Digital meets Culture

London, 17-18 November 2014

Investing in Opportunity: Policy Practice and Planning for a Sustainable Digital Future

Registration is now open for the exciting two day digital preservation conference ‘Investing in Opportunity: Policy Practice and Planning for a Sustainable Digital Future’ which will take place at the Wellcome Trust in London on 17th – 18th November 2014.

Funded by the European Commission, ‘Investing in Opportunity’ is a free conference but places are limited so booking is essential to avoid disappointment. Register now.

Brought to you by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the 4C (Collaboration to Clarify the Costs of Curation) Project, the conference will compare the strategic economic aspirations of funders and policy makers against the practical experience of digital preservation, including perspectives from practitioners, vendors and users of digital preservation services. It will identify emerging best practice and will provide a forum for needs and practical requirements to be articulated.

Participants will be invited to review key 4C Project deliverables, considering the implications of these resources and providing the opportunity to shape these to suit community needs before they are submitted to the European Commission.

The conference also coincides with a ceremony at which the biennial Digital Preservation Awards will be presented.

Who should come?

This conference will be beneficial to:

Research funders
Collections managers, librarians, curators and archivists in memory institutions and higher education
Information and records managers in regulated sectors whether in the public or private sector
CIOs and CTOs in organisations with commercial intellectual property such as publishers or content creators
Vendors and developers with digital preservation solutions
Researchers with interests in data management
Agencies and SMEs with a commercial interest in curated information

Digital content creators, curators and funders alike, across public and private sectors, will find relevance in addresses from leaders in digital curation. Their insightful analyses of the state of the art in digital curation will remind us all of the need to make smart investments now, buying ourselves options for the sustainable digital future we are striving to achieve. And the 4C project will aim to show us how.

Keep an eye on the DPC and 4C Project website for conference themes and speaker announcements. For the latest ‘Investing in Opportunity’ Conference news follow @4c_project on Twitter or search #IIO2014.

Barcelona, 8 – 11 July 2014

Collective Amnesia at Fundació Joan Miró

The smile of a tear, Joan Miro, 1973

An international symposium and a workshop about the forgotten shanty towns on Montjuïc opened a space of discussion on the subject of memorials from the perspective of art and contemporary thought.

With Collective Amnesia, it was explored the backside of a key concept of historiography in the last decades, namely “collective memory”, as formulated by Maurice Halbwachs. The “collective amnesia” can be considered to correspond to a formation that is generated in the wake of commemorations and memorials that declare themselves “official.” From Halbwachs’ perspective forgetting, like remembering, is a collective act. According to recent developments in the philosophy of history and contemporary thought, everything that is omitted from the past reveals much more about a given culture than what it registers as history and promotes as collective memory.

Via Favència municipal warehouse, Barcelona, 2011. Photo: Llibert Teixidó. © Llibert Teixidó / La Vanguardia.

Collective Amnesia is conceived as a space for discussion around the intersections that occur between artistic practice and historiography. With the symposium and the workshop, Fundació Miró offered opportunities to debate and collaborate with agents who come from different cultural sectors involved in experimental processes of knowledge production.

The symposium included the participation of experts coming from the fields of artistic practice, historiography and contemporary thought. The workshop, in turn, was focused on the Montjuïc slums, a specific case study directly linked with the site on which the Fundació Joan Miró sits. It is a side of things that the city of Barcelona has tried to forget even though they grew in the wake of what has been championed as the launching platform of urban development in 20th-century Barcelona: the hill of Montjuïc. For the workshop, Fundació Miró counts on the collaboration of a number of groups and organizations from Barcelona that are working on the recovery of the memory of this urban phenomenon.

