Dealing with Research Data and Dissertations
Schöpfel, Joachim; Prost, Hélène
2017 - English Co vlastně víme o potřebách a chování Ph.D. studentů ohledně výzkumných dat, zejména v oblasti společenských a humanitních věd? Jak mohou akademické knihovny zlepšit management výzkumných dat (RDM) u Ph.D. studentů? Jak mohou přispívat ke správě, ochraně a sdílení výzkumných dat, které jsou součástí elektronických dizertací? Které cíle jsou reálné? Workshop poskytne úvod a základní přehled o dané problematice a pomůže k lepšímu porozumění RDM jako výzvy pro akademické knihovny. V průběhu workshopu budou popsány různé RDM projekty uskutečněné v kampusu sociálních a humanitních věd Univerzity v Lille, zejména v rámci doktorského vzdělávacího programu. Dále bude popsán rozvoj infrastruktury RDM pro uchovávání, ochranu a sdílení výzkumných dat spojených s dizertacemi. Velká část workshopu bude věnována diskusi o místních iniciativách, projektech a také otázkám účastníků. What do we know about data behaviours and needs of PhD students, especially in social sciences and humanities? How can academic libraries improve the research data management (RDM) of PhD students? How can they contribute to curation, preservation and sharing of research data related to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)? Which are realistic goals? The workshop will provide an introduction and overview of the field and help to better understand the challenge of RDM for academic libraries. It will describe the different RDM projects on the social sciences and humanities campus of the University of Lille, in particular the PhD training program and the development of a RDM infrastructure for the storage, preservation and sharing of research data related to ETDs. A large part of the workshop will be reserved for the discussion of the participants’ local initiatives, projects and questions. Keywords: výzkumná data; management výzkumných dat; research data; research data management; vědecká setkání; výzkum; disertace; doktorandské vzdělání Available in the NTK library. Dealing with Research Data and Dissertations

Co vlastně víme o potřebách a chování Ph.D. studentů ohledně výzkumných dat, zejména v oblasti společenských a humanitních věd? Jak mohou akademické knihovny zlepšit management výzkumných dat (RDM) u ...

Schöpfel, Joachim; Prost, Hélène
Národní technická knihovna, 2017

Early career researchers’ landscape across Europe
Pabjańczyk-Wlazło, Ewelina
2017 - English Keywords: doktorandské vzdělání; neziskové organizace; statistika Available in the NTK library. Early career researchers’ landscape across Europe

Pabjańczyk-Wlazło, Ewelina
Národní technická knihovna, 2017

A Lot of Music for a Mere Pittance
Horová, Iva; Šír, Filip
2016 - English Příspěvek přibližuje situaci v oblasti zvukových dokumentů na národní úrovni. Poukazuje na nedostatek podpory ze strany státu, chybějící národní plán ochrany zvukových nosičů a z toho plynopucí problémy. Navzdory tomu se na tomto poli podařila řada úspěšných kroků, které jsou zde blíže popsány. This paper focuses on an area of audio preservation at the national level that has until recently been completely neglected. Our biggest challenge lies in the fact that we still do not have a Czech National Sound Archive, primarily because we lack systematic preservation policies for audio at a national level. Over the last two years much has been accomplished, but the direction has not been firmly established, and it does not yet have strong institutional support. While our goals have recently been captured in the State Cultural Policy, 2015-2020, the question of funding has not been resolved. In this presentation, we will discuss some of our recent, important activities. Our platform, which aims to fill a gap in understanding the national sound cultural heritage, is called the Virtual National Phonotheque (www.narodnifonoteka.cz). It informs users about the existence, location and content of all audio documents published or housed in the Czech Republic. It is very important that we also cover the history of the Czech sound industry, record labels and publishing. In addition, we are moving forward in many other directions related to the preservation of audio recordings. We want to highlight the gains we have made in our work so far, all without big projects or money from the Czech Republic. Keywords: Virtuální národní fonotéka; zvukové dokumenty; záznam zvuku; kulturní dědictví; Česká republika; národní politika; Virtual National Phonoteque; audio documents; sound recording; cultural heritage; Czech Republic; national policy Available in the NTK library. A Lot of Music for a Mere Pittance

Příspěvek přibližuje situaci v oblasti zvukových dokumentů na národní úrovni. Poukazuje na nedostatek podpory ze strany státu, chybějící národní plán ochrany zvukových nosičů a z toho plynopucí ...

Horová, Iva; Šír, Filip
Národní technická knihovna, 2016

Data quality and consistency in Scopus and Web of Science in their indexing of Czech Journals
Mika, Pavel; Szarzec, Jakub; Sivertsen, Gunnar
2016 - English This study addresses the discussion of “quality versus coverage” that often arises if a choice is needed between Scopus and Web of Science (WoS). We present a new methodology to detect problems in the quality of indexing procedures. Our preliminary findings indicate the same degree and types of errors in Scopus and WoS. The more serious errors seem to occur in the indexing of cited references, not in the recording of traditional metadata. Keywords: kvalita dat; citační index; Levenštejnova vzdálenost; Scopus; Web of Science; data quality; journal coverage; citation indexing; Levenshtein distance; teorie dat; lexikální sémantika; periodika Available in the NTK library. Data quality and consistency in Scopus and Web of Science in their indexing of Czech Journals

This study addresses the discussion of “quality versus coverage” that often arises if a choice is needed between Scopus and Web of Science (WoS). We present a new methodology to detect problems in the ...

