The 1st International Online Conference on Digital Transformation in Culture and Education took place on 14-16 April 2021, hosted by the Serbian Library Association Section for Digital Transformation. The Conference provided an excellent forum for digital librarians, researchers … | Continue reading
The Europeana Research Grants Programme is intended for cultural heritage and/or research institutions, comprising universities and foundations. The theme for 2021 call for proposal is Crowdsourcing & Research, with a focus on encouraging cross-sectorial collaborations. While cro … | Continue reading
Today 14th April 2021 the kick-off meeting of WEAVE takes place online, hosted by project coordinator IN2. This project aims to develop a framework to link the tangible and intangible heritage of cultural communities, safeguarding the rich and invaluable … Continue reading → | Continue reading
SoPHIA – Social Platform for Holistic Impact Heritage Assessment aims to promote collective reflection within the cultural and political sector in Europe on the impact assessment and quality of interventions in historical environment and cultural heritage at urban level. The … Co … | Continue reading
SoPHIA –Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment –, an EU research and innovation Horizon 2020 funded project, reviewed the literature, policy programmes and practices and mapped existing gaps, issues and problems. After consultations during the first Workshop with … | Continue reading
This webinar explores some of the ways that cultural heritage institutions can use controlled vocabularies and Linked Data to improve the discoverability of their content in Europeana. Three speakers will give short presentations after which there will be time for … Continue read … | Continue reading
The 2nd Consultation Workshop from inDICEs project brings together cultural heritage professionals, researchers and the inDICEs community to discuss needs and concerns in relation to digitization, online access, the use and the potential re-use of collections, data needed for dev … | Continue reading
PHOTOCONSORTIUM, International Consortium for Photographic Heritage, and EUROPEANA, the European Commission’s digital platform for cultural heritage are proud to present a prime accomplishment of PAGODE – Europeana China. This project, aimed at creating a dedicated thematic space … | Continue reading
The on line event took place last 22th March as a cooperation between Europa Nostra and other heritage, climate and financial organizations. More than 500 people joined the meeting and shared reflections about the great challenges targeted by the Green … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Arius Technology Inc., a world-leading art technology company, has partnered with Crozier, a global leader in fine arts logistics and an Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) business, to provide clients with ultra-high-resolution imaging previously unavailable to the commercial art world. Th … | Continue reading
On 10th March 2021, Professor Arturo Rodríguez Morató and Dr. Matías Zarlenga, from the University of Barcelona, UNCHARTED project’s partner leader, presented the Project at the 11th midterm conference of the Research Network on the Sociology of the Arts of the European Sociologi … | Continue reading
The European Heritage Youth Ambassadors programme empowers heritage students and young professionals to share their stories. The programme is a joint initiative by the European Students’ Association for Cultural Heritage (ESACH), Europa Nostra and the European Heritage Tribune (E … | Continue reading
CitizenHeritage promotes participative approaches and is also about involving university students with cultural heritage projects. As part of the Museums in Context master course, the Rotterdam University organizes activities where students perform short and intense research proj … | Continue reading
Learning on Screen is a UK charity and membership organisation specialised in the use of moving image and sound in education and research. The organization is exploring the potential in its archive of over 2.4 million television and radio broadcasts … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Text by Caterina Sbrana. Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives dedicated to life on Earth. The curators of the library claim that it is the “world’s largest open access digital library … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Text by Caterina Sbrana. There is a history of migration involving a large number of Britain’s children who were “shipped” since the 1860s to Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries. This fate affected over 100,000 children. I knew the living … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The upcoming webinar is devoted to present the green book on European Cultural Heritage. The Paper highlights the key rule of cultural heritage for achieving the ambitious goals targeted by the European Green Deal, designed to face the climate and … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Text by Caterina Sbrana. I have already spoken in my blogs about the importance of the digitisation of historical documents in order to enable them to be used and disseminated worldwide through the Internet. There is another reason why digitisation … Continue reading → | Continue reading
TownsWeb Archiving have just released a FREE Funding Resource Pack that will no doubt appeal to holders of archive collections. Embarking on a digitisation project comes at a cost and securing adequate funding is often where most projects fail to … Continue reading → | Continue reading
text by Mariana Ziku. The workshop “Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science” was successfully hosted at the Open Belgium 2021 on March 17, as part of the publication activities of the CitizenHeritage project (2020-2023), organised by Web2Learn with speakers Katerina … Continue read … | Continue reading
On March 19, the Fridays For Future Movement and Europeana Climate Action Group invite you to join a meeting to discuss collective climate action with a focus on steps that the cultural heritage sector can take to achieve this. As a sector, a call … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Citizen Heritage is being presented today in a special session of the Open Belgium online event. Open Belgium is an annual community event, focused on making knowledge open, usable, useful and used. Join today h. 16.45: https://2021.openbelgium.be/ This roundtable discusses … Co … | Continue reading
CIDOC 2021 conference “Symbiosis of Tradition and Digital Technology” will set it’s focus on three main subjects: “Strategic Planning”, “The Future of Documentation” and “A Wonderland of Digital Technology”. The conference taking place from 6 to 10 September 2021 is … Continue re … | Continue reading
