65 research outputs found
NISO RP-17 : Institutional identification: Identifying organizations in the information supply chain
No full text"A Recommended Practice of the National Information Standards Organization / Prepared by the Institutional Identifiers Working Group"Esta recomendación fue planeada originalmente para ser publicada como un estándar (NISO Z39.94), pero el grupo de trabajo decidió utilizar el nuevo estándar ISO ISNI (ISO 27729) y recibió el compromiso de la Agencia Internacional ISNI para que el identificador pudiera ser utilizado por las instituciones. Los metadatos fueron armonizados para garantizar que se pudieran recolectar los metadatos adicionales necesarios de las instituciones. La norma NISO fue cancelada y se emitió en su lugar esta recomendación práctica para explicar los requisitos para usar ISNI para las instituciones.Define los requisitos operativos y de metadatos para un identificador institucional. Describe cómo se utilizará el ISNI (norma internacional de identificación de nombres) como identificador institucional.NIS
DINI Institutional Repository Certification and Beyond
No full textThe DINI certificate for document and publication repositories aims to network document and publication repositories by pushing the use of standards and promoting interoperability and cooperation between German higher education institutions that run digital repositories.
With the certificate DINI provides an instrument for the repository operators that could be used to raise the visibility, the recognition, and the importance of the digital repository within the university.
The certificate shows potential users and authors of digital documents that a certain quality level in operating the repository is guaranteed and that this distinguishes it from common web servers of institutions. The certificate consists of the following criteria:
Server Policy
Authors Support
Legal Issues
Authenticity and Data Integrity
Indexing (Subject Indexing, Metadata, Export)
Statistics and Impact
Longterm Preservation
In addition, DINI sees its certificate as an instrument to support the Open Access concept. This certificate can be viewed as a "soft certificate", where the coaching idea prevails. It works on the basis of self disclosure by the repositories.
This talk will summarize the certification experiences made by DINI, explain the new version of the DINI certificate 2006, how it supports Open Access and how it distinguishes itself from other certification efforts, like the nestor or the RLG approaches
The semantic web and expert metadata : pull apart then bring together
No full textThe paper discusses the relevance of Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS), the essential technical components of the Semantic Web, to the structure and content of professional metadata generated by archives, libraries and museums. The impact on professional practice and policy is illustrated with examples from the library domain. The paper describes the potential of the Semantic Web to bring to an end the evolution of the library catalogue record and other localised metadata structures. The paper suggests how the professional communities can treat the Semantic Web as an opportunity rather than a threat, by exploiting their metadata expertise and assets in the areas of identity and authority to the benefit of services and users
Institutional Identifiers in Repositories: A Survey Report
No full textThe National Information Standards Organization (NISO) established a working group in July 2008 to recommend an identifier standard, with associated metadata and implementation strategy, for identifying institutions involved in information creation, sharing, and management. An institutional identifier is defined as a symbol or code that will uniquely identify institutions and that will describe relationships between entities within institutions
数字时代的国家书目：指南和新方向
No full textThis is a Chinese translation of the Guidelines by the IFLA Bibliography Section:
National bibliographies in the digital age : guidance and new directions / IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for National Bibliographies ; edited by Maja Žumer. — München : Saur, 2009. — 140 p. : some ill. ; 25 cm. — (IFLA series on bibliographic control ; v. 39
Knowledge Exchange Institutional Repository Workshop
No full textThe workshop took place on 16-17 January in Utrecht, with Seventy experts from eight European countries in attendance. The workshop was structured in six sessions:
usage statistics
research paper metadata
exchanging information
author identification
Open Archives Initiative
eTheses
Following the workshop, the discussion groups were asked to continue their collaboration and to produce a report for circulation to all participants. The results can be downloaded below.
The recommendations contained in the reports above have been reviewed by the Knowledge Exchange partner organisations and formed the basis for new proposals and the next steps in Knowledge Exchange work with institutional repositories.
