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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Annual Report FY 2012–2013. Research
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-As a part of the board and of the technical steering group, the Libraries’
research program continues MIT’s contribution to the direction of Open
Researcher &Contributor ID. ORCID, Inc. is a non-profit organization
dedicated to solving the name ambiguity problem in scholarly research
and it brings together the leaders of influential universities, funding
societies, publishers and corporations from around the globe. In October
2012, ORCID launched its first full release of its core author identifier and
registry service. It now has a membership of over sixty-five member
institutions and has registered identifiers for hundreds of thousands of
researchers. This constitutes an advance in the infrastructure of scholarly
communication.
-As a part of the coordinating (steering) committee, the Libraries research
program contributes to the leadership of the National Digital Stewardship
alliance. NDSA is a collaboration of over 150 public, private, and
governmental organizations committed to establish, maintain, and
advance the capacity to preserve our nation’s digital resources for the
benefit of present and future generations. In July the NDSA released the
National Digital Curation Agenda, which identifies state of research,
practice and collaboration in digital preservation.
-As a part of the CODATA/ICTSI/BRDI task group on data citation
standards and practices, the Libraries research program is contributing to
the development of data citation standards. A major report from this group
is forthcoming as a special volume of the CODATA journal.
-As part of an OCLC research task group, the Libraries research program
is contributing to analysis of the benefits, needs, and challenges for
integrated author and research identification.
Over the next several years, we expect to grow its research portfolio through
internal and external collaborations with library staff, faculty, partner institutions,
and funders. This expanded portfolio aims to include projects in many of the
following areas: managing and disseminating ”big” data, developing new
methods for digital preservation, and supporting information management and
access related to massively open online courses, as well as initiatives in other
areas. In support of these activities, we expect to expand the research program
to employ and engage students, postdocs, virtual assistants, and additional
research staff.
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