Berlin, (Germany), 21-22 November 2016 After the nice success of previous events in Venice and in Tallinn, E-Space Third International Conference is taking place next november in Berlin, hosted by partner SPK at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art. The conference the … | Continue reading
Download it on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal The latest version of veraPDF open source, industry-approved PDF/A validator is now available to download in the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. It is accompanied by a beta version of our new documentation site which provides installati … | Continue reading
Lisbon (Portugal), 27-29 October 2016 - call for papers open until 22 July The International Conference Stereo & Immersive Media’16 aims to gather researchers, artists, curators, and archivists working on visual and sound media renowned for their immersive features. “Stereo” envi … | Continue reading
a paper and a speech presented the work of the project in the domain of education and showcased the Photography pilot On 5 July 2016, prof. Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) presented on Europeana and Europeana Space at the important event Edulearn16 in Barcelona, with a paper “Getting Cre … | Continue reading
Kraków (Poland), 28-30 September 2016 - with co-located events on 27th The DI4R 2016 will be held in Kraków on 28-30 September 2016. The conference will be hosted by ACC Cyfronet AGH and will be the first user forum jointly organised by Europe’s leading e-infrastructures and proj … | Continue reading
an interesting process that could guide towards a fundamentally different process for innovation in Europe STARTS encourages synergies between the Arts and innovation for technology and society by promoting the inclusion of artists in Horizon 2020 projects. The initiative Science … | Continue reading
Happy July From MediaArea.net! What’s new in MediaConch 16.06, now available for download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal, and latest updates on the pre-IETF Berlin Symposium: No Time to Wait! A free workshop for audiovisual archivists, developers, and open standards working g … | Continue reading
This scheme is expected to create more than €600 million worth of bank loans over the next six years. European Commission – Press release Boosting SMEs in the cultural and creative sectors: European Commission and EIF launch a new guarantee scheme Brussels, 30 June 2016 The Europ … | Continue reading
during the event, E-Space project was presented and disseminated PostScriptum and the PanHellenic Union of General Directors of Local Administration “Kleisthenis” organized a unique PS Value Talk Event called “Cultural Policy and Local Growth” on Friday the 20th of May 2016 at H … | Continue reading
The Dance Pilot presented a panel during an international conference organized by SIBMAS by Rosemary Kostic Cisneros (Coventry University). This was an international conference mainly for Dance/Art related academics, professionals, archivists and practitioners, with over 150 par … | Continue reading
a call for creative submissions and the selection of the accepted projects run since spring 2016. Within the framework of Europeana Space, the Open and Hybrid Publishing Pilot exhibiton is under preparation since few months and will be launched soon. First, a call for creative wo … | Continue reading
E-Space partner SPK is an important institution in Germany, that regularly organizes and participates to cultural heritage events and workshops At the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, the Europeana DSI Workshop «Tools to make your collection widely visible» was co-organized by M … | Continue reading
All who are interested must submit their application forms by Sunday, July 31, 2016. International RETHINK ART DIGITAL FESTIVAL, the first Digital Art Festival, taking place in Crete, invites artists to submit their suggestions falling into the following categories: Digital Insta … | Continue reading
Key selection criteria for the winners was the business potential of the idea, or product, or service proposed in the chosen projects. One of the key objectives of Europeana Space is to help creative industries to leverage on digital cultural content for creating new products and … | Continue reading
Linz (Austria), 8-12 September 2016 While cultural and social turbulence in the wake of the Digital Revolution still confronts us with substantial challenges, a new generation of creative scientists and engineers has long since gone a step further. They have joined forces with ar … | Continue reading
Ars Electronica received 1,861 entries from 54 countries Ars Electronica Linz was selected to conduct the competition to determine the first two recipients of an award launched this year by the European Commission that is as prestigious as it is highly endowed. The STARTS Prize … | Continue reading
UK painter Scarlett Raven is aiming to change the way the world views art The Danger Tree / A Groundbreaking Visual Arts Experience 1st – 31st July 2016 / Private View 30th June 6-9pm Riverside Unit, New Capital Quay, Greenwich, London SE10 9FR Further UK exhibitions throughout O … | Continue reading
Brussels (Belgium), 6th July 2016 In January 2015, Europe’s data industry together with the European Commission committed to invest €2.5 billion in a public-private partnership (PPP) that aims at accelerating the development of Europe’s data-driven economy. Data represents a key … | Continue reading
In the framework of the Best in Heritage event, a survey of award-winning projects for cultural heritage and new technologies. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 22 September 2016 Due to the increasing number of award programmes focused on new technologies, from 2016 onward, this one day event … | Continue reading
A conference dedicated to the analysis of present scenarios and vision of future for cultural heritage in 10 years. On 16-17 June 2016, in Turin in the beautiful premises of Palazzo Madama, the Turin Museums Foundation in collaboration with Singularity University Geneva, organize … | Continue reading
Marie Curie European Fellowship at Coventry University The Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University seeks a highly motivated creative artist/ coder to join a unique trans-disciplinary team exploring the artistic, scholarly and scientific potential of choreographic … | Continue reading
The University of Michigan Library announces the publication of a resource dedicated to helping understand the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) and implement similar copyright review projects. 13 June 2016 – The University of Michigan Library announces the publication o … | Continue reading
Naples (Italy), 27 November - 1 December 2016 This workshop is collocated with SITIS 2016 – The 12th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS. The adoption of Future Internet (FI) technology, and in particular of its most challenging componen … | Continue reading
The report looks back on the activities and achievements undertaken by the Foundation over the past two years. The 2014-2016 Annual Report has been published by Open Preservation Foundation. The Open Preservation Foundation sustains technology and knowledge for the long-term mana … | Continue reading
