Transcript What is Plum building?

Mike Buschman Co-founder
[email protected]
206-331-7297
www.plumanalytics.com
@mikebuschman @plumanalytics
What is Plum building?
• Next generation impact analysis metrics for scholarly
research.
• Aggregating artifact and author level metrics into a
researcher graph.
• Metrics captured and correlated at the group/collection
level (think: lab, department, museum, journal, etc.)
This graph will power
intuitive research
directories and
visualizations.
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The Library
• Supporting institution’s research
output more important than ever
• Perception of the library as
integral to research process has
declined in last 10 years
• Trend away from collections
model and towards service model
• Academic Libraries more and
more interested in open access
• Hope to reduce ever-growing
subscription prices
• Some starting to earmark part of
collection budget to author fees
• Mandating IR deposits
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Benefits for the institution
• Recruiting rising stars
• Capturing current metrics for grant funding support
• Providing more data for department funding
decisions
• Which repositories work best for showcasing
research output
• What promotion methods work best
• How researchers and departments stack up against
peers
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Metrics are not the same
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Different types of metrics
• Usage
• Downloads, views, book holdings, ILL, document
delivery
• Captures
• Favorites, bookmarks, saves, readers, groups, watchers
• Mentions
• Blog post, news story, Wikipedia article, comments,
review
• Social Media
• Tweets, Google +1s, likes, shares, ratings
• Citations
• Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Microsoft
Academic Search, confined citations
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Some of the challenges
• Many APIs for metrics not built yet, closed, or not
available at scale
• Different versions of artifacts can be in many places
• Authors and funders want to know combined
usage
• What constitutes one artifact?
• Pre-print, associated dataset, online video
• Different paths to the same artifact
• Direct linking, link shorteners, link resolvers
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allmetrics
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Andrea Michalek
[email protected]
215-280-1805
@amichalek
Mike Buschman
[email protected]
206-331-7297
@mikebuschman
Plum Analytics Confidential
Thank You!
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