Olaf Janssen on the collaboration between European national libraries during ...Olaf Janssen
In this presentation Olaf Janssen - project & account manager at The European Library - talks about 18 years of cooperation between the national libraries of Europe.
He introduces national libraries in a European context and presents the history and benefits of their collaboration.
He outlines the development of The European Library (TEL) from the Gabriel project and the TELproject, and discusses how the TEL-ME-MOR project contributes to the growth of TEL.
I held this talk as an invited speaker during the NLB Conference "Celebrating Knowledge, The Power and Potential" on 15-11-2005, Singapore
These slides review the Europeana Libraries project, a 2011-2 project funded by the European Commission in the field of digital libraries. The project sought to develop the structure of The European Library, and help aggregate metadata from research libraries in Europe.
How university libraries of the future need to make global content accessible locally, and local content accessible globally. Given at Slovakian Digital Library conference, October 2012
Olaf Janssen on the collaboration between European national libraries during ...Olaf Janssen
In this presentation Olaf Janssen - project & account manager at The European Library - talks about 18 years of cooperation between the national libraries of Europe.
He introduces national libraries in a European context and presents the history and benefits of their collaboration.
He outlines the development of The European Library (TEL) from the Gabriel project and the TELproject, and discusses how the TEL-ME-MOR project contributes to the growth of TEL.
I held this talk as an invited speaker during the NLB Conference "Celebrating Knowledge, The Power and Potential" on 15-11-2005, Singapore
These slides review the Europeana Libraries project, a 2011-2 project funded by the European Commission in the field of digital libraries. The project sought to develop the structure of The European Library, and help aggregate metadata from research libraries in Europe.
How university libraries of the future need to make global content accessible locally, and local content accessible globally. Given at Slovakian Digital Library conference, October 2012
Everything you need to know about the Europeana Cloud project, a Best Practice Network that is establishing a cloud-based system for Europeana and its aggregators. LIBER is a partner in the project. This presentation is designed to be used as a template, for anyone who needs to share information about the project at conferences and workshops.
The Library as a Digital Research infrastructure: Digital Initiatives and Dig...lorna_hughes
Memory institutions have built up expertise and taken the lead in all aspects of digital humanities, especially the development and implementation of digital methods for the capture, analysis and dissemination of archives and special collections, including manuscripts. In recent years, these initiatives have become embedded into Digital Humanities Initiatives, Centres and Programmes within research libraries, adding value to the existing relationships between libraries and scholarly iniatiatives. These activities have fostered the development of new projects that bring into collaboration the skills and expertise of academics, librarians, and digital humanists, making the Library increasingly a “digital research infrastructure”. This presentation will discuss these developments based on the experience of the Research Programme in Digital Collections at the National Library of Wales, specifically discussing some recent experimentation with new methods for manuscript digitization and dissemination, including hyperspectral digitization of the Library’s Chaucer manuscripts. The presentation will also discuss the wider embedding of this work within the European Digital Humanities Context, through collaborations with the ESF Research Network Programe NeDiMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities).
Europeana Cloud – New Spaces for Sharing Content
Europeana Cloud is a Best Practice Network, coordinated by The European Library, designed to establish a cloud-based system for Europeana and its aggregators.
Lasting from 2013 to 2015, Europeana Cloud will provide new content, new metadata, a new linked storage system, new tools and services for researchers and a new platform - Europeana Research. Content providers and aggregators across the European information landscape urgently need a cheaper, more sustainable infrastructure that is capable of storing both metadata and content.
Researchers require a digital space where they can undertake innovative exploration and analysis of Europe's digitised content. Europeana needs to get closer to the target of 30 million items by 2015. Europeana Cloud meets these needs.
