News & Events

Sep 22, 2011
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
DL.org - Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices & Modelling Foundations - is deligthed to announce the publication of four booklets: Digital Library Manifesto, Reference Model - In a Nutshell, Checklist and Interoperability Cookbook, capturing the main outputs of this two-year project. The outputs leverage international expertise to enable the Library & Information Science community of professionals, students and research community.

Jul 18, 2011
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
DL.org is delighted to announce the Workshop on Linking Research & Education in DLs, 28-29 September 2011 within Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries in Berlin. The aim of the workshop is to stimulate collaboration in education and research for the Digital Libraries, demonstrating and explaining tools and methods of sharing knowledge. The Workshop is organised by Vittore Casarosa and Donatella Castelli from the  National Research Council in Italy and Anna Maria Tammaro from the University of Parma.

May 20, 2011
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

One of the major outputs of DL.org is a Digital Library Reference Model shedding light on the complex Digital Library universe to facilitate Library and Information Science professionals, as well as assessors of Digital Libraries. The Model is also of value to educationalists, students and researchers from the field. It comprises four equally important parts with varying layers of abstraction and concretisation: Manifesto, In a Nutshell, Model Concepts and Relations and Conformance Check List.


Apr 20, 2011
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

DL.org is delighted to announce the Digital Library Technological and Methodological Cookbook designed to enable DL developers to build interoperable systems, broadening choice and opening up new opportunities for researchers, governments and citizens across a spectrum of domains.The interoperability framework can now be used to systematically characterise diverse facets linked to the interoperability challenge.


Apr 17, 2011
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
DL.org is hosting a Tutorial on Digital Libraries Foundations and Interoperability, 29 May 2011 during the Extended Semantic Web Conference, 29 May-2 June 2011 in Heraklion, Crete. The tutorial ensures a conceptual framework alongside a hands-on session, building on our training programme, which includes contributions to the Digital Library section on Wikiversity.

Apr 5, 2011
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
An article on the DL.org Workshop dedicated to Digital Libraries and Open Access. Interoperability Strategies, features in the latest issue of ERCIM News - Issue 85, April 2011.  The  Workshop, which took place at the British Academy in London,  focused on topics central to advancing a collective mission that cuts across disciplines, professional roles and geographical boundaries in the digtial library and repository space.

Mar 5, 2011
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
Master Student, Marcial Batiancila from the Institute of Information Studies, Tallinn University, one of DL.org's interviewees, has published a questionnaire on DL professional learning culture as part of  his  research on the topic. Marcial was an active participant of the joint DL.org-Digital Library Learning Seminar on Research and Education in Digital Libraries in November 2010 in Parma.

Feb 25, 2011
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
DL.org is delighted to announce the Workshop on Research & Education in Digital Libraries during the conference of the European Library Automation Group (ELAG 2011), 25-29 May 2011, Prague, Czech Republic. The Workshop builds on the important synergies and outputs of the Seminar under the same theme held in November 2010, hosted by Parma University. Talks and discussions will revolve around interoperabilty looking at the technical, organisational and policy challenges that need to be addressed.

Feb 21, 2011
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
DL.org is delighted to announce the Tutorial on Digital Libraries: Foundations & Interoperability during the Extended Semantic Web Conference, 29 May - 2 June 2011, Heraklion, Greece. The half-day Tutorial focuses on the DL.org Reference Model, a conceptual framework for Digital Libraries, coupled with real-world examples and a hands-on session.

Feb 2, 2011
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

The Virtual Goody Bag for the London Workshop on Digital Libraries & Open Access – Interoperability Strategies is now available on line. The Workshop has gained tremendous momentum, attracting registrants ranging from Digital Library decision makers and enterprise representatives to young research scholars. This  1-day event aimed to  shed  light on current interoperability approaches and trigger an effective 2-way dialogue.


Jan 26, 2011
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

Italian and European Digital Humanists will be gathering in Florence for THATCamp, 23-26 March 2011 to discuss digital scholarship and methods today. The DL.org Digital Library Reference Model will be one of the key tools presented at the event, described as an un-conference.


