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The International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies in Vienna now approaches its 24th edition. This year’s theme is Monumental Computations. A rich programme of keynotes speeches, thematic sessions, round tables and a poster session will tackle this year … Continue reading
With his digital mural “ The Chronicles of San Francisco” the French artist JR tryied to capture a whole city. The mural,107 feet long and 16 feet tall, is installed in a ground-floor gallery free to the public at the … Continue reading
Text by Caterina Sbrana, photos by Fabrizio Sbrana. Dear readers, this time I’ll take you to a village that I consider an authentic open-air museum, where alleys, palaces, small squares and the bell tower tell us of a distant past … Continue reading
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CULTURA is a 36 months EU project, started on 1st Febrary 2011, funded under Seventh Framework Programme. The consortium includes 7 partners from 5 countries. A key challenge facing curators and providers of digital cultural heritage across Europe and Worldwide is… Continue reading
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At the International Conference, the abstract “An Evaluation of the Involvement of General Users in a Cultural Heritage Collection” submitted by Cultura project has been accepted. The project will attend the meeting to present its results, including posters and short papers. Continue reading
Supporting researchers in exploring and examining digitised artefacts presents many challenges in terms of understanding each researcher’s needs, performing appropriate manipulation of and uplift from content, and in presenting a suite of useful research tools to facilitate exploration. This virtual/physical workshop will use CULTURA as a case study to drive discussion by presenting demonstrations and results from the project. The outputs of this workshop will be captured and placed online. Continue reading
IRCDL is a yearly conference for Italian researchers on Digital Libraries related topics. The aim of IRCDL 2014 is once more to provide the opportunity to explore new ideas, techniques and tools and to exchange experiences also from on-going projects. Continue reading
CULTURA Virtual Research Environment, three Cultural Heritage Collections, Personalisation, Entity Relationship Extraction, Entity Oriented Search, Text Normalization, Network Visualisations in the Drupal Module, Desktop Premapper, Web Premapper, FAST Annotation Service, Content Annotation Tool, Equalia, … Continue reading
IRCDL is a yearly deadline for Italian researchers on Digital Libraries related topics. The University of Padua, who organised the 2014 edition of the event, presented and disseminated the final results of the CULTURA project to the participants. Continue reading
The final results of the CULTURA project have been presented and disseminated at the 2nd AIUCD Annual Conference 2013 on Collaborative Research Practices and Shared Infrastructures for Humanities Computing, hosted by the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua. Continue reading
Two CULTURA posters have been presented at the NODEM Conference in Stockholm on 3 December 2013. Numerous discussions with conference participants raised awareness of the CULTURA project and its approach and solutions. Continue reading
On 21st January 2014, in cooperation with the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz the TUG team had the opportunity to give a presentation on the CULTURA project to humanities students in the lecture ‘Basic Module: Digital Humanities’. Continue reading
On 10th January 2014 a half-day workshop was conducted at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ZIM) at the University of Graz. Workshop participants were members of the centre, as well as researchers from the Dialect Cultures project. Continue reading
Interesting paper presented by a group of experts and researchers at the ACM Congress DocEng 2013 to introduce the main characteristics of the digital cultural collections that constitute the use cases presently in use in the CULTURA environment. Continue reading
