Day/time: May 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. EDT
Title: An International Data Space for OA Book Usage Data Exchange Across Public and Private Stakeholders – Project Update
Presenter: Ursula Rabar, Community Manager, OA Book Usage Data Trust / OPERAS
Description: While different interfaces have made it easier for libraries, publishers, policymakers, and information services to access, use and innovate with usage and metadata at scale, time and human resources are still required to manage, compile, and link open access book usage data metrics coming from multiple platforms in multiple formats.
In 2022, the Mellon Foundation awarded a project team led by the University of North Texas, OpenAIRE, and OPERAS to develop “governance building blocks” for the Open Access Book Usage Data Trust in line with both the Principles of Open Infrastructure and protocols emerging from the Design Principles for International Data Spaces. Over more than two years, stakeholders leveraged in-depth community consultations to produce a rulebook to guide participation in the data space community, define Data Trust membership benefits, and get feedback on cost-recovery and functional requirements. In 2024, the Data Trust’s Technical Advisory Committee and Board of Trustees selected an experienced international data spaces technical team to build out the technical infrastructure. Using a staged development approach focused on “scaling small”, a limited proof of concept focused on the exchange of COUNTER item-level views and downloads data was developed and tested with a first group of partners (JSTOR, LibLynx, Michigan University Publishing, Punctum Books, Knowledge Unlatched) with plans to extend data space security and auditing functionality to support additional data exchange use cases in the future.
Title: Collaborate with Creative Commons: open licensing training for all
Presenter: Jennryn Wetzler (she/her), Director of Learning and Training, Creative Commons
Description: Want to collaborate with Creative Commons on open licensing training? We are open!
Through the CC Certificate program, Creative Commons (CC)* invests in a world where everyone has the legal tools to share their knowledge freely, expanding global learning. It is a global professional development program training librarians, educators and cultural heritage professionals in copyright, open licensing and open access efforts.
Now in our seventh year, we have approximately 2000 alumni in 68 countries, and course content in 10 languages. Through initial partnerships, we’ve subsidized CC Certificate training for hundreds of participants, provided customized workshops, and co-created the University of Nebraska Omaha’s microcredential Introduction to Open Educational Resources, and Library Juice Academy’s Creative Commons Licenses and Copyright: From Concepts to Practice.
Now, we aim to expand open licensing learning to meet the needs of new audiences at libraries and academic institutions. Join this session and help us explore what we can create together to better meet your community’s needs!
This session will entail a brief overview from Creative Commons.
*CC is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to helping build and sustain a thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture with the global standard of open licenses. We built and steward the open licenses that power millions of people’s unfettered access to culture, research, information, education and more. There are over 2.5 billion CC licenses being used across 9 million websites.