Digital meets Culture

Birmingham (UK); 19-21 November 2018

DCDC2018 Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities / Memory and Transformation

About the conference

Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities is a collaborative conference series between The National Archives and Research Libraries UK. Now in its sixth year, DCDC brings together colleagues from across the archive, library, museum and academic sectors to explore shared opportunities, collective challenges, and to discuss how each sector can work more effectively with one another.

Open and inclusive in its ethos, the DCDC conferences bring together an unparalleled variety of experiences drawn from across the UK, Europe, and further afield. It includes contributions from individuals of all career stages, from established academics and practitioners, to those just starting out. Its keynote speakers are drawn from across the heritage and academic sectors, are leaders in their field, and inspire debate and discussion amongst its hundreds of delegates. The annual conference has now become a well-established event on the cultural, heritage and academic calendars.

DCDC18 will be held on 19-21 November 2018 at the BCEC (Birmingham Conference and Events Centre), Birmingham.

The theme for 2018 edition is Memory and Transformation.

Website: http://dcdcconference.com/

DCDC18 call for papers – deadline 27 April 2018

DCDC18 will consider the interplay between memory and transformation within heritage organisations and their wider impact on the cultural landscape. We will seek to examine how, through developing new points of entry to collections, archives, libraries, museums and galleries, we can work collaboratively with each other and academic organisations to meet strategic ambitions. Further, we will explore how to meaningfully engage with different audiences and communities whose far reaching interests can often have an equally transformational impact on our own professional cultures.

Memory is a thread running through every collection: their content, their production, their physicality, their journey and current use. The memories held in collections can both connect us with the past, immersing us in experiences through the eyes of others, and inform the future through innovative research and the development of new ideas, technology, science and art. The important role that scientific collections and heritage organisations have played in the health of the human mind, including through reminiscence therapies and supporting mental wellness, are examples of their potential and value to individuals and society.

Read the full call for papers

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increasing quality of existing content available through Europeana, increasing awareness and usage of Europeana

Europeana CEF Call for Generic Services open until 15th May

The 2018 CEF Telecom Europeana call for proposals will be open until 15 May 2018. The open call info are available here: the call is looking for projects that will support cultural institutions to increase the amount of high quality content and metadata provided to Europeana, as well as to increase awareness and usage of Europeana.

The objective is to provide support to cultural institutions and other public and private partners to increase the amount of content and metadata accessible through Europeana that is of high quality and suitable for reuse, as well as to increase awareness and usage of Europeana. To fulfil this objective, actions funded by this call must include activities such as:

Increasing the quality of existing content available through Europeana;
Enhancing the structure, richness and multilingual capacity of existing metadata to increase discoverability and use of the material;
Making available new high quality material with rich item descriptions that has potential to generate high audience engagement and reuse. If necessary, this may include limited and targeted digitisation of content that can be made available for free reuse;
Providing expert support to cultural institutions to improve the quality of the content and metadata that they make available, including capacity building among institutions and professionals;
Raising awareness and use of Europeana across Europe, through applications, collections or exhibitions highlighting content of particular interest for specific audiences or through user engagement activities.

Full details of the Europeana call are available here.

Linz (Austria) 6-10 September 2018

2018 Ars Electronica Festival: Error – The Art of Imperfection

From Artificial Intelligence to Social Intelligence

To err is human, it’s said. Could that be why we’re incessantly striving for perfection and steadfastly believe we can attain it with technology and science, and in spite of the fact that there is nothing that we fear more than being eliminated by a world of machinery that functions perfectly well without us?

How can we rethink our very ambivalent relationship to technology as the driving force for configuring our future, and what errors should we perhaps not repeat in the process?

The call for social intelligence is now being juxtaposed to our enthusiasm for the digital world and artificial intelligence.

We are propagating the courage to welcome imperfection, since isn’t that quite possibly what will always set us apart from the machines!

