La Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale promotes and supports the World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Council, 23-27 august, Milan 2009.
Thurday 27 august will be presented Project NBN (National Bibliography Number): Persistent Identifier distribuited system for digital libraries
In the framework of the annual IFLA Conference 2009 hosted in Milan on 23-27 August, three Pre-Conferences have been organised in Florence on 17-21 August:
Libraries Plus: Adding Value in the Cultural Community
Looking at the Past and Preparing for the Future
Emerging trends in technology: libraries between Web 2.0, semantic web and search technology
The three Pre-Conferences are coordinated by a joint secretariat set up by the three local organisers and supported by the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale.
For information and registration: http://www.ifla2009satelliteflorence.it.
The second edition of the conference Cultural Heritage online – Empowering users: an active role for user communities, has confirmed a great interest for the subjects proposed, as well as the reliability and the stable network of collaborations that the Foundation Rinascimento Digitale has been earned in the field of new technologies for cultural heritage. Available:
Official Conference Proceedings
Papers and Slides - Links - Photo Gallery
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale partecipates to EVA Florence. Will be present: Paolo Galluzzi about Digital Galielo, Maurizio Lunghi about International Cooperation and Anna Maria Tammaro about Building and Sustaining Digital Libraries: an evaluation model for digital humanities.
Programme
Agreement between Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale and Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence (BNCF) to participate in the trial of legal deposit of voluntary digital publications.
Agreement between the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale and the Gabinetto Vieusseux <> of Florence for the use and evaluation as final user of the web aplication Pinakes3.
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale aiming at the definition of standard, methodologies and tools for digital memories creation, usage and preservation, is in charge of organizing, during the VMDL, an open discussion between end-user, operators, researchers and institutions on present and future of digital libraries applications.
During the PGDay sessions (Prato, Florence, on friday July 6th, 2007), Andrea Scotti (Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale) will present a paper: Pinakes 3 modelling: schema, input and navigation sample.
For other information and registration: http://www.pgday.it/en
The Digital Preservation Exchange Programme (DPEX), promoted by the European project DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) of which the Foundation Renaissance Digitale is partner, it aims to encourage innovative practices in the preservation of the digital resources, through research collaboration and to build bridges between practitioners and researchers.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale participates in the meeting L'Editoria Universitaria tra ricerca e mercato with a presentation of Maurizio Lunghi:
I temi comunitari per i programmi di finanziamento dell'e-content 2007-2010.
Digital PreservationEurope (DPE) has carried out a state of the art review on international competence centres for digital curation and preservation activity and expertise.
Maurizio Lunghi will attend the: L'azione Digital Preservation Europe in una rete di best practice.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale takes part: DELOS - NSDL Summer School: Digital Libraries for the Digital Librarian. Making the Journey from Traditional to Digital Libraries
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale will attend the The Challenge: Long-term Preservation. Strategies and Practice of European Partnerships.
