Information without frontiers – barriers and solutions

Anna Grigson,Catherine Mcmanamon,Sam Herbert

doi:10.1629/uksg.176

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Abstract

Following the success of the first UKSG Forum, it was decided to hold a second – this time in a larger, central venue: the Grand Connaught Rooms in London. Under the umbrella title, also the title of this collection of three summaries of lightning talks from the event, were grouped a number of useful topics: Expanding Library Boundaries, The Human Touch, The Future of Library Discovery (a debate), Library Systems, Academic Content Beyond the Academy, UKSG Research and Innovation, Publishing Innovation, Open Access Monographs, KB+, Altmetrics, User Experience and Data Enrichment. In this article we bring you summaries of the talks by Anna Grigson, Catherine McManamon and Sam Herbert.

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User expectations in the academic world, as elsewhere, are often set by consumer websites such as Amazon where users can quickly and find the information they need, narrow it with faceted search, and get highly specific and relevant notifications
Other studies have asked participants to complete very specific tasks in an allotted time, but Digital Library Services (DLS) felt this would not be reflective of the way many students usually search
Semantic content enrichment offers a way of meeting these expectations for scholarly publishing

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User expectations in the academic world, as elsewhere, are often set by consumer websites such as Amazon where users can quickly and find the information they need, narrow it with faceted search, and get highly specific and relevant notifications. Semantic content enrichment offers a way of meeting these expectations for scholarly publishing. This summary explains the levels of supporting information that can be added automatically to a piece of plain text using the example of a typical abstract from a biomedical journal article available in PubMed. SAM HERBERT. Neutralized by Antibody Produced in Natural Human Infection’[1], but any article could be processed in a similar way; this is sample content to demonstrate what is possible. We have processed the abstract of this article using content enrichment software tools.

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