A new blogpost was produced and published on the Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage to disseminate and promote the five open-source digital tools developed by EUreka3D-XR. In the blogpost, the AR Tour Builder, the AR Tour Experience, the … Continue reading
The Heritage at Risk Summer School 2026, organised in collaboration with the 3D-4CH Project and in the framework of 3DBigDataSpace, brough together experts, researchers, and practitioners to explore this question through advanced 3D documentation methods. Participants gained insights into: European … Continue reading
Topic: digital archive
Photomediations: An Open Book is the most eye-catching result of Europeana Space Open and Hybrid Publishing Pilot, that will be celebrated and empowered within the Hack the Book! Festival organized in Athens in January 2016. But which had been the … Continue reading
Last September, over 200 delegates from around the world attended the 1st international SOIMA conference to jointly define a ten-year vision for audiovisual archives. To celebrate the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, the SOIMA community invite the wider audiovisual archive community to provide their feedback on our vision, and how to reach it. Continue reading
Aim of this consultation, carried out by the BenchmarkDP project, is to get insights into the current state of software evaluations in the digital preservation field: current practices of software evaluations, challenges faced, limitations and advantages they bring to the running businesses, better community-driven evaluation initiatives. Continue reading
Invitation to participate in a study entitled “Software Preservation for Cultural Heritage”. The research is part of an IMLS-funded project to establish a Software Preservation Network. Aim of the study is to better understand cultural heritage practices/experiences surrounding long-term preservation and access to digital primary resources stored in proprietary file formats. Continue reading
William Kilbride of the Digital Preservation Coalition invites the digital preservation community to participate in a new initiative that will hold a big interest for a couple of years and which aims to build into a platform for collaboration in the future: the review of OAIS, the ISO14721 standard for digital preservation, which is planned in 2017. Continue reading
TownsWeb Archiving interviewed four experts (Dave Thompson of Wellcome Library, Melissa Terras of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Paul Sugden of TownsWeb Archiving and Michael Pritchard of The Royal Photographic Society) to shed light on JPEG2000 as a format, it’s potential role in digitisation, and it’s suitability for digital preservation. Continue reading
JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment) is an extensible software framework for performing format identification, validation, and characterisation of digital objects. The Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) took over stewardship of JHOVE in February 2015 to provide it with a permanent and sustainable home. A new beta version of JHOVE 1.12, focusing on stability of the code base, is now available to download. Continue reading
The third IEEE Workshop on Big Humanities Data will be held on Thursday, 29 October 2015, in Santa Clara, California, in conjunction with the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. The workshop will will address applications of “big data” in the humanities, arts, culture and social science and the challenges and possibilities that such increased scale brings for scholarship in these areas. Continue reading
On the 13th of October 2015, the Joint Pictures Experts Group (JPEG) organised a workshop in Brussels on privacy and security support for image data. As privacy, security and IPR are critical issues when dealing with digitised cultural contents, the workshop was targeted on understanding industry, user and policy needs in terms of technology and supported functionalities. Continue reading
KOST-Val is an open source validator for different file formats (TIFF, SIARD, PDF/A, JP2, JPEG) and Submission Information Package (SIP). It has been developed by KOST-CECO, is a Swiss coordination office which is member of the TI/A Standard Initiative team, a group of experts focussing on the definition of a specification of a Archival TIFF Format. Continue reading
