Digital meets Culture

on 11-12 October, all the new projects serving Europeana in 2021-2022 gathered during a nice presentation event

WEAVE presented at Europeana Generic Services projects meeting

This invite-only event brings together representatives of all running and new Generic Services projects, the funding agency European Health and Digital Executive Agency – HaDEA, and the European Commission.

WEAVE project was presented on day 1 the 11th October with a nice video from the coordinator Alex Stan (IN-2) and a short Q&A with the participants.

Generic Services (GS) projects are funded by the European Commission under the CEF Telecom programme.These projects support cultural heritage institutions in their digital transformation as well as contribute to further development of the Europeana Core Service Platform. Participants of the meeting aim to find synergies, resolve common issues and align with the current and strategic developments around the Europeana Core Service Platform.

Date: 11-12 October 2021

Time: 13:00-17:00 CEST

View the programme here

online event, 26 October 2021, organized by CitizenHeritage project

Citizen science for cultural heritage: ECSA webinar

What kind of citizen science initiatives take place in the cultural heritage field?
How cultural heritage contributes to citizen science and civic engagement in general?
What lessons can be drawn for the relevance of social sciences and humanities to citizen science?

On October 26 (16h-17h CET), it is organized a webinar “From mainstream citizen science to new conceptualizations: insights from the cultural heritage sector” to discuss these topics.

The event belongs to a series of webinars of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) and its Working Group “Citizen science and universities”.

It is co-corganised by the team of the Erasmus+ KA2 project CitizenHeritage: Citizen Science Practices in Cultural Heritage: towards a Sustainable Model in Higher Education and the discussion will unfold through a nexus of three presentations,all downloadable as PDF:

Fred Truyen, KU Leuven. “CitizenHeritage: giving citizens a voice in Heritage studies” – PDF
Katerina Zourou, Web2Learn. “Review of practices of Higher Education engagement in citizen enhanced open science in the area of cultural heritage” – PDF
Trilce Navarrete, Erasmus University Rotterdam. “Measuring the benefits of civic participation in academic research” – PDF

the presentation is part of an online symposium on participatory transcription projects on 28-29 October

CitizenHeritage presented at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin

CitizenHeritage will be presented at the online symposium Participatory Transcription Projects in Museums, Archives, Libraries – A Practical Exchange of Experience, by project partners Katerina Zourou and Mariana Ziku (Web2Learn).The event is organized by the Museum of natural History in Berlin.The topic of the CitizenHeritage talk is “Transcribathons as citizen science projects: a comparative analysis of European initiatives“, derived from the massive work done in the Citizen Heritage project for an inventory of participatory approaches in Cultural Heritage.The slides of the talk are available on Slideshare here.

About the symposium

https://casinoceske.com/

In recent years, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has initiated various digital and analog projects in which, with the help of participatory approaches, written materials and the like have been transcribed.With the help of participatory approaches, written material and similar materials from the Historical Research Unit and the museum’s collection have been transcribed and made accessible.This workshop aims at entering into an open exchange with participatory projects of other museums, archives and libraries in the German-speaking countries and Europe, and to discuss the strategic set-up, implementation and further development of such projects.More about the symposium: https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/events/participatory-transcription-projects-museums-archives-libraries-a-practical-exchange

CHARTER Alliance publishes its first result and presents a new model for the cultural heritage sector

The European Cultural Heritage Skills Alliance CHARTER, Erasmus+ funded project, released its first public deliverable: “A new landscape for heritage professions preliminary findings” by Working Package 2 (Strategic analysis of cultural heritage competences and occupational profiles). The report summarises the work and preliminary findings that the WP2 has developed over the past six months.
The report presents the development of a new integrated model for the cultural heritage sector, defining its breadth, dynamics and boundaries in relation to existing cultural, statistical, occupational and economic conceptual definitions, policy principles and frameworks. The model reflects the evolving discourse about cultural heritage and is aligned with the concept of cultural heritage as a “shared resource and common good”, which impacts human, economic and social wellbeing.
The model conveys holistic principles while being applicable in economic and social assessments and policies, proposing cultural heritage as a discrete domain on its own, with specific functions for its full realization.
The report is the result of desk research on the contemporary discourse in cultural heritage, as evidenced in recent policy documents, reports and latest conceptual frameworks, assessment of current statistical indicators and brainstorming sessions with the CHARTER consortium for contributions and validation of the ongoing results.
Access the Full report in the Results section of CHARTER’s website.
• Learn more about CHARTER Alliance: https://charter-alliance.eu/
• Subscribe to the newsletter: http://bit.ly/CHARTER-newsletter

