Linked Open Data (LOD) has become a widespread method for the publication and management of data on the web. Many libraries and related institutions have already run projects or launched products that comply with the LOD paradigm. New projects, services and tools are emerging continuously. The SWIB conference in Hamburg, Germany (November 25-27th, 2013) aims to…
DetailsThe European Commission has published a report of its public consultation on open research data, held in July in Brussels. The report summarises the views of a wide variety of stakeholders (eg. researchers, industry, research funders, libraries, publishers, infrastructure developers) in response to five key questions: How can we define research data and what…
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LIBER’s Executive Board recently met at the University of Debrecen, Hungary for their annual October board meeting. During the meeting, the following topics were discussed: EUROPEAN PROJECTS AND STEERING COMMITTEE WORK The Board discussed the progress of European projects in which LIBER is involved. Chairs of the Steering Committees and Fora shared their progress with…
DetailsThe final conference of the MedOANet project took place in Athens on 17-18 October 2013. As President of LIBER, I was invited to be a member of a roundtable panel on the second day of the conference, and to give the summing up at the end of the event. MedOANet is an EU-funded project and…
DetailsThe program is set for the fifth annual OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Regional Council Meeting, the first to take place in Africa. The theme, “Library Community in Action: advancing knowledge, cooperation and innovation,” will address the importance of community—exploring how a cooperative approach can make a difference and what greater collaboration between…
DetailsThe 80th IFLA world library and information congress will take place in Lyon, France, at the City Convention Centre from August 16th to the 22nd. The theme for this congress will be “Libraries, Citizens, Societies : Confluence for Knowledge”. Calls for communications and posters will be published on the free list IFLA-L – keep an…
DetailsLIBER recently organised a workshop on Text & Data Mining. Several prominent speakers made a convincing case for TDM and the highlights from their talks are now available to watch in a video. The video was compiled by Copyright4Creativity. More on TDM: The Perfect Swell At The British Library (workshop overview by Dr.…
DetailsOver the past few months, the Europeana Newspapers Project has been working to build an online browser that will display digital versions of historic newspapers. This tool aims to provide a simple yet effective way to search the 18 million digital newspaper pages that Europeana Newspapers will make available through Europeana and The European Library.…
DetailsSeptember 27th, 2013 saw The Perfect Swell at the British Library in London – a LIBER Workshop on the future potential and challenges of Text and Data Mining (TDM). The Workshop boasted a full house with attendance from a wide number of European stakeholders. They included the EUA (European Universities Association), LERU (League of European…
DetailsOn September 23rd 2013, LIBER representatives (Dr. Paul Ayris, President; Izaskun Lacunza, Executive Director, and Susan Reilly, EU Projects Manager) met with representatives from the Directorate General Connect in the European Commission. The meeting covered several topics of interest for the Commission, in areas where LIBER is actively working. Dr. Ayris also gave a lecture…
DetailsIFLA’s 2014 International Newspaper Conference will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 4-5th. As shown by surveys conducted by the National Library of Australia, the California Digital Newspaper Collection, the Cambridge Public Library, and others, historical newspapers are an important source of information for genealogists. Not coincidentally, the IFLA International Newspaper Conference…
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IFLA’s 2014 International Newspaper Conference will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 4-5th. As the theme ‘Start Spreading the News!’ suggests, the conference will focus on the best ways to promote the use of online newspaper content. Paper proposals should be submitted by December 1st and could focus on the following topics:…
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