ABES, i.e. the French Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education, has been publishing SUDOC data in Worldcat for the past 10 years. Work to improve the visibility of collections and libraries is currently under consideration, jointly with OCLC and the National Library of France (BnF), particularly with regard to data quality. ABES also wishes to facilitate and improve international interlibrary loan.
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The National Bibliographic Knowledge Base (NBK) is a new UK-wide service to help libraries collaboratively manage their collections and improve access to print and digital resources. The availability of the Jisc Library Hub Discover and Cataloguing interfaces will effectively signal the start of the countdown to the retirement of Copac and SUNCAT at the end of July 2019. Neil Grindley, Head of Resource Discovery at Jisc, reviews the progress accomplished so far and mentions the next steps to be taken. In another post, the NBK data model is explained.
The 14th International Digital Curation Conference was organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) which is an internationally-recognised centre of expertise in digital curation with a focus on building capability and skills for research data management. The main theme of the conference was collaborations and partnerships in the field of digital curation and preservation. How do they develop and evolve across the professional, disciplinary, institutional, regional, national, and international levels? And how are such collaborations supporting the advancement of digital curation and preservation practices?
The presentations and videos are online.
Representatives from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) member organizations gather twice annually to explore new technologies, content, and applications; to further collaboration; to analyze technology policy issues; and to catalyze the development and deployment of new projects. The CNI Fall 2018 Membership Meeting was held on 10-11 December 2018 in Washington, DC. Issues related to intellectual property, open access, and scholarly publishing were well represented at this meeting. Discovery, interoperability, and linked data are also topics of interest to many in the CNI community.
Interviews, videos and slides are online.
This paper examines data quality issues in current research information systems and introduces new techniques and methods of data cleansing and data monitoring with which organizations can guarantee the quality of their data.
ReCAP, the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium, founded by Columbia University, the New York Public Library, and Princeton University in 2000 to preserve and make accessible the collections of its members, has expanded its scope and membership, transforming its original mission from serving as a shared physical repository to becoming a model for shared collection building and management. In addition to improved access and increased efficiency already achieved through the Shared Collection Service, the ReCAP consortium is exploring collaborative collection building and joint digital initiatives to improve the user experience.
The way that researchers generate, analyse and share information keeps evolving at a rapid pace. The British Library’s key programme, Everything Available, will ensure the Library’s continued support for research with services to enable access to information in an open and timely manner. This paper describes the activities planned, with a particular focus on the aims of the Library’s recently refreshed Research Data Strategy. It will give an insight into the challenges and opportunities faced by a National Library in providing relevant services in an ‘open’ world.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Statistics 2016–2017, ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2016–2017, and ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2016–2017. These three publications present information describing the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities of the Association’s 124 member libraries in fiscal year 2016–2017.
The minutes from the Metadata Interest Group’s 2019 Midwinter program and business meeting are now available.
On November 19 & 20, 2018, a repository workshop was held in Zanzibar City, Tanzania. The workshop was jointly organized by West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN), EIFL and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) in conjunction with the UbuntuNet Alliance Conference as part of the LIBSENSE Initiative. This is the first in a series of meetings to develop a more cohesive strategy for strengthening and building repository networks in Africa. The participants identified a number of areas in which libraries and Research and Education Networks (RENs) can collaborate to improve and strengthen repositories in the region.
