New release of the PDF/A conformance checker. The latest version of veraPDF is now available to download. veraPDF is an open source PDF/A validator, and version 1.10 marks the first release of veraPDF as part of the Open Preservation Foundation’s (OPF) reference toolset. The late … | Continue reading
Beijing (China), 13-14 September 2018 Organized by THID Tsinghua Heritage Institution for Digitalization in Beijing, this biannual event had attracted so far foreign experts from over 30 countries and regions promoting a tradition of international collaboration and exchange on th … | Continue reading
The Jury will select 1 winner and 2 honorable mentions for each category, out of which the ITS LIQUID Group, a communication platform for contemporary art, architecture and design, is proud to present ITS LIQUID International Contest – 5th Edition 2017. The contest is a great op … | Continue reading
led by Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne University, this course starting mid-January 2018 provides a wide overview of tourism issues at UNESCO World Heritage Sites This MOOC “Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites”, produced by the UNESCO-UNITWIN Network “Culture, Tourism, and … | Continue reading
Goethe Institute, Bratislava (Slovakia), 30 November 2017 Representatives of various institutions, researchers, art critics, Roma intellectuals and artists will meet at this symposium to discuss, together with the audience, the current situation of the Roma cultural heritage. Th … | Continue reading
A new exhibition, dedicated to the civic engagement is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Set up by the artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, Philadelphia Assembled, differentiates itself by not putting pleasure as its end goal, but … Continue reading → | Continue reading
3D laser scanning and other advanced technologies are the tools for fighting Heritage sites' loss The CyArk 500 Challenge has the ambitious goal to digitally preserve 500 cultural heritage sites within the next five years. Heritage sites are a significant part of our collective m … | Continue reading
Milan (Italy), 6 December 2017 The Europeana Network Association AGM 2017 takes place on 6 December in Milan! Meet your peers to exchange professional knowledge and get inspired in a lovely museum surrounding in the run up to 2018. There are five good reasons why … Continue readi … | Continue reading
the Canadian artist and his so-called 'scanner paintings' are on show in the new exhibition 'Contemporary Photography Forum' at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Miami (7 November 2017 – 8 April 2018) Paul Kneale (b.1986) is interested in how the physical world is constantly transl … | Continue reading
The November 2017 updates for Acrobat DC, now available from Adobe, include some significant news for those who pay attention to ISO standards-adoption. Among the enhancements of the preflight tools there is also PDF/A compatibility with veraPDF. Now, Acrobat preflight tools can … | Continue reading
MediaConch in Action! Issue #9 This is the nineth in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Brian is the head of the Digital Production Unit for the Special Collections & Archives Research Center at Oregon State University Libraries & Press … | Continue reading
This is the seventh in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Patricia Falcao is a time-based media conservator at Tate. She uses MediaConch to check files that have resulted from migration. Francesca Colussi is one of the senior time-based … | Continue reading
Fill in this survey and help us to plan more efficiently for the future of this software MediaArea is immensely grateful to have been involved in the PREFORMA challenge over the past three years. Through this initiative, MediaArea has been given the opportunity to further contrib … | Continue reading
Brussels, 13 December 2017 On Wednesday, December 13, PACKED and the Royal Library of Belgium, in collaboration with the University of Girona, organise a workshop "Quality Control of TIFF Files". The workshop is intended for digital archivists who are responsible for the long-ter … | Continue reading
Brussels, 24 November 2017 On Friday, November 24, PACKED and the Royal Library of Belgium, in collaboration with the Open Preservation Foundation, organise a workshop "Quality Control of PDF Files". The workshop is intended for digital archivists who are responsible for the long … | Continue reading
Notes from the second day of the PREFORMA International Conference Hosted by the National Library of Estonia, the PREFORMA International Conference "Shaping our future memory standards" brought together 150 people worldwide to discuss the importance of standardisation and file f … | Continue reading
A network on cultural participation, to promote a collaborative role of citizens in the society Collaborative approaches to culture are nowadays a current issue; they represent a valuable tool to promote democratic participation, sustainability and social cohesion by helping to … | Continue reading
Berlin (Germany), 24-25 December 2017 reach kick off test test test | Continue reading
main output of the project will be a social platform for professional and amateurs intereted and involved in culture and cultural heritage Coordinated by Coventry University with participation of important international partners, the upcoming three-year REACH project will establi … | Continue reading
Viewers will now have access to extremely high resolution images of the famous Ghent Altarpiece taken before, during, and after its conservation The Getty Foundation and the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels) announced today the launch of major enhancement … | Continue reading
Berlin (Germany) 24-25 May 2018 The 16th edition of the ”Culture and Computer Science“ conference series brings into focus best practice examples, challenges and future trends in the fields of hybrid systems, augmented, mixed and virtual reality, 3D technology, data collection an … | Continue reading
Cologne (Germany), 22-24 November 2017 EXPONATEC COLOGNE – Europe’s leading communications platform of the museum, conservation and restoration segments will present valuable information, solutions proven in practice, surprising visions and international exchange of experiences i … | Continue reading
Featuring from October 11 to November 5, [B] Force is inspired by the ethereal aspect of dance The intensity of a dance resides in its weightless stream of movement and harmony, and in the single beat which connects one moment to the next. Dance has the power both to give meaning … | Continue reading
