October 2010
National Information Day - Open Acess to Scientific Information
Wednesday 20th Oct 2010The Open Access Week is a global event, now in its 4th year, promoting the open access as a new norm in scholarship and research. This year’s Open Access Week will highlight the collaboration behind the open access and a broad range of initiatives around the globe. The anticipated participation of hundreds of uni-versities, research institutions, and other sites worldwide would demonstrate the depth and the breadth of support for the open access and the real impact of un-fettered access on advancing discovery across disciplines.
EuDML workshop with content providers- October 15
Monday 11th Oct 2010In this workshop, the EuDML partners will join together with leading technology providers in constructing the Europe wide interconnections between their collections, to create a document network as integrated and trans-national as the discipline of mathematics itself.
They will future-proof their work by providing the organisational and technical infrastructure to accomodate new collections and mathematically rich metadata formats, thereby retaining Europe´s leadership in the provision, acessibility and exploitation of electronic mathematical content.
Europeana Open Culture 2010 Conference, Amsterdam 14/15 October
Monday 11th Oct 2010The last few places are available at Europeana´s Open Culture 2010 conference: booking will close shortly as we are nearing our 350 capacity.
The keynote speakers are Liam Wyatt, the British Museum´s first Wikipedian in Residence, who will give a keynote on Peace, Love & Metadata: a cultural collaboration with Wikipedia, and James Crawford, Engineering Director for Google Books, who will talk about the present and future of the project.
