====== News 2014 ======

===== November 2014 =====

**Job opening**\\
CERL is seeking to appoint a Project Officer for the CENDARI project. The key aspects of the role are training, communication, awareness raising, dissemination and liaison. For more information see the [[:project_officer_2015|job advertisement]] and/or contact Marian Lefferts (marian.lefferts@cerl.org).

**International Colloquium on 'Latin Classics at the Dawn of Printing: texts, contexts and print culture (c. 1450-1540)', at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, 19-21 November 2014**\\
CERL's Secretary, Dr Cristina Dondi, presented a paper on 21 November. The aim of the [[http://www.incunabula.uned.es/coloquioInternacional.php?seccion=presentacionIng|Colloquium]] was to approach Latin texts and print culture in the period between the creation of the press and the first decades of the sixteenth century (ca. 1450 – 1540) on the basis of recent contributions from different points of view. {{::international_colloquium_programme_19-21_november_.pdf|Programme}} and {{::some_practical_information_ic_uned_madrid_19-21_november.pdf|Practical Information}}.



===== October 2014 =====

**CERL 2014 Seminar on Text Encoding**\\
We received great feed back on the the seminar, and many enquiries about the power point presentations. They are now available [[http://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/presentations2014?&#the_application_of_text_encoding_facilities_to_digital_versions_of_european_early_books_oslo_28_october_2014|here]].

**6th International Conference of the Manuscript Librarians Expert Group**\\
'Digital and Traditional Manuscripts: Challenges of a Great Migration'. 
The conference was held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, 9-11 October 2014. The programme can be found {{::copenhagen_conference_manuscript_librarians_expert_group_9_-11_october_2014.pdf|here}}.

**CERL Annual Seminar - 28 October 2014**\\
The theme of the seminar was //The application of text encoding facilities to digital versions of European early books//, with a wide range of papers on AGORA, RETRO, the Monk project, the Venice Time Machine, crowd-sourcing and TEI. The full programme, biographies and abstracts can be downloaded [[::services:seminars:main|here]].\\

===== September 2014 =====

**CERL Workshop at SHARP 2014 Antwerp**\\
Historical Provenance Research: Material Evidence, Documentary Evidence, and Digital Humanities – CERL Workshop, 17 September, 9.00-13.30.
SHARP CONFERENCE (Antwerp 17-20 September 2014). 
The full programme is [[http://www.sharp2014.be/cerl-workshop.html|here]].

** B2i will close in December 2014**\\
The current host, the Baryerische Staatsbibliothek, is inviting organisations to take over the hosting of the B2i-portal, which will otherwise be closed down in December of this year. [[http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/aktuelles/article/portal-b2i-fuer-die-buch-bibliotheks-und-informationswissenschaften-einstellung-des-betriebs-durch-die-bayerische-staatsbibliothek-zum-jahresende/|Read the BSB announcement]].

===== February 2014 =====

** CERL and LIBER sign a Memorandum of Agreement**\\
CERL and LIBER have a long tradition of collaboration, and have now updated the wording of their Memorandum of Agreement. {{:news:mou_cerl_and_liber_2014_.pdf|Read the MoU}}