2015 – Page 42

Turning research questions into computational queries: outputs from the ‘Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections’ project

Data, Databases, Digitization, ToolsJuly 5, 2015

(3 July 2015) ‘Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections’, a project funded by the Jisc Research Data Spring, empowers researchers to turn their research questions into computational queries and gathers social and technical requirements for infrastructures and services that allow computational exploration of big humanities data. Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Humanities at…

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Shinsegae Corporation to build toy library for children in Ho Chi Minh City

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJuly 3, 2015

(2 July 2015) With the aim of contributing to the improvement of education and development environment for children, today, Shinsegae Corporation – the parent firm of Emart hypermarket system – has signed an MOU on establishing the Hope Toy Library in Ho Chi Minh City, where the first Emart hypermarket will soon be opened. Shinsegae…

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Collecting Digital: Legal Deposit extended for the National Library of Australia

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJuly 3, 2015

(1 July 2015) This extension to the Library’s Legal Deposit scheme means that the library can now archive Australia’s digital content alongside more traditional published works. Guidelines as to how people can deposit their works have been developed in conjunction with industry and the Attorney-General’s Department, and we understand they will be published shortly on…

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Government of India launches e-Basta, a digital library of educational materials

Asia Pacific, eBooksJuly 3, 2015

(1 July 2015) As part of the ‘Digital India’ initiative, the Government recently unveiled the e-Basta platform which will provide digital and eBook versions of school books and other study material to school students through-out India. The platform, eBasta, is merely not a library of books, but a collaborative platform where school book publishers, school…

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Quake-ravaged TU Central Library, Nepal, to take two years to manage

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJuly 3, 2015

(1 July 2015, Kathmandu) The Tribhuvan University (TU) Central Library will take two years to manage the earthquake damage before normal services can recommence, library officials have said. The 25 April 2015 earthquake has caused NPR 1.5 million damage to the library which houses some 400,000 volumes of books, thousands of research journals and some…

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Australian Public Library Alliance reviews its achievements

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJuly 2, 2015

(30 June 2015) The ALIA Australian Public Library Alliance has published a comprehensive report covering its achievements, as the peak body for public libraries in Australia, for the five years from 2010 to 2015. The report provides an outstanding example of local government collaborating nationally, and shows how public library services in every state and…

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TBRC brings Tibetan manuscripts onto the Google Culture Institute

Asia PacificJuly 2, 2015

(1 July 2015) The Tibetan Buddhism Resource Center has announced its exhibition space on the Google Cultural Institute platform, online and via mobile device. The TBRC partnership with GCI will allow people worldwide to intimately explore and interact with high-resolution images from select manuscripts in our digital archive. The Google Cultural Institute brings together millions…

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schmidt hammer lassen architects breaks ground for the studio’s first library in China

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJune 30, 2015

(29 June 2015) Last week, a ground-breaking ceremony was celebrated for the new 30,000 square metre central library in Ningbo, China. schmidt hammer lassen architects won the competition in 2013 to design the 240 million RMB (€ 29 million) Central Library in the eastern port city of Ningbo. The new 30,000m2 library will house the…

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Village library devoted to Aboriginal children opens in Taiwan

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJune 30, 2015

(30 June 2015) Taiwan’s first library dedicated to Aboriginal children opened in Pingtung County’s Changjhih Township (長治) on Saturday. The Vusam Children’s Library hopes to devote more resources and time to Aboriginal children’s education. According to Vusam organization founder Liang Ming-hui (梁明輝), the difficulties of travel and general lack of educational resources such as libraries,…

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Wiley partnership with Figshare enables data sharing

Data, Open Access, PublishersJune 30, 2015

(30 June 2015, Hoboken, NJ) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. today announced their partnership with London- based data repository organization, Figshare. To support authors who wish to openly share their data, Wiley have embarked on this partnership with Figshare to integrate data sharing within existing journal workflows and article publication. The new data sharing service…

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