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…

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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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