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EC Public Consultation on Europeana

The Commission has launched a public consultation on Europeana, the European online platform, to hear the opinions from citizens and organisations with a personal or professional interest in digital culture available online. We wish to know how citizens, professionals and organisations use the platform that gives access to over 53 million items including image, text, … Continue reading

Call for participation: Hacking the news workshop

Monday 5 March 2018 (12:30) – Tuesday 6 March 2018 (17:00) Hacking the News: from digitised newspapers to the archived-web: an introductory workshop to text and data-mining #DHNhacknews Libraries have been digitising historical newspapers since the early 2000’s. However, to what extent are these digitised newspaper archives being used in digital humanities research? Web-archiving began in … Continue reading

ScanTailor, new tool at IMPACT Demonstrator platform

Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It gives the ability of: splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, binarising, among others features. The provided input are raw scans, and it will provode pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file as an output. Scan Tailor is licensed under Free Software, General … Continue reading

JCDL 2018 – Call for papers

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” separator_top_type=”none” separator_top_height=”50px” separator_top_angle_point=”50″ separator_bottom_type=”none” separator_bottom_height=”50px” separator_bottom_angle_point=”50″ style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]General Instructions for all Submissions All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Please use the ACM Proceedings template, and submit in electronic form via … Continue reading

DH2018 – Call for papers

I: GENERAL INFORMATION The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submission of proposals for its annual conference on any aspect of digital humanities. The theme of the 2018 conference is “Bridges/Puentes,” and contributions that speak to the theme or that focus on knowledge mobilization, collaboration among scholars and scholarly communities, relationships of North/South scholarship … Continue reading

Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes receives the second Aporta prize

The Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, member of IMPACT Centre of Competence Executive Board, has received the second Aporta prize in 2017 for its project “Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library, a new approach to digital libraries”. The prize is promoted by Spanish Government through the Department of Information Society and Digital Agenda, the public entity … Continue reading

IFLA WLIC 2018 – Registration open

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” separator_top_type=”none” separator_top_height=”50px” separator_top_angle_point=”50″ separator_bottom_type=”none” separator_bottom_height=”50px” separator_bottom_angle_point=”50″ style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”none” src=”https://digitisation.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/wlic-2018_150x173.png” alt=”” link=”false” href=”#” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”” style=”width:30%;float:left;padding-right:10px;”][cs_text]The 84th edition of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia between … Continue reading

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