Topic: museum & library information systems

Webinar about object and face recognition algorithms on historic photos

27th January h. 02:00 PM CET. In the National Archives of Estonia some object and face recognition algorithms and techniques have been tested and implemented on the historic photos of the archives.The webinar describes the work done and shows the … Continue reading


CoMuseum International Conference

The 10th CoMuseum International Conference is taking place on December 2 – 4, 2020.  Due to the COVID-19 social distancing measures, the 2020 CoMuseum will be a virtual event. On December 2, the CoMuseum will feature keynote presentations, fireside chats and panel discussions which will focus … Continue reading


The 2020 Annual Global Art Access Corporation Curatorial Competition

The Global Art Access Corporation is a nonprofit focused on arts, culture and humanities. It was founded in 2019 with the aim of promoting access and engagement with art and history to a wider audience, through the creation of analog … Continue reading


Edvard Munch’s writings

Text by Caterina Sbrana. In August 2007 the Munch Museum set up a project related to Edvard Munch’s writings. The project was financed with funds from Arts Council Norway, the Fritt Ord (Freedom of Expression) Foundation, The Municipality of Oslo’s Kunstsamlingenes institutt … Continue reading


Leveraging the power of AI for European cultural heritage

AI will now be well-versed in cultural heritage due to a new EU-funded project called Saint George on a Bike. Composed of researchers from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Europeana Foundation, the project has begun training natural language processing … Continue reading


Museums and Social Responsibility – Values revisited

Within the framework of Germany’s presidency of the Council of the European Union, NEMO and the German Museums Association are co-organising the online conference Museums and Social Responsibility – Values revisited from 17-18 September 2020. The conference will focus on what social … Continue reading


The curation of Chinese cultural heritage in Europeana

This Workshop is organized by the PAGODE – Europeana China project team at the Department of Asian Studies, University of Ljubljana. Its aim was to set the common ground for the curation of Chinese cultural heritage in the Europeana Digital … Continue reading


Earth pictures of the Nasa archives, now in the Internet Archive

Text by Caterina Sbrana Can you imagine  a library where anyone can go to learn and explore our shared human experience from books, web pages, audio, television and software ? This place exists. Its name is: the Internet Archive. I … Continue reading


Call for book chapters: CEPROQHA Project

Data Analytics for Cultural Heritage: Current Trends and Concepts Editors: Abdelaziz Bouras 1, Abdelhak Belhi 1,2, Abdulaziz Khalid Al-Ali 1, Abdul Hamid Sadka 3 College of Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar DISP Laboratory, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France Brunel University, London, United Kingdom Book Scope … Continue reading