E-Lert # 323 / Cyberavis no. 323
Friday April 24, 2009 / le vendredi
24 avril 2009
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CARL COMMUNIQUÉ / COMMUNIQUÉ
DE L'ABRC
Ingrid Parent appointed to CRKN Board of Directors
Ingrid Parent, Assistant Deputy Minister at Library and Archives Canada (and newly appointed University Librarian at UBC) has been appointed as the CARL designate to the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) Board of Directors.
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Ingrid Parent nommée au Conseil d’administration du RCDR
Ingrid Parent, sous-ministre adjointe, Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (récemment nommée University Librarian à l’University of British Columbia), a été nommée désignée de l’ABRC au Conseil administratif du Réseau canadien de documentation pour la recherche (RCDR).
NEWS / NOUVELLES
Libraries around the world support Open Access to critical research
from developing countries
Bioline International membership campaign update, April 23, 2009
Bioline's new sponsorship program, announced in November 2008, gives organizations
and institutions the opportunity to make a bold statement for open access
to the research published in developing countries. funding contributions
are helping Bioline to make the transition to a membership supported system,
while maintaining the commitment to sustainable, reliable access to the
70 bioscience journals from 16 countries distributed through the Bioline
website. Despite the global economic crisis, the response
to the call for members has been very encouraging ;18 organizations have
already signed on as Bioline members.
http://www.bioline.org.br/info?id=bioline&doc=support
World Book and Copyright Day 2009: Statement by eIFL Librarians
on Users’ Rights for Libraries, Education and Development
April 23, 2009
Librarians from thirty-nine developing and transition countries highlighted
the importance of users’ rights for libraries and education to mark
the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day on April 23rd, 2009. Exceptions
and limitations are important to libraries everywhere, but they are of critical
importance to developing and transition countries whose capacity to access
knowledge is crucial to their social and economic development.*
http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/news/press-area/2009-04-23
United Nations Opens World Digital Library
Steve Kolowich
The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 21, 2009
In the latest and perhaps broadest effort to provide instant access to
scholarly resources, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization inaugurated
its World Digital Library,
a Web site that offers visitors a trove of artifacts spanning the history
of civilization. U.S. librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, says all
countries are welcome to contribute. The idea is to use Web technology to
place all of mankind’s most precious artifacts in a single, shared
repository.*
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3726&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Recherche scientifique - La théorie du sur-place
Marie-Andrée Chouinard
Le Devoir, 20 avril 2009
Alors que d'autres économies, malgré les soubresauts de la crise financière, ont choisi de faire de la recherche un outil de relance, le Canada opte pour la théorie des petits pas et le maniement du couperet. Avec la rentabilité comme unique point de mire, la recherche risque d'être dépourvue de son essence.* [Voir aussi dans l’édition du 21 avril : « Ottawa se défend de laisser tomber les chercheurs. »]
York books scanned, digitized at Internet Archive
April 20, 2009
York University Libraries is working with the Internet
Archive to scan thousands of the Library’s pre-1923 books
and get them on the web in high-quality digitized versions available for
free to the entire world. More details will follow as the project develops.
Some of the titles that are already
available can be accessed on the Internet Archive.*
http://www.yorku.ca/yul/news/?p=166
Call for Submissions: Evidence in Practice
Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice, April 19, 2009
Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice has launched a new feature
called "Using Evidence in Practice" that will consist of brief
reports of LIS practitioners' use of evidence to inform decision making.
Submissions will follow a structured format to report practical implementations
of an evidence-based approach to resolving workplace problems. The EBLIP
editorial team will review submissions for publication in the journal.*
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
[Sample “Practice” feature: https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/4580/5081]
Opposition to Google Books Settlement Jells
Miguel Helft
The New York Times, April 17, 2009
With a May 5 deadline for filing objections to the Google books settlement
looming, opposition to and criticism of the settlement continues to cement.
