Author Archives: valentina.bachi

…. and the winner is…. (E-Space incubated projects)

One of the key objectives of Europeana Space is to help creative industries to leverage on digital cultural content for creating new products and services – thus creating new businesses and job positions. To do so, a series of 6 … Continue reading


Rethinking Data Protection and Privacy in Europe: Shaping the European Digital Future

In January 2015, Europe’s data industry together with the European Commission committed to invest €2.5 billion in a public-private partnership (PPP) that aims at accelerating the development of Europe’s data-driven economy. Data represents a key element for research, technological innovations … Continue reading


MUSEUM: VISION 2026 – interesting workshop in Turin

On 16-17 June 2016, in Turin in the beautiful premises of Palazzo Madama, the Turin Museums Foundation in collaboration with Singularity University Geneva, organized a conference dedicated to the analysis of present scenarios and vision of future for cultural heritage in 10 … Continue reading


Creative Artist/ Coder to join a Transciplinary Dance Research Project

The Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University seeks a highly motivated creative artist/ coder to join a unique trans-disciplinary team exploring the artistic, scholarly and scientific potential of choreographic and dance-related data. The opportunity will be supported by an … Continue reading


Finding the Public Domain Toolkit: Identifying Items Not Subject to Copyright

13 June 2016 – The University of Michigan Library announces  the publication of Finding the Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit, a resource dedicated to helping others understand the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) and implement similar copyright review … Continue reading


Open Preservation Foundation publishes Annual Report

The 2014-2016 Annual Report has been published by Open Preservation Foundation, looking back on the activities and achievements undertaken by the Foundation over the past two years. veraPDF, one of the three open source projects funded in the framework in PREFORMA, is considered a crucial technical success by providing the definitive implementation of a PDF/A validation tool, which was released in version 0.14 earlier this year. Continue reading


Museum Next conference in NYC

MuseumNext is a global conference on the future of museums.  Since 2009 it has acted as a platform for showcasing best practice today to shine a light on the museum of tomorrow. MuseumNext NYC will take place on 14-15 November 2016 with … Continue reading


EuroMed 2016: Call for Papers

A successful decade of European – Mediterranean Conferences on Cultural Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection (EuroMed): 2006 – 2016 You are kindly invited to submit a paper to the EuroMed 2016 conference which will provide an opportunity to exchange research results, … Continue reading


Transmedia Knowledge-Base for Performing Arts, official launch in Lisbon

The Knowledge-Base for performing arts (TKB) is a dynamic and open-ended resource to support the creation and documentation of contemporary performances in the format of a digital “archive of processes”. It has been recently presented at the important Alkantara International … Continue reading


Heritage content: how to address the new digital challenges?

Digital content is in no comparison stronger to analog when it comes to reaching wider grounds and larger audiences. Come and discover how new digitization techniques improve the original works preservation and distribution. Experts from FeniXX, BnF (French National Library), … Continue reading