- 21. Open source search engine for Finnish libraries and museums
- (Newsflash)
- A recently unveiled search engine for accessing the collections of Finland's archives, libraries and museums was built on open source, announces the country's National Library. "The advantage of open ...
- Created on 08 November 2013
- 22. OpenAIRE, COAR and LIBER have prepared a joint response to the recent 'Framework for Action' addressing research data infrastructures, March 201
- (European Consultations)
- ... of action. They aim at realising the European vision for a global interoperable data e-infrastructure supporting open, digital-driven, science (note that High Performance Computing and Distributed Computing ...
- Created on 28 March 2013
- 23. OpenAIRE
- (EU Projects)
- OpenAIRE’s three main objectives are to: build support structures for researchers in depositing FP7 research publications through the establishment of the European Helpdesk and the outreach to all ...
- Created on 27 March 2013
- 24. Recommendation CM/Rec(2017)8 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on Big Data for culture, literacy and democracy
- (Recommendations)
- ... on the creation, access and management of digital culture, including the digitisation of culture, to promote citizen engagement, access to culture, openness, inclusion and tolerance in democratic societies”; ...
- Created on 29 September 2017
- 25. United Nations Digital Library launched
- (Newsflash)
- ... Library (DHL) at UN Headquarters and the United Nations Office at Geneva Library, the platform uses innovative open source technology to provide access to UN-produced materials in digital format. Content ...
- Created on 20 May 2017
- 26. A new Strategy for Romanian Public Libraries
- (Newsflash)
- ... space for all Romanian public libraries. This digital space will be the agreggator for bibliographic data and Open Access scientific research resources at the national level. For more information there ...
- Created on 25 January 2015
- 27. Heritage Data - Linked Data Vocabularies for Cultural Heritage
- (Newsflash)
- ... Linked Open Data (LOD) URIs that would allow them to act as vocabulary hubs for the Web of Data. The AHRC funded SENESCHAL project aims to make such vocabularies available online as Semantic Web resources. ...
- Created on 22 July 2013
- 28. Dynamic Action Plan for the EU co-ordination of digitisation of cultural and scientific content
- (EU Actions Plans)
- ... and business models for digital collections. PPPs and private sponsoring of digitisation. Open software and standards for digitisation. Ensuring that Digital Rights Management systems are developed ...
- Created on 12 July 2013
- 29. MICHAEL - Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe
- (EU Projects)
- ... model for multilingual digital cultural heritage inventories An open source technical platform for national instances built on EPrints3, XML etc. Interoperability protocols for national instances ...
- Created on 12 July 2013
- 30. IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto 1994
- (Policies and advocacy)
- ... accessible to all members of the community. This requires well situated library buildings, good reading and study facilities, as well as relevant technologies and sufficient opening hours convenient to ...
- Created on 09 July 2013
- 31. PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2013
- (Newsflash)
- ... held in Latin America, a region of the world that publishes almost exclusively in Open Access. The conference will provide a unique opportunity for exchange on innovative work in scholarly publishing, ...
- Created on 04 July 2013
- 32. Europeana – the case for funding: tweet #AllezCulture
- (Call for)
- ... heritage that will feed in to Europeana. Historypin in the UK predicts it will double in size with the availability of more open digital cultural heritage. 2. Europeana connects Europe. ‘People ...
- Created on 13 June 2013
- 33. DOAJ announces new selection criteria 2013-06-12
- (Newsflash)
- The Directory of Open Access Journals is delighted to announce new selection criteria and hereby announces that these new criteria are open for public comment until July 15th. The DOAJ-team has developed ...
- Created on 13 June 2013
- 34. Latest Issue (Vol: 14 / issue 1) and Invitation to Contributions for Next Issue
- (Journals and repositories)
- ... Information Center’s (ULAKBIM) Social Sciences Database. IWJ is an Open Access Journal and listed in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) and E-LIS (E-Prints in Library and Information Science). IWJ ...
- Created on 12 June 2013
- 35. The 8th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing 2013 - Entering the Next Stage
- (Newsflash)
- The Munin conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing, with an Open Access approach. This years' conference will be held 25-26 November 2013 at the University of Tromsø, Norway. This ...
- Created on 28 May 2013
- 36. The Accelerating Science Award Program
- (Rewarding OA)
- The Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) recognizes individuals who have applied scientific research – published through Open Access – to innovate in any field and benefit society. Anyone can nominate ...
- Created on 14 May 2013
- 37. EIFL wins WSIS 2013 Project Prize for excellence
- (Newsflash)
- ... information society. The award was presented by Dr Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) during the opening ceremony of the WSIS Forum 2013 on ...
- Created on 14 May 2013
- 38. CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI8)
- (Newsflash)
- The next CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI8), will be held at the University of Geneva on 19-21 June 2013.
- Created on 25 April 2013
- 39. Making Europe the home of eBooks
- (EU Agendas)
- ... is also looking for cross border solutions. I and my services are open to ideas. Would it make sense, for example, to work on a European online platform that informs readers about what books are available, ...
- Created on 28 March 2013
- 40. Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER)
- (EU Projects)
- ... of relevant experts and Open Access repositories. DRIVER-II will consolidate these efforts and transform the initial testbed into a fully functional, state-of-the art service, extending the network to ...
- Created on 27 March 2013