By Ornella Foglieni Presented at the ENSULIB Satellite Meeting in Cork, Ireland, July 2022

1. IFLA/ENSULIB
presents
When Preservation & Conservation
meet Open Science
Ornella Foglieni
IFLA WLIC 2022, Satellite Meeting, Cork, Ireland, 22-23 July 2022
ENSULIB, Management and Marketing, Preservation and Conservation Sections

2. Satellite Meeting: “Inspired and Engaged on Sustainability”
22-23 July 2022
Cork, University College Library
Ornella Foglieni
IFLA SC Preservation and Conservation, Associazione Italiana
Biblioteche (AIB), Italy
email: ofoglie@gmail.com
When Preservation & Conservation
meet Open Science

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Preservation &Conservation
IFLA P&C Brochure
https://repository.ifla.org/handle/123456789/1872
IFLA Journal. Volume 48, Number 2,
June 2022 [Special Issue: Preservation
storage and curation strategies]
https://repository.ifla.org/handle/1234567
8971968

4. To raise awareness on the issue of Cultural Heritage
preservation, in libraries, archives and museums, of
recorded documentary resources, not only books, but also
intangible resources, and to consider, briefly, the
interactions between Open Science and digital
preservation/ conservation.
Digital has now become a pervasive agent, with a
significant daily impact, integrated into the cultural
ecosystem, from which new opportunities arise.
>> new library services for users.
A reason that has become primary for digitization is that of
"surrogate" of the object, to protect the analogue original,
subject to physical damage, which can be consulted in a
place, individually.
Preservation &Conservation
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5. Preservation &Conservation
….Long- term availability to all documentary heritage
collections, physical an digital..
..This imcplies, the knowledge of the object, in all its
material and content characteristics, requires sensitivity
and other skills…to manage the item..…
Preservation and Conservation Policies….
… a conscious detailed planning ..also in the selection of
the material to be digitized.
..fragile, ancient, precious, rare… to be previously checked
and treated,d eventually restored, then digitized.
….. Dramatic repercussions and consequences also affect
the local cultural heritage ‘ecosystem’, structures,
relationships between actors, strategies for long-term
sustainable preservation.
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6. Preservation &Conservation
Approaches such as these have spread patchy, in academic
context, in public libraries and in historical archives of local
authorities and public institutes…depending on their size and
their mission
proponents of sectorial projects for the protection and
enhancement of bibliographic and documentary resources in
the territory.
Institutional archives…State archives, because of
dematerialization regulations, which entail the digitization of
documents, ...as a massive activity, even for the first
preservation treatment of native digital.
It is an obligatory choice, linked to the administrative-legal,
historical informative value of documents, to preserve for a
long time or permanently; the conservation …in the archival
field is more widespread.
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7. Preservation &Conservation
The product obtained from the scanning of analogue
materials as a digital copy, for online consultation, to
safeguard the physical originals is to be considered, more
than ever, a new resource, available both for more efficient
back-office management and for all user services.
>>Hence, this digital resource is a cultural item connected
to the analogue original, or is an independent item, native
digital item...with an articulate set of information
(metadata)…
>> the items must be taken care of for over time.
>>National and international regulations, require a
considerable commitment, first of all financial and
organizational, professional skills which are often scarcely
available in the public cultural institutions
>> This need becomes a priority to be addressed urgently,
little understood, underestimated at the decision-making
levels of those responsible for the public community heritage
consciously, due to recognizable evident risks and
emergencies..
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8. Open Science
• 'Open science’ is an expression whose meaning is variously
interpreted.
• For years, open science has been offering new capacities and
possibilities:
• .. new knowledge, making information, data project results
available,
• giving rise to varied forms of multidisciplinary collaboration to
address conservation problems in sustainable ways,
• both of the intrinsic components of physical assets and the
intangible cultural assets, and thus the digital heritage
connected to them.
• Between open science and preservation contexts, the
relationship is inseparable, in many respects, but there is
perhaps not yet widespread awareness of how to arrive at
economically to sustainable solutions over time, which ensure
the longest life and vitality to the digital, beyond the predictable
rapid technological obsolescence…
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9. Open Science
…awareness of the preservation of the book heritage, both
modern and contemporary, subject to discarding, replacement
with new copies, maintenance work on bindings, only
exceptionally restoration, eventually for the legal deposit of
publications, sanctioned by legal obligations, but still lacking
sure permanent local conservation.
This happens not only in the academic, and university world but
also in the public libraries, sharing large open networks… The
experience of partnership, or at least cooperative online
catalogues, consolidated for years, which link the initiatives of
digital libraries and individual digitized books and collections.
…Electronic publishing has been producing e-books for years,
… Scientific periodicals and multimedia and other born digital…
…the same applies to teaching, through digital didactics,
applied to the entire school levels.
Preservation and Conservation of Cultural Heritage represents
a complex asset of objectives and programs for Education.
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10. Openness….and Science
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11. • "Open to science'' is also a policy priority for the European
Commission,
• and the standard method of working under its research
and innovation, funding programs, as it improves the
quality, efficiency and responsiveness of research.
• It concerns many aspects of the research cycle, from
scientific discovery and scientific review to research
assessment, publishing and outreach; most important
being open access to publications and research data.
Open Science
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12. Open Science and Préservation
Fundamental since 2016, is the Commission Open Data FAIR:
Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable.
The data and open data sharing should become the default
for the results of EU-funded scientific research.
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): is also a
federated ecosystem of research data infrastructures,
allowing the scientific community to share and process
publicly funded research results and data across borders
and scientific domains.
>>Interoperability of systems, by adoption of standard
communication, is a fundamental prerequisite, as is
networking and free access to digital resources,
increasing new value and more knowledge of Cultural
heritage.
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13. Open Science and Préservation
• Major international professional associations and their
national affiliations play a driving role in this area.
UNESCO, IFLA, ICA, ICOM, ICCROM, ICOMOS and many
others are promoting the exchange, the expertise and
competencies.
• They produce and update technical descriptive and
management standards, guidelines, recommendations,
implementing tools and repositories, digital databases, to
indicate selected collections and assets considered most
at risk in the world (Red Lists, Memory of the World
Library Map, Risk register for documentary heritage).
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14. Open Science and Preservation
• The digital transition could be still long and the resources
and energies are reducing. We should pay attention and
make sustainable projects as SDGs of UN Agenda 30 ask
to guarantee a future to our current digital cultural
memories.
• The tradition for physical artifacts, ancient books and
manuscripts, historic documents could be facilitated by
open science not only to get new information, inspiring
ideas and new experiences and cooperation , considering
not only globalization, looking to the importance at social
local level of the sedimented Cultural heritage.
• More knowledge, getting and giving collaboration, signing
agreements and partnerships with university, research,
academic circles, and commercial private enterprises,
also at international level to promote programs,
frameworks and best practices also as “restorers” for
digital preservation.!
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15. Open Science and Preservation
• Education and training, long-life learning…new profiles for
librarians, conservators, archivists ….Discussions are
always open on new competences in “digital curation”,
urgently requested and/or up-graded.. Some roles to be
reinvented , regarding to the needs …also considering
risks and disasters damaging books tangible and
intangible Cultural heritage…to rescue, recuperate, learn,
interpret material, find a copy..
• What we need : programs , investments for specifically
preservation everywhere, locally…, training and
education, reducing digital- divide, (instruments ,
including up-grade of devices, hw/sw-)…, relations,
networking, internationalism. …..last a personal
involvement…of professionals!
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