links for 2010-10-29
Saturday 30 October 2010
Archive pour October 2010
links for 2010-10-19
Wednesday 20 October 2010-
“[…]Freie Katalogdaten von Bibliotheken und Verbünden
2010 ist das Jahr, in dem einige Bibliotheken und Verbünde begonnen haben, ihre Katalogdaten unter einer offenen Lizenz freizugeben. Den Beginn machte im Januar die CERN Library. Es folgte die Universitätsbibliothek Gent im Februar und im März die bisher umfangreichste Datenfreigabe durch Kölner Bibliotheken, das Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz und das Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (hbz).[…]” -
LE manifeste que j'attendais depuis longtemps est enfin arrivé : “Open up bibliographic data!
Over the past few years, open licensing has facilitated the explosive growth of a ‘knowledge commons’. To give a few prominent examples: Open Access journals, Open Educational Resources and Open Data in scientific research have all been enabled by licenses which permit material to be freely re-used and re-distributed. Bibliographic records are a key part of our shared cultural heritage. They too should therefore be open, that is made available to the public for access and re-use under an open license which permits use and reuse without restriction [2].
[…] Opening up bibliographic data is a logical extension of the ideals of cooperation and sharing that have been a constant between libraries and library networks for more than a century.[…]” -
“Open bibliographic data for the academic community. Easy to use tools for curating bibliographies”
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Les catalogues commencent à s'ouvrir… le CERN, la British Library et maintenant un ensemble en provenance de la prestigieuse bibliothèque de Cambridge. J'espère que ce mouvement va s'étendre rapidement et qu'il arrivera en Suisse!
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“Goal
Make libary catalog and other publisher-genetated bibliographic metadata freely available to community data curators so it is easily filtered by author/affiliation/subject/… to allow large numbers of small to medium sized academic communities to easily extract what data is of particular interest to them, with minimal technical and legal overhead, and to openly republish that data in ways they find worthwhile. For example, by selecting, ranking or classifying the data, and providing simple searches and faceted displays over bibliographic collections of special interest to the community.How to use linked data technology to achieve this goal: provide the data with an open license which allows its reuse for such purposes, and support the APIs, data standards and client software to lower the barrier to participation in information curation and sharing.[…]”
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“[…] nous avons un grand projet de rapprochement de l'UNIL et du CHUV (l'hôpital universitaire) qui devrait être effectif en 2012 et renforcer les interactions entre les sciences de la vie fondamentales et les sciences médicales. […]”
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“[…]Ideally, I’d like a site that is an open commons, maintained by an institution that has some legs. It should present my biblio in standard readable and re-citable forms, but should also treat it as data in a database so that it can be refactored. I’d love for it to have LibraryThing’s social functionality. And in a perfect world, it’d let me enter just some key data, look it up, and fill in the rest in perfectly formatted form. (Again, LibraryThing does cool stuff in this area, for books.)[…]”
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“[…]As a fifth principle we string urge that creators of bibliographic metadata explicitly either dedicate this to the public domain or use an open licence.”
links for 2010-10-15
Saturday 16 October 2010-
“Time to look into those crystal balls! The world is changing, libraries are changing, students are changing. This volatile environment is challenging academic librarians to evolve our practice in unexpected ways. The best way to prepare for change is to think about it, discuss it, and maybe (this is a big maybe!), anticipate the way things might change. This presentation is just such an exercise. Join this panel of front-line academic librarians as we explore these issues and come prepared to give us your two cents worth!”
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links for 2010-10-14
Friday 15 October 2010-
“Public Domain Works is an open registry of artistic works that are in the public domain. You can find out more about the project here.
There are currently 125318 persons, 12840 items and 299141 works in the database.
That is 2.38705533124 works and 0.10245934343 items average per person.”
links for 2010-10-13
Thursday 14 October 2010-
“Virginia’s revised agreement improves on Michigan’s changes. Section 4.10(d) of UVA’s revised agreement stipulates that all restrictions on the use of the public domain scans terminate after 15 years.
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Given the fact that Google must make the public domain scans freely available and that the scans, which already have relatively few limitations on them will now become the full property of libraries in 15 years, as well as the presence of most of these scans in the Hathi Trust database, one has to wonder about the utility of well-meaning efforts such as those of the Internet Archive to capture and store copies of the Google scans. The only people who immediately benefit from the presence of Google’s scans in the Internet Archive are Google’s commercial competitors. I have to believe the public as a whole would be better served if the Internet Archive focused instead on those scans of public domain works that are locked away behind subscription firewalls.”
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links for 2010-10-12
Wednesday 13 October 2010-
“[…] The solution to these challenges is a new Wikimedia Foundation project dedicated to the creation of a universal bibliography. This bibliography contains one article for every source which contains ideas that could eventually be documented in Wikipedia. These articles consist of the metadata for a given source and additional information created by the community. This includes summarizations, fair use content, recreations of materials, ratings along dimensions such as quality, reliability, notability and trustworthiness, in addition to other information. This bibliography also contains non-bibliographic entries that document information in the metadata such as authors and institutions, in addition to articles that consist of summarizations of collections of literature, and any other kinds of articles which the community votes into the policy pages of this project.[…]”
links for 2010-10-11
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links for 2010-10-07
Friday 8 October 2010-
“¿Se acuerdan de Gutenberg? Con él empezó la broma y se liberaron los libros, entonces en manos de los monjes. Ese desmoronamiento que se dio entonces se está viviendo en una segunda oleada; pero es una destrucción creativa porque siempre hay una cosa inamovible y necesaria: los contenidos”, lanzó ayer el máximo responsable de una feria que parece bien agarrada tanto a la forma como al fondo.
“Lo único que está haciendo la digitalización es incrementar la cadena de valor de los derechos de contenido; les está abriendo otra ventana”, añadió ayer Boos durante el acto de presentación oficial de la feria para tranquilizar a los más veteranos del sector. Pero también anunció que “las negociaciones por esos derechos están siendo más complicadas que nunca”. Y eso lo saben bien los agentes literarios que hoy abren sus chiringuitos: una competencia feroz entre la friolera de 552 agentes, casi un 4% más que el año pasado. Ante el futuro digital, ¿quién dijo crisis?”
links for 2010-10-06
Thursday 7 October 2010-
“Contrairement aux thèses du 3e cycle, les archives ouvertes contiennent peu de mémoires de niveau master. Le répertoire international OpenDOAR signale neuf archives ouvertes avec ce type de documents (sur plus de 1500 sites). En France, il existe trois sites pour les stocker, signaler et diffuser, avec plusieurs centaines de documents en texte intégral. C'est peu, aussi bien par rapport au nombre d'étudiants en master dans l'enseignement supérieur en France que par rapport au contenu des archives ouvertes dont ils représentent à peine 0,3%. Même si le niveau des mémoires est parfois inégal, leur intérêt est lié à leur caractère d'études de cas (expérience pratique), leurs synthèses documentaires (état de l'art) et leur réflexion et expérimentation méthodologique[…]”
links for 2010-10-05
Wednesday 6 October 2010-
Comment sera le monde dans 10 ans? voici la vision de la British Library et le positionnement de l'institution dans un environnement de l'information qui change à grande vitesse… un programme très ambitieux mais qui montre que les bibliothèques ont un grand rôle à jouer grâce à son expertise, à son expérience et aux services qui peut rendre à la collectivité et à la société globalisée et qui peut produire un impact possitif sur l'économie du pays. Très instructif, et les prévisions sur la transitions du papier à l'électronique sont vraiment intéressantes et (il me semblent) réalistes.