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Explore two new source collections on Historiana, the online multimedia tool co-funded by the European Union that provides teachers with innovative, interactive resources to bring history to life and engage students. These collections feature 3D models digitised through the … Continue reading
On January 1st of every year, new heritage works enter the public domain. Unfortunately, these works often remain inaccessible to the public. In order to share experiences and best practices in opening up this material, Meemoo, COMMUNIA, Creative Commons, … Continue reading
Join the annual EUscreen Symposium on December 9th and 10th in Barcelona. The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence technologies has opened new horizons for the audiovisual sector, offering opportunities for creativity, and efficiency. However, as AI becomes increasingly integrated … Continue reading
Area: digital heritage
During Euromed 2016 conference in Nicosia (Cyprus) Monday 31st October 2016 h. 5 pm Digitization has been a major objective for most, if not all, cultural content holders in every European country. Museums, Librarie, Galleries, arts organisations and also private … Continue reading
This thirteenth annual conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), is organized in conjunction with the Digital Scholarly Editing Initial Training Network (DiXiT) and hosted by the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. 5-7 … Continue reading
What’s new in MediaConch 16.08, the results of the pre-IETF Berlin Symposium: “No Time to Wait!: Standardizing FFV1 & Matroska for Preservation”, and much more in this September edition of MediaConch newsletter. Sign up for the upcoming webinar on September 15th and meet MediaArea folks and PREFORMA at large during a workshop organised at iPRES in Bern, Switzerland on October 5th. Continue reading
The Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group has published its primary document which is now a Candidate Recommendation. The document provides Best Practices related to the publication and usage of data on the Web designed to help support a self-sustaining ecosystem. As a further aid, the Working Group has also published stable versions of its Data Quality and Dataset Usage vocabularies. Continue reading
The high-level international digital culture conference “Culture 4D: Digitization, Data, Disruptions, Diversity” is taking place on 29-30 September in Tallinn, Estonia. The event is organised in the framework of the Estonian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council … Continue reading
Europeana Space project accomplished its task of creating 6 thematic pilots to showcase creative reuse of digital cultural heritage in various areas (TV, Dance, Photography, Games, Museums and Open & Hybrid Publishing). Now we want to do more and remix … Continue reading
The PREFORMA project is running a webinar series throughout September to present the three conformance checkers that are being developed for electronic documents, still images and audiovisual files. The webinars will: introduce the PREFORMA project, update participants on the current status of the conformance checkers, demonstrate the software, outline future plans, and give examples of how the community can contribute, or provide feedback. Continue reading
The 1st edition of the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry is a unique event for sharing knowledge and seeking new collaboration and partnerships. It provides opportunities for addressing the common challenges that qualitative researchers face in their own geographical regions or … Continue reading
The latest version of veraPDF is now available on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. Keep up to date with the latest developments of veraPDF and support our efforts by downloading and testing the software. If you encounter problems, or wish to suggest improvements, please add them to the project’s GitHub issue tracker. veraPDF will be demonstrating the software at the PREFORMA Experience workshop on 23 November in Berlin. Continue reading
RICH (REFLECTANCE IMAGING FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE) is a project by Illuminare, Centre for the Study of Medieval Art, KU Leuven, in collaboration with ESAT, and is developing an imaging tool for research, study, and exploration of the material characteristics of graphic … Continue reading
