As technological innovations such as text-and-data mining (TDM) make new demands on the electronic scholarly materials within library collections, the systems and services in place to support faculty research must adapt to changing patron needs.
This presentation takes the University of Toronto Libraries efforts to include rights for TDM in our instance of OCULs Usage Rights (OUR) database as a case study for the opportunities and problems inherent in the development of an agile and successful enhancement to library services.
Participants will have a chance to explore the continued questions that licenses pose from a user-experience perspective, and will learn from the challenges we faced in making TDM license information public to users. The session will also explore the strategy and back-end work that was necessary to better facilitate access to our collections and to make UTL a full partner in the harnessing of licensed electronic resources for knowledge discovery.
Learning Outcomes
Overview of kind of text and data mining work being done and where work on in-copyright and licensed materials fit within this picture.
Tips for how to build on existing licensing infrastructure in support of new collection usage demands.
Strategies for making your library a full partner in the knowledge discovery projects of your faculty, both for the short- and long-term.
