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Barcelona, 13 May 2014
RICHES first WORKSHOP at UIC

UIC2The workshop was celebrated on Tuesday, May 13th, at The Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) Barcelona’s Campus and served as the foundation of the RICHES Project research areas. The workshop outcomes established an initial agreement of basic definitions and frameworks which will delineate RICHES’ fields of research and further study on the context of change in which European Cultural Heritage (CH) is transmitted and on the role of CH in the economic and social development of Europe.

i2cat-logoRICHES (Renewal, innovation & Change: Heritage and European Society) is a European research project about change: about the decentring of culture and cultural heritage away from institutional structures towards the individual and about the questions which the advent of digital technologies is posing in relation to how we understand, collect and make available Europe’s cultural heritage. With this event, i2Cat and The Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) joined forces to bridge the gap between the world of change in which the CH is reinventing itself, the academic community (professors, researchers and students) and the CH professionals and institutions. In addition, the event was a unique opportunity to disseminate the RICHES project amongst researchers, educators, scientists, industry professionals and policy makers and to promote the new strategies and fields of research taking place in the European context.

In conjunction with the workshop, the RICHES Consortium Partners joined for an internal Plenary Meeting, held on the 12th and 14th of May, in order to discuss the work so far undergone and plan their future research and management activities .

UICOver the past few months and after the workshop’s announcement, more than 50 attendees have registered to participate in the several open to all discussion sessions that took place during 13 May’s workshop. Apart from the Project partner’s representatives, a wide range of CH professionals, researchers, international guests – key figures in developing the field – and academia from the UIC and other Universities participated and contributed to the taxonomy and definitions of the contextual framework of the RICHES Project.

Such a successful call proves that the themes and issues gravitating around the Cultural Heritage in the digital era and the fields of research which delineate the RICHES project are rising interest and growing awareness.

Barcelona’s workshop enabled all participants to: 

– Elaborate and agree on a Taxonomy of Terms and Definitions which will support the project’s research.

– Share knowledge and enrich debate through the Network of Common Interest and its groups.

– Develop a framework of understanding of copyright and IPR laws as they relate to CH practice in the digital.

For more information visit the project website

Download the event agenda here!

Download the workshop’s leaflet!

See the article we published to announce the event

RICHES-LOGO1RICHES on Twitter: #richesEU

RICHES on YouTube: www.youtube.com/richesEU

Work in progress: the project foresees 6 different themed pilots which will deliver their prototype outcomes by January 2015.
Europeana Space in Amsterdam: project’s meeting

white over whiteAn important meeting of Europeana Space took place in Amsterdam on 15-16 May, hosted by partner Noterik and coordinated by the WP4 leaders iMINDS and Promoter.

Europeana Space is a very large project coordinated by Coventry University and characterized by experimentation and creativity: in facts its main aim is to trail new ways of re-use for the digital cultural heritage, in order to unlock its potential in terms of business and creation of new jobs.  The project foresees 6 different themed pilots which will deliver their prototype outcomes by year 1 of the project (January 2015):

 

Pilot’s name Pilot Coordinator Participants
EuropeanaTV NISV LUCE, NOTERIK, NTUA, RBB, PROTONLABS
Photography KU Leuven iMINDS, PROMOTER, EUREVA, CUT,  CULTURELABEL
Dance COVUNI UNL-FCSH, IN2
Games COVUNI
EuropeanaPublishing GOLDSMITHS COVUNI
Museums FST EVK, MUSEUMSMEDIEN, LAM, EUREVA, SPK, CULTURELABEL

Several meetings were planned since the project’s kick-off, to coordinate at best the tasks of the pilots, both in terms of common activities and methodologies, and for individual planning. A first meeting was held in Brussels in March 2014 and a final event completed the preparation work for the pilots – that will then be carried on by the respective participants –  but this intermediate meeting in Amsterdam is crucial because of its content and agenda.

The meeting was in facts organized in two sessions: on day 1 there was a brainstorming on use cases, that involved the participants in a creative discussion; while day 2 was dedicated to arrange the planning of the pilots and the validation criteria to be applied; moreover, the partners deeper analyzed the relationships of the pilots’ tasks with other tasks of the project, in particular with the progress and results of the market analysis, and the organization of hackathons and monetizing workshops. Another topic to be discussed in this meeting was the technical infrastructure and the  Europeana Labs (the new Europeana platform to provide support and tools for using the Europeana APIs).

