[Sigsti-l] Fwd: Input Requested for NISO Altmetrics Initiative project - help us set priorities

[Moriana Garcia]

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From: NISO <niso-announce at niso.org>
Date: Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:37 PM
Subject: Input Requested for NISO Altmetrics Initiative project - help us
set priorities
To: NISO <niso-announce at niso.org>


Following the close of the comment period for the NISO draft white paper
summarizing Phase I of its Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics)
Project, NISO is making available a survey inviting the community to
provide input as to what action items in the realm of alternative
assessment are most important for NISO to work on in its upcoming Phase II.



The survey is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/niso-altmetrics.
 All are invited to provide input through August 29.



The NISO white paper, available at
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/13295/niso_altmetrics_white_paper_draft_v4.pdf,
summarizes community input to development of potential standards and
recommended practices for research assessment metrics. The Initiative was
launched in July 2013, with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to
study, propose, and develop community-based standards or recommended
practices for alternative metrics. In Phase 1 of the project, three
in-person meetings were held and 30 in-person interviews conducted to
collect input from all relevant stakeholders, including researchers,
librarians, university administrators, scientific research funders, and
publishers. The draft white paper is the summary of the findings from those
meetings and interviews, along with the identification of potential action
items for further work in Phase II of the project.



More than 250 ideas were generated by participants in the meetings and
interviews, and NISO condensed these to 25 action items in nine categories:
definitions, research outputs, discovery, research evaluation, data quality
and gaming, grouping and aggregation, context, stakeholders’ perspectives,
and adoption.



The NISO Altmetrics Project webpage (
www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative) provides links to detailed
output documents and recordings from each of the meetings and related
information resources.





Cynthia Hodgson

Technical Editor / Consultant

National Information Standards Organization

hodgsonca at verizon.net

301-654-2512





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Moriana L. M. Garcia, MS, PhD, MLIS
Natural Sciences Liaison Librarian
Denison University Libraries
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