International symposium:

Debate on Contemporary Memorial Culture

July 8 and 9, 4–8:30pm

Fundació Joan Miró’s Library

Speakers:

Miriam Basilio, Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, NYU

Azul Blaseotto, visual artist, (La Dársena Platform) Buenos Aires

Oriol Fontdevila, curator and art critic

María Ruido, visual artist, researcher and cultural producer

Octavi Rofes, anthropologist, professor and Vice President of EINA, Barcelona

Joan Roca, historian and geographer; President of the Museu d’Història de la Ciutat de Barcelona (MUHBA)

Francisco Rubio, art mediator

Enzo Traverso, S. B. Winokur Professor in the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Workshop in Montjuïc:

Exploring the Informal City

July 9–11, 10am–2pm

Fundació Joan Miró’s Espai Taller

Public Presentation of the workshop’s conclusions:

July 11, 6pm

Plaça del Mig, Can Clos (Barcelona)

With the collaboration of the Centre d’Estudis de Montjuïc, Lúa Coderch, Antonio Gagliano, Valeria Giacomoni, Grupo por el Cambio (Can Clos), Oriol Granados, Imma Jansana, Lola Lasurt, Taller de ficció, Mercè Tatjer, among others.

Collective Amnesia is a collaborative project between the Fundació Joan Miró and Tricentenari BCN. It is part of Preventive Archaeology, an exhibition program at Espai 13, the Fundació’s project room for emerging artists.

Coordinated by Oriol Fontdevila and La Fundació

More information can be found at www.fundaciomiro-bcn.org

Attendance earns you one credit hour of an official degree from the UB (Universitat de Barcelona) and UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya).

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Conference special edition

EUDAT News bulletin

Registration now open!

Focusing on bringing data infrastructures to Horizon 2020, the EUDAT conference is an unmissable event for anyone interested in managing and manipulating data. Beginning immediately after the RDA 4th Plenary, the conference offers an ideal opportunity to learn about solutions for data infrastructure and help ensure these are tailored to user needs, as well as exploring how to give research communities control of these tools. Find out how EUDAT common data services can meet your data-management needs, ultimately helping you transform data into knowledge, and learn what the future holds in this area, with the focus on Horizon2020. Visit the EUDAT website to view the draft programme and register online.

Showcase your work at the EUDAT conference poster session

Are you researching issues surrounding data infrastructure and management? Display your findings to key figures in the field at the conference by submitting a poster – find out how by visiting the poster section on the EUDAT website.

Learn about the crucial issues affecting sustainable data infrastructure

One of the main issues in the field of data infrastructure and management is sustainability, with legal concerns being one area of specific focus. EUDAT is here to help: its Legal Issues in Research Data Collection and Sharing series provides essential information to help providers better understand the issues which affect them. The course, aimed at researchers, data managers and citizen scientists, is currently composed of three modules: Intellectual Property Rights, Personal Data and Service Provider Liability and Terms of Service. Learn more and download the training presentations from the EUDAT website.

Be a part of the European Ontology Network (EUON) – workshop 25 September

Community-driven and voluntary, EUON brings together people working in ontology and the broader area of semantics in Europe. By sharing experience and expertise, participants can discover how semantics are applied and tools used in different fields, as well as grappling with issues such as standardising terminology. A EUON workshop is being organised as part of the EUDAT conference featuring talks by Professor Robert Stevens (University of Manchester) and Jean-Pierre Evain (European Broadcasting Union). Interested in participating? The call for abstracts has been extended to 7 July – submit yours now via the EUDAT website.

And finally… the EUDAT conference will bring together users and providers of data infrastructure from all over Europe, so don’t miss your chance to get to know your colleagues in the field. Networking cocktails on 24 and 25 September offer the ideal opportunity to meet likeminded professionals and follow up on ideas. We look forward to seeing you there!.

More information at http://eudat.eu/3rd-eudat-conference

Anagni is an ancient town in the hills located in southeast of Rome

When Digital meets artistic treasures: Anagni, the City of Popes, virtual tour

The project “Navig@nagni” was born in 2009 to let the world know the artistic trasures of the “City of Popes” through the web.

This has been by scanning the major historical and artistic sites with a laser scanner which, in addition to a perfect 3D modeling, has allowed a scan hundreds of equirectangular pictures, using a special software developed by Massimo Iachetta, head of the ICT department of the City of Anagni. You can admire and appreciate in detail the Anagni monumental treasure, with 360° view and in each direction.

