UNESCO-CERN School on Digital Libraries 2018 is a program that will be held in Niarobi, Kenya nad be co-organised by The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It aims to deepen the participants’ understanding of digital libraries, expose new trends in scientific publishing and emphasize a set of principles related to open access, both for data and publications, crucial to promoting open science.
WORTH
- The participants will get a chance to attend lectures given by information professionals working within leading international organizations, the publishing industry and the library IT business.
- The participants will get the opportunity to attend lectures on:
- Overview of open software solutions for operation of digital libraries, in particular Invenio
- Introduction to relevant web technologies and APIs
- Cataloguing formats
- Persistent identifier systems
- Available information resources
- Open access principles
- Operation of institutional repositories
- Opportunities for developing countries
ELIGIBILITY
- Proficiency in spoken and written English
- Be a librarian or an IT information specialist working with libraries
Preferences shall be given to duos, consisting of one librarian and one IT specialist, both working in the same academic environment, with 5-15 years of experience.
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