Institutional Repository Workshop - Next steps
During April and May 2007 Knowledge Exchange had expert reviewers from the partner organisations go though the workshop strand reports and make their recommendations about the best way to move forward, to set priorities, and find possibilities for furthering the institutional repository cause. The KE partner representatives reviewed the reviews and consulted with their partner organisation management to get an indication of support and funding for the latest ideas and proposals, as follows:
Pragmatic interoperability
During a review meeting at JISC offices in London on 31 May, the expert reviewers and the KE partner representatives agreed that ‘pragmatic interoperability' is the primary area of interest. It was also agreed that the most relevant and beneficial choice for a Knowledge Exchange approach would be to aim for CRIS-OAR interoperability as a step towards integrated services. Within this context, interlinked joint projects could be undertaken by the partner organisations regarding the areas that most interested them.
Interlinked projects
The proposed Knowledge Exchange activities involve interlinked joint projects on metadata, persistent author identifiers, and eTheses which are intended to connect to and build on projects such as ISPI, Jisc NAMES and the Digital Author Identifier (DAI) developed by SURF. It is important to stress that the projects are not intended to overlap, but rather to supplement the DRIVER 2 (EU project) approaches.
Focus on CRIS and OAR
It is believed that the focus on practical interoperability between Current Research Information Systems and Open Access Repository systems will be of genuine benefit to research scientists, research administrators and librarian communities in the Knowledge Exchange countries; accommodating the specific needs of each group.
Timing
June 2007: Write the draft proposal by KE Working Group members
July 2007: Final proposal to be sent to partner organisations by KE Group
August 2007: Decision by Knowledge Exchange partner organisations
Creation of Standardized Common Data Elements for Diagnostic Tests in Infectious Disease Studies: Semantic and Syntactic Mapping
No full textBackground:
It is necessary to harmonize and standardize data variables used in case report forms (CRFs) of clinical studies to facilitate the merging and sharing of the collected patient data across several clinical studies. This is particularly true for clinical studies that focus on infectious diseases. Public health may be highly dependent on the findings of such studies. Hence, there is an elevated urgency to generate meaningful, reliable insights, ideally based on a high sample number and quality data. The implementation of core data elements and the incorporation of interoperability standards can facilitate the creation of harmonized clinical data sets.
Objective:
This study’s objective was to compare, harmonize, and standardize variables focused on diagnostic tests used as part of CRFs in 6 international clinical studies of infectious diseases in order to, ultimately, then make available the panstudy common data elements (CDEs) for ongoing and future studies to foster interoperability and comparability of collected data across trials.
Methods:
We reviewed and compared the metadata that comprised the CRFs used for data collection in and across all 6 infectious disease studies under consideration in order to identify CDEs. We examined the availability of international semantic standard codes within the Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms, the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus, and the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes system for the unambiguous representation of diagnostic testing information that makes up the CDEs. We then proposed 2 data models that incorporate semantic and syntactic standards for the identified CDEs.
Results:
Of 216 variables that were considered in the scope of the analysis, we identified 11 CDEs to describe diagnostic tests (in particular, serology and sequencing) for infectious diseases: viral lineage/clade; test date, type, performer, and manufacturer; target gene; quantitative and qualitative results; and specimen identifier, type, and collection date.
Conclusions:
The identification of CDEs for infectious diseases is the first step in facilitating the exchange and possible merging of a subset of data across clinical studies (and with that, large research projects) for possible shared analysis to increase the power of findings. The path to harmonization and standardization of clinical study data in the interest of interoperability can be paved in 2 ways. First, a map to standard terminologies ensures that each data element’s (variable’s) definition is unambiguous and that it has a single, unique interpretation across studies. Second, the exchange of these data is assisted by “wrapping” them in a standard exchange format, such as Fast Health care Interoperability Resources or the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium’s Clinical Data Acquisition Standards Harmonization Model
Policies, Models, & Trends in Open Access, Open Data & Persistent Identifiers: An overview and update
No full textThis presentation will explore significant recent updates pertaining to open access, open data, and persistent identifiers, and some of the ways we are responding at Oklahoma State University Libraries.
