http://www.eromm.org/ 2012-05-18T06:25:56+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/ http://www.eromm.org/lib/tpl/eromm/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-02-29T09:10:45+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:2nd_liber_international_workshop_2012?rev=1330503045&do=diff Florence, Italy, 7-8 May 2012 The 2nd LIBER International Workshop on Digital Preservation - “Partnerships in curating European digital resources” - focuses on collaboration in the field of digital preservation. It is held by the LIBER Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation, the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale in Florence and the National Library of the Netherlands. text/html 2011-09-09T16:03:25+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:3rd_liber-eblida_workshop_on_digitization_of_library_material_in_europe?rev=1315577005&do=diff 3rd LIBER-EBLIDA Workshop, The Hague, 5-7 October 2011 The workshop is organized by LIBER and EBLIDA with the support of the National Library of the Netherlands. It focuses on the digitization of library material through four sessions: * User Experience * Business Models * Reuse of Metadata * Workflow text/html 2011-11-25T09:30:19+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:care_and_conservation_of_manuscripts?rev=1322209819&do=diff Seminar, Copenhagen, 17-19 October 2012 The 14th international seminar on the care and conservation of manuscripts - organized by the Arnamagnæan Institute of the University of Copenhagen and the Royal Library - focuses on the care and preservation of manuscripts in the widest sense. text/html 2011-11-09T14:57:32+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:din_31645_published?rev=1320847052&do=diff The DIN 31645 Norm “Information und Dokumentation - Leitfaden zur Informationsübernahme in digitale Langzeitarchive” (“Information and documentation - Guide to the transfer of information objects into digital long-term archives”) is now available in print and digital form. text/html 2011-11-04T14:09:35+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:eromm_includes_digitized_material_from_the_internet_archive?rev=1320412175&do=diff Today EROMM completed the inclusion of about three million digitized books and other material from the ”Texts Archive” of the Internet Archive into EROMM Search. The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 to build an Internet library. Beside texts it also collects web pages, moving images, audio and software from institutions all over the world. Its ”Texts Archive” contains a variety of texts: text/html 2011-10-14T12:21:22+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:eromm_welcomes_digitized_material_from_spanish_institutions?rev=1318587682&do=diff With the inclusion of Hispana digitized material from Spanish institutions finally found it's way into EROMM Search. Hispana is a Spanish content aggregator for Europeana and collects digital material from Spanish archives, libraries and museums. Spain was a long time blank spot in the database of EROMM. Now EROMM Search contains about 600.000 digitized books, manuscripts and cartographic materials from more than 20 Spanish institutions. text/html 2011-11-14T14:42:02+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:european_commission_adops_recommendation?rev=1321278122&do=diff The European Commission has adopted a Recommendation on Digitization and Digital Preservation. Member States are asked to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private actors in digitizing cultural material and making it available through Europeana. text/html 2011-10-21T15:11:52+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:ifla_2012_preconference_-_call_for_papers?rev=1319202712&do=diff Mikkeli (Finland), 7-9 August, 2012 The satellite preconference “THE ELECTRONIC RE-EVOLUTION - News Media in the Digital Age” is held by IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section and the IFLA Genealogy and Local History Section. It will focus on electronic re-evolution in the newspaper field at large. text/html 2011-12-09T16:02:23+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:internet_archive_asks_for_donations?rev=1323442943&do=diff The Internet Archive, is asking their users for financial support to keep this free service up and accommodate for its growth. The Internet Archive is one of the world largest digital libraries offering free access to more than 3 million full text documents and other materials. text/html 2012-04-27T12:00:14+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:national_library_of_france_offers_new_reproduction_service?rev=1335520814&do=diff Starting 2nd May 2012 the National Library of France offers a new reproduction service. It is now organized by type of document and has a simplified price list, e. g. a single price per page. For more information please see <http://www.bnf.fr/en/collections_and_services/anx_repro_en/a.new_offer_reproduction.html>. text/html 2011-10-20T14:13:10+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:nestor_digcurv_winter_school_2011?rev=1319112790&do=diff Workshop, Gernrode/Harz (Germany), 21-23 