Programme group: Information Supply
Chairman Mogens Sandfær
The programme area deals with the content of the digital libraries.
Firstly the information produced by the library’s own institution which local interest dictates should be handled in the most efficient way (collecting, organising, registering, preserving, mediating). This is a question of the knowledge capital of the institutions.
Secondly, the information produced somewhere else (typically abroad), but which is a necessary prerequisite for the institution’s research, learning, innovation and services to the authorities. Here it is a question of licenses and data wells and of getting as much as possible at the lowest possible cost.
It applies to both types that digitisation swiftly changes organisational conditions and models for handling and mediation of scientific information.
Thus Open Access, free information access for all readers whatever institutional affiliation, is a progres -sive concept that challenges the established fast-form-oriented setup, where publishers and libraries constitute the necessary bodies between author and reader. DEFF generally and the programme area in particular actively support this development and the libraries’ readjustment to new and exciting roles in digital information mediation.
Activities
The programme group has held six one-day meetings and supported the completion of a large number of projects which together address major parts of the area’s themes and bear witness to a very productive period for the DEFF action line:
- National licenses – to get a share of the globali-sation funding to procure digital journals for all of academic Denmark
- Data well – shared data back office to import and process digital literature so that it can easily form part of and be mediated via the libraries’ portals
- Open Access roadmap – description of the situation, nationally and globally, important trends and possible initiatives for DEFF
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Open Access self-archiving – a network of the area’s active operators and experts at universities as well as ’new’ institutions – a support for the programme area’s anchorage in the library landscape
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Digital preservation – development of preservation services to the institutions’ research databases and other repositories
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Full-text data from Danish non-fiction books – digitisation for the use of integrated search with clarification of technical as well as copyright aspects
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Conference systems – joint test of systems, knowledge sharing about organisation of a new such service in connection with libraries and the establishment of a national erfa-network for the active operators
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Metadata format for projects – new format for The Danish Research Database’s portfolio so that standardized project information can be collected from now on
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eScience roadmap – description of the situation, nationally and globally, important trends and possible initiatives for DEFF
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Knowledge Exchange activities – DEFF’s international cooperation umbrella is primarily active in this programme area which is why many members of programme group and OA-networks are involved in international committees and projects
Perspectives
After DEFF’s reconstitution in the spring of 2009 the programme area is expected to continue to maintain the same broad, central position and same high level of funding and activity during the coming period.
The programme area has managed to secure an agreement so that the programme group Full Architecture and Middleware will be in charge of a tisation for the use of integrated search with clarifi - number of technical initiatives within the field of Information supply enabling that programme group to focus to a greater extent on Open Access, research publishing, research data and teaching resources. Naturally without forgetting to follow up on the area’s most significant breakthroughs within the areas of licenses and data wells.
Read more at https://infoshare.dtv.dk/twiki/bin/ view/informationsforsyning/WebHome
Publication may be found at the address http://www.bibliotekogmedier.dk/fileadmin/publikationer/publikationer_engelske/deff/annualreport_2008/index.htm