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An article presenting DCH-RP appeared in the December 2013 edition of the SCAPE Newsletter

DCH-RP features in SCAPE Newsletter

The SCAPE project – Scalable Preservation Environments – just released the December 2013 edition of their newsletter.

DCH-RP features in this newsletter with an article presenting the project, its main objectives and the first outcomes.

The other topics included in the newsletter are:

The results of the last SCAPE Training Events
The description of some of the tools under development: Scout and ToMaR
An interview with Zeynep PEHLIVAN from University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC)
The programme of the next SCAPE Demonstrations
The outcomes of the SCAPE Developers Workshop
The upcoming events

Click here to view the newsletter online.

Berlin, 30 August - 1 September 2017

Digital Cultural Heritage 2017

The DCH2017 International Conference will take place in Berlin, at the National Library, on August 30 – September 01, 2017.

The conference is organized by CODATA-Germany, the German National Committee for CODATA, Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council for Science (ICSU), in cooperation with:

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kartographie
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Map Department
DHN, Digital Heritage in the Nordic Countries
UNGEGN, United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names
Associazione per L’Informatica Umanistica e La Cultura Digitale
Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas
UiO, Universitetet i Oslo
VUGTK, Czech Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography and Cartography
Digital meets Culture, Portal on Digital Cultural heritage
TOPOI, Excellence Cluster on the Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations

Erik Buelinckx from the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), one of the memory institutions participating as procurers in the PREFORMA project, will deliver a presentation on Friday 1 September entitled “A small archive with a big collection! Now what? PREFORMA’s open source digital preservation tools on the rescue”.

The conference is open for contributions that cover technical challenges as well as strategic guidance. Key messages relating to the impact of new technologies and processes on cultural heritage are especially welcome.

Special aims of this 2017 edition are:

raise awareness in Society, Science, and Technology fields about importance of the cultural dimensions and the growing potential of Digital Cultural Heritage
promote innovative content analysis from cross-organizational interoperability of digital humanities databases and XML methods, techniques, and approaches
indicate on the central role of spatial concepts enabling synergy for knowledge generation from massive granular digital cultural heritage content
create innovative cross-disciplines / cross sectors partnerships facilitate intercultural and interdisciplinary dialogue
elaborate roles and interest of information society

Berlin, 17-22 September 2017

IASA 2017 Annual Conference

The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) was established in 1969 in Amsterdam to function as a medium for international co-operation between archives that preserve recorded sound and audiovisual documents.

IASA has members from 70 countries representing a broad palette of audiovisual archives and personal interests which are distinguished by their focus on particular subjects and areas, eg archives for all sorts of musical recordings, historic, literary, folkloric and ethnological sound documents, theatre productions and oral history interviews, bio-acoustics, environmental and medical sounds, linguistic and dialect recordings, as well as recordings for forensic purposes.

The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) 48th Annual Conference will be hosted on 17-22 September 2017 by the Ethnological Museum in Berlin.

IASA invites everyone engaged in or curious about the discovery, care, preservation and dissemination of our sound and audiovisual heritage, to explore the intersection of workflows and archival formats as manifest in new ways of thinking about, new ways of preserving and new ways of presenting our objects in the digital era.

IASA 2017 Conference theme is “Integration and Innovation: Bringing Workflows and Formats Together in the Digital Era”.

Jérôme Martinez, President of MediaArea, and David Rice will provide a workshop on that covers the basics of audiovisual formats specifications, discusses the challenges in the design of an audiovisual conformance checker, and demonstrates several of MediaConch’s key features.

For further information about the MediaConch workshop visit https://iasa2017annualconference.sched.com/event/Allk.

For further details about the Conference visit the Conference website.

For more information about IASA visit www.iasa-web.org.

Padua, 11-12 December 2013

DiXiT presentation at AIUCD annual conference on digital humanities

The AIUCD (Associazione Italiana per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale) annual conference, devoted to any aspect of the digital humanities, was held in Padua on 11-12 December 2013. It particularly focused on interdisciplinary work and new developments in the field and related to some specific themes:

Interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity
Legal and economyc issues
Tools and collaborative methodologies
Measurement and impact of collaborative methodologies
Sharing and collaboration methods and approaches
Cultural institutions and collaborative facilities
Infrastructures and digital libraries as collaborative environments
Data, resources, and technologies sharing.

The programme of the conference is available here in the official website.

In the framework of the conference, Dr Domenico Fiormonte from Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ – DigiLab has attended the meeting as DiXiT representative and took an introduction to the project.

AIUCD is sponsored by the Department of Information Engineering of University of Padua and by CULTURA, EU Project for the development of next generation adaptive systems aimed at increasing and enhancing the use of digital humanities collections.