Dec 31, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
The DL.org eNewsletter for Winter 2010 is now available. Top features include the London Workshop dedicated to Digital Libraries & Open Access. Interoperability Strategies, 4 February 2011, and interviews on Education and Research in Digital Libraries from our Parma seminar last November.

Dec 16, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

DL.org is delighted to announce the Workshop on “Digital Libraries and Open Access. Interoperability strategies”, taking place at the British Academy in London on 4 February 2011. The Workshop gathers  international experts on Digital Libraries and Open Access to explore strategies that are key to taking the field to the next level.


Dec 11, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

Final Agenda and current Virtual Goody Bag announced for the one-day Workshop on Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries: A European Approach, on Monday 13 December 2010 with over 90 registrants. DL.org has teamed up with the Veria Central Library and  the Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing at Ionian University to deliver new insights into the field.


Nov 29, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

DL.org has teamed up with the Veria Central Library and  the Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing at Ionian University for a one-day Workshop, Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries: A European Approach, on Monday 13 December 2010. The Workshop brings together over 80 representatives from the Greek Digital Library community, spanning librarians and library managers, researchers, PhD students, theorists and practitioners.


Nov 24, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

The TPDL Steering Committee is inviting tenders to host TPDL2012 Conference on "Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries". TDPL is the major European forum focusing on digital libraries and documents infrastructures together with associated technical, practical, and social issues, meeting the needs of practitioners, researchers, educators, policy makers and users.






Nov 5, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
Next week DL.org will be on the road in both Italy and Cyprus. The 1-day seminar on Research & Education on Digital Libraries takes place on Tuesday 9 November in Parma, featuring a series of insightful talks and round-table debate. Cyrpus provides the setting for a DL.org presentation on Digital Library interoperability challenges and the new poster display at EuroMed 2010 from 8-12 Nov.

Oct 22, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
DL.org has forged an alliance with Digital Library Learning (DILL), a Master Programme under the European Union's Erasmus Mundus Programme, for a one-day seminar on Research & Education in Digital Libraries on 9 November 2010 in Parma, Italy. The seminar aims to energise thinking on shaping the landscape in  terms of  sharing research results across the EU, pinpointing research topics at PhD level and the transferring DL.org research results on interoperability.

Oct 14, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
Chartered with addressing interoperability challenges, the DL.org project and its contributing experts have produced a Request for Comment  version of the Technology and Methodology Digital Library Cookbook.The Cookbook is aimed at collecting and describing a portfolio of best practices and pattern solutions to common challenges face when it comes to developing large-scale interoperable Digital Library systems.

Oct 5, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

The 7th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL2011), entitled Focus on Information Access and Interoperability, is a yearly event for the Italian Digital Library research community.  As DLs  advance, there is a growing need to ensure more effective and personalised access to information to user communities and improve interoperability among the heterogeneous systems that have been built.


Sep 30, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

The DL.org Autumn School on Digital Libraries & Digital Repositories: Modelling, Best Practices & Interoperability is a premier education and training event running from 3 to 8 October 2010 at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications,  University of Athens (NKUA). The international lecturers leading the Autumn School have provided a Virtual Reading List in preparation of the sessions planned. The School opens with a Welcome Reception on Sunday 3 October with an introduction to DL.org and the Programme, offering the first opportunity for attendees and lecturers to interact and network.


Sep 23, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
Networking Session on Global Information Structures for Science & Cultural heritage: The Interoperability Challenge, Wednesday 29 September 2010 at ICT2010, Brussels, Belgium. DL.org has forged an alliance with two European projects: DC-Net (Digital Cultural Heritage NETwork) and  GRDI2020 (Towards a 10-Year Vision for Global Research Data Infrastructures) with the aim of delivering insights into the challenges and approaches surrounding interoperability, which plays a key role in the EC's Digital Agenda for Europe.

Sep 19, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

Digital Libraries and Digital Repositories: Modelling, Best Practices & Interoperability from 3 to 8 October 2010 in Athens.

Edward Fox, Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, U.S. highlights Autumn School Value-Add, "While there are online resources to help people keep up with the Digital Library world, i.e., to support teaching and learning about digital libraries, it is helpful to attend focused events like the DL.org Autumn School to gain a perspective on the field and to find answers to important questions."


