Digital meets Culture

deadline for submission of proposals is 1 March 2017 and the journal will be published on June 2017

SCIRES IT journal / Call for Papers / Vol. 7 No. 1

SCIRES-IT (SCIentific RESearch and Information Technology) is inviting papers for Vol. 7 No. 1 which is scheduled to be published on June 2017.

The deadline for submission of proposals is scheduled for March 1, 2017.

Papers should be submitted electronically via email (sciresit.journal@gmail.com) to the Editor in Chief in DOC and PDF, including a cover sheet containing corresponding author’s name, affiliation, mailing address, phone, fax number, email address and short Cv.

SCIRES-IT (e-ISSN 2239-4303), is an open access journal providing an international forum for the exchange and sharing of know-how in the areas of Digitalization and Multimedia Technologies and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in support of Cultural and environmental Heritage (CH) documentation, preservation and fruition.

It is a peer-reviewed journal, founded in 2011, available online on a semi-annual basis, at: http://caspur-ciberpublishing.it/index.php/scires-it.

Here you can download the template: http://caspur-ciberpublishing.it/public/journals/43/SCIRES-IT_Template.docx

Crakow (Poland), 7-9 September 2017

Eighth European Workshop on Applied Cultural Economics / call for papers open until 15 May 2017

The European Workshop on Applied Cultural Economics (EWACE) was founded in 1990 and is intended to provide a forum for the development and dissemination of applications of quantitative methods in cultural economics, as well as cultural-related applications of mathematical economics, experimental economics and other quantitative approaches (e.g. applied micro and macroeconometric approaches).

Authors are welcome to submit papers on applied cultural economics and we offer the following lists to illustrate, but not exhaust, possible topics: industrial organization of cultural products and services (e.g. pricing, trade); labour market issues of artists (e.g. wages, migration cultural participation); spillovers and externalities of firms in the cultural sector (agglomeration); pricing of art items; studies on demand elasticities. Participation of interested researchers and policy makers from all countries is welcome.

Series organizers and Scientific Committee:

Karol J. Borowiecki, University of Southern Denmark
Christiane Hellmanzik, Technical University Dortmund
John O’Hagan, Trinity College, University of Dublin
A. E. Scorcu, University of Bologna
R. Zanola, University of Eastern Piedmont

Deadline for presenting the abstract: 15th May 2017

Hosted by Cracow University of Economics: http://www.uek.krakow.pl/

Download the call for papers with full instructions: PDF, 400 Kb

Chicago (IL) USA, 20-21 April 2017

DPLAfest 2017

DPLAfest 2017—the fourth major gathering of the Digital Public Library of America’s broad community—will take place on April 20-21, 2017 in Chicago at Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center.

An annual series of workshops, presentations, and discussions, DPLAfest brings together librarians, archivists, and museum professionals, developers and technologists, publishers and authors, teachers and students, and many others to celebrate DPLA and its community of creative professionals. The fest takes place in different locations each year and is open to the public.

The hosts for DPLAfest 2017 include Chicago Public Library, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Chicago Collections, and the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS). Taking place in downtown Chicago, DPLAfest 2017 will bring together hundreds of people from DPLA’s large and growing community over two days for interactive workshops, hackathons and other collaborative activities, engaging discussions with community leaders and practitioners, fun events, and more.

Learn more, register and get all information: https://dp.la/info/get-involved/dplafest/april-2017/

as an additional outcome of E-Space project, a useful How-To booklet about hackathons

Learn from the E-Space Hackathons experience

The holding of hackathons is a popular and already well-established activity that offers industries the possibility to gather people enthusiastic to develop new ideas. The E-Space project took up this concept and developed it further, re-conceptualising the meaning of ‘hackathon’ in the cultural heritage sector, engaging creative industries, developers, professionals and new audiences with content and tools delivered and developed, respectively as part of the Europeana Space project.

busy participants at the Open and Hybrid Publishing hackathon

E-Space Hackathons, 6 events held in various European cities, were conceived as a platform for engagement and the clear response was that such events are incredibly beneficial not just for engagement but for stimulating institutions as a whole, gaining new ideas and energy through the younger, creative industry participants. Alongside engaging new audiences, the structural purposes of the hackathons was to inspire the creation of new businesses that will build strong business models wherein creative re-use of cultural heritage materials can develop business sustainability. Out of the E-Space hackathon, 7 winning projects passed throught two rounds of selection (the Hackathon and a Business Modelling Workshop), and were eventually tunnelled in an intensive incubation support, thus being prepared for their approach to the real market.

