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+=======CERL News===
+CERL staff post items of interest to our members on these pages. Please select a link in the left hand column to view that year's news items.
-====== CERL News ======
+=== June 2018 ===
+When on or after 18 June 2018 you opened the CERL Thesaurus, you were greeted by a new interface. This was the outward manifestation of a mountain of behind-the-scenes work undertaken by the Data Conversion Group, Göttingen (DCG), in support of their migration of the CERL Thesaurus to a new hosting environment. At launch, the new interface was available in English, German and Italian, but more languages were planned to be added. Like the MEI databases, the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, the Scottish Book Trade Index and the other databases that CERL hosts, the CERL Thesaurus is now supported by an Elastic Search environment and all the benefits that come with it.
+The presentation of the records in both cleaner and richer, and capitalises fully on the options for presenting both external and internal links to related information. In place name records you will find clickable links to, for example, all who worked in that place and whose births or deaths were recorded there. In the records for persons you may find links to biographies, to name authority files, to related CT records, as well as clickable links to places of activity.
-===== November 2011 =====
+{{ ::ct_person_name.jpg?400 |}}
-**Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation**\\
-The European Commission has just adopted a Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation, asking Member States to step up their efforts,
-pool their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural
-material and making it available through Europeana.\\
-[[http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1292|Read more...]]
-**Report: National open access and preservation policies in Europe**\\
-This report gives an overview of how open access is developing in the European Research Area. It is based on a survey conducted via the European Research Area Committee. It shows that open access is backed by a growing
-number of universities, research centres and funding agencies across Europe, and it highlights the dynamic growth of open access. It also underlines, however, that national initiatives and practices are still fragmented, thus preventing the European Union from realising its full research and innovation potential.\\
-[[http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/open-access-report-2011_en.pdf|Read more...]]
-**Registration now op: //Ambassadors of the Book//, Antwerp, 1-2 February 2012**\\
-Papers on the competences that librarians in charge of special (or heritage) collections should acquire during their training, and how library training programmes can teach these competences.\\
-[[www.ua.ac.be/ibw/ambassadors-of-the-book|Programme and registration details]].\\
-===== September 2011 =====
-**Workshop: Preservation Policies and Long-term Collections Management
-Halle, 29-30 September 2011**\\
-The LIBER Steering Committee on Heritage Collections and Preservation, in collaboration with the British Library and the National Library of the Netherlands, invites you to attend a workshop on Preservation Policies and Long-term Collections Management. The workshop focusses on the use of preservation policies as frameworks to benefit long-term collections management. The workshop is aimed at library managers and all staff concerned with collections, preservations and collections management.
-[[http://tinyurl.com/3ws4rut|More...]].\\
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+In connection with the migration the editing workflow has also been updated and modernised, which makes the work of the team of CERL Editors much easier. Now that the migration is completed and the editing interface has been updated, we are in a position to open the CERL Thesaurus up for more editors and researchers who can contribute to improving and de-duplicating CERL Thesaurus records. What has not changed, we are pleased to note, is that data recorded in the CERL Thesaurus is published as Linked Open Data and made available under the terms of Etalab's Open Licence, which can be considered equivalent to ODC-BY and CC-BY 2.0. Feedback on the new interface may be shared with us by sending an e-mail to [[marian.lefferts@cerl.org|Marian Lefferts]].

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