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Educating GLAM professionals: Software Carpentry meets GLAM Labs and Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Datasets

Initial info on SSI event, 3 June 2025.

Coming back

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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“Open a GLAM Lab” now in Serbian

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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“From #digitisation frenzy to #datafication frenzy”: forthcoming #keynote for #LTаDH-RA

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 […]
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New article attracting high attention score on #Altmetric: A Checklist to Publish #Collections as Data in #GLAM Institutions

The image is generated by Artssy in February 2023.

A forthcoming seminar on data spaces for Bulgarian heritage professionals

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 […]
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Check the summary of activities of the DISTILL project

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) […]
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Как да откриваме дезинформация в социалните медии?

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. Въведение Лятната школа е предназначена за студенти от филологически, информатични, медийни и библиотечни специалности. Тя цели да представи как се прилагат методите […]
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Information Literacy Toolkit in Arabic

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 […]
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New webinar series of @EuropeanaTech will explore #AI in the Cultural Heritage and Arts sectors

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 […]
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