Early Bird Fee Deadline Monday January 30th, 2017 Screening the best in International contemporary short cinema at venues across the Scottish capital in Autumn and curating programmes for other festivals across the UK & Internationally. This year, we’re excited to be programming … | Continue reading
Florence (italy), 25-26 January 2017 Filming the Arts, the strategic project of the University of Florence for digital preservation of audiovisual heritage and performing arts, is proud to present the International Workshop on Cinema and Landscape, taking place in Florence at th … | Continue reading
The theme of the exhibition is ‘Vintage Fashion from the Archive’ The Pop-Up Museum at Sound and Vision is a special installation with three wide-screen monitors in an interactive setting. You can interact and control the exhibition with your smartphone. The interactive software … | Continue reading
Padua, 7 March 2017 After the two successful events organised last year in Stockholm and in Berlin, the PREFORMA project invites all the members of the digital preservation community to attend the next PREFORMA workshop which will be held in Padua on 7 March 2017. Register now no … | Continue reading
An open-source industry-supported PDF/A validator The veraPDF consortium announced the release of veraPDF 1.0, an open-source industry-supported PDF/A validator. Led by the Open Preservation Foundation and the PDF Association, veraPDF validates all parts and conformance levels of … | Continue reading
Cassino, Italy, 21-22 September 2017 The aim of the Conference is to bring together researchers, industry professionals and students from the broad ranges of disciplines referring to areas of activities for Cultural Heritage, in an intimate, collegial and stimulating environment. … | Continue reading
Berlin (Germany) 18-19 May 2017 The 15th edition of the ”Culture and Computer Science“ conference series focuses on best practice examples, challenges and future trends of mixed reality as a strategy to bring the world of data and information and the world of objects and … Contin … | Continue reading
Karlsruhe, Germany, 20th January 2017 ZKM presents the tenth edition of TIME is Love Screening, international video art project gathering several artists. Established in 2008, the program has travelled to major cities in the world attracting a vibrant mix of media professionals, … | Continue reading
The Pop-Up Museum was used in a demonstration, to combine live dance and cultural heritage images by Rosemary Cisneros, Coventry University. On the occasion of the C-DARE Un-Symposium event on 8th December 2016 in Coventry (UK), the Europeana Space Dance Pilot was happy to share … | Continue reading
DPF Manager has been updated to version Version 3.1. This new version includes new features, improvements and bugfixes. One important change on this release is that we have created two new independent projects for the implementation checker and the policy checker with the aim of … | Continue reading
on Europeana Music Collections, you can discover best music recordings, sheet music, and other music related collections from Europe's audio-visual archives, libraries, archives and museums. blog by Europeana Sounds appeared on Europeana on 19 December 2016 The Music Collections … | Continue reading
New Orleans, 29 November - 2 December 2017 Programmed by professionals working in the field, the annual AMIA Conference is the largest gathering of motion picture and recorded sound archivists and interested professionals. More than 550 annual attendees include members and colle … | Continue reading
Mexico City, October 2017 The 2017 edition of the FIAT/IFTA World Conference will be organised in October 2017 in Mexico City. FIAT/IFTA’ s annual conference is a unique opportunity to discover the future of the audiovisual domain and its new tendencies and uses, exchange knowled … | Continue reading
Berlin, 17-22 September 2017 The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) 48th Annual Conference will be hosted on 17-22 September 2017 by the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. IASA 2017 Conference theme is Integration and Innovation: Bringing Workflows and … | Continue reading
Please help us improve the software by downloading and testing it. The latest version of veraPDF, the industry-supported open source, file-format validator for all parts and conformance levels of PDF/A, is now available to download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. This is the … | Continue reading
Take our survey to help us to improve the PREFORMA tools The PREFORMA project works on one of the main challenges memory institutions are facing nowadays: the long-term preservation of digital data. This issue is also important for LIBER’s community. They’re therefore collaborati … | Continue reading
