Opportunities for networking and partnerships at Hola Cloud great event in Madrid Cloud Forward 2016 conference on the future of cloud computing offered to SMEs, projects, researchers and institutions the opportunity to talk to other companies or institutions about new opportunit … | Continue reading
As part of the “Festival della Scienza”, a very important and wide event taking place from October 27 to November 6 at Geneva (Italy), CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES project has been selected to discuss about the Citizens engagement and the results of its … Continue reading → | Continue reading
the important conference on Cloud Computing from the project Hola Cloud took place in Madrid in October. Proceedings now available! Hosted at the centrally-located Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid from 18 to 20 October 2016, Cloud Forward 2016 Conference brought together researc … | Continue reading
the 4th MUZEUM@DIGIT Conference at the Hungarian National Museum takes place on 22-23 November 2016 This year the conference aims to focus on the connection between museums and creative industries, namespaces and digital cultural heritage. Speakers include: Ineta Zelča Simansone, … | Continue reading
to Go Digital means more than just digitizing cultural objects, it requires to Think Digital. By Ram Shimony, our referent from Israel, and candidate to Europeana Members Council 2016 Launched at 2014, The Israeli Museum Portal was a remarkable milestone in the segment of Digita … | Continue reading
Jerusalem (Israel), 11-14 December 2016 The main objective of Art&Archaeology2016 is to advance the frontiers of scientific knowledge connected with human cultural heritage. Heritage is our legacy from the past. It is our source for understanding the human mind, its capabilities … | Continue reading
Bibliothèque Nationale de France is hosting their first hackathon on 19-20 November 2016 In 24 hours non-stop, participants will play and experiment around the Gallica digital library and other digital databases of the National Library of France, to develop projects and innovativ … | Continue reading
A new version of the DPF Manager, version 3.0, is now available to download in the PREFORMA Open Source Portal, including a relevant set of improvements and changes. DPF Manager is the most advanced TIFF conformance checker for digital preservation. The initiative is promoted by … | Continue reading
Webinar given Oct. 18th 2016 with MediaArea, describing the MediaConch project and its integration into Archivematica Have a look at the video recording of the webinar given by MediaArea and Artefactual to promote the recent integration of MediaConch into Archivematica software. … | Continue reading
Open Access is a valuable resource in scholarship and research, and an example of creative reuse of open content is the Open&Hybrid Publishing Pilot from E-Space project The Open Access Week, running from 24-30 October 2016, is a global annual event that promotes Open Access as t … | Continue reading
2 and 9 November 2016 During November 2016, Open Preservation Foundation is running two webinars with E-ARK to introduce their key outcomes. E-ARK is a multinational big data research project that aims to improve the methods and technologies of digital archiving, in order to achi … | Continue reading
Berlin (Germany), 17-18 November 2016 Shaping Access! – More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage 6th International Conference 17 & 18 November 2016 at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin The digitization of Cultural Heritage has made great progress in recent years. … | Continue reading
If you have an idea to create a mini game that can be played for 3 to 5 minutes as part of an OJOO, have Unity skills, this competition is for you. OJOO consists of an app to play games, and a Design Studio to create games, even without any technical skills or knowledge! If you k … | Continue reading
presentation by prof. Fred Truyen at EADTU 2016 conference in Rome The annual conference organized by EADTU, the OOFHEC2016 - Online Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference – took place on 19-21 October in Rome. Over the past years, universities have intensified a deeper tr … | Continue reading
Workshops delivered by Dave Rice and Ashley Blewer at Tate Britain in London During late July 2016, Dave Rice and Ashley Blewer delivered two workshops at Tate Britain in London on the use of Mediainfo, MediaConch and FFmpeg in the preservation of digital video. Have a look at th … | Continue reading
Dundee (Scotland), 9-13 November 2016 Physical urban space and virtual information space are inseparably intertwined. How does being digital change our sense of our spatial surroundings? Can we play in or animate the hybrid or glitched spaces in-between? Is there negative space i … | Continue reading
Prague, 2-4 December 2016 “Hack the Brain Prague” is a hackathon designed for people whose interests center either on the worlds of science or of art or have an interest in both, with an emphasis on connecting creative people and giving them the chance … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management European Union heritage assets are extremely exposed to climate change and natural hazards, which threaten their integrity and may compromise their value. STORM is a new project funded by the … | Continue reading
Istanbul (Turkey), 27-29 April 2017 New technologies give opportunities for cultural heritage by causing worldwide interest, enriching communication and techniques. Aiming at gathering the institutions working for preserving, keeping and transfering the cultural heritage to the f … | Continue reading
Deadline 18th October for submitting your creation The NEM Art & Design Competition is an opportunity for Innovative Technologists and Artists from Europe to submit their own creations, utilizing new technologies such as Immersive (Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality), Artificial … | Continue reading
It’s Your Story – Don’t Lose It / this is the theme of 2016 edition On 27 October 2016 we will celebrate the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (WDAVH), sponsored by UNESCO and organized by the CCAAA (Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations), of which ICA (Inte … | Continue reading
Workshop proposals deadline: 1 November; Paper submissions deadline: 20 January Hosted at Sound and Vision (NISV) location in Hilversum, ACM TVX is the leading international conference for research into online video, TV interaction and user experience. It is a multi-disciplinary … | Continue reading
NOUS is one of the projects supported and incubated by Europeana Space after a series of hackathons and business modelling workshops It starts with waves Brainwaves have been used in different and fascinating innovations in the past few years. While they hold big mysteries to the … | Continue reading
Taking place ahead the conference, on 16th November, there will be 4 specialistic workshops, in Spanish and in English In the framework of the important conference Image& Research, organized at Palau de Congressos de Girona by the Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI) o … | Continue reading