2018 Ars Electronica Festival

Ars Electronica is once again summoning hundreds of artists, scientists, engineers, designers, technologists, entrepreneurs and social activists worldwide to gather in Linz September 6-10 to jointly investigate current technological and social interdependencies and their potential future manifestations. All of this will take place in public and together with people from all walks of life, since a defining aim of Ars Electronica is to take leave of the classic premises devoted to culture and scholarship and to stage an internationally unique festival of art, technology and society amidst the public sphere in downtown Linz. The festival locations are arrayed through the heart of the inner city—the former postal service logistics facility adjacent to the train station, St. Mary’s Cathedral, the OK Center for Contemporary Art, Moviemento and CENTRAL cinemas, Linz Art University, the LENTOS Art Museum, the Brucknerhaus, Ars Electronica Center and Anton Bruckner Private University. At these diverse venues, ideas and visions, works of art and prototypes, performances and concerts engender temporary settings conducive to leeway and latitude, and provide inspiration to the many festivalgoers who come to partake of them.

… in POSTCITY

The festival hub will once again be POSTCITY. Ars Electronica gets one more opportunity to breathe life into this mothballed postal service logistics facility and use it as a venue for such festival highlights as the Big Concert Night with Markus Poschner conducting the Bruckner Orchestra, the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD festival, and a jam-packed lineup of conferences featuring stellar participants. Plus, POSTCITY offers Linz-based Ars Electronica yet another chance to position itself as one of the world’s largest and most interesting international fairs for creativity and innovation, and thus to network with associations, enterprises and educational institutions throughout the world.

More information: https://www.aec.at/error/en/program/

Sparks that changed something in everyone's daily life

Scintille: Sequence of lectures dedicated to the topic of technological innovation

Doppiozero, the non-profit web magazine, presents a programme of meetings dedicated to the theme of technological innovation.
Each session will last about two hours during which a speaker will introduce to the audience a “Spark”, in other words an idea, a project or an invention that changed and influenced somehow the daily life of everyone.
Focus of the speech are not just great inventions or theorems or formulas, but also small objects that have changed something important in our existence over the past 70 years.
The meetings are free and accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people.
The initiative is organized by Officine Grandi Riparazioni Consortium(Turin) and the Association Doppiozero (Milan).
Next lecture, planned for the 24th of April, is entitled “Cryptic algorithm”: Marco Bartocci, from the University of Genoa will explain what is an algorithm, facing controversial aspects and unanswered questions such as “Does our brain work in an algorithmic way?”
Further information are available on: http://www.ogrtorino.it/en/events/inafferrabilialgoritmi-lectio-di-claudio-bartocci
Next meetings:
Tuesday, 29 May h 18
iPhone (Tiziano Bonini, University of Siena)
Tuesday,19 June h 18
Carta di credito (Christian Marazzi, SUPSI Lugano)
Tuesday,17 July h 18
Pillola (Maria Nadotti, journalist, essayist e translator)
For more information:
ogrpublicprogram@fondazioneartecrt.it
http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/scintille

Washington DC (US), 21-25 May 2018

IIIF conference 2018

The 2018 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Conference was held May 21-25 in Washington, DC, co-hosted by the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Conference is intended for a wide range of participants and interested parties, including digital image repository managers, content curators, software developers, scholars, and administrators at libraries, museums, cultural heritage institutions, software firms, and other organizations working with digital images and audio/visual materials.

Website: http://iiif.io/event/2018/washington/

Embraced by a growing number of the world’s leading research and cultural heritage organizations, IIIF provides an open framework for organizations to publish their image-based resources, to be viewed, cited, annotated and compared by any compatible image-viewing application. This event is valuable for cultural heritage, STEM institutions, repository and collection managers, software engineers; or for anyone engaged with image-based and soon A/V resources on the Web. If you have not been involved with IIIF in the past this is an opportunity to quickly get up to speed and understand the community and its benefits.

Conference Outline:

Monday May 21st – Pre Conference workshops hosted by the Smithsonian

Tuesday May 22nd – IIIF Showcase hosted by the Library of Congress

This is a FREE Showcase as an introduction to IIIF for those new to it. Registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iiif-washington-showcase-tickets-44860722629

Wednesday May 23rd – IIIF Conference plenary hosted by the Library of Congress

Thursday May 24th and Friday 25th – IIIF Conference parallel sessions hosted by the Library of Congress

The program is now online. Registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-iiif-conference-in-washington-tickets-44377905510

Part of the 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2018)

1st Call for Papers – Metadata & Semantics for Cultural collections and applications

SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS

Part of the 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2018), October 23 – 2018, Limassol, Cyprus.