We will begin with an overview of the “Nelson Memo,” issued in 2022 by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to initiate planning for immediate public access to peer reviewed publications and data resulting from federal funding. We will discuss what the memo says, how agencies are responding, and what we might anticipate in 2025 given there will be a new presidential administration regardless of the election results. We will then move to an outline of the Federal Purpose License (also called the Government Use License) as a legal foundation for federal agencies’ right to deposit and reuse research outputs derived from agency funding. We will provide an update on efforts to formalize recommendations regarding persistent identifiers into a National Standard, summarizing the recommendations in the “Developing a US Persistent Identifier National Strategy” document. By the time of the conference a National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Working Group will likely have formed to author a formal text for public comment. The discussion will conclude with observations on the effect these efforts might have on research offices and academic libraries, including implications for compliance, labor & staffing, and models for supporting researchers.
We will then transition into a review of opportunities and challenges presented by these federal agency public access policies with respect to research data, including providing guidance for data management and sharing plan contents and supporting compliance with open access requirements. We will consider the importance of incorporating research data – and its impacts – in researcher evaluations like reappointment, promotion, and tenure and also outline our own efforts to quantify the impact of shared research data at an institutional level along with larger community efforts like the Make Data Count initiative.
This presentation will conclude with an analysis of the continuing shift toward transformative agreements and tension with diamond OA models. We'll examine how these developments are reshaping the scholarly communication landscape and discuss their implications for academic libraries. Additionally, we'll highlight the connection between the OSU Experts Directory and the Open Research Oklahoma repository, showcasing how this integration enhances research discoverability and participation in Green OA.N
A follow-up study of the reasons involved in teacher turnover using a sample group of marketing education graduates from 1995-1999
No full textPlan BThis study attempted to determine the reasons for teacher turnover utilizing a sample group of marketing education graduates from 1995 to 1999. Research objectives to be answered by this study involved:
(1) What were the reasons for marketing education teacher turnover?
(2) What percentage of marketing education graduates between the years of 1995 and 1999 were currently teaching?
(3) Of those currently teaching marketing education, how long had they been teaching?
(4) Were any of the graduates working in a field unrelated to marketing education?
(5) What were some of the recommendations for making a marketing education
teaching career more engaging or appealing? A survey questionnaire, cover letter, and return envelope were mailed to a total of 98 participants. The survey included 11 questions designed to extract feedback that corresponded with the objectives of this study. The outcome was a total of 44 respondents, representing a 44.8 percent response rate. It was concluded from the respondents that the top six reasons for marketing education teacher turnover were salary, burnout, lack of administrative support, better opportunities in the business world, student discipline problems, and politics. The percentage of marketing education graduates that were currently teaching was 43.2 percent. Of those currently teaching, 13.6 percent had been teaching for five years; 9.1 percent each for three and four years; 6.8 for one year; and 2.3 percent for two years. Occupations unrelated to teaching with the highest response rate were sales, marketing manager, advertising consultant, development director, and homemaker. Recommendations for making a marketing education teaching career more appealing with the highest response rate were increase salary, combine marketing education with a business degree, more funding, create internships for business and industry, more administrative support, and financial rewards. Overall, studies indicated the need for continued research on the topic of teacher turnover. It was implied that effective solutions need to be created to lessen the burden of teacher turnover. Past studies also indicated that the number one reason for teacher turnover, and the number one recommendation to make a marketing education teaching career more appealing, was to increase teacher salary
Brain Structure in Acutely Underweight and Partially Weight-Restored Individuals with Anorexia Nervosa - A Coordinated Analysis by the ENIGMA Eating Disorders Working Group
