http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/ PSNC online en The European Commission has awarded the Novel Explorations Pushing Robust e-VLBI Services project (NEXPReS) funds to advance data transfer, buffering, storage and distributed computing technologies. The improvements are expected to significantly enhance electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI) services offered by the European VLBI Network (EVN) to the entire radio astronomy community and, it is hoped, to benefit science research infrastructure across fields. This work is part of the EVN's "e-EVN Programme" of e-VLBI developments, officially recognised as a SKA Pathfinder Technology for its anticipated impact on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), as well as the recently inaugurated LOw Frequency Array (LOFAR). http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/articles/1076/An_innovative_production_platform_for_e-VLBI_services.html Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00 GMT The Internet has been nominated for this Year's Nobel Peace Prize. This candidacy raises much controversy. In fact its impersonal and no one knows who as a possible winner - would receive this prestigious award. http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/articles/1073/Nobel_Peace_Prize_for_Internet.html Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00 GMT The pilot version of the Jagiellonian Digital Library was inaugurated. Virtual Library was created, in order to collect and share digitized copies of the network's most valuable but also threatened collections of the Jagiellonian Library and the Jagiellonian University. The project is implemented through a system of dLibra, drawn up by the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/articles/1071/The_inauguration_of_a_pilot_version_of_the_Jagiellonian_Digital_Library.html Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00 GMT "LIFE IN A DAY" is the motto of an unusual competition announced by YouTube. To take part in this event, simply document one day in a life of the earth. Hottest peace of work will be merged into an experimental documentary a produced by famous director - Ridley Scott. http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/articles/1070/Historical_video_experiment_on_YouTube.html Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00 GMT More than five hundred million users are using Facebook. This is a record, placing service in the first place among the social networking sites. For this big group joined the newly Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/articles/1068/Facebook_is_growing_from_strength.html Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00 GMT 28th February, 2010 was the deadline for submission of reports on the application of The Commission Recommendation on Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material and Digital Preservation. Poland, as a Member State of the European Union, was also obliged to submit such report on the current implementation stage. You can download it here. http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/articles/1066/Implementation_of_The_Commission_Recommendation_on_Digitisation_-_Report_2010_by_POLAND.html Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00 GMT Recently Europeana has crossed the level of 10 million objects. Because of this we have decided to calculate again some simple statistics regarding the participation of Polish resources in Europeana. For today the share of resources published in Europeana by Polish institutions is about 3,4% which gives Poland 9th place in Europe. As you may remember, in similar statistics prepared by us on the 29 of March this year Poland was on the 6th place, with a share about 4,5%. http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/articles/1065/What_s_up_Europeana_part_2.html Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00 GMT In the last few weeks Europeana has updated data transferred via the PIONIER Network Digital Libraries Federation. Even though some problems occurred, the operation ended with success. In this update the Federation has for the first time passed thumbnails for the most of objects from the Federation almost 300 000 thumbnails. Furthermore the objects number from the Federation increased almost up to 350 000. Thanks to the dLibra Framework functionality some of thumbnails were generated automatically. http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/articles/1064/Data_update_in_Europeana.html Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00 GMT According to recent European Commision (EC) report there at least 3 million orphan books in Europe. Oprhan works are works which are still in copyright but rigth holders cannot be traced. EC gathered responses from 22 cultural institutions which are involved in digitisation work, including national libraries, archives, and national films collections. From Poland the study participants were the National Library and the National Digital Archive. http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/articles/1067/Over_3_million_orphan_books_in_Europe_-_European_Commision_report.html Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00 GMT Since this issue PIONIER magazine will be available in electronic form. For now, the network can only find the latest edition of the magazine, but soon there will also be archived issues. http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/articles/1047/New_issue_of_PIONIER_magazine_now_available_online.html Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00 GMT