Digital meets Culture

An interesting session on employment at Lu.Be.C.

Creative re-use of digital cultural content and private-public-partnerships

Promoter participated to LuBeC 2013 with a presentation (PDF, italian language) of dr. Antonella Fresa about the creative re-use of digital cultural content and best practice for private-public-partnerships.

The presentation starts from the consideration that the amount of Digital Cultural Heritage is very large and constantly growing, thanks to the digitization programmes that both private and public content holders are carrying on since the last 10 years. The return on investment should be assessed against the impact delivered to society both in terms of the use of digital cultural heritage content and services by researchers, teachers, students and more in general the European citizens, and in terms of its use by the economic actors, most particularly the creative industries.

Creative industries includes a wide range of businesses, from multi-national corporations to small and micro-business. They are a complex sector: although 80% are small and micro enterprises, the total business share of the SMEs is only 18%; while the 1% of large-scale enterprises generates 40% of the annual sector turnover. However, the comprehension and the engagement with creative industries is a key factor since they represent a fundamental ring in the development of the “Cultural Heritage–Technology– Reuse” value chain.

Still, a number of barriers exists that makes difficult to unlock in full the potential that can derive from the re-use of digital cultural heritage, among which: lack of clear licensing of digital public domain works, lack of good discovery mechanisms, lack of awareness amongst cultural institutions about the value of their digital assets.

Increasing the exploitation of the digital cultural content available is therefore possible only by engaging into a close and factual dialogue content holders, creative enterprises and end users with the final aim to create and support new products and to eventually boost opportunities for employment and economic growth.

The speech of Dr. Fresa introduced two best practice projects that see the partnership of Promoter in the role of Technical Coordinator. The two projects are Europeana Photography and Europeana Space (under negotiation expected to start at the beginning of 2014). They are supported by the European Commission in the frame of the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme to contribute to the development of Europeana, the European digital library.

The presentation of Promoter was scheduled in the second session of Focus Employment that took place on the 18^th October, h. 9.30-13.00, featuring discussion on the theme “Cultural heritage and ICT: digital interactivity for the cultural attractors”.

Download the presentation in PDF here

A personalised learning environment consisting of a series of learning objects aimed at key audiences in the cultural heritage sector.

Linked Heritage training programme

In the frame of Linked Heritage, a comprehensive training programme has been designed and developed by the University of Padova with the help and contribution of all the partners.

The Linked Heritage Learning Objects were produced thanks to the support of music composers and performers, multimedia project experts, young geeks, photographers, camera operators, set designers and illustrators who gave the project their talents, availability and work for free.

The following user groups were identified as representative of the specific category of users whom to target the training modules:

cultural institution managers and decision-makers as potential Europeana content providers:
teachers, educators, scholars who could benefit from the exploitation of Europeana content;
Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals, entry-level students and museum, library and archive technicians who need to be constantly up-to-date with the development of digital libraries (self-taught and lifelong learners);
market players from the private sector.

Here below is the full list of the Learning Objects produced in the frame of Linked Heritage:

1. Persistent Identifiers: What if?

This Learning object consists of two parts: on the left of the screen, a dialogue between two owlets introducing PIDs and, on the right of the screen, a video showing the concepts. Each PID functional requirement is represented by a visual metaphor associated with a musical metaphor: uniqueness, persistency, resolvability, reliability, authoritativeness, flexibility, interoperability and cost effectiveness.

Persistent Identifiers: What if? is available in the following languages: English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Sweden and Spanish.

2. Digitisation Life Cycle

This learning object presents the digitisation workflow both in theory and in practice. The first part gives an overview of the entire digitisation workflow based on the digitisation guidelines of the University of Padova Library System provided by the Phaidra working group. The second section focuses on a case study of the University of Padova the “Botanists portrait collection”. The case study is illustrated by two videos showing the preservation of items and digitisation.

Digitisation Life Cycle is available in the following languages: English, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Spanish.

3. MINT Services

The Linked Heritage aggregation methodology and the mapping workflow in MINT – the technological platform developed by the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) – is thoroughly described along the learning object. The user can follow step by step the mapping workflow by means of a sequence of screencasts. Furthermore the learning object gives practical tips to technicians dealing with specific mapping activities as for example how to set metadata and digital object rights in MINT. The learning object is enriched by the training materials and further readings.

