Scholarly Communication in Asia & Africa
Open Access might be a growing part of Scholarly Communication, but it is accompanied by challenges old and new, no matter where you are in the world Read More
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- 04 September 2018
- By: anonymous
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Planning Digital Preservation: in for the Long Run
With the Internet having facilitated an explosion of digital content, libraries have worked hard to adapt their practices to deal with virtual documents. IFLA is already involved in the UNESCO Persist programme, but there is still much to lean about how to do it. Identifying what is… Read More
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- 28 August 2018
Session 160 Planning digital preservation: in for the long run – Preservation and Conservation with Information Technology
13.45 – 15.45 Presentations: PERSIST – The shared challenge of long-term preservation by Ingrid Parent, University of British Columbia, Canada Preparing to Preserve: Three Essential Steps to Building Experience with Long-Term Digital Preservation by Cory Lampert, University of Nevada, United States and Jason Vaughan, University of Nevada, United States Cost… Read More
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- 15 August 2018
European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 – Briefing for Libraries
2018 has been declared the European Year of Cultural Heritage. While libraries are active in preserving our heritage every day of every year, this is a valuable opportunity to raise awareness of the unique contribution our institutions are making. This brief offers some ideas of how to get involved. Read More
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- 08 February 2018
- By: anonymous
Accessible, Open, Empowering, Lasting: IFLA Engages on Internet Governance
IFLA will be attending this year’s annual Internet Governance Forum – the 12th edition – in Geneva, Switzerland. This is an important opportunity both to make the case for an Internet that works for libraries, but also to show how libraries can build a better Internet. Read More
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- 17 December 2017
- By: anonymous
Call for papers WLIC 2018 – Audiovisual and Multimedia Section joint session with Information Technology Section
Theme "Video Games: Winning strategies for libraries" Read More
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- 01 December 2017
- By: Mikael Johansson
Making Digital Durable: IFLA Celebrates First International Digital Preservation Day
Digital technologies have massively reduced the costs of producing and sharing information, and have allowed for an explosion of creativity. But to ensure we have a record of this for future generations, we need to act today. IFLA is therefore celebrating the first International Digital Preservation Day as an opportunity to mark the work already done, and highlight the challenges before us. Read More
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- 30 November 2017
- By: anonymous
Libraries in the sky: large-scale collaboration strategies and infrastructures to enhance the use of digital heritage collections
Libraries in the sky: large-scale collaboration strategies and infrastructures to enhance the use of digital heritage collections IFLA RBSCS mid-term conference, National Library of Norway (Oslo) April 12th 2018 In many countries, libraries have worked together to enhance the visibility of their national heritage through a national… Read More
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- 27 November 2017
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- 06 October 2017
In Copyright, Everyone’s Rights Must be Protected: IFLA calls for Reconsideration of W3C Decision on Extended Media Extensions
Following the decision of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to incorporate Extended Media Extensions in to the HTML Standard, IFLA has called for reconsideration. While recognising both the potential for technological protection measures to hinder infringing uses, as well as the additional simplicity offered by this solution, IFLA is concerned that it will become easier to apply such measures to digital content without also making it easier for libraries and their users to remove measures that prevent legitimate uses of works. Read More
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- 17 July 2017
- By: anonymous