The YCC Yellow Couch Convos series hosted by Rosa Cisneros is dedicated to discussing about Roma heritage and arts

Podcast released: YCC Episode with Miguel Angel Vargas

WEAVE project is organizing a series of LabDays to engage communities with their tangible and intangible heritage and present novel ways of cultural heritage representation in the digital realm. The ERIAC LabDay scheduled for Monday October 11th will have a number of key Roma artists and figures. Among them is Spanish Roma Miguel Angel Vargas who recently sat down with Rosa Cisneros from Coventry University for the Yellow Couch Convos Podcast series. They had a candid conversation on Flamenco and navigating the various roles of being an artist, civil servant, and social activist.

RosaSenCis · YCC Episode with Miguel Angel Vargas

BIO: Miguel Ángel Vargas is a Spanish artist with distinctive Andalusian-Gitano roots stemming from Lebrija and Jerez. He earned his degree in Art History from the University of Seville. He also studied Theatre Direction at the Seville Institute of Theatre in 1999. He collaborates with several academic universities across Spain and abroad also sits supports several of ERIAC initiatives.

He participated in many shows as an actor, musician, director, producer and technician. He defines himself as a poet because he tries to embody the authentic meaning from which the original Greek (ποιητής) was derived: the one who creates, the one who begets and gives birth. His passion resides in the world of flamenco and theatre. His heartfelt mission is to tell the stories of the Gitano fieldworkers from Lebrija and to follow the commitment of the Teatro Lebrijano, an independent political theatre company established in his hometown in the 1970s. His work portfolio is extensive and vibrant. He has worked with many different artists and companies in a variety of roles.

European week of Regions and Cities: The New European Bauhaus and its Relevance for its Citizens – Shaping a More Beautiful Future in Europe

On Tuesday 12 October 2021, from 9:30-11:00 CET, stay tuned! The European Movement International, in partnership with the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) and Europa Nostra, will hold a digital panel discussion entitled “The New European Bauhaus and its Relevance for its Citizens – Shaping a More Beautiful Future in Europe”. The debate will be run in the framework of the EU Regions Week 2021, the annual four-day event during which cities and regions showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement European Union cohesion policy, and prove the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance. This workshop will bring together the voices of Europe’s local and regional governments, of Europe’s shared cultural heritage and Europe’s young generation to demonstrate the mobilising and transformative power of the New European Bauhaus for the future of Europe. This creative and interdisciplinary co-creation movement aims at bringing the European Green Deal closer to citizens and their living environments. Together with the ongoing Conference on the Future of Europe, it offers citizens a unique opportunity to shape a future that is sustainable, beautiful and inclusive, both in urban and rural areas.
Featuring:
Flo Clucas, Spokeperson – Local Finances; Councillor of Cheltenham, Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR).
Sneška Quaedvlieg–Mihailović, Secretary General, Europa Nostra.
Monika Skadborg, Board Member, European Youth Forum.
Marcos Ros Sempere, Member of the European Parliament, Founder of the European Parliament’s New European Bauhaus Friendship Group.
Moderator: Petros Fassoulas, Secretary General, European Movement International.
Registration for the event is available here.
More information…

An online event organized in collaboration with the National Széchényi Library in Budapest engaging students of the Media and Communication department of Pázmány University

Facts & fiction: Hungary in black-and-white photographs

Standfotó a Nyugati övezet című filmből – Film still of Nyugati övezet feature film by Csépány Sándor – National Széchényi Library (OSZK) Budapest, Europe – CC BY-NC-ND.

15th October 2021 h. 9-12 CEST

online event via Zoom

Enriching photographic heritage through citizen science.

This second workshop from the Citizen Heritage project is focused on engaging university students with digital cultural heritage and the importance of good metadata associated to online collections.

In this event, students of Master and Bachelor courses in digital humanities and film history at Media and Communication department of Pázmány Péter Catholic University worked on metadata improvement, by annotating and enriching the beautiful digitized collection of early photography and film stills published by OSZK the National Széchényi Library in Europeana.

The new Europeana Gallery Builder tool was also be presented as an engaging and easy to use feature that enables to explore and reuse Europeana collections in curation activities, by creating short visual stories on specific themes, in the form of galleries to be published on Europeana portal.