MINT Services is available in the following languages: English, Spanish and Swedish.

4. Why and how to contribute to Europeana

Why and how to contribute to Europeana describes the motivations for which cultural heritage institutions should contribute to Europeana. It also examines the University of Padova experience. The learning object contains the description of our Atheneum’s main technical steps, the workflow and some administrative information.

Why and how to contribute to Europeana is available in English and Sweden.

5. Persistent Identifiers: Commercial and heritage views

This LO describes a series of case studies on persistent identification presented by Linked Heritage partners led by EDItEUR. These studies point out the differences and similarities between the commercial media and cultural heritage sectors.

Persistent Identifiers: Commercial and heritage views is available in English, Greek and Swedish.

6. Terminology

This tutorial explains the following subjects in a simple and practical way: the notion of terminologies and their importance in enhancing digital content; step by step guidelines on how to improve your vocabulary on the world wide web; an introduction to the terminology management platform (TMP); an introduction to the Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS); an overview of the most recent literature and websites.

Terminology is available in English.

7. Public-Private Partnership with Europeana

This learning object presents an overview of the “state of play” for trade companies wishing to offer their product data to Europeana, with pointers to freely-available tools and documents contributed by EDItEUR to support this process as part of the Linked Heritage.

It describes: what Europeana is and does; why it may be valuable to the commercial sector; any relevant legal questions; technical services available to support collaboration.

Public-Private Partnership with Europeana is available in Bulgarian, English, Spanish and Swedish.

8. Linking cultural heritage information

This Learning object focuses on the current structure of the Linked data Cloud – the best known representation of linked data and on the benefits for the cultural heritage institutions. Thanks to Linked data – especially Linked Open Data – they can enrich knowledge and improve their visibility on the web.

Linking cultural heritage information is available in English.

Click here to access the Linked Heritage Virtual e-Learning Environment.

Click here to see the article published on the Europeana blog.

A technical platform implemented in Linked heritage to input, organize and map terminologies.

Improved search and higher-quality metadata through terminology management

Each cultural institution provides some thousands of object descriptions in its own languages using its own terminologies. These terminologies need to be expressed according to the principles of the Semantic Web in order to enable the user to better understand the content.

There is a rather large gap between the current way to deal with terminologies in cultural institutions, and the skills and means necessary to exploit the potentiality of an effective terminology management.

The implementation of a technical platform for terminology management shall help cultural institutions to input, organise and map their in-house terminologies with other thesauri and consequently it will help them to enrich their metadata records so that they offer the maximum value.

One of the major result of Linked Heritage is the Terminology Management Platform. The demontstrator, which has been developed according to all the requirements and expected functionnalities gathered during the project, offers a set of tools for manipulating any kind of terminology. Even if the TMP is thesaurus-oriented , simple lists of terms or ontologies can be imported within the TMP anf then be mapped to the SKOS model. As the TMP is addressing professionnals from the GLAM sector, many efforts have been given in order to provide an intuitive interface.

The Terminology Management Platform is available at http://www.culture-terminology.org

Furthermore, all the recommendations and guidelines on terminology management and SKOS have been collected in a booklet “Your terminology as a part of the semantic Web, recommendations for design and management” that can be distributed in printed handbook or downloaded online.

A demonstrator developed in the frame of the Linked Heritage Best Practice Network

Linking Cultural Heritage Information

Linked data is seen as the enabling technology of the ‘Semantic Web’. Sir Tim Berners-Lee described this not just:

“… about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data.”

The Linking Open Data Cloud (2011 version) diagram contains an impressive 311 ‘packages’ (collections of triples) of linked data showing the links between them and the sectors they are coming from. The research conducted by Linked Heritage project in to the details of these packages ‘lifted the lid’ to find a few significant and interesting facts:

Linked data is not always ‘open’ (57.4% of packages were not open licensed for re-use, 69.1% of triple were not open)
Cultural heritage is largely absent for the Cloud (CH packages only represent c5% of the packages)
Most of the links are to limited number of packages (the great majority of links were to DBpedia, GeoNames Semantic Web and Freebase)

All this led to a set of reccommendations that can be summarised as follows:

