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Fredoc, Bordeaux, 12 October 2011
LIBER and its EU projects
Wouter SchallierExecutive Director of LIBER (Ligue des bibliothèques européennes de Recherche - Association of European Research Libraries)
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Contents
1. What does LIBER do?2. LIBER’s role in EU projects3. LIBER’s portfolio of EU projects4. Opportunities for French research libraries 5. Q&A
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“Making the case for European research libraries”
LIBER = the largest network of European research/academic libraries: 425 institutions, from over 40 countries
Mission: to represent and promote the interests of European research/academic libraries Formulate a European strategy for research libraries Knowledge sharing and dissemination, fostering partnerships Advocacy and lobbying
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Strategy 2009-2012: areas of interest http://www.libereurope.eu/activities
Scholarly CommunicationsE-science, OA
Digitisation and Resource DiscoveryEuropeana, copyright
Heritage Collections and Preservation Organisation and Human Resources Architecture, quality and benchmarking, security, library
passport
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LIBER’s role in EU projects
BEFORE DURING AFTER
Initiator, catalyst Partner Dissemination
Co-ordinator Lead Conversion into sustainable service
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LIBER’s portfolio of EU projects
Europeana Travel ODE (Opportunities for Data Exchange) APARSEN (Digital Preservation Best Practice Network) Europeana LibrariesMedOANet Gateway to European Newspapers (EU Library Passport)
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Europeana Travel
See http://www.europeanatravel.eu/
LIBER project ran between 2009 -2011
19 partners, led by the National Library of Estonia
See an article on Europeana Travel at http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/issues/2009-2/index.html?000469
€1,000,000 project, funded by EU
Aim was to digitise over 1,000,000 units of content on the themes of Travel, Tourism and Exploration and to make these materials available via the Europeana portal at http://www.europeana.eu/
Travelling through history – an online exhibition at http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition-travel-history/
National Library of Latvia
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Opportunities for data exchange
Data sharing is smart: it is efficient, avoids duplication, stimulates the
advancement of science about transparency: it allows re-analysis about enrichment: it adds value to traditional publications rewarding: requirement for publicly funded research
Roles and responsibilities: researchers, publishers, funders, libraries and data centres
http://www.ode-project.eu/
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Image: Cern/Maximilien Brice
Image: NASA
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It’s all about laaaaaarge amounts of data
“Data are no longer considered as interim products to be discarded once the research reporting them is published. Rather, they have become important sources of scholarly content to be used and re-used.”Borgman, The role of libraries in e-science
Image: http://na49info.web.cern.ch/na49info/Public/Press/pictures/mtpc40rowsRawData.gifRaw data from a central Pb+Pb event for 40 rows of the Main TPC
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Making data usable/useful
Data description and identification Organisation Data protection, privacy regulations, ethical issues Visualisation Interpretation Preservation Persistent link between publications and datasets Integrated search
http://na49info.web.cern.ch/na49info/Public/Press/LogBook.html
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Making data usable/useful (2) Validation and peer review of data Data quality and integrity Interoperability Repositories Control over correct usage Selection Data publication Citation…
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This is e-science … and no science fiction
Sharing Use and re-use of data Internet used as a vehicle Distribution over many networked computers/people Transparency New expertise: data journalism, data managers, data
scientists, data librarians etc.
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APARSEN project
Network of excellence in digital preservation A forum for discussion with other stakeholders
(researchers, publishers, data managers, funding, private sector) in digital preservation
Shared European vision/framework: Blue Ribbon Task Force, LIFE, Planets, CASPAR, SHAMAN etc.
Awareness raising + tools for implementation Roles and responsibilities, business models
http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/current-projects/aparsen
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LIBER’s contribution to APARSEN
A huge network of research libraries Linked through a common strategy where e-science and
DP are crucial Some of them with a lot…others with less expertise Keen to take up their roles in a European e-science
infrastructure cf. Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation http://brtf.sdsc.edu/
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DP is not only a matter of finding sufficient funds, it’s about mobilising resources (human, technical, financial)
BRTF Final Report p,1
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Europeana Libraries
EC funded project, 2 years 5 million digitised objects will be made available through
Europeana: Books (incl. books digitised by Google) Special collections Audiovisual materialsMore than 200,000 OA research theses (via DART Europe)More than 270,000 OA scholarly articles (via DOAJ)
http://www.europeana-libraries.eu
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Europeana Libraries (2)
From 19 leading research libraries: Bavarian State Library, Hungarian Parliament Library, Nat. Library of Wales, Romanian Academy Library, Trinity College Dublin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Belgrade, University of Berne, University College London, University of Gent, University of Leuven, University of Lund, University of Oxford, University of Sibiu, University of Tartu, University of Uppsala, University of Vienna, Wellcome Library, Zentralbibliothek Zurich
Will become THE libraries aggregator for Europeana New business model
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Europeana Libraries: sustainability
Economies of scale: 46 national libraries
Economies of scope: Aggregator
Other content (raw data, …) relevant for R&E
400+ national + research libraries
aggregator + other services (tools and services for researchers, DP, innovation …?)
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Europeana Libraries: sustainability (2)
New funding model needed New governance needed
Important because some institutions feed Europeana through several aggregators, so can choose!
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Digitisation of out of commerce works
Memorandum of Understanding signed on 20/9/2011 Allows collective licensing schemes in the Member StatesMajor break through for legal mass digitisation and
making available http://www.libereurope.eu/news/liber-signs-mou-on-out-
of-commerce-works-on-behalf-of-european-research- libraries
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MedOANet
Co-ordination of Open Access strategies, policies and structures at the national and regional Member State level
Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey Online ‘Mediterranean Open Access Tracker’
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Opportunities for French research libraries
Become a LIBER member It’s cheap and it’ll make a big difference to you… and to us!
Subscribe to our mailing list LIBER-ALL (or LIBER-NEWS if you’re not a member), join us on LinkedIn, Twitter etc.
Keep an eye on our calls for partners If you’re preparing a bid, send your call for partners to our
network Come to our 41st Annual Conference in Tartu (Estonia)
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Thank you! Questions/comments? Visit us at the KB in The Hague!