Sep 8, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
2nd DL.org Workshop on Making Digital Libraries Interoperable: Challenges & Approaches - less than 24 hours to go! The workshop takes place over two days, 9-10 September, during the 14th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2010) in Glasgow, opening with an invited talk on Digital Library Interoperability: An Industrial Perspective by Alex Wade, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK and featuring talks evaluated by an International Programme Committee.

Aug 16, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
Our latest eNewsletter for Summer 2010 is now available featuring upcoming DL.org events to mark in your diary: 2nd Workshop, 9-10 September @ ECDL2010 in Glasgow, an ICT2010 Networking Session on 29 September in Brussels and our Autumn School in Athens, 3-8 October. Our Face-to-Face is with Wolfram Horstmann, CIO at Bielefeld University Library and Expert in our Quality Working Group.

Aug 10, 2010
Category: Videos
Posted by: stephanie

Our latest interviews stem from the Parma Seminar on Research and Education in Digital Libraries, November 2010. Insights on the topic are delivered in:


Jul 22, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
DL.org is delighted to announce its Autumn School on "Digital Libraries and Digital Repositories: Modelling, Best Practices and Interoperability", 3-8 October 2010 in Athens, Greece. This premier education and training event targets librarians, librarian decision-makers, information scientists, computer scientists, PhD Students, early career researchers and young professionals working in the DL and DR space. Five Bursaries are available to PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and young professionals.

Jul 1, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
Next week at the Open Repositories 2010 conference (6-9 July) in Madrid, DL.org will be delivering insights into Policy and Quality Interoperability on Tuesday 6 July during the Interoperability Policy Session from 15:45-17:15 and will also be hosting a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session on Digital Library Interoperability on Wednesday 7 July from 11:00-12:30.

Jun 7, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

Paper submission deadline: 30 June 2010. Call for Research & Project Papers - 2nd DL.org Workshop on Making Digital Libraries Interoperable: Challenges & Approaches, 9-10 September 2010, during the 14th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2010), Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Digital Library interoperability is a multi-layered and very context-specific concept. It encompasses different levels along a multidimensional spectrum. The Workshop will address this difficult problem from several perspectives: content, user, functionality, policy, quality, and architecture. Many of the above facets include  open research issues. This Workshop will highlight the several dimensions of the problem and indicate new research directions.


Jun 3, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

Europeana's first White Paper looks at the key role linked data will play in Europeana's development and in helping Europe's citizens make connections between existing knowledge to achieve new cultural and scientific developments. Without linked data, Europeana could be seen as a simple collection of digital objects. With linked data, the potential is far greater. This is because linked data gives machines the ability to make associations and put search terms into context. The value-add of linked data is illustrated through the experimental Thought Lab showing how a search for ‘Paris’ intuitively leads to connected concepts like items in the Louvre, a Paris-based institution.


May 19, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
JISC is pleased to announce that the final report for Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2) is now available. This KRDS2 study report presents the results of a survey of available cost information, validation and further development of the KRDS activity cost model, and a new taxonomy to help assess benefits alongside costs. The KRDS2 study was conducted by Charles Beagrie Ltd. and associates.

May 13, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

The May 2010 issue of the EUScreen is now available. Features include event announcements, press releases, project development and news from partners and related projects.

 

 


May 12, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
Scientists seeking funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will soon need to spell out how they plan to manage the data they hope to collect. The requirement is part of a broader move by NSF and other federal agencies to emphasise the importance of community access to data.

May 4, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: nick

2nd DL.org Workshop: Making Digital Libraries Interoperable: Challenges and Approaches - 9-10 September 2010, within ECDL2010, Glasgow, Scotland

CALL FOR PAPERS - 20 June

The central theme of the 2nd DL.org Workshop will be “Digital Library Interoperability”. Interoperability is a multi-layered and very context-specific concept. The Workshop will address this difficult problem from several perspectives: content, user, functionality, policy, quality, and architecture. Authors are invited to submit original research papers addressing current approaches and new research directions for  tackling the multi-faceted digital library interoperability issues.


May 4, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
Over the course of the GENESI-DR project we have seen the creation of a new data infrastructure providing search and retrieval of Earth Science data held in diverse digital repositories across Europe.