Now some of the opposition is starting to jell. The Internet Archive, currently
working to match Google’s effort to digitize millions of books from
major libraries, has filed a motion
to intervene in the case. At issue is the digitizing of millions of orphan
works. Pamela Samuelson, a well-known copyright expert at the University
of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Berkeley Center for Law &
Technology, published a paper
that is critical of the settlement for granting Google exclusive access
to orphan works.*
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/opposition-to-google-books-settlement/
Internet in a box - a Blackbox, that is
Kathleen Lau
Network World, April 14, 2009
The Internet Archive, a non-profit organization that creates an archive
of the Internet by taking snapshots of every Web site, recently moved its
three petabytes of data into a 20-foot-long shipping container - a modular
data centre based on open storage technology by Sun Microsystems Inc. The
library of text, audio, moving images (videos and films), rare and hard-to-find
software, and archived versions of Web pages, built by the San Francisco-based
non-profit organization, receives about 100,000 visitors per day and is
rapidly expanding. Founder Brewster Kahle expects the three petabytes of
data to grow at approximately 100 terabytes per month.*
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/041409-internet-in-a-box---.html?page=1
National Academies [U.S.] Reports Now Available in Open Access
April 10, 2009
The National Academies have announced the completion of the first phase
of a partnership with Google to digitize the library's collection of reports
from 1863 to 1997, making them fully searchable and free through Google
Book Search. The Academies plan to have their entire collection of
nearly 11,000 reports digitized by 2011. "Much has changed since the
National Academy of Sciences began advising the government in the late 1800s,"
said Victoria Harriston, manager of library and information services at
the National Academies' George E. Brown Jr. Library. "Our early
reports are essential to understanding the scientific advances made in this
country as well as the science and technology issues the government struggled
with in the 19th and 20th centuries." *
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=04102009
Consultations sur les programmes de la FCI
9 avril 2009
Le Budget fédéral de 2009 a attribué 600 M$ à
la FCI pour qu’elle tienne un nouveau concours d’ici décembre
2010. Pour bien se préparer en vue de ce concours et de ceux
qui suivront, et pour bien orienter son plan stratégique pour l’avenir,
la FCI mettra à contribution les acteurs du milieu canadien de la
recherche afin d’analyser des questions émergentes ou d’actualité,
d’évaluer l’adéquation de l’architecture
de programmes de la FCI et de cerner les améliorations qui pourraient
être apportées à ses futurs programmes de financement.*
http://www.innovation.ca/fr/news?news_id=129
[English : http://www.innovation.ca/en/news/2009/04/9/129]
ARTICLES
Adventures in Semantic Publishing: Exemplar Semantic Enhancements of a Research ArticleDavid Shotton et al
PloS Computational Biology, Volume 5, Issue 4, April 2009
Scientific innovation depends on finding, integrating, and re-using the
products of previous research. Shotton et al discuss how recent developments
in Web technology, particularly those related to the publication of data
and metadata, can potentially assist that process by providing semantic
enhancements to journal articles within the mainstream process of scholarly
journal publishing.*
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000361
Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital
Age
Leslie Chan
Academic Matters, Web Exclusive Article, April 22, 2009
The Internet has made Open Access publication – the free distribution
of scholarly work – a powerful possibility for scholars, administrators
and publishers alike. Leslie Chan discusses the potential benefits, and
looming challenges, facing this new approach to knowledge
dissemination.*
http://www.academicmatters.ca/current_issue.article.gk?catalog_item_id=2477&category=/web_exclusive/articles
Mutualiser l'action des bibliothèques territoriales et universitaires
: répondre aux enjeux des formations initiale et continue
Christine Girard et Thierry Giappiconi
Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France, Tome 54, Numéro 2, 2009
Il est aujourd’hui banal d’évoquer les enjeux géostratégiques
de la connaissance. Chacun convient désormais que la formation est
indissociable du développement économique et de l’emploi,
qu’il s’agisse de former les élites nécessaires
au développement de la recherche ou de disposer de qualifications
indispensables au maintien d’activités compétitives
dans une économie globalisée. La question de savoir comment
et selon quelles modalités les bibliothèques peuvent contribuer
à relever les défis de la formation reste cependant ouverte.
