Registration is open for the international conference ELAG 2022

On 8–10 June 2022, the National Library of Latvia (NLL) will host the international conference ELAG 2022, the leading conference in Europe on the use of information technology in libraries and other cultural heritage institutions.

"For more than forty years, the ELAG conference has provided an opportunity for professionals from cultural heritage institutions and IT industry to discuss the latest technologies and exchange best practices. No exception, internationally recognized industry professionals have confirmed their participation in this year’s conference in Riga," points out one of the conference’s organizers, Semantic Web Expert of the NLL Uldis Bojārs, PhD, inviting to register for the conference by 1 June.

The conference PROGRAMME, registration FORM and other helpful information are available on the ELAG 2022 website https://elag2022.lnb.lv/.

According to U. Bojārs, this conference is an excellent opportunity to promote the activities of cultural heritage institutions in the field of data development at the international level. For example, the NLL will take the opportunity to tell about the achievements during the project "Latvian Memory Institution Data in the Digital Space: Connecting Cultural Heritage", which is being implemented within the framework of the Fundamental and Applied Research Program of the Latvian Council of Science.

The conference is organized by the European Library Automation Group and the National Library of Latvia with the support of the project "Latvian Memory Institution Data in the Digital Space: Connecting Cultural Heritage". Project funder: Latvian Council of Science. Project No. lzp-2019/1-0365.