If you could not attend LIBER 2019 annual conference at Trinity College Dublin, the main talks were recorded on Trinity Library YouTube channel. The presentations are also available on Zenodo. Two papers are particularly interesting. University Journals: Consolidating Institutional Repositories in a Free Open Access Publication Platform, a new publication platform that complies with Plan S principles and enables publication and dissemination of all research outcomes. The Open Library of Humanities: a Sustainable Scholar-led Model for OA without Publication Fees, demonstrate how scholar-led initiatives such as the OLH have proven for years that there are alternatives to the standard APC model (pay-to-publish) and that it is possible to sustain them in the long-term.

Each year, IFLA Headquarters compiles its Annual Report. It gives IFLA Members and other interested parties full and transparent details on IFLA activities, achievements and financial performance.

Using Wikidata as a hub for institutional identifiers is one of the many potential uses of Wikidata for libraries. Many organizations maintain unique identifiers for people, subjects, works, etc. If these IDs are all added to Wikidata then the user could seamlessly access data from dozens of sources through the Wikidata ID.

The Library of Congress (LoC) maintains many authority files that are widely used. The Network Development and MARC Standard Office maintains the Linked Open Data version of the Name Authority File (NAF) and Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) at the site id.loc.gov. With id.loc.gov, the LoC maintains links to many other institutions authority files including the French and German national libraries, other government services (Department of Agriculture) and other cultural institutions like the Getty Museum. Wikidata ids have been included in the id.loc.gov system.

For the first time in 16 years, the Library of Congress is rolling out an all-new CIP (Cataloging in Publication) database. PrePub Book Link (PPBL) overhauls the outdated 2003 system. It took more than one and a half years, involves more than 3,000 major scholarly and trade publishers and more than 50,000 books each year. “It’s a very significant milestone,” says Karl Debus-López, chief of the U.S. Programs, Law, and Literature Division and former Chair of the ISSN International Centre Governing Board, which oversees the program. “It’s a success story of collaborative work.” The new system is faster, allows publishers to log-in by multiple accounts and attach a PDF file for the book, and provides auto-filled data boxes to streamline the process.

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.