What made E-Space hackathons so unique, successful and path breaking is the focus on concept development, knowledge-sharing and business modeling rather than pure coding. It was not the value of the prize that attracted participants: what was highly appreciated by the participants is the possibility of exchanging ideas, developing synergies around the concept of re-using digital (cultural) content. E-Space Hackathons gave people the challenge of converting their ideas in a sustainable business model with a possible market potential.

Of course, a hackathon is not a one-size-fits-all format that suits every purpose. It can bring insights, inspiration and ideas. But its success depends on proper organization and its focus.

Based on the experience with organizing six hackathons in the Europeana Space project and pre-existing experiences with project partners, we created a how to guide, exploring the use of hackathons in the cultural sector and helping others to get started with organising one themselves.

This publication intends to share the lessons we learnt for the realization of a successful event. It was developed by partner WAAG and is available under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike).

Downlad the booklet: PDF, 8 Mb

About E-Space hackathons: http://www.europeana-space.eu/hackathons-home/

About the 7 Incubated projects: http://www.europeana-space.eu/e-space-incubated-projects/

WAAG website: http://waag.org/en/news/hacking-culture-guide

The online course “Europeana Space: Creative with Digital Heritage” will be relaunched in 2017, under KU Leuven's coordination.

E-Space MOOC: a successful first run

by Clarissa Colangelo, KU Leuven.
Article originally appeared on the E-Space Photography Pilot Blog.
photo courtesy KU Leuven

On January 10th 2017 the MOOC “Europeana Space: Creative with Digital Heritage” ended. With almost 1000 enrolled learners from 90 different countries and regions, we are very pleased to announce that this first run of the course was a success.

What made this possible was not only the enthusiasm shown by the E-Space partners in collaborating to the development of this course, but also the availability of KU Leuven to host our MOOC on their edX channel and to provide excellent support throughout the whole process; for them this was an experiment with a MOOC that stems directly from a research project rather than being based on existing university lectures.

Grades were not the main focus of the MOOC. What interested us more, was that students could learn and discover useful information and material derived from our experiences within the E-Space project, that would allow them to improve and enhance their creative role in relation to the reuse of digital cultural heritage.

The course raised very positive reactions among the learners. With some minor adjustments, we will soon be able to relaunch the course, which we are confident will be met by the same positive reaction!

“Thanks for offering this course! Very interested to learn this material, glad to know about this information, how to use it, and the future of its use!”

Full article: https://espacephotography.com/2017/01/25/e-space-mooc-a-successful-first-run/

The course: https://www.edx.org/course/europeana-space-creative-digital-kuleuvenx-eurospacex

Visit the E-Space for Education Portal: http://www.europeana-space.eu/education/

a Memorandum of Understanding is launched after the end of the EU funding period, to continue the work done so far with E-Space

E-Space Initiative: Where Culture Meets Creativity

As the EU-funded project ends on 31 January 2017, the partners, affiliate partners and followers of the E-Space project are invited to join the MoU for the E-Space initiative “E-Space: Where Culture meets Creativity”.

LEARN MORE: http://www.europeana-space.eu/network/e-space-initiative/

The partnership’s main objective is to pave the way for the establishment of a sustainable initiative based on the results of the E-Space project, with a longer term vision to support the creative reuse and valorisation of digital cultural content available online. Both individuals and institutions can join the partnership providing their support to the ‘E-Space initiative’ in accordance with their desire and capacity to get involved.

A major outcome of E-Space project is a set of resources for entrepreneurs, creative companies, owners of digital archives and collections, and individuals interested in open digital cultural heritage content.

Content Space and IP: tools for creative reuse of digital cultural heritage

In the Content Space created by Europeana Space project are collected guidelines and tools for clearing copyright and find information about the development of business models for the exploitation of digital cultural heritage content.

The Content Space contains information about licensing, rights labelling and associated new technical standards, guidelines on how to identify re-usable content, and legal advice and tools for the lawful re-use of digital content. An explicative video helps understanding the basic context.

As a final outcome from the Content Space, we are happy to announce the arrival of the IP Case Studies booklet. This contains information regarding intellectual property right within the six Europeana Space Pilots (museums, TV, dance, open and hybrid publishing, photography and games). The booklet contains stories and lessons learnt during the project, the hackathons, the business modelling workshops and the incubation periods.

The booklet is a publication realized and printed in December 2016 with ISBN 9789082636000. It is also available online as a full PDF booklet and the 6 Case Studies are also available individually for download.

The Content Space also includes guidance, tools and resources on openly licensed and public domain materials in the Open Content Exchange Platform.

