Topic: photography

An online event organized in collaboration with the National Széchényi Library in Budapest engaging students of the Media and Communication department of Pázmány University

Facts & fiction: Hungary in black-and-white photographs

15th October 2021 h. 9-12 CEST online event via Zoom Enriching photographic heritage through citizen science. This second workshop from the Citizen Heritage project is focused on engaging university students with digital cultural heritage and the importance of good metadata … Continue reading →

a new CEF project, focused on intangible cultural heritage, starts today with official kick-off, including all the partners and the representative of EU executive agency CINEA - HaDEA

WEAVE – Widen European Access to cultural communities Via Europeana

Today 14th April 2021 the kick-off meeting of WEAVE takes place online, hosted by project coordinator IN2. This project aims to develop a framework to link the tangible and intangible heritage of cultural communities, safeguarding the rich and … Continue reading →

An online event organized in collaboration with Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Philosophy, and NALIS Foundation

History in Pictures from Bulgaria – participative workshop from CitizenHeritage project

Enriching photographic heritage through citizen science. If it is true that an image is worth a thousand words, the key issue with the mass of digitized photographic heritage that is published in online repositories is allowing users to find the … Continue reading →

organized as a virtual tour by University Art Galleries at the University of California Irvine.

online art exhibition The Black Index

The artists featured in The Black Index—Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas—build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to colonialist images. Using drawing, performance, printmaking, sculpture, and digital technology to … Continue reading →

a capacity building workshop for Cultural Heritage Institutions which hold photographic collections at threat of decay

Saving Collective Visual History – online workshop by Photoconsortium

The opening event for the prestigious DIGITAL PAST 2021 conference, organized by the Royal Commission of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, was a 1-hour capacity building workshop by PHOTOCONSORTIUM to share experiences and lessons learnt for visual collections’ … Continue reading →

online, 27 January 2021

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 →

Open access is a great resource, and GLAMS are more and more embracing this approach. But sometimes the consequences of allowing free reuse go beyond any immagination.

Public Domain and misuse: some thoughts

image: Rank Badge with Leopard, Wave and Sun Motifs, China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), late 18th century, silk and metallic thread, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 30.75.1025. Being so deeply embedded in the Europeana ecosystem, the new CEF project PAGODE – Europeana China (2020-2021) … Continue reading →

Thanks to impressive technology, the blue planet, seen from outer space, shows its own fragility

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 →

the Digital Archive is an extraordinary example of common search system and user interface

More than 53000 photographs by the National Archives of Norway online

text by Caterina Sbrana. “Na na na heyana, Hahiyaha naha ..” This is how Frozen, the Walt Disney movie directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, begins. The film has no relevance to the National Archives of Norway but who … Continue reading →

Next stop: Malmö Museum, in Malmö, Sweden from February 15 to June 7, 2020

Anthropocene, a multimedia exhibition that investigates the impact of human footprint on the Earth

Text by Caterina Sbrana. Bologna, January 4. Welcome to MAST Foundation (Arts, Experience and Technology), an international cultural and philanthropic institution that focuses on art, technology and innovation. Welcome to Anthropocene, a multimedia exploration of the human footprint on Earth. … Continue reading →