The European Commission has published a report of its public consultation on open research data, held in July in Brussels. The report summarises the views of a wide variety of stakeholders (eg. researchers, industry, research funders, libraries, publishers, infrastructure developers) in response to five key questions: How can we define research data and what…
LIBER’s Executive Board recently met at the University of Debrecen, Hungary for their annual October board meeting. During the meeting, the following topics were discussed: EUROPEAN PROJECTS AND STEERING COMMITTEE WORK The Board discussed the progress of European projects in which LIBER is involved. Chairs of the Steering Committees and Fora shared their progress with…
The program is set for the fifth annual OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Regional Council Meeting, the first to take place in Africa. The theme, “Library Community in Action: advancing knowledge, cooperation and innovation,” will address the importance of community—exploring how a cooperative approach can make a difference and what greater collaboration between…
The 80th IFLA world library and information congress will take place in Lyon, France, at the City Convention Centre from August 16th to the 22nd. The theme for this congress will be “Libraries, Citizens, Societies : Confluence for Knowledge”. Calls for communications and posters will be published on the free list IFLA-L – keep an…
LIBER recently organised a workshop on Text & Data Mining. Several prominent speakers made a convincing case for TDM and the highlights from their talks are now available to watch in a video. The video was compiled by Copyright4Creativity. More on TDM: The Perfect Swell At The British Library (workshop overview by Dr.…
On September 23rd 2013, LIBER representatives (Dr. Paul Ayris, President; Izaskun Lacunza, Executive Director, and Susan Reilly, EU Projects Manager) met with representatives from the Directorate General Connect in the European Commission. The meeting covered several topics of interest for the Commission, in areas where LIBER is actively working. Dr. Ayris also gave a lecture…
IFLA’s 2014 International Newspaper Conference will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 4-5th. As shown by surveys conducted by the National Library of Australia, the California Digital Newspaper Collection, the Cambridge Public Library, and others, historical newspapers are an important source of information for genealogists. Not coincidentally, the IFLA International Newspaper Conference…
The MedOANet European Conference will take place at the National Documentation Centre / National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, Greece, from 17 to 18 October 2013 during the International Open Access Conference. The final conference of MedOANet will serve to present the results of the project, placing them in the wider European perspectives on Open…
From October 21-27th, the global academic and research community will come together to celebrate Open Access Week. Now in its sixth year, the event is an opportunity to share the potential benefits of Open Access and to inspire wider participation so that Open Access becomes a new norm in scholarship and research. Learn…
LIBER is hosting a workshop on text and data mining on Friday the 27th of September. The workshop is intended as a follow-up to our joint response and subsequent withdrawal from the Licences for Europe workshop on text and data mining. It is intended as a means of initiating a broader discussion around text…
Succeed is a support action funded by the European Union. It promotes the take up and validation of research results in mass digitisation, with a focus on textual content. Succeed project is undertaking a survey on standards and formats used in digitisation of textual documents. Please take a moment to fill it in: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16qvPbAZYUVmYz1MbeCGVcfxy0UXksr3-v5QQ7h3uETE/viewform The…
On September 16th the Europeana Newspapers Project is organising a workshop on Aggregation and Presentation at The European Library’s conference: Promoting innovation in Europe. In this workshop the Europeana Newspapers Browser will be presented and participants will get the chance to test it. Channa Veldhuijsen from the KB will talk about usability testing and will open the discussion…