We would also like to draw your attention to the Online Consulting Kit with a wealth of detailed and professional information that is easily accessible.

Visit the E-Space Content Space: http://www.europeana-space.eu/content-space/

We hope once again that you enjoy the materials and tools we have developed and that you get creative with the amazing cultural heritage that exists all around us!

10% discount off annual membership fees

Open Preservation Foundation and BitCurator Consortium Discount Membership Opportunity

Building on the existing strong ties between our organisations, the Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) and BitCurator Consortium (BCC) are pleased to announce a discount trial membership opportunity that offers its members a 10% discount off annual membership fees.

From 1 January 2017, members of the OPF will receive a 10% discount on membership fees when they join the BCC for a year long trial membership, and BCC members will receive a 10% discount when they join the OPF. The offer runs from one year to 31 December 2017.

Ross King, Chair of OPF, Austrian Institute of Technology said:

”The OPF and BCC share a common goal to provide reliable, open source software to support the preservation of digital objects for the long-term. We welcome applications from existing members, as well new organisations who are interested in joining a growing community benefiting from open source tools and resources.”

Matthew Farrell, President of BCC, Duke University said:

”We are delighted to build upon our existing partnership – the BCC and OPF have co-hosted events and webinars, and OPF has carried out code quality reviews for BCC software. Both organisations operate as not-for-profits with funding going directly to software development, outreach and training materials.”

The trial discounted membership provides libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions with an opportunity to experiment with membership in the BCC and OPF and leverage the knowledge, skills, and resources of their highly dynamic and active communities.

About

BitCurator Consortium

The BitCurator Consortium (BCC) is an independent, community-led membership association that serves as the host and center of administrative, user and community support for the BitCurator environment. Its purpose is to support the curation of born-digital materials through the application of open-source digital forensics tools by institutions responsible for such materials.

https://www.bitcuratorconsortium.org/

The BCC is now welcoming institutions in all sectors and nations to join as General Members. Member benefits include:

Access to the BCC help desk
Prioritisation in future feature and enhancement requests
Dedicated educational offerings
Voting rights
Eligibility to serve on the BCC Executive Council and Committees
Service opportunities
Community engagement and networking
Professional development and training
Subscription to a dedicated BCC member mailing list
Special rates for BCC events, including the annual BitCurator User Forum

Read more about the benefits of joining the BitCurator Consortium: https://www.bitcuratorconsortium.org/join

Open Preservation Foundation

The Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) is an international not-for-profit membership organisation that sustains technology and knowledge for the long-term management of digital cultural heritage. The Foundation provides its members with reliable solutions to the challenges of digital preservation. http://openpreservation.org/

OPF’s membership comprises archives, libraries, research institutions, universities, and service providers that share a commitment to advancing digital preservation. Members steer the Foundation’s strategy and activities and benefit from exclusive or priority access to OPF interest groups, webinars, technical clinic and events, as well as support in adopting and using our open source software including JHOVE and veraPDF. Read more about the benefits of joining the OPF: http://openpreservation.org/about/join/

To discuss any aspects of the offer, or the respective member benefits, please contact Sam Meister (sam@educopia.org) or Becky McGuinness (becky@openpreservation.org).

Europeana Space project is proud to announce the official release of a new platform, which provides services for content search, aggregation, interoperability, visualisation, publication and reuse.

Presenting the E-Space Portal: where culture meets creativity

The E-Space Portal is a unique and efficient access point to billions of digital objects and resources from a number of major repositories, integrating the search results into common views, simplifying the search and offering users a set of tools to manage and share digital cultural heritage items. The tools of the E-Space Portal can also be used to upload personal datasets, clean, enrich and aggregate them, as well as to enhance the visibility and reach of digital collections with virtual exhibitions and engaging stories.

Discover beautiful content to engage with, mix and match your own materials and share them with your friends and colleagues.

The E-Space Portal is a great starting point for Users to discover cultural heritage resources that reside in distributed repositories. They can combine different sources with their own material, allowing them to offer new interesting narratives for the appreciation and communication of culture.

Be part of a community and make your content available to potential users, creative minds and new audiences who can enjoy your beautiful collection.

For Content Holders it offers an easy to use content & metadata repository and management system that can ensure interoperability with standards, best practices and aggregator guidelines. The platform includes a customisable portal for the visualisation of digital collections, exhibitions and stories, while facilitating the public’s access to content available for creative reuse.

E-Space Portal and its features help you to answer the question “what to do now, how to leverage on these digitised collections?”