Presentation from Izaskun Lacunza, LIBER Executive Director in the Sweedish Library Days. The LIBER Strategy and its three priorities i) Scholarly Communications and Research Infrastructures, ii) Reshaping the Library and iii) Advocacy and Communications are discussed. The presentation focuses on how by association, better levels of dialogue can be reached with policy makers and rest of stakeholders
Representation and Absence in Digital Resources: The Case of Europeana Newspa...TU Delft, Netherlands
Presentation at Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne. Looks at some of the issues related to digitising historic newspapers in Europe, particularly how a website that can search through all of them can be built
Wikidata, a target for Europeana's semantic strategy - GLAM-WIKI 2015Antoine Isaac
"Wikidata, a target for Europeana's semantic strategy"/ Presentation at the GLAM-Wiki conference with Valentine Charles, Hugo Manguinhas, Antoine Isaac, Vladimir Alexiev http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015/
Presentation at the H2020-CEF Infoday, 16 January 2014 http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/information-and-networking-days-h2020-work-programme-2014-2015-connecting-europe-facility
The European (Digital) Library - Overview and OutlookOlaf Janssen
The European Library (www.theeuropeanlibrary.org) is a multilingual portal offering integrated access to the tens of millions of resources (books, magazines, journals...) of 18 national libraries in Europe. It offers free searching and delivers both digital and non-digital objects. It provides a vast virtual collection of mate-rials from all disciplines. The European Library is currently being expanded with the holdings of the national libraries of the 10 EU New Member States. From September 2006 onwards the remaining EU and EFTA na-tional libraries will be connected to TheEuropeanLibrary.org, bringing the total number of participating na-tional libraries to ±35 by the end of 2008.
In the beginning of 2006 the EC expressed support for The European Library to evolve into a much bigger European Digital Library (EDL), including access to the digital collections of other major cultural heritage institutions, such as museums and archives. The EDL is planned to include the holdings of all European na-tional libraries and a minimum of 2M digital works by the end of 2008. By 2010 the EDL needs to have ex-panded to include collections of archives, museums and other libraries, with a minimum of 6M digital works.
The European Library aims to remain a major player in the European cultural heritage field and is already strengthening its cooperation with other relevant key initiatives, such as MACS, DELOS, MICHAEL, BRICKS and MINERVA.
Janssen, O.D. (2006), “The European (Digital) Library - Overview and Outlook”, in: The e-volution of Information Communication Technology in Cultural Heritage, Joint event CIPA/VAST/EG/EuroMed, Project papers, M. Ioannides, D. Arnold, F. Niccolucci, K. Mania (Eds.), EPOCH publication, 2006, pp. 189-193 (and on CD-ROM)
Data modelling at Europeana and DM2E - SMW13Antoine Isaac
Presentation on how the Eduorpeana Data Model is used and extended in the Europeana and DM2E projects.
Made for the Semantic Media Web innovation day, Berlin, Sept 27, 2013: http://semantic-media-web.de/innovationsforum/metadaten/
Multilingual challenges for accessing digitized culture online - Riga Summit 15Antoine Isaac
"Multilingual challenges for accessing digitized culture online". Presentation at the Riga Summit on the Multilingual Digital Single Market, April 27-29 2015.
http://www.rigasummit2015.eu/
Everything you need to know about the Europeana Cloud project, a Best Practice Network that is establishing a cloud-based system for Europeana and its aggregators. LIBER is a partner in the project. This presentation is designed to be used as a template, for anyone who needs to share information about the project at conferences and workshops.
The Library as a Digital Research infrastructure: Digital Initiatives and Dig...lorna_hughes
Memory institutions have built up expertise and taken the lead in all aspects of digital humanities, especially the development and implementation of digital methods for the capture, analysis and dissemination of archives and special collections, including manuscripts. In recent years, these initiatives have become embedded into Digital Humanities Initiatives, Centres and Programmes within research libraries, adding value to the existing relationships between libraries and scholarly iniatiatives. These activities have fostered the development of new projects that bring into collaboration the skills and expertise of academics, librarians, and digital humanists, making the Library increasingly a “digital research infrastructure”. This presentation will discuss these developments based on the experience of the Research Programme in Digital Collections at the National Library of Wales, specifically discussing some recent experimentation with new methods for manuscript digitization and dissemination, including hyperspectral digitization of the Library’s Chaucer manuscripts. The presentation will also discuss the wider embedding of this work within the European Digital Humanities Context, through collaborations with the ESF Research Network Programe NeDiMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities).
