Eva Méndez

University Carlos III de Madrid | UC3M · Department of Library Science and Documentation

Although FAIR Research Data Principles are targeted at and implemented by different communities, research disciplines, and research stakeholders (data stewards, curators, etc.), there is no conclusive way to determine the level of FAIRness intended or required to make research artefacts (including, but not limited to, research data) Findable, Acces...

Open Science (OS) has been rapidly evolving in recent years, but there is still work to be done to return Science to researchers and citizens who pay for it. Technological advancements have enabled Open Science to transform the way scientific research is conducted, facilitating collaboration and innovation among researchers. As a result, OS is expe...

Although FAIR Research Data Principles are targeted at and implemented by different communities, research disciplines, and research stakeholders (data stewards, curators, etc.), there is no conclusive way to determine the level of FAIRness intended or required to make research artefacts (including, but not limited to, research data) Findable, Acces...

Although FAIR Research Data Principles are targeted at and implemented by different communities, research disciplines, and research stakeholders (data stewards, curators, etc.), there is no conclusive way to determine the level of FAIRness intended or required to make research artefacts (including, but not limited to, research data) Findable, Acces...

During the coronavirus pandemic, changes in the way science is done and shared occurred, which motivates meta‐research to help understand science communication in crises and improve its effectiveness. The objective is to study how many Spanish scientific papers on COVID‐19 published during 2020 share their research data. Qualitative and descriptive...

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 outbreak showed the importance of rapid access to research. OBJECTIVE This paper investigates research communication about this disease, the level of openness of papers, and the main topics of research into this disease. METHODS Thus, it analyses Open Access (OA) uptake (typologies, licence use) and the topic evolution of...

Background The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the importance of rapid access to research. Objective The aim of this study was to investigate research communication related to COVID-19, the level of openness of papers, and the main topics of research into this disease. Methods Open access (OA) uptake (typologies, license use) and the topic evolutio...

Due to the nature of health data, its sharing and reuse for research are limited by ethical, legal and technical barriers. The FAIR4Health project facilitated and promoted the application of FAIR principles in health research data, derived from the publicly funded health research initiatives to make them Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reu...

Open science (OS) is considered the new paradigm for science and knowledge dissemination. OS fosters cooperative work and new ways of distributing knowledge by promoting effective data sharing (as early and broadly as possible) and a dynamic exchange of research outcomes, not only publications. On the other hand, intellectual property (IP) legislat...

Due to the nature of health data, its sharing and reuse for research are limited by ethical, legal and technical barriers. The FAIR4Health project facilitated and promoted the application of FAIR principles in health research data, derived from the publicly funded health research initiatives to make them Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reu...

The systemic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic require cross-disciplinary collaboration in a global and timely fashion. Such collaboration needs open research practices and the sharing of research outputs, such as data and code, thereby facilitating research and research reproducibility and timely collaboration beyond borders. The Research Data A...

Este trabajo aborda el nuevo paradigma de la Open Science o ciencia en abierto desde la perspectiva europea, pero destacando su necesario alcance global. Se analiza el concepto, origen y evolución de la Open Science y se discuten sus retos y la demora de su completa implementación. Se parte de la hipótesis de que la Open Science debería de ser el p...

The systemic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic require cross-disciplinary collaboration in a global and timely fashion. Such collaboration needs open research practices and the sharing of research outputs, such as data and code, thereby facilitating research and research reproducibility and timely collaboration beyond borders. The Research Data A...

Background: The COVID-19 outbreak has made funders, researchers and publishers agree to have research publications, as well as other research outputs, such as data, become openly available. In this extraordinary research context of the SARS CoV-2 pandemic, publishers are announcing that their coronavirus-related articles will be made immediately ac...

Funders increasingly mandate researchers to publish their scientific articles in open access and to retain their copyright. Universities all over the world have set up institutional repositories and use repositories for the preservation and dissemination of academic production of their institutions, including scientific articles, reports, datasets,...

Background: The COVID-19 outbreak has made funders, researchers and publishers agree to have research publications, as well as other research outputs, such as data, become openly available. In this extraordinary research context of the SARS CoV-2 pandemic, publishers are announcing that their coronavirus-related articles will be made immediately ac...

Background FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) guiding principles seek the reuse of data and other digital research input, output, and objects (algorithms, tools, and workflows that led to that data) making them findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. GO FAIR - a bottom-up, stakeholder driven and self-gov...

Este estudio examina de forma exhaustiva la literatura científica dedicada a los procesos de skosificación de vocabularios y sistemas de organización del conocimiento. Se analizan en profundidad 49 trabajos que describen y detallan la transformación de un total de 59 vocabularios controlados convencionales o SOC (Sistemas de Organización del Conoci...