The deadline for submitting the abstracts is January 15th, 2017 The Media Studies Commission of the International Federation of Television Archives announces its forthcoming international seminar to take place in Paris, on March 20th, 2017. The one-day seminar is dedicated to the … | Continue reading
Rome, 30 January 2017 On 30 January 2017, h. 10-14, in Rome at Associazione Civita, Digital Cultural Heritage, Arts & Humanities School (DiCultHer) education network will present the new activities focused on engagement of youth with cultural heritage. In particular: a) the resul … | Continue reading
E-Space new prototype, the Pop-Up Museum, and its exhibitions were displayed at Cultuur in Beeld conference on 7 December 2016 Cultuur in Beeld (Culture in Focus) is an annual seminar organized by the Dutch Ministry of Instruction, Science and Culture, addressing the most relevan … | Continue reading
The whole seminar, in double language (English and French) was recorded and screen captured. A video will be available soon via the E-Space YouTube channel. by Frederik Temmermans, imec On the 29th of November, Europeana Space organised a seminar entitled “The Ghent Altarpiece in … | Continue reading
Luxembourg, 17-18 November 2016 This event, organised by the European Commission on 17 November, addressed potential applicants for the first Calls under Horizon 2020 in the fields of ICT research & innovation supporting the Cultural and Creative Industries and Cultural Heritage. … | Continue reading
Deadline Friday 6 January (5pm GMT) MuseumNext is a global conference series on the future of museums, taking place in the world’s cultural capitals since 2009. The conference is a catalyst for innovation, transformation and collaboration in museums, galleries and heritage sites, … | Continue reading
Venice (italy), 28-29 June 2017 The Fourth International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums (LODLAM) summit will be held in Venice, Italy, at the Fondazione Cini June 28-29 , 2017. LODLAM stands for Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums. Linked data … | Continue reading
Rome, 24 January 2017 - deadline CfP: 10 December 2016 Digilab and DiXiT network (http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/) organize a one day workshop on the educational application and social impact of digital scholarly editions. The workshop will take place on Tuesday, January 24, 2017, in … | Continue reading
Stories from the event in Girona for professionals in photography and audiovisual by David Iglésias Franch (CRDI). photos courtesy of CRDI. In the third week of November (from 16th to 18th) it was held a new edition of the Image and Research Conference, organized by the Centre fo … | Continue reading
Rome, 2 December 2016 ArchAIDE Project A technological innovation to serve changing archaeological practice Take a picture and discover the past! Press Conference: Friday, December 2, 2016, 11:30 am Location: Rome, San Michele a Ripa Complex – Room Molajoli A team of researchers … | Continue reading
Presentations and photogallery now available online Presentations and photos of the PREFORMA Experience Workshop are now available online. Hosted at the Kulturforum in Berlin, the event featured keynote presentations by international experts in digital preservation, use cases and … | Continue reading
The conference will be held in Brisbane, Australia June 26th-30th, 2017. For OR2017 the theme is Open : Innovation | Knowledge | Repositories, aiming to reflect how the Open Repository community continues to be at the forefront of developments, sharing knowledge, and working as … | Continue reading
Ahoy from MediaArea! Check out the latest release and the new improvements! Now you can detect and correct bit flip and incorrect segment sizes with a brand new fixer. Also, the implementation checker now uses more features of Matroska's EBML Schema, the policy checker adds addit … | Continue reading
With new greenfield parser and batch processing functionality The latest version of veraPDF includes the first beta release of our purpose-built PDF parser and validation model. It can be used alongside the PDFBox parser to compare the results. In addition, veraPDF 0.26 has a new … | Continue reading
Florence (Italy), 1-2 December 2016 The European Union is at yet another crossroad after the Brexit referendum’s results, the overall rise of the Far Right in several EU countries, while another migrant and refugee flows crisis is still looming. Indeed the EU once more needs an … … | Continue reading
How can digital preservation innovate? DPFManager is the most advanced TIFF conformance checker for digital preservation that has been created and designed by a strong community of experts who are highly interested in file format validation for digital preservation. DPF Manager a … | Continue reading
