Evidence

Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference (SKOS)

W3C has announced the advancement of Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference (SKOS) to Proposed Recommendation.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-skos-reference-20090615/

Europeana Survey

The Europeana users have been invited to participate in a short survey. To answer this survey you should have searched or browsed Europeana already. To thank you for completing the survey Europeana will put your name in a prize draw for an iPod touch. The winner will be announced in the second week of May 2009.
http://www.irn-research.com/surveys/30_europeana/Web HTML/Europeanasurvey_files/Europeanasurvey.htm

STERNA Technology Watch report

STERNA Project has produced a Technology Watch report [.pdf], edited by Salzburg Research in the period July to November 2008 as part of the project task 6.5: Cluster Activities, which forms part of work package 6: Network Extension and Deployment.
The function of the Technology Watch activity is to provide STERNA and other projects related to the European Digital Library with a “radar” that identifies initiatives in content/metadata enrichment and integration of eterogeneous digital collections based on Semantic Web languages and technologies.
As STERNA is an initiative of organisations from the fields of natural history and biodiversity, the radar was extended to ongoing developments in these fields. The aim was to create a wider picture of the digital environments natural science and history organisations and practitioners use to reate, manage and share information resources.

What happens after eContentplus?

The eContentplus programme will expire on 31 December 2008.
Measures to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable will, however, be continued after that date under the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Policy Support Programme ("ICT PSP"), one of three specific programmes implemented through Decision No. 1639/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 2006 establishing a Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (2007-2013) ("CIP"), OJ L310, 9.11.2006, p. 15.
To go to the CIP website http://ec.europa.eu/cip/index_en.htm.

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Events

• 23-27 August 2009. Milan, Italy
  IFLA World Library and Information Congress

• 8 -11 Septmber 2009. Trento, Italy
  International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web
  
  
  • 9 September 2009. Workshop "Multilinguality in information access to digital libraries user needs and evaluation of multilungual resources use"
    organised by the eConnect project
    
    
  • 8 September 2009. Workshop "Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries 2009 (AT4DL 2009)"

MINERVA Activities

Museo & Web  (en) - (fr) - (it)  
Kit for planning a quality website for small museums, edited by WP5 Italy.

Publications

• Handbook on cultural web user interaction (en - it)
  
  
• IPR Guide
  
  
• Cost reduction in digitisation
  
  
• Final Plan for using and disseminating knowledge and raise public participation and awareness Report on inventories and multilingualism issues: Multilingualism and Thesaurus
  
  
• Dynamic Action Plan for the EU co-ordination of digitisation of cultural and scientific content
  
  
• Quality Principles for cultural Web sites: a handbook (ar [.pdf] - az [.pdf] - ee - en - el - fr - hu)
  
  
• MINERVA: Digitising content together: Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in Digitisation: Activities 2003 - 2004 (information brochure on the project) (en [pdf 837KB]) - (it [pdf 825KB])
  
  
• Coordinating digitisation in Europe
  Progress report of the National Representatives Group: coordination mechanisms for digitisation policies and programmes.
  
  
• Charter of Parma
  
  
• Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes
  
  
• Cultural Website quality principles (ar [.jpg] - de - fr - ee - el - en - es - hu - it - nl - pl - si - sk) [POSTER PDF 49KB]
  A decalogue for cultural website developers
  
  
• Handbook for quality in cultural Web sites: improving quality for citizens. (en - it)
  
  
• Good practice handbook (de - ee - el - en - fr - hu - it - lv - pt - sk)