the value of digitally encoded information for libraries

Value to organisations: the research library view pointSusan Reilly, @skreilly

APA, Frascati, Nov 6, 2012

Overview

•The bottom line

•Digitally encoded information in research libraries

•Digital preservation challenges & opportunities

but, of course, scholarship is changing

• Collaborative

• Interdisciplinary

• Change in information seeking behaviour (Google Generation)

• Culture of ‘openness’

The bottom line

“one thing about scholarship will never change: scholars will demand access to information resources to examine what others have discovered and thought; to use and reuse evidence and scientific conclusions; and to publish results of their own research based on these resources. That is why their sources must be authentic, reliable, easy to find and retrieve, and easy to use and reuse”

Paul N. Courant (2008) No brief candle, http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub142/pub142.pdf

No. 1 benefit to organisations*

“Increased use of content as a result of better findability and availability”

*From APARSEN WP36 survey of libraries (Sep212)

No. 2 benefit to organisations

“Ensure the integrity of research results”

Types of digitally encoded information

• Scholarly discourse

• Digital cultural heritage

• Research data

• Dynamic Web content

Investment in digitisation

• All European cultural heritage available online by 2025 (Neelie Kroes)

• All public domain masterpieces available in Europeana(Digital Agenda)

• Cost= 10 billion per year over the next 10 years (Collections Trust)

Increasing access and availability: some examples

•Europeana Libraries• Aggregating digitised contentfrom European research library• Developing and applying best practice standards in metadata• Making it available via api and • a portal designed for researchers

3,319,045 pages598,130 books and theses368,000 articles848,078 images1,200 film and video clips34,000 mixed content objects

some examples…

• Europeana Newspapers• 18 million newspapers• OCR’d full text newspaper content from across Europe• Content browser

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

Issues

• If access is the final objective it can only be achieved through preservation of the work

• 22% of cultural heritage institutes have long term DP strategy in place

• Need for a strong business case and PPP

• Shared infrastructure needed• No final solution – R&D, turn strategies

into action, work with private sector (obsolescense)

Numeric final report, p. 40. URL: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/telearn-digicult/numeric-study_en.pdf

Research data

• Changing the role of libraries

- demand for data management support

-data curation

- trusted infrastructure for collaboration and data sharing

No preservation strategies!*

*ODE Report on best practice in citability of data and evolving roles in scholarly communications

http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/index.php/community/current-projects/ode/outputs/

https://confluence.terena.org/display/aaastudy/AAA+Study+Home+Page

Realising the value of digitally encoded information

• Trust-in the content-in the infrastructure

• Infrastructure-access-reuse-deposit

• Sustainability-roles-mandates to preserve-partnership

Do/Will preservation mandates make a difference?

What should a shared preservation infrastructure look like?