Tag: digitisation

Bibracte, a 2000-year-old town under a forest

As part of the EUreka3D project, a blogpost authored by Agathe Le Riche-Maugis and collegues from Bibracte was recently published on Europeana. The blogpost shocases the history of Bibracte, an archaeological site in the French region discovered in the 19th century and brought back … Continue reading


EUreka3D training at Bibracte

In November 2023, as part of the training “Raw materials to sources, from the archaeological object” organized by the Resource Center for Artistic and Cultural Education (Préac) Archaeological heritage, Bibracte hosted a workshop on digitisation and aggregation to Europeana. Within the context of … Continue reading


TWA cultural heritage Digitisation Grant 2023 for UK-based digitisation projects

Stemming from a conversation around the impact of funding on the heritage sector, the TWA Digitisation Grant has adapted and evolved over the years, responding directly to the real and current needs of the heritage organisations it seeks to support. … Continue reading


The Berlin Wall, a multimedia history

Text by Caterina Sbrana. A few days after the celebrations of the Berlin Wall fall, in the wake of a renewed interest in the events that characterized Europe and the World after the Second World War, I suggest above all … Continue reading


Call for papers: Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage

The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has the pleasure to introduce the Eighth International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage-DiPP2018 which  aims at presenting innovative results, research projects and applications … Continue reading


Empowering Democracy through Culture – Digital Tools for Culturally Competent Citizens

4th Council of Europe Platform Exchange on Culture and Digitisation The 4th Platform Exchange on Culture and Digitisation, being organised by the Council of Europe in cooperation with ZKM at the ZKM headquarters in Karlsruhe, from 19-20 October, will try … Continue reading


Interview with Marion Jaks

Marion is a video archivist at the Austrian Mediathek, the Austrian video and sound archive. Her main area of work is the digitization of analogue videos and quality control of video files entering the digital archive. The main use case for MediaConch is to check if files that were produced outside of the default workflow procedure meet the policy for the archival master. Continue reading


TWA cultural heritage Digitisation Grant 2017 for UK-based digitisation projects

Following a successful 2016 and excellent bids from archives and other memory institutions last year, the TWA Digitisation Grant has relaunched with a fresh tranche of funding in 2017. The fund offers grants of up to £5000 for UK archives, … Continue reading


DATeCH 2016 Conference @ Digitisation Days

The Digitisation Days are a major event in text digitisation field organised by the Succeed project and the IMPACT Centre of Competence. This event includes: the DATeCH (Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage) international conference; an exhibition of digitisation technology where leading companies will showcase state-of-the-art tools; panel discussions on the future of digitisation, IPR issues, etc. Continue reading


JPEG2000 and Digitisation: Expert round table

TownsWeb Archiving interviewed four experts (Dave Thompson of Wellcome Library, Melissa Terras of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Paul Sugden of TownsWeb Archiving and Michael Pritchard of The Royal Photographic Society) to shed light on JPEG2000 as a format, it’s potential role in digitisation, and it’s suitability for digital preservation. Continue reading