Digital meets Culture

Los Angeles, June 4 – 7, 2024

The Wellcome Collection uses IIIF to make medical and scientific materials available via a their custom-built Welcome Viewer, which supports search and autocomplete service integration with overlaid search results, as well as 3D, audio, video, and pdf viewing experiences.

The 2024 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Annual Conference will be held in Los Angeles, California June 4–7, 2024, and will be hosted by UCLA Library, Getty, and the IIIF Consortium.

IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs.

Funded by a 67-member global consortium, III F is leveraged by aggregators, research institutions, national libraries, archives, museums, software companies, and digital agencies around the world.

The event 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.

In addition to the Conference, held June 4 and 5, the event includes a free Showcase on June 7. The Showcase is meant to introduce newcomers to IIIF, and those seeking to learn how IIIF is used in a variety of contexts. The conference features plenary presentations and sessions about IIIF implementations around the world, including cutting edge use cases and demonstrations.

The Call for Proposals is now open and submissions are due by February 6, 2024.

The IIIF Conference Program Committee encourage showcasing developments in IIIF and in particular welcome presentations in the following areas:

Interoperability in IIIF contexts and beyond / Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD)
Innovative IIIF use cases and implementations, including Audio/Visual, 3D,
AI/machine learning, Maps, etc.
Implementation of IIIF in teaching and learning contexts
Implementations of IIIF beyond image viewing, including Annotation, Content
Search, Aggregation/Discovery, Transcription/OCR, and Accessibility
Mediating access of IIIF resources, including copyright, ethics/CARE/FAIR principles, and reuse
Sustainability and the environmental impact of IIIF environments and resources

Find additional details about the Call for Proposals and required formats here

Submit your proposal here

Leuven, 5-7 June 2023

11th edition of DH Benelux Conference

DH Benelux 2024 Conference

“Breaking Silos, Connecting Data: Advancing Integration and Collaboration in Digital Humanities” is the theme of the 11th edition of the DH Benelux Conference. The event will take place at the Irish College in Leuven from June 5 to June 7, 2024, with pre-conference workshops scheduled for June 4, 2024.

The annual DH Benelux Conference serves as a platform for the community of interdisciplinary Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest research findings and to demonstrate tools and projects.

Call for Papers

The Call for Papers is open until 31 January 2024.

Researchers, practitioners, scholars, and students are invited to submit their original research, case studies, position papers, and poster presentations related to the theme of “Breaking Silos, Connecting Data” and its associated topics.

Interdisciplinary perspectives are welcomed, with encouragement for contributions exploring strategies, techniques, and methodologies to break down silos, connect disparate data sets and sources, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, and enable new forms of data access

More info here

Submissions can be made here via Easychair

Budapest, November 13 – 15 2024

Language and the Media Conference 15th edition

Languages & The Media 2022 Conference
Credit: Dominik Tryba

Languages & The Media, the Biennial International Conference on Audiovisual Language Transfer in the Media, is gearing up for its 15th edition “New Frontiers in Media Localization“, scheduled from November 13 to 15, 2024, in Budapest.

The event will feature three days of pre-conference workshops, panel discussions and presentations by experts and analysts to explore both new and existing industry practices, discuss cutting-edge developments and pioneering research. It will investigate the role of AI-driven products and workflows, providing a glimpse into the potential future workplace and job landscape. The conference will raise questions such as: What will media localization look like in the era where AI and human intelligence create new pathways? Furthermore, what role does creativity play in this new age of media localization?

The event will be the platform for transformative dialogue, acting as a nexus for thought leaders, content owners, language service providers, technology developers, educators, researchers, and language professionals, shaping the future of media localization.

The call for papers is now open and the deadline for submission of proposals is January 8th, 2024.

Submit your proposal

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A new resource available on the INCULTUM Training Portal

Participation in culture and cultural tourism

Participatory Governance and Models in Culture and Cultural Tourism is the tile of the book that is now available for free download from the INCULTUM Training Portal.

The book has been produced in the frame of the INCULTUM project by the team at Matej Bel University.

“Participatory approaches and models in tourism are widely accepted as a criterion for sustainable tourism, as it helps decision makers maintain traditional lifestyles and respect community values.”

With these opening words, the incipit of the book immediately introduces the reader to one of the main pillar of the INCULTUM project, i.e. the connection between participation and innovative tourism.

The book is a real useful instruments for students, teachers and professionals who are interested to go deeper on the question of how participatory approaches can be beneficial for more harmonious governance, respectful development of territories and promotion of cultural tourism.

30 November and 5 December 2023, the products of the students were presented

The INCULTUM pilot as case study at the course of Tourism Science of Campus Foundation

At the beginning of October 2023, Prof. Enrica Lemmi, leader of the INCULTUM Pilot of San Pellegrino in Alpe, accompanied the students from the second year of the bachelor in Tourism Science of Campus Foundation to the location of the pilot., to spend a day discovering the area.

The students visited the ethnographic museum founded by Don Luigi Pellegrini, attended the theatrical performance created and acted by actress Elisabetta Salvatori and alos were able to talk to the local operators.

After this experience, the students were asked to develop tourist proposals linked to San Pellegrino in Alpe and to the ethnographic museum, imagining ways to enrich the existing offer and to open up new paths towards this destination.

