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
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The Eternal City will set the backdrop for this gathering of international data infrastructure providers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss the opportunities offered through the Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) supported by EUDAT. Continue reading
Main activities of year 2 will be digitization (objective is 250.000 digitized image, of which 100.000 available in Europeana), enrichment and ingestion; while work will also proceed on the front of sustainability and IPR. Dissemination will be empowered and enlarged in order to reach a wider audience with which EuropeanaPhotography’s results can be shared. 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
ECLAP is pleased to announce the 2013 Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment. Established by co-funding from the European Commission (ICT-PSP), ECLAP is a Best Practice Network that aims to create a network of experts and media access service for performing arts institutions in Europe, along with an e-library for the performing arts. SAVE THE DATE… Continue reading
Europeana Inside is a Best Practice Network of 26 partners, representing major cultural institutions, aggregators and software providers from all over Europe. The project will create the Europeana Connection Kit (ECK), as a response to the specific requirements for the export of descriptive metadata from cultural institutions to Europeana. Continue reading
The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2013, the 17th edition of … 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
Metadata management to facilitate access to content By AIE, the Italian Publishers Association Bibliostar exhibition, Thursday 15th h.2.30 pm-6.00pm – SALA LEONARDO In the digital era, access to content and information is a key issue to ensure the future economic … Continue reading
