abevan February 16th, 2010
Teagasc has received notification that its peer reviewed journal Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research has been included in JSTOR’s Ireland Collection. The Ireland Collection, created in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast, and JSTOR’s first regional collection was launched on August 7, 2008. With funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme, the Ireland Collection is being made available freely to institutions in Ireland and the United Kingdom. When completed it will contain 2,500 manuscripts, 200 monographs, and 75 ceased and currently publishing journals.
Access to the Ireland Collection is available without fees to any non-commercial institutions in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.
According to JSTOR “The Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research is a vital part of the collection’s resources in the biological sciences”. Continue Reading »
Tags: Digitisation, JSTOR Ireland Collection
abevan December 22nd, 2009
Measures to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable, formerly funded under the eContentplus programme, have been continued since 2009 under the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Policy Support Programme (“ICT PSP”), one of three specific programmes implemented through the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (2007-2013) (“CIP”).
The draft CIP ICT PSP work programme for the year 2010 is now available. It contains 6 themes; theme 2 relates to digital libraries. €30 million will be available for funding projects under the following objectives: Coordinating Europeana, enhancing/aggregating content in Europeana, digitising content for Europeana, access to European rights information/registry of orphan works, open access to scientific information and statistics on cultural heritage digitisation activities.
The Commission is organising a general Information Day in Brussels on January 14 2010. That Information Day will cover all 6 themes of the work programme.
In addition, a dedicated Information Day for the theme of Digital Libraries will take place in Luxembourg on Thursday, February 4 2010. Continue Reading »
Tags: digital libraries, Digitisation
abevan November 10th, 2009
The Library and Information Services Council (LISC NI) has added 2 new resources to its website.
The first is a register of digitisation projects which have been undertaken in Northern Ireland and is based on an initial list provided by LISC members. If you know of any additional projects that should be added, please contact Linda Houston.
The second resource is a database based on A Union List of Belfast Maps to 1900 published by the LISC Local History Panel. The initial intention of the database is to give researchers easy access to information about the original maps including their locations. It is hoped that the maps themselves will be digitised in the near future and the LISC Working Group on Digitisation has been exploring this with the holding institutions.
To keep up to date with news and developments in LISC visit the LISC Blog or, even more convenient, sign up to receive the blog posts by email with Feed my Inbox – you can do this from the link on the Blog’s front page.
Tags: Digitisation, Lisc (NI), Maps
abevan October 22nd, 2009
Registration is now open for the third in the series of five three-day Outreach and Training events.
Digital Preservation – The Planets Way will next be hosted in Bern, Switzerland at the Swiss Federal Archives and will address the issues surrounding digital preservation and will introduce the Planets approach, tools and services.
The primary goal for Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services) is to build practical services and tools to help ensure long-term access to our digital cultural and scientific assets.
Delegates will also have the opportunity to obtain practical, hands-on experience of using the Planets suite of tools and services, embarking on a challenge to preserve a sample collection.
For more information and to register please visit the events pages.
The website makes available project documentations and deliverables as Planets progresses so that these can be shared with the libraries, archives and digital preservation community.
You can keep up to date with Planets by joining the Planets Community and receive news and announcements of training and events etc. You may unsubscribe at any time.
Tags: Conferences, Digitisation, Training
abevan June 8th, 2009
Dynamic Networks of Knowledge & Practice: Contexts, Crises, Futures
7 – 9 September 2009, Queens University Belfast.
This conference is co-hosted by Queen’s University Belfast, the Royal Irish Academy , and Swansea University in partnership with the National Library of Wales.
The conference aims to establish new digital communities of knowledge exchange and will address the following themes:
• the impact of data on scholarship and wider society;
• how innovations become mainstream through mutation and imitation;
• digitisation of scholarly editions and cultural heritage;
• digital representation of time, space and locality;
• digital preservation and sustainability;
• user engagement and social participation;
• the impact of narrative and design in the Arts and Humanities on ICT and vice versa;
• education and the digital humanities and arts;
• the theory and practice of creating and documenting digital arts.
For more information visit the
conference website.
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Tags: Conferences, Digitisation