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Collaboration agreement has started between Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University in November 2024
New collaborations of SECreTour in Coventry

The SECreTour Network is growing!

 

The SECreTour project has established a new collaboration with the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University.

 

C-DaRE specialises in an inclusive interdisciplinary approach to artistic and scholarly dance research in areas like cultural heritage, computing and AI, intellectual property, health and well-being and practice research.

The Centre participates in many projects that focus on cultural heritage, and particularly intangible cultural heritage that involves performance-based practices, and which may well have a tourism dimension. The Centre’s partners include cultural organisations, artists and artist groups, research organisations and policy-led organisations, in the UK and across Europe.

You can find out more on:

Follow SECreTour online also on the SECreTour project’s website.

 

 

 

 

The contest aims to raise awareness and promote the culture of industry, the memory of work, the architectural, technological and landscape heritage of industrial archaeology
Winner of AIPAI Photo Contest 2024 announced

Following the AIPAI Photocontest 2024, the winners were annouced through a press release on the 13rd of November.

The first prize was assigned to Erica La Placa’s photographic project “Geometrie dell’Aridità: visioni interrotte”.

Read the press release here (ITALIAN).

The paper describes fundamental concepts to enable the Federation of EOSC Nodes that can deliver services and resources to European researchers collaboratively
Concept Paper “EOSC Federation: Architecture and Federating Capabilities”

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) at its core was a catalogue of “research products”, such as datasets relating to various disciplines, and “services”, such as EGI Check-in and EGI DataHub, used in EUreka3D to operate its suite of services and tools dedicated to cultural heritage institutions who need to store, safely access, manage and share collections of 3D cultural heritage.

The EOSC landscape has changed dramatically in the last year, due to a process of redesign initiated by the European Commission. The EOSC Portal, which is where researchers could find services onboarded to EOSC, is no longer available, and has been replaced by the EOSC Federation of Nodes. The EOSC Federation is re-developed in the form of multiple EOSC Nodes that are interconnected and can collaborate to share and manage scientific data, knowledge, and resources within and across thematic and geographical research communities.

Project EOSC Beyond, with which a collaboration has been established for the integration of EUreka3D services and tools, published a concept paper which describes fundamental concepts to enable the Federation of EOSC Nodes, especially technical aspects, and defines key terms. It presents the EOSC Federation Architecture and introduces the concepts of EOSC Federating Capabilities describing how the Nodes of the Federation should interact to deliver them jointly. It also details how to develop a network of Nodes that can deliver services and resources to European researchers collaboratively.

ACCESS PAPER ON ZENODO>>> EOSC Federation: Architecture and Federating Capabilities, authored by Diego Scardaci (EGI Foundation), Mark Dietrich (EGI Foundation), and Paolo Manghi (OpenAIRE) on behalf of the EOSC Beyond Technical Coordination Board

Community feedback: To enhance and fine-tune the paper, we are also launching a survey to gather community feedback. The survey is available until 29 November 2024, and an updated version of the document will be presented by Q2 2025. Researchers, service providers, and stakeholders are invited to participate and contribute to shaping the future of EOSC.

Online, November 13th, 11:00-16:00 (CET)
Europeana Network Association Outreach Event 2024

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The Europeana Network Association (ENA) is excited to invite you to join the ENA Outreach Event to learn more about how ENA can support your skills, networks and career. The event, running between 11:00-16:00 (CET) on 13 November will cover three main areas; ENA in your country and region, ENA and networking and training, and ENA specialist communities.

The first two sessions will focus on how ENA can support you and colleagues in your country (11:15-12:30 CET), and on the benefits of being an ENA member, including how to access networking opportunities, training and Europeana’s tools and services (14:30-16:00 CET). Participating is going to connect you with a 5,000+ strong community of experts working in, with or around the cultural heritage sector.

The day’s final session (14:30-16:00 CET) will focus on the seven seven specialist ENA communities (Climate Action, Communicators, Copyright, Education, Impact, Research and EuropeanaTech) to explore the connection between ENA and the common European data space for cultural heritage, a great opportunity for the participants to hear from ENA members, share your experiences and discover new initiatives.

The event is free to join, online, and once you register for a ticket you will be able to join for specific sessions or the whole event. You can register at this link.

Dublin, 23-25 October 2024
SECreTour at the 17th ECTN conference for smart and sustainable tourism

The 17th annual conference of the European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) held in Dublin from 23 to 25 October 2024 concluded with a great success.

