(7 February 2014) The European Commission has awarded GBP6m to archiving and digital preservation specialists to create E-ARK, a revolutionary method of archiving data that is set to become the gold standard across Europe. The system will ensure that current digital archives, including ‘big data,’ are future-proofed. (Big data is data sets of such a…
(29 January 2014) The 2013 Chinese Library Annual Conference was held in Pudong New Area of Shanghai from 7-9 November. Its theme was “Literary China: Reading leads the Future”. The National Library of China (NLC) designed and built the experience area of Digital Library Promotion Project. The illustrated article is here.
(7 February 2014) The first two free online courses by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have received huge response globally, with more than 27,000 sign ups so far. The two courses are offered on the leading Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform Coursera, which has tie-ups with more than 60 universities around the world to offer…
(8 February 2014) The seminar is co-organized by the Customs and Excise Department and Lingnan University’s Fong Sum Wood Library. In this seminar, the Inspectors from the Customs and Excise Department will introduce ways to protect and enforce intellectual property in Hong Kong. The seminar, in English, is on 20 February. Details are here.
(8 February 2014) LILAC, the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference has posted its programme on the conference website. The meeting takes place at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, 23-25 April 2014. The programme is here.
(8 February 2014) HKUST library has published issue #91 (February 2014) of its Notes from the Library. Upcoming library exhibitions, the opening of the Ko Pui Shuen Gallery and the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 are among the stories. The latter, RAE2014, is an exercise to assess the research quality of UGC funded institutions. The library…
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