Digital meets Culture

The innovative resource for museum curators and staff is progressing towards its completion. It will be released as an open source software.

Search in Europeana via the Toolbox realised within the E-Space Museums Pilot

The Toolbox of Europeana Space Museums Pilot is a web-based application designed for museum curators, that will allow them to create always brand new educational videos and promotional worksheets melting the museums/memorials contents with the cultural heritage available in Europeana, the European digital library.

The first prototype was released and tested in the past months. Since the end of July 2015 the users of the museums subpilot Toolbox can search in Europeana for items and use them within the Toolbox. By using the Europena API the Toolbox offers now the possibility to search and link Europeana items directly to the Toolbox.

This milestone marks prototype II of Toolbox development and enriches the service and the uses enormously: not only local data, but data from Europenana can be used now in the same database, to create educational and promotional materials.

Important institutions in Germany already joined the Pilot and will participate to the testing of the prototype and the hackathon of the Museums Pilot is planned to take place in Spring 2016 in Venice (Italy).

Special thanks to the developer team at Museumsmedien.

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The Toolbox gives small and mid-sized memorials/museums the possibility to collect and arrange items for creating digital media for educational work. In this way memorials/museums will get more influence on the creation process and cost can be reduced in the production process. By using the Toolbox, memorials/museums can produce worksheets and storyboards (as a base frame for a video production) with data of the museums local data bases or from Europeana.

Content provider for the Toolbox

Content provider for the Toolbox is one of biggest institution in Germany dealing with the German resistance against the Hitler Dictatorship: the German Resistance Memorial Centre in Berlin.

Technical background of the Toolbox

The Toolbox uses open source web-technology, based on a Linux/Apache Webserver with a Typo3 CMS 6.29 installation. In detail there will be used PHP, MySQL-Database, JQuery and other Java Script Frameworks. All software used within the Toolbox will be open source.

Are you interested in the Toolbox, the possibilities and services for your museum, memorial or institution: don’t hesitate to contact Beatrix Lehmann, lehmann @ museumsmedien.de

Benefits of co-creative methods and suggestions to stimulate co-creation in CH on a strategic level

RICHES: policy brief on co-creation released!

co-creation session at Waag Society

A crucial topic that is addressed and researched within the RICHES consortium is co-creation, being the practice where different stakeholders with different expertise come together collaboratively to create future-oriented perspectives, enrich cultural heritage (CH) experiences and build relations with networks that are closely invested in an institution’s collection.
Co-creation within CH institutions is not a new phenomenon, but the current practice often is project based, run only by the educational staff, met with skepticism from curators and conservators, leaving a lot of potential results untouched. Besides providing an indication of good practices in co-creation and a practical toolkit for heritage professionals who want to take on this challenge themselves, the RICHES project also provides this policy brief. The paper is based on preliminary research findings, where the consortium gives a short overview of the potential benefits of co-creative methods and current practices in the CH sector and offers a number of suggestions to stimulate co-creation in CH on a strategic level.

«A co-creative approach that is firmly rooted in CH institutions can potentially change the way that heritage is curated, presented, digitised and shared, involving specific experts, specific communities and specific target groups to address a topic or a collection together. By working in an equal partnership, where personal expertise is recognised and valued and where people meet each other and share ideas through creating something together, unexpected outcomes can emerge. More importantly, ownership is created and the exhibition, campaign or programme is closely connected with the stakeholders and reflects a broader story than just the viewpoint of the CH professional» A very important outcome or result of co-creation is «that a CH institution may become more embedded within the communities it is trying to reach. Working co-creatively can enable CH institutions to build a relationship with their local communities, with new visitors, with younger people or with people from diverse cultural backgrounds».

A co-creation process can help organisations: «find a connection between groups that would normally not collaborate; raise awareness and sensitivity towards important issues with certain groups; create a safe space for sharing; create a common understanding; enable the creation of more layered and nuanced exhibitions and events; build relationships between groups that exist well beyond the scope of a project». [RICHES, Co-creation strategies: from incidental to transformative, 2015]

Download this policy brief

Panel at Digital Heritage 2015 in Granada

From Digitisation to Preservation, Creative Re-use of Cultural Content and Citizen Participation

On 1^st October 2015, in Granada, an important event was being held, organised by Promoter SRL under the title “From Digitisation to Preservation, Creative Re-use of Cultural Content and Citizen Participation”. The initiative, hosted by the Digital Heritage 2015 conference, was a discussion panel involving EU projects RICHES, Civic Epistemologies, E-Space, PREFORMA and the international association Photoconsortium.