Proceedings will be published in Springer CCIS series

AIM AND SCOPE
Cultural Heritage collections are essential knowledge infrastructures that provide a solid representation of the historical background of human communities. These knowledge infrastructures are constructed from and integrate cultural information derived from diverse memory institutions, mainly libraries, archives and museums. Each individual community has spent a lot of effort in order to develop, support and promote its own systems, tools and metadata for the management of cultural information, mainly related to its particular resources and use.

In this framework, the management of the cultural information has to deal with challenges related to (i) metadata modeling, specification, standardization, extraction, (semantic) enrichment, mapping, integration, effective use, and evaluation, (ii) knowledge representation as conceptualization to provide the context for unambiguously interpreting metadata, and (iii) information integration from different contexts for the provision of integrated access, reuse and advanced services to users.

At the same time, there are also inter-domain efforts targeted to semantically align data (research data, educational data, public sector information etc.) to cultural information. New challenges are also emerged from the need to incorporate cultural information into the new publication paradigms, where a variety of resources (data, metadata, processes, results, etc) are linked and integrated, providing better shareability and reusability. Currently, Linked (Open) Data, as part of the Semantic Web Technology, is having a major role in modernizing cultural heritage collections. Providing to users the possibility to re-use and integrate data into their own systems is currently more than a need, given that transparency and access to information is a prerequisite. A critical factor to the effectiveness of many aspects of all the above efforts is the quality of metadata, as interpreted by its context and use and evaluated by the proper measures and methods. Many institutions and aggregate infrastructures are dealing with the poor quality of metadata that inevitably results in poor integration, search and reuse, while their enrichment, in terms of contextualization, co-referencing, alignment, etc, is really challenging.

The aim of this Special Track is to maintain a dialogue where researchers and practitioners working on all the aspects of the cultural information will come together and exchange ideas about open issues at all stages of the cultural heritage information life cycle. The track also welcomes works related to semantics and applications for new approaches to cultural information publication and sharing, as well as to interlinking to other datasets published in the Semantic Web universe.

TOPICS
The papers in this special track should be original and of high quality, addressing issues in areas such as:

* Cultural Heritage metadata models, standards, ontologies, knowledge organization and representation systems

* Cultural Heritage information integration, interoperability and mappings

* Automated extraction of metadata, entities, and patterns from Cultural Heritage resources

* Metadata manual or automated (Semantic) enrichment and search

* Metadata quality metrics, tools and services

* Linked Open Data approaches in the Cultural Heritage domain

* Publication, linking and citation of Cultural Heritage information and resources

* Large volume content management

* 3D models-indexing, storage and retrieval approaches

* Infrastructures for sharing content

* Digital Curation workflows and models

* Provenance and preservation metadata for Cultural Heritage digital resources

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages). Submitted papers have to follow the LNCS proceedings formatting style and guidelines.

The submitted papers will undergo the same peer review as the submissions for MTSR 2018 and accepted contributions will be published in the MTSR 2018 proceedings (Springer CCIS series). Authors of accepted papers will be asked to register to the Conference and present their work.

Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended and revised versions of their papers for possible publication in selected international journals, including the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience), and Program (Emerald).

More information on submission can be found at the MTSR 2018 call for papers web page: http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/call-for-papers.

IMPORTANT DATES

July 27th, 2018: Notification of Acceptance/rejection
August 24th, 2018: Camera-ready papers due
October 23rd – October 26th, 2018: Conference at Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS
* Michalis Sfakakis, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece (sfakakis@ionio.gr)

* Lina Bountouri, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece and NATO HQ, Brussels, Belgium (boudouri@ionio.gr, linabountouri@gmail.com)

Lund (Sweden), 20th June 2018

CARARE workshop: Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana

Organized by CARARE association and hosted by the University of Lund, this is a one-day workshop on Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana, was held in Lund on the 20th June 2018.

