Drahomira Herrmannova was awarded the Prize of Zdena Rabova by the Brno University of Technology. This prize is awarded annually by the dean of the faculty to two students for excellent study and science results. The nomination was supported by Drahomira’s diploma thesis, which she wrote during her period at KMi and which was based on paper by Drahomira…
The 7th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR 2012) has seen last week close to 500 participants, the highest number in its history. The theme and title of OR 2012 in Edinburgh – Open Services for Open Content: Local In for Global Out – reflects the current move towards open content, ‘augmented content’, distributed systems…
KMI and the European Library/Europeana jointly organised the 1st International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications associated with JCDL 2012 – the most prestigious conference in the world of digital libraries. The workshop was attended by major players in the field including the National Library of Medicine, Library of Congress, CiteSeerX, Elsevier and British Library. Although…
Is an article published by the University of London Computing Centre featuring certain aspects of the CORE system. Check it out … Related Links: Cor! It’s time for CORE!
DiggiCORE is a new two year project funded under the Digging into Data programme, which supports collaboration between the UK, USA, Canada and the Netherlands. The DiggiCORE partnership consists of KMI and The European Library. This makes DiggiCORE the only funded fully European project in the whole programme. The members of the DiggiCORE Advisory Board…
ServiceCORE is a follow up project of CORE funded by JISC. The project aims at developing a nation-wide service for searching, navigating and accessing Open Access publications stored across 143 British institutional repositories. The CORE system is unique in its way to use text-mining and linked data to connect and interlink semantically similar publications at…
The KMi submission authored by Petr Knoth, Vojtech Robotka and Zdenek Zdrahal entitled: ” Connecting Repositories in the Open Access Domain using Text Mining and Semantic Data” won the Best Poster/Demo Award at the International Conference on Theory and Practise of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011) which is this week taking place in Berlin, Germany. The…
