Publié par : Fabrizio Tinti | 03/12/2009

Pétition pour la baisse de la TVA sur le livre électronique

Pétition européenne pour la baisse de la TVA sur le livre électronique

“Auteurs, éditeurs, libraires, bibliothécaires européens, professionnels du livre.
Signez la pétition en faveur d’une TVA à taux réduit sur le livre numérique.

Antoine Gallimard, P-DG des Éditions Gallimard (Paris, France), a lancé le 27 novembre 2009 une pétition en faveur d’une TVA à taux réduit sur le livre numérique, afin de convaincre l’ensemble des États membres de l’importance et de l’urgence de cette mesure.

Si vous êtes un professionnel de la filière livre, vous êtes invité à signer cette pétition. Attention, les signatures seront fermées le 23 décembre 2009, à 23 heures, heure de Paris. La pétition sera publiée à la veille du prochain conseil ECOFIN, en janvier 2010.”

Via Couperin

Publié par : Fabrizio Tinti | 07/12/2009

[BSPO] Zones de travail individuel et zones de travail en groupe

Dans le cadre d’une nécessaire adaptation aux évolutions de la pédagogie universitaire – travaux en groupe et par projet, ma bib propose, à partir du lundi 7 décembre 2009, un découpage des espaces publics  de la bibliothèque en zones: “zones de travail individuel” et “zones de travail en groupe”.

1. “Zone de travail individuel” et “zone de travail en groupe”: définitions

Une zone de travail individuel répond aux critères suivants:

  • Elle est identifiée par le logo et la couleur (orange) suivants

  • Le silence est demandé (pas de discussions, pas de conversations au téléphone)
  • Elle est destinée au travail individuel dans le silence, le calme et le respect des autres utilisateurs
  • Elle n’est pas destinée aux travaux en groupe
  • Tout membre de la BSPO exigera le respect de ces règles
  • Tout membre de la BSPO pourra demander la présentation de la carte d’accès des personnes qui ne respecteraient par ces règles

Une zone de travail en groupe répond aux critères suivants:

  • Elle est identifiée par le logo et la couleur (vert) suivants

  • Il est autorisé de parler à voix basse dans le calme et le respect des autres utilisateurs
  • Elle est destinée au travail en groupe (lorsque toutes les logettes sont occupées)
  • Tout membre de la BSPO exigera le respect de ces règles
  • Tout membre de la BSPO pourra demander la présentation de la carte d’accès des personnes qui ne respecteraient par ces règles

2. Brochure d’information

3. Plans des zones de travail individuel (orange) et zones de travail en groupe (vert):

  • Tous les espaces des 2e et 3e de l’aile des revues sont des zones de travail individuel

(Ce billet est une légère adaptation de l’actualité parue sur le site de BSPO)

Publié par : Fabrizio Tinti | 06/12/2009

Sur le front du libre (06/12/09)

> Hybrid OA journals: A progression or a destination?
(source: Weber, Dana / déposé sur E-LIS, 25/11/09)

> OpenAIRE: archive access anytime, anywhere
(source: International Science Grid This Week, nov. 09)

> From Here to Eternity
(source: Open Access Archivangelism, 30/11/09)

> Repères pour le futur
(source: affordance.info, 30/11/09)

> SPARC Open Access Newsletter (n° 140, déc. 09)
(source: Peter Suber, 02/12/09)

> DataCite – International Initiative to Facilitate Access to Research Data

> Open Access: Unlimited Web Based Literature Searching
(source: Deutsches Arzteblatt International, vol. 106, n° 43, oct. 09)

> Berlin7 (déc. 09)

Publié par : Fabrizio Tinti | 06/12/2009

DI: des ressources (06/12/09)

Petite sélection d’actualités et/ou de ressources sur les dépôts institutionnels et problématiques connexes. Voici la livraison du 6 décembre 2009:

> Mutimedia Deposits: Complications and considerations with Intellectual Property Rights
(source: Welsh Repository Network (WRN), 26/11/09)