Europeana Cloud – New Spaces for Sharing Content
Europeana Cloud is a Best Practice Network, coordinated by The European Library, designed to establish a cloud-based system for Europeana and its aggregators.
Lasting from 2013 to 2015, Europeana Cloud will provide new content, new metadata, a new linked storage system, new tools and services for researchers and a new platform - Europeana Research. Content providers and aggregators across the European information landscape urgently need a cheaper, more sustainable infrastructure that is capable of storing both metadata and content.
Researchers require a digital space where they can undertake innovative exploration and analysis of Europe's digitised content. Europeana needs to get closer to the target of 30 million items by 2015. Europeana Cloud meets these needs.
Presentation from Izaskun Lacunza, LIBER Executive Director in the Sweedish Library Days. The LIBER Strategy and its three priorities i) Scholarly Communications and Research Infrastructures, ii) Reshaping the Library and iii) Advocacy and Communications are discussed. The presentation focuses on how by association, better levels of dialogue can be reached with policy makers and rest of stakeholders
Representation and Absence in Digital Resources: The Case of Europeana Newspa...TU Delft, Netherlands
Presentation at Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne. Looks at some of the issues related to digitising historic newspapers in Europe, particularly how a website that can search through all of them can be built
Wikidata, a target for Europeana's semantic strategy - GLAM-WIKI 2015Antoine Isaac
"Wikidata, a target for Europeana's semantic strategy"/ Presentation at the GLAM-Wiki conference with Valentine Charles, Hugo Manguinhas, Antoine Isaac, Vladimir Alexiev http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015/
Presentation at the H2020-CEF Infoday, 16 January 2014 http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/information-and-networking-days-h2020-work-programme-2014-2015-connecting-europe-facility
The European (Digital) Library - Overview and OutlookOlaf Janssen
The European Library (www.theeuropeanlibrary.org) is a multilingual portal offering integrated access to the tens of millions of resources (books, magazines, journals...) of 18 national libraries in Europe. It offers free searching and delivers both digital and non-digital objects. It provides a vast virtual collection of mate-rials from all disciplines. The European Library is currently being expanded with the holdings of the national libraries of the 10 EU New Member States. From September 2006 onwards the remaining EU and EFTA na-tional libraries will be connected to TheEuropeanLibrary.org, bringing the total number of participating na-tional libraries to ±35 by the end of 2008.
In the beginning of 2006 the EC expressed support for The European Library to evolve into a much bigger European Digital Library (EDL), including access to the digital collections of other major cultural heritage institutions, such as museums and archives. The EDL is planned to include the holdings of all European na-tional libraries and a minimum of 2M digital works by the end of 2008. By 2010 the EDL needs to have ex-panded to include collections of archives, museums and other libraries, with a minimum of 6M digital works.
The European Library aims to remain a major player in the European cultural heritage field and is already strengthening its cooperation with other relevant key initiatives, such as MACS, DELOS, MICHAEL, BRICKS and MINERVA.
Janssen, O.D. (2006), “The European (Digital) Library - Overview and Outlook”, in: The e-volution of Information Communication Technology in Cultural Heritage, Joint event CIPA/VAST/EG/EuroMed, Project papers, M. Ioannides, D. Arnold, F. Niccolucci, K. Mania (Eds.), EPOCH publication, 2006, pp. 189-193 (and on CD-ROM)
Data modelling at Europeana and DM2E - SMW13Antoine Isaac
Presentation on how the Eduorpeana Data Model is used and extended in the Europeana and DM2E projects.