Plus que jamais, la réponse nous semble devoir être abordée
sous l’angle d’une action conjointe des bibliothèques
publiques et universitaires.*
http://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-2009-02-0018-003.pdf
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables
Toby Green
OECD Publishing White Paper, OECD Publishing, 2009
Research datasets are a significant part of the scholarly record and are
being published more and more frequently, either formally or informally.
Many publishers are beginning to link to them from their journals and authors
are trying to cite them in their articles. Librarians would like a way to
manage them alongside other publications. The datasets need to be integrated
into the scholarly information system so that authors, readers and librarians
can use, find and manage them as easily as they do working papers, journal
articles and books. In this paper, OECD proposes some standards for citing
and bibliographic management of datasets and data tables.*
http://ocde.p4.siteinternet.com/publications/doifiles/publishing-standards-data-2009.pdf
Encompass Toolkit
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
The Toolkit is one part of the Encompass Programme consisting of a Positive
Action Trainee Scheme, and a workplace development scheme aimed at paraprofessionals
still under development. It is a standalone document providing guidance
to those LIS employers considering positive action of any type to attract
members of under-represented minority ethnic groups into their library workforce.*
http://www.cilip.org.uk/qualificationschartership/encompass/toolkit/
Global Digital Format Registry
A digital object’s format must be known in order to interpret the
information content of that object properly. Without knowledge of its format,
a digital object is merely a collection of undifferentiated bits. The Global
Digital Format Registry (GDFR) project will address this concern by providing
a sustainable resource for managing format-critical representation information
necessary to the preservation function. The GDFR is a collaborative project
of the Harvard University Library, NARA and OCLC with funding provided by
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.*
http://www.gdfr.info/index.html
SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System
Alistair Miles and Sean Bechhofer
W3C Candidate Recommendation 17 March 2009
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a common data model for
sharing and linking knowledge organization systems via the Web. Many knowledge
organization systems, such as thesauri, taxonomies, classification schemes
and subject heading systems, share a similar structure, and are used in
similar applications. SKOS captures much of this similarity and makes it
explicit to enable data and technology sharing across diverse applications.*
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-skos-reference-20090317/
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
JISC Digital Content Conference 2009
South Cerney, U.K., June 30 – July 1, 2009
This conference will gather key players from both the UK and beyond
to stimulate debate and discussion. One of the key outcomes of the
conference is to decide the next steps that need to be taken to ensure the
sustained integration of digitized content into research and education.
The event will be of interest to all decision makers involved in the provision
and delivery of digital content to the education sector in the UK and internationally.*
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/06/digitalcontent
4th Annual Conference of the EPIP Association: Measuring the value
of IPR: theory, business practice and public policy
European Policy for Intellectual Property Association
Bologna, Italy, September 24-25, 2009
One of the greatest challenges for business practitioners and policy-makers
today is to convert ideas and intangible assets into economic wealth, and
to translate innovations into higher levels of welfare. Intellectual property
issues are becoming a key element to management of innovation, given the
continuous change and the rising level of knowledge intensity of economic
activities. The conference will address current controversial IP topics,
such as the validity of different methods for assessing the value of IP,
patents and trademarks, the obstacles to the development of efficient markets
for technologies, the costs of strategic patenting and patent litigation,
and IP policy harmonization across countries.*
http://www.epip.eu/conferences/epip04/
Canadian Science Policy Conference / Conférence sur le Politiques
Scientifiques Canadiennes
Toronto, Ontario, October 28-30, 2009 / 28-30 octobre 2009
This conference represents a measured first step towards building a robust
science policy network in Canada. Such a system will be critical for producing
the next generation of policy-makers who understand S&T issues, as well
as scientists who understand how to integrate their research into a broader
societal context for the benefit of all Canadians.
http://sciencepolicy.ca/
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Cette conférence représente un premier pas vers la création
d’un réseau canadien robuste se concentrant sur les politiques
scientifiques. Ce système est nécessaire pour produire la
prochaine génération de décideurs qui saisissent les
enjeux reliés aux sciences et technologies, ainsi que des scientifiques
qui comprennent comment intégrer leur recherche dans un contexte
social élargi pour le bénéfice de tous les Canadiens.
http://sciencepolicy.ca/fr/
*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source
