The new challenges that archives face today concern their relationship with space and the environment, a balance that is increasingly fragile and exposed to risk: floods, fires, and climate change are reshaping the risk profile of documentary heritage. The workshop … Continue reading
The SECreTour Network is growing! R-MAP is the acronym of the project titled Mapping, understanding, assessing and predicting the effects of remote working arrangements in urban and rural areas. R-Map is a three-year project funded by the European Union under … Continue reading
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A “fourth industrial revolution” is going to transform the way we use languages in the media, according to the organisers of a leading European conference of experts. Rebecca Stromeyer, Chief Executive of ICWE GmbH, the Berlin-based company, which is organising … Continue reading
The Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018 is to be held from 13-14 November’18 in Vancouver, Canada. FTC is the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of Computing, Electronics, AI, Robotics, Security & Communications. FTC attracts researchers, … Continue reading
The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 3M Art and Technology Award: “Riddle Mia This”, a mobile app proposed by technology architect Colin McFadden and digital preservation specialist Samantha Porter of the … Continue reading
As we enter a new digital age, more and more artists are redefining their craft and taking the plunge to enter the digital age. One no exception to this is GG Barrett of Urban Fraggle Art. GG (formerly Joanne) Barrett … Continue reading
Call for Submissions: Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices Issue 10.2: ‘Moving the Sensate: Questions of Affect and Embodiment for the 21st Century’ & Open Call The Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices invites submissions on an ongoing basis but welcomes submissions for its … Continue reading
In September 2018, the EAA European Association of Archaeologists will organize its annual meeting in Barcelona. More than 2000 scholars will attend its scientific sessions. Coinciding with this event, and in collaboration with EAA local organizers, an exhibition on Virtual Archaeology … Continue reading
Extended deadline until 31st March: proposals for presentations, workshops, case studies, for CIDOC’s annual conference. Visit the CIDOC 2018 Call for Papers page for submission guidelines and selection criteria: http://www.cidoc2018.com/call-papers. *About the CIDOC 2018 Theme* The ‘Provenance of Knowledge’ is a core element … Continue reading
The European Cultural Heritage Summit will take place from 18-24 June 2018 in Berlin, Germany. This Summit, with the motto “Sharing Heritage – Sharing Values”, has been recognised by the European Union as one of the key public events of … Continue reading
The 3rd conference of the association of Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN) will be held at the University of Helsinki March 7–9, 2018. The conference is organised by HELDIG – the Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki, the Faculty of Arts. The overarching … Continue reading
by Sandra Fauconnier, Community Liaison for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation. In 2017-2019, together with the community of Wikimedia volunteers, a team at the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland updates Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia’s media repository, to work with … Continue reading