Apr 30, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
On 14 April 2010 the co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone, announced it has agreed to donate its entire achive of public tweets to the Library of Congress.

Apr 27, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
DL.org Policy & Quality Presentations on 2 June at Archiving 2010, 1-4 June 2010, The Hague, Netherlands - “Towards Policy and Quality Interoperability: Challenges and approaches for Digital Libraries

Apr 23, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

New Advances for the Semantic Web

"I have a dream for the Web in which computers become capable of analysing all the data on the Web", said Tim Berners-Lee in 1999. Therein lay the future.

New advances in the Semantic Web will also benefit digital libraries as an article published in the latest issue of ERCIM News reveals.


Apr 22, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

DL.org Policy & Quality Presentations

Perla Innocenti and Giuseppina Vullo, co-ordinators of DL.org's Policy and Quality Working Groups have organised a workshop entitled "Policy and Quality Interoperability: an organisational approach for digital archives and digital libraries" within the 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving (ECA2010), 28-30 April 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.


Apr 21, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
21 April 2010 - Brussels: The European Commission sets up a Reflection Group on Digitisation to Boost Cultural Heritage online, in a media release just circulated. European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has announced that the European Commission will entrust three personalities - Maurice Lévy (CEO of Publicis), Elisabeth Niggemann (Head of the German National Library) and Jacques De Decker (writer) - to come up with recommendations on how best to speed up the digitisation, online accessibility and preservation of cultural works across Europe.

Apr 20, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

The DL.org project is presenting at the 2nd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2010) taking place in Chania on Crete, Greece, 25 - 28 May 2010. The talk is entitled Paving the way for Interoperability in Digital Libraries: The DL.org Project.


Apr 19, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

The April issue of Europeana's eNews circulated today spotlights some of Europe's cultural heritage treasures from monuments to literature and art. It also announces the addition of one million new items on Europeana and with some 3 million objects set to arrive on Europeana over the coming months. Efforts are also underway to improve the quality of the metadata around these objects, which is particularly valuable to students and researchers.


Apr 12, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
It is estimated that more scientific data will be generated in the next five years than in the history of mankind. But while more data provides opportunities for new discoveries and fields of inquiry it has created problems with regards to storage, curation, access and analysis. This GridBriefing provides a snapshot of the most pertinent topics resulting from the so-called data deluge.

Apr 9, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

The ICT 2010 conference takes place in Brussels on 27-29 September 2010. ICT 2010 is organised by the European Commission and hosted by the Belgian Presidency of the European Union. Around 4.500 participants are expected to attend this event.

This year the European Cmmission would like to strengthen the participation of young researchers, following the successful experience of ICT 2008 where they were played the role of reporters for the sessions.


Apr 7, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

CALL FOR PAPERS: 6th International Digital Curation Conference, 6-8 December 2010, Chicago, U.S.

Participation & Practice: Growing the curation community through the data decade
IDCC10 will be presented jointly by the Digital Curation Centre, UK and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).


Mar 30, 2010
Category: Videos
Posted by: stephanie

Our latest interview is with Tobias Blanke, Kings College London and an expert in our Liaison Group , offering insights into pioneering work in the eHumanities, as well as interoperability benefits and challenges, positioning DL.org in this landscape.

"DL.org, as a co-ordination action, has a very important role to play in conveying the benefits of interoperability for the diverse stakeholders, including key players in the Humanities space, not only DL end-users but also archivists and librarians as content curators, system librarians and decision-makers particularly on the policy and investment front. If we look back in history, all standardisation effort basically boils down to human-to-human interaction. Hence community engagement is key to bringing interoperability benefits and best practices into sharp relief."


Mar 19, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

ICT 2010 Exhibition: cutting edge research - Reminder: Application Deadline 15 April 2010

Experience Europe's latest cutting edge research in digital technologies at the ICT 2010 exhibition.
Researchers from all parts of Europe and beyond will present their latest work in upstream ICT innovation as well as close-to-market projects. This is an opportunity to explore what is happening at the coal face in your area of interest and to find potential future collaborators.





