[GOAL] Blogs summarising the RLUK2017 conference and notes from a workshop on TDM

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross posting.>

Hello all,

A couple of weeks ago RLUK held their 2017 conference in London. I have written up two blogs - one summarising the conference, the second writing up the findings of the workshop on Text and Data Mining I co-presented at the conference. Snippets below.

Enjoy!

Danny

"Become part of the research process" - observations from RLUK2017  https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1384

A taster….

When is a librarian not a librarian? Rather than a bad joke, this was one of the underlying interesting discussions arising from the 2017 RLUK conference <http://rlukconference.com/programme/> held earlier in March. The conference Twitter hashtag was #rluk17 and the videos are now available <http://bit.ly/1MRTuVa>. The answer, it appears is when we start talking about partnerships with, rather than support of, our research community.

Libraries’ role in research

The role of libraries and the people who work in them was the theme of one session – with arguments that libraries should be central to the research process.

Masud Khokhar, the Head of Digital Innovation and Research Services at Lancaster University, gave a talk on the Role of research libraries in a technological future <https://www.slideshare.net/MasudKhokhar/research-libraries-uk-conference-2017-presentation>. He said we need to get out of the culture of researchers only coming to the library with research outputs/outcomes. Language matters, he said. Lancaster University has made a deliberate decision not to use the word ‘support’, because “we have bigger aims than that”. Partnership is the future for libraries rather than just collaboration. We need to be creative co-developers working with the research community if we are to be a research library.

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"Service level agreements for TDM” https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1388

A taster…..

Librarians expect publishers to support our researchers’ rights to Text and Data Mining and not cut access off for a library if they see ‘suspicious’ activity before they establish whether it is legitimate or not. These were the conclusions of a group who met at a workshop to discuss provision of Text and Data Mining services in March. The final conclusions were:

Expectations libraries have of publishers over TDM

The workshop concluded with very different expectations to what was originally proposed. The messages to publishers that were agreed were:

Don’t cut us off over TDM activity! Have a conversation with us first if you notice abnormal behaviour*
If you do cut us off and it turns out to be legitimate then we expect compensation for the time we were cut off
Mechanisms for TDM where certain behaviours are expected need to be built into separate licensing agreements for TDM
*And if you want to cut us off – please demonstrate there are all these illegal TDM activities happening in the UK

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