Visit the Europeana Space website: http://www.europeana-space.eu/

Catania, 9-20 June 2014
School for Application Porting to Science Gateways

chain logoThe CHAIN-REDS project is happy to announce the School for Application Porting to Science Gateways to be held in Catania, Italy, on 9-20 June 2014:

http://agenda.ct.infn.it/event/chain-reds-sg-school

 

The school aims at increasing the number of scientific applications running on grid and cloud-based e-Infrastructures.

 

Catania Science Gateway FrameworkApplications can be either proposed by the registrants or assigned to the participants at the beginning of the school. Applications can be proposed following the direct link:

https://agenda.ct.infn.it/internalPage.py?pageId=2&confId=1057

The deadline for application proposals submission is the 31st of May 2014.

It’s all about sharing research data …
EUDAT News bullettin – April 2014

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With the new release of B2SHARE just last week, which sees the improvement of the metadata creation interface, deposit functions, and the search/browse functionality. Coupled with the existing secure and integrated features, a brand new community extension for BBMRI has been added bringing the community extensions to five now. Presentations from the collaboration projects at the 3rd EUDAT User Forum in Prague lead you to believe that many more will follow over the coming months.

Nowadays it is hard to imagine trying to manage research data without the support of a sturdy and robust network, on a national, European or international level. EUDAT communities, old & new, came together in Prague last week to build another piece of this network – the pan-European Collaborative Data Infrastructure. Communities covering scientific disciplines from maritime research to biobanks, atmospheric monitoring to life sciences, … painted a clear picture of the intense cross-community and multi-disciplinary involvement & engagement in EUDAT.

Community representatives explained why they are signing up to EUDAT including the fact that stakeholders want to use existing European services, resources and skills while at the same time users are seeking common standards & platforms that simplify the efficient exchange & re-use of data. Another point underlined was the community need for support from IT professional supported by a pan-European network of trusted centres. EUDAT in a nutshell, no?

The data issues that the life science communities are facing are common to many others, data is diverse and complex particularly in relation to data coming from different domain. The big data challenge is a serious one and reflections from Elixir include: “Sooner, much sooner, than later producing data will be cheaper than storing it, producing data will be faster than transferring it and the production of data will double faster than computing power”. So teaming up with EUDAT and implementing the B2Service solutions is a natural step for communities towards facing this and other data challenges.

Policy has a large role to play in all this too, researchers need tools and guidance as well as services to ensure that their research data is available but properly managed, secure and properly cited, meaningful and usable over long periods of time. Good data management planning is no longer an option, it’s an obligation and part of EUDAT’s mission is to disseminate and promote best practice in data management. Activities are currently on-going to generate a tool for EU projects to generate research data management.

Another aspect of safeguarding research data is the identification of “trusted” digital repositories. Trust is at the very heart of data sharing and preservation with various stakeholders involved, all for different reasons. The users of data from a digital repository have questions like: Has the data been preserved properly? Is it of high quality? Has it been changed in some way? Does the pointer get me to the right object? The depositors of data want to be sure that in the digital repositories their data is safe and remains accessible, usable and meaningful over time. Finally, the funders want reassurance that their investment in the production of valuable research data is not wasted but will remain also in the future. Certification is therefore fundamental in guaranteeing the trustworthiness of digital repositories and thus in sustaining the opportunities for long-term data sharing. Ingrid Dillo, Deputy Director Policy, DANS, introduced many of these themes both during her presentation on European Digital Repository Certification: the way forward and during the Policy, Sustainability & Certification session she moderated.