> DuraCloud: Enabling Services for Managing Data in the Cloud (webinar)
(source: DuraSpace, nov. 09)
- Audio
- Présentation

> What We Talk About When We Talk About Repositories
(source: RUSQ, vol. 49, n° 1, nov. 09)

> eCommons Policies
Les nouvelles directives (nov. 09) en matière de dépôt à l’université de Cornell s’articulent autour de 7 points:

> DI-fusion sur YouTube: présentation encodage et recherche

> Digital Repositories: An investigation of best practices for content recruitment to academic digital repositories and the conditions for their livelihood
(source: Hagen, Reidun Anette, Sørheim, Roger / thèse, Trodheim, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2009)

> The Association for Learning Technology’s Open Access Repository (UK)

Publié par : Fabrizio Tinti | 06/12/2009

A propos des “tags”: deux posters et une présentation

> Exploring Inter Tagger Consistency Measures

(source: Kipp, Margaret EI in 20th Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, BC, 6-11 November 2009 / poster déposé sur E-LIS)

“Kipp and Campbell (2006) examined tags assigned to the same URL in del.icio.us and determined that MDS and frequency graphs showed clusters of related terms as well as divergences between synonyms. Professional indexers too exhibit convergence and divergence in indexing behaviour, which has been measured in inter-indexer consistency studies. Leonard (1977) and Markey (1984) examined the results of multiple inter-indexer consistency studies examining not only the levels of inconsistency which varied widely but also the level of indexing exhaustivity (number of terms assigned to each document), method of collecting indexing data and vocabulary size. The majority of inter-indexer consistency studies show high levels of inconsistency between indexers (Leonard 1977; Markey 1984). While inter-indexer consistency studies have traditionally compared the indexing terms used by a small group of indexers, it is possible to adapt some of the more common measures to be used with large groups of indexers. A number of measures were examined in this study to determine which measures provide the most ability to distinguish between different indexers. This study used Salton’s Cosine measure, the Jaccard measure–also known as Hooper and Rolling’s measures (Markey 1984), Wolfram and Olsen’s Inter-indexer Consistency Density (Wolfram and Olsen 2007) and a Pairwise Jaccard measure (compares all indexers to each other without the need for a centroid or known good set of index terms). This study is part of a larger study examining measures of convergence and divergence in tagging systems. One goal of the larger study is to examine different ways of analysing tag data to see which methods provide the most useful analyses of the structures which develop in tagging. By calculating a number of different inter-indexer consistency measures it may be possible to make distinctions between tag lists to provide predictive analysis of tagging patterns.”

> Information Organisation Practices on the Web: Tagging and the Social Organisation of Information

(source: Kipp, Margaret EI / présentation déposée sur E-LIS)

“This talk (the public talk for my thesis) examines the phenomenon of social tagging from its early beginnings to its current level of prominence on a wide variety of websites in a series of linked studies examining the structures and patterns of tag term use to determine whether regular patterns appear that would support information organisation and retrieval.”

> Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things?

(source: Kipp, Margaret EI in 20th Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, BC, 6-11 November 2009 / poster déposé sur E-LIS)

