DRP 2010

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

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".

Google announced more details about their upcoming online ebook service.

Social networking, is really about people as sensors.Google Social Search is designed to let searches return traditional results along with updates and tweets that users' friends and other people they follow on various social networks have posted.

"E-readers will save the publishing industry. E-readers will become the mobile equivalent to the eight track tape."

most publishers are looking at E-readers as simply a fourth platform for delivering content-besides print, Web and mobile.

There are various ebook reader devices on sale and there are plenty of books in electronic format available, but we have not reached the tipping point where cheap ebook devices are available and enough ebook content is available at an attractive price.

Instead of the 20,000 books the school currently has, the students of Cushing Academy will have 18 e-readers at their disposal. The learning centre - the replacement for what was once the school's library - will also have three large TVs, a coffee shop, and laptop-friendly booths.

Andrew Keen writes about whether to buy the Kindle now or wait for the appearance of the Apple touchtablet device rumored to be released early next year

Writing and reading - from newspapers to novels, academic reports to gossip magazines - are migrating ever faster to digital screens, like laptops, Kindles and cellphones.

More than 1 million people compliant Faebook about its news feed feature. The feature provides users a "feed" containing updates of what their friends have been up to. Following the change, many users were confused to find the feed was no longer in chronological order

Iraqi refugees in Syria will receive UN food vouchers through text messages on mobile phones. Can this program really work? I have doubt about that.

Are print books really about to disappear, overtaken like horse-drawn carriages in the age of Detroit and the Ford Model T? Truth is, nobody knows. Nobody ever really knows what the future is going to hold, no matter how sure they sound in their predictions.

Facebook just made one of the biggest changes to the site's user experience since the introduction of the News Feed three years ago. How are companies dealing with the problem of Information Overload?

Circulation at newspapers shrank at an accelerated pace in the past six months, driven in part by stiff price increases imposed by publishers scrambling to offset rapidly eroding advertising sales. Average daily circulation at 379 U.S. newspapers plunged 10.6 percent in the April-September period from the same six-month stretch last year, according to figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Cybercriminals are targeting social networks. The Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 72,000 complaints about Internet fraud in 2008.

Is the ebook market becoming saturated? As more companies invest in digital technologies, there seems to be growing concern that returns won't be what initially expected.

E-book is coming.

In the 15th century Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing process. This new technology changed the world forever. One specific task was made incredibly easy - the spreading of written words. eBooks take us to the threshold of a possible shift in the way we read books.

Last generation of e-book readers announced.