Made for the Semantic Media Web innovation day, Berlin, Sept 27, 2013: http://semantic-media-web.de/innovationsforum/metadaten/
Multilingual challenges for accessing digitized culture online - Riga Summit 15Antoine Isaac
"Multilingual challenges for accessing digitized culture online". Presentation at the Riga Summit on the Multilingual Digital Single Market, April 27-29 2015.
http://www.rigasummit2015.eu/
Linked Data and cultural heritage data: an overview of the approaches from Eu...The European Library
Europeana provides access to digital resources from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions all across Europe. In order to support Europeana, a wide network of organizations collaborates in data integration activities. The European Library plays the role of library-domain aggregator for Europeana, and its activities include also being a gateway to the collections and data of Europe’s national and research libraries, operating on the principle of open data for re-use.
The Europeana Network addresses its data integration challenges by leveraging on Linked Data and the Semantic Web. Its approach to data integration is based in a single data model, the Europeana Data Model, which embraces the Semantic Web principles to integrate the various data models and ontologies used in cultural heritage data.
The paradigm of Linked Data, brings many new challenges to libraries. The generic nature of data representation used in Linked Data, while allowing any community to manipulate the data, also opens many paths for implementation, with no clear optimal choice for libraries. The European Library leverages on its operational infrastructure to make library data available. It maintains The European Library Open Dataset, which is derived from the data aggregated from member libraries, and made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license, in order to promote and facilitate its reuse by any community.
Extensive linking is performed in the preparation of The European Library Open Dataset. It relies on Information Extraction and Data Mining to establish links to external open datasets, covering the most prominent entities types present in library data: persons, corporate bodies, places, concepts, intellectual works and manifestations.
The European Library also applies a linked data approach for intellectual property rights clearance processes, for supporting mass digitization projects. This approach is applied in the within the European ARROW rights infrastructure .
Michael Fridmans's presentation from the Google Analytics User Conference in Sydney and Melbourne in 2013. The presentation covers tips and techniques for getting your analysis noticed by managers and HiPPOS.
Knowledge and Wisdom: the role of research libraries in supporting the Europe...LIBER Europe
The paper will set the scene for challenges facing research libraries in Europe using the the United Kingdom (UK) experience as exemplar. Included will be a look at pan-European development to bring resource discovery to the network layer highlighting two developments: Europeana, Libraries and Research; and, as a case study, the introduction of the Primo search engine into UCL Library Services (University College London) in the UK. In addition, Open Access to research publications and its potential impact on the dissemination of scholarly research outputs will be examined including PEER's (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) investigation of the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors’ final peer reviewed accepted manuscripts (so-called Green Open Access) with the aim of providing input for evidence-based policy-making in the area of Green Open Access. Also, two examples of Gold Open Access will be illustrated: Gold Open Access monograph publishing and the development of Gold ‘overlay journals’. This will be followed by a look at Research Data and the importance of data-driven science concentrating on three exemplars from the UK. The requirements for the storage and preservation of research data will be explored and the potential of tools offered by Ex Libris investigated to see what it required. Finally, the paper will map the findings of the paper in terms of network developments, Open Access to research publications, and the storage and re-use of research data against the findings of the opening section – the strategic needs of European research Universities. This paper will end by identifying how the technical developments outlined in the paper need to be aligned with the top-level strategic needs of European Universities in order for research libraries to support their home Universities.
Building The European Digital Library - An Insider’s Point of View Olaf Janssen
In December 2004 Google announced its plans to digitise and publish millions of books from 5 prestigious Anglo-American academic libraries by the year 2015. Initiated by French fears that Google's initiative could create a bias towards Anglo-American language and culture, Europe quickly united to mobilise funds for the digitisation, preservation and accessibility of European cultural heritage and the creation of a European Digital Library, including 6M digital works from libraries, muse-ums and archives by 2010.
Today The European Library (TEL) is a multilingual portal offering integrated access to the tens of millions of resources of Europe's national libraries. It offers free federated searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced.
The EU stressed that the European Digital Library should not be constructed from scratch, but build on existing initia-tives such as TEL, because TEL has a long history of successfully implementing and using some of the vital ingredients for the European Digital Library. These include A) internal & external collaboration and cooperative organisational networks, B) a technological platform based on creating, maintaining and conforming to common standards in i) data harvesting and ac-cess protocols, ii) metadata and iii) collection descriptions and C) multilingual access.
