Text by Caterina Sbrana. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) Libraries established a digitization program since 2001. The objective of the program was providing remote access to unique library resources to the UWM academic community and the general public. Currently, UW … | Continue reading
“What is the social value of culture? While culture is increasingly being viewed from an economic perspective, there is much more at stake. Focusing on the valuation practices developed by different actors involved in the cultural sector, the EU-funded UNCHARTED … Continue readin … | Continue reading
image: Rank Badge with Leopard, Wave and Sun Motifs, China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), late 18th century, silk and metallic thread, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 30.75.1025. Being so deeply embedded in the Europeana ecosystem, the new CEF project PAGODE – Europeana China (2020-2021) … | Continue reading
The Arts & Humanities 2020 Graduate Exhibition, the annual exhibition of the UC Davis graduate students, is an essential component of the Master of Fine Arts programs in art studio and design and is also open to visual, performing, and … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The entrepreneur Oliver Miro, with decades of sales experience in the family art gallery, has launched an extended reality platform that offers to private galleries the opportunity to virtually reproduce their spaces, adapting the artworks here displayed. This new tool … Continue … | Continue reading
From 27th October 2020 to 30th October 2020, the ROCK Open Knowledge Week will take place online on the topic: Cultural Heritage as Oxygen in Times of Crisis. After the annulation of the conference in Bologna, scheduled on 14-15 May, … Continue reading → | Continue reading
After the annulation of the conference in Bologna, scheduled on 14-15 May, Rock project presents the ROCK Open Knowledge Week, an interactive online experience on the topic: Cultural Heritage as Oxygen in Times of Crisis. The event is aimed at … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The project 50s in Europe Kaleidoscope was concluded in February 2020. The project explored user engagement with digital cultural heritage by focusing on archival photographs related to the project theme ‘1950s in Europe’. Digital Tools Kaleidoscope gathered user-experience feedb … | Continue reading
Reimagining Museums for Climate Action asks designers, architects, academics, artists, poets, philosophers, museum professionals and the public at large to radically (re)imagine and (re)design the museum as an institution, to help bring about more equitable and sustainable future … | Continue reading
Co-financed by the European Union under the CEF Connecting Europe Facility Programme, PAGODE wants to contribute to generating rich user experience and high audience engagement with Europeana, the European digital library, by proposing a thematic approach in the aggregation, cura … | Continue reading
Put forth by UNESCO, artists around the world engage with the “ResiliArt” movement to demonstrate how “confinement can also be a period of openness to others and to culture, to strengthen the links between artistic creation and society.” The movement remains strong … Continue rea … | Continue reading
Do you appreciate the opportunities of cross-disciplinary education? Would you like to develop your creative skills? Do you aspire to be a visionary scholar, researcher and artist? ATEC, the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at the University of … Continue re … | Continue reading
The video art selection, curated by Gioula Papadopoulou (art director and curator of Video Art Miden) presents 8 works that deal with various concepts concerning the “homo digitalis” era and artificial intelligence, exploring the physical detachment and the gradual digitalization … | Continue reading
img.: Schematic depiction of a knowledge graph in the performing arts domain; from the paper by Julia Beck, Frankfurt University Library, CC0. The SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) annual conference is one of the essential events related to Linked Open … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra, funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, promote best practices related to heritage conservation, research, management, education and communication. They contribute to a stronger public recognition of value of cu … | Continue reading
Today’s knowledge of the linguistic and cultural diversity of humanity is widely based on magnetic tape recordings produced over the past 60 years. Magnetic audio and video tape formats are now obsolete. Spare parts supply and service is fading, replay … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The rapid shuttering of museums due to COVID-19 has had serious consequences; museums, to stay connected with audiences when they can’t physically visit collections, found new and unusual ways to bring together their public. So they have entered in the … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The young project, started this May 2020, will complement the ESPON Targeted Analysis of 2019: “The Material Cultural Heritage as a Strategic Territorial Development Resource: Mapping Impacts Through a Set of Common European Socio-economic Indicators” (https://www.espon.eu/cultur … | Continue reading
The young project, started this May 2020, will complement the ESPON Targeted Analysis of 2019: “The Material Cultural Heritage as a Strategic Territorial Development Resource: Mapping Impacts Through a Set of Common European Socio-economic Indicators” (https://www.espon.eu/cultur … | Continue reading
The conference is organised under the patronage of Burgas Municipality and aims at presenting innovative results, research projects and applications in the field of digitisation, documentation, archiving, representation and preservation of global and national tangible and intangi … | Continue reading
The conference is organised under the patronage of Burgas Municipality and aims at presenting innovative results, research projects and applications in the field of digitisation, documentation, archiving, representation and preservation of global and national tangible and intangi … | Continue reading
The Europeana Aggregators Forum is the gathering where twice a year the community of Europeana most trusted partners meets to review strategies and collaborations, and make plans for the future. All the aggregators work with cultural heritage institutions to gather … Continue rea … | Continue reading
To commemorate this year’s Europe Day organised on the 9th of May a webinar dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage is being organised. This webinar brings together two of the smallest island nations of the EU – Malta and Cyprus. These are the only EU members in the Mediterranean … | Continue reading
To commemorate this year’s Europe Day organised on the 9th of May a webinar dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage is being organised. This webinar brings together two of the smallest island nations of the EU – Malta and Cyprus. These are the only EU members in the Mediterranean … | Continue reading