EUDAT news bullettin, December 2013 edition

What’s on the agenda for EUDAT in 2014?

As the calendar year comes to a close, EUDAT is embarking on its third year with an even stronger focus on communities, services (both existing and new), training and collaboration. As part of its continuous drive to extend its network on both the community and geographical levels, EUDAT welcomes three new Associated Partners on board: the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET), the Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorology (DRIHM) and the Data Infrastructure for Chemical Safety (diXa).

Listening to the requirements of research communities and scientists is the foundation upon which EUDAT is built, and agile interaction has always been part of its core activity. EUDAT has adopted different ways to listen to communities and users, and to involve domain experts in defining its new building blocks and services.

To intensify this interaction in specific areas of interest, EUDAT has adopted the concept of Working Groups from the DataONE project as a method to bring domain experts, EUDAT community representatives and EUDAT technologists together to discuss identified fields of interest, where the exact setup of a concrete service is not yet fully clear. Currently four service areas are being taken forward – Semantics, Dynamic Data, Workflows and Data Access and Reuse Policies. These four areas were the focus of dedicated working group meetings in September 2013 and a specific track at EUDAT’s 2nd Conference in October 2013. Detailed reports on the discussions and conclusions are available on the working groups section of EUDAT website.

During the last quarter of 2013, EUDAT invited the user community to provide input to the next set of services to be designed. We are grateful to the 123 people from over 17 countries who completed the survey, providing interesting and useful insight into community needs and requirements – see the preliminary results on the website.

EUDAT next appointments: where can you meet us next year?

In January you’ll find us with CLARIN at 7th Conference on Global WordNet, February takes us to Edinburgh with PRACE for the Data Staging and Data Movement Training, while in March we’ll be running training in Dublin at the RDA Third Plenary Meeting, then we go south to Greece in April for ICRI2014 and in May we’ll be organising a workshop at the EGI Community Forum 2014 in Helsinki.

Kyoto, Japan, 25 – 29 September 2017

14th International Conference on Digital Preservation

iPRES is the major international conference on the preservation and long-term management of digital materials.

The iPRES 2017 hosted by Kyoto University will contribute to promotion of researches and development of technologies and services of digital preservation. Following the success of the previous conferences, the iPRES 2017 will serve as an international forum for the global community of digital preservation.

The main objectives at iPRES 2017 will be cultural resources in various domains and from various viewpoints. Academic societies in the areas of digital humanities and information resource management are the main communities to support this conference in Japan. This conference will be organized in collaboration with major memory institutions in Japan.

The theme of the coming conference is: Keeping Cultural Diversity for the Future in the Digital Space — From Pop Culture to Scholarly Information.

Bengt Kneiss from the National Library of Sweden, one of the memory institutions participating as a partner in the PREFORMA PCP project, will present the results of PREFORMA and the conformance checkers developed in the project.

For further information please visit the Conference website.

Tallinn (Estonia), 11-12 October 2017

PREFORMA International Conference: Shaping our future memory standards

Following the successful workshops organised in Stockholm, Berlin and Padua, the PREFORMA project invites all the members of the digital preservation community to attend the PREFORMA International Conference – Shaping our future memory standards, which will be held in Tallinn on 11-12 October 2017.

The aim of the event is to highlight the importance of standardisation and file format validation for the long-term preservation of digital cultural content, present the open source conformance checkers developed in PREFORMA and look at future challenges and opportunities.

Hosted by the National Library of Estonia, the conference will include: keynote speeches by international experts in digital preservation; live demonstrations of the software; examples and good practices of memory institutions that are integrating the PREFORMA tools in their environments; and panel discussions to reflect on how to sustain and further develop the results of the project.

The event is intended for anyone dealing with digital preservation of images, documents and audiovisual files. This conference is a great opportunity to ask questions of, and exchange ideas with, international experts, fellow archivists and even Open Source developers about file format issues and challenges we are facing today.

A Call for Posters is currently open: PREFORMA invites researchers, developers, SMEs, projects, and anyone working in the field of digital cultural heritage, digital preservation and file formats standardisation to present their innovative products, services, technologies and R&D interests as a poster in the framework of the PREFORMA International Conference. Posters will be displayed for free throughout all the duration of the Conference in the Exhibition Area and a short presentation by each poster’s author will be included in the programme of the Conference.

Contact: info@preforma-project.eu

Programme (PDF, 66Kb)

More info: http://finalconference.preforma-project.eu/

Mexico City, 18-21 October 2017

FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2017

FIAT/IFTA’ s main objectives are to provide a forum for exchange of knowledge and experience between its members, to promote the study of any topic relevant to the development and valorisation of audiovisual archives and to establish international standards on key issues regarding all aspects of audiovisual media management. Four thematic commissions permit to address all the issues related to audiovisual content and to promote the study of specific topics.

