the event takes place in Cyprus 31st October - 5th November 2016 The European Mediterranean Conferences (EuroMed) is a biannual event organized by Digital Heritage Research Lab of Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and has become a regular worldwide milestone on Cultural Herit … | Continue reading
Poznań, 6-7 October 2016. Call for papers now open. Deadline for submission: 30 May 2016 The Digitisation Days are a major event in text digitisation field organised by the Succeed project and the IMPACT Centre of Competence. This event includes: the DATeCH (Digital Access to Tex … | Continue reading
Claudio was defined as a punk alchemist of contemporary art Born in Catanzaro (1962-Italy) where he lives and works, Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, journalist free lance, active since many years in the international … | Continue reading
Berlin, 30 August - 1 September 2017 Venue and Date: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Berlin - August 30- September 01, 2017. Call for Papers and other key-information will be published soon.Digital Meets Culture has been appointed as Media Partner of the International Conference. Some v … | Continue reading
Contest is open by the VIEW conference series; next one will be held in Turin, 24-28 October 2016 VIEW Conference is the premiere international event in Italy on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, 2D/3D Animation, Gaming and VFX. After the international su … | Continue reading
Make sure you enter before the deadline of 1200 noon Tuesday 26th July 2016! The Digital Preservation Coalition's quest to find and celebrate the very best work in digital preservation across all sectors has begun again this year, with the launch of the 2016 Digital Preservation … | Continue reading
Calci (Pisa), 4 Giugno 2016 ore 16.30 L'incontro con Paolo Benvenuti*, "Il Segreto di Caravaggio" si terrà a CALCI, in provincia di PISA, presso il Museo di Storia Naturale, nella splendida cornice offerta dalla Certosa. L'evento è in programma per Sabato 4 Giugno con inizio alle … | Continue reading
Girona (Spain), 16 - 18 November 2016; deadline for submissions: 15 June The Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI) of the Girona City Council and the Association of Archivists of Catalonia, are calling the 14th Image and Research International Conference, which will be h … | Continue reading
Soon available also on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal We are pleased to announce the latest release of veraPDF, the definitive, open source PDF/A validator. Version 0.14 features Transparency and Unicode character map validation in PDF/A-2 levels B and U. This is the first relea … | Continue reading
Management Centre, Bangor University, Wales, 9-10 June 2016 Procurement Week is a bi-annual, international conference, that aims to explore the many facets of Public Procurement such as Public Tendering, Business Development, Procurement Law and International Trade. 'Procurement … | Continue reading
Brussels, 31 May 2016 How Can the Public Sector Become an Agent of Innovation? As part of the preparatory work for the definition of the New eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020 the European Commission DG CONNECT has asked to PwC, Open Evidence and the Institute of Baltic Studies to … | Continue reading
Gorizia (Italy), 15 May - 10 August 2016 IoDeposito NGO, an Italian based association, is promoting an artistic and cultural festival called B#SIDE WAR on the legacies of the First World War on our contemporary time. Within the festival, on May 13th, there will be the inauguratio … | Continue reading
View them at http://opensourceworkshop.preforma-project.eu/video-recordings/ The video clips of all the presentations of the PREFORMA Open Source Workshop are now available on the event website. The workshop, hosted by the National Library of Sweden on April 7, 2016, featured key … | Continue reading
DPF Manager e-News, April 2016 After the redesign phase, a new version of the DPF Manager is available. Version 2.0 includes many new functionalities and improvements and is now ready to be downloaded on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. Everybody is invited to download the DPF Ma … | Continue reading
The MOOC is under development and will be live in October 2016. Europeana Space project, focusing on increasing and enhancing reuse of Europeana and other online collections of digital cultural content by creative industries and education is developing a MOOC, a massive open onli … | Continue reading
Barcelona, 11-12 May 2016 The Major Stakeholder Conference (MSC) “Co-creating Agendas for Culture in Europe. Memory, Inclusion, Creativity” will be held in Barcelona (Spain) on 11-12 May, 2016 in the framework of the CulturalBase project, funded by the European Commission’s Horiz … | Continue reading
