The vocabulary has been completed in 12 languages and consists of over 500 concepts in three facets –photographic technique, photographic practice and keywords – that are structured in a multifaceted, hierarchical way. Discussions are on-going with other projects, in particular Linked Heritage, for improvement and further development of the EuropeanaPhotography Vocabulary, that can be a starting point for other valuable multilingual tools to enrich digitization activities (both for photography and for other cultural heritage). Continue reading
As digital technology evolves, 3D data is increasingly preferred as a method of preserving cultural heritage artifacts. It provides an easy way to get in touch with them and significantly reduces the need for physical storage space, offering to museums a portable and accessible platform to exchange information and to researchers the possibility to easily browse and review the materials. Continue reading
Tag: digital humanities
The Arts and Humanities Research Division (AHRD) of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) is organizing its first Annual International Conference on Humanities & Arts in a Global World which will be held in Athens, Greece on 3-6 … Continue reading
In the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities there is increasing interest in and demand for NLP methods for semantic annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning, and visualization of both primary and secondary data, which holds even for collections that are primarily non-textual, as text is also the pervasive medium used for metadata. Continue reading
From September 19th to 21st, 2012 the Faculty of Arts organizes a workshop on Digital Humanities. The workshop is open to researchers and students from inside as well as outside KU Leuven. Currently a call for posters is open. Continue reading
A very interesting piece just appeared on Fast Company digital edition, by Adam Bluestein. He had an interview with dr. Stefan Sinclair, associate professor of digital humanities at McGill University’s Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, in Montreal Canada. Continue reading
TPDL/ECDL has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 15 years. 2012 edition takes place in Cyprus and, beside bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries, it features a very interesting workshop focused to explore methods and strategies to support exploration of Digital Libraries. Calls for papers open until 5th July. Continue reading
