Scope of the project is to leverage on cultural heritage for promoting an effective regeneration and adaptive reuse in historic city centres. In May 2017 a new EC-funded project in H2020, named ROCK, has been launched by coordinator Municipality of Bologna. Supported by a large i … | Continue reading
Rome, 17-19 October 2017 The fourth edition of the TECHNOLOGYforALL Forum will be held in Rome from 17 to 19 October 2017. Italy’s role in the development and conservation of the world Heritage is a framework where we will try to analyse the weighted … Continue reading → | Continue reading
MediaConch in Action! Issue #6 This is the sixth in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Ben and Geneve work in the Audio and Moving Image Preservation Unit at at New York Public Library. MediaConch is an integral part of the Quality Cont … | Continue reading
full time course January – December 2018 in Florence Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano and Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence are glad to present the Executive Master in Cultural Heritage. Creativity, Innovation and Management: a one-year, full-time program, … | Continue reading
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 14 September 2017 There is an unprecedented amount of data on the Web today. However, this data is only as useful as its quality allows it to be. Data Quality is an important topic in companies and organizations that use and/or disseminate large … Co … | Continue reading
Linz (Austria), 7-11 September 2017 September 7-11, 2017, Linz will host an exciting, comprehensive confrontation with the reality and the vision of artificial intelligence. Symposia, exhibitions, performances, workshops and artistic interventions will elaborate in depth on its c … | Continue reading
Facet Publishing have announced the release of Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage by Gill Hamilton and Fred Saunderson. In the digital era, libraries, archives, museums and galleries are no longer constrained by the physical limitations of their buildings, analogue books, manus … | Continue reading
Contributions are encouraged in media studies, digital humanities, television and media history. Deadline for proposals 2 October 2017. Considering the relevance of audiovisual material as perhaps the biggest wave of data to come in the near future (Smith, 2013, IBM prospective s … | Continue reading
Manchester (UK); 27-29 November 2017 Join the #DCDC17 in November for three days of discussions and workshops on how we gather, measure and present evidence of the cultural value and impact of our collections. DCDC17 keynotes Geoffrey Crossick, Distinguished Professor of Humanit … | Continue reading
Cultural sites are highly emotional places and Emotive will research, design, develop and evaluate methods and tools to support the creation of narratives which draw on ’emotive storytelling’. Emotive is an EU-funded heritage project that aims to use emotional storytelling to dra … | Continue reading
Webinar, 19 September | 15:00 CEST The PREFORMA project that commissioned and funded the development of veraPDF draws to an end this year. Recent activity has been focused on PREFORMA acceptance testing, formalising the decisions of the PDF Association's Technical Working Group a … | Continue reading
Singapore, 5-6 April 2018 FICC 2018 aims to provide a forum for researchers from both academia and industry to share their latest research contributions, future vision in the field and potential impact across industries. FICC2018 allows attendeesto exchange knowledge with the com … | Continue reading
This is the fifth in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Julia Kim is the Digital Assets Specialist at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. So far, she has primarily used MediaConch to create reports for new and incom … | Continue reading
A toolset to future-proof your digital files Digital preservation means taking precautions to ensure long-term access to digital content. It mitigates the risk of files becoming obsolete or unusable in the future. The PREFORMA tools help you validate incoming file formats and cod … | Continue reading
The presentation of the works of art will be random at Nasdaq site, lasting several minutes in each session. Since July 19, 2017 until December 31, 2017 will be shown art from Santiago Ribeiro at Times Square Nasdaq OMX Group, New York city. Nasdaq, MarketSite is located in New Y … | Continue reading
MediaConch in action! Issue #4 Marion is a video archivist at the Austrian Mediathek, the Austrian video and sound archive. Her main area of work is the digitization of analogue videos and quality control of video files entering the digital archive. The main use case for MediaCon … | Continue reading
New release available on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal The latest version of veraPDF is now available to download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. This release includes new PDF information in the features report and automatic configuration of the features extractor when app … | Continue reading
New release available on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal A new version of the DPF Manager has been released! There are several improvements in this update. The most significant one is the redesign of the reports section, where now it is easier (and much faster) to browse the anal … | Continue reading
a new framework for a cost-effective cultural heritage preservation using cutting-edge 3D Holoscopic imaging technology and archival tools. CEPROQHA (NPRP9-181-1-036) is a cooperative research project between Qatar University and Brunel University (UK), funded by the Qatar Natio … | Continue reading
Sinop (Turkey), 1th August – 17th September 2017 The 6th edition of Sinopale–International Sinop Biennial under the common title “Transposition” will take place in Sinop, Turkey, from 1th August to 17th September 2017. Affirming the periphery, Sinopale brings international contem … | Continue reading
London (UK), 18th September 2017 Kyoto University and Goldsmiths, University of London are organizing an International Symposium entitled “Future Mind” – Art and Technology in the future. Location: the Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmith, University of London Program: Registration an … | Continue reading
MediaConch in action! Issue #3 This is the third in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Kieran O’Leary has an intership with the Irish Film Archive within the Irish Film Institute, mostly working on code, workflows, metadata, digitisatio … | Continue reading
Vienna (Austria), 8-10 November 2017 The programme of the Cultural Heritage and New technologies CHNT conference this year includes different sessions: Integrating historical maps and archaeological data using digital technologies Adding life to written sources by studying the de … | Continue reading
