1. LIBER and its EU projects
Wouter Schallier
Executive Director of LIBER (Ligue des bibliothèques européennes de
Recherche - Association of European Research Libraries)
wouter.schallier@kb.nl
www.libereurope.eu
Fredoc, Bordeaux, 12 October 2011

2. Contents
1. What does LIBER do?
2. LIBER’s role in EU projects
3. LIBER’s portfolio of EU projects
4. Opportunities for French research libraries
5. Q&A
Fredoc, Bordeaux, 12 October 2011

3. “Making the case for European research libraries”
 LIBER = the largest network of European
research/academic libraries: 425 institutions, from over 40
countries
 Mission: to represent and promote the interests of
European research/academic libraries
 Formulate a European strategy for research libraries
 Knowledge sharing and dissemination, fostering partnerships
 Advocacy and lobbying
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4. Strategy 2009-2012: areas of interest
http://www.libereurope.eu/activities
 Scholarly Communications
E-science, OA
 Digitisation and Resource Discovery
Europeana, copyright
 Heritage Collections and Preservation
 Organisation and Human Resources
 Architecture, quality and benchmarking, security, library
passport
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5. LIBER’s role in EU projects
BEFORE DURING AFTER
Initiator, catalyst Partner Dissemination
Co-ordinator Lead Conversion
into
sustainable
service
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6. LIBER’s portfolio of EU projects
 Europeana Travel
 ODE (Opportunities for Data Exchange)
 APARSEN (Digital Preservation Best Practice Network)
 Europeana Libraries
 MedOANet
 Gateway to European Newspapers
 (EU Library Passport)
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7. National Library
Europeana Travel of Latvia
 See http://www.europeanatravel.eu/
 LIBER project ran between 2009 -2011
 19 partners, led by the National Library of Estonia
 See an article on Europeana Travel at
http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/issues/2009-2/index.html?000469
 €1,000,000 project, funded by EU
 Aim was to digitise over 1,000,000 units of content on the themes of
Travel, Tourism and Exploration and to make these materials
available via the Europeana portal at http://www.europeana.eu/
 Travelling through history – an online exhibition at
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition-travel-history/
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8. Opportunities for data exchange
http://www.ode-project.eu/
 Data sharing is
 smart: it is efficient, avoids duplication, stimulates the
advancement of science
 about transparency: it allows re-analysis
 about enrichment: it adds value to traditional publications
 rewarding: requirement for publicly funded research
 Roles and responsibilities: researchers, publishers,
funders, libraries and data centres
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9. Image: Cern/Maximilien Brice
Image: NASA
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10. It’s all about laaaaaarge amounts of data
 “Data are no longer considered as interim products to be
discarded once the research reporting them is published.
Rather, they have become important sources of
scholarly content to be used and re-used.”
Borgman, The role of libraries in e-science
Raw data from a central Pb+Pb event for 40 rows of the Main TPC
Image: http://na49info.web.cern.ch/na49info/Public/Press/pictures/mtpc40rowsRawData.gif
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11. Making data usable/useful
 Data description and identification
 Organisation http://na49info.web.cern.ch/na49info/Public/Press/LogBook.html
 Data protection, privacy regulations, ethical issues
 Visualisation
 Interpretation
 Preservation
 Persistent link between publications and datasets
 Integrated search
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12. Making data usable/useful (2)
 Validation and peer review of data
 Data quality and integrity
 Interoperability
 Repositories
 Control over correct usage
 Selection
 Data publication
 Citation
…
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13. This is e-science … and no science fiction
 Sharing
 Use and re-use of data
 Internet used as a vehicle
 Distribution over many networked computers/people
 Transparency
 New expertise: data journalism, data managers, data
scientists, data librarians etc.
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14. APARSEN project
http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/current-projects/aparsen
Network of excellence in digital preservation
 A forum for discussion with other stakeholders
(researchers, publishers, data managers, funding, private
sector) in digital preservation
 Shared European vision/framework: Blue Ribbon Task
Force, LIFE, Planets, CASPAR, SHAMAN etc.
 Awareness raising + tools for implementation
 Roles and responsibilities, business models
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15. LIBER’s contribution to APARSEN
 A huge network of research libraries
 Linked through a common strategy where e-science and
DP are crucial
 Some of them with a lot…others with less expertise
 Keen to take up their roles in a European e-science
infrastructure cf. Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable
Digital Preservation http://brtf.sdsc.edu/
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16. DP is not only a matter of finding
sufficient funds, it’s about
mobilising resources (human,
technical, financial)
BRTF Final Report p,1
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17. Europeana Libraries
http://www.europeana-libraries.eu
 EC funded project, 2 years
 5 million digitised objects will be made available through
Europeana:
 Books (incl. books digitised by Google)
 Special collections
 Audiovisual materials
 More than 200,000 OA research theses (via DART Europe)
 More than 270,000 OA scholarly articles (via DOAJ)
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18. Europeana Libraries (2)
 From 19 leading research libraries: Bavarian State Library,
Hungarian Parliament Library, Nat. Library of Wales, Romanian Academy
Library, Trinity College Dublin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
University of Belgrade, University of Berne, University College London,
University of Gent, University of Leuven, University of Lund, University of
Oxford, University of Sibiu, University of Tartu, University of Uppsala,
University of Vienna, Wellcome Library, Zentralbibliothek Zurich
 Will become THE libraries aggregator for Europeana
 New business model
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19. Europeana Libraries: sustainability
 Economies of scale:
 46 national libraries  400+ national + research
 Economies of scope: libraries
 Aggregator  aggregator + other
services (tools and
services for researchers,
DP, innovation …?)
 Other content (raw data, …) relevant for R&E
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20. Europeana Libraries: sustainability (2)
 New funding model needed
 New governance needed
Important because some institutions feed Europeana
through several aggregators, so can choose!
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21. Digitisation of out of commerce works
 Memorandum of Understanding signed on 20/9/2011
 Allows collective licensing schemes in the Member States
 Major break through for legal mass digitisation and
making available
 http://www.libereurope.eu/news/liber-signs-mou-on-out-
of-commerce-works-on-behalf-of-european-research-
libraries
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22. MedOANet
 Co-ordination of Open Access strategies, policies and
structures at the national and regional Member State level
 Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey
 Online ‘Mediterranean Open Access Tracker’
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23. Opportunities for French research libraries
 Become a LIBER member
 It’s cheap and it’ll make a big difference to you… and to us!
 Subscribe to our mailing list LIBER-ALL (or LIBER-NEWS
if you’re not a member), join us on LinkedIn, Twitter etc.
 Keep an eye on our calls for partners
 If you’re preparing a bid, send your call for partners to our
network
 Come to our 41st Annual Conference in Tartu (Estonia)
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24.  Thank you!
 Questions/comments?
 Visit us at the KB in The Hague!
www.libereurope.eu
wouter.schallier@kb.nl
Fredoc, Bordeaux, 12 October 2011