In Brief

Events

Out of the Ether: Information Management for Archaeologists

by Martin Newman

The Institute for Archaeologists (IfA) is a professional institute for the study and care of the historic environment in the United Kingdom. The Institute’s annual conference was held in Torquay in England from the 7th to 9th April 2009 and saw a session to launch a new Information Management special interest group of the Institute. The new group is aimed at those working with historic environment data/information management, computing and informatics. This first event showcased a wide range of current projects and recent developments.

13th European Conference on Digital Libraries

by Giannis Tsakonas and Christos Papatheodorou

The organization of the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2009 in Corfu from 27 September to 2 October 2009 signaled the second 'visit' of ECDL to Greece, following ECDL 1998 in Heraklion, Crete. The theme of the conference was "Digital Societies", addressing the main issues that users and user communities confront within modern digital libraries, such as the creation and enrichment of information artifacts, sharing and distribution of information objects, retrieval and filtering mechanisms, enhancement of user interfaces to increase productivity, and digital preservation.

Cross Language Evaluation Forum Celebrates Tenth Birthday

by Carol Peters

The results of the tenth campaign of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) were presented and plans for CLEF 2010 were unveiled at the annual CLEF workshop, held this year in Corfu, Greece.

ACM Europe Launched

On 8 October, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) highlighted its ACM Europe initiative aimed at recognizing and supporting European members and ACM activities in the region, during a special reception in Paris honouring achievements in European computer science.

Second ENISA-FORTH Summer School on Network and Information Security

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) have organized the 2nd ENISA-FORTH Summer School on Network and Information Security (NIS'09), in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, from 14-18 September 2009. This year’s theme was "Privacy and Trust in a Networked World" with an exciting programme of invited lecturers that covered a range of topics extending beyond pure technological areas to economic, policy, and legal issues.