Mar 16, 2010
Category: Videos
Posted by: stephanie
DL.org has conducted interviews with leading figures in the DL community. The interviews are listed from the most recent:



Mar 8, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

Visitors to a new Virtual Exhibition - Europeana's A Roma Journey - can view a unique collection of full-text books, rare manuscripts, photographs, paintings, sound recordings and videos from the world of the Roma. Van Gogh's Les Roulottes, campement de bohémiens aux environs (1881) (pictured) is one of the features in the type of virtual exhibitions available on Europeana in the future.



Mar 2, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

 

The IS&T Archiving 2010 conference takes place 1-4 June 2010 in The Hague, Netherlands, bringing together imaging scientists and the cultural heritage community to explore issues related  to the digital preservation and stewardship of hardcopy, audio, and video.


Feb 4, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

Call for Papers is now open for the World Library and Information Congress: 76th IFLA General  Conference and Council "Open access to knowledge - promoting sustainable progress", 10-15 August, Gothenburg, Sweden.

The IFLA annual congress provides an opportunity to present library research and outcomes in Information Technology and  Innovation in a multi-disciplinary international forum.


Jan 27, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
The latest issue of ERCIM News, January 2010 is dedicated to digital preservation, coordinated by Ingeborg Solvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; and Andreas Rauber, Vienna Technical University, a member of DL.org's Working Group on DL Functionality Interoperability.

Jan 26, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

Carol Ann Peters, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell'Informazione "A. Faedo", National Research Council of Italy is the 2009 winner of the Tony Kent Strix Award thanks to her pioneering work on Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF), the world's leading forum for evaluating cross language searching systems, which Carol has spearheaded.

 

 




Jan 22, 2010
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

EUscreen, a new project that will supply TV archive footage to Europeana, launched its website this week.

 


Jan 18, 2010
Category: Spotlight
Posted by: stephanie

Information Access & Interoperability - 6th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries - IRCDL 2010, Department of Information Engineering - University of Padua,  28-29 January 2010 in Padua, Italy.

DL.org involvement & presence:

Making Digital Library COntent Interoperable

L.Candela, D. Castelli, C. Thanos

An event-centric Provenance Model for Digital Libraries

C. Tang, D. Castelli, L. Candela, P. Manghi, P. Pagano, C. Thanos


Dec 17, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

The Call for Workshop, Tutorial and Panel Submissions is now open for the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL), the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field. The University of Glasgow hosts ECDL 2010, the 14th conference in this series.


Dec 16, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: nick

11th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services

12-14 April 2010, Desenzano del Garda, Italy

The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international events for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services.


Dec 2, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

Professor Dame Wendy Hall, a leader in the Semantic Web movement to enable users to identify, reuse, and derive new knowledge from existing data, joined Professor Nigel Shadbolt as the opening keynote speakers at the Online Information Conference 2009 on Tuesday 1 December. The keynote addressed the latest developments in Web technology and its significance for the vast amounts of data that is published on the Web.



Nov 23, 2009
Category: Spotlight
Posted by: sy

The first test version of the DL.org eTraining is available online. eTraining is a part of DL.org’s Training Programme aimed at fostering a common understanding of the benefits and importance of interoperability among experts from diverse domains. The courses are designed to help DL experts and professionals acquire important knowledge on Digital Libraries and the DELOS Digital Library Reference Model.


Nov 16, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: nick

Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity

In partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) the two day conference will address topics such as data-driven infrastructure for science - looking at the wide range of scale, discipline, skills, sectors, and funding; and practitioner approaches, solutions and models, with peer-reviewed papers in themed parallel sessions.

Oct 30, 2009
Category: Spotlight
Posted by: stephanie

DL.org regularly conducts interviews with leaders and pioneers from the Digital Library space in Europe and across the globe to explore how grand challenges like interoperability are being tackled and share this knowledge with the wider community.

 

Geneva Henry, Rice University, interviewed during the 1st DL.org Workshop on 1 October 2009 in Corfu, Greece.


Oct 30, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

The Foundation Rinascimento Digitale, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and the Library of Congress is organising the Cultural Heritage on-line conference to explore, analyse, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communities and cultural contents on the web from an international perspective. The conference brings together academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners in  a forum for the discussion and dissemination of the selected themes.


