The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) joined forces with Europeana and Creative Commons (CC) to create a collaborative, interoperable platform for international rights statements. The International Rights Statement Working Group (Working Group), composed of representatives from the three organizations, spent the past 12 months outlining a proposal for a common framework to provide rights statements for both national and international cultural heritage objects.

This White Paper gives an account of the latest developments in EDM and highlights the principles that are necessary for the model to continue as a suitable framework for cultural heritage data.

This white paper proposes recommendations and best practices for the implementation and use of statistics and metrics in academic digital libraries and repositories.

A presentation of BIBFLOW, an Institute of Museum and Library Services supported project that aims to document the internal effects of the conversion of library records to Linked Data, with a particular focus on the forthcoming BIBFRAME framework. The final deliverable of the project will be a road map to navigating the transition to Linked Data in libraries.

The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and Portico announced a new partnership that will support the preservation of e-journals through the KB’s International e-Depot program which focuses on the preservation of e-journals from international scientific publishers. The KB will take advantage of Portico’s existing preservation expertise and infrastructure in order to ensure that scholars and researchers will have access to content in the future.

IFLA, along with Copyright for Creativity, EBLIDA, LIBER and Communia, hosted a meeting at the European Parliament on May 6th 2015. The meeting tackled the relationship between copyright and licenses, and argued that licensing is not the solution to the problems that libraries have in making available material to their users in the digital age.

Data Quality was the theme of a session organised as part of the last EuropeanaTech Conference held on February 12th and 13th 2015. The following report summarises the discussions that took place during this session: it touches upon the problems leading to poor data quality and proposes solutions to tackle them. The report also attempts to find useful elements of definitions that help better grasp the notion of what good data quality really is.

Representatives of several member states of the Arab League and a Chinese delegation agreed in Cairo to establish an expansive Arab-Chinese digital library so as to enhance cultural cooperation between the two sides.

For a second year in a row, major open access repository networks have met to develop closer ties and further align their expanding repository networks. The meeting, organized by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), welcomed representatives from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America.

The German legislator introduced new rules for handling out-of-commerce works: under these, works published in Germany before 1966 can, under certain conditions, be licensed for digitisation and public accessibility. The major part of German National Library’s (DNB) collections stems from the 20th century, accordingly it has a vital interest in making use of this newly created opportunity.