E-Lert # 304 / Cyberavis no. 304
Friday November 28, 2008 / le vendredi le 28 novembre 2008
CARL COMMUNIQUE / COMMUNIQUÉ DE L’ABRC
Key Considerations of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries for a New Copyright Bill with Reference to the 2008 Bill C-61: An Act to Amend the Copyright Act
On June 12, 2008, the Government tabled Bill C-61: An Act to Amend
the Copyright Act, which was intended to bring the Copyright Act
into the digital age. The Canadian Association of Research Libraries
(CARL) studied the text of this bill over the summer. With the announcement
on September 7, 2008, of the federal election, Bill C-61 fell off
the Order Paper before a full debate about its content could occur.
Given that the Speech from the Throne indicated that the Government will
introduce another copyright bill in the 40th Parliament, CARL has prepared
a brief assessment of Bill C-61 on points that relate to university
research libraries and to CARL’s priorities for any new copyright
legislation. PDF
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Considérations importantes pour l’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada relativement à un nouveau projet de loi sur le droit d’auteur inspiré du Projet de loi C‑61 de 2008 : Loi modifiant la Loi sur le droit d’auteur
Le 12 juin 2008, le gouvernement a déposé le Projet
de loi C‑61 : Loi modifiant la Loi sur le droit d’auteur
qui visait à faire passer à l’ère numérique
la Loi sur le droit d’auteur. L’Association des bibliothèques
de recherche du Canada (ABRC) a examiné le texte du projet de loi
au cours de l’été. Avec l’annonce des élections
fédérales le 7 septembre 2008, le Projet de
loi C‑61 a été supprimé du Feuilleton avant
qu’un débat en profondeur puisse avoir lieu. Étant donné
qu’il était mentionné pendant le discours du Trône
que le gouvernement présenterait un autre projet de loi sur le droit
d’auteur dans le 40e parlement, l’ABRC a préparé
un bref examen du Projet de loi C‑61 sur des points qui intéressent
les bibliothèques de recherche universitaires et qui pourraient avoir
un effet sur les priorités de l’ABRC s’il devait y avoir
un nouveau projet de loi. PDF
Letter from the Board of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries
(CARL) to the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) regarding Sponsoring
Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3).
PDF
(
members
only)
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Lettre du Conseil de l’Association des bibliothèques de recherche
du Canada (ABRC) adressée au Réseau canadien de documentation
pour la recherche (RCDR) au sujet du Sponsoring Consortium for Open
Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3). PDF
(en anglais,
accès reservé aux membres)
The dates for the CARL 2009 Annual General Meeting in Montreal are May 26 – 29. The 2009 Fall General Meeting will be held in Ottawa, November 10 -13. Program details to follow.
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Les dates pour l’Assemblée générale annuelle de 2009 de l’ABRC à Montréal sont du 26 au 29 mai. l’Assemblée générale d’automne du 2009 aura lieu à Ottawa, du 10 au 13 novembre. Les détails de ces programmes suivront.
NEWS / NOUVELLES
CBA Executive Director to Retire
November 24, 2008
Nancy Frater, President of Canadian Booksellers Association (CBA), today announces the retirement of Susan Dayus, Executive Director of CBA, effective March 31, 2009. "In her 12 years at CBA, seven of them as E.D., Susan has shepherded our association through challenging economic times, provided excellent leadership, and continually planned ahead for issues that went beyond the day to day operations,” comments Frater. “Her enthusiasm, sense of detail and respect for our industry were key contributions to the success of our organization.”
Amazon Web Services Seeks Public Data Sets
Lidija Davis
ReadWriteWeb, November 23, 2008
Amazon is turning to the public for help, asking for public data sets in
an attempt to create a cloud data service that provides what they describe
as a "convenient way to share, access, and use public data." Called
AWS Hosted Public
Data Sets, the service will enable you to use public data within
your Amazon EC2 environment. Select public data sets will be hosted on AWS
for free as an Amazon EBS snapshot.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_web_services_seeks_publ.php
Europeana Goes Online and Is Then Overwhelmed
Stephen Castle
The New York Times, November 21, 2008
A new digital library of Europe’s cultural heritage crashed just
hours after it went online and will be out of operation for several weeks,
the European
Commission said Friday, attributing the embarrassing failure
to overwhelming public interest. Europeana, a Web site of two million documents,
images, video and audio clips, opened on Thursday with international publicity
and acclaim from researchers. But by Friday, those trying to log on were
greeted with a message telling them that the service may not be running
again until mid-December, while computer capacity is upgraded.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/technology/internet/22digital.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
La bibliothèque numérique européenne victime
de son succès
Alain Beuve-Méry
Le Monde, 20 novembre 2008
La France est le premier contributeur (52 %) du projet de bibliothèque
numérique européenne, Europeana, lancé jeudi 20 novembre
à Bruxelles par José Manuel Barroso, président de la
Commission européenne et Viviane Reding, commissaire en charge de
la société de l'information, avec les ministres de la culture
de l'Union européenne. Le projet constitue le point d'orgue culturel
de la présidence française de l'Union européenne. Mais,
victime de son succès, le
site a dû fermer juste après son ouverture.
