Presentation from APA 2012 on the value of digitally encoded information for libraries and the importance of digital preservation.

1. Value to organisations:
the research library view
point
Susan Reilly, @skreilly
APA, Frascati, Nov 6, 2012

2. Overview
• The bottom line
• Digitally encoded information in research
libraries
• Digital preservation challenges & opportunities

3. but, of course, scholarship is changing
• Collaborative
• Interdisciplinary
• Change in information seeking behaviour (Google
Generation)
• Culture of ‘openness’

4. 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

5. No. 1 benefit to organisations*
“Increased use of content as a result of better
findability and availability”
*From APARSEN WP36 survey of libraries (Sep212)

6. No. 2 benefit to organisations
“Ensure the integrity of research results”

7. Types of digitally encoded information
• Scholarly discourse
• Digital cultural heritage
• Research data
• Dynamic Web content

8. 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)

9. Increasing access and availability: some examples
• Europeana Libraries
• Aggregating digitised content
from 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 pages
598,130 books and theses
368,000 articles
848,078 images
1,200 film and video clips
34,000 mixed content objects

10. some examples…
• Europeana Newspapers
• 18 million newspapers
• OCR’d full text newspaper content from across Europe
• Content browser

11. 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

12. 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

13. Research data
• Changing the role of libraries
- demand for data management
support
-data curation
- trusted infrastructure for
collaboration and data sharing

14. 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/

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

16. Realising the value of digitally encoded information
• Trust
-in the content
-in the infrastructure
• Infrastructure
-access
-reuse
-deposit
• Sustainability
-roles
-mandates to preserve
-partnership

17. Do/Will preservation mandates make a
difference?
What should a shared preservation
infrastructure look like?