Getting to the Middle of the Copyright Maze

March 10th, 2010

I know this blog is supposed to be about international matters but I could not resist telling you about a new book of copyright that my colleague Naomi Korn and myself have written: Copyright: a practical guide. It’s selling fast!

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Finding and Connecting Cultural ‘Stuff’

March 1st, 2010

A new chapter has opened in my work on the European projects in the last month. One of data modelling, persistent identifiers and linked open data. All these might sound daunting but should enable a smarter and more useful Web. Read the rest of this entry »

ATHENA’s owl a ‘wow’ with the Commission

February 5th, 2010

Just back from 3 days in a snowy Luxembourg where the first review of the ATHENA project took place at the European Commission offices. Read the rest of this entry »

European Projects Take the Plunge into LIDO

January 27th, 2010

I have just spent the last week leading and teaching at a couple of workshops, in Rome and Berlin, for partners of the ATHENA project. Read the rest of this entry »

Survey the Cultural Standards Landscape

January 24th, 2010

The ATHENA project has just published part of our work for it as an easy to read booklet.   Read the rest of this entry »

Polish-ing EuropeanaLocal

December 10th, 2009

Just back from the ‘mid-term’ plenary meeting of the EuropeanaLocal project which was held at Polish Academy of Science in university city of Poznan in Poland. Read the rest of this entry »

The Europe(ana) Wide Scene

October 23rd, 2009

Check out the links on blogroll to the right for a list of the important websites associated with European cultural heritage. They particularly concentrate Europeana related sites.

If you are involved an international project that you want me to hear about please post a comment.

Discussing Metadata on Corfu

September 30th, 2009

Just back from giving part of a workshop on Harvesting Metadata: Practices and Challenges at a conference in Corfu.

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3 Days in The Hague

September 21st, 2009

On the face of it 3 days in the Dutch capital is not something you would find at the top of most people’s ’bucket list’. However I have just come back from an interesting first plenary meeting of the Europeana v1.0 project. Read the rest of this entry »

Last Supper for Librarians in Milan?

August 28th, 2009

Just back from a day long event in Milan on Digital Library Futures: User Perspectives and Institutional Strategies. I was there as the co-leader of Work Package 3 in the ATHENA project. Read the rest of this entry »