Une version plus robuste est désormais annoncée pour mi-décembre.
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2008/11/20/l-union-europeenne-lance-sa-bibliotheque-numerique_1120978_651865.html#xtor=RSS-651865
France takes lead in digital library
Stephen Castle
The International Herald Tribune, November 19, 2008
France has never been shy about promoting its culture, so few were surprised
that Paris took a close interest in a new European digital library designed
to showcase the Continent's history, literature, arts and science.
But when the new site, called Europeana, begins life Thursday, more than
half of its two million items come from just one of the 27 countries in
the European Union: France.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/business/digital.php
For Advice on Publishing in the Digital World, Scholars Turn to
Campus Libraries
Jennifer Howard
The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 21, 2008
"Rapidly changing" is the term most often used these days to
describe the landscape of scholarly communication. Scholars have to clear
new and higher hurdles as they bump up against copyright and fair-use issues,
open-access mandates, and a baffling array of publication and dissemination
models. More institutions are creating or beefing up offices and programs
in scholarly communication or hiring librarians with expertise in copyright
and intellectual property.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i13/13a00801.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
CRTC allows Bell to continue internet throttling
Peter Nowak
CBC News, November 20, 2008
Bell Canada Inc. is not breaking any laws by slowing internet speeds and
will be allowed to continue throttling its customers, the CRTC has ruled.
The phone company, Canada's biggest internet service provider with two million
high-speed customers, has shown that it needs to be able to manage its network
in order to prevent congestion, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission said in a decision released Thursday.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/20/tech-bell.html
University Press, With Amazon, Revives and Sells Out-of-Print Books
Jennifer Howard
The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 19, 2008
Like homesteaders sitting on land with untapped oil reserves, many university
presses possess a rich but underused resource: out-of-print titles. The
challenge has been how best to drill into that resource—how to let
readers know about books that have been out of print for years or decades,
and then make it easy for them to buy a copy.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/11/7572n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Privacy Concerns About U.S. Database
Doug Lederman
Inside Higher Ed, November 19, 2008
As a general rule, big government databases aren’t especially popular,
and higher education’s recent experiences with them — be they
the relatively new federal database to track foreign students in the wake
of September 11, or a proposed “unit records” database to track
the academic success of students as they move through the educational system
— have generated controversy. Advocates for colleges and students
are concerned by a
plan by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General
to gather personally identifiable information from nine existing databases
of grant, loan and contract recipients into one giant “data analytics
system” and by the Education Department’s decision to waive
certain privacy rules for the new records system.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/11/19/oig
NEW: “Wikidora” Preserves Permanent Scientific Products
from Collaborative Research
Carol Minton Morris
FedoraCommons HatCheck Newsletter, November 17, 2008
As new research gets underway it is common for scientists to begin online
data collection and collaboration as part of their investigations. The digital
products they produce as a result of research activities range from raw
data sets to early versions of articles, whitepapers and correspondence.
These research products are often lost in outdated or abandoned web sites
and wikis when projects are completed. Researchers at the University of
Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, St. Augustin, Germany led by Prof. Andreas
Hense have released a new technology aimed at preserving research products
created using wikis.
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/11/17/new-wikidora-preserves-permanent-scientific-products-from-collaborative-research/
A Computing Pioneer Has a New Idea
John Markoff
The New York Times, November 16, 2008
Steven J. Wallach is completing the soul of his newest machine. Thirty
years ago, Mr. Wallach was one of a small team of computer designers profiled
by Tracy Kidder in his Pulitzer
Prize winning best seller, “The Soul of a New Machine.”
