1. LIBER’s EU Projects- focusing
on digital preservation
Susan Reilly
Project Officer LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)
susan.reilly@kb.nl
www.libereurope.eu
APARSEN meeting, KB, 8/9/2011

2. Contents
 LIBER- why digital preservation?
 Current EU projects
 Future Cooperation

3. LIBER: “Making the case for research libraries”
 Largest network of European reseach libraries: 420 in over 40
countries
 LIBER aims to represent the interests of European research
libraries, their universities and their researchers. It promotes in
particular
-efficient information services
-access to research information, in any form whatsoever
-innovative end-user services for teaching, learning and research
-preservation of cultural heritage
-efficient and effective management of research libraries

4. Current EU Projects
 Europeana Libraries
-working to make 5 million digital objects from 19 leading European
research libraries freely accessible to researchers
 ODE
 APARSEN
 MEDOANET
-Co-ordination of Open Access strategies, policies and structures

5. APARSEN: Our role
 WP 11Common vision
 WP 36: Business cases (Blue Ribbon Task Force)
 WP 44 Stakeholder communication
 WP 45 International liasion
 WP43 Training Courses
 WP 41External workshops & events

6. Opportunities for Data Exchange
(ODE)
 Researchers, publishers, libraries and data centres
 Identify, collate, interpret and deliver evidence of
emerging best practices in sharing, re-using, preserving
and citing data, the drivers for change and barriers
impeding progress, in forms suited to each audience (led
by CERN)

7. Opportunities for Data Exchange
(ODE)
 Identify "success stories", “near misses” and “honourable
failures” in data sharing, re-use and preservation
 Only 20% (Parse.Insight) of researchers submit data to
digital archives
 What are the barrier and incentives?

8. Report: Integration of Data &
Publications
To be launched at the APA conference!

9. Report; Integration of Data &
Publications
 Publishers’ concern: how ‘safe’ is data in supplementary
files (quality, preservation)?
 Researchers’ concern: who is responsible/will pay for
preservation of data?
 Libraries & Data Centres’ concern: How do we ensure
continued access to data? And reusable?
 Next step: definition of roles- survey of LIBER members

10. “A goal-oriented partnership with other
organisations in Europe and beyond”
 We need to work with other organisations to achieve our
mission= EU projects
 Future focus: E-science
-digital preservation is key
-research infrastructures
-policy related to open access to scientific data
-advocacy

11.  Thank you!
 Questions/comments?