Panel 1
Digital Library Applications and Interactive Web
The session Digital Library Applications and Interactive Web has a focus on empowering users.
Cultural institutions need to start partnership with users. They can be involved in creating content, metadata, notes, folksonomies and so on.
Good practice and advanced experiences, together with problems and issues, will be presented by the speakers.
The discussion will be during the Session and before and after the Conference in this Blog.
Hello, I’m Serge Noiret, History Information Specialist at the European University Institute, Florence Italy http://www.eui.eu. I’m working for the History department (3rd cycle and 4th cycle programs, Ph.D. researchers and post-doctorate and professors). My main task is to provide the research environment in history buying books and journals, primary sources, selecting databases, etc. and informing the members of the department about the history discipline activities wolrdwide and in Europe. I’m also training them through courses (atelier multimédia) and seminars on digital history and humanities computing issues. I received my own Ph.D. in 1985 in contemporary history and today my main area of research is Digital History methodologies and activities, the impact of the web on the historian’s craft and on ICT and more recently, Public Digital History.
The EUI library where I’m working has no publishing activity but a corporate internal journal. The library is maintaining an OA DSpace repository for the publications of EUI members. At the moment it is more a bibliographical database and less a full text digital library even if many Ph.D. thesis and essays are now directly accessible there even as pre-print: cadmus.eui.eu. The library is also maintaining the WUI web site and all its contents, some kind of publishing activity too…
The library team is multi-lingual and international. They are very skilled and well trained professionals. We re lacking of staff if compared to other social science libraries in Europe to which we could be compared too: the LSE or Science Po. in Paris