Any publication of linked data must be accompanied by a licence which makes it clear what uses can be made of the data.
The licence may be standard, e.g. provided by Creative Commons, or one created specifically by the publisher.
Not to create a proprietary format which is only intended to be used for your package;
Use standard format(s) appropriate for the type of data being published.
Consider using a cultural heritage specific format for linked data. Possible candidate formats, ones based on: EDM, CIDOC CRM, and LIDO.
Link to packages, of a general nature, which are often linked to: DBpedia; GeoNames Semantic Web; national sources of terminology (e.g. UK Postcodes);
Link to known packages in the cultural heritage, e.g.: Library of Congress Subject Headings; VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File; and Dewey Decimal Classification);
Provide a SPARQL endpoint to the package.

All this advice Linked Heritage followed in the Linked data demonstrator.

The project was able to publish a limited set of its metadata, initially from the UK Government Art collection and Photo Marburg, and latterly by packages from other partners. In the demonstrator it was possible to enable and illustrate an RDF graph and to enable a search which would not be possible from the original data, for example to carry out a query for artists born in Britain in the UK Government Art Collection (GAC) data. In the GAC data only the name of the artist is given not their country of origin. However by linking to GAC data to DBpedia data it is possible to answer this. Similar queries can also be envisaged, and this is one of the most powerful ‘selling points’ for linked data.

Pisa, 10 - 13 October 2013

Internet Festival 2013 Edition

For the Internet Festival, closed on 13th October, Incubator was the keyword for 2013.

The organizers have already published the first official data of the event:

60 countries directly or virtually represented; more than 23.000 devices connected (smartphones, pc, tablets); more than 20 locations and more than 200 expert speakers in more than 150 events; 62 laboratories, 26 panels; 18 keynote speeches.

More information available here (italian language)

The Festival explored how new information and communication technologies are like a soil capable of creating a fertile landscape for the development and growth of ideas, inventions, opportunities, products, services and start-ups, whilst also easing the current crisis, signalling the way for shared development and representing a sustainable future.
Entrepreneurs, institutions, venture capitalists, universities and research centres met and presented their projects and case histories over four days in around twenty venues across the city of Pisa.

The 2013 intense programme was based around the following subject areas:

I4C – INTERNET FOR CITIZENS

The objective of the citizens’ area is to pin down matters concerning social innovation, understood in terms of improving the quality of everyday life through the innovation of the Net. The topic of Smart Cities is to be considered from citizens’ points of view, who are both the users and the protagonists of the technological innovations changing daily life.

I4M – INTERNET FOR MAKERS

The objective of the Makers’ area was to explore the Net as an incubator for ideas and opportunities relating to work and the economy. It investigated how the web can become a vehicle for updating old business practices (which are traditionally offline) such as publishing, how Big Data can improve both new and old business practices and how the Net can create connections and relationships, which are both efficient and productive.

I4T – INTERNET FOR TELLERS

The objective of the Tellers’ area was to discuss the Net as an incubator for new information flow, generated from the mass of content poured into it. Managing this flow makes it possible to swiftly respond to potential ideas, suggest advertising, identify different target groups and be aware of public opinion and the general sentiment online.

VIDEO: Internet Festival 2013 – The digital revolution continues!

T-TOUR

The 2012 Internet Festival saw the extraordinary success of so-called T-Tours, that is, an educational and formative discovery of the Net for different age groups, competencies and interests.

SMARTUP

This year the Internet Festival introduced a new meeting point for businesses, designed not only to serve as a platform for networking, but to be a real incubator for new business opportunities and a fertile landscape for the germination of ideas.

EBOOKERIA

The book and e-book section was running creative and collective workshops as well as presentations of books and e-books that discuss the web, giving the internet careful thought and interacting with the subject in a variety of different ways.

Internet Festival is an initiative organized by Fondazione Sistema Toscana with the support of many valuable institutions.

Official website: http://www.internetfestival.it/?lang=en

Download the Press release of the Internet Festival here (italian language)

Download the Press release related to the meeting with Italian Ministry On. Carrozza here (italian language)

Download the Press release related to the session on the Smart Cities here (italian language)

Download the Press release related to the Big Data event here (italian language)

Paris (France), 14 - 15 November 2013

Europeana Photography IPR workshop in Paris

A valuable workshop organized in the framework of EuropeanaPhotography took place in Paris on 14th-15th November 2013.

