Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funds two-year LANL project for the
development of metrics derived from scholarly usage data.
Los Alamos, New Mexico, November 6th 2006 - The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation has awarded funding to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
in support of the two-year MESUR project that will investigate metrics
derived from the network-based usage of scholarly information. The
Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team of the LANL Research Library
will carry out the project. Johan Bollen is the Principal Investigator,
Herbert Van de Sompel serves as an architectural consultant, and Aric
Hagberg of the LANL Mathematical Modeling and Analysis group serves as
modeling consultant. Marko A. Rodriguez, PhD student at the University
of California Santa Cruz and LANL Graduate Research Assistant, supports
the project's research and development.
The project's major objective is enriching the toolkit used for the
assessment of the impact of scholarly communication items, and hence of
scholars, with metrics that derive from usage data. The project will
start with the creation of a semantic model of scholarly communication,
and an associated large-scale semantic store that relates a range of
scholarly bibliographic, citation and usage data obtained from a variety
of sources. Next, an investigation into the definition and validation
of usage-based metrics will be conducted on the basis of this
comprehensive collection. Finally, the defined metrics will be
cross-validated, resulting in the formulation of guidelines and
recommendations for future applications of metrics derived from
scholarly usage data. Projects results will be made public on the
project's web site <http://www.mesur.org/>.
The MESUR project currently has an open position for a software
developer; a job description is available at
<http://www.mesur.org/Jobs.html>.
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Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Research & Prototyping
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library
http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/
tel. +1 505 667 1267
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