Topic: websites

Digital Heritage and Innovation, Engagement and Identity – Civic Epistemologies Final Conference

The project will deliver an International Conference in Berlin (12-13 November 2015) to illustrate and promote the Roadmap and to present results from the project. The International Conference will be hosted at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. ABSTRACT: Digital Heritage is linking cultural heritage and … Continue reading


DISH 2015: the kick off!

DISH program committee has been very busy reading all proposals for papers, workshops, talks etc..  The first day of the conference was kicked off for a rich programme of plenary and parallel sessions on DISH website: be inspired, visit www.dish2015.nl/programme for more … Continue reading


Open consultation on software evaluation in digital preservation

Aim of this consultation, carried out by the BenchmarkDP project, is to get insights into the current state of software evaluations in the digital preservation field: current practices of software evaluations, challenges faced, limitations and advantages they bring to the running businesses, better community-driven evaluation initiatives. Continue reading


Software Preservation for Cultural Heritage

Invitation to participate in a study entitled “Software Preservation for Cultural Heritage”. The research is part of an IMLS-funded project to establish a Software Preservation Network. Aim of the study is to better understand cultural heritage practices/experiences surrounding long-term preservation and access to digital primary resources stored in proprietary file formats. Continue reading


Lifestyle and Time Use for a Forward-Looking Europe – GLAMURS workshop

An interesting workshop organized by the European GLAMURS project (Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability) will demonstrate the latest findings from GLAMURS, and seek feedback on policy recommendations for the last phase of the project. GLAMURS aims to … Continue reading


An invitation to review and reform OAIS

William Kilbride of the Digital Preservation Coalition invites the digital preservation community to participate in a new initiative that will hold a big interest for a couple of years and which aims to build into a platform for collaboration in the future: the review of OAIS, the ISO14721 standard for digital preservation, which is planned in 2017. Continue reading


JPEG2000 and Digitisation: Expert round table

TownsWeb Archiving interviewed four experts (Dave Thompson of Wellcome Library, Melissa Terras of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Paul Sugden of TownsWeb Archiving and Michael Pritchard of The Royal Photographic Society) to shed light on JPEG2000 as a format, it’s potential role in digitisation, and it’s suitability for digital preservation. Continue reading


OPF releases JHOVE 1.12 beta

JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment) is an extensible software framework for performing format identification, validation, and characterisation of digital objects. The Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) took over stewardship of JHOVE in February 2015 to provide it with a permanent and sustainable home. A new beta version of JHOVE 1.12, focusing on stability of the code base, is now available to download. Continue reading


“HACK THE AUDIENCE!” event was a success

On Monday October 5th 2015, almost 60 heritage professionals gathered in the Waag’s Anatomical Theatre in Amsterdam and discussed how co-creation can be applied in the heritage sector to create new stories or new connections with audiences. The session was … Continue reading


Presenting the Theatrical Past. Interplays of Artefacts, Discourses and Practices

The conference “Presenting the Theatrical Past. Interplays of Artefacts, Discourses and Practices” addresses questions concerning our relationship to theatre history. The theatre of the past is accessible to us via historical objects, theoretical discourses and archive materials. But we can also experience it through performance practices that keep traditions alive or engage in re-enactments of theatre events and representations. Continue reading