positioning libraries in the digital preservation landscape
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Presentation by Susan Reilly at UNESCO Memory of the World in the Digital Age conference, Vancouver, 2012TRANSCRIPT
Positioning libraries in the digital preservation landscape
Susan Reilly, LIBER
Twitter: @skreilly
Memory of the World in the Digital Age, Vancouver, 28th Sep, 2012
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Overview
About LIBERDrivers for digital curation (European context)CollaborationSustainabilityInnovationChallengesConclusion
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LIBER: the association of European research libraries
• University, national and other research libraries• Over 430 members• More than 40 countries
Making the case for research libraries
“to support a functional network across national boundaries in order to ensure the preservation of European cultural heritage, to improve access to collections in European research libraries, and to
provide more efficient information services in Europe”
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Projects:Content
Europeana LibrariesEuropeana Newspapers
PolicyMEDOANET
InfrastructureAPARSENAAA StudyODE
Making the case for research libraries
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Digital Curation Drivers
• Digital Agenda for Europe:• All European cultural heritage available
online by 2025• All public domain masterpieces available in
Europeana(Digital Agenda)• Cost= 10 billion per year over the next 10
years (Collections Trust)• Increase in Open Access and born digital
content• Legislation mandating the deposit of born
digital content
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Collaboration: Europeana Travel
• Digitise resources(books, maps, photos, film) on the theme of travel and make them available viaEuropeana• Strengthen collaboration between CENL and LIBER• Aggregation service for LIBER member institutions
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Institutional/Country/Consortium Partnership
Local/National RepositoryPlatform and Access
LIBER aggregator
OAI
Architecture for a LIBERaggregator service for EuropeanaTravel
TEL aggregator
OAI
OAI
Why not merge
aggregators?
State of digital preservation practice in LIBER libraries
“under investment in skills for digital preservation…. and often a lack of written policies on the preservation of digitised material”
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Four networks and a project
Network libraries: LIBER, CERL, CENLProject: Europeana LibrariesThe European Library: the library aggregator for EuropeanaEuropeana: Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual aggregator
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Sustainability: Europeana Libraries
• A valuable resource for researchers with full-text search capabilities
• A robust network of national and research libraries• An efficient sustainable aggregation model for research
libraries across Europe
3,319,045 pages598,130 books and theses368,000 articles848,078 images1,200 film and video clips34,000 mixed content objects
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Collaboration for sustainability
• Building the aggregation service has involved…
• Consultation & articulation of value proposition• Business Model• Business Plan
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Collaboration for sustainability
• but it has given us a better view of the digitisation landscape and will deliver benefits for libraries in the future such as:
• Efficiency• Effectiveness• Visibility• Credibility
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Innovation: Europeana Newspapers
• 17 partner institutions• 3 years (2012-2015)• Aggregation of more than 18 million newspapers• Will use refinement methods for OCR, OLR (article
segmentation), and named entity (NER) and class recognition
• Suvey existing collections in Europe• Make content accessible
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Europeana Newspapers: where the content comes from…
NLF
SBB ONB
NLP
BnF
NLE
SUB HH
USAL
NLL
KB
LIBER
CCS
NLT
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UIBK
LFT
BL
We are looking for more libraries!
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Why newspapers?
“The museum (and the newspaper) today seeks whatever represents normal life in its own native locality and with infinite pains its collections are arranged in a manner which is natural to them in their own habitat”
Lucy Maynard Salmon (1976) in The Newspaper and the Historian
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Making the content accessible
• OCR enables full text searching• OLR enables more targeted searching (titles and sections)• NER enables searching by people, place,and the discover of
new relationships between entities
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Challenges: Trust and Data Curation
• Alliance for Permanent Access to the Record of Science in Europe Network (APARSEN)
• Work with the broader network of stakeholders to look across the excellent work in digital preservation which is carried out in Europe and to try to bring it together under a common vision
• Trust, Sustainability, Usability, Access
Blue Ribbon Task Force
“Define roles and responsibilities among stakeholders to ensure an ongoing and efficient flow of resources to preservation throughout the digital
lifecycle.”
Conclusions
• DC challenge will grow forlibraries as they continue todigitise and grow digital collections• Collaboration facilitates economiesof scale, best practice and ultimatelybenefits the end user• Need for libraries to engage in thebroader DP dialogue to addresssustainability, define roles, and contribute to the business case
Thank you for your attention!
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http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/
All images sourced from http://www.europeana-libraries.eu/