Technical Coordinator Antonella Fresa and other E-Space partners were invited to join an event of the University of Florence focused on filmed arts and digital humanities. Filming the Arts is a research of the University of Florence that intends to develop knowledge of the role … | Continue reading
Bern, 5 October 2016 The PREFORMA team organised a workshop at iPRES to dive into the larger narrative of the project, show the three different tools in development, detail the standardisation strands and get a conversation started between potential users of the tools with the pe … | Continue reading
Technical Coordinator Antonella Fresa introduced the discussion about creative industries and digital cultural heritage in an interesting workshop Upcycle Digital Heritage was jointly organized by The Discovery Programme, CARARE and FABLAB Derry, and the workshop explored some o … | Continue reading
Turin (Italy), 24-28 October 2016 Italy’s largest computer graphics and digital media conference will swing into action October 24, 2016, in Turin Italy. The renowned confab brings top professionals in animation, visual effects, virtual reality, and digital design to northern Ita … | Continue reading
The latest version of veraPDF is now available to download The latest version of veraPDF is now available to download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. Version 0.24 includes a prototype of batch validation in both the CLI and GUI and other new enhancements (conformance checker, … | Continue reading
Budapest (Hungary), 22-23 November 2016 After three successful events we are organizing the 4th MUZEUM@DIGIT Conference in the Hungarian National Museum on 22-23 November 2016. This year the conference aims to focus on the connection between museums and creative industries, names … | Continue reading
Roboticist and artist at the University of London spent years developing his drawing robots From Digital Trends online magazine. UK artist Patrick Tresset has eventually turned to robotics, creating a computational system that is “artistic, expressive, and obsessive” in its abili … | Continue reading
Amsterdam, 18th October 2016 The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is holding an outreach event for institutional representatives who are new to IIIF and want to learn more. Attendees will learn about the purpose and benefits of IIIF for web-based image deliv … | Continue reading
STORYPIX is one of the projects supported and incubated by Europeana Space after a series of hackathons and business modelling workshops The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. Muriel Rukeyser, an American poet and political activist, said it right. Our lives are build up … | Continue reading
The conference, “Online Learning in the 21st Century: Practice Problems and Prospects” takes place in Orlando (Florida US), in February 2017 This conference will be jointly organized by Guide Association and University of Phoenix (Central Florida) and aims to promote discussions … | Continue reading
Vicenza (Italy), 9-11 November 2016 Future for Religious Heritage is delighted to announce its fifth biennial international conference from 9th to 11th of November 2016 in Vicenza, Italy. Once again, it will bring together those committed to save and promote religious heritage ac … | Continue reading
NORA is one of the projects supported and incubated by Europeana Space after a series of hackathons and business modelling workshops We are four art-flirty young women, each one different from the other. We are your companions on an infinite journey through the jungle of Culture. … | Continue reading
The presentation and video recordings of the webinars organised by the PREFORMA project throughout September are now available online. The webinars introduced the PREFORMA project, updated participants on the current status of the conformance checkers, demonstrated the software, … | Continue reading
Happy Fall From MediaArea! What’s new in MediaConch 16.09, the latest release of the conformance checker for audiovisual files now available to download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal, the next appointments where you can meet MediaArea.net team (among which IPRES 2016 and the … | Continue reading
Ready to download with new features suggested by the users DPF Manager version 2.6 is now available to download in the Open Source Portal. The new release contains new features which have been proposed by users in the issue tracker, so don't hesitate to contact us for any improve … | Continue reading
Back in 2014, RadianceScape was first created for comparing the radiation level of Fukushima and Hong Kong in an audiovisual representation RadianceScape 2016 is a data-score installation. The sound and visuals are generated based on the latest radiation data-set collected from t … | Continue reading
Vivl.io is one of the projects supported and incubated by Europeana Space after a series of hackathons and business modelling workshops Books are utterly intriguing characters. They tell stories, share knowledge, make arguments, and they fondle, poke and jab our feelings. We love … | Continue reading
How can we make better use of our digital heritage within other sectors? Expert speakers and discussions will try to find the answers. Over the past decades much effort has gone into the digitisation of our rich and varied cultural heritage, producing vast amounts of high quality … | Continue reading
Earlier this year a call for artworks was launched, and a jury deliberated on the best works that creatively reused open access digital cultural heritage After much deliberation, the Photomediations team (Open&Hybrid Publishing Pilot of E-Space project), together with guest curat … | Continue reading
Picasso Cat is one of the projects supported and incubated by Europeana Space after a series of hackathons and business modelling workshops “Rembrandt’s use of chiaroscuro heightens the sense of …”, — oh, ok, I’ll learn about art tomorrow, right after I open this book on quantum … | Continue reading
Göteborg , 22 September 2016 Bengt Neiss from the National Library of Sweden will present the PREFORMA project during a seminar organised by PERICLES in the framework of the Göteborg Book Fair. The seminar, entitled "How can we access digital objects created 20 years ago and 100 … | Continue reading
New York City, 26-28 October 2016 The Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG), among the preeminent international conferences on Digital Preservation, is coming to NYC. PASIG is a place to learn from each other's practical experiences, success stories, and chall … | Continue reading
We Make Known is one of the projects supported and incubated by Europeana Space after a series of hackathons and business modelling workshops We Make Known – we vivify archive experience, we spot hidden treasures, we empower the audience. We Make Known provides easy and inspiring … | Continue reading
Pisa (Italy), 6-9 October 2016 In the age of the “Internet of People and Things”, the dematerialisation of digital innovation creates real and solid links. An interconnected digital fabric that is ubiquitous, collaborative and adaptable, that supports the new information-based co … | Continue reading