From the 25th to the 29th of September, DILL-4 and DILL-5 students had the opportunity to go to the TPDL conference in Berlin, Germany. This was made possible by funding of the DILL consortium. TPDL stands for “International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries”, and its aim is to “to bring together researchers, developers, content providers and...
Learn MoreDuring the EuropeanaTech conference in Vienna (3-5 October, 2011), the team of Diego Ceccarelli (ISTI-CNR) and Hugo Huurdeman (DILL4) has won the 2nd prize in the “Hackathon” contest. The aim of the Hackathon is the creative reuse of Europeana‘s content. The team has developed a visual query suggestion tool, which allows users of Europeana to refine their search...
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Ian Witten, one of the developers of the Greenstone software for building and distributing digital library collections, recently came to the Dill 4 class in Parma to give a four day workshop on Greenstone. Ian Witten is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand where he directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. He...
Learn MoreThe challenges of the digital libraries was the subject of a series of seminars held for the Dill 4 students in Parma this fall. Professor Klaus Kempf and Gabrielle Messmer of the of the digital library division at the Bavarian State University gave interesting lectures, discussing the different aspects of the digital libraries, such as collection development and...
Learn MoreDILL 4 Summer school in Florence begins on August 24. The fourth group of DILL students will have an exciting introductory week in Florence to their Parma semester. The summerschool will run from August 24 to 30th, when the regular courses will start in Parma. The summer school will take place in Villa Morghen (http://www.villamorghen.com/), in Florence, Italy. There...
Learn MoreDill Graduate Pussadee Nonthacumjane presented a paper at the IFLA 2011 Conference. Her paper was titled Key skills and competencies of a new generation of LIS professionals. Find more information here: http://conference.ifla.org/sites/default/files/files/papers/ifla77/97-nonthacumjane-en.pdf Miss Nonthacumjane is part of the teaching staff at the Department of...
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