All 3rd EUDAT User Forum presentations are available for download from http://www.eudat.eu/3rd-eudat-user-forum

And to stay on the community theme. Join us at the EGI Community Forum in Helsinki where EUDAT is co-organising the Research data and services workshop with RDA, OpenAIRE and ATT on 20th May 2014. Participants to the workshop can expect to get a picture of the Finnish, European and international landscape on research data services, hear from users on how these services are being implemented and why as well as understand what the future holds. For more information, registration and a complete agenda see http://www.eudat.eu/events/egi-community-forum-2014

Some dates for your Diary …

Big Data and Open Data, 7th & 8th May Brussels focusing on the common problems that all data producing large scale research facilities are facing and will face in the years to come, and the ways to elaborate solutions. Peter Wittenburg, EUDAT Scientific Coordinator, will make a presentation entitled EUDAT: Shaping the Future of Europe’s Collaborative Data Infrastructure.

The Open Repositories Conference 2014, is being held in Helsinki from 9 to 13 June 2014 and the main theme of this edition is “Towards Repository Ecosystems”. EUDAT will present the B2SHARE service at the poster session as well as have an exhibition stand.

Save the Date: EUDAT 3rd Conference – Bringing data infrastructures to Horizon 2020 – 24-26 September 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, co-located with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 4th Plenary Meeting

For a complete list of events featuring EUDAT see http://www.eudat.eu/events/meet-us

Tallinn, 23-24 April 2014
DCH-RP e-Infrastructure Concertation Workshop

tallinn-old-town-toompeaOn April 23rd and 24th, 2014, an e-Infrastructure concertation meeting has been organised in Tallinn by DCH-RP project (Digital Cultural Heritage – Roadmap for Preservation) to discuss in more detail the strategy and recommendations presented in the DCH-RP roadmap study and the intermediate roadmap and how to prepare for future cooperation.

 

DCH-RP logo

Following the fruitful collaborations set up during the implementation of the former DC-NET project, including the signature of a series of MoUs,  contacts between DCH organisations and e-Infrastructures were continued, expanded and developed under DCH-RP via a series of experiments (the Proof of Concepts), a virtual platform and small workshops held at different occasions.

 

Roadmap_JustrellThe workshop was very successful as all the speakers and the participants provided their feedback on the intermediate version of the Roadmap, both from the point of view of the memory institutions (on the first day) and of the e-infrastructure providers (on the second day). This feedback will be analysed and took into account in the final version of the Roadmap which will be published in Semptember 2014.

 

Here below you can find and download all the presentations that were delivered during the 2-days event. A detailed report is being produced and it will be available on the DCH-RP showcase in the coming weeks.

 

Introduction to the roadmap (B. Justrell): download PDF

 

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Day 1 (23/04/2014): DCH institutions views on the Roadmap (download all presentations)

 

 

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Day 2 (24/04/2014): e-infrastructure views on the Roadmap (download all presentations)

 

Conclusions (J. Moulin): download PDF

 

 

WP_20140424_063The workshop was followed by the fourth DCH-RP plenary meeting, whose main objective was to plan the editing and delivery of the final version of the Roadmap, which will be published in September in the occasion of the DCH-RP final conference as the major result of the project.

 

Stay tuned on www.digitalmeetsculture.net/heritage-showcases/dch-rp/ to follow the progress of the project!

 

See SCAPE in action by visiting one of the partners!
SCAPE Project Demonstration Days

SCAPE_logo_thumbThe EU-project SCAPE invites you to visit a SCAPE partner to be introduced to some of the developments within the project. The Demonstration visits will take place during May/early June 2014.

To schedule a visit, please send an email to Jette Junge (jgj@statsbiblioteket.dk), explaining which partner and/or topics you would like to see presented as well as preferred dates for the visit.

SCAPE addresses long term digital preservation of large-scale and heterogeneous collections of digital objects. Learn more about SCAPE at www.scape-project.eu.

A number of partners will demonstrate the tools and services developed in SCAPE and used in their own environments. The demonstration assets include:

  • The SCAPE Platform
  • SCAPE Preservation Components
  • Preservation Watch
  • Commercial Products

Choose your visit by topic: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/Visiting+Opportunities+by+Topic

Decide which partner to visit by location: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/Visiting+Opportunities+by+Institution

Or browse the ever growing list of planned events: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/Planned+Events

We are looking forward to showing what SCAPE can do for your organisation!

On behalf of the SCAPE Demo Team,

Jette Junge
Statsbiblioteket, Denmark

Cambridge, (Trinity College) 27 April 2014
DiXiT Supervisory Board Meeting

The DiXiT Supervisory Board will take place in Cambridge (Trinity College) on Sunday, 27 April (10am – 1 pm).

The External Experts Advisory Board (EEAB) consists out of four members:

Arianna Ciula, Research Facilitator in the Department of Humanities at the University of Roehampton (London), consultant for and previously science officer (Humanities) at the European Science Foundation (Strasbourg), member of the TEI board of directors and secretary of the European Association of Digital Humanities.

Gregory Crane, Professor in Computer Science and chair in the Dept. of Classics at Tufts University and currently holding a Humboldt professorship at Leipzig University

Hans-Walter Gabler, Prof. em. for English Studies and Editorial Science at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich

Espen Smith Ore, Head Engineer at the Institute for Linguistics and Nordic Studies, Oslo

Agenda:
– Camp 1 (supervision, deliverables, financing)
– Camp 2 in Graz
– further events (e.g. DH conference in Lausanne)
– Consortium Agreement
– Finances, especially:
— Consortium Finance Plan
— Accounting procedure (receipts, bills etc.)
— Eligible costs & redistribution from Category 3 (Training)
– Deliverables
– Secondments
– Announcement of ER fellowships
– Reports (… Mid-Term)
– other

The meeting is scheduled in the framework of the Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age 2014.

 

By Neasan ONeill
Networking for Digital Preservation

pfo_logo_02We live in a digital age we no longer commit knowledge to vellum or paper, storage solutions that have stood the test of time. Now everything is created, consumed and, hopefully, stored on computers. It is this last area that is of particular concern, how can we ensure that valuable digital information will remain accessible and usable? This is where digital preservation comes in.

EGI: What is the goal of the Networking Session?
Claudio Prandoni: Our aim with the session is to present to the whole digital preservation and e-infrastructures community the new opportunities offered by the pre-commercial-procurement launched by PREFORMA project. We are interested in engaging with everyone from the open source community and developers to standardisation bodies and memory institutions. At the end of May we launch a call for tender to develop and deploy a suite of open source tools that allow memory institutions to check that the files stored in their archives conform to a specific standard.

EGI: Who would you like to attend the session?
CP: The tender is quite broad and we want to have a wide range of stakeholders involved. So at the session we would love to see any potential supplier like SMEs, research centres or universities that have some experience in the field of standardisation and quality checks. However they are not the only people who should come along, we are interested in memory institutions and cultural heritage organisations coordinating or representing them, developers, research organisations, standardisation bodies, funding agencies, best practice networks and other projects in the digital culture, e-Infrastructures and policy arenas. There is a place for anyone interested in preserving our digital heritage.

EGI: What will attendees learn from attending?
CP: We hope attendees will have a better understanding of what PREFORMA does and how they can get involved, including funding opportunities. But most importantly for us is the opportunity for them to give us feedback and advice and ask specific questions around the issues and challenges that PREFORMA is addressing, helping us to improve and refine the requirements and the specification of the tender

The “Pre-commercial procurement on digital preservation” networking session will be held at 11am on Wednesday 21st at the EGI Community Forum in Helsinki.

You can find more information on the PREFORMA website at http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/preforma-egi-community-forum-2014

 

Source: http://www.egi.eu/news-and-media/newsfeed/news_2014_014.html

A joint initiative which involves several projects co-funded by the European Commission
A new registry of services and tools for digital preservation

Coptrlogo2DCH-RP (Digital Cultural Heritage – Roadmap for Preservation) and the partners of the Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry, i.e. The Digital Curation Centre (DCC), The Digital Curation Exchange (DCE), National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), The Open Planets Foundation (OPF) and Preserving digital Objects With Restricted Resources project (POWRR) are investigating the possibility to join their efforts to set up a common registry of services and tools useful for preserving digital information for the long term.

The aim of this registry is to help decision makers selecting quality, mature, sustainable (maintained) and portable tools to be used to plan and implement their digital preservation strategy.

DCH-RP logoThe idea that is currently under discussion is to merge and integrate the work that has been done to set up the DCH-RP registry in the Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR), in order to collate the knowledge on preservation tools in one single place, thus providing a unique and sustainable reference point to the whole digital preservation community.

The DCH-RP registry of services and tools

The DCH-RP registry collects and describes information and knowledge related to tools, technologies and systems that can be applied for the purposes of digital cultural heritage preservation. It also reviews existing and emerging services developed and offered by R&D projects, public organisations and commercial solution vendors.

Whilst providing a broad overview of the existing solutions, the registry initiative focuses on analysing those services and tools that can enable cultural heritage institutions to benefit from the capacities of e-Infrastructures including cloud and grid systems.

Tools and services are categorized by purpose, technologies required, resource formats supported and domain-specific application, among many other criteria. Alongside this functional description, an attempt has been made (for a subset of the tools and services covered) to provide assessments of each. In the first iteration, assessment criteria chosen have been: popularity, support level, portability, scalability, licensing model, and modularity/openness of architecture.

Help us to select the most relevant and used services for digital preservation!

In order to improve the registry, we prepared a survey to rank the services that are listed.

The questionaire, which is anonymous, is intented to determine what services are especially interesting and used by the DCH community.

Please help us in identifying the most relevant services by filling in this survey!

The results will be taken up while working in the next iteration of DCH-RP registry and in the set up of the common registry of services and tools for digital preservation together with the partners of the Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry.

Claudio Prandoni and Paul Wheatley

Stockholm, 3-4 June 2014
Joint DCH-RP/EUDAT workshops on digital preservation

stoccolma4WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

On the 3rd and 4th of June 2014, the National Archives of Sweden hosted in Stockholm two workshops organised by DCH-RP in cooperation with EUDAT on the theme of digital preservation of cultural data.

 

 

stoccolma2Workshop 1: Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation

In focus of this workshop were the possibilities and challenges connected to long-term digital preservation of on one hand cultural heritage institutions’ holdings and collections and on the other hand research data. The aim was to present the intermediate results of work conducted in the frame of the EU projects DCH-RP and EUDAT, both looking into distributed infrastructure solutions. The results will be taken into account for the final version of the Roadmap for the long-term preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage content, which is due by the end of September 2014 and which represents the main outcome of the DCH-RP project.

 

stoccolma3Workshop 2: The Concept of Trust – Research data and Cultural Heritage Data

The second workshop had its focus on collaboration issues between the DCH-RP and EUDAT projects on the concept of trust. The aim was to discuss the needs for trust models suitable for digital cultural heritage data and e-science and their use in distributed preservation architectures. The discussions was based on three case studies mirroring different situations involving cultural heritage information and research data.

 

PROGRAMME

Download here the programme of the event.

 

PRESENTATIONS

Workshop 1: Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation

  • Introduction & different aspects of digital preservation (Börje Justrell, Director Operational Support, the National Archives) – download
  • The EU project Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation (DCH-RP) (Antonella Fresa, Technical Coordinator, DCH-RP) – download
  • Digisam (Sanja Halling, Senior Advisor, Digisam) – download
  • European project EUDAT (European Data Infrastructure) (Per Öster, Director Research Infrastructures, CSC-It Center for Science Ltd, Finland) – download
  • Digital preservation among cultural heritage institutions (Sanja Halling, Senior Advisor, Digisam) – download
  • Proof of concept DCH-RP (Eva Toller, Principal Administrative Officer, the National Archives) – download
  • Trustbuilding: State of the art in Digital Cultural Heritage (Raivo Ruusalepp, Digital Preservation Expert, The Ministry of Culture, Estonia) – download
  • Trust & Risk: Two sides of the same coin? (Börje Justrell, Director Operational Support, the National Archives) – download

Workshop 2: The Concept of Trust – Research data and Cultural Heritage Data

  • Research information EUDAT (Raphael Ritz, Head Data Science and Services Computing and Data Centre of the Max Planck Society and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics) – download
  • Research information EUDAT (Ingrid Dillo, Head Policy Development and Communication, DANS – Data Archiving and Networked Services) – download
  • Cultural Heritage and research information (Kevin Holston, Curator, the Swedish Museum of Natural History) – download
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