The workshop was one day and half including presentations and round table discussion, focusing on IPR issues related to digital content and to the publication of images in Europeana, the European freely accessible digital library.

The event was hosted by the French partner of EuropeanaPhotography, Parisienne de Photographie, and took place during the famous international fair Paris Photo. The organization by Nathalie Doury and her team, that also included a special visit to the photographic collection of Musée Carnavalet, was excellent and warmly appreciated by the participants.

The specialized experts Angelina Petrovic and Stefan Biberfeld drove a presentation (PDF, 466Kb) and discussion about IPR applied to photography, and with a focus on photographers and third party rights (artists copyright, personality rights, etc…). The issue of orphan works was also explored, as it has a big impact on our project: this was also stated by Dimitrios Tsolis (University of Patras) while presenting the results of a survey, conducted among the Europeana Photography consortium, that highligths how about 21% of content to be contributed to Europeana is Orphan works.

A deep discussion on Europena’s Rights Labelling Campaing proceeded from the presentation by Julia Fallon (PDF, 1.79 Mb), IPR and Policy advisor at Europeana Foundation. Use-cases and true examples from the real experience of professionals and archives kept this workshop very concrete, beside the theoretical issues.

The minutes of the workshop are available here (PDF, 264 Kb).

Discover more about it in the coordinator’s blog Digital Culture by Fred Truyen.

Paris World Fair. The river Seine, the Eiffel Tower and the giant terrestrial globe at night, Paris (France), 1900, photograph by Neurdein, © Neurdein/Roger Viollet.

Valletta (Malta), 22-26 September 2013

TPDL 2013: 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

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. TPDL 2013, the 17th edition of the conference, has been organized by University of Malta and it was held in Valletta, Malta on September 22-26, 2013.

The Conference hosted the 3rd Plenary Meeting of the DCH-RP project (see more information here). DCH-RP partners joined the TPDL Conference on 24 September in the morning.

Aims & Scope

Valuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are produced or transformed into digital form by all fields of scientific, educational, cultural, business and governmental activities. For this purpose the digital libraries community has developed long-term and interdisciplinary research agendas, providing significant results, such as conceptual models, added value infrastructures, software tools, standards and services.

The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information with rich semantics is the epicenter of the discussions of the community. Information providers inter-link their metadata with user contributed data and offer new services outlooking to the development of a web of data and addressing the interoperability and long-term preservation challenges.

TPDL 2013’s general theme is “Sharing meaningful information“, and beside the Conference it will offer attendees and local participants a stimulating and informative selection of tutorials covering current topics in digital libraries and related technologies and areas of research. Moreover, the final day, September 26, 2013, after the Main Track of the conference, a series of selected Workshops is organized.

VIDEO: A short overview of the activities of the TPDL2013

Topics

General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics, organized in four categories, according to a conceptualization that coincides with the four arms of the Maltese Cross:

Foundations

Information models
Digital library conceptual models and formal issues
Digital library 2.0
Digital library education curricula
Economic and legal aspects (e.g. rights management) landscape for digital libraries
Theoretical models of information interaction and organization
Information policies
Studies of human factors in networked information
Scholarly primitives
Novel research tools and methods with emphasis on digital humanities
User behavior analysis and modeling
Social-technical perspectives of digital information

Infrastructures

Digital library architectures
Cloud and grid deployments
Federation of repositories
Collaborative and participatory information environments
Data storage and indexing
Big data management
e-science, e-government, e-learning, cultural heritage infrastructures
Semi structured data
Semantic web issues in digital libraries
Ontologies and knowledge organization systems
Linked Data and its applications

Content

Metadata schemas with emphasis to metadata for composite content (Multimedia, geographical, statistical data and other special content formats)
Interoperability and Information integration
Digital Curation and related workflows
Preservation, authenticity and provenance
Web archiving
Social media and dynamically generated content for particular uses/communities (education, science, public, etc.)
Crowdsourcing
3D models indexing and retrieval
Authority management issues

Services

Information Retrieval and browsing
Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval
Personalization in digital libraries
Context awareness in information access
Semantic aware services
Technologies for delivering/accessing digital libraries, e.g. mobile devices
Visualization of large-scale information environments
Evaluation of online information environments
Quality metrics
Interfaces to digital libraries
Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information
Social networks analysis and virtual organizations
Traditional and alternative metrics of scholarly communication
Mashups of resources

During the conference (on courtesy of TPDL2013)

Download the TPDL leaflet (PDF, 160 Kb)

Follow the proceedings of the Conference on the TPDL Official Website

See the photos here

Europeana Professional Blog follows the progress of the project

EAGLE takes flight

We report below an article published on the Europeana Professional Blog*, on courtesy of Beth Daley.

