From August 25–29, 2025, Seoul hosted the 30th CIPA Heritage Documentation International Symposium under the theme “Heritage Conservation from Bits: From Digital Documentation to Data‑driven Heritage Conservation.” Organized by CIPA—a longstanding international committee established in 1968 by ICOMOS (International Council … Continue reading
From 8th to 13th September 2025 Antonella Fresa, president of Photoconsortium and EUreka3D-XR Project Coordinator, took part to Digital Heritage 2025, the premier global forum where culture meets cutting-edge technology, hosted in Siena. With colleagues from Europeana Foundation, XRculture, 3DBigDataSpace … Continue reading
Topic: museum & library information systems
What’s new in MediaConch 16.06, now available for download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal, and latest updates on the pre-IETF Berlin Symposium: No Time to Wait! A free workshop for audiovisual archivists, developers, and open standards working groups from July 18th – 20th hosted by the Deutsche Kinemathek, Zuse Institute Berlin, and MediaArea.net. Register to the workshop and learn more about MediaConch and PREFORMA! Continue reading
At the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, the Europeana DSI Workshop «Tools to make your collection widely visible» was co-organized by Michael Culture association, NEMO and SPK, within the Europeana Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI) project, on 15th Februaty 2016. Sarah Wassermann … Continue reading
One of the key objectives of Europeana Space is to help creative industries to leverage on digital cultural content for creating new products and services – thus creating new businesses and job positions. To do so, a series of 6 … Continue reading
On 16-17 June 2016, in Turin in the beautiful premises of Palazzo Madama, the Turin Museums Foundation in collaboration with Singularity University Geneva, organized a conference dedicated to the analysis of present scenarios and vision of future for cultural heritage in 10 … Continue reading
Results of the webinar organised by the Open Preservation Foundation to present the possibilities offered by the Pre-Commercial Procurement, a competition-like method designed to steer the development of innovative solutions towards concrete public sector needs, and by PREFORMA, a PCP project co-funded by the European Commission to work on the long-term preservation of digital data Continue reading
The 2014-2016 Annual Report has been published by Open Preservation Foundation, looking back on the activities and achievements undertaken by the Foundation over the past two years. veraPDF, one of the three open source projects funded in the framework in PREFORMA, is considered a crucial technical success by providing the definitive implementation of a PDF/A validation tool, which was released in version 0.14 earlier this year. Continue reading
MuseumNext is a global conference on the future of museums. Since 2009 it has acted as a platform for showcasing best practice today to shine a light on the museum of tomorrow. MuseumNext NYC will take place on 14-15 November 2016 with … Continue reading
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and project papers to the Sixth International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage. The Conference is organised under the UNESCO patronage and aims at presenting innovative results, research projects and applications in the field of digitisation, documentation, archiving, representation and preservation of global and national tangible and intangible cultural and scientific heritage. Continue reading
The Sixth International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage–DiPP2016 is organized under the UNESCO patronage and aims at presenting innovative results, research projects and applications in the field of digitisation, documentation, archiving, representation and preservation of global and national tangible and intangible cultural and scientific heritage. Continue reading
by Beatrix Lehmann (Museumsmedien) At the end of May 2016 the Europeana Space Toolbox was presented by Beatrix Lehmann from Museumsmedien, in an event for educators in memorials and museums. The participants came from different institutions in Berlin: German Historical … Continue reading
