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Papers by Adam Sofronijevic

Serbian newspapers and magazines which are included in the digital collection, testify to the wea... more Serbian newspapers and magazines which are included in the digital collection, testify to the wealth of information that accompany everyday life and current affairs in the society and they are a valuable material for researchers of various scientific interest, especially for a summarising view of culture and cultural history of this part of Europe.By adding to linguistic diversity of newspaper collections and by bringing in the distinctive cultural perspectives on historic events that may be interpreted from the digitized newspaper materials, University Library "Svetozar Markovic"as one of the two partners in this project from the South-East Europe and from the non-EU countrieswith more than 400 000 images from Serbian cyrillic newspapers, increases the added value of this European project (http://www.europeananewspapers.eu/). These new possibilities to search and browse through Serbian newspapers make European citizens, researchers, scholars and teachers more aware of our shared history and common European identity.

Abstract. LIBER, CERL and CELN have teamed up with The Europeana foundation in order to implement... more Abstract. LIBER, CERL and CELN have teamed up with The Europeana foundation in order to implement the project “Europeana libraries”. This CIP ICT PSP project started in January 2011 and by 2013 a brand new library aggregator of Europeana will be operational and 5 million new items will be added to the digital portal of the European cultural heritage. To achieve these goals, twenty-five partners across Europe, including some of the oldest and most famed university and public libraries of the continent, will be aggregating research library content for Europeana, extending The European Library aggregation infrastructure and enhancing searchability of existing library contents of Europeana. New metadata model – EDM Europeana Data Model) will be developed, and it will allow for enhanced possibilities in describing composite objects. Dissemination activities will be fostering usage of Europeana and promoting the Open Access principle that is the basis for Europeana operations. University library “Svetozar Markovic”, the only partner in the Europeana libraries project from a non-EU state, is a firm proponent of the Open Access principle and had joined the project in order to contribute to furthering of this principle by making digital content of academic libraries accessible to the vast audience of Europeana. The particular aim this library will try to achieve in the course of the project is creation of the library aggregator for university libraries of the Western Balkans countries.

Paper presents details of the project “Europeana libraries: Aggregating digital content from Euro... more Paper presents details of the project “Europeana libraries: Aggregating digital content from Europe’s libraries” with special focus on participation of University library “Svetozar Markovic” in it. This CIP-Best Practice Network ICT-PSP project brought together 24 institutions including some of Europe’s leading research libraries from 11 countries. During the two years’ course of the project 2011-2013 with participation and support of LIBER, CERL, CENL and Europeana foundation, partnering institutions aim to build the library aggregator for Europeana and create infrastructure that will allow for ingestion into Europeana of digital materials from other research libraries across the Europe after 2013. University library “Svetozar Markovic” is the only partner in the project from a non-EU country and the region of SE Europe. Two important collections comprising 160.000 pages of old and rare books from Ottoman collection and collection on Alexander the Great will be made available to international patrons through Europeana as a result of participation of University library “Sve-tozar Markovic” in this project. Librarians from Belgrade will be partnering with colleagues from Europe on developing new metadata standard EDM (Europeana Data Model) and enhancing full-text searching capabilities and features of Europeana. Other libraries in the region will be profiting from the participation of University library “Svetozar Markovic” in this project since one of the important aims is to create aggregator for research libraries of Western Balkan countries. In the course of achieving this, research libraries from the region will be getting help on kick-starting their digitization projects, creating digital repositories and preparing metadata for ingestion into Europeana.