Digital art and mental art We could say that digital art was born as conceptual art, since it finds its root in immateriality, and is immaterial because it exists only in thought: the object of art does not truly exist … Continue reading
SECreTour project, together with Photoconsortium, Europeana, UNESCO Chair of the Università della Svizzera Italiana in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in world heritage sites and UNESCO Chair of the Università di Genova in Anthropology of Health, Biosphere and Healing Systems, is … Continue reading
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Citizen Science & Engaged Research: Showcase of best practices Wednesday 19 Oct 2022, 15.00 – 16.30 In this showcase event organized by Erasmus University Rotterdam, engaged researchers from EUR/EMC came together to share what makes their citizen science – and … Continue reading
The Innovating Higher Education conference focuses on trends and high impact factors in global and European higher education. This year’s theme was: Digital Reset: European Universities Transforming for a Changing World. European universities today are confronted by profound, societal changes … Continue reading
The Digital Humanities Congress is a conference hosted by the DHI at the University of Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities. The fifth Congress was held … Continue reading
This session, organized by the Citizen Heritage project, wanted to entice an interactive discussion with the audience, focused on understanding the approach methodologies, the various roles and challenges of technology in enabling an inclusive engagement with cultural collections that empowers … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
CitizenHeritage project partner Katerina Zourou (Web2Learn) was invited by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Brussels office, to give a presentation about CitizenHeritage project on June 4. The topic of the talk was “Citizen science initiatives in the … Continue reading
Second call for proposals / Workshop at the conference Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 7 March 2018 at the University of Helsinki This workshop seeks to expand critical perspectives on metadata in relation to public cultural heritage image collections online. In our image-saturated … Continue reading
The Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group has published its primary document which is now a Candidate Recommendation. The document provides Best Practices related to the publication and usage of data on the Web designed to help support a self-sustaining ecosystem. As a further aid, the Working Group has also published stable versions of its Data Quality and Dataset Usage vocabularies. Continue reading
FutureEverything celebrated its 20th anniversary. For the last two decades the festival has brought people together to imagine, shape and question the vision of a truly participatory society. A belief in the emancipatory and creative potential of new technologies runs throughout digital culture. It is found both in the open source community and in the rhetoric of Silicon Valley start-ups. In recent years, the contradictions in this vision have come to the surface. The digital age has brought a collision of positives and negatives. This year was an ideal opportunity for FutureEverything to hit pause on its headlong rush into the future, to reflect on the consequences of the past decades and the prospects for the decades to come. Continue reading
