{"title":"The Data Librarian's Handbook","authors":"B. Longo","doi":"10.18352/LQ.10206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18352/LQ.10206","url":null,"abstract":"A well rounded disenchanted and yet optimistic book review in a subject increasingly pivotal for the future of our profession: should data librarianship be confined, as the authors of this handbook suggest, to the academic library? and what is, in the end, that qualifies librarianship's theory and practice to deal with data and research data in particular?","PeriodicalId":357594,"journal":{"name":"The Liber Quarterly","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116210712","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}
{"title":"The importance of European collaborations to support Open Science and digital library development","authors":"P. Ayris","doi":"10.18352/LQ.10147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18352/LQ.10147","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks at the distinguished career of Pat Manson and identifies key themes in her work on digital libraries. It then takes those themes, as Pat prepares for well-deserved retirement, and sketches out the challenges which face libraries and European organisations in 2016. The themes chosen are: Open Science, Copyright reform and Open Access to Publications. The paper concludes that while libraries now have a voice at European top tables, the challenge is to fine tune that voice in order to create and deliver infrastructure, policies and services which support Open Science in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":357594,"journal":{"name":"The Liber Quarterly","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127496657","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}
{"title":"Creating a Renaissance for the Library in the Digital Era","authors":"J. Cousins","doi":"10.18352/lq.10167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10167","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a history of European Union Digital Library programmes from the 1990’s to 2015 and illustrates the key role played by Pat Manson. A series of major initiatives such as GABRIEL, TEL and DELOS as well as the Europeana Project are fully described. The paper focuses on policy issues and also explores how thinking was translated into other cultural heritage sectors.","PeriodicalId":357594,"journal":{"name":"The Liber Quarterly","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133435446","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}
{"title":"Looking back at the Telematics for Libraries Programme 1990-1998","authors":"J. Owen","doi":"10.18352/LQ.10151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18352/LQ.10151","url":null,"abstract":"The 1990's saw a fervour of cooperative R&D activity within the European libraries community as a result of the so-called Telematics for Libraries Programme of the European Commission. Pat Manson was a member of the small team of Commission staff in Luxemburg responsible for initiating and guiding these activities. This article describes the Programme, its importance and the role of Pat Manson and her director Ariane Iljon in its success.","PeriodicalId":357594,"journal":{"name":"The Liber Quarterly","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129656518","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}
{"title":"Libraries into the 21st century","authors":"M. Dekkers","doi":"10.18352/lq.10190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10190","url":null,"abstract":"A long standing colleague discusses developments in informatics in the last quarter century, how these were fostered by the European Commission in general and by Pat Manson in particular.","PeriodicalId":357594,"journal":{"name":"The Liber Quarterly","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122597227","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}
{"title":"Tout cela est bien quelque chose: Digital Preservation Today: how European Commission programmes and policy have brought us here: Festschrift for Patricia (Pat) Manson","authors":"J. Delve, David Anderson","doi":"10.18352/LQ.10172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18352/LQ.10172","url":null,"abstract":"Patricia (Pat) Manson worked with the European Commission's (EC’s) research programmes from the early 1990s, initially as project officer (December 1991-March 2003) and then as Head of Unit (April 2003-2011) for Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning which was part of the Directorate General Information Society and Media. The unit focused primarily on research in digital libraries, digital preservation, and in the use of ICTs for improving learning, but was also involved in the development of the i2010 digital libraries policies and actions. Prior to joining the Commission, she worked in the UK providing a national advisory and market watch service to libraries on the use of new technologies. She is now Head of the Inclusion, Skills & Youth Unit of the EC’s Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), where the unit’s goal is to ensure that citizens, especially youth and those at risk of exclusion, are best able to benefit from the Internet and have the necessary skills so to do. This article sets out Pat’s leadership of EC-funded Digital Preservation, and examines her legacy in terms of lasting best practices, contributions to standardisation activities etc.","PeriodicalId":357594,"journal":{"name":"The Liber Quarterly","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121110615","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}
{"title":"The view from North America","authors":"S. Griffin","doi":"10.18352/LQ.10191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18352/LQ.10191","url":null,"abstract":"The European Commission worked closely with North American colleagues in joint projects and developments. This paper describes developments with the National Science Foundation.","PeriodicalId":357594,"journal":{"name":"The Liber Quarterly","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129910805","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}
{"title":"A Seedbed for Innovation? Eight European Commission work plans and their impact on the commercialisation of the information marketplace","authors":"D. Worlock","doi":"10.18352/LQ.10182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18352/LQ.10182","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers a personal view of the nature, role and impact of European Research Programmes on the publishing industry.","PeriodicalId":357594,"journal":{"name":"The Liber Quarterly","volume":" 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132095854","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}
{"title":"Co-researching as a driver for technological innovation: Computing and Cultural Heritage","authors":"D. Arnold","doi":"10.18352/LQ.10164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18352/LQ.10164","url":null,"abstract":"A recurring question in defining publicly funded research programmes is “what research should be funded publicly and what should be funded through the private sector?”. The way this question is usually answered has placed emphasis on seeking to ensure that research that has a payback in purely economic terms is funded (at least in part) by those most likely to receive the economic benefit, but evaluating “who benefits?” and “how?” is not always easy to deduce from the research questions posed.","PeriodicalId":357594,"journal":{"name":"The Liber Quarterly","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115727858","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}
{"title":"The key role of the DELOS Network of Excellence in establishing Digital Libraries as a research field in Europe","authors":"C. Thanos, V. Casarosa","doi":"10.18352/LQ.10165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18352/LQ.10165","url":null,"abstract":"It was only in the mid-1990’s that Digital Libraries became a research topic in Europe. The European Union was then instrumental in supporting and promoting the subject. One key element of that support was the establishment of the DELOS Network of Excellence. Its central role in the development of digital libraries in the period 1997-2007 in Europe and its contributions are outlined in this paper.","PeriodicalId":357594,"journal":{"name":"The Liber Quarterly","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122096459","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}