With the development of an advanced knowledge-based society, digital curation is becoming a central challenge and activity for libraries, archives, museums and other cultural organizations. The need for skilled professionals to manage digital collections is evident in Europe and internationally, yet there are limited numbers of institutions currently offering professional training and education programmes to prepare individuals to work in the field.
“Beyond the Cloud: Information…Innovation…Collaboration…” being the main theme of the Symposium, IMCW2013 aims to bring together information professionals, computer and information scientists, business people and engineers to discuss the implications of cloud computing on information management and to contemplate on how to design and develop innovative and collaborative information services beyond the cloud.
The first ANADP conference (http://educopia.org/events/ANADP), held in 2011 with participation by representatives from more than twenty countries, produced a broad agenda of forty-seven action areas for collaboration between national and international scale digital preservation efforts (this agenda, published in the ANADP volume, is available as a free download at the URL http://www
10th International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects
The 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. Call for papers now open.
ASIS&T European Workshop is a general information science and technology conference with an aim of bringing together European and European based scholars and practitioners of information science in order to discuss current developments and European perspectives to information science research and practice. The general theme of the conference is “Digital information and institutions: changing practices of management and use”
LIBER 42nd Annual Conference. The call for papers is now open. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 January 2013.
The theme for the 79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly is Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities
The next International UDC Seminar entitled “Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge” will take place in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, on 24-25 October 2013. This is the fourth in a series of International UDC Seminarsdevoted to advances in documentary classification research and their application in a networked environment.
The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries.