Area: digital heritage

MOOC stands for Modular Open On Line Course and it represent the most advanced tool for e-learning.

Europeana Space acknowledges the key role of digital cultural heritage to enhance education learning and training since the very beginning of the project. A dedicated task on education and training material is foreseen in the project planning and led by … Continue reading →

an inter-disciplinary Conference held at the University of Exeter, UK, on 22-23 June 2015

Why IP Matters: Who Owns the Arts and Sciences?

by Catherine Cummings, Research Fellow (RICHES), University of Exeter From the shape of guitars, fashion brands, parody, dance, disability and re-mixing to museum collections, digitisation, data-mining and folklore, this interdisciplinary conference addressed the many varied and complex relationship between Intellectual … Continue reading →

partner SPK is moving ahead with the preparation work to enable the release of the Blinkster App

Museums Pilot: Blinkster mobile App in preparation

by Sarah Wassermann, SPK On 22nd July 2015, the Institute for Museum Research – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) went to the Museum of European Cultures and the Ethnological Museum for a very special “photoshoot” with quiet but very interesting models. … Continue reading →

paper: Dancing the Real and the Virtual: The Production, Preservation and Reuse of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Europeana Space and RICHES presented at the Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

by Rosemary Cisneros, Coventry University Europeana Space and RICHES projects were presented at the Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society which took place at Imperial College London from the 22nd– 24th of July. Each year, the International Conference … Continue reading →

XIX Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

International conference TPDL 2015. Final agenda online!

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2015 is organised by Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and will be held in Poznań, Poland, on September 14-18, 2015. EARLY REGISTRATION CLOSES ON 31ST OF JULY! Continue reading →

SPK Foundation is one of the world’s major cultural organisations and is very active in projects dissemination and international cooperation.

Europeana Space partner SPK: dissemination activities

The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) is one of the key partners of Europeana Space in the sector of Cultural Institutions. SPK is active member of the Museums Pilot, and will host the E-Space final conference in Berlin at the end of the … Continue reading →

Developing a common framework of CH-related terms, definitions and explanation

Released the RICHES Taxonomy policy brief

This policy brief presents evidence and recommendations emerging from the research undertaken to develop the RICHES “Taxonomy of terms, concepts and definitions”, aimed at ensuring appropriate standard for research in the CH sector and at developing a common CH language to serve the interests of the wider CH community. Continue reading →

Two policy briefs by the RICHES project published on the official website of the European Commission

RICHES’ policy briefs in the e-Library of the EC

“RICHES Taxonomy of cultural heritage definitions”. “Digital Copyright Framework. The move from analogue to digital and new forms of IPR”. These the titles of the two policy briefs produced by the RICHES project and recently published in the e-Library of the European Commission. The RICHES papers are intended as practical resources to provide support and advice to decision-makers at all levels. Other policy papers are in the works…stay tuned! Continue reading →

To promote the use and quality check of common standards for text digitisation and long term preservation.

MoU signed with Impact Centre of Competence in digitisation

A cooperation agreement has been signed between PREFORMA and the Impact Centre of Competence in digitisation for the promotion and presentation of the respective results and the organisation of joint events and activities, focusing in particular on the use and quality check of common standards for digitisation and long term preservation of textual content. Continue reading →

First public prototype of veraPDF’s validation software released

veraPDF consortium issues first public software release

The first public prototype of veraPDF’s validation software has been released. veraPDF is developing the definitive open source, file-format validator for all parts and conformance levels of ISO 19005 (PDF/A). The software is designed to meet the needs of memory institutions responsible for preserving digital content for the long term. Continue reading →