Workshops | LIBER 2017

"1. Bridging the gap between policy and practice: How do we make open the default? Α joint workshop by SPARC Europe and LIBER Open Access Working Group

Numerous international, national and local initiatives are contributing to making Open Access/Open Data the default; but we’re still not there yet. This workshop aims at collecting good practices, examples and current issues that relate to our  reaching this goal in order to give the delegates an idea of how Open Access/Open Data can be implemented in their country, consortia or institution. 

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2. Research data support meets disciplines: Opportunities & challenges

Research data services address various needs of researchers across the research data lifecycle. In this workshop we will further investigate how libraries can step into direct support and collaborative roles with researchers and research groups. Immediately disciplinary differences will play an important role and specific needs have to be made explicit and addressed. The workshop will offer insights into a range of use cases and lessons learned from working with researchers from the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences (aka alpha, beta and gamma sciences).

In addition, legal issues increasingly are an important challenge for research libraries which offer research data services. In particular, as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation comes into force in 2018 the processing and movement of personal data is affected, and other legal aspects of research data will need to be addressed.

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3. The Digital Humanities Landscape in Europe (LIBER Digital Humanities WG)

The LIBER working group Digital Humanities (DH) would like to take the opportunity to organise a workshop for members and interested parties during the LIBER conference in Patras. During this workshop we wish to bring together libraries working or interested in Digital Humanities. A panel of experienced European research librarians will introduce the activities they undertake in their library in a lightning talk manner, while a moderator (still to be confirmed) from the research community questions them on the issues and solutions they encounter while working in DH. Topics such as personnel skills, organisational structure, policy, (international) collaboration with researchers and libraries and providing access to digital collections will all be touched upon during this discussion.

After the plenary panel session, the participants will be divided into six groups, each led by a panel member. Each group will discuss one of the aforementioned topics from their own experience, after which the panel members will report back about these discussion in a plenary setup, led by the moderator. All input from these discussions will be taken on by LIBER WG Digital Humanities chairs Andreas Degkwitz and Lotte Wilms, who will present the next steps for the WG. Concluding, the moderator will wrap up the workshop with the most important observations from a researcher’s perspective."