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1st CERN-UNESCO/IBSP School on Digital Libraries (part II) - Geneva, Switzerland

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The CERN-UNESCO School on Digital Libraries Part II was held at CERN from 12th November to 18th December 2009. It was a joint initiative of CERN and UNESCO, organized by the CERN Scientific Information Service. The School held at CERN was a continuation for the first part of the School, held in Kigali in September 2009. The participants came from academic institutions of Rwanda and Mozambique. The aim of the second part of the School was to make use of and deepen the knowledge gained during the Kigali part of the School. This was done by extensive follow-up consultations and follow-up training. The idea of the intensive training was not only to train the participants in using tools and enhancing their knowledge in order to facilitate their work back at their home institutes. Another point of view was to coach them such that the participants would be able to share their knowledge and tutor their colleagues both in their home institutions and in other academic institutions of their country.
  • Tuesday 24 November
    • 08:00 → 12:00
      Presentations of the Rwandan Institutions

      NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA - NUR by M. Bizimana
      The NUR was established in 1963. There are eight faculties and 10,000 students there. Besides the Main Library, there are six faculty libraries and five other library units. The mission of the NUR libraries is to provide excellent services for the promotion of teaching and research at NUR. The Libraries are supported by the national government and international organizations but they face several challenges especially in terms of finding qualified staff, telecommunication infrastructure and effective use of resources.

      KIGALI INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - KIST by A. Ngabonzima
      KIST was established in 1997 by the support of UNDP. KIST hosts 2,700 students within three faculties. The mission of KIST is multifaceted, including education, research and disseminating scientific results as well as cooperating with public and private sector actors. The mission covers not only academic aims but also supporting the personal development of students and that of the nation. The mission of the library is to avail benchmarked schorarly documentation for learning , teaching and research and to upgrade users skills on search and retrieval of information (information literacy).

      NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR FIGHT AGAINST GENOCIDE by C. Kanubana
      The Commission is national, independent and permanent institution, established by law in 2007. It has a legal status as well as administrative and financial autonomy. The Commission has several tasks and missions, including to collect and archive any research and documents related to the 1994 genocide, as well as to disseminate information about genocides and proactively fighting against genocides to happen anymore. The Library of the Commission is responsible for the document management and archives. It currently has a collection of about 7,000 books. The Library has been supported by national and international actors. Currently, most of the material is in paper format but the Library aims at both developing its collection and digitizing it.

      Conveners: Alphonse Ngabonzima (Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)), Charles Mbaraga Kanubana (National Comission for the fight against Genocide), Mr MUHEBERA BIZIMANA (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA)
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  • Wednesday 25 November
    • 09:30 → 11:00
      Author Disambiguation & Impact Assessment

      Author disambiguation is important though often challenging as there might be several, sometimes even thousands of people with the same name. The author name can also be written in different ways. Indicating and recognizing the affiliations, e-mail addresses and suchlike distinctions the authors can often but not always be identified reliably. Besides mining and other computer assistance, human intelligence and action is sometimes needed, either asking help from authors or social networks. Reliable author disambiguation enables more developed and detailed information about the authors and their ranking.

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  • Thursday 26 November
    • 09:00 → 17:00
      Introduction to BibEdit 8h
      BibEdit is an Invenio module used by the librarians when editing the bibliographical data describing a collection. It allows editing existing records and adding new records. The bibliographical data stored in Invenio is organised according to the MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging) specification. Documents can be added to Invenio by manual input or harvesting.
      Speaker: Mr Piotr Praczyk (CERN)
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  • Friday 27 November
    • 09:00 → 10:30
      Google Calender

      Google Calender in effective use. How to take the most out of using the Google Calender within the library and among the colleagues.

    • 14:00 → 16:00
      Ebook Library service

      Ebooks are very convenient as a resource as they don't require physical space and they are easily accessible and transferable. The EBL is an innovative ebook library service which integrates seamlessly with collection management and catalog systems. It provides a cross-platform, multiple-devices, online-or-offline ebook system for academic and research libraries. It has hundreds of library customers around the globe, including some of the world's most prestigious academic and research institutions. The e-books the service provides can be downloaded and read offline on a laptop or ebook reading device.

  • Monday 30 November
    • 09:00 → 12:00
      Metadata management and digitization of documents

      The presentation shows how to compile CDS Invenio โ€“ BibEdit โ€“Adobe Acrobat Professionnal) metadata management and digitization of documents with Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Subjects to be covered include the identifying documents, digitizing and submitting them as a part of a digital collection.

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  • Tuesday 1 December
    • 09:00 → 11:00
      Introduction to Digital Libraries

      Libraries have profited a lot from the technological development. Digital information technology has facilitated communication, data handling and management in the libraries and eased the co-operation between libraries. The need for physical space has drastically been reduced as an electronic collection is stored on servers. The CERN Library started in 1960 as a physical space. The space and books are still there, but the library has evolved to be today a modern digital library and taking advantage of new technologies. Traditional and digital library are not competing but the previous can be seen as a natural stage of evolution of the latter. However, as the library evolves, the challenges change. Turning to digital requires both infrastructure and willingness to adapt new possibilities.

