Digital modelling techniques have become a prevailing feature of media society. Research, education, cultural heritage and entertainment industry basically rely on the representation and visualization of real-world objects through binary coded models. Highly effective new ways of engineering, construction and documentation have been introduced for purposes of preservation, information-processing and analysis. Networked database systems, 2d- and 3d-visualization models, mixed reality applications and interactive multimodal approaches expand the outreach and contribute to the formation of a global and participatory information culture.

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The International Conference “Shaping Access!”, running 22nd and 23rd October 2012 at the Jewish Museum in Berlin will offer an opportunity to discuss different concepts of access to cultural heritage with experts from the areas of culture, business, civil society, and politics.

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Since 1994, the German Museums Association hosts twice a year one of the most important forums in Germany for the exchange of information on questions of conventional and computer-assisted museum documentation.
Representatives will be presenting news of ongoing projects and introducing new ones. A good oportunity to reach a wide and established museum community and to start up new cooperations.

Inés Matres member of the HamoSearch consortium, will speak about on the HarmoSearch mappping tool, on Tuesday, 16 October (ppt file, 2,4 mb).

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The “Federal Association of Austrian tourism managers’ short BÖTM is the advocacy of the profession of the spa and tourism managers in Austria.
The central tasks of BÖTM are training and education for staff in tourism organizations, as well as training seminars, study tours and lectures.

As part of Top Seminar at Lake Wörth, Manfred Hackl – project coordinator of HamoSearch – will hold a keynote on “Meta Search and cost analysis”, on Thursday, 4. oktober 2012.

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IFTM Top Resa is France’s international travel and tourism trade fair. The industry’s leading event for networking, doing business, innovating and keeping abreast of market developments, the exhibition offers a 360° panorama of the travel industry, covering all sectors: leisure, business and events.

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With more than 400 participants every year I-SEMANTICS is one of the largest conferences in Europe in the field of semantic systems and the Semantic Web. It is held concurrently with the I-KNOW Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies. The combination represents a unique approach bridging the gap between highly affiliated communities and complementary research fields.

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XFT language allows the tourism sector to interact and to communicate thanks to a common language. The objectives: Rationalize, simplify and increase the exchanges to get more and more rapidity, proximity, productivity.

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Hack4Europe! is a series of hack days organised by the Europeana Foundation and its partners and provides an exciting environment to explore the potential of open cultural data for social and economic growth in Europe.

The idea: The Hack Day Hack4Europe! 2012 Berlin will bring together up to 30 developers from Germany and other European countries in a two day event. They will have access to the diverse and rich Europeana collections containing over 20 million records through the Europeana Search API (incl. a test key and technical documentation).

Meeting in Trento with companies and institutions in the context of the coorperation between the province of Trentino and Isreal in the fields of economic and cultural developements.

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