Libraries in the sky

LARGE-SCALE COLLABORATION STRATEGIES AND INFRASTRUCTURES TO ENHANCE THE USE OF DIGITAL HERITAGE COLLECTIONS

In many countries, libraries have worked together to enhance the visibility of their national heritage through a national digital library. In Europe, Europeana is the continental digital library, and humanity as a whole has a World Digital Library to discover its most precious treasures.

Now the time has come to reinforce and expand these collaborative initiatives over the cloud, to foster new research opportunities and include born digital documents as well.
New kinds of collaborations, large-scale or international, are now needed. Tools like IIIF are becoming standards which must be mastered by librarians, and Research Infrastructures are being created which demand the expertise of librarians on their collections and on information management. Born-digital documents represent new challenges that probably need to be addressed collaboratively, and solutions are still to be found.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
09:00: Coffee, welcome and opening:
· Hege Stensrud Høsøien, National Library of Norway
· Helen Vincent, Chair of IFLA RBSC section

09:30–10:30 Digital Discovery of Cultural Heritage Treasures
· V. Zupan: Legacy Treasure of the “Svetozar Markovic” university library in Belgrade: Experience from a Digital Environment
· P. Granholm: Manuscripta – a Digital Catalogue of Manuscripts in Sweden

10:30–10:45 Coffee break

10:45–12:00 Large-scale collection development, discovery and access
· E. MacGlone: Development of a UK sports collection for the UK Legal Deposit Web Archive
· J. Simmons: Global Discovery of Special Collections and Archives via the SNAC
· A. Baillot, F. Vignale: Exploring the cultural heritage of reading: the READ-IT project

12:00–13:00 Lunch

13:00–14:30 Improving access through technology: user experience and IIIF
· A. Angeletaki: Archives and libraries brought into the 21st century through the use of technology. Lessons learned and challenges to reflect upon.
· M. Mcgrattan: Digirati: cloud-based infrastructure and services for digital content delivery and content enrichment, centred around the use of IIIF and other open APIs
· S. Brumfield and J. Howard: Round Trip to Paradise: using IIIF library systems and crowd sourcing platforms.

14:30-14:45 Coffee break

14:45–15:15 Sharing and using collections digitally
· R. Mouren: The ReACH Project: Promoting universally the Reproduction, storage and sharing of works of Art and Cultural Heritage through digital technologies
· R. Di Cresce and A. Bolintineanu: Using IIIF to Teach Rare Books, Special Collections and Digital Humanities

15:15–16:15 Open session for comments and conclusion, chaired by Helen Vincent

You can register for the conference by sending an e-mail to: nina.korbu@nb.no