Tag: Open Science

From Alexandria to the Digital Age: The Future of Human Memory

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A Library That Never Truly Died

In 48 BCE, during Julius Caesar’s campaign in Egypt, a fire broke out in the port of Alexandria. The flames – according to legend – reached the world’s largest library and burned nearly half a million scrolls: Aristotle’s lost dialogues, long-forgotten dramas, astronomical observations, medical descriptions. Fragments of an entire civilization’s thinking were destroyed in a single night. Or were they? Modern scholarship offers a more nuanced picture: the Library of Alexandria actually declined gradually over several centuries, rather than in a single catastrophic event. Yet the legend still speaks a deeper truth: what is once lost is rarely recovered. There is no better metaphor for the fragility of knowledge than a burning library.

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Link to Knowledge – Support researchers in their endeavors against infectious disease spreading mosquitoes!

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In the April issue of our blog series on Citizen Science, we present one of our partner projects, Mosquito Alert, which is a non-profit Citizen Science project based on an international collaboration coordinated by various state research centres, including the University of Pécs. We spoke with Kornélia Kurucz PhD, who represents UPécs and participates in the project.

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Link to Knowledge – “The library is a bridge between research groups and volunteers, and the librarians are standing on its bridgehead” – Interview with Gaálné Kalydy Dóra

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“Citizen Science plays an important role in the democratization of science as the ivory tower of scientific research is brought closer to the public through open science and freely available information.” The quote comes from Gaálné Kalydy Dóra, who is the Deputy Director General of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a member of LIBER Citizen Science Working Group. In addition to the management of the library’s daily work, she is also responsible for the renewal of traditional library services. Here you can read an interview with her about Citizen Science, a trend that is increasingly attracting European – including Hungarian – researchers and universities as well.

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Benefits of Citizen Science in our Community

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One of our library working groups has been working for some time on the mapping of Citizen Science projects in Hungary and Europe, with particular interest on Pécs of course.

In connection with this, we are starting a series of blogs entitled “Link to knowledge”, serving as a framework of our work, while trying to present as many projects as possible through interviews, as well as offer a place to learn about the concept and possibilities of Citizen Science.

In our first article, we present the idea of Citizen Science and the current activities of our working group.

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