LIBER and its EU projects Wouter Schallier Executive Director of LIBER (Ligue des bibliothèques européennes de Recherche - Association of European Research Libraries) wouter.schallier@kb.nl www.libereurope.eu
Contents 1. What does LIBER do? 2. LIBER s role in EU projects 3. LIBER s portfolio of EU projects 4. Opportunities for French research libraries 5. Q&A
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
Strategy 2009-2012: areas of interest http://www.libereurope.eu/activities Scholarly Communications E-science, OA Digitisation and Resource Discovery Europeana, copyright Heritage Collections and Preservation Organisation and Human Resources Architecture, quality and benchmarking, security, library passport
LIBER s role in EU projects BEFORE DURING AFTER Initiator, catalyst Partner Dissemination Co-ordinator Lead Conversion into sustainable service
LIBER s portfolio of EU projects Europeana Travel ODE (Opportunities for Data Exchange) APARSEN (Digital Preservation Best Practice Network) Europeana Libraries MedOANet Gateway to European Newspapers (EU Library Passport)
Europeana Travel National Library of Latvia 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/
Opportunities for data exchange http://www.ode-project.eu/ 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
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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 Raw data from a central Pb+Pb event for 40 rows of the Main TPC Image: http://na49info.web.cern.ch/na49info/public/press/pictures/mtpc40rowsrawdata.gif
Making data usable/useful Data description and identification http://na49info.web.cern.ch/na49info/public/press/logbook.html Organisation Data protection, privacy regulations, ethical issues Visualisation Interpretation Preservation Persistent link between publications and datasets Integrated search
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
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.
APARSEN project http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/current-projects/aparsen 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
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/
DP is not only a matter of finding sufficient funds, it s about mobilising resources (human, technical, financial) BRTF Final Report p,1
Europeana Libraries http://www.europeana-libraries.eu EC funded project, 2 years 5 million digitised objects will be made available through Europeana: Books (incl. books digitised by Google) Special collections Audiovisual materials More than 200,000 OA research theses (via DART Europe) More than 270,000 OA scholarly articles (via DOAJ)
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
Europeana Libraries: sustainability Economies of scale: 46 national libraries Economies of scope: Aggregator 400+ national + research libraries aggregator + other services (tools and services for researchers, DP, innovation?) Other content (raw data, ) relevant for R&E
Europeana Libraries: sustainability (2) New funding model needed New governance needed Important because some institutions feed Europeana through several aggregators, so can choose!
Digitisation of out of commerce works Memorandum of Understanding signed on 20/9/2011 Allows collective licensing schemes in the Member States Major break through for legal mass digitisation and making available http://www.libereurope.eu/news/liber-signs-mou-on-outof-commerce-works-on-behalf-of-european-researchlibraries
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
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)
Thank you! Questions/comments? Visit us at the KB in The Hague! www.libereurope.eu wouter.schallier@kb.nl