Cultural Heritage Professionals are offered the tools to compose and contextualise eclectic collections, contributing to the promotion, improvement, and evolution of digital CH knowledge. The Creative Industry is using the platform as a back-end to build applications that reuse digital heritage.

E-Space Portal offers an integrated service for aggregation and metadata manipulation, customizable according to your needs.

For Aggregators, the infrastructure uses the metadata interoperability platform MINT that fully implements workflows for the ingestion, formal mapping, and transformation of metadata records. Services include validation, quality checking, data cleaning & normalisation, and previews, while the platform can implement a variety of publication approaches (such as OAI-PMH, SPARQL endpoint, and REST API) for the resulting repository.

Discover this major outcome of the E-Space Project at http://espaceportal.eu/

Register now and start creating your custom exhibition, collection and spaces and share it with the world!

Florence (italy), 25-26 January 2017

International Workshop on Cinema and Landscape

Filming the Arts, the strategic project of the University of Florence for digital preservation of audiovisual heritage and performing arts, is proud to present the International Workshop on Cinema and Landscape, taking place in Florence at the SAGAS Department on 25th-26th January 2017.

25 January, room 5

Welcome by prof. Andrea De Marchi, coordinator of PhD in Arts and Performance History.

9.00 – 11.00 LANDSCAPE 1, chair Paola Valentini

Cristina Jandelli (Università di Firenze): Da CAPUT a Filmare le arti e Filming the Arts
Sandro Bernardi (Università di Firenze): Paesaggio e narrazione
José Moure (Université Paris 1 – Sorbonne): Les visites au musée Rodin dans Un couple parfait de Nobuhiro Suwa : l’amour de l’art ou l’art de l’amour
Marco Bertozzi (Università IUAV): Emozioni “dal vero” – Il paesaggio italiano nel cinema vedutista

Coffee Break

11.15 – 13.15 ARTS 1, chair Cristina Jandelli

Sandra Lischi, Elena Marcheschi (Università di Pisa): Schermi elettronici su arte e paesaggio
Sandra Lischi: Videopitture in metamorfosi
Elena Marcheschi: Videopaesaggi visionari
Renzo Guardenti (Università di Firenze): Les arts de la rue. Immagini e percorsi
Fulvio Cervini (Università di Firenze): Filmare un paesaggio medievale – A margine dei critofilm di Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti

Lunch break

15.00 – 17.00 TERRITORY, chair Sandra Lischi

Paola Valentini (Università di Firenze): Forme e stili di vita del paesaggio audiovisivo. Luogo, location e ambiente
Farah Polato, Giulia Lavarone (Università di Padova): Quale paesaggio nel film-induced tourism? Riflessioni a partire da un’esperienza operativa
Raffaele Pavoni (Università di Firenze): Play. Stop. Replay. Appropriazione degli spazi pubblici e sordità sociale: il caso di Lola rennt di Tom Tykwer

Coffee Break

17.30 – 19 Selection of the short films in Filming the Arts database, curated by Cristina Jandelli, Luca Ferro, Raffaele Pavoni

26 January, Room aula 8

9.00 – 11.00 ARTS 2, chair Luigi Nepi

Federico Pierotti (Università di Firenze): Il panopticon e l’artista – Filmare la pittura in Jaime di António Reis
Paolo Simoni (Università di Padova): La città amatoriale
Elisa Bianchi (Università di Firenze): La memoria del paesaggio attraversato dall’arte
Nicola Dusi, Ilaria Ferretti, Damiano Razzoli (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia): Dai cineamatori alla street-art digitale, percorsi di ricerca su tecnologie mediali e paesaggio urbano

Coffee Break

11.15 – 13.15 LANDSCAPE 2, chair Federico Pierotti

Thierry Roche (Université Aix-Marseille): Paysage et travail dans le cinéma des frères Dardenne
Chiara Tognolotti (Università di Firenze): Filmare il paesaggio: per un’educazione dello sguardo
Chiara Rubessi (Université Grenoble-Alpes): Il paesaggio-specchio nell’organizzazione dello spazio in Deep end di Jerzy Skolimowski

Lunch Break

15.00 – 17.00 PRACTICES, chair Chiara Tognolotti

Luigi Nepi (Università di Firenze): La pratica maieutica. Come nascono le immagini nella didattica di Paolo Benvenuti
Alberto Di Cintio (Università di Firenze): Paesaggi visionari
Gianluca Paoletti Barsotti (Università di Pisa): Il museo multimediale di Barga

Discussion

End of the Workshop

About the Workshop

More information on Filming the Arts HERE