One of the tasks that had to be carried out in PREFORMA during these last two months of 2016 is to prepare a report to be submitted to the European Commission describing the impact that PREFORMA has generated to date for the memory institutions and for any other relevant target groups and the plans for the sustainability and exploitation of the main results of the project.
We are proud to announce that the DATeCH International Conference and the Digitisation Days will take place on 1-2 June, 2017, in Göttingen. Below, we include the information of the DATeCH call for papers. For further information, please visit http://ddays.digitisation.eu.
IFLA is pleased to announce the creation of a new Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre which will focus on digital preservation and digital sustainability. The new PAC Centre is based at the National Library of Poland.
Tomasz Parkoła, from Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre, has been selected as new Scientific and Technological Director of the Impact Centre of Competence. He succeeds the outgoing Director, Rafael Carrasco, currently Seconded National Expert at the ERC.
Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) is a competition-like method designed to steer the development of innovative solutions towards concrete public sector needs. These solutions are developed by external suppliers that are awarded a contract through a phased open procurement process. In the last years, the PCP instrument is becoming more and more popular within the public sector and the European Union increased support for groups of public procurers working together on joint PCPs under Horizon 2020.
The Impact Centre of Competence is pleased to announce that its former Scientific Director, Rafael Carrasco, is now serving the European Research Council Executive Agency as Seconded National Expert in Research Policies. In this commitment, he will contribute to the development of new procedures within the data analysis group to support the strategical decisions by ERC Council.
If you are wondering how to OCR a dictionary, Jesse de Does, from the IMPACT CoC Board member Instituut of Nederlandse Lexicologie, gives you some keys at DigiLex.
