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Where to Get Funding to Digitise or Enhance Publications
The first one is based in The Netherlands: Two days ago SURFfoundation made a call for short projects on Enhanced Publications. Basically this is about the development of new techniques that make it possible to enhance publications with extra materials such as illustrations, videos, metadatasets and post-publication data (including commentary or ranking). Say an article […]
Open Access Publishing takes off in European Research Community
October 6, 2010
Today a publisher-run Open Access online library filled with freely available academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences from across Europe is officially launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair. And that’s not all – the same people who made this possible are busy developing an OA-publishing platform that can be used by academic publishers and research […]
EU (culture) Projects launch Websites
March 24, 2009
Fleur updates you about two EU projects and mentions where you can find more information: 1. APENET APENET will provide a common gateway to Europe’s archives and will inform visitors about archival material from across Europe. Twelve European National Archives are involved in the project, and – as you may have expected – there is […]
Who and What Drives Driver?
January 19, 2009
Fleur writes: A small warning….This is a long post about (open source) e-Infrastructure and (Open Access) digital repositories. It has a somewhat techie feel to it and infrastructure is not one of my favorite topics, but when one goes a bit below the surface, some interesting developments pop up. Having established the necessary network of […]
Rights, Registries and Orphan Works
January 14, 2009
Fleur writes: Yes, another project! This time around I would like to draw your attention to a project entitled Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works, in short ARROW. “The aim of the ARROW project is to help identify copyright holders of out-of-print works, to create European registers of orphan works and also to […]
Athena and Other Projects
January 12, 2009
Fleur writes: A range of projects in the different cultural heritage domains are bringing content into Europeana. One of those projects is entitled “ATHENA”, co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus. As one can read on the associated – and very recently released – project website, ATHENA specifically “tackles the gap in existing content provision to […]
IMPACT: Improving Access to Text
September 25, 2008
“IMPACT is a project funded by the European Commission. It aims to significantly improve access to historical text and to take away the barriers that stand in the way of the mass digitization of the European cultural heritage.” (text published on http://www.impact-project.eu) Hildelies Balk – Programme Manager IMPACT – further explains: IMPACT is a European […]
European Film Gateway – A Short Intro
September 8, 2008
Some more information about EFG, one of the projects relating to Europeana – the European digital library, museum and archive: “EFG – The European Film Gateway is a 3-years project which started on 1st September 2008. It will develop an online portal, providing direct access to about 790.000 digital objects including films, photos, posters, drawings, […]
Video on The European Library and Europeana
September 1, 2008
“> A 8-minute video that explains The European Library and Europeana. It is an abridged version of the presentation Tiziana Fazio and I prepared for the ALA Conference. The video tells you: - what The European Library and Europena are … - differences between the two - some backgrounds - new projects Source: “Cooperative Strategies […]
EDLocal becomes EuropeanaLocal
July 7, 2008
June 26-27th EDLocal kicked off in London. Well to be more precise: EuropeanaLocal kicked off…. Indeed we decided to also drop here the EDL-abbrevation. Remember that some time ago the European digital library (EDL) changed its name in Europeana? As a result we need to change the names of related projects as well… Europeana is […]
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Fleur Stigter runs digital strategy consultancy Clear Insite. Here she writes about developments in online publishing & marketing. Keywords: New Initiatives, European projects, Open Access and international e-marketing.
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