The new event by The Trampery and Barbican Centre will deal with the possibility to speculate on space and its construction with technological tools. Thursday, 25th May 2017 7 – 9:30pm at The Trampery Republic A previous edition of Interfaces Monthly (IM092016: ‘A Matter of Mater … | Continue reading
Venice (Italy), 22-23 May 2017 The expression ‘Fashion heritage’ refers to a heterogeneous group of objects, different in nature and meaning. Lately, a general interest towards museum collections and archival materials related especially to fashion has been rising, demanding for … | Continue reading
Multimedia app shows „Snow White“ and plays Estonian film music in the National Library in Tallinn On 2 May 2017 the National Library of Estonia launched a MuPoP exhibition in the Library’s foyer. The exhibition introduces one book illustration stored in the National Library toge … | Continue reading
On the occasion of the launch event of Europeana Photography, the new online platform about early photography, a station with the Pop-Up Museum is set up for trying the Man Meets World exhibition One of the virtual interactive exhibitions about Belle Epoque, which are curated by … | Continue reading
Pisa, 20th May 2017 On May 20th it’s “Open, Sesame!” at Pisa’s Museo della Grafica. Precisely on the European Night of Museums, PHOTOCONSORTIUM and Europeana will launch the Europeana Photography thematic collection: an online platform that celebrates early photography by showcas … | Continue reading
Dublin (Ireland), 3rd November 2017 This one day symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners who are concerned to interrogate the role of the archive in the production of new knowledges about photography in Ireland, and those who offer alternative narratives of Ir … | Continue reading
the digital immersive installation will be live until the 2nd of November IN/OUT – Artificial Paradises is an exclusive multi sensory work of art / installation by Miguel Chevalier for the park in Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire and is accompanied by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi origina … | Continue reading
Tallinn, 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 standards, which … | Continue reading
Leiden (The Netherlands), 13-14th June This two-day workshop is jointly hosted by CARARE and Europeana at the University of Leiden, Faculty of Archaeology. The theme of the workshop is Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana. The physical remains of Europe’s rich heritage are … | Continue reading
International artists have the opportunity to gain an insightful look into and experience the world behind the scenes of the world-renowned art university The Berlin Summer University of the Arts is home to a multitude of workshops and courses incorporating all disciplines of th … | Continue reading
Saint Petersburg (Russia), 22-23 June 2017 Announcement on the International conference EVA 2017 SAINT PETERSBURG: Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts, which will be held on 22-23 June 2017 at the ITMO University, Lomonosov str., bld. 9. The working language of the conference i … | Continue reading
Part of the 11th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2017), November 28th – December 1st 2017, Tallinn, Estonia Submission deadline: June 15th, 2017 Proceedings will be published in Springer CCIS series AIM AND SCOPE Cultural Heritage collections ar … | Continue reading
now, citizens from around the world can vote online for the Public Choice Award and win a trip to Turku for the Awards Ceremony. On the 5th of April, the European Commission and Europa Nostra revealed the winners of the 2017 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nos … | Continue reading
Riga, 15 May 2017 Riksarkivet (the Swedish National Archive) has been invited to the IS&T conference Archiving 2017 to hold a course about file formats for preservation on the 15th of May. The course will take the form of a workshop with the purpose to concretise the work done in … | Continue reading
This residency will provide the opportunity to develop the production of an orginal artwork, a fresh approach to innovation challenges. VERTIGO is a program which organizes 45 artistic residencies over a 3-year period in order to create new synergies between artistic communities, … | Continue reading
Montreal, Canada, 7th August 2017 / deadline for submission: 31st May 2017 *Call for Abstracts* / Computer Vision in Digital Humanities 3rd Workshop on AVinDH, to be held at the Digital Humanities Conference DH2017, Montreal, Canada Date: 7 August 2017 Deadline for Abstracts: 31 … | Continue reading
Olimje, Slovenia, 23rd May 2017 CNRS MAP, together with FORTH-ICS is organising a Workshop on the Integration of Heritage Digital Resources. The aim of the workshop is to introduce the participants to the concept of linked data and to a selection of data curation tools that can b … | Continue reading
The file format validator for PDF/A documents We are pleased to announce that the new release of veraPDF, the open source file format validator for PDF/A documents, is available to download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. veraPDF 1.4 has a new GUI wizard for creating custom p … | Continue reading
the conference and exhibition opens on 27th April 2017, gathering international attendees, cultural institutions, experts and companies working in the field of cultural heritage The only exhibition that gathers together Restoration, Archaeology, and Museum Technologies under one … | Continue reading
the movie won the Director’s Choice award at Rhode Island International Film Festival, and the Prix de Public at the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival prior to its screening at the 2016 Edinburgh Short Film Festival Ivan Barge directed the multi-award winning, Ma … | Continue reading
Brussels (Belgium), 30th May 2017 The tourism industry is of great socio-economic importance for the European Union, accounting for 10% of EU GDP and employing about 12 million people (Eurostat, 2015). According to the latest report by the United Nations World Tourism Organizatio … | Continue reading
From 14th February to 19th March 2017, 3 different digital installations in Shangahai celebrated the arrival of Spring. Miguel Chevalier has created three monumental installations, especially for the Jing An Kerry Centre in Shanghai, that are an ode to nature, announcing and cele … | Continue reading