until 31 December in Sant Cugat, the exhibition from digitized vintage photography showcases everyday life in 1839-1939 Another instance of the successful photographic exhibition All Our Yesterdays, originally produced in the framework of Europeanaphotography project (2012-2015) … | Continue reading
Roma 11th July 2017 Pillar of this agreement between DiCultHer Digital Cultural Heritage, Arts & Humanities School education network and DARIAH.it, the Italian hub of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, is to transfer the results of European research … | Continue reading
This is the second in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Kathryn is Digital Collections Manager at Carnegie Hall and she develops and supports sustainable practices around the digital asset lifecycle to ensure the availability and integ … | Continue reading
New release available on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal A lot of improvements and new features have been included in the new release of the DPF Manager. The most important changes are the inclusion of a Quick Check functionality that allows to perform a fast validation of the fi … | Continue reading
Budapest (Hungary), 9-10 November 2017 ICT Proposers’ Day 2017 will take place on 9 and 10 November in Budapest, Hungary. This networking event centres on European ICT Research & Innovation with a special focus on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme for 2018-20. An Opening Ceremony … … | Continue reading
Los Angeles (US), 6-9 November 2017 Communicating the Museum (CTM) was launched in 2000 and since then over 5’000 professionals from the cultural sector have attended this conference. Following a very successful edition in Paris in June, the 19th edition of the international conf … | Continue reading
International Call for Papers - Deadline: 01 September 2017 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) might be considered by many as synonyms, also because they are the buzzwords of this decade. But actually they are not. They both question though, the ability of the … | Continue reading
a Festival focused on interrelation between theatre, arts and new technology. Deadline 21st September 2017 On December 2017, Kyber Teatro organises in Cagliari (Italy) the fourth edition of International Theatre, Art and New Technologies Festival Le meraviglie del Possibile LMDP … | Continue reading
Dubrovnik, Croatia, 28-30 September 2017 As a result of the long and devoted work of dozens of experts and professional juries, more than 40 major award schemes from around the world announced some 300 prize-winning museum, heritage and conservation projects in 2016. At The Best … | Continue reading
deadline for application is 7th July Following a successful 2016 and excellent bids from archives and other memory institutions last year, the TWA Digitisation Grant has relaunched with a fresh tranche of funding in 2017. The fund offers grants of up to £5000 for UK archives, … C … | Continue reading
A digital artwork by Situ Xiaochun. Dream Land is a virtual space that was recently included in an important collective exhibition entitled “Self Criticism” at Beijing’s museum Inside Out. A second exhibition of Dream Land took place in the office of the artistic director of new … | Continue reading
Berlin (Germany), 22-23 June 2017 Officially launching the new Europeana 1914-1918 thematic collection, Europeana Transcribathon Campus Berlin 2017 marks the next milestone for the crowdsourcing digital archive dedicated to the historical conflict, and puts a spotlight on the inv … | Continue reading
Enroll now and learn how to creatively reuse digital cultural content from professionals of the Europeana Space network. For the second academic year, the E-Space MOOC “Creative with Digital Heritage” is accepting enrollments. Europeana Space was a EC-funded project about the cre … | Continue reading
Happy Summer from MediaArea! We are pleased to announce the progress we’ve made this year. There are new updates to MediaConch that expand its capabilities, user stories to share, and new events related to implementation checking and the standardization of open audiovisual format … | Continue reading
To celebrate its fifth anniversary, the VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture brings its readers a fully redesigned website and the release of its latest issue on Non-fiction Transmedia. VIEW Journal started five years ago as the first peer-reviewed, multimedia … | Continue reading
Interview with Eddy Colloton This is the first in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Eddy Colloton is Assistant Conservator specializing in electronic media at the Denver Art Museum (DAM). DAM is planning to use MediaConch primarily for … | Continue reading
The industry-supported PDF/A open-source validator The latest release of veraPDF is available to download in the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. The validation logic and test corpus of veraPDF 1.6 have been updated to comply with the resolutions of the PDF Association’s PDF Validat … | Continue reading
Madrid (Spain), 29-30 November 2017 The NEM Summit is an international conference and exhibition, open to co-located events and organised every year since 2008 by the NEM Initiative (New European Media – European Technology Platform – www.nem-initiative.org) for all those interes … | Continue reading
Girona (Spain), 9th June 2017 img. Ajuntament de Girona, Vista exterior de l’absis de la Catedral de Girona, Public Domain. Hosted by Photoconsortium member CRDI, the 2017 Annual Event of Photoconsortium is organized in the beautiful city of Girona (Spain), seat of an important a … | Continue reading
Demonstrations of the PREFORMA tools in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Quedlinburg, and Stockholm During May 2017, successful hands-on sessions and workshops have been organised by PREFORMA in several places to explain to the participants what does conformance checking mean, why is file f … | Continue reading
Riga, 15 May 2017 Report of the course about formats for preservation organised by PREFORMA in Riga in the framework of the IS&T (Society for Imaging Science and Technology) conference Archiving 2017. The participants were introduced to an abstract and a generic overview of the m … | Continue reading
London (UK); 11-17 July 2017 with pre-event symposyum on 10th July Held annually in July, EVA London is one of the international Electronic Visualisation & the Arts conferences. The first EVA conference was held in 1990, with the intention to create a space for people using or in … | Continue reading
an innovative program focuses on the ways in which museums use digital technology and media to enhance services, collections and user engagement The Master of Science in Museums and Digital Culture (MDC) of the Pratt Institute in NY (School of Information) is an innovative progra … | Continue reading