The crypt of the cathedral,built and painted in 1300 and also known as “the Sistina Chapel of the Middle Ages”.

the Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Mary

The project Navig@nagni starts from one of the major art treasures, the crypt of the cathedral, built and painted in 1300 and also known as “the Sistina Chapel of the Middle Ages” for the beauty and uniqueness of the paintings on the walls and vaults, and then navigate inside the Cathedral, the museum site called “lapidarium”, in the halls of the “museum of the slap”, dedicated to the historical events of Pope Bonifacio XIII, and finally in amazing halls of the headquarters building of the Municipality.

For further detail of the virtual tour, each site was taken up in various “points of view”, logically linked by the software, to create a true “virtual path” where visitors have the real feel of the road ahead personally.

To see more details of the works of art, in the navigation software has been implemented an algorithm that allows you to make an “zoom in” with automatic pixels regeneration, through appropriate interpolation algorithm, thus avoiding the view of the classics “pixels into large squares.”
Direct link: http://www.comune.anagni.fr.gov.it/home/progetto-navignagni

the Palace of the Municipality

The web version, for obvious reasons of space and processing speed, has been realised in medium resolution, but the entire project is available on DVD with all scans in 3D and all different visuals in high definition.

The project is in the expansion phase, the first models are provided for scan of other important monuments and the use of a drone with hd camera is being studied for aerial set of the sites.

So stay tuned…

Contribute to the research! Survey open until 31 July 2014

Context of change for European performance practice

Photo by Nicola Vaughan

The RICHES project is a European Commission funded project that brings together 10 partners from 6 EU countries and Turkey to research the context of change in which European cultural heritage is transmitted, its implications for future cultural heritage practices and the frameworks to be put in place for the benefit of all audiences and communities in the digital age. One of the project tasks is to explore the transformation of Dance and Performance practice as a result of digital technologies within the European context.

This research begins from the premise that while traditional, discipline-specific settings still play a part in how dance and performance is shared with the public, new kinds of spaces, both physical and virtual, are increasingly being exploited as dynamic, interactive and co-created spaces. The study aims, therefore, to analyse the context of change for European performance practice and map themethods and factors that have driven or impacted on these changes. In particular, the study aims to better understand the transaction that takes place between those who make, produce, curate, perform and view/experience performance practices.

If you are a dance and performance practitioner, performer, educator, or researcher and are willing to reflect on how digital technologies have impacted on your experience of performance practice, please share with us your views by completing this survey:

https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/coventry/performance-riches

You can add your responses by Thursday 31 July 2014.

Your views are very important for the RICHES consortium and this particular study, and they will help evaluate the current state of European performing arts practices within the broad domain of ‘intangible cultural heritage’.

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Istanbul, 17-20 September 2014

RICHES at URLA 2014 International Congress

The URLA 2014 Congress’ main theme will be Management of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Memory Institutions.

Today, information technologies are evolving rapidly both locally and globally and having significant impact in many areas. With the progress of globalisation, communities more and more tend to uniform their habits and lifestyles. This can cause a loss of the particular cultural identities.

National and international research plans on the preservation of cultural heritage are created for minimising such risk.

Technological capabilities and tools for the preservation of cultural heritage require an efficient management by cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, archives and museums. URLA 2014 is devoted to analysing these themes.

RICHES partners Hakan Koray Özlük and Hasan Bahadir Aydinonat from KYGM (Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism) will take part in the congress holding a speech – already approved by the URLA scientific committee – on Preservation of Cultural Heritage and EU Projects, which will provide an interesting overview of the two professionals’ year experience and knowledge in research for innovative ways of cultural heritage’s preservation and enjoyment.

The URLA congress aims to: promote dialogue between academicians, practitioners, researchers and organisations which provide services in the field of library and information science, arts, humanities and applied sciences; create a scientific and a social interaction environment; share best practices and experiences about these disciplines. Academicians, practitioners, researchers, service providers and all individuals can participate in the congress.

The University and Research Librarians’ Association in Turkey (URLA) organises annual scientific meetings in Turkey since 1991, in order to raise the awareness of practitioners about information services, information & document management, knowledge economy, information literacy, industrialisation of information and so on. In view of the meetings, scientific and original studies/papers are evaluated by a specific scientific committee, in order to establish a presentation programme. The URLA annual scientific meetings are held in a different university every year and supported by various sponsors and government agencies.

