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OCLC grant award ‘to help improve library practices’
OCLC has been awarded a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to convene a diverse group of experts, practitioners, and community members to improve descriptive practices, tools, infrastructure and workflows in libraries and archives. In consultation with Shift Collective, a consulting group that helps cultural institutions build stronger communities through lasting engagement, and an advisory group of community leaders, OCLC will: • Convene a conversation of community stakeholders about how to address systemic issues of bias and racial equity in its current collection description infrastructure; • Share with member libraries the need to build more inclusive and equitable library collections and to provide description approaches that promote effective representation and discovery of neglected or mis-characterised peoples, events, and experiences; and • Develop a community agenda in clarifying issues for those who do knowledge work in libraries, archives, and museums; identifying priority areas of attention from these institutions; and providing valuable guidance. OCLC occupies a critical place in the bibliographic ecosystem for library technical services and global discovery. OCLC staff and thousands of member libraries produce and maintain WorldCat, a comprehensive global network of data about library collections. ‘As a steward of the world’s
library data, OCLC has an important role to play to help create inclusive descriptions,’ said Mary Sauer-Games, OCLC vice president for global product management. ‘We are honoured to work with community partners to examine and address obsolete, discriminatory and harmful language in bibliographic descriptions.’ The convening is part of an
eight-month project, Reimagine Descriptive Workflows.
32 Research Information June/July 2021
F1000 working on ‘digital twin’ platform launches
F1000 is collaborating with two Chinese customers to develop open research publishing platforms dedicated to the research and application of collaborative robots and ‘digital twin’ technologies. Both will be the world’s first open publishing platforms in their fields, and launch for submission in July. The platforms will use F1000’s open
research publishing model, enabling all research outputs to be published OA, and combine the benefits of pre-printing with mechanisms to assure quality and transparency (invited and open peer review, archiving and indexing). They also offer researchers an open and transparent peer review process and have a mandatory FAIR data policy to provide full and easy access to the data underlying the results.
Managing director Rebecca Lawrence
said: ‘The vision behind F1000 has always been to develop approaches to scholarly publishing that better support the needs of today in communicating new findings, regardless of output format. We have made significant traction and seen strong growth and uptake, especially in Europe and the US, but much less so in one of the other most significant markets, China.’ She said collaborating with their first
partners in China would ‘build two open research publishing platforms that will help accelerate the reach of innovative technologies’. ‘By opening up all aspects of the research from article, to data, to peer review, these platforms will create a transparent, open and fair environment for research and innovation to flourish.’
Collaborative robots The contract signed with AUBO (Beijing) Intelligent Science and Technology aims
to provide a communication outlet of innovative technologies for technicians, researchers, scholars and experts, who are engaged in the interdisciplinary research field of collaborative robots. Collaborative robots, or cobots, are
robots intended to work side-by-side and in collaboration with humans. These machines focus on repetitive tasks, such as inspection and picking. They help workers focus more on tasks that require problem-solving skills and enable industries to achieve better efficiency, flexibility and production capability. Hongxing Wei, professor at Beihang
University and president of AUBO (Beijing) Intelligent Science and Technology, said: ‘It’s our pleasure to co-operate with the world leading publisher Taylor & Francis Group and its partner F1000, to set up Cobot, the first academic and technological communication platform in the field of collaborative robots. Cobots are a kind of new versatile robots widely applied in industrial production and social services. The birth of Cobot will surely promote the scientific research and technical developments in related fields.’ The scope of the platform includes
scientific and technical research topics in intelligent robots, AI, human-machine collaboration and integration, machine vision, intelligent sensing and smart materials. It will also include the design,
development and testing of collaborative robots and relevant software, as well as case studies focused on their wide- ranging use and applications. The platform will also feature a variety of article types, including method articles, study protocols, software tools, systematic reviews, data notes, brief reports and opinion articles.
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