To achieve this, FIAT/IFTA encourages and organises an annual conference in different locations in the world, as well as international seminars and local and regional meetings. The annual conference is a unique opportunity to discover the future of the audiovisual domain and its new tendencies and uses.

FIAT/IFTA develops a specific action through the “Save your Archive” program; addressed to those collections or archives who need urgent assistance or financing.

Every year the FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Award is assigned in three categories to projects involving the best use of audiovisual archive material, the most innovative use of an archive, and the best archive preservation project.

The 2017 edition of the FIAT/IFTA World Conference will be organised in October 2017 in Mexico City.

For further details about the Conference, visit the Conference website.

For more information about FIAT/IFTA, visit fiatifta.org.

Vienna, 9-10 November 2017

No Time to Wait! 2

The PREFORMA project and MediaArea are pleased to announce initial details for a 2nd No Time to Wait! symposium, hosted by the Österreichisches Filmmuseum – Austrian Film Museum. Members of audiovisual archiving, digital preservation, open media development, and open format standardization communities as well as curious onlookers are welcome to attend, discuss, and present on subjects pertaining to the intersection of open media, standardization, and audiovisual preservation.

What

A FREE two day symposium focused on open media, open standards, and digital audiovisual preservation hosted by Österreichisches Filmmuseum – Austrian Film Museum and MediaArea.net. The event will feature presentations and discussion on topics such as:

active open media standardization projects
examination of open media use in film and video digitization
validation and conformance checking of audiovisual formats
integration of open source tools into archival workflow
examples of cross-community collaboration and skill-sharing
and more

The event will also present on the current state of the IETF’s CELLAR working group’s progress to develop specifications for Matroska and FFV1 as well as efforts to design and extend software in support of these formats. This event provides an opportunity for format inventors, developers, specification authors, and archivists to collaborate and advance audiovisual preservation formats.

When

Thursday, November 9 and Friday, November 10, 2017

Where

Österreichisches Filmmuseum – Austrian Film Museum

Photo Credit: Austrian Film Museum

Registration

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

http://bit.ly/nttw2signup

Call for Proposals

CALL FOR PROPOSALS IS NOW OPEN

http://bit.ly/nttw2proposals

Schedule

The schedule of the event is under development, if you have an idea for the agenda item or presentation, please feel welcome to contact info@mediaarea.net.

The schedule for the 2016 No Time to Wait may be viewed here.

Credits

Event title inspiration from https://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/12/comparing-formats-for-video-digitization/

The MediaConch project and this symposium has received funding from PREFORMA, co-funded by the European Commission under its FP7-ICT Programme.

Where Can I Find Out More?

Please watch the website for No Time to Wait 2 for updates. The source code of the website is available at GitHub.

Feel welcome to send any questions to MediaArea.

What Happened Last time?

Information regarding the 1st No Time to Wait symposium may be found at: the symposium’s webpage, a GitHub repository of resulting materials, a blog post here, another blog post here, and a Storify of our tweets.

To highlight the usefulness of e-Infrastructures and federated identity services to store, access and preserve digital cultural content

New cooperation agreement between DCH-RP and CHAIN REDS

After the successful workshops and networking sessions jointly organised bt DCH-RP and CHAIN-REDS (in Manchester at the EGI Community Forum, in Rome during the EUDAT Conference and at ICT 2013 in Vilnius), the two projects decides to formalise their cooperation by signing a Memorandum of Understanding.

Aim of this agreement is to promote and support technological and scientific collaboration across different e-Infrastructures established and operated in various continents, in order to define a path towards a global e-Infrastructure ecosystem that will allow Virtual Research Communities (VRCs), research groups and even single researchers to access and efficiently use worldwide distributed resources.

The main focus is to highlight the usefulness of e-Infrastructures and federated identity services to store, access and preserve digital cultural content.

In particular, in the framework of this MoU, the following joint actions have been planned:

DCH-RP will encourage integration of Open Access repositories in DCH-RP partner countries into the CHAIN-REDS Knowledge Base, using the OAI-PMH standard and the Dublin Core metadata schema.
DCH-RP will check the repositories already included in the CHAIN-REDS Knowledge Base and send CHAIN-REDS the URLs and the OAI-PMH endpoints of any other repositories which do not appear in the map.
DCH-RP will contact digital libraries within its community not-supporting OAI-PMH access and promote the adoption of this standard, in order to include those libraries in the CHAIN-REDS Knowledge Base.
DCH-RP will make use of the CHAIN-REDS Semantic Search Engine.
CHAIN-REDS will integrate the Open Access repositories provided by DCH-RP into its Knowledge Base.