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Call for Papers:
*Libraries in the sky: large-scale collaboration strategies and
infrastructures to enhance the use of digital heritage collections*
IFLA RBSCS mid-term conference National Library of Norway (Oslo) April 12th
2018
In many countries, libraries have worked together to enhance the visibility
of their national heritage through a national digital library. In Europe,
Europeana is the continental digital library, and humanity as a whole has a
World Digital Library to discover its most precious treasures.
Now the time has come to reinforce and expand these collaborative
initiatives over the cloud, to foster new research opportunities and
include born digital documents as well.
New kinds of collaborations, large-scale or international, are now needed.
Tools like IIIF are becoming standards which must be mastered by
librarians, and Research Infrastructures are being created which demand the
expertise of librarians on their collections and on information management.
Born-digital documents represent new challenges that probably need to be
addressed collaboratively, and solutions are still to be found.
The IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections is inviting speakers from all
over the world to Oslo on April 12th, 2018, to present their experiences
and projects regarding the building of large-scale collaborative tools and
infrastructures to enhance the access to and the reuse of digital heritage
collections, born-digital or digitized items. An interactive training
session on IIIF will also be provided by the National Library of Norway.
The call for papers runs until December 31st, 2017. Selected speakers will
be informed by January 31st at the latest. Speakers please be aware that no
financial support is available from the organizers. Presentations will be
made available online after the conference.
Proposals should be sent in English to both Frédéric Blin
Frederic.blin(a)bnu.fr and Hege Stensrud Høsøien hege.hosoien(a)nb.no, with
abstracts of no more than 500 words or less plus a single-paragraph C.V.
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*Daryl Green*
Librarian
Magdalen College * |* Oxford *|* OX1 4AU
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
www.kalamosbooks.comhttp://kalamosb.alibrisstore.com/http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookseller.phtml/kal