For more information visit: http://unak2014.unak.org.tr/en/

http://www.riches-project.eu/kygm.html

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Graz (Austria),14-19 September 2014

DiXiT – XML/TEI for Digital Scholarly Editions – Standards, tools and software

The second DiXiT camp on XML TEI P5 for Digital Scholarly Editions – Standards, tools and software funded by the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT), and run by the Centre for Information Modelling – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (Graz) in collaboration with the University of Oxford, the University of Cologne, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, SynchRO, TEI-C, and Text Grid.

The course will be held at the University of Graz (Karl-Franzens-Universität) from 14th to 19th September 2014.

The DiXiT camp is open to all students registered for postgraduate and in particular doctoral programs (PhD or equivalent) anywhere in the world with basic experience in scholarly editing. The course will strongly focus on practical exercise and all teaching will be in English. The course offers 25 positions from which twelve are reserved for DiXiT fellows, leaving 13 vacancies for other applicants. Participants will be required to arrange their own accommodation and travel to Graz, but there will be no fee for the course itself. Some bursaries will be available for travel and accommodation in particular for participants from less developed countries and from Eastern Europe.

This intensive course will provide students with theoretical knowledge and practical experience in creating digital editions using the open international encoding standard XML TEI P5. Basics of representing textual phenomena and features for the description, transcription and representation of primary sources will be covered, from data input to publication.

The lectures will be held by experts from the DiXiT partners and will cover the following areas:

• General introduction on XML TEI P5
• Transcription and editorial interventions
• Critical apparatus
• Genetic editing
• Tools for digital editing
• Customization of the TEI schema
• Workflow and solutions to create an online presentation out of TEI
• Metadata standards
• Edition beyond text: image-text-linkage and music editions

Evening lectures on use cases will accompany the morning and afternoon sessions. Besides the Shelly-Godwin Archive (http://shelleygodwinarchive.org), two editing projects from Graz, Hugo von Montfort – the poetic work (http://gams.uni-graz.at/me) and the Moral Weeklies in Romance-speaking Europe (http://gams.uni-graz.at/mws) will serve as examples for different editing scopes.

The application deadline is the 28 July 2014 and early registration is highly recommended.

You can use the Application form and send it to dixit@uni-graz.at.
For more information visit the DiXiT’s website or the website of the University of Graz.

Download some practical information on the DiXiT Camp here

A short article by Bitr. Professor Björn Lundell (Ph.D.), University of Skövde

Long-term sustainability through OSS implementations of open file formats

Long-term sustainability through Open Source software implementations of open file formats

Skövde 24 June, 2014

Bitr. Professor Björn Lundell (Ph.D.), University of Skövde (bjorn.lundell@his.se)

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Understanding fundamental challenges relating to lock-in effects and use of different file formats for long-term maintenance of digital assets is an essential component to the success of any memory institution. Research results show that maintenance and support contracts for proprietary licensed software are typically provided for (up to) 10 years. Hence, digital assets (files) outlive proprietary software in any long-term maintenance scenario. Consequently, it is clear that tools used for the initial creation of files will not be available during the complete life-cycle for systems used by memory institutions. Many organisations therefore seek to adopt open file formats and Open Source software (OSS) solutions as a strategy for minimising risks for losing control of their digital assets.

The European Commission published an official communication (COM(2013) 455 final) on 25 June 2013, which recognises the importance of open standards for addressing lock-in. Besides addressing lock-in by making better use of standards in procurement, the associated press release (IP/13/602) reports that open standards would save public sector €1 billion a year. Further, specific countries have developed policies and guidelines for use of open standards when procuring software solutions in order to address digital preservation and lock-in. For example, the U.K. Government undertook a comprehensive review of the evidence for how open standards contribute to achieve a level playing field for open source and proprietary software. Based on this, the U.K. Government provides a detailed policy with motivations and principles for use of open standards. Further, a recent report from the Swedish governmental agency responsible for public sector procurement stresses the importance of using open standards in public procurement (Dnr. 96-40-2013). The report stresses different lock-in effects and highlights the importance of considering long-term digital preservation before adoption, and in so doing addresses migration, interoperability, and lockin challenges.

