• artwork based on work Gogoloopie

    The Digital Preservation Landscape – May 2013

    Our monthly insight into what is happening in the world of Digital Preservation. 4 Links, gathered and curated by us, for you: 1. Fake or merely enhanced? And how would we know? World Press Photo of the Year 2013. By Extremetech. 2. Let’s get rid of the digital black hole! Archiving the entire UK’s digital [...]

  • artwork by Riyas Rasheed

    The digital preservation landscape – April

    Our monthly insight into what is happening in the world of Digital Preservation. 4 Links, gathered and curated by us, for you: 1. All hail the archive: A secret weapon that publishers don’t even realize they have. 2. Still time to contribute to this year’s I-Semantics conference in beautiful Graz! New deadline 8.4. abstract / [...]

  • Prof. Wolfgang Nejdl, Executive Director of the L3S Research Center, and Dr. Thomas Risse, technical director of the ARCOMEM project, welcomed the new Minster of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Dr. Gabriele Heinen-Klajic

    CeBit 2013: Social Web Archiving Is Not A Hype

    The ARCOMEM Team of the L3S Research Center looks back on a successful presentation of the project at CeBIT 2013 in Hanover, Germany. ARCOMEM was presented March 5-9, 2013 in the the CeBIT Lab area as part of the stand of Lower Saxony. On the first day Prof. Wolfgang Nejdl, Executive Director of the L3S [...]

  • Twitter's Visual Pulse

    Twitter’s visual pulse

    Millions of images are tweeted every day, yet very little research has looked at the non-textual aspect of social media communication. In this work SOTON has developed a system to analyse streams of image data. In particular we explore trends in similar, related, evolving or even duplicated visual artefacts in the mass of tweeted image [...]

  • artwork by Riyas Rasheed

    The digital preservation landscape – Feb

    We want to give you a monthly insight into what is happening in the world of Digital Preservation. 4 Links, gathered and curated by us, for you: 1. Archiving tweets isn’t as easy as it seems. A reporters’ perspective on preservation of Social Media content. 2. ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’ (René Magritte). A new [...]

ARCOMEM is a EU-funded research project. It is about memory institutions like archives, museums, and libraries in the age of the Social Web. Memory institutions are more important now than ever: as we face greater economic and environmental challenges we need our understanding of the past to help us navigate to a sustainable future. This is a core function of democracies, but this function faces stiff new challenges in face of the Social Web, and of the radical changes in information creation, communication and citizen involvement that currently characterise our information society (e.g., there are now more social network hits than Google searches). Social media are becoming more and more pervasive in all areas of life. read more

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artwork based on work Gogoloopie

The Digital Preservation Landscape – May 2013

Our monthly insight into what is happening in the world of Digital Preservation. 4 Links, gathered and curated by us, for you: 1. Fake or merely enhanced? And how would we know? World Press Photo of the Year 2013. By Extremetech. 2. Let’s get rid of the digital black hole! Archiving the entire UK’s digital [...]

artwork by Riyas Rasheed

The digital preservation landscape – April

Our monthly insight into what is happening in the world of Digital Preservation. 4 Links, gathered and curated by us, for you: 1. All hail the archive: A secret weapon that publishers don’t even realize they have. 2. Still time to contribute to this year’s I-Semantics conference in beautiful Graz! New deadline 8.4. abstract / [...]

7TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

Seventh Framework Programme

CONTACT

Dr. Wim Peters

Adress: Department of Computer Science Regent Court 211 Portobello Sheffield S1 4DP UK
Phone: +44 114 222 1902
Email: W.Peters@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Website: The University of Sheffield