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On January 1st of every year, new heritage works enter the public domain. Unfortunately, these works often remain inaccessible to the public. In order to share experiences and best practices in opening up this material, Meemoo, COMMUNIA, Creative Commons, … Continue reading
On November 13th and 14th, OpenLab.brussels is hosting the international conference “Creating Knowledge through Participatory Research” in Brussels. The OpenLab.brussels is a joint venture of ULB-VUB dedicated to participatory research. It aims to mobilize our academic community and public or private stakeholders … Continue reading
Registrations are now open for the IV International Seminar on Sports Archives. The event will take place on September 30, 2024, both online and on-site at EspaiCaixa Girona – “la Caixa” Obra Social, Plaça Poeta Marquina, 10 (Girona). The biennial … Continue reading
Area: digital heritage
Analysis of the research tasks that were difficult or impossible with the IPSA website, but which CULTURA makes possible and easy. Continue reading
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
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
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, 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
It was recently held on 2 December 2013 in Rotterdam, and beside a very strong focus on the Europeana Business Plan 2014 and Horizon2020, it was as usual the perfect occasion for meeting other projects’ representatives, sharing achievements and expertise, discussing possible future strategies and developing new partnerships. Continue reading
Digital Humanities Awards are a new set of annual awards given in recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. There is no financial prize associated with these community awards, just the honour of having won and an icon for your website. By its work at making available, with the most advanced digital technologies’ support, the vast majority of the surviving inscriptions from the Greco-Roman world, we think EAGLE can be a valid and qualified competitor for 2013’s edition of DH Awards. Continue reading
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
«EVA 2013 Moscow, Information society, culture, education»: the theme of this edition was «Libraries and museums in digital environment: dialogue and cooperation». EuropeanaPhotography was presented at the conference with a good speech, and distribution of flyers. Moreover, possible cooperation with local Institutions was deeply discussed. Several people asked questions, mainly about how their Institution can join the project and how Russian organizations can be involved. Continue reading
This survey provides an analysis of how IP is perceived at EU citizen level. It is launched at a time when IP has never been so present in the day-to-day lives of European citizens. Intellectual property rights cover everything from the food people eat, to the clothes they wear, the cars they drive and the music they listen to. And through the explosion in digital content and technology over the past decade, people are now closer to IP than ever before.” Continue reading