November 2011 The German competence network for digital preservation (nestor) is holding a workshop about “long term preservation in practice”. It will focus on ingesting, current tools in long term preservation and archiving of e-mails. It is supported by the EU-project DigCurV. The workshop will take place in the Cyriakusheim in Gernrode/Harz (Germany) on 21-23 November 2011. The official language of the workshop will be German. text/html 2011-09-05T16:32:04+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:new_eromm_leaflet_available?rev=1315233124&do=diff A new leaflet about EROMM's services is available for [download]. text/html 2011-11-21T08:48:11+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:non-roman_searching_through_eromm?rev=1321861691&do=diff Not everyone will be aware of the fact that you can use non-roman script in searching. This has been possible in EROMM Classic for some time. Try Великой or العرب. You can do the same in EROMM Search. In fact there are not many records with non-roman script in EROMM Classic so far, but searching the web through EROMM may bring surprising results. Their number will rise while the scope of indexed resources is rising. text/html 2012-02-07T09:00:18+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:preservation_and_archiving_special_interest_group_meeting?rev=1328601618&do=diff Austin, Texas (USA), 11-13 January 2012 This meeting of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) is held at the AT&T Conference Center on the campus of University of Texas at Austin and focuses on practitioners' concerns of preservation strategies, best practices, storage, engineering, architectures, and operation of preservation and archiving systems at scale. text/html 2012-02-01T08:18:25+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:server_maintenance?rev=1328080705&do=diff On Tuesday 7th February 2012 the EROMM website, EROMM Search and EROMM Request will be unavailable for a short period of time between 9:00 and 11:00 (CET) due to server maintenance. EROMM Classic is not affected and can be accessed via the URL <http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.8> during that time. text/html 2011-05-23T12:05:17+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:sidebar?rev=1306145117&do=diff text/html 2012-02-29T08:47:15+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:survey_on_using_surrogates_of_early_printed_books?rev=1330501635&do=diff The survey “Using digital reproductions of early printed books” is carried out by Lars Björk as part of a PhD-research project, which focuses on the relation between the source document and its digital reproduction. The survey examines the role and function of digital reproductions in various types of research. It will close on 18th March, 2012. text/html 2012-04-12T12:11:33+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:the_electronic_re-evolution_ifla_pre-conference?rev=1334225493&do=diff Mikkeli, Finland, 7-9 August 2012 The IFLA 2012 Pre-conference Meeting “The Electronic Re-evolution - News Media in the Digital Age” is held by the Newspapers Section, the Preservation and Conservation Section, the Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation (PAC) and the Genealogy and Local History Section. text/html 2011-09-05T15:45:41+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:website_relaunch?rev=1315230341&do=diff The new EROMM website is online, featuring the new EROMM Search service and an overhauled EROMM Request. The “old” database -- now labeled EROMM Classic -- is available with a refined user interface. EROMM Search EROMM Search is the new main retrieval service of EROMM. It combines the well-established EROMM Classic with its detailed bibliographic descriptions of digital and microfilm master with a new database called “EROMM Web Search”, which is reaching out to resources in the web. EROMM S… text/html 2011-09-09T16:26:03+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:workshop_digitale_volltexte_und_hilfsmittel_in_den_osteuropastudien?rev=1315578363&do=diff Workshop, Munich, 27-28 October 2011 The Bavarian State Library is organizing a workshop about digital full text and resources in Eastern European studies. It is intended to give an overview of projects and initiatives supplying digital full texts and other resources for sciences. It's held in conjunction with the project OstDoc. The workshop is hosted by the Bavarian State Library, Munich on 27-28 October 2011. The official language of the workshop will be German. text/html 2011-09-09T16:02:03+02:00 http://www.eromm.org/blog:workshop_preservation_policies_and_long-term_collections_management?rev=1315576923&do=diff Workshop, Halle (Germany), 29-30 September 2011 LIBER, in collaboration with the British Library and the National Library of the Netherlands, is holding a workshop on Preservation Policies and Long-term Collections Management. The topics are: * Exchange information on the current strategic context in which preservation activities take place * Share perspectives on future directions for preservation management * Foster collaboration between preservation policy makers in European librari…