Digital meets Culture

online, 17th May 2024 h. 14 CET

part II – Paradata, Metadata & Data in 2D/3D Digital Heritage Documentation

This webinar in two parts brought together professionals from the spectrum of Digital Cultural Heritage practice to share their experiences of using and working with paradata seeking to lay down a common understanding of paradata as a first step towards a community-built set of standards and expectations for its application to 3D documentation and the creation of knowledge.

Part 1 was held on 8/4/2024 => RECORDING HERE
Part 2 is held on 17/5/2024 => RECORDING HERE

Organized by UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at Cyprus University of Technology in collaboration with EUreka3D, this webinar discussed the most advanced requirements and cases of the use of Paradata and Metadata in the digital documentation of the Past in 3D, for enriching 3D assets, creating knowledge and promoting reusability.

The webinar was addressed to the Digital Cultural Heritage community to establish a definitive description and differentiation of what paradata and metadata are, and the benefits they are bringing to the stakeholders, owners, multidisciplinary community and digital scholarship, as well as to the European Commission.

Agenda – Please note times are in CET

13:30-14:00 Join the session using your MS Teams Link
14:00-14:10 Robert Davies Chairman, Europeana Network Association, NL Opening remarks
14:10-14:20 Marinos Ioannides, et al UNESCO Chair on DCH, CUT, CY Paradata, Metadata & Data for a Digital #MemoryTwin
14:20-14:35 Marc Grellert, et al TU Darmstadt, DE The DFG-Project IDOVIR – Infrastructure To Document Paradata Of Virtual Reconstructions
14:35-14:50 Elisabetta C. Giovannini, et al POLITO, IT Extending the Extended Matrix With CIDOC-CRM. Paradata for Virtual Reconstruction Processes & Beyond
14:50-15:05 Chiara Parisi , et al UNIFE, IT Paradata as a Strategy for a Systematic Digitization of Museum Objects
15:05-15:20 Matthieu Quantin, et al University of Nantes, FR Publishing & Long-Term Archiving 3D Data in Humanities – French 3D Consortium Proposal
15:20-15:35 Marion Depraetere Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, DE Virtual Access to Fossil & Archival Material From the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1913)
15.35-15:50 Yashaswini Jayadevaiah Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, IN ‘Translation’ as a Practice-Ontology to Script All Data: A Case Discussion
15:50-16:05 Morris Murphy TU Dublin, IE A Paradata Framework for HBIM
16:20-16:35 Sonia Giovinazzi National Agency for New Technologies, Energy R Sustainable Economic Development, IT Integrated Paradata-Metadata-3D Models for Enhancing the Resilience of Cultural Heritage Buildings to Climate Changes & Other Natural Hazards
16:35-16:50 Wanda Listiani Institut Seni Budaya Indonesia Bandung, ID Photogrammetry Paradata in the Three-Dimensional Documentation of Pawon Ancient Humans in Indonesia
16:50-17:05 Carlos H. Marcondes Federal University of Minas Gerais, BR Heritage Objects & Patrimonialization: Documentation of a Curatorial Process
17:05-17:20 Pedro Luengo et al Universidad de Sevilla, ES Toward a Trustable Digitisation of Built Heritage: The Role of Paradata
17:20-17:35 Antonio Suazo Navia Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, CL Virtual Urban Reconstruction Based on Photographic Sources: Knowledge Management and Paradata as a “Chain of Visual Evidence”
17:35-18:00 Igor Bajena Hochschule Mainz University of Applied Sciences, DE European CoVHer Project in the Context of Developed Methods for the Documentation of Hypothetical Digital Reconstructions of Lost Architectural Heritage in Higher Education
17.50 – 18.20 Discussion Session & Closing Remarks

>>> AGENDA IN PDF (300 KB)

Barcelona, 15th May 2024

New heritages, new feudalisms: the servitudes of digital documentation

The Conference, which is structured around three lines of debate, aims to reflect on the future of digital heritage and the dependencies and cooperations that germinate in the liquid age from a scientific, social and humanistic perspective, while transiting between theoretical reflection and analysis of practice: 

[DIGITAL ASSETS] What do we guard? This line reflects on the object itself (concept of digital heritage) and the archival challenges we face. (axis 1) 
[PROCESSES, TECHNOLOGY] How and where do we guard it? This line aims to reflect on the different technological models and the custody of digital heritage, as well as the technological challenges that arise from them. (axis 2) 
[PEOPLE] Who guards? This line revolves around the aspects linked to the Catalan digital heritage strategy, such as the organizational structure, competences and the democratization of access. (axis 3)

The Conference wants to echo the theoretical concerns, and practical and political concerns, and give answers – or at least reflect – on the questions raised, and it is conceived as a space for debate between areas of knowledge as diverse as archival and document management, economics, communication or law. Only a multidisciplinary conversation and reflection can help us understand the transformations and the social and political dynamics that are generated and the effects that these dynamics can have on the future of digital heritage.  

