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10th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016 ) – Call for papers

LREC 2016 – 10th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Grand Hotel Bernardin, PORTOROŽ, SLOVENIA 23-28 May 2016 MAIN CONFERENCE: 25-26-27 MAY 2016 WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS: 23-24-28 MAY 2016 Conference web site: lrec-conf.org/lrec2016/lrec2016.htm Twitter: @LREC2016

TPDL 2015 Call for Contributions, Poznań, 14-18 September, 2014

The Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), Succeed partner and premium member of the Impact Centre of Competence hosts the 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. The conference will take place at Poznań, Poland on September 14-18, 2015 (http://tpdl2015.info/)

2-Succeed in digitisation. Spreading excellence. Take-up of tools: the libraries’ experience.

In the first block, after the introduction of Katrien Depuydt, WP3 leader, nine of the thirteen libraries participating in the Succeed evaluation and take-up of tools presented their results and shared their experience during their participation in the Succeed project.

1-Succeed in digitisation. Spreading excellence.

On November 28th, 2014, the Succeed project presented their results in its final conference “Succeed in digitisation. Spreading excellence”. This event took place in the Bibliothèque national de France, in Paris, and gathered near 70 experts in the field of digitisation and cultural heritage.

4-Succeed in digitisation. Spreading excellence. The future of digitisation: sustainability & roadmapping

After the lunch break, the conference continued with the second block: ‘The future of digitisation: sustainability and roadmapping’. This block was introduced by Alicia Blaya, WP7 leader, who provided an overview of this WP and introduced the following sessions. Tomasz Parkola, leader of WP4 presented the highlights of this WP presenting best practices in the … Continue reading

5-Succeed in digitisation. Spreading excellence. The Impact Centre of Competence

The discussion went on the coffee break, and after that, the last block of the day started with the introduction of Hildelies Balk about the Impact Center of Competence.The second panel session of the conference took place. In this case, the panel session involved different European competence centres.

Tools Evaluation: University Library of KU Leuven

In early 2013, the Library Council of the Humanities and Social Sciences at KU Leuven (Belgium) produced a white paper concerning the role of libraries in digital scholarship (and, particularly, the digital humanities). This white paper described the current services provided by libraries at KU Leuven in the field of digital scholarship, but also discussed … Continue reading

Open Planets Foundation is becoming the Open Preservation Foundation

The Open Planets Foundation announced today that it is changing its company name to the Open Preservation Foundation. The name change reflects the foundation’s core purpose and vision in the field of digital preservation while retaining its widely-known acronym, OPF.

The CJEU makes its move: the digitisation of works by libraries.

The rules of play as far as digitisation is concerned are a little clearer now thanks to the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of 11 September 2014 in Case C-117/13 TU Darmstadt, or are they?

‘Succeed in digitisation’. Succeed final conference agenda.

The Succeed project final conference “Succeed in digitisation. Spreading excellence” will take place at Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, on November 28th, 2014. The free registration is now open at https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/succeed-in-digitisation-tickets-11974663541.