“In traditional library indexing systems, the indexer was an individual trained in the rules of information organisation to assign keywords for important information about the physical media and the subject matter of the content. While other groups have been involved in creating index terms (for example, journal article authors who are asked to provide keywords with their submitted articles), these keywords generally have a small circulation and are not widely used. Collaborative tagging systems such as CiteULike (http://www.citeulike.org) allow users to participate in the classification of journal articles by encouraging them to assign useful labels to the articles they bookmark. Studies comparing the terminology used in tagging journal articles to indexer assigned controlled vocabulary terms suggest that many tags are subject related and could work well as index terms or entry vocabulary (Hammond et al 2005; Kipp 2006; Kipp and Campbell 2006; Kipp 2007a). Some authors suggest that user classification systems demonstrate what vocabulary users actually use to describe concepts and that this could be incorporated into the system as entry vocabulary to the standard thesaurus terms (Mathes 2004; Morville 2005). However, the world of folksomonies includes relationships that would never appear in a library classification or thesaurus including time and task related tags, affective tags and the user name of the tagger (Kipp 2007b; Kipp and Campbell 2006; Kipp 2006). These short term and highly specific tags and relationships suggest important differences between user indexing systems and professional indexing systems which must be considered in examining the usability of tagging systems for resource discovery. Users searching online catalogues and databases often express admiration for the idea of controlled vocabularies and knowledge organisation systems, but find it difficult to adapt their vocabulary to the thesaurus and find the search process frustrating. (Fast and Campbell 2004) Additionally, controlled vocabulary indexing has proven costly and has not proven to be truly scalable when dealing with digital information, especially on the web. Morville (2005) suggests that tagging systems could scale along with digital information on the web allowing for some indexing of currently unindexed web materials. This study explores how users make use of an indexing system for enabling retrieval by performing an information retrieval study on a social bookmarking system and a more traditional online database in order to examine user search behaviour on the two different systems. This study asks the following questions: Do tags appear to enhance resource discovery? Do users feel that they have found what they are looking for? How do users find searching social bookmarking sites compared to searching more classically organised sites? Do users think that tags assigned by other users are more intuitive? Do tagging structures facilitate information retrieval? How does this compare to traditional structures of supporting information retrieval? The searchers were asked to search Pubmed and CiteULike for information on a specific assigned topic. Screen capture software, a think aloud protocol and an exit interview were used to capture the impressions of the users when faced with traditional classification or user tags. This data was analysed to explore the use of indexing terms by the participants as well as their use of other features in each system that support information finding and refinding. Participants selected their own keywords for searches on both tools. At the end of the search process, participants were asked to make a list of what terms they would now use if asked to search for this information again. Three sets of data were thus available for analysis: sets of initial and final keywords selected by the user, the recording of the search session and think aloud, and recorded exit interviews after the search session, all of which can be analysed to examine user impressions of the search process and the utility of the keywords in the process. Participants tended to prefer the search experience on the system used first, regardless of previous experience with either system. All users used multi word keywords initially, which is unsurprising as they are in training to be librarians. At the end of the search process, when users were asked to generate a new list of keywords they would now use for the search, many separated their list of final keywords by tool showing an awareness of the need to adapt a search to different systems. Items such as the presence of full metadata, abstracts and even full text links to articles were lauded while lack of vocabulary terms, and especially missing abstracts were deemed to be impediments to search. Participants found related article links and other newer features of systems to be a significant enhancement to the search process and some participants reported or were seen using tags or user names in CiteULike for similar purposes. Many of the participants in this study made use of the related articles links provided by PubMed and discussed the possibilities presented by MeSH in Pubmed and the tags on CiteULike but did not find that the structures were in place to fully support browsing of related items by keyword or combination of keywords. As shown by Ockerbloom (2006) these webs of related items can be built automatically using existing thesaurus structures and displayed to the user. This suggests that the use of indexing structures to link related items would be worthwhile to users if they are able to see the connections between items as they browse.”

Publié par : Fabrizio Tinti | 06/12/2009

Semantic web (06/12/09)

Petite sélection d’actualités et/ou de ressources autour du “semantic web” (web de données, “web 3.0″, etc.). Voici la livraison du 6 décembre 2009:

> RDFS: The primary document
(source: Planet RDF, 29/11/09)

> Putting a Conference into the Semantic Web
(source: Planet RDF, 30/11/09)

> Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2009 (1)
> Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2009 (2)
(source: ReadWriteWeb, déc.09)

> Highlights of Online Information 2009: Semantic Web and Social Web
(source: UK Web Focus, déc. 09)

Social Construction of Authorized Users in the Digital Age

(source: College and Research Libraries, ALA, pre-print, nov. 09)

“This paper analyzes changes to the definitions of ―authorized users contained in electronic resources licenses and embedded in access control technologies from the mid-1990s to the present. In analyzing changes to the license and technology-based definitions, it tracks shifts in major stakeholders‘ perceptions of authorized users and describes developments in licensing and access control technologies. The paper demonstrates that the concept of authorized users has been shaped by a mix of social and technical elements, including changes to information providers‘ and libraries‘ business models and missions, shifts in norms for license terms, and development of technological tools used to facilitate or constrain access.”