Mr. Wallach thinks he has come upon a new idea in computer design in an
era when it has become fashionable to say that there are no new ideas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/technology/business-computing/17machine.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Calgary man becomes first person convicted under
anti-piracy laws
Daryl Slade
Calgary Herald, November 14, 2008
A Calgary man who was caught recording the then new release "Sweeney
Todd" in a local theatre last year has become the first person convicted
in Canada under new movie pirating legislation. Richard Craig Lissaman,
21, pleaded guilty on Friday to the unauthorized recording and was sentenced
to $1,495 in fines and placed on probation for a year by provincial court
Judge Catherine Skene. Lissaman also is prohibited from entering any movie
theatre or from purchasing, owning or possessing any video recording equipment,
including one on a cell phone, outside his home during his probation period.
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=2f631ae0-6684-4fb6-99cc-14047e71e3d6
University of Alberta debuts
First Nations Colleges information gateway
November 12, 2008
For the first time ever, First Nations colleges in Alberta will have online
access to their
own collections and a wide selection of culturally significant academic
materials shared by other post-secondary institutions in the province. The
First Nations Information Connection will allow students and faculty in
six First Nations colleges to take full advantage of the Lois Hole Campus
Alberta Digital Library.
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/fnic/mediarelease/FNICFNIC.pdf
ARTICLES
Evolution in the Area of Digital Scholarly Communication
Bonita Wilson
D-Lib Magazine, November/December 2008
While scholarly digital publishing has been with us for a number of years,
it seems clear that both publishing models and usage models are still derivative
of the print era. E-journals and e-books, D-Lib Magazine included, bear
more than a passing resemblance to their print analogs. And while the details
of the production and publishing processes have changed dramatically from
the days of page proofs and snail mail, the big picture remains much the
same.
http://dlib.ukoln.ac.uk/dlib/november08/11editorial.html
Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information
Packages
Priscilla Caplan
D-Lib Magazine, November/December 2008
Responsibility for digital preservation must be distributed among many
heterogeneous, geographically dispersed repositories. It must be possible
for materials archived in one repository to be exported to and ingested
by a second repository without loss of authenticity, digital provenance,
or other vital preservation information. Several research and demonstration
projects have focused on identifying issues in the exchange of information
packages and defining transfer formats.
http://dlib.ukoln.ac.uk/dlib/november08/caplan/11caplan.html
As free as they decide we can be
Jonathan Heawood
The Guardian, November 25, 2008
Net optimists believe that the internet embodies and transforms our right
to speak out without the top-down control of the state or the cultural establishment.
Online, we can say what we want, when we want, in the way that we want.
We can even take on the identity we choose, free of the shackles of offline
reality. On the other hand, there is a growing chorus of net pessimists,
who highlight the many ways in which the internet breeds new forms of censorship.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/25/comment
The turn to online research is narrowing the range of modern scholarship,
a new study suggests
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
The Boston Globe, November 23, 2008
For Scholars the Internet has been a godsend. It allows instant communication
with colleagues around the globe, and makes tracking down published research
a matter of seconds. But perhaps the greatest boon is the sheer quantity
of readily accessible knowledge. A recent study, however, suggests that
despite this cornucopia, the boom in online research may actually have a
"narrowing" effect on scholarship.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/11/23/group_think/
The Online Search Party: A Way to Share the Load
Anne Eisenberg
The New York Times, November 22, 2008
Opportunities for social networking abound on the Internet, but not when
it comes to one standard job: using a browser and search engine to comb
the Web for information. That task is still typically done solo, because
browser displays and search procedures have traditionally been designed
for a single user. Now Microsoft
and other companies are developing tools that let people at different computers
search as a team, dividing responsibilities and pooling results and recommendations
in a shared Web space on the browser display.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23novelties.html?th&emc=th
A Comparison of Subject and Institutional Repositories in Self-archiving
Practices
Jingfeng Xia
The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 34, Issue 6, November 2008
The disciplinary culture theory presumes that if a scholar has been familiar with self-archiving through an existing subject-based repository, this scholar will be more enthusiastic about contributing his/her research to an institutional repository than one who has not had the experience. To test the theory, this article examines self-archiving practices of a group of physicists in both a subject repository and an institutional repository. It does not find a correlation between a disciplinary culture and self-archiving practices.
Qui tire les câbles du cyberespace ?
