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EUreka3D at EVA Florence 2024

EUreka3D project was accepted for a paper and presentation in the prestigioius annual conference EVA Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, organised in Florence by Professor Vito Cappellini, University of Florence.

The main topics this year include:

– European Commission Projects, plans regarding Cultural Heritage
– Artificial Intelligence
– Cybersecurity
– Digital art, music, theatre
– Ethical and environmental issues
– 2D and 3D digital image acquisition and display

An eBook (with ISBN), containing the Final Program and the accepted Papers, will be edited with free international distribution.

Download full programme here (PDF, 670 Kb)

The EUreka3D project was included in the session 3 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES – REAL AND VIRTUAL GALLERIES AND ACCESS TO THE RELATED INFORMATION, chaired by Dominik Lengyel, BTU University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany.

Our paper: EUreka3D – European Union’s REKonstructed content in 3D

Download the paper (PDF, 300 kb)

Authors: V. Bachi, A. Fresa (Photoconsortium), D. Iglésias Franch (CRDI / Ajuntament de Girona) and I. Lamata Martínez (EGI Foundation)

Abstract: EUreka3D aims to support Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs) in implementing high quality 3D digitisation for the purposes of reuse by a variety of stakeholders. The current scenario in Cultural Heritage sector is transforming with the advent of the new Data Space, to offer opportunities to all the users of digital cultural heritage. However, CHIs need support and technical solutions to enable their collections to transit to the digital realm and then be offered to users. This need will be fulfilled through the development of the EUreka3D data hub, a pilot e-infrastructure including various features for managing and sharing 3D assets.

Live and on-demand, May 22-23, 2024

Museum Social Impact Summit 2024

Museum Social Impact Summit 2024 – MuseumNext

Museums, once seen primarily as repositories of history, art and science have evolved into dynamic hubs for social impact and change. They are no longer content with simply showcasing the past; instead, they are actively shaping the future by engaging with the most pressing issues of our time.

On May 22-23, the Museum Social Impact Summit 2024 will delve deep into this transformation, highlighting how museums are harnessing their unique resources, collections, and expertise to drive positive change in society. Colleagues from around the world will share their work on poverty, inclusion, war and community.

What to expect from this virtual conference:

Learn how Tate are championing art as a human right.
Discover how New Museum is working collaboratively to build community.
Hear how Firstsite are working with children to inspire positive self image.
Learn how National Galleries of Scotland are working with people with lived experience of alcohol-related harm.
Kazerne Dossin shares how they are offering a museum programme as an alternative to legal prosecution.
Learn how Stedelijk Museum Schiedam calling for action on poverty.
Discover how Taubman Museum of Art is offering therapeutic art processes.
Hear how Smithsonian are shedding light on stories from women’s history that have been excluded, erased, obscured, forgotten.
Learn how museums can leverage the power of emotions to build greater public support with Art Fund.

And much, much more…

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Explore the programme

All Museum Social Impact Summit presentations will also be available to watch on-demand for 12 months.

Following, an article from the project's team, providing a report of the meeting

“From Intangible Expression to Digital Cultural Heritage” Erasmus+ project last meeting – Istanbul, 23rd-27th October 2023

“Programme of Small-scale partnership in school education of the Erasmus+ Project
From İntangible Expression to Digital Cultural Heritage
European number: 2021-Round 2-KA210-SCH-0A1738D9

Our last meeting in Turkiye took part from 23rd to 27th of October in 2023 with the participation of Instituto Comprensivo “B.Croce” from Paglieta, Italy and “$t.St. Cyril and Methodius Primary School from Razlog, Bulgaria. As the host country Turkiye welcomed the students and the teachers in their school named TEV Abdullah Nezahat Erboz Primary School in İstanbul.

On the first day of the LTT activities Turkish students presented a folk dance show for the guests in order to show a big part of our culture. We have 7 regions in our country and all the regions have their own different folk dance figures. These folk dances are so important for us that we provide most of the students to learn them as the young generation and transfer it to the future generations.

On the second day of our meeting we experienced “flatbread” making with our guests in order to introduce some examples of Turkish cuisine and make the other cultures to taste them. Beside this all the guests tried Turkish coffee as a new taste and learned how to make it.

As a conclusion, with all these activities we would be maintained the intangible cultural heritage alive and inherited them to the future generations. Sharing makes something bigger and bigger so what we have shared until now will be with all in our minds and in our lives.”

Download the article here (PDF, 729KB).

Mikkeli, Finland, & online, 4–6 September 2024

Digital Archiving Futures

Digital Archiving Futures

Research Centre Digitalia, together with other Mikkeli Memory Campus organizations, organizes a three-day hybrid event called “Digital Archiving Futures” on the 4–6 of September 2024 in Mikkeli, Finland and online stream.