The reader will 1) learn what it takes to build a pan-European Digital Library, 2) find out about the history and future of this project and C) discover that this a win-win-win project: for its users, for its builders, and for world knowledge.
Janssen, O.D. (2007), “Building the European Digital Library - an insider's point of view”, in: ACRL 13th National Conference Proceedings, Hugh A. Thompson (Ed.), 29th March-1st April 2007, Baltimore, Maryland, USA p.46-55
Facilitating Access and Reuse of Research Materials: the Case of The European...The European Library
The European Library provides access to research materials from the collections of Europe’s national and research libraries, representing members from 46 countries. This paper presents the current status, on-going work, and future plans of the resource dissemination services provided by The European Library, covering resources such as national bibliographies, digital collections, full text collections, its access portal and API, open linked data publication, and integration in digital humanities infrastructures. In the coming years, The European Library will work to provide the means and tools for digital humanities researchers to easily use research materials from libraries in their research activities.
Project Review, Den Haag, February 2013
Presentation by:
Louise Edwards, The European Library
(Project Coordinator 2011)
Alastair Dunning, The European Library
(Project Coordinator 2012)
Europeana Cloud Work Package 1: Assessing Researchers' Needs in the CloudTU Delft, Netherlands
A presentation given about Work Package 1 of the Europeana Cloud project http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloud
By Agiatis Bernadou and Alastair Dunning
Given at http://dighumlab.dk/news/single-news/artikel/cfp-cultural-heritage-creative-tools-and-archives-workshop/, June 2013
Alastair Dunning introduces the Europeana Cloud project which will change the way that data is sent to Europeana, and will give researchers new tools to enrich and use that data.
Workshop jointly hosted by CARARE and Europeana which took place at the University of Leiden, Faculty of Archaeology on 14 June 2017. The theme of the workshop was Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana.
Word Occurrence Based Extraction of Work Contributors from Statements of Resp...The European Library
This paper addresses the identification of all contributors of an intellectual work, when they are recorded in bibliographic data but in unstructured form. National bibliographies are very reliable on representing the first author of a work, but frequently, secondary contributors are represented in the statements of responsibility that are transcribed by the cataloguer from the book into the bibliographic records. The identification of work contributors mentioned in statements of responsibility is a typical motivation for the application of information extraction techniques. This paper presents an approach developed for the specific application scenario of the ARROW rights infrastructure being deployed in several European countries to assist in the determination of the copyright status of works that may not be under public domain. Our approach performed reliably in most languages and bibliographic datasets of at least one million records, achieving precision and recall above 0.97 on five of the six evaluated datasets. We conclude that the approach can be reliably applied to other national bibliographies and languages.
Joining The European Library, Adam Sofronijevic, University of BelgradeThe European Library
Joining The European Library: Members' Perspectives
University of Belgrade, University library "Svetozar Markovic
The European Library Annual Meeting 2013
16-17 September 2013
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Delivering Micro-Credentials in Technical and Vocational Education and TrainingAG2 Design
Explore how micro-credentials are transforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with this comprehensive slide deck. Discover what micro-credentials are, their importance in TVET, the advantages they offer, and the insights from industry experts. Additionally, learn about the top software applications available for creating and managing micro-credentials. This presentation also includes valuable resources and a discussion on the future of these specialised certifications.
For more detailed information on delivering micro-credentials in TVET, visit this https://tvettrainer.com/delivering-micro-credentials-in-tvet/
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and InclusionTechSoup
Let’s explore the intersection of technology and equity in the final session of our DEI series. Discover how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be used to support and enhance your nonprofit's DEI initiatives. Participants will gain insights into practical AI applications and get tips for leveraging technology to advance their DEI goals.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
MATATAG CURRICULUM: ASSESSING THE READINESS OF ELEM. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS I...NelTorrente
In this research, it concludes that while the readiness of teachers in Caloocan City to implement the MATATAG Curriculum is generally positive, targeted efforts in professional development, resource distribution, support networks, and comprehensive preparation can address the existing gaps and ensure successful curriculum implementation.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
3. europeana
ict-psp programme
the european library
open aire
manuscriptorium
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put your hands up if ...
