Author Archives: valentina.bachi

First meet-up of European GLAM Hackathon organisers

Invitation: First meet-up of European GLAM Hackathon organisers in Berlin Date: 04th of December 2017 from 10 to 15 Venue: Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 in 10963 Berlin, Germany Host: the organisers of Coding da Vinci (DDB, digiS and … Continue reading


Remix public domain artworks with GIF IT UP 2017 – the international competition for history nuts and culture lovers

The competition encourages people to create new, fun and unique artworks from digitized cultural heritage material. A GIF is an image, video or text that has been digitally manipulated to become animated. Throughout the month, they can create and submit … Continue reading


Europeana Research Grants Programme 2017: call for submissions and guidelines for applicants

Europeana Research is delighted to be launching the second Europeana Research Grants Programme. Applicants are encouraged to come up with individual research projects which make use of Europeana Collections content to showcase and explore the theme of intercultural dialogue. Applicants … Continue reading


The 20th International Conference on Cultural Economics

RMIT University  is pleased to host the 20th International Conference on Cultural Economics, presented by the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI). The Conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia, from Tuesday June 26th to Friday June 29th , 2018. The program … Continue reading


New Europeana Pro: the Beta version is out for your input

In September 2017, the Europeana Pro website went throught a major redesign, also integrating Europeana Labs and Europeana Research, which were previously living on separate websites. One of the main reasons for this redesign was to place people first: the new … Continue reading


BAMit! Buy, Sell and Discover Art

In July of this year Baxters International launched an exciting new app – BAM! a mobile and online market place for buying and selling art pieces from all over the world.  Conceived as a social enterprise, and born out of … Continue reading


The National Gallery predicts the future with artificial intelligence

August 16 2017   The National Gallery, London, is working in collaboration with museum analytics firm, Dexibit, to use big data for predictive analytics. For decades, directors at the helms of the world’s cultural institutions have faced the challenge of balancing … Continue reading


DI4R 2017 – connecting the building blocks for Open Science

Once again this year, EUDAT is co-organising the Digital Infrastructures for Research (DI4R) event together with RDA Europe, PRACE, EGI, OpenAIRE and GÉANT. The event takes place in the heart of the European Union in Brussels (Belgium) on 30th November and 1st December 2017, hosted … Continue reading


a new EU project to “ROCK” historic city centres

In May 2017 a new EC-funded project in H2020, named ROCK, has been launched by coordinator Municipality of Bologna. Supported by a large international consortium of Universities, Municipalities, Development and Consulting Groups, Dissemination Networks, SMEs and developers, and Industry Driven … Continue reading


TECHNOLOGY for ALL Forum, 4th edition

The fourth edition of the TECHNOLOGYforALL Forum will be held in Rome from 17 to 19 October 2017. Italy’s role in the development and conservation of the world Heritage is a framework where we will try to analyse the weighted … Continue reading