2023 was a year of unexpected changes for me. After securing a prestigious 2.5 M Eur 5-year long grant in a very cool new area of work, which I wrote and was supposed to coordinate, but it got repossessed, I had to make difficult decisions. Did I have to brace and accept to work in […]
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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 […]
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The image is generated by Artssy in February 2023.
Language Technologies and Digital Humanities in Bulgaria (LTаDH-BG) The First International CLaDA-BG Conference will take place in hybrid mode in Varna, Bulgaria on 6-7 September 2021 in conjunction with RANLP 2021. Who is this event for? Topics of interest Problems in SS&H – research methods, technological support Language technologies for sentiment analysis, semantic technologies, trust-worthiness […]
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Доклад за библиотеките като трето място и последиците от COVID-19 Излезна от печат сборникът доклади от 30-тата Национална конференция на Българската библиотечно-информационна асоциация. Тук споделям текста на своя доклад от публикувания сборник. This post links to the published text of the paper on Libraries as a third place in COVID times delivered at the 30th […]
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As a Treasurer of ACM SIGWeb, I wanted to share this message on the search of an Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on the Web (ACM TWEB). TWEB is a journal publishing refereed articles reporting the results of research on Web content, applications, use, and related enabling technologies. Additional information about the TWEB and its […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we live and work. It also put pressure on institutions which we would see as third places, such as all GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) to focus on transitioning from places to platforms. We already have seen reports which assessed how successful was this transition, for example in the […]
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COVID-19 and libraries The libraries of today are critical institutions of the knowledge economy supporting education, scholarship, and innovation. When the Covid-19 pandemic started, there was an instant global response from the leading national and international library associations. I wanted to share information on two events: one organised by the SS Cyril and Methodius National […]
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In this time of multiple cancelled events, we have transformed the 24th International Conference on Electronic Publishing into a hybrid online event combining videos of keynotes and papers delivered as twitter threads. It is free (thanks to the generous support of UCL Qatar) and addresses a whole bouquet of topics around scholarly communication. The event […]
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Last chance to contribute to ELPUB 2020: Charting The Futures(s) of Digital Publishing which will be hosted by UCL Qatar in Doha on 18-21 April 2020! Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elpub2020 We invite submissions of extended abstracts. All submissions will undergo a double peer-review process; invited full-text papers will be published by OpenEdition.
Milena Dobreva 