The conference was dedicated this year to European cooperation for smart and sustainable tourism and it was supported by the Dublin City Council-European Capital of Smart Tourism 2024.

Together with very interesting communications from projects and local innovative initiatives, several representatives from very important bodies and organizations of the European Union attended and addressed the conference including UN Tourism, European Travel Commission, ENAT (European Network for Accessible Tourism) Europa Nostra, Committee of the regions and others.

The ECTN conference provided the opportunity to bring together a wide range of stakeholders and experts from both the cultural and tourism sectors with 45 presentations from 19 countries.

There were discussions and presentations on the latest trends in the field of cultural heritage, smart and sustainable tourism, including innovation, digital transformation and the development of transnational cultural tourism products.

The European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) was founded in 2009, it is based in Brussels and is the only pan-European in this field.

SECreTour participated in the conference with two presentations.

One presentation was delivered by Antonella Fresa of Promoter Srl, who talked about Tourism, archives, and culture: a digitally mediated relationship between preservation and experience. The presentation is available for download >>>

The other presentation was delivered by John Tierney of EACHTRA, who talked about Hyperlocal tourism intelligence; Ireland Historic Graves – Sustainable and Accessible.

The participation in the conference offered a great opportunity to establish many new contacts with organisations and projects from all over Europe, in the scope of contributing to the SECreTour networking efforts.

For any inquiry about the SECreTour Network, please contact us at the following email address:

Secretour-network@promoter.it

 

 

 

The EUreka3D project advances conservation and public access to Cyprus’ Timios Stavros Church through 3D Digitisation
UNESCO World Heritage Site Church of Timios Stavros successfully 3D digitised

 

The EUreka3D project partner UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at Cyprus University of Technology’s (CUT) Digital Heritage Research Lab (DHRLab) processed the record of the 14th-century Church of Timios Stavros (Holy Cross) at Pelendri village to provide an HBIM reference model aiding conservators and architects in the maintenance and protection of the building as part of the EUreka3D project.

The model, and its accompanying data, will be made publicly accessible through Europeana using the EUreka3D Data Hub. Additionally, it will be further developed to engage audiences and cultural tourists by incorporating both tangible and intangible heritage assets into compelling narratives that highlight the history and significance of the site through digital technologies.

Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985, the Church of Timios Stavros (Holy Cross) at Pelendri village is one of ten monuments making up the World Heritage List Painted Churches in the Troodos Region, Cyprus, and is decorated with exquisite wall paintings of the Palaiologan period (1261-1453AD).

Read more and explore the photo gallery here

 

this high profile event, taking place in Bucharest and online, addressed various themes and challenges on digital technologies to enhance sustainability, inclusion, and diversity in the heritage sector.
EUreka3D at 17th European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) Conference

The 17th annual conference of the European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) held in Dublin from 23 to 25 October 2024 concluded with a great success. The conference was dedicated this year to European cooperation for smart and sustainable tourism and it was supported by the Dublin City Council-European Capital of Smart Tourism 2024.

ECTN 2024 Conference

One presentation was delivered by coordinator of EUreka3D project Antonella Fresa, who talked about Tourism, archives, and culture: a digitally mediated relationship between preservation and experience (download PDF) with a specific focus on achieving quality in 3D digitisation. The presentation covers the role of metadata and paradata in digital preservation, presents the 3D Digitisation Guidelines based on the VIGIE Study 2020/654, and explores the whys of 3D digitisation  – help with sustainable tourism, accessibility, preservation of fragile tangible cultural heritage,

The presentation in the conference offered a great opportunity to establish many new contacts with organisations and projects from all over Europe, in the scope of contributing to the EUreka3D networking efforts.

The deadline for submitting photographic projects for the AIPAI PHOTO CONTEST has been extended
AIPAI Photo Contest 2024: deadline extended to October 31

The deadline for submitting photographic projects for the 3rd edition of the AIPAI PHOTO CONTEST, the photography contest organized by the Italian Association for Industrial Archaeological Heritage ETS, has been extended to October 31. The contest is organized in collaboration with DICEA – Sapienza University of Rome, Do.co.mo.mo Italia, Ministry of Culture – General Secretariat – UNESCO Office, Appia Antica Archaeological Park, Appia Antica Regional Park, AEM Foundation (Milan), ISEC Foundation (Sesto San Giovanni), Maire Tecnimont Foundation (Rome), Musil Foundation (Brescia), RoMe Museum Exhibition, and Photography Network.

For the winners are up are three 1000 euros prizes, publication in the magazine “Patrimonio Industriale” and display in a traveling exhibition of the winning, mentioned and selected shots.