This volume situates Virginia Woolf in relation to the past. A range of articles from leading Woolf scholars demonstrate that despite her fame as a leading Modernist novelist, Woolf also drew on a rich cultural, literal and familiar heritage in her writing. Prominent themes include education and mentoring, heritage spaces, literary and cultural pas...

Entrevista a Eva Méndez Rodríguez, profesora titular e investigadora de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, sobre los datos abiertos en instituciones culturales.

Se analiza el estado de la apertura de los datos de bibliotecas municipales en España como parte constitutiva de la información del sector público. El artículo estudia información de los portales de administraciones municipales españolas que sirven conjuntos de datos abiertos de sus bibliotecas. Se categorizan dichos conjuntos de datos y se analiza...

Un año y medio después de la creación de la red temática Maredata, exponemos las métricas provinentes de la colaboración

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology for assessing thesauri and other controlled vocabularies management tools that can represent content using the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) data model, and their use in a Linked Open Data (LOD) paradigm. It effectively analyses selected set of tools in order to prove the v...

This paper studies research data repositories in the social sciences and humanities (SSH), from the Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data), paying particular attention to metadata models used to describe the datasets included in them. 397 repositories are reviewed at the general level, including those of a multidisciplinary nature. We dis...

This paper aims to study the level of adoption of mobile access to the academic libraries in the best universities in the world as well as the quality of services offered in order to ascertain if the quality of academic apps and mobile websites are at the level of the overall web impact of world-class universities. For the top 50 universities accor...

Se describe la actual tendencia de lo abierto, que incluye conceptos como transparente, democrático, compartido, colectivo, libre, común, procomún..., con áreas de trabajo como open access, open data, linked open data, curación de datasets, open content, open research, open education, open innovation, open knowledge... en 3 ejes: 1)Información públ...

Peer review is common practice with scholarly papers and articles prior to publication, but this is not quite the case with educational content, particularly with Open Educational Resources (OERs). The Quality Group for the OpenCourseWare (OCW) Project at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid decided to set up a system to validate the quality of the tea...

1. Introducción Para hablar del «liderazgo de los servicios de información en el siglo XXI», es necesario que estos estén incluidos de una forma prominente en la Web. Después de 25 años de Web y, para algunos, 15 de Web Semántica, la World Wide Web ya no es un lugar «en el que hay que estar», sino que «hay que estar de una determinada manera», en...

In this paper, the authors question the role and naming of 'application profiles' (APs). It is not a research paper but aims to foster a discussion that the authors think is pertinent. Both have been involved in the development and use of application profiles for some considerable time. This paper does not provide answers but aims to raise issues f...

Purpose – This editorial underscores the importance of linked data and linked open data (LD/LOD) in contemporary librarianship and information science. It aims to present the motivation for this special issue of Library High Tech (LHT), specifically the theme of linking and opening vocabularies (LOV) as a component of the LOD landscape. The editori...

The Semantic Web, extends the popular, day-to-day Web, enabling computers and people to effectively work together by giving information well-defined meaning. Knitting the Semantic Web explains the interdisciplinary efforts underway to build a more library-like Web through "semantic knitting." The book examines foundation activities and initiatives...

This chapter provides an overview of metadata typologies and uses, clarifying why sometimes different approaches to metadata types and metadata uses could be misleading. We present a general overview of how metadata can be interpreted differently, and then elaborate specific typologies of metadata schemas, metadata schemes, and metadata elements. T...

This article offers an introduction about the current situation of local press in the Madrid area as well as the results of a study about the use and practice in their archives and documentation centers. The study was made in 12 of the main Madrid local press groups by means of interviews and visits to those media. Among the results obtained it’s w...

This paper summarizes new trends and advances in Knowledge Organization from the perspective of linked open data (LOD). Although this is particularly important to galleries, libraries, archives and museums, the so-called GLAM community, it is of more general relevance, and part of the value of LOD lies in its adoption beyond that community. LOD inc...

Metadata can be used in a variety of environments, from library catalogs and research databases to data archives, proprietary knowledge bases, and the open web. Multiple sources for metadata creation exist, with metadata being generated by professionals, through automated techniques, and by the public at large. Information professionals are eager t...

:This article challenges common assumptions and opinions regarding the use of the social web by cultural heritage institutions by framing the phenomenon of user-generated metadata within the larger context of the commodification and the engagement process of our cultural heritage. Theoretical reflections on both the negative and positive long-term...