No full textThe pattern of structural brain abnormalities in anorexia nervosa (AN) is still not well understood. While several studies report substantial deficits in grey matter volume and cortical thickness in acutely underweight patients, others find no differences, or even increases in patients compared with healthy controls. Recent weight regain before scanning may explain some of this heterogeneity across studies. To clarify the extent, magnitude, and dependencies of grey matter changes in AN, we conducted a prospective, coordinated meta-analysis of multicenter neuroimaging data. We analyzed T1-weighted structural MRI scans assessed with standardized methods from 685 female AN patients and 963 female healthy controls across 22 sites worldwide. In addition to a case-control comparison, we conducted a three-group analysis comparing healthy controls to acutely underweight AN patients (n = 466), and to those in treatment and partially weight-restored (n = 251). In AN, reductions in cortical thickness, subcortical volumes, and, to a lesser extent, cortical surface area, were sizable (Cohen’s d up to 0.95), widespread and co-localized with hub regions. Highlighting the effects of undernutrition, these deficits associated with lower BMI in the AN sample and were less pronounced in partially weight-restored patients. Notably, the effect sizes observed for cortical thickness deficits in acute AN are the largest of any psychiatric disorder investigated in the ENIGMA consortium to date. These results confirm the importance of considering weight loss and renutrition in biomedical research on AN and underscore the importance of treatment engagement to prevent potentially long-lasting structural brain changes in this population.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.Funding StatementThis work was supported by the Carus Promotionskolleg (KB), the Ministerio de Igualdad, Spain (grant number 234/09) and by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2009 SGR 1119) (SA), NIH R21MH86017, NIH R01MH113588 (ABG), Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) UK (ICC), the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation (FAK) (DN040546) and by the Generalitat de Catalunya 2017SGR4881 (JCF), German Ministry for Education and Research (grants 01GV0602 and 01GV0623) (BD), NIMH R01MH105662, NIMH R01MH093535 (JDF), NIMH K23MH080135, R01MH096777 (GKWF), NIH RC1MH088678 (JLG), German Ministry for Education and Research (grants 01GV0602 and 01GV0623) (BHD), the CAMH AFP Innovation Fund (ASK), Swiss Anorexia Nervosa Foundation (project no. 19-12), the Palatin Foundation, and the Gottfried and Julia Bangerter-Rhyner-Foundation (LKK), NIH R01MH042984- 17A1, Price Foundation, NIH R01MH113588 (WHK), NIMH K23MH112949 (SSK), NIH RC1MH088678 (KSL), the Carlos III Research Institute of the Spanish Ministry of Health, FIS PI040829 and by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2009 SGR 1119) (LL), the CAMH AFP Innovation Fund (AEM), Swiss Anorexia Nervosa Foundation (project no. 19-12), the Palatin Foundation, and the Gottfried and Julia Bangerter-Rhyner-Foundation (GFM), Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) UK (OOD), Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) UK (UHS), German Ministry for Education and Research (grants 01GV0602 and 01GV0623) (JS), NIMH K23MH080135, R01MH096777 (MES), DFG: SI 2087/2-1, BR 4852/1-1, Swiss Anorexia Nervosa Foundation: 57-16 (JJS), Research Council of Norway (#288083, #223273); South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (#2019069, #2021070, #500189) (CKT), the CAMH AFP Innovation Fund (ANV), German Ministry for Education and Research (grants 01GV0602 and 01GV0623) (GGvP), NIH R21MH86017, R01MH113588 (CEW), NIH RC1MH088678 (NLZ), NIH RC1MH088678 (JAK), a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator Award (US), the NIHR Mental Health Biomedical Research Centre at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Kings College London (ICC, US and OOD), K23MH118418; NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (LAB), and SFB 940, DFG: EH 367/5-1, EH 367/7-1 and the Swiss Anorexia Nervosa Foundation (SE). This work is further supported by the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (EarlyCause, grant number 848158, to EW). The ENIGMA Working Group acknowledges the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) award for foundational support and consortium development (U54 EB020403 to Paul M. Thompson).Author DeclarationsI confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained.YesThe details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below:All participating sites obtained approval from local institutional review boards and ethics committees, and all study participants provided written informed consent (SM section 1.1). I confirm that all necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived, and that any patient/participant/sample identifiers included were not known to anyone (e.g., hospital staff, patients or participants themselves) outside the research group so cannot be used to identify individuals.YesI understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance).YesI have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines and uploaded the relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material as supplementary files, if applicable.YesAll data produced in the present study are available upon reasonable request to the authors
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