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  • Wednesday 2 December
    • 08:45 → 13:00
      Lecture: Exploring the Universe and a visit to ALEPH Experiment

      Particles smaller than atom are called elementary particles. We already know a lot about them and the forces affecting on them. The matter particles and the forces and the fundamental interactions as explained in the Standard Model can be seen as the cosmic DNA. Newton stated the weight is proportional to mass whereas Einstein said the energy is related to mass. Neither of them explained where do the mass come from. The primary targets of the Large Hadron Collider are the origin of mass, the nature of Dark Matter, primordial Plasma and the relation between matter vs antimatter. The LHC with its experiments is one of the most complex device ever built. Basic research made by the LHC and its experiments leads to technical innovations that help in everyday life. CERN has also an important role of educating and training scientist internationally and co-operation with many African countries is currently expanding.

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  • Thursday 3 December
    • 09:00 → 11:00
      Content analysis and CERN

      Words can have different meanings and homonyms which makes it hard to build up a computer program that can reliably fully "understand" the meaning and purpose of the text. The information words give is often meaningless as the words together make ideas understandable and sentences sensible. A text is consisted of sentences making sense. If the words are interpreted incorrectly by an automated process the sentences lack meaning and the text can't be understood as it's supposed to. Compiling a semantic dictionary of high energy physics and creating a program that can recognize semantic meanings will help for example in better identification of scientific papers, recognizing their interconnections and ranking them.

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    • 14:00 → 16:00
      Visit to CCC and more

      CERN Control Center is the heart of the Large Hadron Collider. This is the place where the accelerators are controlled and the overall system running monitored.

  • Friday 4 December
    • 09:00 → 11:00
      How to manage a scientific journal collection in the hybrid era

      Integration of the resources, negotiating with publishers directly and via consortia, getting the maximum advantage of the subscription budget.

    • 11:00 → 17:00
      Visit to the United Nations and the UN Library
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  • Monday 7 December
    • 10:00 → 11:00
      Use of Emerging technologies at the CERN Library

      At the CERN Library we take a look at emerging technologies and how to use them for the library. CERN has its first librarian for emerging technologies since 2009. One of the first things we did was creating a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/CERNLibrary). The main goal for this page was a better communication with the summer students but we learned that it takes a little bit more time to become part of the community.

      An second example is the evaluation of the Library Thing for libraries service. This service allows via a webservice the integration of tags, similar books and other editions in the catalog on the base of the books that are cataloged by user s in LibraryThing. The coverage was surprising high and we now use this service for further evaluation.

      Other technologies on which we're having a look are the Espresso Book Print Machine for the library, the publishing of the bibliographic data of books under a free license (in between published at http://www.cern.ch/bookdata ) and later, the translation of this data ready for the semantic web. Further initiatives are to come.

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  • Tuesday 8 December
    • 14:00 → 17:00
      INVENIO

      Advanced administration activities of the Invenio.

  • Thursday 10 December
    • 08:00 → 15:00
      Trip to Chamonix (By Dr Hans Hoffman)
  • Friday 11 December
    • 09:30 → 10:30
      Clonning Invenio to Another Server

      A technical presentation about how to clone the Invenio installation from a computer or server to another.

    • 13:00 → 14:30
      Meeting with the Rwandan ambassador
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  • Monday 14 December
    • 09:00 → 10:30
      Copyrights and Creative Commons

      Copyrights, their traditional role in the academic publishing and a new alternative, Creative Commons licensing. The Creative Commons can be used for any kind of academic or artistic work, to retain all or only some copyrights to the author. This is more important than ever because of the internet as a public sphere where anyone can be a publisher and provide material. The CC licensed are composed of combinations of four conditions, namely Attribution, Share Alike, No Derivatives and Non Commercial. At the least, the author must always be credited but they can also restrict or prohibit the reuse of their work.

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  • Tuesday 15 December
    • 10:30 → 11:30
      Checking Errors on CDS submissions

      Cern Document Server runs on Invenio system. The data is added to CDS by harvesting and manual input. The data is not always complete or might even include mistakes. Noticing mistakes manually is impossible so the data can be checked and cleaned by using automatic tools (scripts). The presentation discusses main types of possible errors and shows some useful scripts and their characteristics that can be used to repair incorrect or missing data.

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    • 11:45 → 12:30
      Meeting with the former CERN Director-General, Prof. Herwig Schopper

      Dr. Schopper was born in 1924 and got his Diploma in Physics in 1949 in University of Hamburg. He has made a notable career in particle physics, having published over 200 scientific articles as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines and being editor for several journals. He is also famous for his contribution to science and society, science for peace and popularization of science.

      Dr. Schopper served as the CERN Director-General in 1981-1988. Before and after that, he has held several professorships and other positions in several universities, CERN and DESY. He was appointed as Honorary Professor at the South East University, Nanjing, P.R.China in 2000. He has also held numerous presidencies and advisory positions in many scientific and other organizations and is a member of several learned societies. Since 2005 Dr. Herwig has been the Chairman of the Scientific Board of the International Basic Program IBSP of UNESCO

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