Mika, Pavel; Szarzec, Jakub; Sivertsen, Gunnar
Národní technická knihovna, 2016

Reimagining academic library user experience
Orlová, Jana; Pavelová, Alena
2016 - English This paper describes how the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK) performed mystery shopping (MS), a technique borrowed from the commercial services sector, as a tool for informing its service decisions and offerings, both virtual and in-person. The methodologies used for two rounds of MS, one in 2014 and another in 2015, are described, and findings and interpretation of feedback in relation to actual NTK service modifications are presented. Keywords: Mystery Shopping; Národní technická knihovna; zlepšování služeb; SWOT analýza; Mystery Shopping; National Library of Technology; improvement of services; SWOT analysis; průzkumy; analýza; knihovny; informační služby Available in the NTK library. Reimagining academic library user experience

This paper describes how the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK) performed mystery shopping (MS), a technique borrowed from the commercial services sector, as a tool for informing its service ...

Orlová, Jana; Pavelová, Alena
Národní technická knihovna, 2016

Cooking Stone Soup: Porous Workforce Training at the Czech National Library of Technology as a Supplement to (Impermeable) University Education
Chodounská, Alena; Krueger, Stephanie
2016 - English As in many other countries around the world, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) libraries in the Czech Republic are facing the difficult challenge of meeting the rapidly-evolving service needs of the communities they support in an environment in which the current university educational system does not provide graduates—neither those from STEM subjects nor those graduating from Czech library/information professional schools—with the appropriate set of skills needed for working in today’s specialized information provision settings. As a result, the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK) has been forced to provide on-the-job workforce training since early 2015 to its reference, instructional, and front-lines services staff simply in order to keep pace with STEM library developments outside the Czech Republic. This weekly workforce training effort, christened NTKu (short for NTKyouniversity), does not resemble traditional university education with its rigid structures and focus on the attainment of a degree. NTKu is, instead, porous: traditional “impermeable,” less flexible university curricula are supplemented with on-demand, ever-changing targeted instruction on specific issues, topics, and skills applied immediately to real-work settings. This manner of instruction, as the authors discuss in the paper, can yield highly effective results; however, unique challenges can emerge in an instructional environment lacking traditional measures of effectiveness (i.e., grades) and requiring voluntary participation by both learners and instructors. Such porous instructional efforts resemble those of open source software (OSS) communities, in which voluntary effort can produce results benefiting a particularly community—but only to the degree of investment provided by contributors. Such initiatives resemble cooking stone soup: the results can be tasty, but everyone involved needs to bring something to the table. Keywords: informační věda; andragogika; mimoškolní vzdělávání; vysokoškolské knihovny; vedení lidí Available in the NTK library. Cooking Stone Soup: Porous Workforce Training at the Czech National Library of Technology as a Supplement to (Impermeable) University Education

As in many other countries around the world, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) libraries in the Czech Republic are facing the difficult challenge of meeting the rapidly-evolving ...

Chodounská, Alena; Krueger, Stephanie
Národní technická knihovna, 2016

Using CC licences in repositories in the Czech Republic
Pejšová, Petra
2016 - English Keywords: veřejné licence; creative commons; Národní úložiště šedé literatury; public licences; creative commons; National Repository of Grey Literature; licence; autorské právo; šedá literatura Available in the NTK library. Using CC licences in repositories in the Czech Republic

Pejšová, Petra
Národní technická knihovna, 2016

Nové trendy v meziknihovních výpůjčních službách
Skenderija, Sasha
2016 - English Keywords: meziknihovní výpůjční služby; informační služby; knihovny; výpůjční služby Available in the NTK library. Nové trendy v meziknihovních výpůjčních službách

Skenderija, Sasha
Národní technická knihovna, 2016

New trends in information both influence and challenge grey literature
Pejšová, Petra
2016 - English Keywords: vědecká setkání; šedá literatura Available in the NTK library. New trends in information both influence and challenge grey literature

Pejšová, Petra
Národní technická knihovna, 2016

Virtual Polytechnic Library
Heicl, Václav; Krueger, Stephanie; Skenderija, Sasha
2015 - English The Czech Virtual Polytechnic Library (VPK) began in 2000 as the “virtual resource sharing alliance” by the leading Czech STM libraries as their response to the rapidly changing landscape of STM publishing and acquisitions, resource sharing, access policies, and technologies. VPK utilizes the INVIK document delivery management system developed in 1997 by a team of developers from the then-State Technical Library (now NTK), with NTK as its logistical “service center.” After its launch, the VPK alliance soon grew to also include non-STM libraries and became the Czech Republic’s most efficient and reliable national interlibrary resource sharing platform. VPK’s technological infrastructure and the logistical service center at NTK have adapted in an agile manner to changes in scholarly publishing over the past fifteen years and to the demands and needs of its participating members, who contribute data and resources to the sharing system. The VPK platform is now being considered as a resource sharing platform for the Central Portal for Czech Libraries (CPL), which would serve (starting in 2020) public libraries in addition to academic institutions and which would have more robust end-user functionality. The presenters will discuss this unique collaboration solution, which shows how a “home-grown/grassroots” initiative—developed and managed by its participating members in direct response to their changing needs and circumstances through time—can prove to be an inspirational, flexible and viable solution, even at the national level. Keywords: Virtuální polytechnická knihovna; Virtual Polytechnic Library; informační prameny Available in the NTK library. Virtual Polytechnic Library

The Czech Virtual Polytechnic Library (VPK) began in 2000 as the “virtual resource sharing alliance” by the leading Czech STM libraries as their response to the rapidly changing landscape of STM ...

Heicl, Václav; Krueger, Stephanie; Skenderija, Sasha
Národní technická knihovna, 2015