This conference with the theme Transformation will bring together the real change-makers of museums. MuseumNext is a global conference on the future of museums. Since 2009 it has acted as a platform for showcasing best practice today to shine a light on the museum of tomorrow. M … | Continue reading
Limassol (Cyprus), 31 October - 5 November 2016; extended deadline for submission: 30 June 2016 A successful decade of European – Mediterranean Conferences on Cultural Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection (EuroMed): 2006 – 2016 You are kindly invited to submit a pa … | Continue reading
The new resource was presented at Alcantara International Festival of Performative Arts. The Knowledge-Base for performing arts (TKB) is a dynamic and open-ended resource to support the creation and documentation of contemporary performances in the format of a digital “archive o … | Continue reading
Paris (France), 28th June 2016 Digital content is in no comparison stronger to analog when it comes to reaching wider grounds and larger audiences. Come and discover how new digitization techniques improve the original works preservation and distribution. Experts from FeniXX, BnF … | Continue reading
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, 26–28 September 2016 Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and project papers to the Sixth International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage. The Conference is organised under the … | Continue reading
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, 26–28 September 2016 The Sixth International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage–DiPP2016 is organized under the UNESCO patronage and aims at presenting innovative results, research projects and applica … | Continue reading
available open access at Springer, the book makes a creative addition to the debates surrounding the cultural heritage domain. Developed within the RICHES project about the context of change of our society and cultural heritage, the book “Cultural Heritage in a Changing World” ad … | Continue reading
Leuven, 7-10 February 2017 deadline for paper submission: 15/08/2016 After 12 successful editions of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry held at Illinois University in the US, the first European edition of the congress will be hosted in the beautiful city of Leuven, … | Continue reading
Cluj-Napoca (Romania), 8-14 September 2016 The 4th International Festival of NanoArt will be hosted in Cluj-Napoca, Romania by Babes-Bolyai University between September 8 – 14, 2016 in parallel with the 11th International Conference On Physics Of Advanced Materials (ICPAM-11). Th … | Continue reading
a dedicated event in Berlin took place for showcasing the tool. by Beatrix Lehmann (Museumsmedien) At the end of May 2016 the Europeana Space Toolbox was presented by Beatrix Lehmann from Museumsmedien, in an event for educators in memorials and museums. The participants came fr … | Continue reading
an interesting article about photographic heritage and digital technologies An interesting article recently appeared on the blog of the Europeana Space Photography Pilot, led by prof. Fred Truyen of KU Leuven. The article is derived from a very lively and high-profile speech deli … | Continue reading
Call for papers is open until 31 August. The conference will take place in Bologna (Italy) on 1 December 2016 Ubiquity of media, especially new media, provides top down and bottom up generated contents. These contents are produced everywhere and at any time. The increasing use of … | Continue reading
On 15-17 September 2016 KU Leuven will host a conference on Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Call for papers closes on 12 June. The last few years have witnessed a movement towards a more open and inclusive Digital Humanities field. The Alliance for Digital Humanities Org … | Continue reading
Call for moving image and performance work - deadline 13 June Visions in the Nunnery is back for its tenth incarnation at the Nunnery Gallery in London. A renowned showcase of recent performance and moving image works by emerging and established artists, Visions aims to offer an … | Continue reading
With full support for all PDF/A parts and conformance levels The latest version of veraPDF is now available for download from the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. It features full support of all PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 requirements (all levels). Together with earlier support of PDF/A-1 v … | Continue reading
Happy Summer From MediaArea.net! What’s new in MediaConch 16.05, PREFORMA's conformance checker for AV files, latest downloads, upcoming events and much more in the June 2016 edition of MediaConch newsletter. Register to the No Time to Wait! symposium on the standardization & use … | Continue reading
Amsterdam, 2-4 November 2016 The event is part of the DiXiT network and is hosted by the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. It brings together a group of international experts from the fields of textual scholarship and computer science. The … Continue reading … | Continue reading
Madrid, 27June - 1July 2016 Summer School “Digital technologies applied to the study of poetry” Dates: 27 June to 1st July 2016 Venue: Sala Sáenz Torrecilla, Facultad de Económicas, UNED, Madrid – or your own computer (the course is available online) The summer school … Continu … | Continue reading
Nicosia (Cyprus), 2-4 December 2016 The conference, organised by the International Association of Photography and Theory, will be held between 2-4 December 2016, at NiMac, Nicosia, Cyprus. Keynote Speakers: Martha Langford, John Stezaker, Lucia Nimcova Research in historical, art … | Continue reading
Salford (UK), 10 – 12 October 2016 DCDC2016 conference will look at the varied and innovative ways in which archives, museums, libraries, and academia can help realise the potential of collections and translate this into social, cultural, and economic impact. The main conference … | Continue reading
promoting audience development through photography as a public and shared art form Urban Layers is an European Project about photography in the public space, whose aims are: / bringing contemporary art to a wider audience; / promoting photographic research and supporting emerging … | Continue reading
Vienna (Austria), 16-18 November 2016 Call for paper, poster and app – Deadline: June 12, 2016 the „21st International Conference on Cultural Heritage and NEW Technologies“ is organized by the Urban Archaeology of Vienna and their partners and will take place in the City Hall of … | Continue reading
Hannover (Germany), 5-9 September 2016 The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital lib … | Continue reading
Riga (Latvia), 8-9 November 2016 The magnificent National Library of Latvia in Riga will host this two-day event on 8-9 November 2016: this year we will continue our conversations on topics like Europeana and the cultural commons, developments of our Network Association and Europ … | Continue reading