Create you own masterpiece and win € 10.000 The Rijksstudio Award design competition is now open for entry! Be inspired by the Rijksmuseum’s collection and create your own personal masterpiece. Anyone can take part and all art forms are allowed. The Rijksmuseum will be awarding t … | Continue reading
Practical planning and strategic objectives to improve Europena website and infrastructure. Hosted by the Austrian National Library in the prestigious location in Vienna, on 7-8 September the kick-off meeting of the Europeana DSi-2 project took place. The aim of the DSI-2 project … | Continue reading
London, 21 - 23 March 2017 Procurement Week is an international conference and exhibition that aims to explore the many facets of Public Procurement such as Public Tendering, Business Development, Procurement Law and International Trade. During the week, presentations will be giv … | Continue reading
Download it on the Open Source Portal! The latest version of veraPDF is now available to download on PREFORMA Open Source Portal. Please support our efforts by downloading and testing the software, your feedback is very important, it helps to improve the software. The veraPDF con … | Continue reading
Stockholm, 23 November 2016 The eafip Workshop for public procurers in the Energy sector will be held in the Europahuset in Stockholm, Sweden on the 23rd November 2016. The aim of the event will be to highlight the benefits of innovation procurement of ICT solutions through the P … | Continue reading
Orlando (Florida US), 15-17 February 2017 The XII International GUIDE Conference “Online Learning in the 21st Century: Practice Problems and Prospects” will be held on February 15-17 2017 at B Resort & Spa, in Orlando, Florida, United States of America. The conference will be jo … | Continue reading
The public presentation of the Association will be held in Pisa on 28 September 2016. On 9 May 2016 a group of core partners of the EAGLE project founded IDEA – The International Digital Epigraphy Association in order to maintain, perpetuate and improve upon this ground breaking … | Continue reading
Building a Creative Museum Together / Friday 23 September, 13.00-17.30 The Creative Museum project is an Erasmus+ funded project – it sees museums as dynamic learning environments providing opportunities for staff and visitors to explore and repurpose collections in new and crea … | Continue reading
Deadline for submissions: 19th September 2016 On Monday September 19th, the online comics and illustration competition dedicated to migration flows for artists from all over Europe and the countries of the Mediterranean will be closing Continue reading → | Continue reading
During this four-week long program, we will creatively reveal, deconstruct and re-articulate the role and influence of the internet and software on society Few places left for a unique program on digital disruption, a workshop taking place in Barcelona in October 3rd – 29th, 2016 … | Continue reading
Vilnius (Lithuania), 4 November 2016 The Europeana Sounds project organises its final international conference – “Unlocking Sound Collections” – on Friday 4th November 2016 in Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania. After the success of its first international conference in 2015, … | Continue reading
Europeana Space is organizing a panel at the important Euromed 2016 conference in Nicosia (Cyprus) During Euromed 2016 conference in Nicosia (Cyprus) Monday 31st October 2016 h. 4 pm Info and registration to Euromed conference: http://www.euromed2016.eu/ Digitization has been a m … | Continue reading
a new artist exploring Primitive Aesthetics in todays modern world. “I’m seeking to create new works that integrate Primitivism with Modern/ New Media.” Breeze Canyon uses traditional and modern art materials to create a fusion of primitive and contemporary art. Themes vary from … | Continue reading
Antwerp, 5-7 October 2016 This thirteenth annual conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), is organized in conjunction with the Digital Scholarly Editing Initial Training Network (DiXiT) and hosted by the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University o … | Continue reading
Join the conference and cast your vote for the Most Influential projects of the year among 44 featured laureates 15th Edition Dubrovnik, Croatia, 22 – 24 September 2016 in partnership with EUROPA NOSTRA with support of Creative Europe programme & Endowment Fund of ICOM Join the c … | Continue reading
Open call for artists, deadline 15 October 2016 Between the months of December and January in Cagliari (Italy), KyberTeatro organises the third edition of International Theatre, Art and New Technologies Festival “The Wonders of the Possible//UPGRADE”. This Festival is the first o … | Continue reading
