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Watch photos from the operation broadcast by PSNC on the Internet under the 6th LION Foundation conference. Viewers from around the world could watch live cochlear implantation and stapedotomy surgery, conducted by the Head of Department of Otolaryngology of University of Medical Sciences in Poznań – Professor Witold Szyfter.

You Tube – the most popular in the world social networking site where users can share their videos celebrates its sixth birthday. Statistics show that the portal is not willing to slow down the pace.

On 7th and 8th June already the Polish edition of “Hach4Europe” will be held in Poznan. This international gathering of programmers, during which the experimental applications, using the metadata available through Europeana, will be built. Marcin Wilkowski from “History and the media” service spoke to Marcin Werla, team leader of Digital Libraries in the PSNC Network Services Department about the upcoming event, open data and Europeana.

IBM has signed an agreement with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling in Warsaw (ICM). Thanks to the agreement new computational machines, purchased within POWIEW project, will be available.

We encourage to watch a photorelation from the four-day (11-14.05.2011) international GeeCON conference held in Krakow.

“Digital National Museum in Warsaw” had its premiere on May 12th in Warsaw’s National Museum. This digital museum is available at http://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/ and is based on the dMuseion software developed by PSNC.

This year’s edition of the international TERENA conference will take place in Prague (16-19.05.2011). During a four-day event, participants will present their latest research projects. Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and PIONIER Consortium will also present their achievements.

In the National Museum in Warsaw works, carried out under the program “Digital Resources. Priority 2: Digitization of monuments and museum exhibits”, funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, have been completed. During the gala premiere – on 12th may 2011 – the portal of the Digital National Museum in Warsaw, which uses the dMuseion platform, was launched. This program has been created by Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in collaboration with the National Museum in Warsaw.

We wish you Happy Easter holidays filled with peace and joy in the company of the loved ones. Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center

The long-awaited spring has come! Its start has been announced by the arrival of storks to Chyby (near Poznań). The nest with red-legged newcomers can be observed by the means of PSNCs web transmission.

In September 2011, representatives of PSNC Digital Libraries Team will participate in the prestigious Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries conference. They will also conduct a training course.

The ongoing two-year Access IT project came to an end. His solemn summary took place on 21st March at a special conference in Istanbul. The event was attended by representatives PSNC Digital Libraries Team.