An open file format is an open standard (see EIFv1 and SOU 2009:86) which can be used as a basis for implementation in a software system that is provided under different proprietary and open source software licenses. In general, open file formats are suitable for use in a scenario when longterm preservation is important, whereas closed file formats (for example, MXF and JPEG2000) are provided under conditions which make such formats inappropriate for use in such scenarios. Hence, for this reason the PREFORMA project utilises open file formats instead of closed file formats. Closed file formats are typically controlled by specific companies or industry consortia and it is not uncommon that there are many patents which impact on the conditions for implementation of such closed formats (e.g. MXF and JPEG2000) in software. For this reason, it is essential to carefully analyse conditions for use of such file formats before implementation in a software system.

In order to minimise risks for memory institutions and for long-term sustainability and flexibility reasons, PREFORMA will use two specific Open Source software licenses. All developed software will be provided on an open platform (e.g. GitHub or equivalent) under the two specific licenses: “GPLv3 or later” and “MPLv2 or later”. As considerations concerning legal and licensing conditions for implementation of different file formats in software solutions under specific Open Source licenses may impose specific questions which require legal expertise the PREFORMA project provides contact information for seven legal experts on Open Source, which all have been informally briefed concerning the PREFORMA challenges. However, it should be noted that PREFORMA is neutral with respect to the legal contacts and has no formal relationship with any of these legal experts. Hence, any legal advise concerning issues related to PREFORMA can, of course, be sought from any legal expert.

For information, we provide the following contacts to legal experts in several European countries (in alphabetical order): Malcolm Bain (id law partners, Spain); Amanda Brock (Origin Ltd., U.K.); Martin von Haller Groenbaeks (Bird & Bird, Denmark); Till Jaeger (JBB Rechtsanwälte, Germany); Andrew Katz (Moorcrofts LLP, U.K.); Carlo Piana (Array, Italy); Martin von Willebrand (HH Partners Attorneys at Law Ltd., Finland).

Since memory institutions have requirements for very long life-cycles of digital assets it is necessary to establish sustainable communities related to each Open Source software (OSS) solution in which open file formats are implemented. Previous research shows complex relationships (with mutual influences) between a technical specification of a file format and its implementation in software. For this reason it is important to establish effective processes for promotion of quality in both evolving versions of a technical specification of a file format and also in evolved versions of a software solution in which the specification is implemented. Previous research shows that technical specifications of file formats and their implementation in software are inherently incorrect, vague, and incomplete. Hence, over time, a long-term process needs to be established which contributes to improved quality in both file formats and software. For this reason, an important R&D dimension for PREFORMA is to contribute to such a long-term goal.

For memory institutions, it is essential to ensure that conditions for use of specific file formats allow implementation in software which provide full control of digital assets through preservation in open file formats and sustainable Open Source software. Finally, if an organisation is interested in using a specific file format for implementation in software in the context of PREFORMA and if there are specific questions related to licensing and legal issues, we would like to suggest contacting legal expertise. The above mentioned legal experts are all briefed about the objective for PREFORMA and we would welcome further feedback from other legal experts interested in the project.

Contact: Björn Lundell (bjorn.lundell@his.se)

For further information about PREFORMA, please see: http://www.preforma-project.eu

Some references:

EIF: European Interoperability Framework for Pan-European eGovernment Services, European Commission, Version 1.0, http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/servlets/Docd552.pdf?id=19529

European Commission: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Against lock-in: building open ICT systems by making better use of standards in public procurement, COM(2013) 455 final, European Commission, Brussels, 25 June 2013. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=2327

European Commission: Press Release, Digital Agenda: Open standards would save public sector €1 billion a year, Brussels, 25 June 2013 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-602_en.htm

Kammarkollegiet: Programvaror och tjänster 2013, Statens Inköpscentral vid Kammarkollegiet, Dnr. 96-40-2013, 5 February 2014, https://www.avropa.se/upload/F%c3%b6rstudie%20Programvaror%20och%20tj%c3%a4nster%202013.pdf