Click here for further information on the Panel, including programme and speaker.

More details on Digital Heritage 2015 are available in the Conference website.

Granada, 1 October 2015

Civic Epistemologies at Digital Heritage 2015

Civic Epistemologies was presented in a panel session entitled “From Digitisation to Preservation, Creative Re-use of Cultural Content and Citizen Participation” at the DIGITAL HERITAGE 2015 conference in Granada (28 September – 2 October 2015).

“Federated” world congress of the leading international societies, organisations and events around IT for heritage, this event will bring together for the second time VSMM, Eurographics GCH, Arqueologica 2.0, Archaeovirtual and special events from CAA, CIPA, Space2Place, ICOMOS, ICIP and many more, all in one venue with a prestigious joint publication. A ground-breaking public display of cutting edge digital heritage projects will also grace the conference venue at Granada’s Alhambra and Sciences Park museum.

The “From Digitisation to Preservation, Creative Re-use of Cultural Content and Citizen Participation” panel, taking place on 1st October 2015, offered an overview of initiatives and EU projects E-Space, RICHES, Civic Epistemologies, PREFORMA, and Photoconsortium.

For more information view the article published on DigitalMeetsCulture to announce this event.

Brussels, 3-4 September 2015

SOIMA 2015: Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage

Call for contributions: Deadline 15 February 2015

What? This is an international conference on ensuring a safe and creative future for sound and image heritage. Twelve national and international institutions are supporting the event.

Why? Recorded sound and images have captured our world, our lives and our imagination. Thanks to rapid advancements in social media and information technologies, it has become much easier to share and use sound and image content. Yet contrary to common perception, not all content is readily usable. Today’s knowledge on preservation and access is fragmented, often trapped in separate areas of expertise, presenting a challenge to content collectors and users.

How? The conference will bring together professionals and policy makers with an interest in sound and image preservation by focusing on four themes:

Memory, Intangible Heritage and Creative Expressions
Sustaining Sound and Image Heritage
Creative Use and Access
Education and Training: Current Needs and Future Possibilities

Contribute! Is there a theme on which you want to share your experience, a challenge that needs to be addressed, an innovative and real-life example or do you have an idea for the future? Then join us for a long (20 min.) or short presentation (10 min.), round table discussion (20 min.) or poster presentation.

The conference will have an interactive and participatory, yet reflective, format with inspirational guest talks, round-table discussions, featured interviews, and parallel sessions on special/technical topics. Additionally, there will be both hosted networking occasions and social activities. An exhibition area will provide rich possibilities to directly experience and learn about unique and little-known sound and image heritage. A poster area will also be available. A pre-conference workshop of five days will be organized for advanced professionals who are responsible for training or knowledge dissemination on preservation and access of mixed sound and image collections.

The complete, detailed programme will be available by 10 April 2015.

If you would like to present a paper, please send a 150-word abstract (excluding references). For the purpose of blind refereeing, the full name of each author with current affiliation and full contact details (address, email, phone), title of presentation, and a short biographical note (max. 150 words) should be supplied on a separate page. Both documents (abstract and contact details) should be in English. Please indicate the theme as well as the type of contribution you wish to contribute.

Proposals for papers should be sent using the Pre-registration and Abstract Submission form or by e-mail to soima2015@kikirpa.be by 15 February 2015. All applicants will be informed about the status of their application by 20 March 2015.

Collaboration, and exchange of information and know-how between institutions and specialists is key to unlocking this heritage!

