online portals: opportunities for library professionals?
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LIBER @London Online, 29 November 2011
Online portals: opportunities for library professionals?
Wouter SchallierExecutive Director of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)
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“Making the case for European research libraries”
LIBER = the largest (and nicest) network of European research/academic libraries: 425 institutions, from 46 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
Annual Conference, workshops, EU projects, publications Advocacy and lobbying
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LIBER Strategy 2009-2012: areas of interest
http://www.libereurope.eu/activities Scholarly Communications
E-science, OA
Digitisation and Resource DiscoveryEuropeana, copyright
Heritage Collections and Preservation Organisation and Human Resources Architecture, quality and benchmarking, security, library
passport
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Push it!
Don’t try to get the researcher to the library
Get the library into the researcher’s working environment
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Portals are nice windows …
But we need more and better stuff behind them (enriched data, DIGITISATION!!!)
And we need to put them in front of the researchers
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Europeana-Libraries.eu
2-year project funded by the European Commission’s IST-PSP programme
Will add over 5 million digital objects (including full text) to 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)
From 19 research and university libraries
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Some portals reinforce poor information literacy
Portals should not direct to themselves
But should stimulate people to discover new things
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Opportunities for data exchange
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
http://www.ode-project.eu/
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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Mobile devices are cars…
And many of us have cars (or at least look at them)… but still ride horses
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Thank you! Questions/comments?
LinkedIn: LIBEReurope http://www.slideshare.net/libereurope Twitter: @LIBEREurope [email protected]