Area: digital heritage

Vacancies at C-DaRE: apply within 30 June 2015!

C-DaRE (Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University) is seeking highly motivated individuals, able to contribute to one or more of its research strands at the following levels: Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Research Assistant, Operations Manager. Closing dates for all posts: 30th June 2015 Continue reading


DiXiT Convention: submission deadline extended!

The deadline to submit proposals for the DiXiT Convention “TECHNOLOGY, SOFTWARE, STANDARDS FOR THE DIGITAL SCHOLARLY EDITION” has been extended to Thursday the 28th of May 2015. The call for paper is open to everybody (except DiXiT fellows).   The … Continue reading


NALIS Forum 2015 successfully concluded

The fourth NALIS Forum (Sofia, 12 May 2015) concluded successfully, attended by many international experts from leading libraries and library networks, museums, universities and cultural organisations. Among the special guests, delegates of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture. Antonella Fresa of Promoter SRL took part in the conference as invited speaker. Lecturers (from Europe and USA) shared their experience in local and global collaboration (not only within the library community, but also within the IT community) in the framework of projects involving the digitisation of cultural heritage, creative re-use of digitised cultural contents and citizen participation. Continue reading


Africa’s education techies hackaton for social good

Aim of the game, taking place on May 17 – 20 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is in the title: over four intensive days of competitive creation, participants of “Gamify it! Hackathon!” will set out to prove whether it’s possible to achieve a measurable impact towards sustainable development through fun and engagement. Jointly organised by GIZ, iceaddis and eLearning Africa, the hackathon will finish up at the eLearning Africa conference on May 20, where teams will present their newly-developed gamified tools. Continue reading


PREFORMA at the Study Visit of the Leonardo da Vinci Project

On 12th of May 2015, Sònia Oliveras from the Municipal Archive of Girona presented PREFORMA at the Study Visit of the Leonardo da Vinci Project in Girona. This study visit was developed through several workshops about digitalisation, publication in Europeana and digital preservation. Continue reading


Museums as Cultural, Urban, Creative and Learning Interface

  When: Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 9:00 – 17:30 Where: Institut Méditerranéen des Métiers du Patrimoine (I2MP), 201 quai du Port 13002 Marseille What: Seminar on Technology in the Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage, entitled Museums as Cultural, Urban, Creative … Continue reading


Hacking culture for E-Space: TV hackathon successfully concluded!

The three most promising projects will move on to the Europeana Space Business Modelling Workshops where the projects’ ideas will be further shaped and honed as well as the development of business models with the experts from the REMIX Summit Agency and their elite network. Continue reading


Hacking Culture Bootcamp SUPER-success in Amsterdam!

This weekend the first E-Space hackathon took place in Amsterdam, from the evening of the 8th until the 10th of May. The event, organised by the Europeana TV pilot of E-Space project, was challenging game and app developers, storytellers and interactive designers to create new multi-screen experiences with a focus on digitised historical footage. Winners will now fly to London for an intensive Business Modelling Workshop! Continue reading


Meet the Romans with EAGLE

The first EAGLE promo video has just been released and is now available on the EAGLE website. The script focuses on the dramatic and compelling story behind the main inscription on the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome, evoking the whole arc of the subsequent history of Ancient Rome. Continue reading


Civic Epistemologies presents Platforms for Citizen Science

Organised by the Civic Epistemologies project in the framework of the EGI Conference 2015, in collaboration with EGI.eu and IBERGRID, this session will present to the EGI scientific communities platforms for and use cases of citizen science, covering the wide range of potential capabilities (such as desktop computing and pattern recognition) usable in a huge variety of disciplines, from biodiversity to digital social sciences and humanities. Civic Epistemologies will present the first draft version of its Roadmap for Citizen Science. Continue reading