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On 17th – 19th September 2025 the Centre for Regional and Tourism Research (CRT) on the island of Bornholm will host the Nordic Symposium 2025 under the theme “The transformative power and potential of tourism”. In conjunction with the Symposium, … Continue reading
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
Topic: e-infrastructures
This is a standard-based web 2.0 demonstrative platform that enables search in parallel in different online repositories of linked data. The users can search across the tens of millions of resources contained in the CHAIN-REDS Knowledge Base as well as in the Europeana, Cultura Italia and Isidore repositories. The service is available both in a web-based version and with a mobile app. Continue reading
A joint CHAIN-REDS and eI4Africa Workshop was organised under the aegis of the European Commission and in co-location with big event UbuntuNet Connect 2013. The event took place on November 13 in Kigali, Rwanda Continue reading
The main themes about “Infrastructures in the Digital Age: the Data Challenge” and “e-Infrastructure commons” were discussed in two tracks, including speeches by very important and international experts. The workshop organized by e-IRG was held under the Lithuanian EU Presidency of the European Union. Continue reading
The event was divided in two sessions; the first one was dedicated to the policy, highlighting the decisions by Italian Government and Parliament related to the central role of culture for the economic recovery in Italy, and also in Europe. The second session was dedicated to the digital content Aggregators and to the research infrastructures in the sector of SSH (Social Science and Humanities) and cultural heritage, to share objectives and to develop a common, operative roadmap for digitization. Continue reading
The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2013, the 17th edition of the conference, has organized by University of Malta and it was held in Valletta, Malta on September 22-26, 2013. Continue reading
The goal of this study, prepared for the European Commission, is to evaluate the feasibility of delivering an integrated Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure to help the emergence of a robust platform for access to and preservation of scientific information within a Scientific Data Infrastructure. Continue reading
The 3-day EUDAT conference, 28-30 October 2013 – Rome, Italy, addresses new data challenges – the case for cross-disciplinary science and services – in view of the EC’s forthcoming Horizon 2020 programme. International e-infrastructure cooperation and collaboration benefits are high on the agenda, with a particular focus on the recently launched RDA. The community-driven initiatives collaborating with EUDAT will also take an active role in the interactive discussions through associated workshops taking EUDAT synergies to new levels. Continue reading
The EGI Technical Forum 2013 was held in Madrid at the Meliá-Castilla Hotel & Convention Centre. The event was being organised with the support of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain, the Spanish National Research Council and Red IRIS. On 18th september was scheduled a workshop on VRC Project cases with a presentation related to DCH-RP project that it was taken by R.Vanderbroucke and A. Fresa… Continue reading
Towards an e-infrastructure for the Digital Cultural Heritage sector and the humanities research: which are the needs and the requirements of the DCH?
How can this sector benefit from the new and innovative solutions offered by the e-Infrastructures?
Experts tries to answer these question. Continue reading
The need for novel more efficient and affordable solutions for digital preservation is increasing in the Social Science and Humanities. The workshop presented the advancements in the state of the art, to understand which could be the benefits offered, in particular to the Digital Cultural Heritage sector, by the new technologies and e-infrastructures. Continue reading
