The first #3D #CulturalHeritage object #3DforCulture harvested by Europeana.eu in the post- #BREXIT era from the UK, is now a reality. https://unescochair-dch.net/Guildhall_Great_Hall We are proud to celebrate a landmark achievement for European #DigitalCultural heritage, #CulturalDiplomacy and international collaboration. The magnificent … Continue reading
CEPIC and Photoconsortium are pleased to announce that their joint project, CHERISH (Cloud for HERitage – Image Sector Hub), has been selected for funding under the ECHOES Cascading Grants Call. CHERISH is one of only 20 projects, reflecting the project’s … Continue reading
As EUreka3D-XR approaches its final stage, we can start to draw conclusions from a fruitful 18 months and are delighted to share the project’s work, achievements and resources: “EUreka3D-XR: exploring cultural heritage through 3D digitisation and XR experiences” is now … Continue reading
Area: digital heritage
On 24-25 September 2015, at the François-Mitterrand site of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the 7th Conference on Cultural and Media Economics was held, organised by The French Ministry of Culture and Communication’s Department of Studies, Forward-Looking Analysis and Statistics, the KEDGE Business School’s “Creative Industries, Culture and Sport” research cluster and Sciences Po’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies. RICHES partner Karol Borowiecki intervened with a presentation of the project and a speech under the title “Europe’s cultural consumption in the digital age: does fiscal policy matter?” Continue reading
In a recently published post on the Cultural Studies Leuven blog, Prof. Fred Truyen (KU Leuven), coordinator of the E-Space project’s photography pilot, offers some reflections on his experience with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in the successfully concluded EuropeanaPhotography project… Continue reading
Kate Murray, author for The Signal, the digital preservation blog of the Library of Congress, interviewed MediaConch’s Project Manager Dave Rice and Archivist Ashley Blewer, who explained the aim of the PREFORMA Project and the first results of MediaConch particularly on the standardisation of Matroska & FFv1. Continue reading
Erwin Verbruggen from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision presented PREFORMA at the EBU Open Source Meetup at IBC 2015 in Amsterdam, which featured a series of 5 minutes lightning talks on open source projects and use cases from the broadcast domain. The presentation focused on the media conformance checking of AV files. Continue reading
Internet Festival 2015 is taking place on 8-11 October, as every year in Pisa. One of the most important European events dedicated to the digital world, IF is an unmissable date to understand what the technological innovation can represent for the future of Italy and the Italians. The meeting provides a programme packed with appointments and hundreds of guests. “Space” is the topic of this edition 2015: how it, and the perception of it, has changed in time. #IF2015 is held in friendship with the conference “Cloud Forward 2015”. Continue reading
The Europeana Space project is organising an exciting event about the use and re-use of cultural digital content, in particular dance. An international jury will reward the three best teams with a trip to London for an intensive a Business Model Workshop, where the team with the strongest concept and business model after the Workshop will win a 3-month intensive incubation package to deliver their ideas on the real market. Continue reading
The E-Space creative marketing workshop “Digital Culture, Social Media and Innovation for the Cultural Heritage” is taking place in Pisa on 9 October. It will explore different ways of communicating cultural contents with the use of new media and will show how a greater audience can be reached by combining the power of social media and storytelling. The event, hosted by Fondazione Sistema Toscana in cooperation with Invasioni Digitali, is being held in the framework of the Internet Festival. DigitalMeetsCulture is official media partner. Continue reading
Are you an expert in user engagement with digital heritage? Do you care about the role of digital heritage in the public domain? Are you convinced that “open” means “more impact”? Do you have a cunning business plan with digital heritage? Then submit a proposal for a table session, a workshop, a poster session or an ignite talk within 14 September 2015! Continue reading
On 1st October 2015, in Granada, European projects RICHES, E-Space, Civic Epistemologies, PREFORMA and the international association Photoconsortium were invited in a panel organised by Promoter SRL under the title “From Digitisation to Preservation, Creative Re-use of Cultural Content and Citizen Participation”. … Continue reading
In a recent post of hers entrepreneur, citizen science advocate and author Chandra Clarke observes the last years’ developments of citizen science and makes some predictions based on the available data. Continue reading