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carare
apex
connecting europe facili
eu digital agenda
ese / edm
4. europeana
ict-psp programme
the european library
open aire
manuscriptorium
3
put your hands up if ...
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carare
apex
connecting europe facili
eu digital agenda
ese / edm
5. europeana
ict-psp programme
the european library
open aire
manuscriptorium
3
put your hands up if ...
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carare
apex
connecting europe facili
eu digital agenda
ese / edm
6. previously worked at jisc, as programme
manager for the content team
did not know much about the ‘european
scene’
4
was perhaps a smidgen innocent. i had no
hands up.
8. um, does it not say alastair dunning,
europeana on the agenda ? do you not
work in the europeana offices in the
national library of the netherlands ?
6
9. and all these names ... !
europeana.
the european digital library.
the european library.
7
13. sidenote: anyone
naming an online
resource should
read Claire
Warwick et al;
What's in a Name ?
(2006)
11
14. europeana is at the centre of a large
ecosystem of european, national projects,
services and aggregators.
12
15. each of these projects and aggregators
collect metadata relating to ‘european
cultural heritage’.
the metadata is mapped to the europeana
data model (edm) and then harvested by
europeana
13
19. while europeana maintains a shiny portal,
its focus is really on its CC0 linked data
store and its apis.
it is part of the eu digital agenda to
promote creativity and growth
17
20. but it needs to maintain the ecosystem that
aggregates the metadata (and, in the
future, content) .
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23. various projects have supported it since the
late 1990s.
it brought european national libraries
together via cenl *
21
24. funded and governed by national libraries
it created a shared european catalogue.
the european library acted as the
forerunner of europeana
22
25. the european library aggregates and
makes the bibliographic datasets of the 48
national libraries interoperable.
it also ingests metadata for digitised
content
clustering workflow identifies similar works.
the combined dataset is enriched via viaf*
and other sources.
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26. the european library offers a portal to
search this european bibliography
its api gives access to the content.
an open dataset will be released as CC0
early next year.
the european library works on several
projects as well.
24
27. cendari - tracing local archives, libraries
related to ww1 and medieval era
newspapers - aggregating full text of
historic newspapers
diggicore - tracing citations in full text of
OA repositories
25
28. regia - medieval manuscripts
arrow - tracing copyright owners
research libraries - bringing research
libraries into the european library
26
29. cloud - building an infrastructure to share
and enrich metadata and content
ability for research community to build tools on
top of this content
building a research ‘view’ on content not just
from libraries but other cultural heritage
institutions as well.
27
30. the focus has been on metadata from
national libraries
but the european library is now beginning
to work with research libraries to do similar
things
aggregate metadata / make it available in
different ways / work on projects
28
31. the european library has been in informal
discussion with rluk about membership
individual research libraries can join as
members
much more cost-efficient for consortia to
join
29
32. an opportunity to share metadata on all
kinds of content, in different formats
an opportunity to expose hidden
collections metadata / and digitised
collections.
increasingly, a chance to aggregate full text
with the new research possibilities this
offers
30
33. an opportunity to highlight the collecting
institution as well.
this is the rationale for abes*, the french
library consortium.
31
35. the ‘connecting europe facility’ aims to
provide 300m in funding for the europeana
eco-system from 2014 - 2020 (*)
significant funding for digital library
projects
33
37. 35
the european library has significant expertise in
preparing and executing project proposals
the 2013 psp-ict programme will also have
funding for digital libraries
38. chance to build on ‘hidden collections’
report
retro-cataloguing can be unattractive to
funders
but the technologies to create and
enhance metadata are more likely to be
funded
a pan-european approach to projects is
also attractive to other funders
36
39. but the technologies to create and
enhance metadata are more likely to be
funded
a pan-european approach to projects is
also attractive to other funders
37
40. to conclude
the european library has a specific role in
aggregating / presenting / distributing
sharing, enrich metadata and content at an
international level
via both its services and project
38
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But the focus has been on
• 48 National Libraries
• Bibliographic data
• Europeana Libraries project (2011-2)
began working with research libraries
and research content
• How do we include Research
Libraries at a service level ?
