Impact and Sustainability: Panel at the PREFORMA Innovation workshop
On March 7 LIBER’s EU Project Manager Melanie Imming will chair a panel at the Innovation Workshop of the PREFORMA Project in Padua. The PREFORMA project works on one of the main challenges memory institutions are facing nowadays: the long-term preservation of digital data. This issue is also important for LIBER’s community. LIBER has therefore…
The theme of the 6th edition of the EUhackathon held at Google headquarters in Brussels last week was ‘visualising copyright evidence to inform the policy debate and support the decision making process’. The foremost objective of the initiative was to raise awareness and encourage debate around copyright and text and data mining. The goal of the…
As part of LIBER´s work to connect and represent research libraries we initiate and participate in strategic and innovative European projects. All of our projects relate, in one way or another, to Open Science. Do you have a research background? Are you familiar with the issues addressed in these projects — Open Science, including Open Science Training,…
On 14 June 2016 I presented the FutureTDM and OpenMinTeD projects, in which LIBER is a partner, at the Member State Expert Group on Digitisation and Digital Preservation meeting in Luxembourg. I was asked to talk about Text and Data Mining techniques using Cultural Heritage data, since large Cultural Heritage datasets have become available through digitisation.…
The upcoming calls in the H2020 work programme 2016/2017 offer new opportunities for LIBER and LIBER members to participate in bids for European project funding over the next two years. We examined the programme to identify the calls most relevant to LIBER’s strategic directions, and encourage our members to consider getting involved in the calls…
As part of our work to connect and represent research libraries in Europe, we initiate and participate in strategic and innovative European projects. In 2015 we joined six new projects. The LIBER office is buzzing with activity and an updated overview of all the EU projects in which LIBER is involved can now be found…
There is a skills gap between the number of researchers and professionals equipped to practice open access and the number that are needed to meet European Commission goals. The Project FOSTER aims to meet these needs.
Across Europe, thousands of museums, galleries and archives are digitising their collections and putting them online via Europeana. There is a need for a cheaper, more sustainable infrastructure, capable of storing both metadata and content.
The Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration project, AARC, has started from 1 May 2015. A kick-off meeting for partners and interested members of the wider community was held in Amsterdam on 3-4 June 2015. For the next two years, AARC will bring together 20 partners including national research and education networking (NREN) organisations,…