DISCOVER THE EVENT:
https://www.citizenheritage.eu/citizen-science-workshops/budapest/

1st October 2021, online

WEAVE LabDay: Digital Innovation of Cultural Heritage: 3D Modelling for Cultural Heritage

WEAVE, Widen European Access to cultural communities Via Europeana, is a project co-financed by the European Union under the CEF Connecting Europe Facility Programme with the aim of enriching Europeana with great content of tangible and intangible heritage of cultural communities, safeguarding the rich and invaluable cultural heritage which they represent.
WEAVE has organized a series of LabDays, the first of which will take place tomorrow 1st October 2021. The event, named “Digital Innovation of Cultural Heritage: 3D Modelling for Cultural Heritage”, will be hold on line, organized by the partner ARCTUR (Slovenia) in collaboration with Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal) and Coventry University (UK).

The purpose is to offer information about the digital innovation of cultural heritage, including various aspects of digital innovation, with the main focus on 3D objects.

Main topics:

The advantages of investing in cultural heritage tourism
A short presentation of the development of interactive experiences (3D movie, hologram, 3D printing, virtual tours with the 3D objects, interactive table with 3D objects, enriched reality, VR360movie with the 3D objects, VR games, etc.)
How to prepare a good concept with defined target groups and user experience
Cooperation of key stakeholders in the process of digitisation and the digitalisation of cultural heritage
The digitising process: digital capture, point clouds, photogrammetry and laser scanning, data processing, simulated reconstructions on practical case studies of cultural heritage objects.

Registration for this event is available here.

To know the dates of the LabDays, you can consult the page LabDays – WEAVE (weave-culture.eu)

outcomes of PAGODE Final Conference: interesting keynotes, good presentations and nice video pitches from the content providers are now available

Discovering Chinese Heritage in Europeana – video recordings

See the full programme here: https://photoconsortium.net/pagode/final-conference/

Recordings of the event are made available on the same page.

PAGODE is a Generic Service project granted by the European Commission in the frame of the Connecting Europe Facility Programme, in support to Europeana. Several European cultural institutions participated in the project as partners and are associated to contribute with their digital collections about Chinese cultural heritage.

In this two-day conference, speakers shared their experiences of making Chinese cultural heritage collections accessible via Europeana and of developing tools towards this direction. The project results were also presented as well as exchange of knowledge and best practices that support the digital transformation of cultural heritage institutions with a focus on Chinese Cultural Heritage hosted in European Cultural Institutions.

A better understanding of the cultural values of China and of the cultural exchanges between China and Europe will allow European institutions to connect and share more widely their collections and metadata across new sectors and borders, increasing awareness and usage of Europeana internationally.

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#CEFTelecom

#ConnectingEurope

#allezculture

21-24 September 2021-Venice, Italy

The European Cultural Heritage Summit 2021 “For a new European Renaissance”

The 2021 edition of European Cultural Heritage Summit took place from 21 to 24 September 2021 in Venice, Italy, organised by Europa Nostra, the European Voice of Civil Society Committed to Cultural Heritage, with the support of the European Union (through the Creative Europe and Horizon 2020 programmes) under the patronage of European Parliament and in collaboration with other European and Italian partners.
The format of the event was hybrid: a selected and limited number of stakeholders was on-site while a wider audience had the opportunity to engage with the event virtually, in livestreaming.

The event was the occasion to celebrate excellence in cultural heritage skills, and to debate the value of cultural heritage for a sustainable and inclusive post-pandemic recovery of Europe.
It also offered the opportunity to discuss and demonstrate the role of cultural heritage for ensuring the success of two key citizen-driven initiatives launched by the EU institutions: the New European Bauhaus, of which Europa Nostra is proud to be civil society partner, and the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Some highlights of the Summit:

“Saving Endangered Venice & its Lagoon: How to Build Back Better?” meeting
the 2021 European Heritage Award Ceremony co-hosted by the European Commission and Europa Nostra to celebrate the winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2021 and of the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes 2021 (during which the four Grand Prix laureates and the winner of the Public Choice Award were announced)
the European Heritage Policy Agora “From the New European Bauhaus to the New European Renaissance”, that brought together policy-makers at all levels as well as key heritage stakeholders in a series of high-level debates on the most topical issues for the cultural heritage ecosystem in Europe.

A concrete outcome of the Agora was the Venice Call to Action: “For a New European Renaissance”.

It contains over than 10 concrete and actionable proposals aiming European leaders at all levels of governance to duly integrate culture and cultural heritage in their ongoing and future priorities.

More information on the event at https://www.europanostra.org/european-heritage-summit/