More information:

www.soima2015.org

soima2015@kikirpa.be

Scadenza iscrizione e consegna delle opere: 5 ottobre 2015

Concorso fotografico Pisa oltre lo specchio

in collaborazione con

presenta il
concorso fotografico a premi

“Pisa oltre lo specchio: il suo fiume, i suoi canali, il suo mare”

L’acqua è stata e continua ad essere per la città di Pisa un elemento di importanza vitale.
Elemento generativo della città stessa e fonte da addomesticare, molte volte sfruttato con poca lungimiranza.
Ai partecipanti del concorso fotografico è chiesto di esplorare, con un approccio personale il più originale possibile, la pluralità del rapporto spesso altalenante che lega l’acqua alla città e ai suoi cittadini o di
soffermarsi su un aspetto particolare di tale pluralità.

Esplorare ed illustrare l’elemento acqua come risorsa e possibilità, limite e punto di fuga;
come metafora identitaria e opportunità di valorizzazione del contesto urbano, sociale e architettonico.

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La partecipazione al concorso è gratuita ed è aperta a tutti i fotografi, esperti e/o dilettanti di qualsiasi nazionalità.
Ogni autore è libero di interpretare il tema a proprio piacimento e può presentare al concorso un massimo di tre opere.

Una giuria di esperti selezionerà le migliori 50 foto pervenute.
Il giudizio della giuria è inappellabile.

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Le immagini vincitrici e le foto selezionate saranno esposte al pubblico presso
gli Arsenali Repubblicani di Pisa in occasione di
LabQ – Laboratorio per la Qualità Urbana Pisa 16-25 ottobre 2015
“La priorità dello Spazio Pubblico. Il Verde come valore primario nelle nuove strategie urbane.”

La giuria decreterà le opere vincitrici il 24 ottobre 2015 presso la sede espositiva e mediante pubblicazione dei nominativi dei vincitori e delle opere sul sito www.imagopisa.it.
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Le fotografie potranno essere consegnate a mano o spedite entro il 5 ottobre 2015 insieme alla scheda di iscrizione all’indirizzo seguente:
Associazione Culturale Imago, Via G. Bovio, 10 – 56126 Pisa.

 Ogni singola foto, di dimensioni massima 24x30cm, può essere sia a colori che in bianco e nero e dovrà essere montata su cartoncino nero rigido 30x40cm.
Ogni foto dovrà riportare sul retro nome e cognome dell’autore e il titolo dell’opera.

I premi
1° classificato:
I cinque DVD della serie “Fotografia Italiana” raccolti in un cofanetto. 5 film documentari dedicati ai fotografi italiani tra i più noti a livello internazionale: Gabriele Basilico, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Franco Fontana, Mimmo Jodice e Ferdinando Scianna. 2009, 5 volumi, Ed. Contrasto

2° classificato:
“Gabriele Basilico – Milano. Ritratti di fabbriche” 2009, 126p., ill., Ed. 24 Ore Cultura

3° classificato:
“Mimmo Jodice. Perdersi a guardare. Trenta anni di fotografie in Italia” 2007, 276 p., ill., rilegato. Ed. Contrasto

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Ogni partecipante è responsabile dell’oggetto delle proprie opere e solleva gli organizzatori da ogni responsabilità, anche nei confronti di eventuali soggetti raffigurati nelle fotografie. Il concorrente dovrà informare gli eventuali interessati (persone ritratte) nei casi e nei modi previsti dall’art.10 della legge 675/96 e successiva modifica con D.Lgs. 30 giugno 2003 n.196, nonché procurarsi il consenso alla diffusione degli stessi.
In nessun caso le immagini inviate potranno contenere dati qualificabili come sensibili.
Ogni partecipante dichiara di possedere tutti i diritti sugli originali, conserva la proprietà delle opere trasmesse alla giuria, ma autorizza ad usare le immagini a scopi promozionali senza fini di lucro, redazionali e documentari, senza l’obbligo del consenso da parte dell’autore, ma con il solo vincolo di indicare nella pubblicazione il nome dello stesso. La partecipazione al concorso implica la la totale accettazione del presente regolamento.

The first BMW featured the 3 finalists that participated in the Europeana TV hackathon held in May in Amsterdam. And the winner is.............

