The upskilling of information professionals is a topic of long-standing debates in academic and professional circles. 11 years after MOOCs emerged, a new Erasmus partnership will explore how to support library professionals by providing much-needed content around the digital transformation topic. To answer glocal (no, this is not a typo!) needs, the resources will beContinue reading “MOOCs, digital transformation and upskilling information professionals”
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Contributing to the IRRT Chair’s programme at the ALA congress today
The ALA conference, the biggest annual event for librarians in the USA features today a session of the International Relations Round Table (IRRT) Chair entitled Global libraries as agents of leadership in our post pandemic world: Leading Change, Advocacy, and Social Justice. For those at ALA here are the event details: Sunday, June 26, 2022Continue reading “Contributing to the IRRT Chair’s programme at the ALA congress today”
Иновациите и организациите от културния сектор: споделете опита си в проучването на проекта eCHOIng
От началото на 2022 консорциум от университети и културни организации от Норвегия, България, Гърция, Естония и Италия изследва как университетите и институциите от културния сектор си взаимодействат за въвеждането на иновации. Проектът цели да събере примери от всички страни участнички и предлагаме на вниманието на специалисти от музеи, библиотеки и архиви, от организации от областтаContinue reading “Иновациите и организациите от културния сектор: споделете опита си в проучването на проекта eCHOIng”
Living Heritage and Innovation in Bulgarian Museums
The Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe under the auspices of UNESCO is currently organising training for museum specialists from Bulgaria which aims to enrich their skills and knowledge related to the documentation of living heritage. The training assessed the needs of the museum professionals and their motivation wasContinue reading “Living Heritage and Innovation in Bulgarian Museums”
The new 2022 year brings the start of two new projects on digital transformation and on open innovation in museums
It is exciting to turn the page to the new 2022 with the positive news of being awarded a second Erasmus grant, Upskilling the Information Professionals of the Future: Novel Digital Transformation MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)”. This is a partnership of Ankara University (the coordinator of the project is Assoc. Prof. Nevzat Özel), theContinue reading “The new 2022 year brings the start of two new projects on digital transformation and on open innovation in museums”
Guest talk at the International book fair in Thessaloniki
Book fairs are among my favourite events because they bring together those who love the world of written word. Book fairs take their name from a particular format of sharing the written word and it may be a bit of a paradox to be invited to give a talk on digital content at such anContinue reading “Guest talk at the International book fair in Thessaloniki”
Demo paper accepted to ECIR’22
Here is the link to the final publication: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_31 This week we got the lovely news of an accepted demonstration paper “DuoSearch: A Novel Search Engine for Bulgarian Historical Documents” at the very competitive European Conference on Information Retrieval ECIR 2022 which will take place in April 2022 in Stavanger, Norway. The paper is onContinue reading “Demo paper accepted to ECIR’22”
Some initial thoughts in seamless learning in teaching history using digital collections
During a visit to the Open University in Heerlen, the Netherlands which was aimed at discussing the preparation of Master’s programmes within the MODERN-@ project (Modernisation in partnership through digitisation of the academic ecosystem) funded by the Bulgarian national operational programme Science and intelligent growth. The visit to the campus of the Open University inContinue reading “Some initial thoughts in seamless learning in teaching history using digital collections”
Dig into Historical Bulgarian Newspapers!
Europeana Research Community video This video is about collaboration which captures the essence of the DISTILL project: it shows how universities and libraries can collaborate to improve access to digital collections. The students developed their skills to solve real-life tasks using the newest approaches in data and text mining, and the library benefits from improvedContinue reading “Dig into Historical Bulgarian Newspapers!”
Is there a GLAMourous Future for Big Data?
I was delighted to deliver the opening keynote to the 27th annual conference of Greek Academic Libraries on 25 October 2021 with a presentation addressing the future of big data in GLAM organizations. The conference had over 300 attendees – in fact when I was joining the conference online room, I was told I canContinue reading “Is there a GLAMourous Future for Big Data?”
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