[cc-community] Now Available: Setting a Foundation for Assessing Content Reuse White Paper

[Elizabeth Kelly]

>From July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018, members of the Content Reuse Working
Group <https://wiki.diglib.org/Assessment:User/Reuse> of the Digital
Library Federation (DLF)’s Assessment Interest Group
<https://www.diglib.org/groups/assessment/> (AIG) conducted the Developing
a Framework for Measuring Reuse of Digital Objects
<https://reuse.diglib.org/> project. The project conducted a formal needs
assessment of the Digital Library community to determine desired
functionality for a future reuse assessment toolkit.

The project was sponsored by an Institute for Museum and Library Services
<https://www.imls.gov/> (IMLS) National Leadership/National Forum grant (
LG-73-17-0002-17) <https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-73-17-0002-17>
award.

The project team is now happy to release Setting a Foundation for Assessing
Content Reuse: A White Paper From the Developing a Framework for Measuring
Reuse of Digital Objects project <https://osf.io/y9ghc/>. This white paper
(a) provides a broad overview of the Measuring Reuse project, including
background information on the AIG, (b) outlines the methods used by the
project team, (c) summarizes results, and (d) discusses potential next
steps.

Interested in learning more about the project? In the coming months,
members of the project team will be reporting out on the results of this
project at conferences such as the DLF Forum, <http://sched.co/FVCr>
the Library
Assessment Conference <https://libraryassessment.org/program/schedule/>,
and the Grey Literature 20 Conference
<http://www.textrelease.com/gl20program.html>. An article summarizing the
first part of the project titled “Barriers and Solutions to Assessing
Digital Library Reuse: Preliminary Findings” is being published open access
in Performance Measurement and Metrics. You may also contact any project
team member to learn more about the background, results, and next steps for
the project.

The project team would like to thank IMLS, the Digital Library Federation,
and our home institutions for their generous support of our project.

The Measuring Reuse <https://reuse.diglib.org/> Project Team

Elizabeth Joan Kelly (Loyola University, New Orleans)

Ayla Stein Kenfield (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Genya O’Gara (Virtual Library of Virginia)

Caroline Muglia (University of Southern California)

Santi Thompson (University of Houston)

Liz Woolcott (Utah State University)


-- 
Elizabeth Kelly, C.A., D.A.S.
Digital Programs Coordinator
Loyola University, New Orleans
ejkelly at loyno.edu
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7306-3331
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