If Linked Open Data and semantic interoperability are current topics of interest for your library, come discuss and learn more about these topics via LIBER’s new Linked Open Data Working Group. The group, chaired by Matias Frosterus of the National Library of Finland, aims to produce a set of guidelines, best practices, and tools for…
How does Europe’s new GDPR legislation relate to research data management? A recent LIBER webinar, run by our Research Data Management Working Group, looked at this question with input from speakers Maria Rehbinder (Senior Legal Counsel at Aalto University and Certified Information Privacy Professional) and Marlon Domingus (Data Protection Officer at Erasmus University Rotterdam). The webinar…
One of the primary goals of LIBER’s Open Access Working Group is to help libraries to share their experiences with Open Access. By exchanging information, we can better understand what works, what the challenges are, and find ways of speeding up the transition from subscription-based systems to Open Access (OA). This shift is an international…
What role can the library community play in supporting the adoption of FAIR data practices? In April 2018, LIBER’s Research Data Management group hosted a webinar Turning FAIR Data Into Reality — Progress and Plans from the European Commission FAIR Data Expert Group. Simon Hodson, Executive Director of CODATA and Chair of the European Commission’s…
LIBER’s President, Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, has joined the advisory board of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). DORA was created as a way of addressing the need to improve ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated by funding agencies, academic institutions, and other parties. Its advisory board oversees the strategy of DORA and its…
On Tuesday 10 April 2018, about 20 members of LIBER’s Digital Humanities and Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group convened in the KB, National Library of the Netherlands. The working group, set up in the summer of 2017, wants to create a knowledge sharing network within LIBER libraries and this first meeting was organised to contribute…
From the 18th to the 20th of April, 30 researchers and research support professionals from across Europe will come together in Barcelona. Here they will participate in the FOSTER open science trainer bootcamp. This intense three-day training event, will equip them with the skills to give training on open science to researchers in their own institutions.…
If Europe wants to maximise the benefits of Artificial Intelligence, it needs to also adopt a robust Text and Data Mining Exception. That is the message to the European Commission from 23 organisations, including LIBER. The letter, which can be downloaded here, acknowledges the potential of AI, machine learning and data analytics to contribute to…
Today 28 organisations, including LIBER, have signed a letter calling for an improved Text and Data Mining Exception which will support research and innovation in Europe. The letter, which can be downloaded here, was sent to the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI). The signatories include universities, technology companies, startups and scaleups, libraries, scientific and…