The conference is organized by the Professional Association of Archives and Document Management of Catalonia.

Website: https://arxivers.com/congressos-i-jornades/jornades-destudi-i-debat/xiv-jornada-2022-2/

Speakers

Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod
Rocío Campaña Mora
Pilar Campos Martínez
Rubén Cortés Domingo
Jordi Ferrer Guillén
Antonella Fresa
Olga Giralt
Oscar González Aguilar
Jaume Sardà Font
Sonia Torreblanca Valverde
Jordi Vilamala Salvans

Thinking Faro Forum, 19 April 2024

The European INCULTUM project and the Portuguese pilot. Challenges and opportunities for the sustainable development of Campina de Faro

Thinking Faro Forum is organised by the municipality of Faro in Algarve, and is attended by various stakeholders, university students and citizens.

The representative of the INCULTUM pilot on the Campina de Faro will present the results of the activity and the challenges and opportunities emerged during the 3 years of work.

The full programme of the event is available for download (PDF).

Guadix, 12 April 2024

INCULTUM International Conference: everything is ready

Everything is ready for the final conference of the INCULTUM project.

The international event will take place in Guadix on 12 April 2024 with a program of very interesting speeches from the project’s partners and invited scholars and researchers.

The full programme is available online, on the project’s website.

The event will host also gallery of posters that are accessible also in digital format.

11-15 November, Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

CIDOC Conference 2024: Sustainable Connections: Building Knowledge Networks

The Call for Papers is now available for the CIDOC 2024 annual conference, hosted in Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: this years conference will explore efforts to facilitate the (re)use of collections information – ranging in scope, content, geography and theme – and embrace the lessons learned from developing social, analogue or digital knowledge networks, in order to inspire, expand and connect this work.

Call for contribution will close on the 10th of May.

Read more and discover about the Call for Contribution here.

Timisoara, Romania. 16-19 September 2024.

1st Workshop on Serious Games in Well-being, Environment, Digital Heritage and Other Applications

The 1st Workshop on Serious Games in Well-being, Environment, Digital Heritage and Other Applications will be held in conjunction with SYNASC 2024 on September 16-19 2024, in Timisoara, Romania.

Serious games address practical problems by using games as a backbone for reaching a wider audience and enabling immersive experiences. The workshop includes a call for papers for novel research on serious games addressing cross-stack aspects ranging from theory and design to immersive devices, ethical implications, and (interdisciplinary) applications.

Call for papers

The submissions end term is June 10, 2024.

Submissions can be made from both academia and industry, and focussing on the following topics:

serious games theory, design, and methodology;
extended reality in serious games;
immersive experience through integrated haptic and XR devices;
legal and ethical implications of serious games;
applications of serious games in environment, well-being, digital heritage, etc.

Format: up to 8 pages double column format.

Accepted papers will be published as IEEE Proceedings.

Submit your work by the deadline on EasyChair by selecting the Workshop on Serious Games in Well-being, Environment, Digital Heritage and Other Applications.

Important Dates:

10 June 2024 (AoE): Paper submission
15 July 2024: Notification of acceptance
5 September 2024: Registration
5 September 2024: Revised papers according to reviews
16-19 September 2024: Symposium

Chairs:

Marc Frincu – West University of Timisoara

Programme Committee:

David Brown, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Dragos Coste, 3Deva, Romania
Manuela Incerti, University of Ferrara, Italy
Georg Zotti, Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science, Austria
A. Cesar Gonzalez-Garcia, Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio, Incipit – CSIC, Spain

updates on EUreka3D development were presented to colleague institutions, partners and Europeana aggregators

EUreka3D at the Spring edition of Europeana Aggregators Forum 2024

The Europeana ecosystem and network of Aggregators and partners gathered together in the Europeana Aggregators Forum online, on 25-26 March 2024.

In this occasion, updates on EUreka3D development were presented to colleague institutions, partners and Europeana aggregators by the Project Coordinator Antonella Fresa, vice president of Photoconsortium, and Valentina Bachi, project manager.

View presentation (PDF, 1.5 Mb)

During the event, a variety of topics were presented and discussed in the group. The activities currently ongoing to deploy the data space for cultural heritage played a big role on the agenda as the work of Europeana aggregators is essential to the data space‘s success, also considering different types of data to be published and of aggregation scenarios that may develop in the future. Another important topic on the table was the discussion and collection of requirements for the provision of persistent and unique identifiers (PIDs) for the datasets to be aggregated in the data space, which will support efforts to grant sustainability and availability of online cultural content in the long term.

slide from the presentation by Hugo Manguinhas & Maša Škrinjar, Europeana Foundation.

