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The Global Networked Digital Environment: How Libraries Shape The Digital Future Ingrid Parent, University Librarian University of British Columbia [email protected] Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance Conference October 21, 2010 Shanghai, China

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Global Networked Digital Environment: How Libraries Shape the Future. Presented by Ingrid Parent, President-elect of IFLA, at the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance Conference in Shanghai, October 21, 2010.

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The Global Networked Digital Environment: How Libraries Shape The Digital Future

Ingrid Parent, University Librarian

University of British [email protected]

Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance ConferenceOctober 21, 2010Shanghai, China

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Enabling knowledge through Mass and Boutique Digitization

• Mass digitization and traditional library services

• International cooperation and heritage collections in the digital age

• Accessing and managing our digital content: issues and challenges

• Incorporating the digital library into outreach and communication programs

• Digital scholarship and implications for the future

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Mass Digitization and Traditional Library Services

• Evolution of single-book digitization projects into national and international projects

• Digitization undertaken for preservation as well as access reasons

• Large-scale digital library initiatives in the cultural heritage sectors increasingly include archives and museums

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Mass Digitization and Traditional Library ServicesPerspectives from PRDLA

• Resource discovery in mobile and web-scale world• Digitization best practices• Web archiving of online primary source material• Mass digitization in China

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Mass Digitization and Traditional Library ServicesPerspectives from around the globe

• Google Book digitization project has radically “moved the yardsticks” for libraries

• IFLA – the trusted global voice of the library community in driving access to knowledge

• IFLA/IPA Steering Committee: joint statements on mass digitization and on Open Access

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The Digital Age & Heritage Collections

Heritage collections are made accessible and provide connections

across national boundaries

Cultural heritage collections in the digital age face two key

challenges:

• Long term preservation and access

• Intellectual property rights

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The Digital Age & Heritage Collections Digitization and Digital Preservation

Digital content is fragile and can be easily lost through hardware or software degradation, or simply

a lack of capacity and resources to capture the growing volume of information

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The Digital Age & Heritage Collections Intellectual Property Rights

Who owns orphan works?

Who “owns” heritage?

The Snuneymuxw First Nation has copyrighted their artwork just as Canada has

copyrighted its flag

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The Digital Age & Heritage Collections Perspectives from PRDLA

• Providing global access to local resources

• Partnerships allow for not only sharing content, but also sharing expertise in digital technologies and standards, as well as in more traditional activities such as paper conservation

• Digital access also facilitates interpretation of content and the development of educational and research packages

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The Digital Age & Heritage Collections Perspectives from around the globe

IFLA’s Digital Strategy calls for partnership:

• Digital preservation: IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies (ICADS)

http://www.ifla.org/icads

• Copyright: IFLA’s Copyright and Other Legal Matters Core Activity (CLM)

- Statement of Principles on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations

IFLA and Convergence

Focuses on cultural heritage institutions to increase cooperation between Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites, and Audio-visual organizations

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The LAMMS Coordinating Councilinternational cooperation on convergence between the International NGOs (IFLA-ICA-ICOM-ICOMOS- CCAAA)

CCAAACo-ordinatingCouncil of Audiovisual ArchivesAssociations

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Fields of cooperation

• WIPO (copyright) • Blue Shield (cultural heritage protection)• UNESCO (lobby) • Common issues such as global digital

libraries / collections• Training in preservation and emergency

planning

(http://www.ifla.org/en/about-lamms)

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Accessing and Management of Digital Content

Curation is a life-cycle process, curation is managing a growing, living collection

Lynch, C. Digital Curation Conference, 2005, Bath, England

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Accessing and Management of Digital ContentPerspectives from PRDLA

• Collections, preservation, and storage facilities for print and digital resources

• Achieving balance between e-book services and paperbook service models

• Curating the complete life-cycle of digital information

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Accessing and Management of Digital ContentPerspectives from around the globe

Digital Library Futures Conference – Milan, 2009http://www.athenaeurope.org/index.php?en/143/italy-milan-digital-library-futures-25-

august-2009

• Focus on the userIFLA Strategic Plan for 2010-15• Encourage partners and users to maximize the potentials of

digital technology• Provide libraries with tools to face digital challenges and issues

The Manifesto for Digital Libraries aims to make our cultural and scientific heritage accessible to all: http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-manifesto-for-digital-libraries

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Outreach and Communication

• Digital curators promote and build capacity in digital scholarship

• Transfer of knowledge more efficiently within libraries and cross institutions

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Outreach and CommunicationPerspectives from PRDLA

• Interactive and creative use of technology in digital collections

• Oral histories, artifacts and technology

• Discovery services from commercial vendors

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Outreach and CommunicationPerspectives from around the globe

• UBC’s Museum of Anthropology has launched the Reciprocal Research Network (RRN) in partnership with First Nations groups, to digitally repatriate cultural objects and share with institutions around the globehttp://www.rrnpilot.org/

• World Digital Library Charter• IFLA Advocacy focuses on professional development,

political advocacy and community advocacy• Palestian newspaper digitization project (website?)

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Digital Scholarship and the Future

• How can academic libraries remain relevant?• High-level digital skills needed for e-Research• Evolving trend: digital scholarship; creating sustainable and

authoritative digital resources, delivered by means of an information infrastructure that incorporates people, technology, content and the interactions between them

In the next five years, E-Research will generate more

scientific data than has been collected in the whole

of human history. (Hey, 2004)

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Five Elements of Digital Scholarship in libraries:

1. Digitization strategy2. Research policy3. Community building, lobbying and advising4. Research projects5. Examination of born-digital initiatives and digital

preservation

Digital Scholarship and the Future

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Conclusion

Libraries shape the digital future

It is up to us to demonstrate our expertise and

our value in this evolving digital landscape.

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Xie Xie

Ingrid Parent, University Librarian

University of British Columbia [email protected]

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References and Image Credits

• Hey, T. (2004) e-Science and the Grid – Preserving the Data Deluge. Digital Preservation Coalition Forum. http://www.dpconline.org/events/digital-preservation-the-global-context.html

• UBC Library images courtesy of Martin Dee, Jill Pittendregh and Glenn Drexhage.

• IFLA images courtesy of IFLA. www.ifla.org