Announcing the winners! Business Modeling Workshop of Europeana Space

by Simon Cronshaw, REMIX

Europeana Space consortium is very pleased to announce that we’re now embarking on the Incubation process of the winner of the first Business Modelling Workshop of the project, held in London on 26th June, following the TV Hackathon which took place in May in Amsterdam.

We had three very interesting ideas emerging from the TV Hackathon, named Bosch, ART(F)INDER, and Mnemosyne, but had to choose one winner that we felt best met the judging criteria objectives:

reuse of cultural heritage;
potential for job creation
and likelihood of success.

The winning proposition still has the internal working title of “Mnemosyne”, but will be launched under a new name over the coming months.

winner teams of the TV hackathon in Amsterdam (8, 9, 10 May 2015)

We were drawn to Mnemosyne because it has several different components, and is a well placed to capitalise upon several consumer and industry trends. Among other things, it offers an innovative user interface for online catalogues; an algorithm for serendipitous browsing across different disciplines; and a hardware installation for physical environments. One of the most attractive aspects of this proposition are the multiple revenue models and markets available to them, which we’ll be unpicking in due course as part of the Incubation process.

It is still very early stages for Knut, Marius and the rest of the Mnemosyne team, but over the next few months we’ll be working closely with them to develop a strategy that gives them the very best chance of succeeding as a commercially viable cultural startup, on the basis of the Europeana Space Incubation Support Package.

We look forward to keeping you updated on their journey, and wish them the very best for this exciting new enterprise!

You can read the Amsterdam hackathon report here and watch the video report here, plus learn more on the Business Modeling Workshop in London here.

Reykjavik, 28-29 September 2015

ICA 2015 Conference

The 3rd Annual Conference of ICA will be held on 29-29 September in the beautiful city of Reykjavik, Iceland.

The conference will address themes that are essential for archives in modern society, the role and function of archives and their importance for individuals, governments and businesses.

Under the theme of “Archives: Evidence, Security and Civil Rights Ensuring trustworthy information” the Annual Conference 2015 will without doubt be the highlight of this year’s professional calendar.

We are operating in an increasingly digitised world, accompanied by unprecedented accumulations of records. This new world offers many opportunities, however also brings with it considerable threats. Archives around the world must take on board a diverse and complex range of attitudes expressed by citizens, businesses and governments concerning the accountability of institutions, right of access to information, privacy/data protection, security of archival holdings and the protection of national security. The Annual Conference 2015 promises to bring together the best international speakers with a stimulating program of events to enable the Archives and Records Management community to engage with these important issues and influence the ongoing development of strategies and solutions.

For further information visit the Conference website.

Malta, 1-3 September 2015

19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing

The international conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub) approaches its 20th anniversary. Elpub 2015, held in Valletta from 1 to 3 September, is the 19th edition of the conference and it will continue the tradition, bringing together academics, publishers, lecturers, librarians, developers, entrepreneurs, users and all other stakeholders interested in issues regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts. These include the human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, commercial and other relevant aspects that such an exciting theme encompasses.

ElPub 2015 will particularly focus on the interplay of two dimensions of the electronic publishing: the ever growing volume of digital collections and the improved understanding of the widest user group, the one of the citizens.
ElPub 2015 aims to provide a forum for discussing how scale of collections, openness and trust change the way citizens contribute to modern research.
The conference invites contributions from members of the communities whose research and experiments are transforming the nature of electronic publishing and scholarly communication.

As part of the conference programme, the Civic Epistemologies project will attend with a presentation of its activities within the session “What’s in it for me? Engaging with citizens and professionals”, scheduled for Tuesday 1st September (11.00-13.00 CET). The presentation will be delivered by the Project Coordinator Mauro Fazio (from the Italian Ministry of Economic Development) and Borje Justrell (from the National Archives of Sweden), intervening as representatives of the whole project consortium.

See the full article presented and published into the proceedings of the Conference here.

See the full Programme of the Conference here.

Venue: St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta (MALTA).

Elpub 2015 is organised by the University of Malta. The University of Malta is the highest educational institution in Malta.

General Chair: Dr Milena Dobreva, Associate Professor at the University of Malta, Malta
Programme Chair: Birgit Schmidt, University of Göttingen, Germany.

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