Area: digital heritage

Lithuanian Art Museum, conference and exhibition about photography

LAM is a national museum based in Vilnius, originally founded in 1933, it takes an active role in regularly organizing exhibitions and cultural events and in connection of the opening of a travelling exhibition and an internationa conference about ancient photography and digitization, it was chosen to host the third plenary meeting of EuropeanaPhotography project. Continue reading


Science Gateway Institute Workshop at IEEE Cluster 2013 Conference

Sciencegateway.org organises a Science Gateway Institute workshop co-located with IEEE Cluster 2013 Conference. Papers will be co-publishing in a special issue of Concurrency and Computation, Practice and Experience (http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/) together with selected papers presented at the International Workshop on Science Gateways 2013 (http://www.iwsg2013.org‎). Continue reading


e-IRG’s White Paper 2013 published

A flexible and dynamic ecosystem, providing integrated services through interoperable infrastructures. It should be open and accessible, and continuously adapting to the changing requirements of research and to new technological opportunities. Continue reading


Linked Heritage, dissemination goes on

The n. 21 issue of the Italian magazine Archeomatica includes as “guest paper” a wide overview about Linked Heritage. The article, in English language, was written by dr. Antonella Fresa and dr. Claudio Prandoni, the Technical Coordination of the project. Continue reading


Technology University of Graz disseminating CULTURA

Beside the core-activity related to project progress and achievements, the TUG team is doing a very important work of dissemination. Very recently, in particular, CULTURA was represented in 2 very valuable workshops (German language) related to humanities. Continue reading


CULTURA at the EU Irish Presidency Conference

Ciaran Clissmann presented CULTURA as one of the projects working on innovative technologies to enable new opportunities
to preserve and access digital cultural heritage content. Continue reading


photo Medelhavsmuseet
Mummies virtually unwrapped in Sweden

Medelhavsmuseet – the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm will digitally place human mummies on a virtual autopsy table. The work is taking place in advance of a new exhibition on Egypt, which is due to open in 2014. It will be possible to zoom into very high resolution to see details like carving marks on a sarcophagus, and the true colors of the mummy. The 3D model also allows to “unwrap” a mummy by peeling off virtual layers of the wrapping to explore the mummy itself and the artifacts that were buried with the body. Continue reading


Web course on the development of applications for Catania Science Gateways

The goal of the course, organised in 4 webinars, is to create the skills to integrate scientific applications in Science Gateways implemented with the Catania Science Gateway Framework. This will allow the creation of an intercontinental team of deveopers able to respond to requests of integration of specific applications from Virtual Research Communities all around the globe. Continue reading


Specialized IPR Support from Europeana Photography

Discussions about IPR in EuropeanaPhotography so far went through an IPR dedicated mailing list, which is restricted to the project’s members. The on-line support service is instead open to everybody and surely this website will become in a short time a benchmark for IPR issues for the whole community. Continue reading


Conference about “Use, Re-use and Access”, prestigious event in Dublin

Hosted by the Irish Presidency of the European Union and Linked Heritage partner the Local Government Management Agency, the conference attracted an international audience of cultural heritage and memory institutions and numerous representatives of Irish local and national memory institutions. the conference featured a video message from Commissioner Neelie Kroes, who unfortunately was unable to attend the Conference in person. Commissioner Kroes emphasized the importance of an open approach to information sharing, and highlighted the role of Europeana. Continue reading