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The Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University kindly organized the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, which was held in the beautiful island of Corfu, Greece from September 27 to October 2, 2009. The general theme of the conference was "Digital Societies".

Brisbane, Short stories going digital

An article exploring the debate of whether investing in digital media will reap rewards?

Rupert Murdoch in China, arguing for paid content, and greater freedom for the press. 'The challenge of fusing past and present is real for media companies, and for China. Our aim must be to enhance the lives of our customers and citizens, and yet we find ourselves in the midst of an information revolution that is both exciting and unsettling. It is a digital revolution turning traditional business models upside down … traversing geographic, industrial, and media boundaries … and creating a new source of wealth, material and social, around the world.'

VisionChina buys out Digital Media, British Sky unveils online music service and India govt intros broadcasting policy.

An examination of Mark Deuze's 2006 article examining the key characteristics of an emerging global digital culture. Week 5 reading

Children's Publishing Digital Age. Where we are heading? Future

The uproar, including a lawsuit, over the removal of copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle devices comes as Amazon faces renewed e-book competition. Interesting article in terms of some of the issues discussed in the Thompson reading this week re the digital revolution and the publishing world.

Digital authors don't have to wait for the publishing industry anymore.

Fascinating presentation about the change in digital perception of the future generations.

This is an overview of the development of the digital research infrastructure in Arts and Humanities in Slovenia. The aim of the case study is to identify the development of the digital humanities infrastructure, to map all relevant recommendations, strategies, initiatives and key figures supporting and enabling the development of (future) policies. The main focus is on the development process itself; identifying individual initiatives, ideas, strategies, collaborations, accomplishments, references and the obstacles encountered. The paper includes a comparative component - considering developments in Slovenia within a broader EU and non‐EU context. Programme Seventh Framework Programme Specific Capacities

Participation, Remediation and Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of Digital Culture

Vowing to fight unauthorized reproduction of news reports online, The Associated Press said Thursday that it will add software to each article showing who created it and what limits apply to the rights to use it. The software will also notify the A.P. about how the article is used across the Web.

Use FriendFee to keep up with the digital - Interesting read.

In this article the Harvard Press acknowledges the changing nature of publishing, in regard to different audiences and the pace of technological development, revealing how they will release articles, journals and magazines in different formats, with a growing focus on digital mediums.

This article explores the changing nature of journalism as a result of digitization.

AOP survey shows about 70% of digital publishers in the newspaper, magazine and TV industries will charge for content online, it also illustrates that more than half of media firms use Twitter to publish content

The ebook market expand to children's books. It is a great business market.

A new digital media company in the Web and mobile sector is going green, both in its operations and in the products and services it offers.