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This posting contains seven messages:
1. Press Release - Frankfurt Group on Sales Tax and electronic publications
2. Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) press release & IFLA
repositories paper
3. Announcement: Web Curator Tool released as open-source project
4. DCC and LUCAS Joint Workshop to explore pre and post-ingest activity
for digital archival collections, Liverpool, UK, 30 November - 1 December
2006
5. Call for Papers - Building an archive for the future -IASA-BAAC
conference 2007, Riga, Latvia, 15-20 September 2007
6. Seminar: Discovery and Access: Standards and the Information Chain,
London, UK, 7 December 2006
7. Dublin Core 2007 to be held in Singapore in the week of 27-31 August 2007
posted by the ECPA Secretariat, with apologies for cross-posting.
1. Press Release - Frankfurt Group on Sales Tax and electronic publications
Message forwarded from IFLA-L, the listserve of the International
Federation of Library Assocations
and Institutions.
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From: " Mark Perkins lists" <lists at markperkins.info>
Date: 10/25/06 07:10pm
Subject: FW: Press Release - Frankfurt Group on Sales Tax and electronic
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Subject: Press Release - Frankfurt Group on VAT and electronic publications
To EBLIDA-list.,
Apologies for cross-postings.,
FYI.,
25 October 2006
European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations,
partner of the Frankfurt Group
http://www.eblida.org/press_releases/pr_25October06.htm
Frankfurt Group Study Shows:
VAT is the greatest obstacle to electronic information in Europe Within
the European Union, regarding taxation, printed and electronic versions of
publications are treated differently. Whereas printed publications
throughout the EU are subject to a reduced rate of VAT, electronic
publications in most countries are charged with the highest rate.
VAT represents a barrier for the switch to electronic publications "The
higher costs for electronic publications influence the libraries'
decisions when purchasing resources," commented Hans Geleijnse, Chairman
of the Frankfurt Group. "The study shows that VAT inhibits the switch to
electronic publications in the majority of European libraries in non-VAT
exempt countries. This is contrary to the stated aims of the European
Commission and most national governments."
VAT harms European competitiveness
"The differences in national legislations not only affect the provision of
knowledge within the EU" stated Michael Mabe, Secretary of the Frankfurt
Group. "It also affects the development of science in the EU compared to
countries without VAT charges on electronic publications such as the USA,
where a zero rate favours the purchase of electronic resources, and thus
may lead to competitive advantages for US research and education."
The Frankfurt Group report "Survey on the impact of VAT on libraries and
the scientific publication markets" was carried out by Soziologisches
Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI). The report is available on the
Frankfurt Group Website
(http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/frankfurtgroup/vat/EndberichtVAT210906.pdf
).
The Frankfurt Group considers VAT issues as a key problem in the current
development of the framework of scientific publications and the economic
development in the EU. The consequences of the current VAT legislation on
electronic publications in the EU give reason to urgent need of action.
The Frankfurt Group is a Consensus Forum for Academic and Research
Information, whose members represent authors, publishers, rights
organizations, libraries, research centres, subscription agents and
intermediaries. For more information, see the Frankfurt Group's website
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/frankfurtgroup or contact:
Chairman of the Frankfurt Group
Hans Geleijnse
Vice-President of LIBER
Director of Library and IT Services
Tilburg University
Warandelaan 2
NL - 5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Phone +31 13 466 2146
Email: Hans.Geleijnse at uvt.nl
Secretary of the Frankfurt Group
Michael A. Mabe
CEO, International STM Association
2nd Floor, Prama House
268 Banbury Road
OXFORD OX2 7MT
UK
Phone: +44 7717 343083
Email: mabe at stm-assoc.org
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EBLIDA
PO Box 16359
NL-2500 BJ The Hague
Tel.: + 31 70 309 05 52
Fax: + 31 70 309 05 58
Email: morlon at debibliotheken.nl
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2. Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) press release & IFLA
repositories paper
Message forwarded from IFLA-L, the listserve of the International
Federation of Library Assocations
and Institutions.
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From: "Heather Todd" <h.todd at library.uq.edu.au>
Date: 10/27/06 01:10am
Subject: Ifla repositories paper
D ear All
have you seen the reference to the repositories paper that Kate
presented at IFLA? (see last para)
heather Apologies for Cross-Posting
Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) Press Release
For release Thursday 26th October 2006
Press queries contact bill.hubbard at opendoar.org
* Search through the OpenDOAR *
OpenDOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories - is pleased to
announce the release of a trial search service for academics and
researchers around the world. See: www.opendoar.org/search.php
OpenDOAR already provides a global Directory of freely available open
access repositories that hold research material: now it also offers a
full-text search service from this list of quality-controlled
repositories. This trial service has been made possible through the recent
launch by Google of its innovative and exciting Custom Search Engine,
which allows OpenDOAR to define a search service based on the Directory
holdings.
