Events

Once again, we invite you to participate in promotion workshops of PLATON project’s Archiving services, under the title “Practical archiving aspects and data protection”, which will be held in seven major Polish cities. You can already register for each event.

On Saturday, February 18, 2012, next edition of the popular all over the world TEDx event entitled “4M: City Ground Machine Brain” will be organized in Poznań. The event will be held at the center of design and creativity of Concordia Design (Old Printing House) 3 Zwierzyniecka Street. Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center is an official partner of the conference.

At the beginning of February 2012 the total number of digital objects visible in Europeana and provided by Polish culture and science institutions exceeded one million. More information about the Polish Digital Libraries and digitization is presented in the video material prepared by PLATON Scientific HD TV Team.

Poznań City Hall joined Wielkopolska ICT Cluster as a supporting member. The official accession took place January 18, 2012 during a meeting of the WKlaster Board. With the new member, the cluster will be able to apply for the realization of large European projects, and the City will gain the ability to implement the latest technologies. Poznań City Hall colaborates with Wklaster since its foundation in 2008. Previously, however, the City has been partner in the selected initiatives, such as ICT Wielkopolska project.

On February 8th 2012 another data synchronisation between Polish Digital Libraries Federation and Europeana has been finished. Europeana is a portal which aim is to give access to digitised cultural heritage coming from collections of European cultural heritage institutions. This portal is filled with data about cultural heritage objects via a network of so called metadata aggregators – services which are responsible for gathering data from cultural heritage institutions and passing it to Europeana (with some additional processing if necessary).

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Early in 2012 IMPACT Centre of Competence will gain its final shape and will be able to cooperate and help all interested in mass digitization. Because the initiative is an effect of the European IMPACT project, key roles in the centre initiation play project partners.

HELPS Project has been approved within the Central Europe 2010 Restricted Call for Strategic Projects, priority Competitiveness, and has started in October 2011. Kick-off Meeting of strategic project HELPS will be held on the 6th and 7th December 2011 in Poznań.

The Polish Presidency of the European Union (Ministry of the Interior and Administration) and the European Commission are organizing in close co-operation the sixth Ministerial eGovernment Conference, entitled “Borderless eGovernment Services for Europeans”, on 17 – 18 November 2011 in the City of Poznań. PSNC has prepared the conference website and will broadcast online the plenary sessions.

Supercomputing Conference will be held from 12th to 18th November 2011 in Seattle, which is the world’s largest meeting for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Polish achievements in this field, for the sixth time, will be presented by Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and the PIONIER Consortium.

On 12th and 13th October 2011 in Poznan will be held e-IRG workshop organized under the Polish Presidency of the European Union. The aim of the conference will be to discuss and exchange experiences on visions of development, finance, and the use of IT infrastructure in science (e-Infrastructure) at European-level and in EU member states.