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Major digital library networks work towards interoperability
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will design its technical structure to promote interoperability with Europeana. DPLA provides access to digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums in the USA, while Europeana has developed a similar system to link the libraries, museums and archives of Europe.
‘The association between the DPLA and Europeana means that users everywhere will eventually have access to the combined riches of the
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two systems at a single click. The aggregated databases will include many millions of books, pamphlets, newspapers, manuscripts, images, recordings, videos, and other materials in many formats,’ said Robert Darnton, a DPLA steering committee member and
university librarian at Harvard. The networks will also collaborate regularly in developing specifi c aspects of their systems. This will start with: an interoperable data model; a shared source code; and cooperative collection building.
New European Commission recommendation tackles digitisation and digital preservation The European Commission
is asking member states to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private partners in digitising cultural material and making it available through Europeana. The European Commission’s Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation invites member states to put in place solid plans for their investments in digitisation and foster public- private partnerships to share
the gigantic cost of digitisation (recently estimated at 100 billion euros).
It also aims to make
available through Europeana 30 million objects by 2015, including all Europe’s masterpieces which are no longer protected by copyright, and all material digitised with public funding. In addition, there is the aim to get more in-copyright material online, by, for example, creating the legal framework conditions
enabling large-scale
digitisation and cross-border accessibility of out-of- commerce works.
The recommendation also urges member states to reinforce their strategies and adapt their legislation to ensure long-term preservation of digital material, by, for example, ensuring the material deposited is not protected by technical measures that impede librarians from preserving it.
Projects delve into enhanced publication of research
Six projects fi nanced by SURFfoundation have been giving researchers insight into enhancing publications. The projects, which looked at enhanced publication in fi ve disciplines (economics, linguistics, musicology, communication sciences, and geosciences) concluded that
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this approach has enormous potential. However, the projects revealed that there is still much to be learned about how to enhance publications and how to make use of the semantic web. The various tools that have been developed for this new way of publishing research
results are not yet ‘ready for immediate use’ by researchers. Enhancement still involves collaboration between researchers and ICT staff, and ICT staff are still required to help researchers navigate the technical possibilities offered by the semantic web, XML and RDF.
UN chooses Publishing Technology’s digital publishing platform Publishing Technology’s pub2web platform will be used to build the United Nations
eCollection.The United Nations eCollection will be built on a custom interface on the pub2web platform that will allow cross searching, discovery and sales via pay-per-view or by subscription for over 1,500 publications produced by the international organisation, and all new and forthcoming titles, including e-books, reports and periodicals.
950 Elsevier health titles join Research4Life Elsevier is contributing an additional 950 electronic books to the Research4Life initiative, which provides the developing world with access to critical scientifi c research. The books cover clinical medicine, health professions, veterinary medicine, and clinical dentistry. ‘Everybody I’ve talked to at Elsevier takes real interest and pride at being involved in Research4Life,’ commented Alicia Wise, director of universal access for Elsevier.
Planman Technologies launches Digital Library Services division Content services provider Planman Technologies has established a new Digital Library Services division. The division will offer support for library initiatives including building digital collections, imaging/graphical enrichment of content, storage and retrieval of video and audio formats, conversion of non-digital content and data reformatting services.
Wall Street Journal launches e-book bestseller lists The Wall Street Journal in the USA has begun to publish e-book bestseller lists. This is based on data provided by Nielsen BookScan.
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