It is well known that a simple full-text search of the whole web will turn
up thousands upon thousands of junk results, with the valuable nuggets of
information often being lost in the sheer number of results. Users of the
OpenDOAR service can search through the world's open access repositories
of freely available research information, with the
assurance that each of these repositories has been assessed by OpenDOAR
staff as being of academic value. This quality controlled approach will
help to minimise spurious or junk results and lead more directly to useful
and relevant information. The repositories listed by OpenDOAR have been
assessed for their full-text holdings, helping to ensure that results have
come from academic repositories with open access to their contents.
This service does not use the OAI-PMH protocol to underpin the search, or
use the metadata held within repositories. Instead, it relies on Google's
indexes, which in turn rely on repositories being suitably structured and
configured for the Googlebot web crawler. Part of
OpenDOAR's work is to help repository administrators improve access to and
use of their repositories' holdings: advice about making a
repository suitable for crawling by Google is given on the site. This
service is designed as a simple and basic full-text search and is
intended to compliment and not compete with the many value-added search
services currently under development.
A key feature of OpenDOAR is that all of the repositories we list have
been visited by project staff, tested and assessed by hand. We
currently decline about a quarter of candidate sites as being broken,
empty, out of scope, etc. This gives a far higher quality assurance to the
listings we hold than results gathered by just automatic harvesting.
OpenDOAR has now surveyed over 1,100 repositories, producing a
classified Directory of over 800 freely available archives of academic
information.
We are pleased to report that OpenDOAR recently came as the leader in a
global survey of 23 repository listings carried out by John Hopkins
University for the purposes of analysing repositories and their
holdings. Survey paper at:
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/151-Oliver_Swain-en.pdf
<http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/151-Oliver_Swain-en.pdf>
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3. Announcement: Web Curator Tool released as open-source project
Message forwarded from padiforum-l.
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From: ingrid.mason at natlib.govt.nz
Date: 10/27/06 06:07am
Subject: Announcement: Web Curator Tool
Organisations in the business of building up digital collections,
including web material, to meet h eritage or research requirements, may
want to consider the potential in the web harvesting and cura tion made
possible using the Web Curator Tool, please find following an announcement
of the tool's release.
Ingrid Mason
ANNOUNCEMENT
The National Library of New Zealand and The British Library are pleased to
announce the release of the Web Curator Tool as an open-source project.
The tool, and its manuals, FAQs, mailing lists, so urce code, developer
documentation, and other information, including a presentation, are
available from http://webcurator.sf.net/.
About the Web Curator Tool
The Web Curator Tool is a tool for managing the selective web harvesting
process. It is designed fo r non-technical users in libraries and other
collecting institutions who need to capture web materi al for archival
purposes. The tool's workflow encompasses the following tasks:
* Harvest Authorisation: seeking and recording permission to harvest web
material, and to make it a ccessible to the general public.
* Selection and scoping: determining what material should be harvested, be
it a web site, a web pag e, a partial web site, a group (or collection) of
web sites, or any combination of these.
* Scheduling: determining when a harvest should occur, and when it should
be repeated.
* Description: describing harvests with basic Dublin Core metadata, and
other specialized fields ( or a by a providing a reference to an external
catalogue).
* Harvesting: the Web Curator Tool will download the selected web material
at the appointed time us ing the Internet Archive's Heritrix web crawler
-- each installation can have multiple harvesters o n different machines,
each which can perform several harvests simultaneously.
* Quality Review: tools are provided for making sure the harvest worked as
expected, and correcting
simple harvest errors.
* Endorsing and submitting: if the harvest was a success, it is endorsed
then submitted to an ext
ernal digital archive.
International Collaboration
The Web Curator Tool Project was a joint project undertaken by National
Library of New Zealand and the British Library and working with standards
emerging from under the auspices of the Internationa l Internet
Preservation Consortium (IIPC). The software was built by Sytec Resources
Ltd. in New Z ealand.
Each partner provided around half the funding and contributed personnel to
the project team and the
test teams. Other IIPC member organisations provided invaluable
assistance along the way, particul
arly the National Library of Australia (procurement and design) and the
Library of Congress (requir ements and specifications).
The main goal of the project was to design and build a Web Curator Tool
that meets the needs of the
two partners, and that is modular and can be extended to meet the needs
of IIPC members and other
collecting organisations. This ambition was realised with the open-source
release of the tool on 22
September 2006.
Going forward, we hope a wider community of IIPC members, national
libraries, and other collecting organisations will use and benefit from
the Web Curator Tool, and that they will make their own co ntributions to
its future development and direction.
Technical details
The Web Curator Tool is designed to run in an enterprise setting, and
would normally be installed b y a system administrator (it is not a
desktop application). Users access the software through a st andard web
browser.
