On 26 May 2023, the National Library of Serbia hosted the book launch of the Serbian translation of the Open a GLAM Lab book published by the library's press. I am sharing here my little speech delivered on this occasion. And as always, I am expressing my deep gratitude to everyone who contributed to the … Continue reading “Open a GLAM Lab” now in Serbian
The pace of changes in the digital heritage domain is incredible. When invited to give a keynote talk at LTаDH-RA (Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications), the staple event of CLaDA-BG: the National Interdisciplinary Research E-Infrastructure for Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage Resources and Technologies integrated within European CLARIN and DARIAH infrastructures I thought … Continue reading “From #digitisation frenzy to #datafication frenzy”: forthcoming #keynote for #LTаDH-RA
The image is generated by Artssy in February 2023.
Plovdiv, 14 October 2022 The 15th International Conference Education and Research in the Information Society (ERIS) will co-host a seminar entitled Digital transformation in museums and libraries: data spaces. The event is co-organised by the DISTILL project (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University St Kliment Ohirdski) and the Museology Research Lab of the Ionian … Continue reading A forthcoming seminar on data spaces for Bulgarian heritage professionals
DISTILL: DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIESIN INNOVATION LABS FOR DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE In the beginning of 2021 I started to work on the individual project DISTILL. DISTILL addresses the challenge of exploring the changing landscape of innovation diffusion in digital cultural heritage focusing on three major factors for change: the large scale digital collections (growing towards big data) … Continue reading Check the summary of activities of the DISTILL project
Първата лятна школа по дезинформация ще се проведе в Пловдив на 26-27 юли 2021 г. Организирана е от Института Гейт – Големи данни за интелигентно общество иАсоциация "Развитие на информационното общество" – АРИО. Ако се интересувате и желаете да кандидатствате, моля попълнете този формуляр до 8 юли 2021. Школата се подкрепя финансово от института Гейт … Continue reading Как да откриваме дезинформация в социалните медии?
The last task I was involved in at UCL Qatar was to help in putting together an information literacy toolkit in Arabic for teachers who would like to do more in this domain and look for ideas what topics to cover. Jointly with Hermina Anghelescu (USA), Joanna Burkhardt (USA), Dalal Rahme Demirjan (Lebanon) and Rana … Continue reading Information Literacy Toolkit in Arabic
Answering the growing interest in applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in different sectors, the EuropeanaTech Community is starting soon a new webinar series: "EuropeanaTech x AI". This is a great opportunity to learn more how AI is used across the cultural heritage and arts sectors. The series is designed not only to provide an overview but … Continue reading New webinar series of @EuropeanaTech will explore #AI in the Cultural Heritage and Arts sectors
Register before 13 April 2021! Digital transformation is one of the hot topics across all sectors these days - and the GLAM institutions are no exception! It may look strange how the pandemic contributed to the interest in the strategic discussions what does digital transformation mean and how to coin a working institutional strategy. This … Continue reading Registration closing soon – 1st DTCE Conference #DigitalTransformation #GLAM
A webinar in Arabic on the Preserving Audiovisual Heritage in the Arab Region: Resources for Archivists, Librarians and Collectors Today (27 October) is the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. In the last year, UCL Qatar had a very fruitful collaboration with the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership and the Qatar National Library on exploring what … Continue reading Celebrating the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage in Qatar