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The European digital information landscape: how can LIBER contribute?
This paper looks at a snapshot of the current state of digitisation in the information landscape. It then looks at what LIBER can contribute to that landscape through portal
development, funding, identifying and documenting best practice, lobbying at a European level, and managing the transition from paper to digital delivery, including
the issue of digital preservation. The paper ends by trying to identify how the user will use the digitised resources which are increasingly being made available by libraries
The EU-funded EuropeanaTravel project
EuropeanaTravel is a targeted project for cultural content in the target area digital
libraries of the eContentplus 2008 Work Programme funded by the European
Commission.1 Its overall objective is to digitise content on the theme of travel and
tourism for use in Europeana2 as requested by the EDL Foundation.3 The themed
content will come from the wonderful collections of major university libraries and
national libraries. The project is supported by CENL4 and LIBER,5 two founder
members of the EDL Foundation, and by the Foundation itself. A secondary objective
of the project is further to strengthen collaboration between CENL and LIBER
by extending their experience of joint working, thus increasing human interoperability
in support of Europeana. Other objectives include creating a LIBER closed
access aggregation service to aggregate material from LIBER members for Europeana,
continuing to mobilise support for Europeana amongst university libraries
in a systematic way, and supporting the spread of best practice in digitisation
by libraries. The consortiumâs 19 members include 17 library members providing
content from 16 countries drawn roughly equally from the membership of CENL
and LIBER and from all European regions. The project will run for two years and
work closely and flexibly with the Europeana team. The EuropeanaTravel project
was launched in Tallinn on 11 May 2009 and this article has been compiled to
celebrate that event
Bridging the gap between digital libraries and e-learning
Digital Libraries (DL) are offering access to a vast amount of digital
content, relevant to practically all domains of human knowledge, which makes it
suitable to enhance teaching and learning. Based on a systematic literature review,
this article provides an overview and a gap analysis of educational use of DLs.The research work presented in this paper is partially supported by the FP7 Grant
316087 AComIn âAdvanced Computing for Innovationâ, funded by the European Commission in the FP7 Capacity Programme in 2012-2016.peer-reviewe
Europeana communication bug: which intervention strategy for a better cooperation with creative industry?
Although Europeana as well as many GLAMs are very engaged - beside the main mission, i.e. spreading cultural heritage knowledge- in developing new strategies in order to make digital contents reusable for creative industry, these efforts have been successful just only in sporadic cases. A significant know how deficits in communication often compromises expected outcomes and impact. Indeed, what prevails is an idea of communication like an enhancement âinstrumentâ intended on the one hand in purely economic (development) sense, on the other hand as a way for increasing and spreading knowledge. The main reference model is more or less as follows: digital objects are to be captured and/or transformed by digital technologies into sellable goods to put into circulation. Nevertheless, this approach risks neglecting the real nature of communication, and more in detail the one of digital heritage where it is strategic not so much producing objects and goods as taking part into sharing environments creation (media) by engaged communities, small or large they may be. The environments act as meeting and interchange point, and consequently as driving force of enhancing. Only in a complex context of network interaction on line accessible digital heritage contents become a strategic resource for creating environments in which their re/mediation can occur â provided that credible strategies exist, shared by stakeholders and users. This paper particularly describes a case study including proposals for an effective connection among Europeana, GLAMs and Creative Industry in the framework of Food and Drink digital heritage enhancement and promotion. Experimental experiences as the one described in this paper anyway confirm the relevance of up-to-date policies based on an adequate communication concept, on solid partnerships with enterprise and association networks, on collaborative on line environments, on effective availability at least for most of contents by increasing free licensing, and finally on grassroots content implementation involving prosumers audience, even if filtered by GLAMs
D7.3 Training materials
This Deliverable gives a detailed description of the comprehensive training programme and of the open educational content that the University of Padua has accomplished up to now for the project "Linked Heritage: Coordination of standard and technologies for the enrichment of Europeana" (CIP Best Practice Network). The final version of D7.3 will be released by the end of the project, when all the Learning Objects will be finished
Infrastructures for digital research: new opportunities and challenges
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New Renaissance (The)
Les sages de ce comité ont procédé à l\u27étude du projet de numérisation de l\u27ensemble du patrimoine culturel européen et proposent dans ce rapport une série de recommandations visant à encadrer cet ambitieux programme afin de :
-partager notre patrimoine commun, dans toute sa richesse et sa diversité ;
- relier notre passé à notre présent ;
- préserver cet héritage pour les générations futures ;
- protĂ©ger les intĂ©rĂȘts des crĂ©ateurs europĂ©ens ;
- favoriser la créativité, celles des professionnels comme celles des amateur
Introduction : user studies for digital library development
Introductory chapter to the edited collection on user studies in digital library development. Contains a general introduction to the topic and biographical sketches of the contributors.peer-reviewe
Joining forces: European periodical studies as a new research field
In recent decades, periodical studies have burgeoned into a vibrant field of research. Increasing numbers of scholars working in disciplines across the humanities â literary studies, history, art history, gender studies, media studies, legal history, to name a few â are exploring the press as a key site for cultural production, public debate and the dissemination of knowledge. [...
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