SOU 2009:86: Strategi för myndigheternas arbete med e-förvaltning, Statens Offentliga Utredningar, SOU 2009:86, E-delegationen, 19 November 2009, ISBN 978-91-38-23302-3 , http://www.regeringen.se/download/1dc00905.pdf?major=1&minor=133813&cn=attachmentPublDuplicator_0_attachment

U.K. Government: Open Standards principles: For software interoperability, data and document formats in government IT specifications, 1 November 2012, https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78892/Open-Standards-Principles-FINAL.pdf

U.K. Government: Open Standards in Government IT: A Review of the Evidence, 1 November 2012, https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78891/Review-ofthe-Evidence_CIPPM.pdf

Webinar, 26 June 2014

Tools for uncovering preservation risks in large repositories

Thursday 26 June at 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET

Session Lead: Luis Faria from KEEP SOLUTIONS

Registration at: https://scout-webinar.eventbrite.co.uk.

Overview

An important part of digital preservation is analysing content to uncover the risks that hinder its preservation. This analysis entails answering diverse questions, for example: Which file formats do I have? Are there any invalid files? Are there any files violating my defined policies?; and many others.

The threats to preserving content come from many distinct domains, from technological to organizational, economical and political, and can relate to the content holder, the producers or to the target communities to which the content is primarily destined for.

Scout, the preservation watch system, centralizes all the necessary knowledge on the same platform, cross-referencing this knowledge to uncover all preservation risks. Scout automatically fetches information from several sources to populate its knowledge base. For example, Scout integrates with C3PO to get large-scale characterization profiles of content. Furthermore, Scout aims to be a knowledge exchange platform, to allow the community to bring together all the necessary information into the system. The sharing of information opens new opportunities for joining forces against common problems.

This webminar demonstrates how to identify preservation risks in your content and, at the same time, share your content profile information with others to open new opportunities.

Learning outcomes

In this webinar you will learn how to:

characterise collections and use C3PO to easily inspect the content characteristics
integrate C3PO with Scout and publish content profiles online
use Scout to automatically monitor your content profile
monitor preservation risks by cross referencing your content profile with policies, information from the world, and even content profiles from peerS

There are 23 places available which will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Once you have registered we will send you the link to the WebEx meeting space.

The webinar will also be recorded in case you cannot attend at this time.

Rebecca McGuinness
SCAPE Training Work package Lead

A review journal for digital editions and resources

IDE launches Review Journal for Digital Editions

In the past decades, many digital scholarly edition projects have been published and are available, often for free, online. Most of these editions are arguably the best editions of their documents or texts available, and many of them offer features enhancing research in the respective fields to a considerable degree.

Despite these facts, digital editions are often neglected by the established review institutions. This neglect has a number of consequences: digital editions are somewhat outside the established peer-control process; digital editors in spe cannot rely on criticisms that projects similar to their own have received; the methodology of digital editions not only needs to incorporate traditional issues of textual criticism but also has to be thoughtful of the closely related technical and methodologic issues.

In order to address these issues, the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) launched of a new review journal, RIDE, dedicated to digital editions and resources. Partner within the DiXiT network, IDE aims to make digital editions and resources more visible and to provide a forum in which expert peers can evaluate and discuss the efforts of digital editors in order to improve current practices and advance future developments. It will do so by asking its reviewers to pay attention not only to the traditional virtues and vices of any edition, but also to the evolving methodology and its technical implications.

RIDE has been created by a team of young scholars united under the roof of the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (hence its acronym RIDE: Review Journal of the IDE). The IDE has been an active part of the digital editing community for several years: it has guided and advised editors, organised a number of acclaimed summers schools on digital editing and contributed to the ongoing methodological debate by a series of publications.

You can access all reviews at: http://ride.i-d-e.de

You can find out more about the ideas behind RIDE, methods and intentions, in the Editorial at: http://ride.i-d-e.de/about/editorial/

RIDE is also looking for contributions. Please see: http://ride.i-d-e.de/reviewers/