The physical remains of Europe’s rich heritage are all around us. From the historic houses we live and work in, the places we worship, places we visit to explore tombs, earthworks, architectural ruins or monuments to industries past, the museums we visit, the shape of our landscape and the ground beneath our feet. Digital technologies are widely used to capture the heritage for conservation and research, for analysis, to support learning and tourism, and for enjoyment.

This workshop explored how digital content for the archaeological and architectural heritage can be made available to users of Europeana, experiences and best practices in providing content, and potential re-uses of the content for education, tourism and researchers.

Full programme and registration: http://www.carare.eu/events/archaeology-architecture-europeana/

Sofia (Bulgaria), 2 May 2018

WATIFY: Inspire to Transform

WATIFY: Inspire to Transform takes place on 2 May at DNK – Space for Contemporary Dance and Performance, National Palace of Culture (Sofia, Bulgaria) and is organised by WATIFY, an awareness-raising campaign funded by the European Commission to stimulate the technological transformation of Europe’s business.

Transformation needs inspiration. WATIFY: Inspire to Transform brings insights on technology, transformation and innovation to Sofia for a day of learning, co-creation and connection. Like-minded innovation leaders will come together from across Europe to tell their stories and prototype their future.

An interactive, dynamic and disruptive event, WATIFY: Inspire to Transform will showcase stories of technological transformation and innovation in European start-ups and SMEs, engage you in the co-creation of ideas and solutions to challenges, and create connections. With a mix of visual presentations, interactive workshops and immersive technology design, the event aims to spark transformation and collaboration for the spread and evolution of technology and ideas.

This interactive event is partnering with the high-level event Smart Specialisation and Technology Transfer as Innovation Drivers for Regional Growth happening on 3 & 4 May and organised under the auspices of the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Council

The event is organised with the support of MOVE.BG and Enterprise Europe Network Bulgaria.

Event website: https://watify-sofia.b2match.io/

What to expect?

Technology showcase | A venue designed to immerse participants in cutting-edge technologies and innovations

Pecha Kucha 20×02 visual presentations | European super stories, overcoming new business and market challenges through digitalisation and more efficient approaches

Story-telling workshop | Brainstorming sessions in different technology domains coupled with story-telling in small groups to project the future of innovation through technological transformation

Co-creation workshop | Pitch your idea or a project, collaborate on an opportunity or find solution to a challenge

Keynote & Slido session | Get inspired by Sasha Bezuhanova, MOVE.BG, and ask all your questions in a Slido Q&A session

Matchmaking | Initiate promising contacts in pre-arranged meetings. Learn how to get the most out of bilateral WATIFY matchmaking meetings.

Event website: https://watify-sofia.b2match.io/

Bordeaux Submarine Base (France), 9 March to 20 May 2018

Digital Abysses 2018 – Miguel Chevalier

With his exhibition entitled Digital Abysses, artist Miguel Chevalier takes over the monumental spaces of the Bordeaux Submarine Base. This exhibition present, over 3,500 square meters, ten monumental installations, as well as cabinets of curiosities containing more than 100 new works.
Chevalier continues here his explorations of nature through the theme of undersea flora and fauna (seaweed, plankton, coral…). The exhibition offers visitors a stroll between dream and reality, where they can penetrate into the heart of the unknown, just like with the great oceanic depths.
Along the way, they discover various projected interactive digital installations, such as Liquid Pixels, Strange Attractors, The Origin of the World, New Atlantis and Fractal Seaweeds, Digital Abysses. The exhibition Digital Abysses resonates harmoniously with the space, being at once mineral, aquatic, and botanic.

Miguel CHEVALIER Digital Abysses 2018, Base sous-marine, Bordeaux (France) version courte from Claude Mossessian on Vimeo.

Through the theme of the Abyss, the exhibition explores in a poetical and metaphorical way our relationship with visible and invisible living beings. In investigating the notion of artificial life, these various installations and artworks raise concerns about the fragility of these ecosystems and call out for the need to preserve biodiversity. They seek to recreate the conditions for a symbiotic relationship between man and nature.

