IFLA IT Section collaborates in an interesting session on Statistics for Cultural Heritage & scores well in citation analysis
24 August 2009
The IFLA IT Section collaborated with the Statistics and Preservation and Conservation section today to present a very interesting series of papers on statistics in the context of cultural heritage:
Statistics and Evaluation, Information Technology and Preservation and Conservation
Statistics for cultural heritage
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Statistics in preservation as a basis for positive action
IRMHILD SCHÄFER (Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany) -
Statistical tools for the evaluation of preservation needs
Translations: [Français]
ALISON WALKER and JULIA FOSTER (British Library, London, UK) -
The project NUMERIC: statistics for the digitisation of the European cultural heritage
Translations: [Français]
ROSWITHA POLL (Münster, Germany) -
Digital cultural heritage in the Netherlands: collecting statistics on production investments, and use
Translations: [Français]
TRILCE NAVARRETE HERNÁNDEZ and FRANK HUYSMANS (Amsterdam, Netherlands) -
Measuring usage of cultural heritage documents; The German project Open Access Statistics
Translations: [Français]
MATTHIAS SCHULZE (University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany) -
Metrics and strategies for Web Heritage management and preservation
EMMANUELLE BERMÈS and GILDAS ILLIEN (National Library of France, Paris, France) -
The DISCmap project: Digitisation of Special Collections: mapping, assessment, prioritisation
MILENA DOBREVA (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK) et al. -
Museum statatistical data in Germany and Europe
MONIKA HAGEDORN-SAUPE and AXEL ERMERT (Institute for Museum Research, Berlin, Germany)
In the afternoon, IFLA IT section also achieved an honourable mention: the presented by Kayvan Kousha and Mahshid Aboli (Iran) showed a detailed citation analysis of IFLA conference papers in the Library Theory and Research session.
On the subject of statistics it was pleasing to note that in 3 of the 4 years analysed the Information Technology section papers were the most frequently cited (Similar top ten topics attracted more citation impact at IFLA annual) – see /past-wlic/2009/105-kousha-en.pdf for an interesting citation analysis of IFLA conference papers. ITS papers were also the 2rd most frequently cited overall, after Indexing and Classification/Cataloguing
Edmund Balnaves
IFLA ITS Information Officer