On the 30th of November and the following 5th of December 2023, the students presented their projects in front of the commission consisting of the Prof. Enrica Lemmi and the research team composed of Adele Cogno, Andrea Pedri and Martina Pirrone.

The students were able to propose interesting and innovative papers that included the themes of sustainability, slow tourism and de-seasonalisation, perfectly in line with the values promoted by INCULTUM.

Screen-shot from the presentation of the students’ works.

Executive Master organised by Touring Club Italiano and Fondazione Campus

Management of Territorial Tourism Development

As part of the INCULTUM Pilot about San Pellegrino in Alpe, in the frame of the Executive Master Management of Territorial Tourism Development organised by Fondazione Campus and Touring Club Italiano, the INCULTUM project was presented and discussed with the students and teachers participating in the master.

The INCULTUM team coordinated by Prof. Enrica Lemmi discussed the project during a lesson, looking at the partnerships established and the ideas born to develop an innovative tourism offer based on the use of Don Luigi Pellegrini Museum and the surrounding area of the high Valley of Garfagnana. Dr. Pirrone, as community manager of the INCULTUM pilot project, introduced also the topic of the academic courses developed under the leading of University of Pisa, which will be soon ready to be uploaded on the INCULTUM Training Portal.

The students were very interested in the topic and a productive dialogue developed within the lesson.

Further information about the the master is available in Italian at: https://www.touringclub.it/news/touring-e-fondazione-campus-lanciano-la-quarta-edizione-del-master-in-management-dello-sviluppo

Some pictures from the lesson about the INCULTUM project:

INCULTUM Voluntary Days: 16 and 17 December 2023

Recovery of Alpanchía irrigation channel

As part of the INCULTUM Pilot on the Altiplano de Granada, on the next 16 and 17 December 2023, the recovery of the irrigation ditch of La Alpanchía, in Galera (Granada, Spain) will take place.

The activity is organized by the Biocultural Archaeology Laboratory (MEMOLab UGR), coordinated by Professor Dr. José María Martín Civantos, from the Department of Medieval History and CCTTHH of the UGR and the PASOS Association.

The Galera City Council, the Alpanchía Association, the Community of Irrigators of Galera and the ACEQUIAS HISTÓRICAS Association have also collaborated.

In this action, about 60 volunteers from various interests and disciplines will participate. This will consist of the recovery of the irrigation ditch of La Alpanchía, abandoned for about 5 years. It is one of the main arteries of the fertile plain of this municipality and with its abandonment, numerous ecosystemic benefits and cultural and historical values are being lost. The work will consist of removing vegetation and soil using shovels and hoes, organized by work groups.

23 November 2023, Round table in teh frame of Participatory research : knowledge and recognition conference

Bibracte, a territorial interface for participatory research in the Morvan

On November 22, 23 and 24 2023, Bibracte, partner of the INCULTUM project, participated in the conference “Participatory research: knowledge and recognition” organised by the Université de Caen Normandie.

Bibracte took part in the roundtable ”Bringing participatory research to life” on the topic “Bibracte, a territorial interface for participatory research in the Morvan”. The presentation focused on the pilot project led by Bibracte.

As part of their joint SAPS (Science Avec et Pour la Société: Science for and with Society) label project, the Université de Caen Normandie and Le Dôme (a centre for the promotion of scientific and technical culture) have chosen to focus on the development of participatory research programs, in which citizens, students and non-scientific audiences from all walks of life are invited to take part in different phases of scientific research programs with university teams. But what exactly is participatory research, in all its diversity? What kind of science, or knowledge, do they produce? What are their perhaps specific methods? How can we encourage the emergence of participatory research that addresses the concerns of a given population or territory, while respecting the specific methods and objectives of researchers? What impact can this type of research have on public and collective action?

This first conference on participatory research programs at the University of Caen aims to address these questions by bringing together researchers who study the phenomenon of participation in science, and researchers and actors involved in participatory research programs. For this first edition, the symposium proposes in particular to question the epistemological conceptions that underlie participatory research schemes.

The conference proceedings will be published in 2024.

An interview with Nicolas Barral

“Arts and territory” – a participatory approach

Picture by Pietro Masi, @ Promoter Srl

“Art and territory” is a participatory approach adopted in the pilot running in Bibracte, Morvan, in the frame of the INCULTUM project.

The approach is using scientific methods and artistic practices to analyse the challenges of a shared heritage landscape.

Nicolas Barral, in charge of implementing the “Art and territory” approach within the INCULTUM project at Bibracte has been interviewed to tell about the results of this innovative experience.

You can download here the full text of the interview.

Partner Bibracte hosted a workshop on digitisation and aggregation to Europeana, showcasing their experience with 3D digitization and the possibilities of reuse

EUreka3D training at Bibracte

In November 2023, as part of the training “Raw materials to sources, from the archaeological object” organized by the Resource Center for Artistic and Cultural Education (Préac) Archaeological heritage, Bibracte hosted a workshop on digitisation and aggregation to Europeana.

Within the context of EUreka3D project, the workshop has addressed the different types of resources and their conditions of use on Europeana, and the 3D digitisation of archeological objects as an educational resource for teaching and a way of engaging young audiences.

Bibracte is a key actor of the French archaelogical community and one of the EUreka3D partners. The institution is digitising in 3D archaeological artefacts and ground models that will be aggregated to Europeana during the project’s lifetime.

Programme of the Europeana Digital Practice Workshop by Bibracte

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