“EAGLE is a best practice network that brings together the most prominent European institutions and archives in the field of Classical Latin and Greek epigraphy (epigraphy = the study of inscriptions/epigraphs), to provide Europeana with a comprehensive collection of unique historical sources which constitute a veritable pillar of European culture.

First things first, the project has a new logo. Put together with much thought, the logo represents, ‘the plethora of inscribed material to be found among the digital content provided by the project partners’ and ‘strives to conjugate aesthetic beauty with a precise conceptual line’. The images used in the logo include Sappho, and Latin and Greek inscriptions. Find out more about the stories behind the imagery on EAGLE’s blog.

Alongside the great new logo, EAGLE have also launched their website and project tagline – ‘A digital bridge to the ancient world’. The rich, detailed and intuitive website (www.eagle-network.eu) contains all the information relevant to the project, including contact information, upcoming events and schedules, and a detailed description of partner institutions and their contributions. The tagline summarises the project’s ‘brand personality’ in a way that is aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-remember.

You may have seen several posts on this blog about ‘Wiki Loves’ photography competitions – Europeana has been involved with these contests for the past few years. EAGLE is now joining in too and is offering a special prize for the best photography of ancient inscriptions within the Wiki Loves Monuments Italia contest.

Roman cities were literally strewn with written messages of the most varied nature: monumental inscriptions resulting from an intervention by the central power to propagate a certain image of itself; inscriptions posted by private parties reflecting religious convictions, professional activities, and familial ties; graffiti and occasional writings, too often ignored by history books, which stand as testimony to the nature of everyday life in its humblest and most popular aspects.

The special EAGLE prize for Wiki Loves Monuments Italia seeks to promote the intrinsic testimonial value of inscriptions and to do so in such a way that this patrimony, which exists right before our eyes but often goes unnoticed, emerges and gains the visibility that it deserves. Find out more about EAGLE and Wiki Loves Monuments Italia.

Finally, EAGLE is now active on social media so please follow them on Facebook, Twitter (@Eagle_Project), LinkedIn and Google Plus.”

By Beth Daley

Source: http://www.pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/pro-blog/-/blogs/1911032/maximized?p_p_auth=EqB4RY4W

* The Europeana Professional Blog is for people working in the field of digital cultural heritage.

A study conducted by TERENA in partnership with the Univ. of Amsterdam, LIBER and the Univ. of Debrecen

Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructures for Scientific Data in Europe

Source: www.terena.org

The final report from a European study that could pave the way to distributed and collaborative authentication, authorisation and accounting (AAA) for scientific data was published on 18 December 2012.

The AAA Study was carried out by a consortium composed of LIBER (The Association of European Research Libraries), University of Amsterdam (NL), University Debrecen (HU) and TERENA, which was the lead partner. This was the first time that TERENA and LIBER have worked together on such a project.

Managing the data glut

The rapid development and adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has changed the way researchers work, enabling almost instantaneous collaboration regardless of physical location, and has provided access to an enormous amount of scientific information that can be processed on powerful computational platforms. This new way of working generates a huge volume of data, whose exchange and curation pose significant challenges.

In 2010 the High-Level Expert Group on Scientific Data (known as HLEG on Scientific Data) published recommendations that an authentication and authorisation system should be set up by integrating existing AAA infrastructures in order to allow distributed and collaborative AAA for scientific data. To address this recommendation and to facilitate the emergence of a robust platform (Scientific Data Infrastructure (SDI)) for access to and preservation of scientific information, the European Commission funded the AAA Study, which began in December 2011. The study tender was also designed to be one step towards a Europe-wide single sign-on for all digital library and computing services for the research community.