It requires Java (version 1.5), Apache Tomcat (version 5.5), a relational
database, an external arc hive and/or access tool (such as WERA or
Wayback), and (optionally) an LDAP directory for user auth entication.
The software is tested on Solaris (version 9) and Red Hat Linux. It has
been installed and run on W indows and on Debian Linux, and should work on
any platform that supports Apache Tomcat. The Oracle
and PostgreSQL databases are officially supported (by testing and
installation scripts), MySQL has been used, and any database that
Hibernate supports (including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and ab
out 20 others) should be compatible.
The Web Curator Tool is Free Software, distributed under the terms of the
Apache Public License (ve rsion 2.0). It incorporates parts or all of
several other Free Software packages, including Acegi S ecurity System,
Apache Axis, Apache Commons Logging, Heritrix (version 1.8), Hibernate
(database co nnectivity), Quartz (scheduling), Spring Application
Framework, and Wayback (version 0.6).
Recent builds, the current source code, and developer documentation are
available from http://webcu rator.sf.net/.
More information
For more information, including a full description, Quick Start and System
Administrator Guides, an d updates on the project, please visit the Web
Curator Tool website, join the mailing lists (availa ble from the
website), or email the project team, who will be pleased to take your
comments and res pond to your queries.
Website: http://webcurator.sf.net/
National Library of New Zealand team: wct at natlib.govt.nz
British Library team: wct at bl.uk
Ingrid Mason
Resource Analyst: Innovation Centre
Epublications Librarian: Alexander Turnbull Library
National Library of New Zealand
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4. DCC and LUCAS Joint Workshop to explore pre and post-ingest activity
for digital archival collec tions, Liverpool, UK, 30 November - 1 December
2006
Message forwarded from padiforum-l.
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From: British.Editor at erpanet.org
Date: 10/24/06 05:44pm
Subject: DCC and LUCAS Joint Workshop
***Apologies for cross-posting***
DCC and LUCAS Joint Workshop
November 30th-December 1st, 2006
The Foresight Centre,
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/archives-2006
The Digital Curation Centre and Liverpool University Centre for Archive
Studies (LUCAS) are pleased
to announce that they will be delivering a two-day workshop to explore
pre and post-ingest activit
y for digital archival collections. This event will be held in the Gallery
at the Foresight Centre,
Liverpool on November 30th and December 1st, 2006.
This workshop will investigate pre and post-ingest activity through a
mixture of case studies and p resentations.
Benefits of Attendance:
This workshop will be of benefit to individuals and institutions that are
interested in collecting and managing digital archival collections. This
event will specifically explore key issues associat ed with developing a
pre-ingest strategy, ingest processes, and preservation activity.
Dates:
This workshop will be held on the afternoon of Thursday November 30th and
all day Friday December 1 st, 2006.
Format
This two-day event will be split over two sessions. The first will explore
pre-ingest activity and will include presentations on developing a
pre-ingest strategy, improving contact with content crea tors and
depositors, and understanding the benefits of compliance with standards.
The second sessio n will include presentations and case studies that
illustrate ingest processes for a range of recor d types, format
identification, and preservation activity.
Venue
This event will be held in the Gallery at the Foresight Centre, Liverpool.
For more information abo ut the venue, please see
http://www.foresightcentre.co.uk/.
Travel Instructions
Please see http://www.foresightcentre.co.uk/location.html for information
travelling to the Foresig ht Centre.
Accommodation
Please see http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/archives-2006
for a list of hotels in the area.
Registration
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/archives-2006
Registration fees are Ł100 for DCC Associates Network and Ł150 for
non-members. Membership of the D CC Associates Network is free and more
information on becoming a member can be found at http://www.
dcc.ac.uk/network.html.Registration
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Joy Davidson
DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) George
Service House, 11 Universit y Gardens, University of Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.erpanet.org
*****Register now for the 2nd International Digital Curation Conference
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2006/ *****
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DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 3549
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
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5. Call for Papers - Building an archive for the future -IASA-BAAC
conference 2007, Riga, Latvia, 1 5-20 September 2007
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From: jacqueline.vonarb at UIS.NO
Date: 10/30/06 10:19pm
Subject: Call for Papers - Building an archive for the future -IASA-BAAC
conference 2007
The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and
the Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council (BAAC) announce the
First Call for Papers
IASA-BAAC Conference in Riga, Latvia
15-20 September 2007
The theme of the IASA-BAAC 2007 conference is:
" Building an Archive for the Future "
The conference will address themes associated with the tasks audiovisual
archives are facing in a world undergoing rapid changes. It is essential
that archives develop new ways to meet future demands. Analogue and
digital collections will coexist for a while yet, depending on the
resources made available for the preservation of analogue material, the
digitization process and the management of digital content. Digitization
is now recognized as the way to go to save our audiovisual heritage, but
the issues of future migration and the sustainability of digital archives
still need to be addressed.