Cultural heritage was put in the spotlight in 2018 with European Year of Cultural Heritage that saw thousands of events and millions of people engaged across the European continent. But it didn’t stop there. Successes from 2018 and new policy … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The series of online workshops conjures synergies between the fields of performance, LARP, game design and media theory. The common inquiry will be the phenomenon of ‘bleed’, wherein the boundaries between fiction and reality, the virtual and physical world dissolve. … Continue r … | Continue reading
Sponsored by CIDEHUS – University of Évora (Portugal), in partnership with the Centro de História – University of Lisbon (Portugal), this event will pose questions and discuss hypotheses for the work of digital humanities in history: What past and what … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Enriching photographic heritage through citizen science. If it is true that an image is worth a thousand words, the key issue with the mass of digitized photographic heritage that is published in online repositories is allowing users to find the … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The sixth ESACH Talk, will be centered on communicating culture, with focus on innovative perspectives on the following topics: Marketing and branding cultural heritage Youth and community outreach and engagement Storytelling methods Communicating uncomfortable history and herita … | Continue reading
The report “Culture and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities” is the result of Brainstorming Meetings organized to allow the debate between the European Commission and the cultural sector, represented by a group of experienced professio … | Continue reading
A new virtual tour is now available on the website of the Museo Egizio in Turin. It allows the public to remotely visit the most iconic sections of the collection, also including those dedicated to the village of Deir el-Medina and … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) is an intergovernmental process established in 1996 to foster dialogue and cooperation between Asia and Europe. The initial ASEM Partnership consisted of 15 EU Member States, 7 ASEAN Member States, China, Japan, Korea and the European … Continue rea … | Continue reading
CICERONE (Creative Industries Cultural Economy Production Network, Grant No.: 822778) is a H2020 funded interdisciplinary research project focusing on Europe’s cultural and creative industries (CCI). The research team consists of sociologists, human, cultural and economic geograp … | Continue reading
Preserving Worlds is a documentary travelogue through aging but beloved virtual worlds. Join us as we explore dated chat environments, appreciate player-created art, and meet people working against obsolescence to keep the communities they care about alive and accessible. Virtual … | Continue reading
The artists featured in The Black Index—Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas—build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to colonialist images. Using drawing, performance, printmaking, sculptu … | Continue reading
The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media arts competition. Winners are eligible for the coveted Golden Nica awards and monetary prizes of up to 10,000 Euros in each category. They will also be featured at the Ars … Continue reading → | Continue reading
© Arxiu Fotogràfic del Consorci del Patrimoni de Sitges NEMO, Network of European Museum Organisations, has published a country-specific overview of the status quo of museum operations during the pandemic. The list includes information from 31 European countries concerning reope … | Continue reading
The SoPHIA Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment is happy to announce a two-day conference which will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to review interventions in Europe’s urban heritage, through keynotes, thematic sessions, workshops, and artistic interve … | Continue reading
This new report explores how emotions influence the design and understanding of museums and offers suggestions of how museums should make use of the “emotional effect” to create greater impact and memorable experiences. Emotion are considered a pre-condition for learning: in … Co … | Continue reading
Several factors, both natural and anthropic ones, endanger nowadays our cultural heritage: subsidence, ground motion, pollution, looting, collateral damages and intentional attacks. Data provided by the European Space Agency Copernicus fleet of satellites and other cutting edge t … | Continue reading
“Societal Impacts of Culture: A transitional Perspective”: this is the titled of the 1st international workshop that will be hold online by MESOC, the H2020 sister project of UNCHARTED. The meeting will provide the opportunity to discuss with experts … Continue reading → | Continue reading
On 3rd December 2020, Professor Victoria Alexander , from Goldsmith, University of London, UNCHARTED project’s partner, gave a keynote address to the online conference “Another Artworld: Manifestations and Conditions of Equity in Visual Arts”. The event was organized by the … Con … | Continue reading
The European Research and Innovation Days are announced to take place online on 23 and 24 June 2021. Brought to you by the European Commission, the European Research and Innovation Days gathers together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens to debate … Continue re … | Continue reading
IN SITU is the European platform for artistic creation in public space. It is an ecosystem connecting the new generation of artists with audiences, programmers, and key-players involved in the economic, political and social realities around Europe. IN SITU is … Continue reading → | Continue reading
SoPHIA – Social Platform for Holistic Impact Heritage Assessment aims to promote collective reflection within the cultural and political sector in Europe, on the impact assessment and quality of interventions in European historical environment and cultural heritage at urban level … | Continue reading
The opening event for the prestigious DIGITAL PAST 2021 conference, organized by the Royal Commission of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, was a 1-hour capacity building workshop by PHOTOCONSORTIUM to share experiences and lessons learnt for visual collections’ … Con … | Continue reading
As museums worldwide shuttered in 2020 because of the coronavirus, New York-based cultural strategist András Szántó conducted a series of interviews to a international group of museum directors to discuss the future of cultural Institutions : 28 dialogues face the … Continue rea … | Continue reading
The important papyri retrieved in Herculaneaum and preserved at the National Library in Naples contain basically all our knowledge about Greek philosophical schools. Diogenes Laërtius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers (3rd century AD) and Philodemus of Gadara’s Syntaxis (75-50 BC) i … | Continue reading
Trans-making is a H2020 research and innovation project leaded by Culture Europe Association (France). It aims to establish a multilateral network of research and innovation staff active in the fields of placemaking/place-based art activities as a space to create alternative … Co … | Continue reading