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On 10th and 11th March representatives of partners of the SECreTour project met in Lugano to visit the places of the pilot about Monte San Giorgio. This is a very special place, full of cultural heritage, environamental and historic excellence, … Continue reading
The SECreTour Network is growing! Europeana empowers the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation. It develops expertise, tools and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation. It makes it easier for people to use cultural … Continue reading
Topic: digital archive
A presentation of PREFORMA has been delivered by Erwin Verbruggen at the workshop “Digital AV Archiving Workflows; Digitisation, Ingest, Preservation, Conversion, and Delivery” organised on 22 and 23 September 2014 in Copenhagen by the PRESTO4U project. Continue reading
The International Image Interoperability Framework community is hosting a one day information sharing event at the British Library on Monday 20th October 2014 about the use of images in and across Cultural Heritage institutions. The day will focus on how museums, … Continue reading
The Cooperation Agreement that has been signed between SCIDIP-ES and DCH-RP mainly concernes the collaboration and exchange of tools and services for digital preservation of – in this case – cultural assets. Continue reading
PREFORMA project has been presented during a workshop organised by DCH-RP (Digital Cultural Heritage – Roadmap for Preservation) on 22 September 2014 at the National Central Library of Rome, under the umbrella of the Italian EU Presidency. Continue reading
The main objective of the workshop, organised at the National Central Library of Rome under the umbrella of the Italian EU Presidency, has been to provide an overview of the main outcomes achieved by the DCH-RP project, focusing on the Roadmap for Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage and on the potential role of e-infrastructure in the preservation of DCH. Continue reading
The digitization activity of libraries focuses on text, rather than on images, and makes the book pages available as PDF or text searchable works, while the illustrations are difficult to be search and found. This project recovers those parts of the page which include images: the images are cropped, cleaned up, and uploaded to Flickr along with the text that appears next to them, detailed description and searchable tags. Continue reading
There are other advantages in having only ebooks. The archive consists of about 135,000 ebooks, and funds are available for acquiring, on demand, new e-texts that are not present yet in the library; in a physical library with shelves and pyles of volumes, to have such a richness and amount of books would not be possible – and next to that, search and retrieval of information would be certainly more difficult than within the digital library. Continue reading
A joint Preservation Workshop at the RDA Plenary where attendees can provide their views and requirements to four major initiatives, APARSEN, SCIDIP-ES, EUDAT and DPHEP, which are evolving beyond the end of their respective EU-funded projects, and will continue to help organisations to manage and preserve research data. Continue reading
The 2014 APA conference launches the APA Centre of Excellence (CoE). The conference is organised around examples from members showing how they have tackled and overcome their preservation problems. The examples are further grouped around the integrated view of digital preservation which APARSEN has brought together. Continue reading
In this issue of the EUDAT news bulletin we bring you the latest updates about the EUDAT conference, which takes place at De Meervaart Conference Centre, Amsterdam from 24-25 September, as well as information about an exclusive EUDAT training session on 30 September, co-located with ISC Big Data 2014. Continue reading
