Presentations & Consultations

Nov
14

Presentation | Charleston Library Conference

An International Data Space for OA Book Usage Data Exchange Across Public and Private Stakeholders

In this “Lively Discussion” Executive Director Christina Drummond will be joined by Michelle Urberg (LibLynx) to reflect upon the usefulness and potential of a “data space” for scholarly communications impact data given their participation in the initial OA Book Usage Data Trust data space technical pilot. Laura Ricci (Clarke and Esposito) will join them to reflect on whether the benefits of a usage and impact related data space would apply to additional scholarly communications outputs beyond books and usage data given the stakeholders and data flows involved.

Source: https://www.charleston-hub.com/the-charleston-conference/welcome/2024-preliminary-program/

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Sep
16
to Sep 18

Presentation and Poster Session | OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2024

Executive Director, Christina Drummond, will join other panelists on the panel ‘All impact, no factor? How to assess the benefits of OA books and infrastructure’ as well as present the OA Book Usage Data Trust effort during the poster session.

Full program is available here: https://bit.ly/3LmzTk2

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Sep
12

Presentation | ALPSP Annual Conference

Executive Director, Christina Drummond, will join other panelists during the 5a Session ‘The Value of OA Books’ to explore how open access is adding value to both publishers and communities, as well as discuss how to maximise their impact and increase their reach.

Full program is available here: https://bit.ly/3xWZoW2

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Jul
4

Presentation | LIBER Conference

Community Manager Ursula Rabar will share the potential for digital infrastructure to support the exchange and processing of sensitive and proprietary usage and impact metrics generated by publishers, libraries and distributors.

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Apr
24

Community Consultation | OPERAS Conference

Exploring Sustainability for Global OA Book Usage Data Trust Infrastructure

Christina Drummond and Ursula Rabar will facilitate this workshop that invites OA usage stakeholders to learn what the Data Trust IDS service will provide, to then explore and evaluate ways to sustain such a trusted, neutral data intermediary infrastructure within the scholarly publishing ecosystem.

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Mar
20

Community Consultation | Online Focus Group

The OA Book Usage Data Trust effort is currently exploring and evaluating ways to sustain a trusted, neutral data intermediary infrastructure within the scholarly publishing ecosystem.  

In this online focus group, you will be able to discuss and consider the strengths and weaknesses of various cost-recovery oriented revenue generation options for the Data Trust.

To accommodate different time zones there will be two time options to choose from:

March 20th at 9.00 AM CET / 8.00 AM UTC / 4.00 AM EDT 

March 20th at 3.00 PM CET / 2.00 PM UTC / 10.00 AM EDT 

Sign up for your preferred slot here: https://forms.gle/2jLNgQeQDgzAEadt9

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Feb
20

Community Consultation | Researcher to Reader

Workshop A: Sustainability for Global OA Book Usage

Christina Drummond and Ursula Rabar will facilitate this workshop that invites OA usage stakeholders to learn what the Data Trust IDS service will provide, to then explore and evaluate ways to sustain such a trusted, neutral data intermediary infrastructure within the scholarly publishing ecosystem.

Source: https://r2rconf.com/r2r-conference-programme/

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Feb
13

Presentation | NISO +

Executive Director Christina Drummond will join Laura Ricci of Clarke & Esposito on a panel to discuss open access books and their infrastructure.

Source: https://nisoplusbaltimore24.sched.com/

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Nov
8
to Nov 9

Presentation | Charleston Library Conference

How an international data trust model can benefit those working with OA book usage data

In this “Lively Discussion” Executive Director Christina Drummond and Trustees Sharla Lair, Jennifer Kemp, and Dimitris Pierrakos will discuss the development of the data trust’s community governance, the role of board policy and the data exchange ‘rulebook’, and how the data trust can inform the exploration of national infrastructure to streamline public/private metrics exchange.

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Nov
7

Community Consultation | Charleston Library Pre-Conference

Library publishing stakeholders are invited to inform how an open infrastructure is sustained by and for the communities it serves. This workshop invites OA usage stakeholders to learn what the Data Trust’s International Data Space (IDS) service will provide, to then explore and evaluate ways to sustain such a trusted, neutral data intermediary infrastructure within the scholarly publishing ecosystem.