deadline for submissions is 12th May, 2016 The N.I.C.E. Award Call 2016 is open! Deadline is May12, 2016. The N.I.C.E. Award: The N.I.C.E. Award is an initiative by the “Network for Innovations in Culture and Creativity in Europe” (N.I.C.E.), which was launched in Dortmund in 2 … | Continue reading
interesting research resources available from FP7 project 8 Think Papers on different themes following the areas of research of RICHES project are now available both on the project website and on the RICHES resources website. RICHES Think Paper 01. Copyright and Cultural Herita … | Continue reading
Pisa (Italy), 4 May 2016 On the occasion of Photoconsortium general assembly, a public seminar is organized on the theme of: “Virtual Museums and Photographic Heritage“. Virtual Museums are not just an online version of a physical museum on the Internet, neither digital archives … | Continue reading
a series of events across twined European cities, on stationary bicycles equipped with virtual reality technology! The #BigArtRide tour is a part of the Europeana280 campaign to launch Europeana Art History Collections - and will celebrate the Dutch Presidency of the EU. Continu … | Continue reading
San Francisco (US), 6-7 December 2016 About the Conference FTC attracts researchers, scientists and technologists from some of the top companies, universities, research firms and government agencies from around the world. Join us for FTC 2016, the world’s pre-eminent forum for re … | Continue reading
Results of the workshop organised by PREFORMA at the National Library of Sweden Sweden's majestic Royal Library Kungliga Biblioteket welcomed more than a hundred heritage professionals for the first public PREFORMA event, the Open Source Preservation Workshop - Serving the Cultur … | Continue reading
Interview by Gregory Markus For this edition of Who's Using What, Gregory Markus looks towards the digital preservation challenges that GLAMs face. He interviewed two developers from the PREFORMA Project: Xavi Tarres from Easy Innova (who is working on DPF Manager, the conformanc … | Continue reading
Happy Spring From the MediaArea Team! MediaArea Team released version 16.03 of MediaConch, the open source conformance checker for audiovisual files. Among the latest updates, it now supports plugins including VeraPDF and DPFManager, the other two PREFORMA conformance checkers fo … | Continue reading
European Policy Briefs: about Craft and about Economics (April 2016). The RICHES Policy Brief series is enlarged with two new releases: European Policy Brief. The Economic and Fiscal Dimension of Cultural Heritage. (April 2016). This policy brief focuses on the effects of two for … | Continue reading
Colleagues and friends from Europeana Space and other sister projects celebrated the new platform for accessing and experimenting with cultural heritage, developed by NTUA by Vassilis Tzouvaras (NTUA) The workshop «Repurpose, Experience, Taste and Rethink Culture», was held on Ma … | Continue reading
Madrid, 11-13 October 2016; deadline for submissions: 3 May 2016 Authors are invited to submit papers related to the Topics of Interest for the Cloud Forward 2016 Conference: From Distributed to Complete Computing Following the successful CF2015 conference organised by Promoter … | Continue reading
April 9 – June 12, 2016 Using augmented reality technology, Paulo Majano’s project I Was Here tells the stories of local people and places in areas south of Vancouver in 3D scenes that invite viewers to interact with these locations and explore them virtually. The images … Cont … | Continue reading
Genova, Italy, 5-7 October 2016 Call for Papers The 14th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2016) aims to foster an international dialogue between ICT experts and CH scientists to have a better understanding of the critical requirements for processing, m … | Continue reading
An interview with Antonella Fresa who explains how the citizen can be actively engaged in the Research processes on Cultural Heritage Developed under the EC's funded CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES project, the Roadmap,as the main outcome achieved by the project, has been presented to a sel … | Continue reading
Ermoupolis, Syros island (Greece), 27-29 July 2016 - Deadline for Submissions: April 30th, 2016 Deadline for Abstract Submissions: April 30th, 2016 Continue reading → | Continue reading
The German Association of Conservator-Restorers (VDR) is delighted to announce the major international symposium “Collecting and Conserving Performance Art” to be hosted by the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany on June 9-11, 2016. The two-and-a-half day event approaches issues sur … | Continue reading
