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  • FP7 call: Support actions on policy development, including international cooperation, for e-Infrastructures

    Topics opened in Call FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2013-2 (call N° 12): INFRA-2013-3.1: Support actions on policy development, including international cooperation, for e-Infrastructures. Proposals will aim at providing policy


  • Succeed Interoperability Workshop Agenda

    Succeed has organized an Interoperability Workshop to discuss best practices and possibilities for cooperation on a technical level between European Centres of Competence and Digital infrastructures. The workshop will take place on Thursday 2 October 2014 at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague.


  • Impact at CERL ANNUAL SEMINAR 2014

    Impact will be next 28th of October in CERL ANNUAL SEMINAR 2014 ‘The Application of Text Encoding Facilities to Digital Versions of European Early Books’, that will take place in the National Library of Oslo (Norway). In the conference, Tomasz Parkoła (Digital Libraries Team, Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poznan) will talk about ‘The Impact Centre…


  • 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 stablishes cooperation agreements with PREFORMA and DCH-RP

    Succeed has signed with PREFORMA Consortium and DCH-RP project (Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for preservation) both Memorandum of Understanding in order to achieve a better cooperation.


  • ‘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.


  • DFG announces OCR technology program in Germany

    The DFG in Germany has announced a research programm to enhance digitization and OCR related technology. It covers similar topics as addressed in Impact.


  • DigitWiki, a new place to share information about digitisation

    The Succeed project has recently launched two new resources for the promotion of state-of-the-art tools for text digitisation.


  • Digitisation Days panel session: The digitisation of cultural heritage: modern utopia?

    Following the DATeCH 4th session and the round table (20 May), a panel session to discuss hot topics about digitisation was chaired by Milagros del Corral (International Organizations Advisor and Chair of the Succeed Expert Advisory Board). The panel also involved some members of the Succeed EAB, Jill Cousins (Europeana), Steven Krawer (Utrecht University) and Michael Keller…


  • The University of Murcia joins Impact

    The University of Murcia (Spain) has joined  the IMPACT Centre of Competence in Digitisation. This incorporation implies the inclusion of 38 new members in this non-profit consortium born in 2011 from the European Commission  IMPACT project.