IFLA IT Section collaborates in an interesting session on Statistics for Cultural Heritage & scores well in citation analysis

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

• 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)
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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