ECCs Archives - IMPACT Centre of Competence

Sally Chambers appointed as new Executive Director of the IMPACT Centre of Competence in digitisation

The IMPACT Centre of Competence in digitisation is proud to announce the appointment of Sally Chambers as IMPACT’s new Executive Director. As Executive Director, Sally will be responsible for closely working with Centre members and the Executive Board in order to outline the IMPACT action plan for the upcoming years and improving IMPACT’s portfolio of services … Continue reading

IMPACT CLARIN K-Centre in digitisation (IMPACT-CKC)

K(nowledge)-centres are important components of the CLARIN Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure, as these are the places where people from within and outside the CLARIN community can get access to specialized knowledge and expertise in many fields. At this moment CLARIN has 16 K-centres, covering a variety of languages (and language families), modalities, data types, technologies and … Continue reading

Impact Centre of Competence Annual General Meeting – Summary

On December 11th, 2015, the Impact Centre of Competence held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Alicante. This meeting is open to all member of the Centre and it has as objective, apart from designing the vision of the Centre in the next year, to provide our members a forum to share expertise and showcase … 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 sustainability of competence centres (Digital Heritage 2013)

Last Tuesday (October, 29th), in the framework of the Digital Heritage 2013 Conference in Marseille, a workshop on competence centres in digitisation and digital preservation took place. With the title “From European and national projects to high-quality services and products”, the feasible scenarios for the development and sustainability of centres gathering and spreading excellence were … Continue reading

White paper on Centres of Competences: Work in Progress

A Research & Development project typically develops innovative solutions for problems in a certain domain and fosters the sharing of expertise within the project, as well as with the stakeholders in the field. The challenge is to sustain and further develop the results and to continue the sharing of expertise after project funding ends. The … Continue reading