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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES

Early European Booksin the research datalandscape

Dr Paul Ayris

Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright OfficerChief Executive, UCL PressAdviser to LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) on EUmatters and Horizon 2020Chair of the LERU community of Chief Information Officerse-mail: [email protected]


Contents

1. Early European Books– its role for theinstitution

2. Research Data andScience 2.0

3. The impact of EarlyEuropean Books in aScience 2.0 landscape

4. Conclusions

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Research resources

All works printed in Europebefore 1701, regardless oflanguage, fall within thescope of the project,together with all pre-1701works in Europeanlanguages printed furtherafield

Detailed descriptivebibliographic metadataaccompanies each set offacsimile document imagesto support browsing andsearching 4


Value

For libraries Early printed collections

available to all staff andstudents

Supports UCL’s research-based learning agenda

Part of UCL 2034Strategy

For users 24x7 access to a wealth of

content

New types of researchpossible that would beimpossible if using analoguematerials 5


The value of digital primary sources: TudorState Papers - Thomas Cranmer to Henry VIII

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5 versions listed inCalendar of Letters &Papers… Henry VIII


Printed version of the letters in the ParkerSociety edition of Cranmer’s Works

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‘It is sodifficult toconjecturewhy they [the2 originalletters] werebothwritten…’

Editor of theParkerSocietyedition ofCranmer’sWorks


8Version 1 Version 2


Which is the final version?

Use of digital images allows detailed comparisons

Archbishop Cranmer is asking for a licence to try theKing’s ‘grevus matter’ – the nullification of his marriage toCatherine of Aragon

Version 1 is the final version of the letter

Version 2 is a first attempt which the King rejected

So Cranmer had to start again…

The handwriting of both is Cranmer’s

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Seehttp://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/whitepapers/gdc/StatePapersOnlineWhitepaper.pdf


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Science 2.0 consultation

‘Science 2.0’ describes the on-going evolution in themodus operandi of doing research and organising science.These changes in the dynamics of science and researchare enabled by digital technologies and driven by theglobalisation of the scientific community, as well as theneed to address the Grand Challenges of our times. Theyhave an impact on the entire research cycle, from theinception of research to its publication, as well as on theway in which this cycle is organised.

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Science 2.0 consultation

The three main objectives of the consultation were: to assess the degree of awareness amongst the stakeholders of

the changing modus operandi

to assess the perception of the opportunities and challenges

to identify possible policy implications and actions to strengthen thecompetitiveness of the European science and research system byenabling it to take full advantage of the opportunities offered byScience 2.0

Results of the Consultation will be announced in thecoming weeks

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What do research universities think ofScience 2.0? Universities are generally

favourable to Science 2.0approaches

The concept of making researchdata ‘open’ is new to some, butpractised by others

Universities worry about thecosts of research datamanagement

Some Arts and Humanitiesresearchers wonder how thediscussion relates to them 13

UCL Special Collections, 15th centuryBook of Hours, with 19th centuryadditions. MS. Lat. 25


LERU Roadmap for Research Data

Overseen by Research DataWorking Group

Pablo Achard (University of Geneva)Paul Ayris (UCL, University College London)Serge Fdida (UPMC, Paris)Stefan Gradmann (University of Leuven)Wolfram Horstmann (University of Oxford)Ignasi Labastida (University of Barcelona)Liz Lyon (University of Bath)Katrien Maes (LERU)Susan Reilly (LIBER)Anja Smit (University of Utrecht)


LERU Roadmap for Research Data

1. Policy and Leadership

2. Advocacy

3. Selection and Collection,Curation, Description,Citation, Legal Issues

4. Research Data Infrastructure

5. Costs

6. Roles, Responsibilities andSkills

7. Recommendations todifferent stakeholder groups

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Key Messages

Each LERU universityneeds a Research DataManagement Strategy

Researchers should haveResearch DataManagement Plans

LERU universities need tobring stakeholders together

Benefits of ‘open data’ forsharing and re-use shouldbe advocated and explored

King’s Cross, London


Policy Development

Case Study on Policydevelopment from UCL

Drivers External funders

Need to inform researchers

Raise awareness of issuesfacing UCL researchers

Identifies roles andresponsibilities

Data to be made open inthe most open mannerappropriate

Researchers should haveData Management Plans

LERU slams lack of datapolicies – Research Europe

See www.lanecrothers.net/politicalprof/the-policy-cycle-and-our-frozen-politics/


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Early European Books and Science 2.0

Vision of Early EuropeanBooks is tremendous

The whole of Europeanprinted output between 1475and 1700

With the database as abibliography of the imprints

This is Science 2.0

‘Open’ agenda addressedMaterial from publicly-funded

libraries will be Open Accessafter 10 years

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Early European Books and Science 2.0

Vast new researchresources are available toeveryone

Research-based teachingand learning become areality

New collaborations emerge

New forms of analysis arepossible using Text andData Mining techniqueswhich are not possible in apaper world

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Justinian’s ‘Pandects’. A parchment fragmentfromthe 14th century, consisting of one double folioleaf. UCL Library Services


Text and Data Mining (TDM) – what is it?

TDM derives informationfrom machine-readmaterial

It works by copying largequantities of material,extracting the data, andrecombining it to identifypatterns

Essential aspect ofScience 2.0 or OpenScience

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LIBER TDM Factsheet athttp://www.libereurope.eu/sites/default/files/Text%20and%20Data%20Mining%20Factsheet.pdf


TDM

Less TDM activity isundertaken in Europe thanother parts of the globe,partly because of Europeancopyright frameworks

Publishers offering licencesfor TDM which are limiting

EU TDM Expert Group hasargued for an Exception forTDM in EU copyright laws

http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/pdf/TDM-report_from_the_expert_group-042014.pdf

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LIBER TDM Workshop, London 2013

Or a broader change inthe form of an opennorm or an interpretiveinstrument


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Conclusions

Research Data is part ofthe Science 2.0 agenda

EEB is a defining projectdelivering on this for Artsand Humanities

A magnificentbibliography andtreasury of content

With Open Access tocontent after 10 years

Thanks for listening

Happy to hear questions24National Library of Latvia, Riga

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