Gluon invites artists to submit proposals before 18 December 2016 Gluon is an organisation that realizes projects on the crossing borders of visual art, research and industry. For the realisation of its programme Gluon is supported by an extensive network of national and internat … | Continue reading
Madrid, 25-26 November 2016 Citizen Science is a part of scientific research that involves and encourages citizen participation in scientific projects, where technological tools and digital devices provide multiple possibilities for participation. The programme of the two-days ev … | Continue reading
Florence (Italy), 15-15 December 2016 The ARIADNE Research Infrastructure final conference “Unlocking the Potential of Digital Archaeological Data” will be held in the beautiful Sala Luca Giordano in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy on Thursday 15th to Friday 15th Dec … | Continue reading
Experts from Florence’s Museo Galileo use the artist’s original manuscripts, and new digital reconstructions, to bring this incredible project to life. Europeana, the European digital library, just launched a new online exhibition, focused on the story and project of Leonardo’s m … | Continue reading
a presentation and a panel were organized in this event about dance scholarship and research DanceHE (Dance in Higher Education) represents the interests of its members from Dance higher education to organisations such as the funding councils, HEFCE and HEA in areas concerning fu … | Continue reading
In CREA, students come in with an idea and go out with a concrete project with business model. CREA is an European Network of Summer Academies with the aim to strengthen entrepreneurship in innovative sectors by using ICT and Creativity as levers. Objective is to select and supp … | Continue reading
Examples of expected outcomes are applications, MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses), e-books, documentaries The Europeana network is preparing an action for supporting re-use of digital cultural heritage material in education. In the Europeana AGM 2016 in Riga there was a dedicat … | Continue reading
Newport (UK),15-16 February 2017 Digital Past is a two day conference which showcases innovative digital technologies and techniques for data capture, interpretation and dissemination of the heritage of Wales, the UK and beyond. The conference aims to promote learning, discussion … | Continue reading
the integrated outcome of the E-Space Pilots is nearly ready to showcase in various events in the coming months. A strong group of E-Space partners from different Pilots is at work for developing an integrated outcome for creative reuse of digital cultural heritage: the Pop-Up Mu … | Continue reading
Brussels, 30 November 2016 The Orphan Works Directive, adopted in 2012, set out to foster digitisation and unlock Europe’s cultural heritage for education, research and other cultural purposes, but how does it work in practice? The conference « Digitisation of heritage and orphan … | Continue reading
University of Graz, 12-13 April 2017 Challenges and Practices of Copyright and Licensing of Digital Cultural Heritage are the main topics of this event organised by the Co:OP project, funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union aims to strengthen and promote the … | Continue reading
After Euromed 2016 conference, we understood that in conservation of CH, a freehand image is very useful for analysis and decision-making. Prof. Anna Lobovikov-Katz, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, was one of the memb … | Continue reading
Technical Coordinator Antonella Fresa delivered 3 inspiring minutes to AGM audience about creative reuse of digital cultural heritage The Europeana Network Association Annual General Meeting (AGM) is an annual key event for Europeana and its network. It provides the opportunity f … | Continue reading
Objective of the action, which includes an open challenge, is to eventually have digital versions of the handwritten testimonies from WW1’s home and battle fronts in 22 languages Europeana launches Transcribe Europeana 1914-1918 — an online crowdsourcing campaign to unlock import … | Continue reading
the 7 teams are invited to the global event REMIX SUmmit We’re delighted to announce that the 7 winning teams from E-Space Incubation process will be attending the supercool REMIX Summit in London (January 2017), which will give them a great opportunity to network with creative l … | Continue reading
London (UK), 18-19 January 2017 REMIX EXPLORES THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP. REMIX Global Summits bring together pioneers from different industries to explore the future of culture, creative cities and the creative economy. They are a forum wh … | Continue reading