More about Digital Abysses (PDF, 900 kb)

More about Miguel: www.miguel-chevalier.com

Exhibition in collaboration with Surfrider Foundation Europe, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the protection and enhancement of lakes, rivers, oceans, waves and the coastline.
Technical production : Voxels Productions
The artist is supported by Dacryl, Atelier Arcay, and The Desk – art contemporain

Bordeaux Submarine Base
Boulevard Alfred Daney
33300 Bordeaux (France)

Bordeaux Submarine Base is one of the ve bases built on the french atlantic coast by the german occupation forces during the Second World War. Made up of a armed concrete block measuring 245 meters long, 162 meters wide, and 20 meters high, its erection required no less than 600 000 m3 of concrete. This gigantic bunker serves as an unusual exhibition space, managed by the city of Bordeaux. Among the many exhibitions held at the Base sous-marine, there have been exhibitions by Georges Rousse in 2014, JR in 2016, and Daniel Firman in 2017. The Base sous-marine values digital technologies via its choice in artistic programming, with its major digital art exhibition every year, and revisited visitor experience that aims to be more interactive and involved with social media.

all photos: Miguel Chevalier.

Application deadline: 31.03.2018 23:59 (CET)

Last call: TEMA+ European Territories-Heritage and Development Erasmus Mundus joint master degree

The application for the TEMA+ European Territories: Heritage and Development EMJMD with an Erasmus Mundus scholarship is still open until the 31st of March 2018.

Do you speak English and French? Do you want to learn more about European Cultural Heritage in Budapest, Prague, Paris, Catania or Québec with the prestigious Erasmus Mundus scholarship (including a 1000 euros monthly allowance? Apply today and become an expert of Cultural Heritage: www.mastertema.eu #EuropeForCulture. The 2 year-long (120 ECTS) TEMA+ European Territories: Heritage and Development Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programme proposes the analysis of the growing presence and importance of cultural heritage in a European context by applying a multinational, interdisciplinary approach and critical-analytical interpretation that none of the existing Masters degree in cultural heritage can offer. The Master Course is offered by a consortium of the following universities: Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales of Paris, France, University of Catania, Italy, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic, University of Laval of Québec, Canada in cooperation with the European Heritage Label (EHL) and different UNESCO organs.

To apply for the TEMA+ Erasmus Mundus Master Course students must hold a degree in one or more of the following levels (BA/BSc /180 ECTS/ or MA/MSc/120 ECTS) and disciplines in History, Geography, Philosophy, Anthropology, Ethnography, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies, Nationalism Studies, International Relations, Law, Economy, Architecture, Administration or related fields. The selection is based on academic excellence and proficiency in English and in French which are the languages of instruction. The students are required to study at least at two partner universities, with a common core Semester 1 at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), and with a specialised mobility track at one of the four partner universities during the following semesters (Semester 2-3-4).

The consortium awards TEMA+ graduates with double or multiple degrees (depending on the student’s mobility track), all accredited on national level, as well as a diploma supplement, allowing them to enter into the professions in the area of European Heritage in local, regional, national and territorial administration, in urban planning and research institutions, related to heritage and identity.

The Erasmus Mundus (Erasmus+) programme offers a scholarship to excellent Programme and Partner Country students that consists of a contribution to the students’ participation costs (including the tuition fees,for Erasmus Mundus scholarships, and June 17, 2018 for self-paying students. library and laboratory costs, full insurance coverage and any other mandatory costs related to the students’ participation in the programme); a contribution to student travel and installation costs; and a monthly subsistence allowance of a 1000€ for the entire duration of the study programme.

For other available scholarships and eligibility criteria, please visit the TEMA+ website: www.mastertema.eu

The application deadline is March 31, 2018 for Erasmus Mundus scholarships, and June 17, 2018 for self-paying students.

TEMA+ is taking part in the European Year of Cultural Heritage (2018)

Download TEMA+ Flyer:

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Download TEM+call:

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Direct link to the application form:

https://mastertema.eu/application-procedure-2/