The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) hosted an IFLA 2014 satellite meeting devoted to linked data on 14th August 2014. This one-day event was the opportunity to present actual realizations and practical issues such as the maintenance of systems based on linked data.
Most of the presentations’ supports are now available online (in English), and Emmanuelle Bermès’ insights (BnF/French National Library) are accessible here.
At the 80th IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) World Library and Information Congress on Aug. 18, 2014, in Lyon, France, IFLA introduced the Lyon Declaration on Access to Information. It calls upon member states of the United Nations (UN) to make an international commitment to use the post-2015 development agenda—intended to succeed the UN’s expiring Millennium Development Goals—to ensure that everyone has access to information. Moreover, it notes that access to information must be coupled with the ability to understand, use, and share information.
The Hiberlink project investigates how web links in online scientific and other academic articles fail to lead to the resources that were originally referenced.
In this presentation, Peter Burnhill of EDINA, University of Edinburgh, outlines how the Hiberlink project aims to address the problem of dead links in eTheses.
A new updated version has been published. This guide is an internal audit tool dedicated to enhance the quality of open access academic institutional repositories. It will contribute to enhance the scope and visibility of repositories among the scientific community, and establish the rules to be observed to create a robust and visible infrastructure.
Guía RECOLECTA para la Evaluación de Repositorios Institucionales de Investigación
For the second time in 2014, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) copyright committee could not agree on the conclusions of its session or on any recommendation to be made to the September General Assembly on the protection of broadcasting organisations or the establishment of an international regime of exception and limitations for libraries and education.
The 28th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 30 June to 4 July.
A side event was held on 30 June by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) entitled, “Keeping Copyright Relevant in the digital environment: libraries, archives and licences.” It questioned the impact of digital content licence terms and conditions on the mission of libraries and archives.
The DIRBUIST Days were held on 3 and 4 June 2014 at the initiative of the French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research. Were discussed the developments of cross-national projects in higher education and research and the evolution of scientific and technical information (STI) initiatives in the European research environment, noticeable research data preservation and sharing.
«Métarevues» is a project launched by the Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur / Higher Education Bibliographic Agency (ABES). This tool dedicated to periodicals generates the complete history – paper and electronic – of a «métarevue», from a bibliographic identifier or an ISSN (print or digital). What is called «métarevue» is the sum of all the titles which form a periodical since birth.
LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) 43rd Annual Conference was held in Riga, Latvia, 2-5 July 2014. The conference theme was «Research Libraries in the 2020 Information Landscape», among the broached topics: open access publishing, digital collections, linked open data and repositories.
OpenAIRE and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) organised a joint conference including the COAR Annual Meeting. The conference took place from May 21- 23, 2014 in Athens, Greece, at the Athens Acropolis Museum.
The main topics were: the connexions between repositories, libraries and research services; the measurement of scientific output impact and data in an institutional context, and global interoperability of repository networks.
Legal deposit of the online publications at the NDL: recent developments of the project and problems encountered.
