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Digital Humanities in European Research Libraries 欧洲研究型图书馆中的数字人文学科

The Liber Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-04-26 DOI: 10.18352/LQ.10351

Lotte Wilms

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引用次数: 3

The Economic Foundation of Library Copyright Strategies in Europe 欧洲图书馆版权战略的经济基础

The Liber Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.18352/LQ.10369

G. Vitiello

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引用次数: 2

Transparency, provenance and collections as data 透明度，来源和收集数据

The Liber Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-02-19 DOI: 10.18352/LQ.10371

Sarah Ames

{"title":"Transparency, provenance and collections as data","authors":"Sarah Ames","doi":"10.18352/LQ.10371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18352/LQ.10371","url":null,"abstract":"‘Collections as data’ has become a core activity for libraries in recent years: it is important that we make collections available in machine-readable formats to enable and encourage computational research. However, while this is a necessary output, discussion around the processes and workflows required to turn collections into data, and to make collections data available openly, are just as valuable. With libraries increasingly becoming producers of their own collections – presenting data from digitisation and digital production tools as part of datasets, for example – and making collections available at scale through mass-digitisation programmes, the trustworthiness of our processes comes into question. In a world of big data, often of unclear origins, how can libraries be transparent about the ways in which collections are turned into data, how do we ensure that biases in our collections are recognised and not amplified, and how do we make these datasets available openly for reuse? This paper presents a case study of work underway at the National Library of Scotland to present collections as data in an open and transparent way – from establishing a new Digital Scholarship Service, to workflows and online presentation of datasets. It considers the changes to existing processes needed to produce the Data Foundry, the National Library of Scotland's open data delivery platform, and explores the practical challenges of presenting collections as data online in an open, transparent and coherent manner.","PeriodicalId":357594,"journal":{"name":"The Liber Quarterly","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116344259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

Opening up the Library 开放图书馆

The Liber Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-02-05 DOI: 10.18352/LQ.10360

J. Ball, G. Stone, S. Thompson

引用次数: 2

Measuring the impact of special collections and archives in the digital age: opportunities and challenges 衡量数字时代特殊馆藏和档案的影响:机遇与挑战

The Liber Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-11-28 DOI: 10.18352/lq.10345

Christina Kamposiori

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引用次数: 0

Implementing Open Science policies into library processes – case study of the University of Eastern Finland library 在图书馆流程中实施开放科学政策——东芬兰大学图书馆案例研究

The Liber Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-09-16 DOI: 10.18352/LQ.10336

J. Saarti, Tomi Rosti, Helena Silvennoinen-Kuikka

引用次数: 5

Publication strategies under the Publish or Perish Paradigm – using Kolb’s ELT to understand PhD students’ needs 出版或灭亡范式下的出版策略——用科尔布的英语教学理解博士生的需求

The Liber Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-09-10 DOI: 10.18352/lq.10349

C. Wien, B. Dorch, L. Bredahl, M. Eriksen

引用次数: 0

The first Swedish Read & Publish agreement: An evaluation of the Springer Compact pilot 第一份瑞典阅读与出版协议:施普林格契约试点评估

The Liber Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-07-03 DOI: 10.18352/lq.10309

Lisa Olsson, H. Francke, C. Lindelöw, N. Willén

引用次数: 9

UNIVERSITY JOURNALS. Consolidating institutional repositories in a digital, free, open access publication platform for all scholarly output 高校学报。将所有学术成果整合到一个数字化、免费、开放的出版平台上

The Liber Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-06-29 DOI: 10.18352/lq.10323

S. Woutersen-Windhouwer, Eva Méndez, Jeroen Sondervan, F. Oort

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引用次数: 4

Availability of research articles for the public during pandemic - a case study 大流行期间向公众提供研究文章的情况——一个案例研究

The Liber Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-05-08 DOI: 10.18352/lq.10340

A. Devasahayam

引用次数: 2