discussing archaeology and cultural heritage in Vienna (November 16-18) The 21st International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies will take place from November 16th-18th, 2016 in the City Hall of Vienna. This conference will bring together an assorted range of … | Continue reading
What’s new in MediaConch 16.08, the results of the pre-IETF Berlin Symposium: "No Time to Wait!: Standardizing FFV1 & Matroska for Preservation", and much more in this September edition of MediaConch newsletter. Sign up for the upcoming webinar on September 15th and meet MediaAre … | Continue reading
Deadline for submission: 14 October. The event takes place in Nicosia on 2-4 December 2016 image: Promoter Digital Gallery. In a time when the global publishing industry is in dire straits and the book in its physical form is threatened by digits the photobook seems to be going … | Continue reading
Just released: recommendation from W3C on 'Data on the Web' The Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group has published its primary document which is now a Candidate Recommendation. The document provides Best Practices related to the publication and usage of data on the Web de … | Continue reading
Interview To Alexander Gritsenko, Video Mapping Artist By Annamaria Monteverdi Interview to Alexander Gritsenko, russian technological artist founder of Viewmaker (Russian) specialized in videomapping on nature and techno scenography. Mapping on nature and mapping forms as animal … | Continue reading
Tallinn (Estonia), 29-30 September 2016 The high-level international digital culture conference “Culture 4D: Digitization, Data, Disruptions, Diversity” is taking place on 29-30 September in Tallinn, Estonia. The event is organised in the framework of the Estonian Chairmanship of … | Continue reading
A Pop Up Museum transforms a small of space into an island of art and culture, where passers-by may dwell a while, using their mobile phones to bring the screens to life. Europeana Space project accomplished its task of creating 6 thematic pilots to showcase creative reuse of di … | Continue reading
8, 15 and 22 September 2015 The PREFORMA project is running a webinar series throughout September to present the three conformance checkers that are being developed for electronic documents, still images and audiovisual files. The webinars will: introduce the PREFORMA project, up … | Continue reading
Beijing (China), 25 September - 9 October 2016 From our correspondent Elisa Debernardi The “Beijing Media Art Biennale” aims through an interdisciplinary, cross-cutting artistic and theoretical practice to generate a dialogue and interface between the public and industry. It will … | Continue reading
Leuven (Belgium), 7-10 February 2017 The 1st edition of the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry is a unique event for sharing knowledge and seeking new collaboration and partnerships. It provides opportunities for addressing the common challenges that qualitative researchers … | Continue reading
Start of the course will be in October 2016: enroll now and learn how to creatively reuse digital cultural content from professionals of the Europeana Space network. How can you engage with and reuse the wealth of digital cultural heritage available online in many repositories su … | Continue reading
New release of the conformance checker for PDF/A documents now available for download The latest version of veraPDF is now available on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. Keep up to date with the latest developments of veraPDF and support our efforts by downloading and testing the … | Continue reading
four articles by Hypothes.it, Annotate All Knowledge, Pundit and Europeana Sounds EuropeanaTech is pleased to present the newest issue of EuropeanaTech Insight. With this issue we focus on annotations, which has been and continues to be a pivotal focus of the EuropeanaTech Commun … | Continue reading
Firenze (Italy), 13 - 15 October 2016 The Second Edition of Musei Emotivi workshop, in italian language, is organized at Museo Novecento in Florence. The event is addressing museums professionals and curators and aims to explore the theme of visitors engagement and the role of em … | Continue reading
a promo video explains all you need to know about this amazing investigation technique, to discover details invisible at human eye RICH (REFLECTANCE IMAGING FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE) is a project by Illuminare, Centre for the Study of Medieval Art, KU Leuven, in collaboration with E … | Continue reading
a symposium and a conference in UK call for proposals, deadline is in September 2016 Dance Fields Post-Graduate Research Un-Symposium Thursday 8th-Friday 9th December 2016 Deadline for proposals: September 8th 2016 The Dance Fields Postgraduate Un-Symposium is designed as an inf … | Continue reading