The event is free of charge for participants and is part of the project “Memory Campus as an International Cluster for Information Management”, funded by the South Savo Regional Council from funds allocated to supporting the sustainable growth and vitality of regions.

Register to the event before June 24, 2024.

Programme and Speakers

The main themes of the conference will be Data Spaces, Artificial Intelligence, and Cluster Collaboration, featuring speakers from the GLAM sector and information management field from Finland and across Europe.

The “Data Spaces” theme of the event will cover perspectives on data space, shared data and also more specifically development activities in different networks related to this topic.

The “Artificial Intelligence” aspect will highlight future possibilities for the use of artificial intelligence in the archive, library and museum sector, as well as in the field of information management in general.

The “Collaboration” theme brings together the strong role of cooperations in creating the future, in terms of co-development and co-creation, ecosystem collaboration and interconnection with other actors to develop a common future and knowledge.

September 5’s program includes Europeana Network Association Board Member and Time Machine RFC Editor Juha Henriksson’s presentation “Europeana, Time Machine, and the European data space for cultural heritage”.

Take a look at the full schedule of the event.

Get to know the speakers.

Hybrid event, in Limassol and online, 29th May 2024 h. 15 CET

EUreka3D: Preserving Values through #MemoryTwins

On the occasion of the third EUreka3D project plenary, hosted by partner CUT in Limassol, a demo event was organized to present the latest development and services of the EUreka3D e-infrastructure dedicated to manage and share 3D cultural heritage datasets.

The event is organized in the context of the collaboration between EUreka3D and ARTEST Erasmus+ project, aiming at reinforcing education in the field of the Humanities in Europe and Mongolia, by adopting digital methods of research and education and harmonizing the development of both soft and digital skills during the study process.

This event follows the exceptional presentation of the EUreka3D project at the TwinIt celebration event and Fair in Brussels on 14/5, organized by the European Commission and Europeana Foundation in the presence of European authorities and Ministries of Culture from all over Europe, where project EUreka3D presented the efforts done by partner CUT Cyprus University of Technology, to digitally preserve the historical Lambousa boat in Limassol, which resulted in a top quality 3D model produced according to the VIGIE Study 2020/654 on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage.

The data, paradata and metadata for the Lambousa boat 3D model are hosted in the EUreka3D Data Hub, an e-infrastructure dedicated to managing and sharing high quality 3D cultural heritage datasets like the digital memory twin of Lambousa.

EUreka3D demo platform, currently under development by the EGI European Grid Initiative, is an outstanding resource to support the common European data space for cultural heritage, offering services and tools to institutions of any size and digital transformation level. The EUreka3D platform is based in Europe, and its pillars are accessibility, inclusiveness, and data security.

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The demo event included presentations by speakers from EUreka3D project including Photoconsortium, Europeana, EGI, ACK Cyfronet AGH, UNESCO Chair on DCH at Cyprus University of Technology, and speakers from ARTEST who provided the point of view of supporting education programmes, especially on Digital Humanities, with 3D digitized cultural collections, in the light of strengthening a cross-boundaries collaboration and actively participating in the capacity building and knowledge transfer programme of EUreka3D, thus broadening the project’s horizon beyond Europe. As an additional example of high quality digitization, the event included a presentation of the World Heritage Monuments preservation project in Finland, offered by Museovirasto as associate partner of EUreka3D.

For any request please contact us: info@photoconsortium.net

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

Dr. Orzechowski from CYFRONET presented the project as one of the case studies

EUreka3D presented at CS3 2024 Conference at CERN (Geneva, CH)

On the 13th of March 2024 the CERN, prestigious intergovernmental organisation that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, hosted CS3 2024 Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing Conference as part of CERN’s TechWeek on Storage and Data Technologies.

Dr. Michał Orzechowski from Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET, one of EUreka3D partners, presented “Open Data Lifecycle Management with Onedata” mentioned EUreka3D project as one of the case studies while referring to Onedata project.

The EUreka3D project addresses the growing need of enabling the digital transformation of the Cultural Heritage sector by modernising and reviewing internal processes of small institutions such as museums, galleries, libraries, archieves and archeological sites, by re-training their personnel to cope with the new digital responsibilities and roles, and by helping them review their infrastructure capacity, in particular with regard to the ability to process 3D contents.