Krakow (Poland), 24-29 October 2017 Patchlab Digital Art Festival, organised in Krakow since 2012, is an international event dedicated to interdisciplinary (post)digital art forms, created at the intersection of art, new technologies and creative programming. During the 6th editi … | Continue reading
Notes from the first day of the PREFORMA International Conference Hosted by the National Library of Estonia, the PREFORMA International Conference "Shaping our future memory standards" brought together 150 people worldwide to discuss the importance of standardisation and file for … | Continue reading
Validating formats, a prerequisite for preserving digital objects We are pleased to announce that The PREFORMA Handbook is now available to download. This publication is intended as a practical guidebook to be offered as a critical instrument to decision-makers in cultural herit … | Continue reading
Artists at all stages of their careers are encouraged to apply, by 12th November Queertech.io is calling for digital and new media works from queer identifying artists. Be part of the ongoing conversation about #QueerTech. Curated by the Queertech.io artist collective and Midsumm … | Continue reading
Budapest (Hungary), 28-29 November 2017 This year’s MUZEUM@DIGIT will be special as we celebrate the 5th conference since the start in 2013. The conference has become an important event in the Hungarian and international museum sector, hundreds of museum professionals have partic … | Continue reading
Karlsruhe (Germany), 19-20 October 2017 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 Oct … | Continue reading
The original metal model is the first historical reconstruction of an entire city in three dimensions, and now it is going digital. The Relief Model of 1850 Geneva is a 30sm metallic model of the city when it was still enclosed by three rows of fortifications. The model was compl … | Continue reading
The research project Collecting Social Photo will host a workshop series exploring new ways of displaying the networked, assembled and volatile social digital photograph by heritage institutions for their stakeholders. The Collecting Social Photo project is happy to invite creati … | Continue reading
Milan (Italy), 7-8 December 2017 The European Culture Forum is a biennial flagship event organised by the European Commission to raise the profile of European cultural cooperation, to bring together cultural sectors’ key players and to debate on EU culture policy and initiatives. … | Continue reading
Call for Artists open for the next Athens Digital Arts Festival 2018 - deadline 30 November 2017 Event Horizon is the conceivable surface of a black hole, a place where gravity curves space-time so much, there is no escape, not even by light itself. Its core is the singularity, a … | Continue reading
Bogotà (Colombia), 1-30 November 2017 and from 7-30 March 2018 ALCHEMIC BODY | FIRE . AIR . WATER . EARTH is an exhibition of contemporary art, an opportunity for international artists to exhibit their works in the blooming Bogotà arts scene, destination of curators and collector … | Continue reading
Porto (Portugal), 23-25 January 2018 After the success of the previous EUDAT conference in Amsterdam which brought together more than 300 participants, we are ready to kick-off 2018 with the EUDAT conference “Putting the EOSC vision into practice“. The conference takes place in t … | Continue reading
Berlin (Germany), 4th December 2017 Invitation: First meet-up of European GLAM Hackathon organisers in Berlin Date: 04th of December 2017 from 10 to 15 Venue: Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 in 10963 Berlin, Germany Host: the organisers of Coding da Vinci (DDB, … | Continue reading
From 1-31 October, all GIF-makers, history nuts, cultural heritage enthusiasts and lovers of the internet are invited to take part in the fourth annual GIF IT UP competition. The competition encourages people to create new, fun and unique artworks from digitized cultural heritage … | Continue reading
The focus for this year’s grant proposals is intercultural dialogue in its broadest sense. Deadline is 20th October 2017 Europeana Research is delighted to be launching the second Europeana Research Grants Programme. Applicants are encouraged to come up with individual research p … | Continue reading
Melbourne (Australia), 26-29 June 2018 RMIT University is pleased to host the 20th International Conference on Cultural Economics, presented by the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI). The Conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia, from Tuesday June 26t … | Continue reading
MediaConch in Action! Issue #7 This is the seventh in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Brendan is AudioVisual Digitization Technician at the University of California. He is using MediaConch both on the raw XDCAM captures, to make sure … | Continue reading
Tallinn (Estonia), 11-12 October 2017 Following the successful workshops organised in Stockholm, Berlin and Padua, the PREFORMA project invites all the members of the digital preservation community to attend the PREFORMA International Conference – Shaping our future memory standa … | Continue reading
special issue 'Perceiving Cultural Heritage Through Digital Technologies' / deadline 30th November The aim of this special issue is to solicit interdisciplinary studies about the complex phenomenon that takes place during the aesthetic and synesthetic involvement of a human obser … | Continue reading
All Europeana’s professional services in one place, a redesigned website placing people first In September 2017, the Europeana Pro website went throught a major redesign, also integrating Europeana Labs and Europeana Research, which were previously living on separate websites. On … | Continue reading
With no expensive gallery fees to pay, BAM! allows artwork to be valued fairly and realistically, making it accessible and affordable to a much wider audience. In July of this year Baxters International launched an exciting new app – BAM! a mobile and online market place for buyi … | Continue reading
Using big data analysis, it would be possible to develop innovative predictive analytics in forecasting future attendance and visitor engagement. August 16 2017 The National Gallery, London, is working in collaboration with museum analytics firm, Dexibit, to use big data for pr … | Continue reading
Brussels (Belgium), 30 November - 1 December 2017 Once again this year, EUDAT is co-organising the Digital Infrastructures for Research (DI4R) event together with RDA Europe, PRACE, EGI, OpenAIRE and GÉANT. The event takes place in the heart of the European Union in Brussels (Bel … | Continue reading