Author: Silvia García
Round Table: Future Research for the Digital library
Join our creative, Round Table workshop on Tuesday morning, 20th May, 9.00-11.00, to shape future research and funding in digitisation and how Centres of Competence can support these objectives in cooperation with researchers and cultural heritage institutions.
Map of the European digitisation landscape
We invite you to add your initiative to the Map of the European digitisation landscape a project that has been developed by Succeed, which aims to identify active projects, centres of competence, networks and any other initiatives to help pinpoint stakeholders, future needs and options for the exploitation of digitised content.
DATeCH conference and Digitisation Days
The Impact Centre of Competence and Succeed are pleased to invite you to their Digitisation Days, a major event in the field of text digitisation. The Digitisation Days are a meeting point for librarians, researchers and companies to present an up-to-date vision of the most recent advances in technology for the digitisation of text, to showcase successful experiences in their application, … Continue reading "DATeCH conference and Digitisation Days"
Open Humanities Awards
The second round of the Open Humanities Awards will run from 30 April until 30 May 2014. The Awards are cordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation and are part of the DM2E project. There are €20,000 worth of prizes on offer in two dedicated tracks: Open track: for projects that either use open content, open data … Continue reading "Open Humanities Awards"
Call for papers: Multilinguality in historical documents
Multilinguality in historical documents -challenges and solutions for digital humanities (MHist) . 7 July, 2014 Lausanne, Switzerland Full-day Workshop organised in conjunction with the Digital Humanities 2014 Conference Workshop endorsed by the ACL-SIGHUM Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities
New Project Proposals Corner
Succeed, throught Impact Centre of Competence, has launched the Project Proposals Corner, a gateway to information and advice on undertaking new digitisation projects. In this new space, you can find the latest news on open EU calls, info-days, collaborative initiatives, and events, as well as information on funding opportunities (self-financing, public, public-private partnerhip or private … Continue reading "New Project Proposals Corner"
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the Centre Centre d’Études Supérieurs de la Renaissance win the Succeed Awards
Congratulations to the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (University of Saint John’s, Collegeville , USA), and the Centre d’Études Supérieurs de la Renaissance (Tours , France ), winners of the Succeed Awards. The Succeed Awards recognise and foster excellence in digitisation, especially among programs focused on historical texts. The Spanish company Tecnilógica and The London Metropolitan Archive have been awarded with … Continue reading "The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the Centre Centre d’Études Supérieurs de la Renaissance win the Succeed Awards"
i2s DigiBook, DIGIBÍS and the University Library of North Rhine-Westphalia join Impact
The Impact Centre of Competence welcomes its three new members: i2s DigiBook, DIGIBÍS and the Library of the University Library Centre of North Rhine-Westphalia (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen). With these additions, 36 companies and institutions are now part of the Centre of Competence In Digitisation.
The KU Leuven and the Theatre Documentation Centre, new members of Impact
The Theatre Documentation Centre (CDT) and the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) have joined the Centre of Competence Impact. With these new additions , there are now 33 members in this international organization, which is dedicated to the research and development of tools for digitizing texts and historical documents.
Digital Library Conference
The 15th edition of the Digital Library Conference will be held at the Ski & Wellness Residence Družba, in Slovakia, from the 1st to the 3rd of April, 2014. On its 15th occurrence, the Digital Library Conference will cover topics such as best practices in digitisation; presentation of digital content and services based on digital content; mobile digital … Continue reading "Digital Library Conference"