Call for Papers deadline: 28th April 2017 - the workshop takes place in Madeira/Portugal on 28th of June 2017 In Madeira it is organised a Workshop on “Advances in Digital Cultural Heritage”, next 28th of June 2017. This Workshop aims to bring together experts, stakeholders, pol … | Continue reading
Cairo (Egypt), 3-4 December 2017 The e-AGE conference had established itself as an important venue for networking among experts and scientists. In 2017, e-AGE will be held under the patronage of His Excellency Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, the secretary general of the League of Arab States … | Continue reading
Submission deadline is 1 October 2017. e-AGE conference will take place in Cairo on 3-4 December 2017 Under The Patronage of His Excellency Ahmed Aboul-Gheit Secretary General of the League of Arab States e-AGE 2017 Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters and Participation 7th In … | Continue reading
Virtual Multimodal Museum (ViMM project) seeks for experts to join its Advisory Board Virtual Multimodal Museum (ViMM – www.vi-mm.eu) is a high-visibility and participative Coordination and Support Action (CSA), funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme (CULT-COOP-8-2016). ViMM … | Continue reading
a project of IATP International Association of Photography and Theory invites artists to collaborate - deadline 21st May 2017 This Call invites artists who particularly work with photography to respond to the theme of the International Association of Photography and Theory’s firs … | Continue reading
Rome (Italy), 26-27 June 2017 EdMuse project – Education and Museum: Cultural Heritage for science learning is a two-year Strategic Partnership (2015-2017) funded by the EU Programme Erasmus+, Key Action 2 Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices. The project … | Continue reading
Girona, 27 March 2017 Sònia Oliveras i Artau from Girona City Council, one of the memory institutions participating as procurers in PREFORMA, presented the PREFORMA project to the Permanent Observatory of Archives and Local Televisions (OPATL) in Girona, a collaboration project s … | Continue reading
Artist Chris Cheung Hon Him presents this installation collaborated with NikeLab’s The Vision-Airs project. VaporScape is an interactive soundscape installation collaborated with NikeLab’s The Vision-Airs project, globally launched for celebrating the new VaporMax technology. The … | Continue reading
the technology and its application will be demonstrated in the important event MW17 The conference MW17: Museums and the Web (this year taking place in Cleveland, Ohio, April 19-22) will feature advanced research and exemplary applications of digital practice for cultural, natura … | Continue reading
The Hague (Netherlands), 1 May 2017 DANS seminar on May 1, 12.00-17.30h. Meet people at the forefront of new developments in creating, keeping, and using Linked Data. Hear more about nanopublications, self-publishing of scholarly papers, image interoperability and FAIR principles … | Continue reading
Now that the PREFORMA prototypes are complete and functionally stable, the PREFORMA project is organising a series of hands-on session and training seminars to explain to the participants what does conformance checking mean, why is file format validation so important in long-term … | Continue reading
At the final review in Brussels the project was awarded with the highest evaluation! We are so proud! Dear followers of E-Space project, I am very pleased to tell you that the final project review went very well and we have been awarded an ‘excellent’ for the project. Moreover, t … | Continue reading
Webinar, 30 March 2017, 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST The veraPDF software is capable of more than just PDF/A validation. It also provides a policy checker capable of carrying out custom PDF document checks beyond the scope of PDF/A validation. In this webinar we’ll be giving a demonstr … | Continue reading
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/PREFORMA_D8.8_Monitoring-of-the-Open-Source-Project-implementation_v2.1.pdf Deliverable D8.8 reports on monitoring of the Open Source Project implementations. Based on development efforts for each supplier, this update … | Continue reading
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/PREFORMA_D8.5.-Final-prototype-report_v1.0.pdf This deliverable presents the results of the second part of the Prototyping phase in the PREFORMA project, thereby to some extent also summarising the outcomes of this pha … | Continue reading
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/PREFORMA_D8.4_Design-Final-Report_v1.0.pdf This deliverable is considered to be the final report on the activities related to the preparation and procedure of the design phase #2, internally also called the re-design p … | Continue reading
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/PREFORMA_D8.1_Competitive-evaluation-strategy_R2.pdf This second release of D8.1 “Competitive Evaluation Strategy” [Agosti et al., 2014] has a twofold goal: In December 2016 there will be the final tender of the PREFOR … | Continue reading
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/PREFORMA_D3-7-1_Initial-version-of-Sustainability-and-Exploiation-Plan_v1.0.pdf This deliverable describes the initial version of the sustainability and exploitation plan of PREFORMA, including a preliminary impact ass … | Continue reading
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/PREFORMA_D3-5_Experience-Workshop_v1.0_with_Annex2.pdf The Experience Workshop took place Berlin on 23 November 2016, in connection with the second Prototype Demonstration. The PREFORMA partners shared their experience … | Continue reading
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/PREFORMA_D3.4_Open-Source-Workshop_v1.0_with_appendices.pdf Deliverable D3.4 reports on the Open Source Workshop that was based on the availability of the first prototype on the Open Source Portal and the results of th … | Continue reading
Marie Curie individual fellowship at Coventry University The Centre for Trust, Peace & Social Relations at Coventry University is seeking one or two people interested in putting in an application to the European Commission to spend 12-24 months as a Marie Curie fellow. These fell … | Continue reading
Orvieto, 18 March 2017 Public round table which will take place on Saturday 18 March 2017 at 10:00 am, hosted by the Municipality of Orvieto (Sala Consiliare), to present the I level academic master in Digital Cultural Heritage Design System, which aims to provide participants wi … | Continue reading