Purpose This paper seeks to analyse the opportunities and potential risks for libraries applying for European support to fund projects regarding digitisation or availability of their already digitised content. The European Commission has a range of specific funding programs devoted to access, use and preservation of digital cultural heritage, so li...

This report introduces the Dublin Core Microformats (DCMF) project, a new way to use the DC element set within X/HTML. The DC microformats encode explicit semantic expressions in an X/HTML webpage, by using a specific list of terms for values of the attributes “rev” and “rel” for and elements, and “class” and “id” of other elements. Microformats ca...

Esta nota comenta la última conferencia sobre Dublin Core y aplicaciones de metadatos (DC-2007) celebrada en agosto de 2007 en Singapur. Se discuten los principales avances en materia de metadatos y en particular del estándar Dublin Core, así como el concepto de “perfiles de aplicación” en el contexto de la interoperabilidad de los servicios de inf...

El texto revisa la historia y desarrollo de Oclc, la gran organización internacional de servicios documentales y bibliotecarios, reflexionando especialmente sobre la historia y algunos motivos de la lentitud de su implantación en España.

Current information policies in Dominican Republic include the creation and development of libraries and information systems in a more effective way than ever in the country. One of the biggest concerns regarding these new democratic and modern libraries is to analyze whether the Dominican Republic has information professionals competent enough to...

Current information policies in Dominican Republic include the creation and development of libraries and information systems in a more effective way than ever in the country. One of the biggest concerns regarding these new democratic and modern libraries is to analyze whether the Dominican Republic has information professionals competent enough to...

This paper presents several reflections on the traditional card catalogues and RDF (Resource Description Framework), which is “the” standard for creating the Semantic Web. This work grew out of discussion between the authors after the Working Group on Metadata Schemes meeting held at IFLA conference in Buenos Aires (2004). The paper provides an ove...

En este artículo se presenta el uso de microformatos Dublin Core (DC), una manera de utilizar el conjunto de elementos DC en una forma especial de marcado muy utilizada en la web 2.0 y denominada genéricamente “microformatos”. Permiten la expresión de la semántica en el seno de una página xhtml de forma visible al usuario, estableciendo por tanto u...

This paper reports on metadata research and development supporting memory and reflective learning that is being conducted as part of the Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios project, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The paper reviews learning, memory, and reflective learning strategies; introduces the M2 project; presents a reflec...

El observatorio describe una reflexión sobre el desarrollo de la tecnología de los metadatos para describir, organizar y recuperar información, su evolución en los últimos diez años, y el futuro de su desarrollo como "vocabularios" de metainformación.

El artículo describe la creación, presentación y puesta en funcionamiento de un nuevo "buscador semántico" denominado SWoogle y creado en la Universidad de Maryland. Se discuten sus características y se habla del futuro de la Web, la Web 2.0 y el futuro de la búsqueda de información.

This paper reflects the state of the art of digital documents organization and retrieval. There are reviewed and compared the international standardization initiatives about traditional cataloguing of electronic resources (from ISBD (ER) to MARC21), the digital information and new information representation standards like XML, as well as the standa...

In this chapter it is presented a reflection about the challenges of information management and retrieval of digital documents regarding the evident electronic Administration. We start from the principles and parameters featuring the current Information Society policies that promote and encourage the Government online. The paper also deals with the...

Este artículo hace una revisión del concepto de esquemas de metadatos, tipología y uso para la recuperación de información, preservación y acceso en el contexto actual de los registros digitales y archivos, así como las taréas de gesión de registros (recordkeeping) en torno a ellos. Se analizan los cambios y retos en la descripción de documentos, d...

The concept of a society based on information and knowledge is becoming the norm in every country, including Spain. The need to have well-designed information policies that allow us to come to terms with the new upsurge of media, technology and services that has taken place in our society is discussed first. Information policies required by these c...

Analysis of accessibility and usability of web sites of 60 public libraries in Catalonia, the Catalonian Library and the collective catalogue of Barcelona's libraries' network. The accessibility was evaluated using indicators based on the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The usability was evaluated regarding contents, users and other factors. We...

This paper analyses the information policies in Spain that protect the human right of access to information, specially those regarding web accessibility and users with particular disabilities who should have the same right to access to digital content in Internet. The paper studies the main standards promoted by W3C-Web Accessibility Initiative, na...

The number of Internet users' explosion and the continous increment of available content through the World Wide Web made the valuable electronic information stored in web servers is difficult to locate and also sometimes inconsistent. So, there are developping different standardisation projects to locate and control the distributed information in I...

Ante el reto de la globalización de la economía y de la información, el presente artículo aborda la necesidad de contar con políticas de información sólidas que permitan asumir la convergencia de medios, tecnologías y servicios que ha tenido lugar en la incipiente Sociedad de la Información. Para ello se toma como punto de referencia el caso españo...

