Of Libraries and Labs: Effecting User-Driven Innovation
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The document discusses JSTOR Labs' user-driven innovation initiatives presented at the UKSG Annual Conference 2016. It highlights collaborations and case studies in developing tools for digital humanities, sustainability, and partnerships with institutions like the Folger Shakespeare Library. Key lessons emphasize the importance of rapid prototyping, user feedback, and integrating tools with content to enhance scholarly research.
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Of Libraries and Labs: Effecting User-Driven Innovation
- 1. OF LIBRARIES & LABS: EFFECTING USER-DRIVEN INNOVATION 11-12 April 2016 Alex Humphreys, JSTOR Labs @abhumphreys UKSG Annual Conference 2016
- 2. JSTOR is a not-for-profit digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Ithaka S+R is a not-for-profit research and consulting service that helps academic, cultural, and publishing communities thrive in the digital environment. Portico is a not-for-profit preservation service for digital publications, including electronic journals, books, and historical collections. ITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization that helps the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.
- 3. JSTOR Labs works with partner publishers, libraries and labs to create tools for researchers, teachers and students that are immediately useful – and a little bit magical.
- 4. CASE STUDY #1: JSTOR SNAP
- 5. ONE WEEK IN ANN ARBOR… https://vimeo.com/120185616
- 7. CASE STUDY #2: JSTOR SUSTAINABILITY
- 8. ONE WEEK IN SEATTLE… https://vimeo.com/140958596
- 10. WORKING WITH TOPICS • JSTOR Thesaurus: a controlled vocabulary w/ 48,000+ unique terms • Subject matter experts reviewed and extended the branches dealing with Sustainability • With their input, we created ~750 topic pages, ranging from acid rain to zoogeography • Next up: incorporate into primary JSTOR site • New “Sustainability collection” for libraries, consisting of new-to-JSTOR journals and research reports • Extend beyond Sustainability https://public.tableau.com/profile/beth.dufford#!/vizhome/JSTORSustainabilityTopics/Story1
- 12. PARTNERSHIP WITH FOLGER • Open, collaborative partnership with Folger Shakespeare Library • Folger had: - Shakespeare Quarterly - Folger Digital Texts - Scholars and students • JSTOR had: - Full run of SQ - 2,000 more journals - A new Labs team • Flash Build - September, 2014: - From ideation to working site - One week at the Folger in DC
- 14. MATCHMAKER ALGORITHM • Quotation-finding algorithm that powers Understanding Shakespeare • Open and public API to all Understanding Shakespeare data • In progress: - Apply Matchmaker to other texts (e.g. U.S. Constitution, Divine Comedy) - Generic Matchmaker API labs.jstor.org/developers
- 15. HOW WE DO IT
- 16. Understand what innovation looks like Desirable Image source: http://uxtraordinary.com/venn-pie-agram/
- 17. Create a safe space to innovate Image source: http://www.therisktoolboxshop.com/_blog/The_Risk_Management_Tool_Box_Blog/post/Funny_Safety_Sign/
- 18. Show work to users early and often [need a pic of some sort here] Still taken from http://labs.jstor.org/blog/#!labs_week-building_jstor_snap
- 20. Prior to the Flash Build 1. User interviews 2. Create the data & infrastructure During the Flash Build 3. Design jam 4. Paper prototypes 5. Low-fi prototypes 6. Working site After the Flash Build 7. Polish & clean up 8. Release & measure WHAT WE LEARN, WHEN User Input! Who are they? What can we do that will help them? How can we make our implementation even better? How should we implement it? How’d we do?
- 21. LESSONS FOR LIBRARIES (AND MAYBE PUBLISHERS TOO)
- 22. 1. Doing something is better than talking about it.
- 23. 2. It’s nice to hear someone say, “Ohmigod, this is amazing!”
- 24. 3. If you go fast enough, you can help people break out of old patterns.
- 25. 4. This work suggests better ways to support digital humanities: - tools and content together - a model for partnering with scholars - lower barrier of entry to DH - start your own lab, adopt these practices in an existing team, or find a partner* * Like JSTOR Labs!
