LIBER 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:…
DetailsThe MedOANet European Conference will take place at the National Documentation Centre / National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, Greece, from 17 to 18 October 2013 during the International Open Access Conference. The final conference of MedOANet will serve to present the results of the project, placing them in the wider European perspectives on Open…
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From October 21-27th, the global academic and research community will come together to celebrate Open Access Week. Now in its sixth year, the event is an opportunity to share the potential benefits of Open Access and to inspire wider participation so that Open Access becomes a new norm in scholarship and research. Learn…
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On September 6th, the DART-Europe Board met in Senate House Library at the University of London. The DART-Europe portal makes available Open Access research theses from the libraries of LIBER members. As of today, there are 416,113 open access research theses from 541 Universities in 27 European countries available through the portal. The 2013 DART…
DetailsLIBER is hosting a workshop on text and data mining on Friday the 27th of September. The workshop is intended as a follow-up to our joint response and subsequent withdrawal from the Licences for Europe workshop on text and data mining. It is intended as a means of initiating a broader discussion around text…
DetailsSucceed is a support action funded by the European Union. It promotes the take up and validation of research results in mass digitisation, with a focus on textual content. Succeed project is undertaking a survey on standards and formats used in digitisation of textual documents. Please take a moment to fill it in: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16qvPbAZYUVmYz1MbeCGVcfxy0UXksr3-v5QQ7h3uETE/viewform The…
DetailsOn September 16th the Europeana Newspapers Project is organising a workshop on Aggregation and Presentation at The European Library’s conference: Promoting innovation in Europe. In this workshop the Europeana Newspapers Browser will be presented and participants will get the chance to test it. Channa Veldhuijsen from the KB will talk about usability testing and will open the discussion…
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