Digitization gives archives possibilities of delivering content via new
digital platforms thus distributing the content not only to the
traditional users, but to whole new groups of audiences. At the same
time, ideal open access depends on the successful development of
copyright legislation. Only then will large scale dissemination of
content be possible. Gradually, archives will become an even more
integrated part of society.
IASA and BAAC invite proposals for papers of not more than twenty minutes
duration that a d dress one or more of the following sub-themes:
* Role of the archives in the future
* Sustainability of archives
* Is there a need for contextualisation of AV archives?
* How to create better access to the archives
* Are the archiving principles changing?
* Legal issues (legal deposit, copyright, freedom of speech etc.) * How
to train and educate the future archivists
* How to build an archive: technical issues and options
* Content migration
* Preservation of metadata ĺŘĺ
* Small scale archives
* Towards integrated archives
* Selection policies - a necessity?
* Archiving of webpages
Proposals must be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 150 words.
The deadline for this first call for papers is 15 December 2006 .
Contributors will be notified during March 2006 of the Programme
Committee's decision.
Please send your abstract together with your name, organisation, contact
address, telephone and e-mail address to:
Per Holst
IASA Vice-President
Chair, Programme Committee
E-mail: per at dr.dk
c/o
DR (Danish Broadcasting Corp.)
Archive and Research Centre
Radio Archives
DR Byen
Emil Holms Kanal 20
DK-0999 Copenhagen C
Denmark
Phone: +45 3520 554
IASA: http://www.iasa-web.org
BAAC: http://www.baacouncil.org/index.php?m=2
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6.Seminar: Discovery and Access: Standards and the Information Chain,
London, UK, 7 December 2006
Message forwarded from DIGLIB-L, discussion list for digital libraries
researchers and librarians.
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From: Terry Kuny <terry.kuny at xist.com>
Date: 10/30/06 05:42pm
Subject: [CFP] Discovery and Access: Standards and the Information Chain
(2006.12.07: London)
From: c.baldwin at DSL.PIPEX.COM
Discovery and Access: Standards and the Information Chain
London, Thursday, 7 December 2006
JISC is holding a seminar on standards and the information chain, co-
sponsored by ALPSP, the Publishers Association, and CrossRef.
Academic users want to discover and get access to relevant
publications quickly and easily. Publishers, intermediaries,
libraries, and their solutions vendors all develop services to make this
happen. This seminar is about how they can use standards more
effectively to share data about publications and enable these services.
Using standards is more than a technical issue. The seminar will cover
what key standards are important, why they are important, and what they
enable at the user end of the information chain. It will also cover new
developments and innovative applications. It will conclude with a panel
discussion on the future and what needs to happen from different
stakeholder perspectives. The aim is to
explore how publishers, intermediaries, libraries, and their
solutions vendors can use standards more effectively and agree any
action needed to move things forward.
JISC has done much work to specify the standards for information
environments at the user end. JISC has also worked with publishers on
standards through the PALS Metadata and Interoperability Group and by
funding projects to explore the innovative use of key standards. This
seminar is an opportunity for all participants in the
information chain to reflect on where we are, share views, and agree how
to move things forward in a collaborative way.
There is a web page with more information about the seminar at http://
www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/pals-2006. This includes the programme and an
online booking form. Publishers, intermediaries, librarians, and
solutions vendors are all invited, and there is no charge to attend the
seminar.
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Christine Baldwin
Programme Manager, JISC PALS 2 Programme
Information Design & Management
Broom, Hinksey Hill, Oxford OX1 5BH
Tel: +44-1865-736850
email: c.baldwin at dial.pipex.com
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Terry Kuny www.xist.com
XIST Inc. phone: 613.234-9621 fax: 613.23.-9564
Ottawa, Ontario Terry.Kuny at xist.com 1.888.ASK.XIST
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7. Dublin Core 2007 to be held in Singapore in the week of 27-31 August
2007 2006-10-30, The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that DC-2007
will be held in Singapore in t he week of 27-31 August 2007, hosted by the
National Library Board <http://www.nlb.gov.sg/> in coop eration with the
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information of Nanyang
Technological Unive rsity <http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/>. An initial
conference Web site <http://conferences.nlb.gov.sg/d c2007/> has been
installed with a number of relevant links. Publication of the Call for
Papers is expected in December 2006.
Source: http://dublincore.org/
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P.O. Box 19121, NL-1000 GC Amsterdam,
visiting address: c/o KNAW, Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29,
NL-1011 JV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
tel. ++31 - 20 - 551 08 39 fax ++31 - 20 - 620 49 41
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