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OF LIBRARIES & LABS: EFFECTING USER-DRIVEN INNOVATION
11-12 April 2016
Alex Humphreys, JSTOR Labs@abhumphreys
UKSG Annual Conference 2016
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.
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.
CASE STUDY #1: JSTOR SNAP
ONE WEEK IN ANN ARBOR…
https://vimeo.com/120185616
labs.jstor.org/snap
CASE STUDY #2: JSTOR SUSTAINABILITY
ONE WEEK IN SEATTLE…
https://vimeo.com/140958596
labs.jstor.org/sustainability
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 fromacid 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
CASE STUDY #3: UNDERSTANDING SHAKESPEARE
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
labs.jstor.org/shakespeare
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
HOW WE DO IT
Understand what innovation looks like
Feasible Usable
Desirable
Image source: http://uxtraordinary.com/venn-pie-agram/
Create a safe space to innovateImage source:
http://www.therisktoolboxshop.com/_blog/The_Risk_Management_Tool_Box_Blog/post/Funny_Safety_Sign/
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
Iterayte. Iterrate. Itterate.Iterate.Iterate!
(rapidly)
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 implementationeven better?
How should weimplement it?
How’d we do?
LESSONS FOR LIBRARIES(AND MAYBE PUBLISHERS TOO)
1. Doing something is better than talking about it.
2. It’s nice to hear someone say,
“Ohmigod, this is amazing!”
3. If you go fast enough, you can help people break out of old patterns.
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!
THANK YOU
Alex HumphreysDirector, JSTOR LabsITHAKA
http://[email protected]@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
APPENDIX ADETAILS ONJSTOR’S FORTHCOMING SUSTAINABILITY COLLECTION
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
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
CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS BY DISCIPLINE
• EconomicsEnergy 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 HealthJournal 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
CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS BY DISCIPLINE• LawNatural 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 StudiesUrban Studies, Sage Publications, Ltd.
Ekistics, Athens Center of Ekistics
• EcologyEcological Applications, Ecological Society of America
Ecological Restoration, University of Wisconsin Press
Human Ecology, Springer Science + Business Media
Conservation Biology, Wiley Subscription Services, Inc.
APPENDIX BOPEN IN CASE OF NO INTERNET CONNECTION