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The Culture Information Systems Centre offers diverse e-services to institutions and citizens individually - in the fields of libraries, museums, archives, language technologies and artificial intelligence.
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Ability to obtain citation statistics of a specific publication and apply active links to reference sources.
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Using the Internet search engine Primo, authorized users can access full texts from online databases subscribed to by the relevant library. Unauthorized users have access to online data resources up to annotation level.
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Automatic translation service on platform Hugo.lv
Automatic translation of text, documents and websites into 24 European Union languages. Users are also offered synonyms and a dictionary of terms to be translated, as well as automated pronunciation of the textual translation on the translation site.
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Diverse routes have been developed that include various cultural objects of Latvia. You can get important information about each route, including the map, the mode of travel, the duration and the level of difficulty.
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Latvian films online
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Portal of digitized video and audio recordings Diva.lv
Diva.lv is an access portal to digitized video and audio recordings of Latvia, where historical, informative and educational materials about Latvian social processes, everyday life and cultural values are available free of charge to all Latvian residents.
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Access to more than 500 original Latvian authors` and translated into Latvian e-books free of charge from the publishing houses "Zvaigzne ABC", "Apgāds Mansards", "Prometejs", "Latvijas Mediji" and "Jumava", as well as several e-books of Latvian bank and individual authors Zane Nuts and Andra Manfelde. To register for reading e-books, you must be a…
Reserving copies of books and extending the issue period in libraries of national significance and universities
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Search and selection of information in the catalogs of national and university libraries
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Searching for information in academic resources
Internationally recognized Internet search engine Primo, which offers information search in the resources of five libraries of state importance and universities - the National Library of Latvia (LNB), the University Library of Latvia (LUB), the Scientific Library of Riga Technical University (RTU ZB), the Library of Riga Stradins University (RSUB) and the…
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Data management of cultural objects
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The possibility for schools to access a specially prepared selection of Latvian films as an additional tool for learning the teaching material of the school program.
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At the opening event of the Digital Library in Daugavpils, talk about public and legal accessibility of the digital cultural heritage
On May 15 at the University of Daugavpils with the event “Cultural and memory institutions for the Digital Library: the public and legal accessibility of the digital cultural heritage will conclude…
29.05.2024.
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