Topic: history & archaeology

Thanks to information technology, today and even more so in the future, the heritage that past generations have left us will be at our fingertips.

The New-York Historical Society. Ongoing challenges and record.

Text by Caterina Sbrana. This is my third report from New York, specifically from Central Park where the New-York Historical Society is based. In New York I visited other museums, such as 9/11 Memorial & Museum and MOMA and after … Continue reading →

a new platform to explore musical itineraries, recitals from processions, organs and other sounding experiences in Granada and Sevilla

Historical Soundscapes: listen to Andalusian cities’s voices

This project was originally conceived by Juan Ruiz Jimenez, PhD from Granada University, with the aim of exploring historical urban soundscapes in Andalusian cities, aided by the outreach potential made possible through new technologies. Throughout the digital platform Historical soundscapes … Continue reading →

summer School of the UNESCO chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites

LeVERAGE ICTs for Tourism

Image by: Rufino Emmenegger, Copyright: Foundation Pro Monastery of St. John. LeVERAGE ICTs for Tourism – Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism for preserving LiVing hERitAGE August 24-31, 2019 – Lugano & Müstair, Switzerland The 2019 Summer School of the UNESCO chair … Continue reading →

A trip to the recent past that leaves us with a feeling of vulnerability

New York, 9/11 MEMORIAL: when digital technology saves our memory

Text and photos by Caterina Sbrana. Dear readers, I recently started my work at DigitalMeetsCulture, because I am very interested in art and cultural heritage, and also in the relationship between art and digital technologies. I was in New York … Continue reading →

Enrol now for this FREE MOOC, starting in May 2019

Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites – MOOC

Enrolments are now open for the second volume of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Anyone is welcome to register regardless of whether they have participated in the first volume or not! … Continue reading →

take a tour of ancient Rome in A.D. 320 and discover the architecture of the eternal city as Emperor Constantine saw it.

Rome Reborn original project and new apps

Rome Reborn Project was an international initiative launched in 1996 with the goal of creating 3D digital models to illustrate the urban development of ancient Rome. According to the advice of the project’s advisory committee, the work of modeling begun … Continue reading →

Vienna, 14-15 February 2019 - SAVE THE DATE

ViMM consultation and event about the future of Digital Cultural Heritage

Virtual Multimodal Museum Coordination and Support Action project (www.vi-mm.eu), funded under Horizon 2020, has completed over two years’ work to provide strategic guidance for the European Commission and the wider cultural heritage community, on the future direction of Digital Cultural … Continue reading →

research field: Enrichment of 3D volumetric objects with Metadata and Semantics in Cultural Heritage

Position open for a researcher at Cyprus University of Technology

Applications are invited from candidates who possess the necessary qualifications in order to fill one (1) full time Marie S. Curie Early Stage Researcher (ESR) Fellow Position in the newly established UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage / Digital Heritage … Continue reading →

Bloomington (Indiana), 29-31 March 2019

Ancient Egypt and New Technology

The Egyptology program in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University –Bloomington and the Indiana University Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, invite Egyptologists and digital humanists with interest in Egyptology to a conference in Bloomington on 29-31 … Continue reading →