Uldis Zarins

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Educated as a librarian, worked as information assistant for foreign embassies, as an editor and journalist for online and offline media outlets, as a project manager and a business development/IT manager at the Latvian national news agency LETA, finally I have completed a full circle and use all of my previous experience first as the Head of Digital Library and then as a Head of Strategic Development at the National Library of Latvia. Specialization - copyright in libraries. Specialties: Thinking, speaking, writing, creating

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Uldis Zarins

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What old media can learn from the new media (and what they should not) - Barcamp Baltics 08

Nacionālā digitālā krājuma attīstība

A national approach to digital library development

Ec copyright consultation

Latvia: State of the librares 2014

Challenges of long-term preservation of digital cultural heritage

Libraries as trusted gateways to knowledge

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SXSW 2016 - Give It Away to Get Rich: Open Cultural Heritage

Linked Open Data case study (illegal newspapers WW2, Wikipedia, DBpedia) - Lecture Leiden University 3-3-2016

CILIP Action Plan & key challenges for 2020

The National Library of Luxembourg: a Smart Library for Smart Citizens

Creative Re-Use of Cultural Heritage: Europeana Creative

The Austrian National Library's 'Vision 2025'

The History of Strategy and Its Future Prospects | A.T. Kearney

Michael Edson Potomac Forum Government and Transparent Web Strategy

THE AGE OF SCALE

Cultural heritage Institutions deserve better!

Dark Matter - - the dark matter of the internet is open, social, peer-to-peer and read write...

Europeana Essentials (updated June 2014)

Europeana Strategic Plan Europeana Aggregator Forum

If We Share, Do They Care? Using Impact Assessment to Understand How Our Digital Presence Changes Lives

Austrian National Library Vision 2025 and Austrian Books Online

Reusing historical newspapers of KB in e-humanities - Case studies and examples of research projects

Introduction to digital libraries - definitions, examples, concepts and trends (2016 version)

Sistemātiska pieeja pasākumu komunikāciju plānošanai. Prezentācija Rīga2014 autoru darbnīcā

European Cultural Commons Workshop, Introductory Remarks (transcript)

Jim, Nancy & the Dutch national library - a story about 3 explorers

Making and the Commons, for Europeana's "European Cultural Commons" conference :: Michael Edson

Understanding knowledge as a commons

Re-envisioning Modern Pedagogy: Educators as Curators

Designing for Smart Spaces and Objects

Bibliotēku vērtība un ietekme

Between Public Domain and Private Funding. Public Private Partnerships for Cultural Heritage Online (Extended Version)

Let Us Go Boldly Into the Present :: Michael Edson

TCDL 2009 keynote: Better living through linking

Linking libraries to the real world

LIBRIS - Linked Library Data