2014: what’s on the horizon?
Challenges and perspectives for 2014 by the UKSG commitee members (metadata, open access, universities’ initiatives,etc)
Preservation: the construction of our digital continuity
The main challenges of the digital preservation: research data management, digital preservation policies, financial resources.
1 million digitised tables of contents in the catalogue of the German National Library – 5 years of catalogue enrichment
2.7 million pages have recently been made available via the catalogue of the German National Library for free re-use and research and information purposes. Full-text searches can be performed in these documents.
IFLA publishes Statement on Libraries and Text and Data Mining
Vast amounts of information and data are being generated every day through government, academic, economic and social activities. Text and data mining has emerged as a significant tool to assist individuals and institutions identify patterns, trends and anomalies in data, and to develop new efficiencies and forms of knowledge.
The document itself is available at this link.
Descriptive metadata of the “Bibliothèque nationale de France” (BnF) now under open licence
Since 1st January 2014, all the metadata issued from the BnF catalogues (more than 12 million bibliographic records) are freely available, even for a commercial use.
Preservation, Trust and Continuing Access for e-Journals
The latest in the Digital Preservation Coalition’s (DPC) series of Technology Watch Reports has been released on 30th October.
It discusses the critical issues of preservation, trust and continuing access for e-journals, particularly in light of the dynamic and interdependent resources they have become, as well as the ever-growing trend towards open-access.
UKSG webinar series available online
The slides and the recording of the following UKSG webinars are now available online:
Who should Europeana be serving in 2020? And how?
Europeana is running four workshops to help define Europeana’s strategy for the period 2015-2020: one for Distribution & Engagement, one for Aggregation, one for Facilitation, and a finalizing Synthesis session.
Webinar Recording and Slides: “The Role of the Librarian in an Open Access World”
In October 2013, Choice, the magazine of the Association of College and Research Libraries, offered a webinar titled ”The Role of the Librarian in an Open Access World”. A recording and the slides are now available.
Beyond the Scanned Image: Assessing Scholarly Uses of Digital Collections
A recent study of humanities faculty at twelve research institutions, led by Harriett Green, English and Digital Humanities librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, aimed to find out more about uses of digital collections among humanities scholars.