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This week the PIONIER Network Digital Libraries Federation (PIONIER DLF) has submitted to the DART-Europe data about another Polish e-theses and dissertations (ETDs) – the number increased by more than 700 publications, reaching a total value of 1 102. This is the credit of 5 new digital libraries that have decided to pass on information about their ETDs .

Recently a new version of the Manuscriptorium portal, which is the basic result of the European ENRICH project, was launched.

On January 20, 2010 PSNC became the official partner of the DART-Europe project. The aim of this project is to facilitate in the access and use of European e-theses and dissertations. This aim is realized by the aggregation of the metadata of such works available on-line and by allowing to access and search in the aggregated information via a dedicated portal.

From 11 December 2009, in the European Digital Library – Europeana, there are avaialble resources of dozens of Polish digital libraries congregated around the PIONIER Network Digital Libraries Federation. These resources include over 250 000 digital objects made available by the hundreds of cultural and scientific institutions from different parts of Poland. Among them are both treasures of our national heritage, as well as interesting regional materials or modern scientific and educational publications. The vast majority of publications is available to all Internet users without any restrictions.

Another, already 22-nd edition of the largest HPC environment meeting, Supercomputing Conference, took place in 14-20 of November 2009 in Portland, Oregon, USA. For the fourth time PSNC in collaboration with the PIONIER Consortium presented the Polish achievements in the branch.

On the occasion of opening of the new laboratory of high definition at Colchester, Great Britain, as a result of cooperation between PSNC and the University of Essex, the first presentation of 4K video streaming according to the standards determined by the Digital Cinema Initiatives was carried out.

The first edition of the Internet-Infrastructures-Innovations Conference in Poznan was both well organized and well attended.

The 4K Initiative was introduced during the ‘i3 Conference – Internet, Infrastructures, Innovations’.

i3: Internet-Infrastructures-Innovations. Science in the face of digital society is the name of the 1st Scientific Conference organized by PIONIER Polish Optical Internet and the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.

The first demonstration of stream 4K transmission was held on September 29th 2009 with the use of the RTP protocol and the JPEG2000 algorithm.

The 4K Initiative was presented during the ‘Researcher’s Night’ event on September 25th 2009.

The International Supercomputing Conference also known as ISC for the first time gathers the environment of manufacturers, software and system developers and high performance computer users. It is the largest European HPC event, taking place from 23 to 26 of June 2009 in Hamburg. It is already the third time that the PIONIER Consortium represents the Polish science at the accompanying exhibition among 120 other exhibitors from 45 countries.