Ferrara (Italy), 6 April 2016 The conference, focused on the most innovative strategies of digital documentation for accessing and understanding European Cultural Heritage, will present the first year of research activities of the project INCEPTION – Inclusive Cultural Heritage … | Continue reading
veraPDF is building the definitive, open source PDF/A validator veraPF's latest software is now available for download in the Open Source Portal. The veraPDF validation engine implements the PDF/A specification using formalisations of each requirement in PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2 and PDF … | Continue reading
European Policy Brief. Food Heritage and Culture: Changing Spaces of Production and Consumption. (March 2016). The aim of this RICHES policy brief is to highlight the growth of community-led food initiatives and the changing spaces of food production and consumption. It shows how … | Continue reading
The event introduced the tools developed by E-Space Dance Pilot through a series of practical workshops by Hetty Blades and Rosamaria Cisneros, Coventry, University (UK). As part of the EU funded Europeana Space (E-Space) project, C-DaRE held its Digital Dance Day March 16th, 20 … | Continue reading
Athens, 19 – 22 May 2016 Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) returns with its 12th edition that will take place from 19 to 22 of May at the historic center of Athens. The main venue of the Festival will be the Building Complex Gate Ermou 117 … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The restoration team embarked on rebuilding some of the bottom rows of the niche which have simply weathered away over the centuries by our referent from Jordan, Marwan Asmar The Amman Nymphaeum project is a concrete preservation and reconstruction project where the operations on … | Continue reading
Jasná, Slovakia, 14-16 March 2016 Antonella Fresa, Technical Coordinator of PREFORMA, presented the project at the 19th edition of the ILIDE Conference. The presentation focused in particular on the open source approach and on the forthcoming testing phase, showing how the confor … | Continue reading
Athens, 22 March 2016 How to creatively reuse & participate in digital culture: an event organized by NTUA with the support of PostScriptum, to present the WITH platform technology that is at the basis of E-Space Technical Space. This one day conference brings together … Continu … | Continue reading
Brussels, 8 April 2016 Friday, 8 April 2016, 9.00-16.00 Brussels, Covent Garden, 9th floor, room 183 (COV2 9.0183) 16, Place Charles Rogier, BE-1210 Brussels This workshop will gather projects on Social Sciences and Humanities that focus on different aspects of cultures and citiz … | Continue reading
Brussels, 13 May 2016 Contemporary education, formal classrooms, museum educational programmes, lifelong learning are all increasingly embracing ‘the digital’. As more and more arts and culture artefacts become available in this digital space, it was only a matter of time before … | Continue reading
Pilots applications were displayed and many attendees were interested and wanted to learn more on the project by Hetty Blades and Rosamaria Cisneros, Coventry University (UK) The Europeana Space Dance and Games Pilot joined forces and organised the 6th edition of the Digital Echo … | Continue reading
Nottingham (UK), 16-17 April 2016 The ART // GAMES // HACKATHON is an intensive weekend workshop, which will allow artists, coders and technologists to collaborate, team up and develop prototypes of game art projects. This exciting event will take place at Game City in Nottingh … | Continue reading
By Gillian Doyle Nowadays more content is accessible, in more formats, on more devices, for more people than ever before. But, as media companies make the journey from being single sector to digital multi-platform suppliers of content, this transition has entailed numerous manage … | Continue reading
The third concertation meeting for on-going PCP projects in DG Connect, organised by the European Commission in Brussels on 10 March 2015, gave the opportunity to the attendees to network and share experiences on common issues that they face while implementing PCPs. PREFORMA part … | Continue reading
Prof. Fred Truyen participated with a lecture about the actitvities of E-Space in the domain of the education, also announcing the upcoming MOOC. by Clarissa Colangelo, KU Leuven From the 7th till the 9th of March 2016, the 10th annual International Technology, Education and Deve … | Continue reading
Jasná (Slovakia), 14-16 March 2016 For the 19th time, the beautiful surroundings of Low Tatras will create a scenery for the ILIDE 2016 Conference where as usually the digital preservation, digital collections access and digital processing experts from around the world will gathe … | Continue reading