucial lifecycle events are may depend on the collection type Wikipedia • Creation of new article • Creation of new version of article • Creation of substantially new version of article • Addition of external reference to article • References to article exceed a certain threshold Scholarly Literature
- 54. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Scholarly Literature: Experimental Zotero Extension Richard Wincewicz (2014) Prototype Hiberlink plugin for Zotero https://www.youtube.com/v/ZYmi_Ydr65M%26vq
- 55. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Scholarly Literature: Experimental HiberActive Service Martin Klein et al. (2014) HiberActive: Pro-Active Archiving of web references Open Repositories 2014 http://www.slideshare.net/martinklein0815/hiberactive
- 56. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Considerations about Archiving • On the right track? • Capturing paradigms • Pockets of persistence • Recording versus Archiving • A perspective on scholarly infrastructure
- 57. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Web Platforms for Scholarship • Increasingly, common web platforms are used for scholarship • GitHub, Wikis, Wordpress, etc. • Many of these platforms have desirable characteristics • Versioning • Time stamping • Social embedding • But, these platforms record rather than archive
- 58. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Recording is not Archiving “GitHub reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice.” “GitHub does not warrant that (i) the service will meet your specific requirements, (ii) the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, (iii) the results that may be obtained from the use of the service will be accurate or reliable, (iv) the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you through the service will meet your expectations, and (v) any errors in the Service will be corrected.” GitHub Terms of Service http://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service
- 59. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Recording versus Archiving Recording Archiving Short-term Longer-term No guarantees provided Attempt to provide guarantees Write many/read many Write once/Read many Scholarly process Scholarly record
- 60. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Considerations about Archiving • On the right track? • Capturing paradigms • Recording versus Archiving • A perspective on scholarly infrastructure
- 61. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014
- 62. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Infrastructure Considerations • Various incentives to move objects from Private to Recording: • Share with self, team, comply with funder requirements • Objects in Recording are network accessible and in global (HTTP) namespace • Within reach of web-scale processes aimed at selectively moving them from Recording to Archiving • Core aspects of these processes include • Ability to snapshot the state of interlinked objects at specific moments in their lifecycle • Transfer of snapshots from Recording platforms to appropriate, distributed Archive platforms (interoperability) • Curatorial decisions regarding what should be captured
- 63. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Curatorial Considerations • What are the criteria involved in deciding (which states of) which objects get captured/archived? • What triggers transition from Recording to Archiving? • On-demand in lifecycle, social status of the object, reference made to object, deliberate randomness for serendipity, … • What to archive? • Snapshot of object or trace of object (metadata, provenance, …) ?
- 64. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Final Considerations • Need organizational, technical, and curatorial interfaces between Recording and Archiving platforms • Need organizational and technical interfaces across Archiving platforms
- 65. Herbert Van deSompel OCLC ESR, Washington, DC, December 10 2014 Archiving the Evolving Scholarly Record: A Perspective Herbert Van de Sompel @hvdsomp Los Alamos National Laboratory Acknowledgments: Andrew Treloar, @atreloar , ANDS