For the first time in EU history, the three EU institutions signed a joint declaration reaffirming the EU’s role in protecting cultural and linguistic diversity and integrating cultural considerations across all EU policies, while respecting national competencies. The institutions set … Continue reading
After months of careful development in collaboration with Europeana.eu, EUreka3D-XR project has just released a new self paced course on Europeana Academy, titled Introduction to XR for cultural heritage. Extended Reality (XR) is creating new opportunities for museums, archives, … Continue reading
Topic: museum & library information systems
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
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 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
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
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
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 14th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2020), as well as the SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS, due to the COVID-19 pandemic will take place virtually on 30th November – 4th … Continue reading
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
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
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
