LIS2670 Digital Libraries in Their Communities Module 11: Social Platforms Part B Karen Calhoun Library and Information Science Program

Why author identifiers? Unambiguously and persistently identify authors for attribution and other purposes Make related entities/objects related to them straightforward to find and retrieve – for people and machines Overcome problems – Too many names! (7M+ researchers worldwide in 2009) – Rise of national research assessment systems – Rise of global collaborations Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun2

Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun3 Researcher identifiers Table 9.2. Exploring Digital Libraries, p ©2014. Used with permission. Exploring Digital Libraries

Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun4 ORCID taking off August 2015: Over 1.5M Date of screen capture: September 1, 2015

Social platforms Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun5

Going mobile, going social In April 2015, 64% of American adults owned a smartphone [1] In September 2014: – 71% of US online adults used Facebook – 23% of US online adults used Twitter – 26% used Instagram – 28% used Pinterest – 28% used LinkedIn [2] Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun6 [1] Smith, Aaron “U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015.” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech. [2] Pew Research Center Internet Project “Social Networking Fact Sheet.” [3] Duggan, Maeve et al “Social Media Update 2014.” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech. “Online adults” – The 81% of responding US adults who said they use the internet or [3]

Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun7 Scholars going social Figure from Van Noorden, Richard “Online Collaboration: Scientists and the Social Network.” Nature 512 (7513): 126–29. Used with permission. In Nature's survey, a subset of scholars who said they 'regularly visited' social media sites were quizzed in detail about their activities. Twitter for example: Discover peers and papers Contact peers Post content Share links, comment, follow discussions

Toward social platforms Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun8 Image source: Exploring Digital Libraries, p ©2014. Used with permission.Exploring Digital Libraries

Questions 1-2 go here See “In Video Questions and Answers” document Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun9

Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun10 Becoming ‘facilitators of conversation’ The social web is not simply a new fashion; it represents a new way of thinking and doing things. --Exploring Digital Libraries, p. 240.

Social web experiments Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun11 NYPL Blogs Biblio File, 09/01/2015 Montana State Rossman and Young 2014, 63