Specifically participants will:

  • Learn about the OAEBUDT effort and the IDS infrastructure

  • Consider the strengths and weaknesses of various cost-recovery oriented revenue generation options for non-profit open scholarly infrastructure, leveraging exercises from the Open Data Institute’s Sustainable Data Access Workbook and a preliminary business model canvas prepared for the effort by MoreBrains Consulting.

  • Reflect on how sustainability models might impact trust, neutrality, and global participation, to explore mitigation strategies that address concerns.

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Sep
14

Poster Session | PUBMET2023

Community Manager Ursula Rabar will share emerging participation and ethical data exchange and use guidelines for the data trust to ensure that they meet the needs of diverse OA book stakeholders and the research community at large.

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Jun
14

Presentation | OR2023

In this session, our Executive Director will join representatives of AfricArxiv, the Publishers Association of South Africa, Wits University Press, DataCite, and ROR to discuss how multiple organizations across the OA usage data ecosystem function together to increase trust in aggregated cross-platform usage data. After a brief overview of the OA usage data supply chain, panelists will describe their organization's role in fostering trusted OA output usage data and identify future areas for collaborative development.

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Jun
1

Presentation | SSP 2023

Session 2A: Unpacking OA Usage Reporting - What Do Stakeholders Want?

In this session, Executive Director Christina Drummond will join a panel to explore what’s known, unpack open questions and lay the groundwork for future standards in this area.

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May
10

Community Consultation | Library Publishing Forum

Our Community Manager, Ursula Rabar, hosts an active session on Book Usage Metric Sharing and Use Guardrails: Developing Ethical Principles and System Requirements to Protect Reader Privacy and Automate Multi-Publisher and Platform OA Book Usage Data Exchange and Aggregation.

In this session, the library publishing community will have an opportunity to provide feedback on draft ethical principles, community governance structures, and data trust participation requirements drafted by stakeholders for community review. Participants will explore the importance of book usage data stewardship practices and policies, and why high quality, granular OA book usage analytics and reports may require detailed usage data to be exchanged in controlled environments as opposed to aggregate data harvested from the public web. Issues of privacy, transparency, community governance, security will be explored while considering whether specific use and reuse limitations should exist for book usage data shared across the book publishing ecosystem.

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Apr
21
to Apr 22

Community Consultation | Rulebook Workshop

In this working meeting thought leaders will identify and develop an initial set of OA book usage data use policies and participation requirements for the OA Book Usage Data Trust. Participants will be asked to consider what is needed to ensure ethical data use and to foster trust among the diverse OA Book Usage Data Trust participants, including commercial and public usage data contributors and those who leverage the data exchanged through the OA Book Usage Data Trust’s data space.

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Apr
4

Presentation | CNI Spring Member Meeting 2023

Workshop Report Out: National Infrastructure for Public Access Usage and Impact Reporting

Christina Drummond, Charles Watkinson, and Niels Stern talk provide an overview and reflections on conversations that took place at an April 2nd workshop on Exploring National Infrastructure for Public Access Usage and Impact Reporting.

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Compiling usage and impact metrics across public and private repositories, services, and publishers is a time and data science expertise-intensive activity undertaken by individual researchers, universities, libraries, and publishers. Challenges related to reader privacy, data ownership, and trusted use confront the exchange and reuse of this data. To advance Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) research impact reporting, on April 2nd, 2023, a National Science Foundation-supported workshop brought together stakeholders to explore how best to leverage shared cyberinfrastructure to support cross-platform systems integrations and ethical data processing that addresses concerns related to artificial intelligence, machine-based aggregation and the use of scholar-specific impact data. Stakeholders advanced four strategic collaboration opportunity areas that surfaced in a November 2022 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) survey of research data organizations, specifically addressing how to facilitate economies of scale for the reporting and analysis of usage data related to publicly accessible scholarship outputs. This panel will feature perspectives on these issues from library, repository, and data platform workshop participants while providing the first summary of the workshop findings. Topics to be addressed will include: a) challenges to cross-platform public and open impact analytics at scale, b) open infrastructure opportunities to improve the FAIRness of usage data, and c) identified gaps in the national infrastructure for scholarly output impact reporting.

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Feb
16

Presentation | NISO Plus 2023

This session brings together different perspectives to consider these questions: an OA publisher, a research infrastructure, an emerging usage data trust, and a usage analytics service provider. We’ll walk through what’s known, and then start to unpack the questions for which we don’t yet have answers. Our goal is to inform community understanding of the challenges ahead and, hopefully, start to lay the groundwork for constructive policies and shared solutions.

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