Faced with the need of collecting ebooks, the BnF tries to raise and answer some technical implementation issues, based on its experience of managing digital documents and its tradition of legal deposit.
To move towards a public Science that is open to all its beneficiaries, the CNRS ( French National Centre for Scientific Research ) has committed to promoting «a better sharing of knowledge» which above all entails improved sharing of scientific and technical information (STI).
Forward-thinking developers participated in Research Libraries UK’s (RLUK) first Linked Open Data (LOD) Hackathon in London in May. The European Library published a series of LOD case studies about early adoption of LOD. Ideas and recommendations were exchanged for making further improvements to data access. The event’s objective was to strengthen expertise and test LOD applicability and its potential to create library solutions.
Published by Facet Publishing, this practical handbook teaches the professionals how to unlock the value of the existing metadata through cleaning, reconciliation, enrichment and linking and how to streamline the process of new metadata creation.
Advocate General Jääskinen proposes to the Court of Justice of the European Union his point of view and a legal solution about copyright and digitised books in libraries. According to him, a Member State may authorise libraries to digitise, without the consent of the rightholders, books they hold in their collection so as to make them available at electronic reading points.
During the Europeana Aggregator Forum (The Hague, 22-23 May), Deputy Director Harry Verwayen has given an overview of the strategic plan and ambitions of the Europeana Foundation going forward to 2020.
ABES – the French bibliographic agency for Higher Education – has published a study on developments in shared cataloguing systems. The report discusses ten case studies of shared cataloguing systems and describes scenarios for the French national catalogue SUDOC.
On May 21, NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, and the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) co-sponsored a webinar intended to help more “effectively understand and apply usage data».
The 90-minute webinar provided an opportunity to learn more about current best practices and standards.
IFLA, along with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and the Technology and Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington have prepared a briefing paper which draws UN Member States’ attention to the importance of access to ICTs as a key issue in development and to the ongoing digital divide.
Data.bnf.fr is an open data project launched in July 2011 based on semantic web standards and tools. Agnès Simon, its Product Manager, talks about the problems encountered, the solutions found and tells us more about this project’s goals.