The Ars Electronica Center of Linz (Austria) offers to people a weekly programme for attending at performances, concerts, exhibitions from their homes, just connecting at ars.electronica.art/homedelivery/en. Objective: Ars Electronica Home Delivery initiative is not conceived as … | Continue reading
COVID-19 pandemic particularly affected the cultural and cultural heritage sectors with travel bans, public closures and event cancellations with alarming financial implications. As a consequence, plenty of museums and cultural organizations increased the use of digital technolog … | Continue reading
The project, carried out by Rosemary (Rosa) E Kostic Ciseros from Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research included a symposium, 2 art exhibitions, 2 online campaigns, 3 films. During the activities GRT and non-GRT academics and artists and policymakers worked … Continue r … | Continue reading
The Gypsy Roma Traveller in Higher Education- Influencing Policy is a research project concluded the 31st March 2020 and funded by QR Strategic Priorities Fund 2019-20 and Coventry University Centre for Dance Research. Focus of the project was to concern … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) is an independent network of national museum organisations representing the museum community of the member states of the Council of Europe. It has always promoted the work of museums and their value to … Continue reading → | Continue reading
EXARC, the ICOM affiliated organization for Archaeological Open-Air Museums, Experimental Archeology, Ancient & Traditional Technology and Interpretation & Education, has increased its online presence with a new monthly series called #FinallyFriday. This is an open access online … | Continue reading
This call is addressed to researchers, practitioners, professionals, citizens and in general to the representatives from the cultural heritage sector who are interested in promoting the value of cultural heritage and in supporting its public recognition. We welcome posters and … … | Continue reading
The 30th April expires the deadline for participating in the call jointly launched by the Universities of Coventry and Warwick entitled “Coventry Creates”. The goal is to fund local artists hit financially by the COVID-19 by offering a fee of … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The Resilience for Cultural Heritage workshop, organised and hosted by Charles University, took place in Prague on 5 and 6 March 2020. One of the objectives of the REACH project has been to test the concept of resilient cultural heritage … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The Filmmaker Alima Lee offers a series of short films to rediscover the meaning of belonging and home in this moment of profound isolation. “Films for isolation includes time-based works of four Black queer artists and their exploration of the … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Estimating realistically the consequences of a long pandemic, the gathering event in Dubrovnik comprising the conference and the awards will not take place this year, but the 2020 edition of The Best in Heritage is planned, delivering the annual overview … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The RURITAGE project invites you to share innovative actions in the midst of the global pandemic crisis to increase and strengthen resilience in rural communities. COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented health crisis that is disrupting the lives of thousands … Continue re … | Continue reading
People are not custom to live isolated and confined at home. The forced reclusion due to the Covid-19 pandemic leads to disorientation and discouragement. In this scenario it is thus even more important than ever to spread the value of … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Video Art Miden collaborates with the 1st Painting Studio of Athens School of Fine Arts, participating in this year’s academic project under the theme “ARTificial Intelligence“. In this frame, Video Art Miden prepared a special video art program to be viewed by the students of … … | Continue reading
Due to the movement restriction measures adopted by all European Countries to avoid the spread of Covid 19 pandemic, the REACH Project decided to cancel its final conference planned for the 4-5 June 2020 in Pisa. However, the Consortium is … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The accessibility allows to fully live in the city and to fully understand and experiment with it, but, how can Cultural Heritage be accessible to everyone? The third booklet of ROCK project, published last February, addresses this question. The urban … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Text by Caterina Sbrana Can you imagine a library where anyone can go to learn and explore our shared human experience from books, web pages, audio, television and software ? This place exists. Its name is: the Internet Archive. I … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The event is promoted by the International Research Conference, a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. With its high quality, it provides an exceptional value for stu … | Continue reading
The European Creative Business Network (ECBN), an advocacy institution for the European culture and creative industries, denounced the economic impact due the spread of the corona virus on the cultural and creative industries (CCIs). The entire sector seems to be … Continue read … | Continue reading
After much work on improving the beta version, the updated Europeana collections website is now live and available. VISIT! www.europeana.eu As the Executive Director Harry Verwayen just said “We now feel confident that we are releasing a much-improved website that … Continue read … | Continue reading
NEMO, the Network of European Museum Organisations, represents the museum community of the Council of Europe member states . Since its founding, in 1992, it promots the work of museums and their value to policy makers and provide museums with … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The choice of Paris 8 to dedicate a page to UNCHARTED project in the university website is a key contribution for the promotion of the project among researchers and experts of the academic world. The showcase has been included in … Continue reading → | Continue reading
text by Caterina Sbrana. “Na na na heyana, Hahiyaha naha ..” This is how Frozen, the Walt Disney movie directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, begins. The film has no relevance to the National Archives of Norway but who … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Professionals and organizations involved in preservation, management and valorisation of Komani, of other heritage sites in the Drin Valley, Albania and the Balkan region as well as relevant speakers with an important experience in preservation of Balkans heritage are invites … C … | Continue reading