FSFE-IE June 2014

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Ireland's National Library Digitisation Programme
by Ben North 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Saw the below article a few days ago. Main point of interest to FSFE is the last bit of the quote, where the National Library's Digitisation Programme Manager says "we have achieved [the overhaul of our digitisation workflows and the putting in place of key technical infrastructure] with limited full time technical resources and a very restricted budget by collaborating on international open source projects." Good stuff. - - - - 8< - - - - The National Library of Ireland has released 10,500 newly-digitised items online. It means that a total of 63,000 items that tell the story of Ireland are now freely available worldwide through the National Library catalogue. Photographs of 1916 leader Tom Clarke, his wife Kathleen and family; and posters documenting the Suffragette movement are among the newly-digitised items. It also includes a portrait of the infamous Ellen Byrne, who was tried for her husband's murder in 1842 after his badly decomposed body was found in their shared bed. Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan said the newly-digitised collections "are a wonderful piece of our cultural and literary heritage, which will now be preserved for and made accessible to the people of Ireland for generations". He also said it showcases Ireland's growing reputation as a centre for the innovative use of digital technology. The library's Digitisation Programme Manager Sara Smyth said it was important to have an effective national programme of digitisation and preservation to ensure public access to culturally important collections. She said: "Libraries have always collected, managed and provided access to all forms of information. "While this core remit has not changed, dramatic advances in information technology means the NLI is driving forward a programme of metadata creation, digitisation, digital preservation and online access to our cultural heritage. "Since 2010, we have overhauled our digitisation workflows and put in place key technical infrastructures. "We achieved this with limited full time technical resources and a very restricted budget by collaborating on international open source projects." [http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0424/610963-national-library/]

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Fwd: Connections to opponents of the European Patent Court
by Ole Tange 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

Software patents are bad. The EU-Patent court will probably allow for software patents => EU-Patent court is bad. Sunday we had a referendum on the UPC and unfortunately Denmark voted yes. Ireland will also have a referendum at some unspecified time, but it will be good to get things going - the sooner the better. A lot of the material we used in Denmark can be re-used in Ireland, a lot of the setup could be copied to Ireland, and we could learn from the mistakes we did in DK. I would therefore like to get in touch with people who are willing to work on this. If you know any Irish that are not fond of software patents, could you poke them and ask them to get in contact with me? /Ole

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