Projects DML-CZ and EuDML were presented to high-school students and general public during the Doors Open Day in the Institute of Mathematics AS CR, Praha on 3 November 2010.
The Open Access Week is a global event, now in its 4th year, promoting the open access as a new norm in scholarship and research. This year’s Open Access Week will highlight the collaboration behind the open access and a broad range of initiatives around the globe. The anticipated participation of hundreds of universities, research institutions, and other sites worldwide would demonstrate the depth and the breadth of support for the open access and the real impact of un-fettered access on advancing discovery across disciplines.
The workshop held in the Institute of Mathematics ASCR in Prague on 15 October 2010 aimed at bringing together all content providers in the project to discuss the findings of the preliminary analysis of the collections and the technical orientation to be pursued.
Agenda:
9.00–12.30 WP3: EuDML workshop with content providers – State of the art
9.00–9.30 Welcome (Prague authorities, local organization and practical details, J .Borbinha, Th. Bouche, J. Rákosník)
The last few places are available at Europeana´s Open Culture 2010 conference: booking will close shortly as we are nearing our 350 capacity.
The keynote speakers are Liam Wyatt, the British Museum´s first Wikipedian in Residence, who will give a keynote on Peace, Love & Metadata: a cultural collaboration with Wikipedia, and James Crawford, Engineering Director for Google Books, who will talk about the present and future of the project.
Thierry Bouche presented Le projet EuDML in the workshop Documentation mathématique CIRM held in Luminy, France, on 11 October 2010.
Between October 13th and 16th, 2010, will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, the internal technical meeting. On July 15th will take place the workshop with content providers. This event will be hosted at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciencies of the Czech Republic.
Petr Sojka had a talk on Specifics of Open Access Publishing and Retrodigitization in Mathematics: An Experience from DML-CZ and EuDML Projects in the COASP conference held in Prague on 28 August 2010.
Participation of Thierry Bouche (UJF/CMD) and Jiří Rákosník (IMAS) in the EMS Council Meeting. Jiří presented the EuDML project there and distributed the flyers to the participants (English, French and Spanish versions). The project attracted the attention of the audience. The EMS president Ari Laptev and some other participants paid attention to it in their speeches. The EMS President elect Marta Sanz-Solé emphasized importance of the project and declared that EMS will support it.