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Registrations are now open for the EUreka3D Final Conference, which will take place in Girona on 13 December 2024. The event will consist of a hybrid public conference by project partners and invited contributors, and a public onsite workshop mainly … Continue reading
As part of the EUreka3D project, a blogpost authored by Guillaume Reich (Bibracte) was recently published on Europeana. The blog focuses on the process of digitisation 400 archaeological artefacts in 3D as part of the Eureka3D project, exposing their objectives, … Continue reading
EUreka3D project was accepted for a paper and presentation in the prestigioius annual conference EVA Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, organised in Florence by Professor Vito Cappellini, University of Florence. The main topics this year include: – European Commission … Continue reading
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CEPROQHA (NPRP9-181-1-036) is a cooperative research project between Qatar University and Brunel University (UK), funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) under the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP). As the State of Qatar transitions to a knowledge-based economy, it … Continue reading
This is the third in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Kieran O’Leary has an intership with the Irish Film Archive within the Irish Film Institute, mostly working on code, workflows, metadata, digitisation, migration, and facilitating access to collections. He is using MediaConch’s GUI to check files delivered from vendors. MediaConch automates a lot of this work via local policy creation. Continue reading
The programme of the Cultural Heritage and New technologies CHNT conference this year includes different sessions: Integrating historical maps and archaeological data using digital technologies Adding life to written sources by studying the dead New realities 3: virtual, augmented reality … Continue reading
Another instance of the successful photographic exhibition All Our Yesterdays, originally produced in the framework of Europeanaphotography project (2012-2015) and now curated by the spin off association PHOTOCONSORTIUM, is taking place until 31 December 2017 in Sant Cugat, Barcelona, at the … Continue reading
Pillar of this agreement between DiCultHer Digital Cultural Heritage, Arts & Humanities School education network and DARIAH.it, the Italian hub of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, is to transfer the results of European research and to … Continue reading
Kathryn is Digital Collections Manager at Carnegie Hall and she develops and supports sustainable practices around the digital asset lifecycle to ensure the availability and integrity of material related to the Hall. MediaConch is part of Carnegie Hall’s pre-ingest procedures to check the quality of the vendor output against the digitization specs. Continue reading
A lot of improvements and new features have been included in the new release of the DPF Manager. The most important changes are the inclusion of a Quick Check functionality that allows to perform a fast validation of the files, improved reports which include suggestions how to fix the errors that have been found in the collections and a new metadata fix to solve ascii encodings. The new release is available to download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. Try it! Continue reading
ICT Proposers’ Day 2017 will take place on 9 and 10 November in Budapest, Hungary. This networking event centres on European ICT Research & Innovation with a special focus on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme for 2018-20. An Opening Ceremony … Continue reading
Communicating the Museum (CTM) was launched in 2000 and since then over 5’000 professionals from the cultural sector have attended this conference. Following a very successful edition in Paris in June, the 19th edition of the international conference Communicating the Museum will take … Continue reading
Following a successful 2016 and excellent bids from archives and other memory institutions last year, the TWA Digitisation Grant has relaunched with a fresh tranche of funding in 2017. The fund offers grants of up to £5000 for UK archives, … Continue reading
