White paper on altmetrics in digital libraries and IRs needs your feedback!

[Stacy Konkiel]

Hi all!

We've finally finished the white paper that came out of last year's DLF session on the use of altmetrics in digital libraries and IRs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uVn0BsY4RAZN7gNI3Jnbp9UiFkiQ5UDBAzceM-WoKiE/edit

We'd love your feedback! And we'd love it if those who are attending the Forum would let others know that we're soliciting feedback, too. We want to get as broad a range of responses to this as possible, to make it a solid reference for the DL and IR communities.

We're accepting comments through the end of November.

All best,

Stacy (& Michelle & Dave)

[Jody DeRidder]

Hi folks!  I'm in discussion with DLF folks, hoping that we can set up a centralized wiki for documenting and sharing best practices, guidelines, and resources for digital library assessment.  I envision it as having an entry page, with a "table of contents" linking off to areas for cost assessment, user assessment, and benefits assessments.

After reading this report by Stacy, Michelle and Dave, I'm thinking that perhaps some of the guidelines and best practices apply to all three areas of the framework.  What do you think?  In particular, I'm referring to what follows...

In this white paper, the authors state that:

"Metrics and their implementation should be well-documented, and documentation should be easily understood by end-users. Any recommended practices or guidelines that are created--either at the institution level or for the entire field of digital libraries--should be organically created and updated regularly. Some initial best practices are that metrics be:

1. Transparently collected and displayed

2. Auditable (in a manner similar to COUNTER metrics)

3. Appropriate to the medium being measured

4. Include context (via percentiles, demographic information, etc)

5. Open data (freely available and thereby auditable and also available for reuse under as permissive a license as possible)

Sound like it applies to all aspects of digital library assessment?

--jody

[Joyce Chapman]

The only point of confusion I see is the issue of openly accessible data versus data that the institution keeps private. Most organizations might not publicly display all metrics that we're talking about, but #1 and #2 on the list are a little confusing in that regard. Do we mean that all metrics need to be public?

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