Laurent Checola et Olivier Dumons
Le Monde 2, 14 novembre 2008
Internet, un monde virtuel ? Sauf que le réseau s'appuie sur une
infrastructure bien réelle : des câbles à fibre optique
relient les continents, contrôlés par une poignée de
géants des télécommunications. Enquête sur les
maîtres du réseau et leur stratégie.
http://www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-2/article/2008/11/14/qui-tire-les-cables-du-cyberespace_1118902_1004868.html#xtor=RSS-651865
Peut-on tout confier à Google ?
Stéphane Foucart
Le Monde 2, 14 novembre 2008
En dix ans d'existence, Google a tellement grandi qu'il a fini par se rendre
incontournable. Notre courrier, notre mémoire, bientôt notre
dossier médical… chaque jour, les serveurs de l'entreprise
accumulent de nouveaux détails sur notre intimité. Mais comment
le géant Google gère-t-il nos données personnelles
?
http://www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-2/article/2008/11/14/peut-on-tout-confier-a-google_1118856_1004868.html#ens_id=1118910
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
PoWR: the Preservation of Web Resources handbook
University of London Computer Centre, UKOLN and JISC, 2008
The Handbook, written by ULCC staff, is a distillation and synthesis of
the material gathered via workshops and blog; it also draws heavily on the
expertise of the PoWR team in the areas of website management, records management,
digital preservation, etc. The Handbook aims to provide suggestions for
best practice and advice aimed at UK higher and further educational institutions,
to enable the preservation of websites and web-based resources.
http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/handbook/
European Network for Copyright in support of Education and Science
(ENCES)
November 15, 2008
ENCES (European Network for Copyright in support of Education and Science)
is an EU-wide network of organizations and individuals in science and education
who share the view that copyright is a socially valuable construct and that
the primary objective of copyright is to promote the progress of science,
education, and culture as public goods. ENCES’s basic assumption is
that knowledge and information in its digital form should be made available
to everyone from everywhere and at any time under fair conditions. This
is particularly true in science and education, where access to knowledge
and information is indispensable.
http://www.ences.eu/
"DAPHNE" : accès à des bases gratuites
en archéologie
26 novembre 2008
DAPHNE (Données en Archéologie, Préhistoire
et Histoire sur le NEt) est un guichet unique d’accès
gratuit à des bases de données bibliographiques thématiques.
Thèmes : Préhistoire, Protohistoire, archéologie
(depuis les premiers témoignages humains jusqu’à l’ère
industrielle), sciences de l’Antiquité (sous tous ses aspects :
religion, politique, société, philosophie, économie,
art, vie quotidienne, etc.) et histoire jusqu’à l’an
Mil, sur tous les continents.
http://www.daphne.cnrs.fr/daphne/staticContent.html?id=daphne&extension=.html
Liste de bibliothèques numériques françaises
25 novembre 2008
Le site "Science.gouv" propose une liste, avec liens, d'une cinquantaine
de bibliothèques numériques, principalement françaises.
La liste est organisée par rubrique – Astronomie/espace, Mathématiques,
Médecine, Sciences humaines et sociales, etc. – et indique
aussi des ajouts de nouvelles bibliothèques numériques.
http://www.science.gouv.fr/fr/bibliotheques-numeriques/
Green Paper: Copyright in the Knowledge Economy
Commission of the European Communities, 2008
The purpose of the Green Paper is to foster a debate on how knowledge for
research, science
and education can best be disseminated in the online environment. The Green
Paper aims to
set out a number of issues connected with the role of copyright in the "knowledge
economy"
and intends to launch a consultation on these issues.
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/docs/copyright-infso/greenpaper_en.pdf
[Version en français]
How academia and government can work together
Council for Science and Technology (U.K.), October 2008
A healthy engagement between academics and policy makers is essential to
the provision of informed, evidence based, world-class policy making. Academics
already play a key part throughout the policy making process, providing
advice on a huge number of topics to recipients at all levels of Government.
The diversity of the UK’s world-class academic expertise means that
it is a formidable resource for policy-makers in the UK. By engaging with
policy makers academics become involved in answering some of the most challenging
questions faced by the UK, and their ideas contribute to national policy.
http://www.cst.gov.uk/cst/reports/files/academia-government.pdf
Understanding Open Access in the Academic Environment: a Guide
for Authors
Kylie Pappalardo et al
Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project, June 2008
This report aims to provide academic authors with an overview of the concept
of and rationale for open access to research outputs and how they may be
involved in its implementation and with what effect. In doing so it considers
the central role of copyright law and publishing agreements in structuring
an open access framework as well as the increasing involvement of funders
and academic institutions. The Guide also explains different methods available
to authors for making their outputs openly accessible, such as publishing
in an open access journal or depositing work into an open access repository.