The contest, designed to raise awareness and promote industrial culture, memory of work and the architectural, technological and landscape heritage of industrial archaeology, is open to professional photographers, amateurs, students, temporary or permanent groups and associations, without limits of age and nationality who will be able to tell, document and represent the industrial heritage through a photographic project, to be presented by 00:00 on October 31, 2024.

Read more about the contest

The next Activity will take place in Cyprus from December 5th to 7th
EUreka3D joined Training Activity in Malta and Cyprus

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From the 23rd to the 27th of September 2024, EUreka3D partner UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), in collaboration with Heritage Malta, organised a key training activity to exchange knowledge on heritage digitisation methodologies for artefacts, monuments and archaeological sites. During the week-long event, the CUT team presented the EUreka3D workflow for the reconstruction of 3D digital twins, the corresponding metadata and related paradata needed for the upload to the project’s cloud platform Datahub. Moreover, emphasis was given during the demonstration for the automatic harvesting of digital 3D records to Europeana.

Hands-on training was held at the auspices of the National Museum of Archaeology in Malta, by digitising unique tangible movable objects from the famous megalithic Tas-Silg site located directly outside of Valetta. The collection of objects included a Punic inscription on a brown limestone fragment and a disk with imprint resembling an infant’s hand and foot, giving participants experiential training in photogrammetry and hand-held laser scanning.

Particular attention was given on a special on-site training in 2D and 3D digital survey techniques using UAV photogrammetry, Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS), hand-held scanning, and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) at the Tas-Silg Archaeological Complex  megalithic Maltese heritage site with extensive and varied historical layers spanning the prehistoric Tarxien phase to the Arab period.

The selected data processed partially on-site and finalised at the auspices of the Heritage-Malta. The attendees had the opportunity to apply the EUreka3D Methodology based on the EU VIGIE2020/654 Study results.

At the end of the training activity, the results were presented to the 25 fellows and experts, followed by a fruitful discussion on the difference between the Digital- and Memory Twin in the domain of Digital Cultural Heritage and its usability for the benefit of the multidisciplinary user community.

The second training activity will take place in Cyprus from 5th to 7th of December. Participants will work on the digitisation of the Panagia Aimatousa Church, in Aradippou, Cyprus. They will digitise both the exterior and interior, byzantine icons and key objects.

eu emblemEUreka3D project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.

 Online, November 25th – 29th, 2024
EUreka3D and EUreka3D-XR projects showcased at Heritage Horizons, the Europeana Project Week

Heritage Horizons Europeana Project Week

 

The ‘Heritage Horizons Project Week: Shaping the common European data space for cultural heritage’ takes place from 25 – 29 November 2024.

This event – organised by the Europeana Initiative – puts the spotlight on the diverse and innovative projects encouraging reuse, innovating in technologies and enhancing sustainability which enrich and enhance the common European data space for cultural heritage.

Each day of project week will have a focus relevant to the data space and cultural heritage sector and spotlight the projects which focus on that particular topic.

On day 2 Tuesday 26 November 2024 the topic will be 3D, discussing the transformative potential of 3D technologies in the cultural sector, including their impact on digital heritage, accessibility, and immersive cultural experiences. Valentina Bachi (Photoconsortium) was part of a dedicated panel session at h. 10, bringing in the view and experiences matured in the course of EUreka3D project and its work to support Cultural Heritage Institutions in their digital transformation journey.

Later, Ignacio Lamata Martinez (EGI) delivered a demo presentation of the EUreka3D Data Hub and its functionalities to store, visualize and share 3D collections of cultural items.

On day 3 Wednesday, 27 November 2024, the focus will be on Reuse, exploring strategies to encourage the reuse of cultural heritage data, and foster collaborations between cultural heritage and education. In this context, a special session will take place organized by EUreka3D and EUreka3D-XR projects coordinator Photoconsortium in collaboration with CRDI/Ajuntament de Girona and Topfoto.

Register now

Agenda

  • 10.00-10.10 Antonella Fresa (Photoconsortium): EUreka3D and EUreka3D-XR: enabling creation, use and reuse of 3D cultural collections
  • 10.10-10.30 circa – David Iglésias Franch (CRDI/Ajuntament de Girona): The reuse of AV Heritage to foster Modern Visual Culture – CRDI case study
  • 10.30-10.50 circa – John Balean (Topfoto): Story-seeing: methods of creating Visual Impact when promoting Photographic Collections
  • Discussion, Q&A, conclusion
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