a key event for museums and heritage professionals is to take place in Dubrovnik in September The Best in Heritage and IMAGINES: the event for museums and heritage professionals. In addition to the global survey of best practice, that is featured by The Best in Heritage and in p … | Continue reading
Berlin, 17-19 July 2016 Check out the results of the symposium organised In Berlin in conjunction with IETF’s 96th meeting and hosted by Deutsche Kinemathek, Zuse Institute Berlin, and MediaArea. The symposium was designed to bring together audiovisual archivists and audiovisual … | Continue reading
London, 23 July 2016 On Saturday 23 July Tate hosted a workshop in London focussing on new tools to support the conservation of digital video, led by Dave Rice and Ashley Blewer. The workshop focussed on the functionalities existing with the latest versions of MediaInfo and Media … | Continue reading
Improving long-term digital preservation Following the successful Open Source Workshop, organised in Stockholm in April this year, the PREFORMA project invites all the members of the digital preservation community to attend the Experience Workshop – Improving long-term digital pr … | Continue reading
Derry (Northern Ireland), 11-12 October 2016 CARARE Best Practice Network has joined forces with the Discovery Programme and the FabLab Nerve Centre to organise two days of Digital Heritage Events in Derry Guildhall, Northern Ireland with the focus on looking at how we can promot … | Continue reading
Deadline: August 19, 2016 Residency Program for Overseas Media Arts Creators 2016 Aims of the Program This program, as a part of the “Project to Support the Nurturing of Media Arts Creators” organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (Bunka-cho), is … Conti … | Continue reading
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/PREFORMA_D8.8_Monitoring-of-the-Open-Source-Project-implementation_v1.0.pdf Deliverable D8.8 reports on monitoring of the Open Source Project implementations. Based on development efforts for each supplier, this delive … | Continue reading
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PREFORMA_D8.2_Design-First-Report_v1.0_no-appendix.pdf This deliverable is considered to be the report on the activities related to the preparation and procedure of the design phase #1. This first phase of the supplier … | Continue reading
Berlin, (Germany), 21-22 November 2016 After the nice success of previous events in Venice and in Tallinn, E-Space Third International Conference is taking place next november in Berlin, hosted by partner SPK at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art. The conference the … | Continue reading
Download it on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal The latest version of veraPDF open source, industry-approved PDF/A validator is now available to download in the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. It is accompanied by a beta version of our new documentation site which provides installati … | Continue reading
Lisbon (Portugal), 27-29 October 2016 - call for papers open until 22 July The International Conference Stereo & Immersive Media’16 aims to gather researchers, artists, curators, and archivists working on visual and sound media renowned for their immersive features. “Stereo” envi … | Continue reading
a paper and a speech presented the work of the project in the domain of education and showcased the Photography pilot On 5 July 2016, prof. Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) presented on Europeana and Europeana Space at the important event Edulearn16 in Barcelona, with a paper “Getting Cre … | Continue reading
Kraków (Poland), 28-30 September 2016 - with co-located events on 27th The DI4R 2016 will be held in Kraków on 28-30 September 2016. The conference will be hosted by ACC Cyfronet AGH and will be the first user forum jointly organised by Europe’s leading e-infrastructures and proj … | Continue reading
an interesting process that could guide towards a fundamentally different process for innovation in Europe STARTS encourages synergies between the Arts and innovation for technology and society by promoting the inclusion of artists in Horizon 2020 projects. The initiative Science … | Continue reading
Happy July From MediaArea.net! What’s new in MediaConch 16.06, now available for download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal, and latest updates on the pre-IETF Berlin Symposium: No Time to Wait! A free workshop for audiovisual archivists, developers, and open standards working g … | Continue reading
This scheme is expected to create more than €600 million worth of bank loans over the next six years. European Commission – Press release Boosting SMEs in the cultural and creative sectors: European Commission and EIF launch a new guarantee scheme Brussels, 30 June 2016 The Europ … | Continue reading