Cariniana Network is a distributed digital preservation network, funded by the Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia IBICT. Cariniana is responsible for the insertion and storage of 772 open access electronic journals on the LOCKSS platform. The network offers digital preservation services as well as mechanisms in order to facilitate the automation of identification processes, storage, validation and conversion of the content into new digital formats.
Miguel Ángel Márdero Arellano, Cariniana Network Coordinator, and Alexandre Faria de Oliveira, IT Coordinator, both work for IBICT. They will present the Cariniana Network project at IFLA Session 160 Planning digital preservation: in for the long run – Preservation and Conservation with Information Technology (SI). 

Each year, IFLA Headquarters compiles its Annual Report which provides a comprehensive overview on its activities throughout the preceding year. The report gives IFLA Members and other interested parties full and transparent details on activities, achievements and financial performance.

Download the full report.

IFLA is encouraging the library community across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region to share their views on a draft declaration on libraries, access to information and development. This is the result of a close collaboration between IFLA and the Hernán Santa Cruz Library of the UN Economic Commission for LAC, and it aims to send a strong, unified message to ministers in 2019.

The AGROVOC thesaurus was first published (in English, Spanish and French) at the beginning of the 1980s by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. In 2000, AGROVOC went digital through a relational database; in 2009, it became a SKOS resource. AGROVOC is now available as a SKOS-XL concept scheme, also published as a Linked Open Data (LOD) set composed of 35,000+ concepts available in up to 29 languages. By means of LOD, AGROVOC is aligned to 18 open datasets related to agriculture.

A growing number of libraries are unbundling their subscriptions to the full suite of publishers’ journals, opting for limited titles to save on costs.

The author analyzed a range of case studies that provide useful insights into the nature and effectiveness of collaborative activities, and innovative approaches in academic libraries.

A broad task force worked on an Ethical Framework for Library Publishing, which was released to LPC members and Forum attendees in draft form in May 2018 during the Library Publishing Forum. The working session provided attendees the opportunity to give feedback on the current draft and contribute ideas for the next iteration of the framework.

Moreover, a series of reflections by community members on the recent Library Publishing Forum has been released.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is likely to have a significant impact on the way libraries  manage personal data. To help libraries consider what they need to do in response to the GDPR, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published an issue brief on the topic. The ARL will continue to monitor developments on GDPR and will publish a follow-up piece focusing on implementation.

A set of guidelines and best practices is proposed to heritage institutions in order to facilitate the process of making heritage collections reusable. These guidelines are based on the FAIR Principles for scholarly output (FAIR data principles 2014), completed with additional initiatives for making data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. The resulting FAIR Principles for Heritage Library, Archive and Museum Collections focus on three levels: objects, metadata and metadata records. Clarifications and examples of these proposed principles are presented, as well as recommendations for the assessment of current situations and implementations of the principles.

At the 2015 Open Science Conference organised by Couperin, the French academic network managing deals with publishers, the French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs and Innovation presented the law for a Digital Republic. Three years after this important event, the 7th COUPERIN Open Science Conference was held in Paris in January 2018. The speakers focused on the new sustainable ways for Open Access publishing giving papers about OA2020, the German DEAL project, public-funded publishing, support for bibliodiversity, the evolution of the assessment of scholarly output, etc.

The videos and presentations are online.