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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
From 13:00 GMT to 14:00 GMT
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While APIs have made it easier for libraries, publishers, policymakers, and information services to access, use and innovate with usage and metadata at scale, time and human resources are still required to manage, compile, and link OA book usage data metrics coming from multiple platforms in multiple formats.
In 2022, the Mellon Foundation awarded a project team led by the University of North Texas, OpenAIRE, and OPERAS to develop “governance building blocks” for the OA Book Usage Data Trust in line with both the Principles of Open Infrastructure and protocols emerging from the Design Principles for International Data Spaces (IDS). Stakeholders leveraged in-depth community consultations to understand the principles needed to exchange OA book usage data across private and public stakeholders and moved ahead with a data space proof of concept. In 2024, the Data Trust’s Technical Advisory Committee and Board of Trustees selected an experienced IDS technical team to build out the technical OA Book Usage Data Trust infrastructure to develop a limited proof of concept IDS focused on the exchange of COUNTER item-level views and downloads data while collaborating with technical pilot partners (e.g. JSTOR, LibLynx, Michigan University Publishing, Punctum Books, Knowledge Unlatched). This provides an opportunity to explore if the IDS model and functionality can be extended to support additional data exchange use cases.
Within this webinar, we will explore how OAEBUDT development to date helps create a more effective, secure and equitable exchange of data across government, charity and commercial scholarly communications stakeholders. A discussion will be facilitated through a Q&A.
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Speakers
Christina Drummond
Executive Director | OA Book Usage Data Trust
As Executive Director of the OA Book Usage Data Trust effort, Christina leads research teams to develop an extensible scholarly communications focused International Data Space (IDS) through an OA book usage data focused proof of concept. Prior to her current role hosted by the University of North Texas, Christina held library faculty, research administration, and leadership positions at UNT, the Educopia Institute and ACLU of Washington. She holds professional certifications in data stewardship, design thinking and information privacy.
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Charles Watkinson
Associate University Librarian for Publishing | University of Michigan Library; Director | University of Michigan Press
Charles Watkinson is Director of University of Michigan Press and Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan. He previously held a similar role at Purdue University. He is 2022-2023 President of the Association for University Presses and a member of the Board of Directors of the OAPEN Foundation, the infrastructure service for open access books.
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Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
Director | Punctum Books
.Vincent is a semiotician, director/CFO of punctum books, and founding director/CEO of Thoth Open Metadata. His monographs include Rënia e së ardhmes: Arti, korrupsioni dhe fundi i tranzicionit shqiptar (Pika pa sipërfaqe, 2023), A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian
(Peeters, 2021), and Cross-Examinations (MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015). His three-volume work Lapidari (punctum books, 2015) provides the first complete overview of socialist monumentality in Albania. http://www.vangervenoei.com/
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Vivian Berghahn
Managing Director | Berghahn Books
Vivian Berghahn is Managing Director at Berghahn Books. Her responsibilities include advancing a range of companywide initiatives, including open access and the strategic development of its overall publishing program. With over 20 years of experience in academic publishing, Vivian has served on the AAP-PSP Committee and ALPSP Council and is currently on the Board of Trustees for the OA Book Usage Data Trust.
Learning outcomes
1. Learning how the IDS model supports a more effective and timely OA decision-making by streamlining data access management
2. Lessons learned from the IDS technical pilot – stakeholder perspectives
Subject level and previous knowledge required
Intermediary, some previous knowledge of OA books and their usage data needed, any technical concepts such as the data space will be explained at the webinar.
Primary audience for this webinar:
Any organisation that creates OA book usage data or any organisation that wishes to receive OA book usage data, these include, but are not limited to: publishers, libraries, platforms and service providers, and analytics organisations.
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