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00013935/02/13935.pdf
A Guide to Developing Open Access Through Your Digital Repository
Kylie Pappalardo and Anne Fitzgerald
Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project, September 2007
This report aims to assist academic institutions in developing open access
policies and legal and management frameworks for the effective development
and operation of digital repository infrastructure. In particular, it examines
issues relating to the international open access movement and the implementation
of open access policies for digital repositories, the operation of copyright
law and copyright licensing of material deposited into digital repositories
and the relationships - both legal and otherwise – between authors,
publishers, repositories and end-users.
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00009671/01/9671.pdf
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
pre-Midwinter E-Forum Discussion on Institutional Repositories
December 3-5, 2009
The institutional repository “movement” is growing by leaps and bounds as libraries prepare to create and preserve access to scholarship, research and other material of lasting value. This forum offers participants opportunities to share information on a practical as well as a philosophical level about the challenges of establishing and maintaining a digital repository. Participation in the E-Forum is open to anyone and membership in ALCTS (or ALA) is not required. However a login and password are required to register. Questions about the E-forum can be directed to Pamela Bluh (pbluh@umaryland.edu) or Charles Wilt (cwilt@ala.org).
The Challenges of Digital Preservation
December 4, 2008, 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Boardroom 450, 50 O’Connor
Street Ottawa
Mr. Mark Evans of Tessella will examine the steps to take to ensure that the digital information that we create and store today will be accessible in the long-term future Tessella has undertaken work on behalf of the British Library, the Dutch government and the US National Archives and Records Administration as a member of a consortium headed by Lockheed Martin. They were consultants for the UK Hansard digitization project. Seating is limited. Please register by contacting Lise Chartrand at IDRS, by e-mail at ChartLi@parl.gc.ca or by phone at 613-996-7617, before December 2, 2008. For further information please contact Cynthia Hubbertz, Acting Director, Information and Document Resource Service, Library of Parliament by e-mail at Hubbec@parl.gc.ca or by phone at 613-995-2101.
Call for Participation: Effective, Sustainable, and Practical Library
Assessment
November 19, 2008
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) invites libraries to participate
in its Effective, Sustainable, and Practical Library Assessment service
in 2009. ARL Visiting Program Officers Steve Hiller (University of Washington
Libraries) and Jim Self (University of Virginia Library) are working with
Martha Kyrillidou (ARL) to assist libraries in developing effective, sustainable,
and practical assessment programs that demonstrate the libraries' contributions
to teaching, learning, and research. The service involves a site visit to
each participating library, a report to each library with recommendations
on practical and sustainable assessment, and follow-up assistance in implementing
the recommendations.
http://www.arl.org/stats/initiatives/esp/index.shtml
DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects
Chapel Hill, NC USA, April 1-3, 2009
The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North
Carolina is pleased to announce its second digital curation curriculum symposium.
DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects is part
of the Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International
Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCurr) project. DigCCurr is a three-year
(2006-2009), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded collaboration
between SILS and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
The primary goals of the DigCCurr project are to develop a graduate-level
curricular framework, course modules, and experiential components to prepare
students for digital curation in various environments.
http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/
dg.o 2009: The 10th International Conference on Digital Government
Research
Puebla, Mexico, May 17-20, 2009
The dg.o 2009 conference theme “Social Networks: Making Connections
between Citizens, Data and Government” focuses on Web 2.0 technology,
the emerging Social Web, and social network systems that allow large scale
distributed collaboration, information sharing and creation of collective
intelligence in government areas. The Social Web that includes blogs, wikis,
facebook, flickr, youtube, etc., is emerging and evolving through massive
participation of users in creating, managing, and sharing multimedia data
by linking people and forming virtual interactive communities. Governments
are facing unprecedented transparency and openness through electronic grassroots
mobilizations using social network technology. This conference focuses,
in particular, on the policy implications of open government and the innovative
applications of Web 2.0, Social Web, as well as technologies throughout
the domain.
http://www.dgo2009.org/index.php/en/call-for-papers/52