In this light, EUreka3D project offers to the users of the EUreka3D Data Hub, publicly presented in a demo event in December 2023, the possibility of creating and embedding PIDs for the 3D objects managed and shared in the Data Hub. This is an innovative feature that the EUreka3D project is developing to support CHIs in all the phases and steps for the publication of their datasets in the data space for cultural heritage.

EUreka3D project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.

Istanbul, January 21-23, 2025. Deadline for abstract submission is October 30, 2024.

Call for Papers: BOBCATSSS 2025

BOBCATSSS 2025

The BOBCATSSS conference is an international annual academic event focusing on library and information science. It is primarily organized by and from students from various universities across Europe.

BOBCATSSS 2025 will take place on 21-23 January 2025, in Istanbul, under the theme “Artificial Intelligence in Library and Information Science: Exploring the Intersection.”

The rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence are reshaping the landscape of Library and Information Science (LIS), offering unprecedented opportunities and posing new challenges. The conference aims to provide a platform for students, researchers, and professionals within the library and information science field to present their research, exchange ideas, and discuss emerging trends and challenges in the industry. They are invited to submit their original work, case studies, theoretical explorations, and practical applications. This call for communication seeks to explore the multifaceted relationship between AI and LIS, aiming to gather a wide range of scholarly contributions, practical insights, and visionary outlooks at the intersection of these two dynamic fields.

Submissions are encouraged to address, but are not limited to, the following subthemes:

AI Applications in Libraries and Information Centers:

Implementation of chatbots and virtual assistants
AI in cataloging, classification, and metadata generation

Ethical Considerations and Policy Implications:

Privacy and data protection in AI-enabled services
Developing ethical guidelines for AI use in LIS

Emerging Technologies and Future Trends:

Impact of AI on digital scholarship and open science
AI in knowledge discovery and data mining

AI and Information Literacy:

Educating LIS professionals and users in AI competencies
Critical assessment of AI-generated content
Strategies for fostering digital literacy in an AI-driven world

AI and Information Management:

Integrating AI technologies into information management systems
Ethical considerations in using AI for information management
Leveraging AI for information retrieval and knowledge discovery
Ensuring data privacy and security in AI-driven information management applications

AI-Driven Transformation of Library Services and Operations:

Enhancements in user experience and engagement
AI in collection development and access

AI and Knowledge Management:

Leveraging AI for knowledge discovery, sharing, and innovation
AI-driven approaches for knowledge representation and retrieval

Open Category: submissions that may not fit neatly into the above categories but contribute meaningfully to the broader LIS study are also welcome. This could include comparative studies, historical perspectives on AI and LIS, interdisciplinary research, or speculative design for future libraries.

Competitive Intelligence
Misinformation and Democratic Life
Digital Transformation
Inclusion and Diversity
Information and Fight Against Climate Change
etc.

Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts should be no more than 500 words, clearly indicating the research question, methodology, results, and significance relative to one or more of the subthemes.
Upon abstract acceptance, full papers should be submitted following the provided formatting guidelines.
Proposals for panels, workshops, and poster sessions are also welcome.

The deadline for abstract submission is October 30, 2024.

Discover more information and submit your abstract here

Organizers:
Istanbul University – Department of Information and Records Management
Ankara University – Department of Information and Records Management
Gustave Eiffel University – Department of Library and Information Science

presenting the case of UNESCO WHC Monument of Holy Cross in Pelendri, Cyprus.

EUreka3D at GeoDPA2024

image courtesy of CUT.
EUreka3D will be presented with a Poster at the GeoDPA2024 Conference in Germany organised by DLR Germany 24-25th of April 2024. In this conference, partner CUT Cyprus University of Technology is presenting the results of a cooperation with the HE-Widening Project: ENGINEER and all the related local Labs from the Civil Engineering, Informatics and Mechanical Engineering departments. The cooperation is aimed at providing satellite monitoring of the UNESCO WHC Monument of Holy Cross in Pelendri, Cyprus.

In the pursuit to preserve the rich heritage of the monument, innovative digital surveying methods have been employed. Through a combination of Photogrammetry and Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS), a comprehensive digital record of this monument has been crafted. By aligning georeferenced point cloud data from Photogrammetry with TLS, we pave the way for enhanced data processing within Building Information Modeling (BIM) software.

Download the poster (PDF, 800 Kb)

All the public deliverables are available for download

UNCHARTED final results

The EU funding of UNCHARTED has arrived to an end.

All the public deliverables produced during the project are available for download.

The themes of the research explored during 4 years, from February 2020 to January 2024 have identified several areas of investigation that are still worth to be considered for further work.

The UNCHARTED book entitled “The plural values of culture in Europe” is the legacy of the project that remains as the starting point for future reflections by the partners who participated in the UNCHARTED consortium, by the network of organisations and individual scholars and experts who have been involved in the project’s activities, and by all the researchers interested in Understanding, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture.

“The plural values of culture in Europe” is published by Routledge and will be available in the coming months as open access.