Onedata is a high-performance data management system with a distributed, global infrastructure that enables users to access heterogeneous storage resources worldwide that is currently being used in many projects, including EUreka3D. Some of the key features of Onedata include:

Allowing users to establish a hierarchical structure of datasets, control multi-site replication and distribution using Quality-of-Service rules, and keep track of the dataset size statistics over time.
Supporting the annotation of datasets with metadata, which is crucial for organising and searching for specific data.
Protection mechanisms that prevent data and metadata modification, ensuring the integrity of the dataset in its final stage of preparation.
Archiving datasets for long-term preservation, enabling organisations to retain critical data for future use.
supporting of data-sharing mechanisms aligned with the idea of Open Data.

Watch the presentation here.

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

Theme of 2024 event: Information Technologies in the socio-cultural sphere, education and economy

EUreka3D presented at annual conference of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts

On the 24th of April 2024 the annual conference by Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts took place under the theme of Information Technologies in the socio-cultural sphere, education and economy. The conference was held as a hybrid event in Kyiv and online, with a good participation of scientists, teachers, students of higher education institutions, master’s students, graduate students, doctoral students, and cultural practitioners.

Both a plenary session and work in parallel sessions with presentations of different initiatives and projects addressed the following topics:

1. Information technologies and systems of the socio-cultural sphere.
2. Digital transformation of education, science and the economy of the socio-cultural sphere.
3. Cyber security and media literacy.
4. Digital technologies in cultural and creative industries.

As the only non-Ukrainian speaker, Valentina Bachi (Photoconsortium) presented EUreka3D as one part her presentation that included an introduction of Photoconsortium as association for the promotion of heritage collections and Europeana aggregator; an overview on Data Space For Cultural Heritage project; and finally the presentation of the work ongoing to create an e-infrastructure for CHIs as part of the tasks in EUreka3D project.

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a prestigious event on 14th May will present the results of TwinIt 3D digitisation campaign and the outcomes of the most prominent 3D projects that are ongoing in Europe

EUreka3D at the TwinIt! Fair in Brussels

The TwinIt! Campaign is an initiative of the European Commission, coordinated by Europeana, which invited all EU Ministries of Culture to liaise with their national cultural institutions to submit at least one 3D digitised heritage asset to the common European data space for cultural heritage. The campaign collected 3D digitized assets representing European cultural heritage at risk, including monuments, buildings, sites and various other types of heritage objects.

The results of the campaign will be celebrated in a final Twin it! event on 14th May, in the prestigious Berlaymont venue in Brussels. This event will have three main components: a high-level conference, expert panel discussion and a Twin it! interactive exploration Fair, which will present various stories from the most valuable projects supporting the data space and 3D digital heritage.

In the context of the fair, EUreka3D will present the efforts done by partner CUT Cyprus University of Technology, to digitally preserve the historical Lambousa boat in Limassol, which resulted in a top quality 3D model produced according to the VIGIE Study 2020/654 on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage.

The model is made available for any stakeholder via the EUreka3D Data Hub and on Europeana.

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

Discover what the data space has to offer through its new webpage

Europeana launches new webpage for the common European data space for cultural heritage

A glimpse of the new webpage of the common European data space for cultural heritage

The common European data space for cultural heritage comprises cutting-edge infrastructure, a vibrant community and a suite of products, frameworks and tools which facilitate the open and trustworthy sharing of heritage data across Europe.

We are excited about the launch of a webpage which offers a gateway into the common European data space for cultural heritage.

The data space works to increase participation in Europe’s cultural heritage and promotes digital culture as a public good. It offers access to high-quality data, with an emphasis on 3D, and encourages people to reuse it and find new value in it. Together with 13 other data spaces, it’s central in Europe’s ambition for a thriving, data-driven society. It offers enormous potential for the cultural heritage sector and Europe’s citizens. Communicating this potential is critical to ensure that the benefits are felt and opportunities seized. The data space webpage is a way to build understanding of the data space, its distinctive features, the partners that make it possible, the role the Europeana Initiative plays in it, as well as opportunities to contribute to and benefit from it.

The webpage offers an attractive overview of the activities taking place across the data space. Use it to discover the data space in numbers, the partners and organisations behind it, projects which support it and its principal products, developed by the Europeana Initiative. As the data space grows and evolves, the dedicated webpage will continue to be enriched – so stay tuned for fresh updates!

Discover what the data space has to offer through its new webpage.

Palermo, 29 April 2024

Greenway: the INCULTUM pilot of GAL Elimos

The development of the Greenway Kaggera-Vita-Salemi is part of the pilot coordinated by GAL Elimos in the frame of the INCULTUM project.

The encounter of 29/4/2024 hosted by the University of Palermo has been the occasion to present the results of the research and to review together the status of progress of the implementation of the project.

The report of the event is available in English (PDF) and Italian (PDF).

Below, you can look at some pictures of the event.