Bibliometrics

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Arts and Metrics?

A tricky one. Can you measure the impact factor of art? Can you assess the quality of an art project? Using – what?

I’m not even going to try to answer these complicated questions in this post, but here are some interesting links I have visited today pertaining to the issue:

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Recently viewed websites & articles

I’m using this blog partly as a place where I can store information about interesting websites I have been visiting during my research into SEO, metadata, etc. I’m also posting citations for interesting articles I have read.

Most recent:

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March 10, 2016:

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Digging into Metadata

Me out digging in our luscious garden in France

In early autumn 2011, on behalf of the Library at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, I signed a contract for an institutional repository platform, BIBSYS Brage. By then I had been pondering the needs for some sort of institutional archive at our school for almost two years, trying to figure out our needs, and considering the different options available. I came to the conclusion that building our own DSpace repository based on open source software was not an option, our institution being quite small, and wanting to be part of a larger community working with open repositories.

Today, four and a half years down the road, I am convinced we made the right choice. Last week I got the 2015 usage statistics for our repository KHIODA (Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo Digitalt Arkiv), and – lo and behold! – there were 156 821 file downloads from our repository last year! It is with some pride I quote these numbers, as it has been a long and arduous road with many different issues to tackle such as copyright, quality of images, contents, convincing faculty to deposit their results in the archive – just to mention a few. And the only champion for the archive in the beginning, being me.

The Library and Archive Section at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, which I have been so privileged to lead and develop since 2009, is staffed with brilliant librarians and archivists. But in 2009 we did lack expertise in the fields of metadata, file formats, data exchange, etc. So it has been a goal to recruit staff with specialised competence and interest for these areas. Today we are finally in a situation where we have obtained the necessary competence in these areas. This spring our metadata workgroup will focus on the quality of our metadata – and on the possibilities good, reliable metadata offer. The metadata group at our institution consists of: Matteo Antoniazzi, Camilla Dreyer, Hanne Storm Ofteland, Anette Waller (née Johansen), and Håkon Bjørge Vestli. Contact information can be found on our institution’s website, www.khio.no.

Here are some of the works the different people in our group have produced:

Antoniazzi, Matteo. Mapping the TORCH Ontology to Schema.org, HiOA, ABI 2015.

Working group (led by: Siw Graabræk Nielsen and Nina Malterud. Other members: Geir Davidsen, Hanne Storm Ofteland, Sol Sneltvedt, Kjetil Solvik, Linda Thu). Endelig rapport fra arbeidsgruppe for å foreslå endringer i CRIStin for registrering av kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid, [til UHR, NRK-U] October 2013.

Johansen, Anette. En undersøkelse av registreringspraksis i Oslobilder, HiOA, ABI 2013.

Ofteland, Hanne Storm. Generelle databaser på Internet : en oversikt, HiO, JBI 1995.

Vestli, Håkon Bjørge. Finn forestillingen! : katalogisering og klassifisering av teaterforestillinger for publisering av metadata på internett, HiO, JBI 2005.

Vestli, Håkon Bjørge. Norwegian Repertoire Databases for Performing Arts : What and Why, HiO, JBI 2007.

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This website serves both as a blog and a notebook where I publish interesting links pertaining to metadata, bibliometrics, open access, art, artistic research. So you will find several lists of what I have browsed through on it. Perhaps some of the pages I’ve visited contain information that might interest others who are working in this field, too?

Resources & websites visited today: