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The SECreTour Network is growing! The SECreTour Network of Common Interest is enriched by the participation of the Municipality of Morcote. As historic monumental medieval capital of the lake of Lugano, Morcote is part of the Amphitheatre of the San … Continue reading
A new interesting article is published by Laura James, Henrik Halkier and Heidi Vorre of Aalborg University, Denmark, the coordinator of CROCUS project, member of the SECreTour Network. Constructive and destructive agency, regional path development and critical junctures: the case … Continue reading
On 31 January 2014, during an event organised by OpenForum Academy network in Brussels, the University of Skovde will present an overview of the EU FP7 PREFORMA project to raise an awareness of the project amongst participants.
Specifically, opportunities for small and large companies to become involved in the tender will be highlighted and discussed.
Openforum Academy (OFA, http://www.openforumacademy.org/) is a think tank with a broad aim to examine the paradigm shift towards openness in computing that is currently underway, and to explore how this trend is changing the role of computing in society.
OpenForum Academy is an independent programme established by OpenForum Europe. It has created a link with academia in order to provide new input and insight into the key issues which impact the openness of the IT market.
The first DiXiT camp took place in Cambridge/London from Sunday, 27 April 2014 – Friday, 2 May 2014. Its programme included the fifth MMSDA course, short for Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.
DiXiT Camp 1 was a great success thanks to local organizers (esp. Peter Stokes and Elena Pierazzo), to excellent teachers and librarians and not least thanks to a splendid and enthusiastic group of participants comprising 13 DiXiT fellows and 18 additional PhD students. 9 participants have been generously supported by NeDiMAH.
Reports on both strands (medieval & modern manuscripts) will soon be published on the DiXiT blog website: http://dixit.hypotheses.org/
On the same blog DiXiT fellows will soon start to post reports on their individual research projects.
As for the upcoming DiXiT camps (Graz 14-20 Sept, Borås 8-13 Feb) and conventions (The Hague Sept/Oct 2015, Cologne Mar/Apr 2016, Antwerp Sept/Oct 2016) we would like to include and involve more and more associated network partners as well as scholars and institutions from outside the network.
For the first time, the course run in two parallel strands: one on medieval and the other on modern manuscripts.
The course is an intensive training programme on the analysis, description and editing of manuscripts to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. It stresses the practical application of theoretical principles and gives participants both a solid theoretical foundation and also ‘hands-on’ experience in the cataloguing and editing of original medieval and modern manuscripts in both print and digital formats.
Download the Flyer here
More information on DiXiT here
DiXiT official website here
Representatives from the EU FP7 PREFORMA project will participate at FOSDEM 2014 in Brussels, which is the main European conference where open source communities meet, share ideas and collaborate.
During the conference the researchers will network with open source developers and projects in order to promote opportunities for open source development in the context of the PREFORMA project.
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. The goal is to provide open source software developers and communities a place to meet to:
- get in touch with other developers and projects;
- be informed about the latest developments in the open source world;
- attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by open source project leaders and committers;
- to promote the development and the benefits of open source solutions.
For further details visti the Conference website.
On February 10th, 2014 the Innovation Unit of the European Commission is organising a concertation meeting for ongoing Pre-Commercial Procurement projects. This represents a good opportunity to collect information about good practices and to bring up problems or questions.
PREFORMA has been invited to the meeting and three representatives will participate and present the project: the Coordinator Borje Justrell from the Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet), the Communication Manager Antonella Fresa from Promoter Srl and Peter Pharow from Fraunhofer-Institut for Digital Media Technologie IDMT.
Download here the agenda of the meeting.
On March 5th, 2014 PREFORMA project will organise a workshop in Brussels targeted to memory institutions to agree on the joint user model for tendering the PREFORMA conformance checker.
In other words: to agree on the expected behavior and functionality of the tools to be developed in the coming years by the software suppliers that will be selected out of the procurement that will be launched by the project.
These requirements will be further developed in the susequent design and prototype phases. But the set of requirements to be defined now will be used for selecting the software suppliers.
DATE AND VENUE
March 5th, 2014
FARO, cultural interface centre for cultural heritage, Priemstraat 51, 1000 Brussels (Belgium).
DRAFT AGENDA
9.00-9.15 Introduction (objective of the workshop)
9.15-09.45 joint user model (15′ overall presentation of the use cases and requirements + 15′ general questions)
09.45-10.00 coffee break
10.00-11.30 checking audiovisual files (30′ presentation + 60′ discussion)
11.30-12.30 lunch (sandwiches)
12.30-14.00 checking text files (30′ presentation + 60′ discussion)
14.00-14.15 coffee break
14.15-15.45 checking image files (30′ presentation + 60′ discussion)
15.45-16.00 coffee break
16.00-17.30 conclusions (list amendments and settle agreement)
For more information on PREFORMA activities and to join PREFORMA community please visit the official website www.preforma-project.eu.
RICHES’ partner I2CAT (Internet and Digital Innovation in Catalonia, research organisation promoting research and innovation in advanced internet technology) organised a workshop in Barcelona, on “Mobile Apps and Augmented Reality”. The workshop was held at the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona in the framework of I AM project (International Augmented Med).
I AM is an international cooperation project involving fourteen partner organisations in seven countries around the Mediterranean Sea. It is funded by the 2007-2013 ENPI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme. The 14 partners work to develop joint activities to provide innovative services to the tourism sector in each of their countries, with the aim of assisting economic development in the Mediterranean region. The innovative services consist in the application to a number of heritage sites of a variety of multimedia and interactive techniques in the field of Augmented Reality.
Mobile applications and Augmented Reality technologies offer new opportunities for heritage and tourism. A new market is under development and specific skills are required to offer innovative products adapted to the market needs.
As mobile devices become more powerful in terms of interactivity, data gathering and Internet access, Augmented Reality apps are increasing. They have the opportunity to augment, enhance and transform user’s experience.
Barcelona 3-7 February’s workshop explored the design, development and user studies associated to mobile Augmented Reality. In particular, discussion topics were focused on:
- Design of mobile Augmented Reality Apps
- Augmented Reality for Heritage and Tourism
- Augmented Reality for Marketing
- Augmented Reality Games, Entertainment and Education
- Exploration currently standards, available tools and devices
The workshop was conceived as a 5-days training, covering the global development chain, from understanding the business approach when working with mobile apps to the programing training.
Within this workshop the participants were provided with the knowledge and skills required to develop Augmented Reality experiences. It was discussed theoretical design approaches and practical frameworks, which will help developers to make Augmented Reality interfaces in mobile contexts.
Target audience: developers, SME’s, entrepreneurs and students willing to develop apps for heritage and tourism.
For more information:
RICHES on Twitter: #richesEU
EUDAT is offering free resources and expertise to pilot collaboration projects as part of its Collaborative Data Infrastructure where users, community centres and large data centres collaboratively tackle data challenges. Research communities, research projects and individual researchers are invited to make use of its data services that are available at a European scale.
EUDAT services target a broad range of disciplines and projects, in particular those looking for simple solutions to store and/or perform computations with research data, or for a robust data infrastructure to manage, access use, re-use and preserve their data. Interested parties are invited to submit their proposals by 26th February 2014.
For complete details and on-line submission visit http://www.eudat.eu/news/eudat-calls-collaboration-projects.
Twitter (suggestion): take advantage @Eudat_eu data services – free resources & expertise to pilot EU collaboration projects full details http://goo.gl/LMldWg.
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Natura morta a la Galeria Unal. Càmera fotogràfica sobre un trípode al costat d’una tauleta amb pintures i pinzells i altres productes. Photo courtesy of CRDI.
Immediately following the EuropeanaPhotography software seminar organized by partners GenCat and CRDI, a plenary meeting of the project was held in Barcelona on 30-31 January, again at the premises of Palau Moja.
The plenary meeting was held just before the upcoming project’s review (scheduled in March) and after the very important milestone of over 176.000 new items in Europeana, delivered by the project’s partners. These are ancient photographs of historical and artistic value, digitized with the most advanced technologies.
Such exceptionally valuable new pieces of cultural heritage provided by EuropeanaPhotography to the European digital library show how early photography was a privileged witness of the History and societal changes in Europe during a very crucial period: 1839 – 1939.
The images by EuropeanaPhotography can now be retrieved in Europeana here and are provided with descriptions and metadata in 12 languages, thanks to the EuropeanaPhotography multilingual Vocabulary.
Moreover, 3 more languages were recently added to the Vocabulary – Chinese, Ukrainian and Russian: therefore, the next batch of EuropeanaPhotography images will be delivered to Europeana with translation in these further 3 languages!
The second day of the plenary featured a mini workshop about IPR, with the presence and presentations by Europeana representatives. This workshop follows the one previously held in Paris and produced important results in the landscape of IPR related to digital (photographic) content.
Finally, the Barcelona plenary meeting included the official announce of the upcoming EuropeanaPhotography exhibition, opening in Pisa (Italy) in April 2014.
On April 4th, 2014 PREFORMA project will organise an Information Day in Brussels to present the call for tender that will be launched as part of the Pre-Commercial Procurement.
Participation is open to everybody who is interested to participate to the call and to become a PREFORMA supplier but will be subject to registration. Registration is limited to a maximum of 50 participants and it will be open until Friday 28th March 2014, 6 pm CET.
The PREFORMA Information Day will be available also via webcast to allow people who cannot attend physically to follow the event remotely and the video of the event will be published online.
DATE AND VENUE
April 4th, 2014
Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium (KIK-IRPA), Jubelpark 1 Parc du cinquantenaire, B-1000 Brussels (Belgium).
How to get there: http://www.kikirpa.be/EN/42/372/Contact.htm
AGENDA
09,00 Welcome coffee
09,20 Welcome messages (Christina Ceulemans, Erik Buelinckx, KIK-IRPA)
09,30 Introduction to PREFORMA (B. Justrell, RA)
10,00 Presentation of the tender (B. Lemmens, PACKED)
10,30 Website, guidelines and help desk (A. Fresa, PROMOTER)
11,00 Coffee break
11,30 The design phase (P. Pharow, Fraunhofer)
11,50 The testing environment (N. Ferro, UNIPD)
12,10 The open source projects (B. Lundell, HS)
12,30 Questions and answers
13,00 Lunch break
14,00 Networking session and bilateral meetings. Participants are invited to share their ideas; representatives of PREFORMA will be available for bilateral meetings.
15,30 End of the meeting
REGISTRATION
Deadline: Friday 28th March 2014, 6 pm CET
WEBCAST AND VIDEO
Click here to connect to the streaming of the event.
The event will be registered and the video will be published online.
More details on the Call for Tender can be found at http://www.preforma-project.eu/tender.html.
For more information on PREFORMA activities and to join PREFORMA community please visit the official website www.preforma-project.eu.