- 26. THANK YOU Alex Humphreys Director, JSTOR Labs ITHAKA http://labs.jstor.org @abhumphreys alex.humphreys@ithaka.org Further Reading • The Lean Startup, Eric Ries • Business Model Generation, Osterwalder & Pigneur • Marty Cagan’s Blog: svpg.com/articles • Sprint, Knapp, Zeratsky, & Kowitz
- 27. APPENDIX A DETAILS ON JSTOR’S FORTHCOMING SUSTAINABILITY COLLECTION
- 28. THE SUSTAINABILITY COLLECTION » A new curated multidisciplinary collection of 100 new-to-JSTOR journals drawn from more than 20 disciplines » Enhanced by research reports from over 40 leading think tanks around the world » Tested and built in partnership with librarians and scholars » Complemented by the strong base of content already in JSTOR – more than 200,000 articles from roughly 45 publications in the JSTOR Corpus that address various issues in sustainability » Enriched by specialized tools geared to the interdisciplinary research
- 29. TOPIC COVERAGE »Sustainable Business Practices »Environmental Engineering »Environmental Studies »Environmental Science »Environmental and Natural Resources Law »Energy Policy and Economics »Urban Planning and the Built Environment »Development Studies »Climatology and Atmospheric Science »Human Ecology »Green Energy »Transportation and Infrastructure »Land Conservation »Environmental History »Food Security »Agricultural Economics »Public Health and Population Studies »Water Management »Waste Management
- 30. CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS BY DISCIPLINE • Economics Energy Journal, International Association for Energy Economics Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Chicago Press American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association • Architecture / Built Env. APT Bulletin, Association for Preservation Technology International CTBUH Journal, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Built Environment (1978-), Alexandrine Press • Public Health Journal of Public Health Policy Sustainability, Palgrave Macmillan Journals Environmental Health Perspectives, Brogan & Partners Occupational and Environmental Medicine, BMJ Publishing Group • Aquatic / Env. Sciences Journal, American Water Works Association Opflow, American Water Works Association Water Environment Research, Water Environment Federation Waterlines, Practical Action Publishing
- 31. CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS BY DISCIPLINE • Law Natural Resources & Environment, American Bar Association Carbon & Climate Law Review, Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Ecology Law Quarterly, University of California, Berkeley Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, Florida State University College of Law • Sociology Environmental Values, White Horse Press Nature and Culture, Berghahn Books Environment & Society, Berghahn Books • Urban Studies Urban Studies, Sage Publications, Ltd. Ekistics, Athens Center of Ekistics • Ecology Ecological Applications, Ecological Society of America Ecological Restoration, University of Wisconsin Press Human Ecology, Springer Science + Business Media Conservation Biology, Wiley Subscription Services, Inc.
- 32. APPENDIX B OPEN IN CASE OF NO INTERNET CONNECTION
Editor's Notes
- #7: demo
- #10: demo
- #11: 1,470 terms in the sustainability facet
- #14: demo
- #18: - Flexible technology that allows for componentization and continuous deployment - A safe-space to fail - Ability to focus
- #23: Not judgmental. You learn more, and you can bring people along better when there is a real thing you can point at together.
- #24: We do what we do not for money, but feeling of contribution – it is great to witness that directly. More importantly: it raises the standards, helps us see how much mediocrity there really is out there.
- #26: Lower barrier to entry with easier UX provide skills to help scholars who might not have technical skills
- #29: The core of what we’re building is a set of at least 130 journals drawn from a range of disciplines. If you’re familiar with the JSTOR Arts & Sciences collections, you can think of this the same way, but with a tighter focus. We’ll have journals in Economics, Law, Technology, and of course Environmental and Population Studies, but all focused on issues in sustainability. We’ll also be including grey literature, which we’ve heard from both scholars and libraries is important to the field, yet can often be difficult to locate. This collection builds off the existing content on JSTOR…we already have a base of more than 200k relevant articles that provide additional support beyond the journals we’re signing specifically for this collection And, beyond the content, we’re testing out a set of tools to help researchers discover and navigate this literature.
- #38: demo