“The improvement of access to and preservation of research publications and data, scientific collaborations and advanced infrastructures (e-infrastructures) are all important priorities for the European Commission,” explained Kostas Glinos, Head of e-Infrastructure Unit at DG CONNECT, European Commission. “Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructures (AAIs) play a crucial role in providing a distributed virtual environment where scientific resources can be stored, accessed and shared.”

The AAA Study evaluated the feasibility of delivering an integrated authentication and authorisation (and possibly accounting) infrastructure, by collecting use-cases from across different disciplines and evaluating existing infrastructures.

Key recommendations

The 60 page report resulting from the study contains a number of recommendations, which target different stakeholders: the European Commission to define a possible directive; Member States to create the conditions for such an infrastructure at national level; policy makers, particularly those involved in the Data Protection Directive, to take into account the impact of legislation on cross-boundary access management; and developers to use standard technologies to achieve interoperability.

The report highlights the following:

an AAI for SDI should be built on standard technologies, using infrastructures such as eduGAIN, eduroam and EUDAT, and mechanisms to translate between various authentication and authorisation technologies; and that federated access plays an important role;
to fully benefit from federated access, more funding is needed to improve the reach of national identity federations in research and education;
further research is needed to enhance authorisation and accounting mechanisms;
a common policy and trust framework for identity management is needed, as well as clarity on data protection laws – these should be coordinated at European level;
relevant organisations such as EGI.eu, e-IRG, EUDAT, ESFRI projects, IGTF, REFEDS (Research and Education Federations), the European Commission and consortia of libraries and data centres should all work towards these goals.

Further information

Download here the AAA Study report.

Further information about the AAA Study and recommendations is available via the AAA Study web page.

More information about TERENA is available at www.terena.org.

More about the Association of European Research Libraries is available on the LIBER website.

More about the High-Level Expert Group on Scientific Data report.

2nd EUDAT International Conference, 28-30 October 2013, Rome – Italy

All roads lead to Rome

The EUDAT project has, since its inception in 2011, always explored ways to build generic technical services that support multiple research communities. EUDAT works closely with a wide range of communities to deliver these technical services as part of the EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI). To be successful in this ambitious initiative, EUDAT is using novel methods to involve all the stakeholders, both in the discussions to determine the required services, and in the process of designing, developing and implementing those services.

The annual conference, 28-30 October 2013, Rome – Italy, is one of these many ways that EUDAT engages actively and directly with stakeholders. Through plenary sessions, parallel tracks, training courses and associated workshops participants are offered a 360° view of EUDAT existing and future services and how they will benefit both researchers and research organisations in accessing and preserving their research data.

To concretely illustrate how EUDAT collaborates closely with and directly involves other initiatives with a similar vision and an overarching goal of facilitating access to preservation of research data, a series of associated workshops will take place on Monday 28^th & Wednesday 30^th October covering from biodiversity, to Social Sciences and Humanities, to cultural heritage from research data. See the complete list at http://www.eudat.eu/eudat-2nd-conference-workshops

The parallel tracks of the conference are dedicated to showcasing both the existing and new EUDAT services which are seen as priorities for research communities and address core functional requirements of the EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI). Together with presentations, demos and training on Safe Replication, the Data Staging, the Metadata and Simple Store services, new services in the pipeline include EUDAT box – a dropbox-like service for easy sharing & local synching of data as well as generic services to handle real-time data streams and crowdsourced data, and to support semantic annotation.

Keynote presentations from the Human Brain flagship project by Richard Frackowiak, Ewan Birney on Annotating the Human Genome, Helix-Nebula the Science Cloud by Maryline Lengert and a view from across the Atlantic from Bill Michener on DataONE will be given together with the latest updates on data infrastructures in the EU’s imminent Horizon 2020 programme from the European Commission’s Kostas Glinos, European and the EUDAT story so far will be narrated by Kimmo Koski, EUDAT Project Coordinator. Progress on series of Research Data Alliance activities and working groups will round up the event.

Check out the rich three day programme at http://www.eudat.eu/events/programme-eudat-2nd-conference and register on-line. Don’t miss the early bird registration deadline on 20^th September. Follow EUDAT on Twitter @eudat_eu for conference updates.