Oct 26, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: nick

8 December 2009, Berlin, World Business Alliance Center.

The MLIA Technology Transfer Day will facilitate a two-way communication of research priorities, advances and results between researchers, software developers and users.


Oct 19, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: nick
Open Access Week highlights a future where results of research are available freely and immediately on the web. The week reflects on the massive public resource that is the World Wide Web its potential in maximising the public good and inspiring ourselves and future generations to build a better world. Open Access plays a crucial role in ensuring that the web can be used to its full potential.To celebrate Open Access Week, Digital Scholarship is releasing version one of the Institutional Repository Bibliography.

Oct 13, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie
The Joint Workshop on Text Mining for Scholarly Communications and Repositories takes place 28-29 October 2009 at the Manchester Interdisciplinary BioCentre, University of Manchester, UK and is co-hosted with the National Centre for Text   Mining  (NaCTeM) and UKOLN. Professor Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft External Research, will deliver a keynote presentation titled eScience and Semantic Computing" on Thursday 29 October.

Sep 25, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: nick
In the context of its Digital Libraries Initiative, the EC has now launched a public consultation on the next steps for  the future development of Europeana, Europe's digital library, archive and museum. Questions will address a variety of issues including the involvement of the public-private sector partnerships in Europeana.

Sep 22, 2009
Category: Spotlight
Posted by: stephanie
DL.org's 1st Workshop took place on 1 October 2009, within ECDL2009 in Corfu, Greece . Over fifty participants took part in the Workshop which was dedicated to examining the challenges surrounding the interoperability of digital libraries from the perspectives of architecture, content, functionality, policy, quality and user, which are being evaluated by DL.org's Working Groups.

Donatella Castelli, DL.org Coordinator & CNR-ISTI (above), Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens & Seamus Ross, University of Toronto, opened the workshop while Stefan Gradmann, University of Humboldt & Europeana (above) gave a keynote presentation addressing challenges surrounding  interoperability in the field of DLs.

Sep 17, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: nick

Hosted by Government of South Africa through the Department of Science and Technology, IST-Africa 2010 Conference & Exhibition will take place in Durban, 19 – 21 May 2010. The event brings together senior representatives from leading commercial, government & research organisations across Africa and Europe, to bridge the Digital Divide by sharing knowledge and best practices as well as discussing policy related issues.

Call for Papers Deadline 6 November, 2009.


Sep 8, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: nick

The 2nd issue of the European Film Gateway (EFG) Newsletter is out now. Offering up-to-date information on the project outcomes, the newsletter also reports on activities and events regarding the film archival community as well as the wider group of Europeana projects to which the EFG belongs.

Download the European Film Gateway newsletter.


Sep 4, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: stephanie

"Europe's Digital Library doubles in size but also shows EU's lack of common web copyright solution", a recent Europeana press release highlights not only the achievements of Europe's  multilingual digital library but also the need for Member States to speed up and improve the process, and reform the copyright framework.

4.6 million digitised books, maps, photographs, film clips and newspapers can now be accessed by internet users on Europeana with a target of 10 million in 2010. However, key challenges need addressing to advance Europe's digitisation programme benefiting all citizens.

 


Aug 24, 2009
Category: NewsFlash
Posted by: nick

June and July saw the first set of DL.org working group face-to-face meetings take place in Italy and Greece. All six working groups met up for two days in order to discuss the main issues surrounding interoperability, the further development of the DELOS Reference Model, and working group objectives.

There are six DL.org working groups in all: Architecture, Content, Functionality, Policy, Quality and User, each dedicated to exploring DL interoperability issues from specific perspectives. Summaries of the meetings are available by clicking below.


Mar 18, 2009
Category: Testimonials
Posted by: stephanie
The launch of DL.org is both timely and much needed. This effort will provide an umbrella for existing and future digital library projects, which have become fragmented and, in many cases, duplicative in functionality.


Mar 9, 2009
Category: DL Events
Posted by: stephanie

The beautiful island of Corfu, Greece, hosts the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL'09, which this year focuses on Digital Societies.

The conference explores new challenges for Digital Libraries prompted by the expansion of the social networking applications bringing new user communities, as well as a renewed focus on metadata to address these challenges.