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Post by Owen Conlan from CORDIS website

Feature Stories – Adaptive, personalised ICT to make new sense of the past

Text, illustrations, paintings and – more recently – photographs, video and audio recordings, much of them now digitised, recount many aspects of European history, from major international events to personal stories. Now, new technology is being brought to bear on these treasure troves of historical information, thanks to EU-funded researchers whose work promises to shed new light on the past. Continue reading →

by Maristella Agosti, Owen Conlan, Nicola Ferro, Cormac Hampson, Gary Munnelly

Interacting with Digital Cultural Heritage Collections via Annotations: The CULTURA Approach

Interesting paper presented by a group of experts and researchers at the ACM Congress DocEng 2013 to introduce the main characteristics of the digital cultural collections that constitute the use cases presently in use in the CULTURA environment. Continue reading →

Towards a common infrastructure for the digital preservation of cultural data

DCH-RP and EUDAT: a joint bet!

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed to formalise the fruitful cooperation started in the past months between the two projects funded by the European Commission. Continue reading →

On 9-10 December, launched the new project for transmitting and benefiting from Cultural Heritage in Europe

RICHES was kicked-off in Brussels

On 9-10 December, at the EBN (European Business & Innovation Centre Network) in Brussels, 10 partners from 6 EU countries and Turkey kicked-off RICHES, a new EC funded research project in the field of Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities. RICHES investigates the change digital technologies are bringing to our society. Continue reading →

Fellowships available within Marie Curie

DiXiT now open for application

The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) offers 12 fellowships to Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) for a period of 3 years and 5 fellowships to Experienced Researchers (ERs) for a period of 12 to 20 months. Fellowships are now open for applications (except 4 ER fellowships which will start at a later date). Continue reading →

Networking session at the ICT2013 Conference in Vilnius

A Virtual Research Community for the Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage @ ICT 2013, Vilnius

The session, organised by DCH-RP, SCIDIPES, APARSEN, EUDAT, CHAIN REDS and SCAPE, brought together projects and initiatives working world-wide in the domain of DCH, digital arts, digital performances, digital humanities and digital preservation to find synergies and discuss opportunities for cooperation, in particular around the theme of using e-infrastructures for the preservation of DCH. Continue reading →

An interesting session on employment at Lu.Be.C.

Creative re-use of digital cultural content and private-public-partnerships

Promoter participated to LuBeC 2013 with a presentation of dr. Antonella Fresa about the creative re-use of digital cultural content and best practice for private-public-partnerships. The presentation starts from the consideration that the amount of Digital Cultural Heritage is very large and constantly growing, thanks to the digitization programmes that both private and public content holders are carrying on since the last 10 years. The return on investment should be assessed against the impact delivered to society both in terms of… Continue reading →

A personalised learning environment consisting of a series of learning objects aimed at key audiences in the cultural heritage sector.

Linked Heritage training programme

The Learning Objects, developed in the frame of Linked Heritage, range from Europeana to aggregation, metadata standards, linked data, terminology, etc.) and address an identified shortage of awareness of these important topics. Continue reading →

A technical platform implemented in Linked heritage to input, organize and map terminologies.

Improved search and higher-quality metadata through terminology management

Different organisations and different languages use different terms to describe similar concepts. Incompatible terminologies impede effective searching by end users and are also an obstacle for web services that rely on consistent metadata. Linked Heritage aimed to address this challenge by standardising terminologies. Continue reading →

A demonstrator developed in the frame of the Linked Heritage Best Practice Network

Linking Cultural Heritage Information

Linked Heritage demonstrated the publication of Linked Data to the digital cultural heritage community, including the establishment of a linked data server which delivers our metadata as linked data triples. To identify the most effective way for the cultural heritage sector to create, manage and apply permanent identifiers. Continue reading →