Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation, a not-for-profit organisation based in Madrid, collaborated on the PhD thesis carried out by Ana Carrasco Huertas at the University of Granada, co-supervised by Víctor Medina (University of Granada) and Carlos Bayod Lucini … Continue reading
The Online Meeting is intended for a wide range of participants and interested parties, including digital image repository managers, content curators, software developers, scholars, and administrators at libraries, museums, cultural heritage institutions, software firms, and other organizations working with digital … Continue reading
SECreTour project, together with Photoconsortium, Europeana, UNESCO Chair of the Università della Svizzera Italiana in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in world heritage sites and UNESCO Chair of the Università di Genova in Anthropology of Health, Biosphere and Healing Systems, organized … Continue reading
Area: digital heritage
On the 12-13 November 2013, at the Jerusalem’s Van Leer Institute, is being held the Xth Annual International Event for Professionals in Cultural Heritage and Advanced Technologies. Scholars from all-over-the-world are invited to share their latest projects with the colleagues with a seven-minutes spot-light. Continue reading
LAM is a national museum based in Vilnius, originally founded in 1933, it takes an active role in regularly organizing exhibitions and cultural events and in connection of the opening of a travelling exhibition and an internationa conference about ancient photography and digitization, it was chosen to host the third plenary meeting of EuropeanaPhotography project. Continue reading
Sciencegateway.org organises a Science Gateway Institute workshop co-located with IEEE Cluster 2013 Conference. Papers will be co-publishing in a special issue of Concurrency and Computation, Practice and Experience (http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/) together with selected papers presented at the International Workshop on Science Gateways 2013 (http://www.iwsg2013.org). Continue reading
A flexible and dynamic ecosystem, providing integrated services through interoperable infrastructures. It should be open and accessible, and continuously adapting to the changing requirements of research and to new technological opportunities. Continue reading
The n. 21 issue of the Italian magazine Archeomatica includes as “guest paper” a wide overview about Linked Heritage. The article, in English language, was written by dr. Antonella Fresa and dr. Claudio Prandoni, the Technical Coordination of the project. Continue reading
Beside the core-activity related to project progress and achievements, the TUG team is doing a very important work of dissemination. Very recently, in particular, CULTURA was represented in 2 very valuable workshops (German language) related to humanities. Continue reading
Ciaran Clissmann presented CULTURA as one of the projects working on innovative technologies to enable new opportunities
to preserve and access digital cultural heritage content. Continue reading
Medelhavsmuseet – the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm will digitally place human mummies on a virtual autopsy table. The work is taking place in advance of a new exhibition on Egypt, which is due to open in 2014. It will be possible to zoom into very high resolution to see details like carving marks on a sarcophagus, and the true colors of the mummy. The 3D model also allows to “unwrap” a mummy by peeling off virtual layers of the wrapping to explore the mummy itself and the artifacts that were buried with the body. Continue reading
The goal of the course, organised in 4 webinars, is to create the skills to integrate scientific applications in Science Gateways implemented with the Catania Science Gateway Framework. This will allow the creation of an intercontinental team of deveopers able to respond to requests of integration of specific applications from Virtual Research Communities all around the globe. Continue reading
Discussions about IPR in EuropeanaPhotography so far went through an IPR dedicated mailing list, which is restricted to the project’s members. The on-line support service is instead open to everybody and surely this website will become in a short time a benchmark for IPR issues for the whole community. Continue reading
