LIBER Road Map towards Digitisation Dr Paul Ayris e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer Vice-President of LIBER
Contents LIBER Road Map Work in LIBER since 1 st LIBER-EBLIDA Digitisation Workshop, October 2007 see http://www.libereurope.eu/node/261 LIBER s Next Steps Structures Updating the LIBER Road Map Next evaluation
LIBER Road Map Formed in 2007 At 1 st LIBER-EBLIDA Digitisation Workshop 25 recommendations to EU from members See LIBER Quarterly, vol. 18 (1), pp. 4-19 at http://liber.library.uu.nl/
LIBER Road Map Towards Digitisation Content Resource Discovery Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights Digital Preservation
LIBER Road Map Content To digitise library content on the theme of travel and tourism for use in Europeana To establish an aggregator through which LIBER libraries which require such a service can provide content to Europeana; and to seek a sustainable basis for the aggregator s continuing functioning To mobilise the efforts of the research libraries in support of Europeana To provide examples of best practice in digitisation methods and processes, constituting a learning opportunity for all libraries wishing to supply digitised material to Europeana
EuropeanaTravel Facts and Figures EuropeanaTravel 2.8 million project, with 50% funding from the EU Launched in Tallinn on 11 May 2009 Over 1,000,000 pages/items to be digitised on themes of Travel & Tourism 19 partners: National Library of Estonia National Library of Finland National Library of Latvia National Library of Poland Austrian National Library Slovak National Library National and University Library of Slovenia National Library of the Netherlands
EuropeanaTravel Facts and Figures EDL Foundation Eremo srl UCL (University College London) National Library of Wales Lund University Library University Library of Regensburg Moravian Library, Brno, Czech Republic State and University Library of Tyrol National and University Library, Debrecen, Hungary Trinity College Dublin State and University Library of Lower Saxony
Content Images Pages Maps Books Documents Glass Plates Film Negatives Photographic Objects Journal Pages Shellacs Postcards Manuscripts Graphic sheets Output Units 33,300 193,650 5,857 15,879 18,300 3,733 25,000 11,600 155,000 30 180,000 4 600
EuropeanTravel Workpackages WP 1 Planning digitisation WP 2 Carrying out digitisation WP 3 Making LIBER partners digitised material available to Europeana WPs 1-3 deal with digitising and making available partners content on Travel and Tourism WP 3 also tackles the major wider strategic issue of how research libraries material could be aggregated to comply with Europeana s planned model of dealing only, or mainly, with aggregators and not with individual institutions WP 4 Dissemination WP 5 Co-ordination and management WPs 4 and 5 provide dissemination and management solutions
LIBER Road Map Aggregation PEARL (Principal Europeana Aggregator for Research Libraries) Aim is to get digital objects housed in Europe s research libraries indexed in TEL (The European Library) http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/index.html and discoverable in Europeana (the EU-funded portal for digital objects http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
International/Country/ Consortium Partnership OAI Local/National Repository Platform and Access OAI OAI OAI TEL aggregating for LIBER Europeana portal Architecture for LIBER s Partnership with Europeana and TEL
PEARL Submitted for EU funding in 2009 Came 13 th out of 80, with only 10 projects being funded PEARL would aggregate 1,123,279 digital objects and 2,220,372 pages/images in 85 collections from around Europe
Mother of PEARL Development project (Oct. 2009 June 2010) Testing Ingest of text, audio, images and film into Europeana via TEL from LIBER libraries Desk study of copyright implications for each type of material Studies of aggregation into TEL and Europeana Use results to feed into re-worked PEARL bid To be submitted for EU funding June 2010
LIBER Road Map Copyright and IPR LIBER Road Map has a lot to say on copyright Articles 14-17 Viviane Redinge, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, has re-iterated her call for a mass scale digitisation of books and orphan works to provide "Europe's answer to the Google settlement With all the discussion over the Google Book Settlement, the Commissioner has said it is only a matter of time before it is approved in one form or another
Copyright and IPR Commissioner has also said: "We should create a modern set of European rules that encourage the digitisation of books, including one or several European Right Registries able to guarantee that publishers and authors rights are respected and fairly remunerated, in line with the principles of European Copyright Law." The Commission will launch a public debate and issue a paper with the aim to aid EU-wide licensing for digital content
Copyright and IPR LIBER s statement to the EU Google Books hearing on 7 September calls for a similar pan-european framework [The EU] can, through its legislative powers, draw up legislation to be adopted in the member states which creates a framework for copyright laws and Directives which will reflect the advances made in the US Google Book Settlement and give the European researcher and learner the same advantages as the US user See http://www.libereurope.eu/node/415
LIBER Road Map Digital Preservation: LIFE 2 Model
LIFE 2 Model used on Burney Newspapers at the British Library Important as there are analogue and digital equivalents Over 1,100 volumes of the earliest-known newspapers in the history of printing Headline conclusion of LIFE 2 is that the same lifecycle model can be used to cost curation of analogue and digital materials Total per entity costs minus creation costs (Year 1)
LIFE 2 and LIFE 3 Too simplistic to say that digital curation is more cost-effective than analogue curation LIBER Digitisation Case Study has established an approach which allows comparison of digital and analogue costs Using the same formula and analysis of the workflows See LIBER Quarterly, vol. 18 (3-4), pp. 337-56 at http://liber.library.uu.nl/ LIFE 3 now developing an open source costing tool To be available to LIBER members who are already using LIFE tools
LIBER Road Map Next Steps Structures Updating the LIBER Road Map Next evaluation
LIBER Road Map.
LIBER Executive Board Finance Committee Conference Programme Committee Communications & Marketing Committee SC Scholarly Communications SC Digitisation & Resource Discovery SC Heritage Collections & Preservation SC Organisation & Human Resources SC LIBER Services Foci Foci Foci Foci Foci - Open Access - E-science - Digitisation & Resource Discovery - Europeana - Heritage Collections (e.g. Rare Books, MSS, Archives, Maps) - Preservation and Digital Curation - Leadership Dev. & Succession Planning - Accreditation - Quality measure ments - Architecture - Security Network - Library Passport
Updating the LIBER Road Map Break Out sessions and Plenary Session on 21 October will formulate recommendations for LIBER and EBLIDA for the EU for Members and supporters 1 st LIBER-EBLIDA Digitisation Workshop, Copenhagen 2007 LIBER Road Map will be re-drawn and carried forward to 3 rd Digitisation Workshop in 2011
And finally This is YOUR Workshop Tell us what you think