Managing semantic content of data is becoming an strategic aspect for organizations that they are asuming emerging Web technologies. The new technologies for accesing and interchanging information are increasing the visibility of coorporative informationand they grown up big expectations for finding, understanding and sharing informative content. T...

This presentation deals with the Resource Description Framework (RDF), a metadata model based on XML that was presented in this conference like a flexible standard for structuring the information of XXI century's Digital Libraries. It describes the context and principal features for this metadata format, as well as its posibilities and potencial de...

The use of still images as information resource is bigger and bigger in the information services for different uses: editorial processes, research, journalism, publicity, etc. So, that services augment their graphical information exponentially. Digitalization and storing techniques and procedures and the improvement of multimedia digital management...

This paper made a proposal to organize the citation and bibliographic references within the "new" hypertextual documents in Internet. It points out the potentialities of markpup language HTML for knowledge representaton in electronic scientific publications in Internet. Finally, it also propounds a structure for the bibligraphic references and cita...

El artículo refleja la creación de una Academia constituida para evaluar y valorar el perfil y el papel del profesional de la información en el siglo XXI y en la nueva Era de la Información. Se describen los miembros, características, etc. de la Louis Round Wilson Academy y se comenta específamente la reunión en Granada (España) en abril 2006.

Analysis of accessibility and usability of web sites of 60 public libraries in Catalonia, the Catalonian Library and the collective catalogue of Barcelona's libraries' network. The accessibility was evaluated using indicators based on the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The usability was evaluated regarding contents, users and other factors. We...

This paper reflects a thughful study about the use of natural language in automatic indexing systmes, from Data Bases and the Digital Management of Documents to full-text indexing of scientific electronic publications indexed in the Web. It offers a theoric approach to automatic intexing, pointing out the role that natural language (no controled) h...

The paper analyses the kind of information that the main public libraries in Spain offer through their websites. The information is analysed in two levels (first, general and institutional information and second the main information about collections, catalogues, etc.). Finaly there are described the main services that we can find in the websites o...

Ante la necesidad de etiquetar, catalogar y describir de manera estructurada la información de documentos digitales, con el objetivo de procesarlos, almacenarlos, conservarlos, recuperarlos e intercambiarlos a través de Internet, en esta obra se revisan los metadatos como una alternativa para solucionar el problema de recuperación y la administraci...

La versión original de este artículo se publicó en catalán en la revista Item (2002)

This article presents an approach to the uses of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and Semantic Web technologies in the field of information services, focusing mainly on the creation and management of digital libraries compared to traditional libraries, while paying special attention to the concept and application of metadata, and RDF based integrat...

Este artículo refleja la situación de las bibliotecas y los servicios públicos de información en la República Dominicana, partiendo de un diagnóstico de la realidad existente hace unos años, y de los avances que se han realizado con la creación de un sistema nacional de información pública, así como algunas consideraciones para el futuro: propuesta...

Este artículo trata de las ontologías que sirven para la comprensión en contexto y la Gestión de la Información Personal (PIM)y su aplicabilidad al proyecto Memex Metadata(M2). M2 es un proyecto de investigación de la Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Chapel Hill para mejorar la memoria digital de los alumnos utilizando tablet PC, la tecnología...

Aquest article reflecteix l'estat de la qüestió de l'organització i la recuperació de documents digitals. S'hi revisen les iniciatives d'estandardització internacional sobre catalogació de recursos electrònics en sentit tradicional (des de les ISBD(ER) fins a la posició de MARC21, enfront de la informació digital i els nous estàndards de representa...

Anàlisi de l’accessibilitat i usabilitat dels llocs web de 60 biblioteques públiques catalanes, la Biblioteca de Catalunya i el Catàleg Col·lectiu de la Xarxa de Biblioteques de Barcelona. L’accessibilitat s’avalua a partir d’indicadors basats en les recomanacions de la Iniciativa per a l’accessibilitat al web (WAI). La usabilitat s’avalua en funci...

La explosión del número de usuarios en Internet y el crecimiento continuado del volumen de los contenidos accesibles a través de la World Wide Web hacen que la valiosa información electrónica alojada en la web sea inconsistente y difícil de localizar. Por este motivo se están desarrollando distintos proyectos de normalización de la información dist...

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Thourough reflection around the new approach to the concept of "Digital Library". The author concludes that after all the European Digital Library initiative and real development, digital libraries are more and more digital and less and less library. The chapter makes a review of the author's previous thinking and comes up with a new interesting ap...