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New(ish) forms created in digital research
libraries
• Research datasets
• OA journal articles (and monographs)
• Digitisation of special collections
• Theses
• Mass book digitisation
• Grey literature
• Digitised special collections (and
descriptions)
• Open Educational Resources
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Plenty of other significant players in this
field
• OCLC World Cat
• Google Book Search
• Google Scholar
• Microsoft Research
• Hathi Trust
• arXiv, Cessda, PubMed Central, DARIAH
• Open-AIRE (Driver), BASE
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Special Collections
“… as non unique and common research
material becomes more accessible online, often
without the need for library mediation (e.g.
Google Books), the salience of Unique and
Distinctive Collections grows stronger still.
They can attract researchers and research
funding, and enhance the institution’s extramural
reputation … a valuable asset.”
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/files/UDC%20Project%20Plan%20revised%20post%20Board%2011%20Oct.pdf (RLUK
Unique and Distinctive Collections Project)
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Special Collection
descriptions
“To be used effectively Unique and Distinctive
Collections must be visible and their contents
discoverable. Their existence needs to be
promoted. Collection level descriptions need to
be widely disseminated. At item level full online
cataloguing is usually essential; often more
detailed indexing may be necessary in the case
of specialist materials and discovery of content.”
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/files/UDC%20Project%20Plan%20revised%20post%20Board%2011%20Oct.pdf (RLUK
Unique and Distinctive Collections Project)
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Special Collection
descriptions
Many collections are not known to networks of
research communities
TEL can provide a point for item and collection
descriptions of special collections
Can do this within a European context, ie shared
with similar collection descriptions of other
libraries
Provides greater institutional awareness as well
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Digitised Collections
However, descriptions not enough … access to
full-text (or digitised item) is taken as the norm.
Therefore, where materials are digitised, TEL
offers opportunity to aggregate on a large scale
Not just special collections - books and
newspapers
Again, this can help with discovery and provide
link back to original library
Two examples – manuscripts / newspapers
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Digitised Collections
Aggregations of full text also give opportunity for
new research uses
Digital Humanities are galvanised by existence
of such corpora
Multiple methodologies in linguistics, geography,
literature, history to exploit such text
Related opportunities for enriching texts –
annotation, entity recognition, crowdsourcing etc.
Working with research libraries, TEL can provide
aggregation
Developing relationship with related projects
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A European research platform
Europeana Cloud project (2013-5) puts
some of this into practice
• Ability for contributing partners to share and
retrieve content within a common space (‘a
cloud’)
• Ability for research community to build tools
on top of this content
• Europeana Research platform, led by TEL
Utilising Europeana networks and position
as part of ‘Connecting Europe Facility’
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But special collections are far from a
library’s only contents.
TEL will aggregate any metadata from
research library.
Exposing aggregated data as linked data
and via an API
Exposing data via other sources (EBSCO,
ProQuest, ExLibris)
Aggregating full text also feasible
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Opportunity to create links between
different formats from different sources –
digitised book and OA article
Opportunity to create ‘views’ specific for
different subject areas, particularly
humanities and social sciences
Exploring relationship between citation
patterns (DiggiCore project)
Dependent on further work on metadata
development and semantic enrichment
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In practice …
Sustainability ... Inviting Research
Libraries to join TEL
Exposing / linking to their metadata /
content / institutional holdings
Asking Research Libraries via CERL and
LIBER to contribute to TEL strategy
Exploiting the aggregation of digitised
material – not just bibliographic records
Development of Europeana Cloud project
A Europeana Research platform