(via ResourceShelf, 02/12/09)

Publié par : Fabrizio Tinti | 06/12/2009

Techno-fil (06/12/09)

Petite sélection d’actualités et/ou de ressources sur les aspects technologiques, au sens large, de nos métiers. Voici la livraison du 6 décembre 2009:

> Network as a service…
(source: Lorcan Dempsey, 30/11/09)

> Shared OpenURL Data Infrastructure Investigation: Final Report
(source: JISC, nov. 09)

> Next Generation Connectivity: A review of broadband Internet transitions and policy from around the world [draft]
(source: Berkman Center for Internet & Society)

> NISO Newsline (déc. 09)

> Vous n’avez pas de résolveur OpenURL? Pourquoi ne pas piquer celui d’un autre…
(source: Encore un biblioblog, 02/12/09)

> Bibliothèques : portails d’information ou données ouvertes?
(source: Lafeuille, 03/12/09)

Subject Repositories. European collaboration in the international context est une conférence organisée fin janvier 2010 à Londres par le consortium NEREUS et au cours de laquelle sera lancé officiellement le portail Economists Online.

Cette conférence sera également l’occasion pour le consortium NEREUS de lancer le portail européen Economists Online (EO), vitrine de la production scientifique en économie.

Version démo du portail Economists Online

Mon institution via ma bib est membre du consortium NEREUS et participe au projet EO.

Publié par : Fabrizio Tinti | 06/12/2009

Rankings: WoS vs Scopus

Rankings for departments and researchers within a university using two different databases: Web of Science versus SCOPUS

(source: Torres-Salinas, Daniel and Jiménez-Contreras, E. and Delgado-Lopez-Cozar, Emilio in Scientometrics, 2009 / déposé sur E-LIS)

“In this work, we compare the difference in the number of citations compiled with Scopus as opposed to the Web of Science (WoS) with the aim of analysing the agreement among the citation rankings generated by these databases. For this, we analysed the area of Health Sciences of the University of Navarra (Spain), composed of a total of 50 departments and 864 researchers. The total number of published works reflected in the WoS during the period 1999-2005 was 2299. For each work, the number of citations in both databases was recorded. The results indicate that the works received 14.7% more citations in Scopus than in WoS. In the departments, the difference was greater in the clinical ones than in the basic ones. In the case of the rankings of citations, it was found that both databases generate similar results. The Spearman and Kendall-Tau coefficients were higher than 0.9. It was concluded that the difference in the number of citations found did not correspond to the difference of coverage of WoS and Scopus.”

Publié par : Fabrizio Tinti | 06/12/2009

Numérique & co (06/12/09)

Petite sélection d’actualités et/ou de ressources sur les technologies numériques (e-books, e-liseuses, numérisation, etc.) et les problématiques connexes. Voici la livraison du 6 décembre 2009:

> The Future of Books: A World of Format Choice
(source: Roy Tennant, 26/11/09)

> Nouvelle version de l’outil “Planets Plato” disponible ici: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/plato

> Culture numérique: cours présenté par Hervé Le Crosnier

> Compte rendu: “Les modèles économiques de l’édition numérique”
(source: Virginie Clayssen @ CLEO – Université d’été de l’édition électronique ouverte, 17/11/09)

> iTunes LP, iTunes Extras, des modèles pour le livre…
(source: Papier électronique, 28/11/09)

> JISC National E-Books Observatory Project: Key Findings and Recommendations. Final Report, November 2009

> Understanding the Costs of Digitisation: Detail Report
(source: JISC, nov. 09)

> 10 prévisions pour le livre électronique en 2010
(source: eBouquin, 03/12/09)

> Developing a Common Platform for University Press E-Book Distribution
(source: SPARC Webcast/ARL, 03/12/09)

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