The European Commission is developing an Open Data Pilot. This pilot will look at research data generated in projects funded under the Horizon 2020 framework, with the aim of stimulating the data-sharing culture among researchers and facilitating both the re-use of information and data-driven science. As organisations with a strong interest in Open Data, OpenAIRE,…
The Europeana Newspapers Project will be sharing best practices at the second workshop that is coming up on September 16th and will focus on Aggregation and Presentation of historical newspapers. The workshop will be a part of The European Library’s conference “Promoting innovation in Europe” This workshop is particularly aimed at: Cultural heritage professionals (e.g.…
An EC public consultation on open research data was recently held in Brussels on July 2nd. The LIBER office was represented by Executive Director, Izaskun Lacunza, and Projects Manager, Susan Reilly (also representing the ReCODE* project). Paul Ayris, LIBER President, made a five minute intervention on the role of libraries in opening up research data.…
The European Commission is developing an Open Data Pilot, which aims to stimulate the data-sharing culture among researchers and the re-use of information. Paul Ayris, President of LIBER, attended a key meeting about the pilot in Brussels. In this statement, he explains the relevance of this Open Data Pilot for research libraries. I recently attended…
The National Documentation Centre, in conjunction with MedOANet Project, is pleased to announce the 2013 International Open Access Conference @ EKT, the third in a series of international conferences on Open Access organized by the National Documentation Centre since 2008. The event will take place at the National Documentation Centre / National Hellenic Research Foundation…
Techniques for refining and assessing the quality of digitised historical newspapers were the main topic of discussion at a recent Europeana Newspapers workshop at the University Library “Svetozar Markovic” in Belgrade, Serbia. In the first Europeana Newspapers Workshop participants discussed challenges that arise when making digitised historical newspapers fully searchable. Newspapers were not meant to last, but…
LIBER – along with other library associations, consortia, and professional librarians in over 150 countries – is calling for an effective treaty that will increase access to information for visually impaired people. Many years of negotiations have gone into creating such a treaty. It is hoped that this process will finish later this month, with…
Promoting innovation in Europe – The European Library partnership of research and national libraries, 16-17 September, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The European Library will be organising a two day event ‘Promoting innovation in Europe’ in Amsterdam.The event will feature some of the projects The European Library is involved with (e.g. Europeana Newspapers, CENDARI, Europeana Cloud)…
The Europeana Newspapers second newsletter is out!
It’s filled with inside views, accounts of project events, highlighted partners and announcements of new events.
Enjoy the 2nd issue of the Europeana Newspapers Newsletter!
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The Europeana Newspapers project is asking European libraries with newspaper collections to take its survey on the extent of newspaper digitisation. The new survey is a follow-up on the original poll, conducted in 2012. It found that access to digitised newspapers is nearly always free of charge but that access to 20th century content…
LIBER works with the cultural heritage website Europeana on several EU-funded projects, and many of LIBER’s members contribute content to Europeana. Now, however, funding for Europeana and its related services is under threat because of proposed budget cuts. The proposed cuts affect the European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). It provides financing to many services, including…
LIBER, along with several other representatives from the research sector, has withdrawn from the Licences for Europe dialogue on text and data mining due to concerns about the scope, composition and transparency of the process. A letter of withdrawal has been sent to the Commissioners involved in Licenses for Europe explaining the reason that these…
