Frédéric Blin_ICDL2013_Digital Libraries & Identity

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Cultural Heritage, Scientific Knowledge, Public

Information: Digital Libraries & Identity

Frédéric BLINHead of Preservation and Heritage Collections

National and University Library Strasbourg, France

F. Blin, ICDL2013, Delhi, November 29th, 2013. Digital Libraries and Identity

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The National and University Library of Strasbourg:

an institution with an identity24/08/1870: Burning of the 2 historical libraries in Strasbourg1871: Creation of the new German Imperial, Regional and University Library1895: Opening of the new library building1926: French National & University LibraryToday: Over 3M documents, 2nd library in France


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Google Books: the Earthquake


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Gallica: The French Identity on the Web

Gallica:DL of the BnF, the French National LibraryOpened 1997More than 2M itemsFrom more than 40 French librariesgallica.bnf.fr


http://www.gallica.bnf.fr/

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Europeana: European Culture Online

Europeana:Lauched Nov.21, 2008More than 30M items from european libraries, museums, archivesDigitization & Research Projectswww.europeana.eu


http://www.europeana.eu/

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Europeana 1914-1918: The European Memory of WW1


http://europeana1914-1918.eu/http://vimeo.com/46478457#t=0

http://vimeo.com/46478457#t=0





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UNESCO World Digital Library

Launched April 2009Cultural treasures of the world: Memory of the World ProgrammeQuality >> Quantityhttp://www.wdl.org/fr/


http://www.wdl.org/fr/

http://www.wdl.org/fr/

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Digital Libraries: keeping touch with one’s own culture


Culturethèque: Portal to French Culture, Science & InformationLaunched for India on 24/11/2013Digital

Tourism

http://www.culturetheque.com

http://www.culturetheque.com/

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Oriental Collections in the BNU


BNU, Ms.4437: Manuscript on Palm LeavesVadicandra, Pandavapurana

BNU, Ms.4385: Ultarâdhyayanasûtra (1473)

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Oriental Collections in the BNU

BNU, Ms.4384: Commentary on the Viçesâvçyakabhâsya by Jinabhadra Hemacandra (1760)


BNU, Ms.4247: Arabic Translation of Ptolemee’s

Geography, by Al-Khwarizmi (1036): Representation of the

Indian Ocean

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NUMISTRAL.fr: the Identity of the BNU Online

Opened 04/10/2013, with 40.000 items+200,000 pages / yearLinks to Gallica.fr & Europeana.euwww.numistral.fr


http://www.numistral.fr/

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Science or the Acknowledge Economy


Publish only scientifically edited documents or give access to new unexplored

sources?

BNUS.374, http://cdli.ucla.edu/collections/strasbourg/bnus_fr.html

http://cdli.ucla.edu/collections/strasbourg/bnus_fr.html



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French Scientific Digital Libraries

PERSEE: The national portal for scientific journals in Humanities and Social SciencesOpened 2005, today: 143 journals, 175,000 articles free available online, 2M consultations / month www.persee.fr


Copie d’écran de Persee

http://www.persee.fr/

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Numdam: The national portal for scientific journals in Mathematics35 journalsOpened 2006www.numdam.org


Copie d’écran de Numdam

http://www.numdam.org/

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HAL: The National Scientific ArchiveOpened 2005, today: 262,500+ articles, http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/


http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/



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ISIDORE: The National Portal for Scientific Data In Humanities and Social SciencesOpened 2011, today: Over 3M Ressources, from over 2300 contributorsCollections + scientific Datahttp://www.rechercheisidore.fr/


http://www.rechercheisidore.fr/

http://www.rechercheisidore.fr/

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BSN, the National Digital Scientific Library InitiativeSince 2008National framework for the Scientific Information StrategyBSN5 – Digitization of scientific resources & research materialswww.bibliothequescientifiquenumerique.fr


Copie d’écran de BSN

http://www.bibliothequescientifiquenumerique.fr/

http://www.bibliothequescientifiquenumerique.fr/

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European Scientific Digital Libraries

DARIAH: The European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts & HumanitiesFramework for collaboration on research data in Europe www.dariah.eu


Copie d’écran de Dariah

http://www.dariah.eu/

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MOOCS & Digital Libraries

In France:

2005: Thematical Digital UniversitiesOct. 2013: FUN, France Université Numérique. Already more than 35,000 « students »http://www.france-universite-numerique.fr/ Þ Where are the libraries?


Copie d’écran de FUN

http://www.france-universite-numerique.fr/



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Scientific Information: Public Information, Public Good?


Geneviève Fioraso, French Ministry for Higher Education & Research, 24/01/2013: « Scientific Information is a public good, which should be accessible to all »

• Open Access• Open Data• Open Government

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Digital Libraries: a Democratic Issue


Creative Commons, Information Commons, Public Domain Mark…In France:• French controversy around public-private

partership between the National Library and ProQuest

• Public workshop in the National Assembly on oct.31st, 2013

• SavoirsCom1: a Civic Movement in favor of public domain and commons (http://www.savoirscom1.info/)

• Soon: a law on the public domain stating that public domain is the rule, private intellectual property an exception? DRM = TPM (Technical Protection Measures)

http://www.savoirscom1.info/

http://www.savoirscom1.info/

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Digital Libraries: the Professional Identity


IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions• Digital Libraries Manifesto (2007,

endorsed by Unesco 2011)• Unesco Vancouver Declaration on

Digital Preservation (2012)• E-Lending Principles (2013)• Google Books Statement (2013)• The IFLA Trend Report (2013)• www.ifla.org

http://www.ifla.org/

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Digital Libraries: Tools for Dialogue Between Proud Identities


IFLA: the Global Voice of Libraries and their UsersIFLA World Library and Information Congress, Lyon (France), 17-22 August 2014

Join and meet over 3500 colleagues from over the worldMake Indian libraries known to the world

We expect to see you in Lyon:

Bienvenue à tous à Lyon! Welcome to all in Lyon!

http://conference.ifla.org/ifla80/



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