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The ESpace Dance Pilot was presented and disseminated to dance practitioners, scholars and artists attending the conference

Cut&Paste: Dance Advocacy in the Age of Austerity, conference in Athens

by Rosemary Cisneros, Coventry University. The ESpace Dance Pilot travelled to Athens, Greece early June 2015 to attend the Society of Dance History Scholars and Congress of Research in Dance conference. The title of the conference Cut & Paste: Dance Advocacy … Continue reading →

ACM TVX2015, the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video, was the perfect occasion to showcase Europeana Space TV pilot!

EuropeanaTV pilot succesfully promoted at TVX2015 conference in Brussels

by Kelly Mostert, NISV During the 2015 ACM TVX conference, hosted by the iMinds Digital Society Department, that took place on the 3rd – 5th of June at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Brussels the EuropeanaTV pilot of Europeana Space … Continue reading →

user testing was organized to improve the two prototypes that the Dance pilot is developing for creative re-use of digitized dance content.

E-Space Dance pilot in Portugal

Two days of testing allowed the pilot developers to gain insight into what its target audience thinks of the two applications developed withing the dance Pilot, using a “think aloud” method, and offered the E-Space Dance Pilot valuable information. The designers are now moving into the implementation of phase of the feedback and look forward to sharing the tools with those Dance Hackathon Participants, scheduled to take place in late Autumn 2015. Continue reading →

The Spaces of Europeana Space compose an environment for endorsing and incubating new business based on digital cultural content

E-Space technical infrastructure taking shape

E-Space WITH is an innovative concept for an infrastructure, which exposes APIs from different portals and repositories. It allows the user to search content of interest from a single access point into different and disjointed repositories and databases such as Europeana, the DPLA Digital Public Library of America, YouTube.. and of course the Europeana Space own repository, currently under construction. Continue reading →

All the ideas were unique and exciting in their own ways and jury deliberation certainly was difficult.

Hacking culture for E-Space: TV hackathon successfully concluded!

The three most promising projects will move on to the Europeana Space Business Modelling Workshops where the projects’ ideas will be further shaped and honed as well as the development of business models with the experts from the REMIX Summit Agency and their elite network. Continue reading →

Video Storytelling Challenge: Enhancing Sustainable Food and Drink Heritage and Production - Deadline 20th June 2015

Europeana Food and Drink has launched its second Challenge!

The winners and the best videos will be presented at the Second Challenge Award Event, taking place on July 22nd 2015 during the Expo 2015 in Milan. Continue reading →

Vienna (Austria), 9 - 10 July 2015

Europeana Creative Culture Jam

On 9-10 July 2015, in Vienna, at the Austrian National Library is being held the conference Europeana Creative Culture Jam, final showcase event of Europeana Creative, a groundbreaking project that explores ways for creative industries to connect with cultural heritage. Culture Jam will be a celebration of all that Europeana Creative has achieved and a presentation of the future success to achieve with the fellow creative projects Europeana Food & Drink and Europeana Space. Continue reading →

the big closing event of Europeana Creative takes place in Vienna on 9-10 July 2015

E-Space liases with sister project Europeana Creative for the Culture Jam final conference

Europeana Space will actively participate in this great happening, and several of its members have joined the event’s Advisory Board; the project will be showcased with a presentation and an exhibition of the Europeana TV pilot. Continue reading →

The hackathon will bring together creative minds, urban developers, artists, programmers and students to build apps using open photographic content

Photography pilot of E-Space: getting ready for the Hackathon!

There is a huge amount of digitized photographic and cultural heritage available on Europeana – and similar open repositories such as Wikimedia Commons and Flickr Commons – that are just waiting to be reused in innovative new applications. This shared cultural content can be an opportunity, with current technologies, to bring people together, to form a glue of new relations between content owners, educators, cultural heritage institutions, developers, students, stakeholder communities, creative industries. Continue reading →

Riga (Latvia), 27 - 29 April 2015

Riga Summit 2015 on the Multilingual Digital Single Market

The Riga Summit, being held in Riga from 27 to 29 April, will gather government officials, business leaders, technology developers and language researchers, who will forge a unified vision for the multilingual digital single market. At the event, stakeholders will work together to develop a combined strategy, identify goals, establish partnerships and initiate concrete actions to bring about the vision of a digital single market without language barriers. Continue reading →