Topic: digital preservation

The Smithsonian x3D Explorer launched!

The Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office has developed 3D models from its holdings, and a selection of models is available online. The Smithsonian x3D Explorer allows users to interact with the digital objects in a web browser, to access, view and manipulate these objects, and eventually to print them with a in-house 3D printer, as the raw 3D data from the objects will be made available for downloading for personal and non-commercial use. Continue reading


EUDAT 2013 conference in Rome

The EUDAT 2nd conference held on 28-30 Oct 2013 in Rome, was the ideal setting to showcase these services and outline the roll out phase as well as to offer hands-on training. Discussions on the new set of EUDAT services were also a feature of the conference with semantic annotation, dynamic data & workflows addressed, a natural follow on to the Working Group discussions that were held in Barcelona in Sept. 2013. Continue reading


Europeana Photography disseminated in Finland

The project coordinator prof. Fred Truyen and his assistant Sofie Taes were invited for a lecture at the National Museum of Finland in Helsinki, during the Photo Archive Days. Finland is not represented (yet!) in the EuropeanaPhotography consortium but the event was useful to start a dialogue and relationships with representatives from the Finnish archives and museums. Continue reading


AIUCD annual conference on digital humanities

The AIUCD (Associazione Italiana per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale) annual conference, devoted to any aspect of the digital humanities, was held in Padua on 11-12 December 2013. Continue reading


IRCDL 2014: X Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries

IRCDL is a yearly conference for Italian researchers on Digital Libraries related topics. The aim of IRCDL 2014 is once more to provide the opportunity to explore new ideas, techniques and tools and to exchange experiences also from on-going projects. Continue reading


A Virtual Research Community for the Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage @ ICT 2013, Vilnius

The session, organised by DCH-RP, SCIDIPES, APARSEN, EUDAT, CHAIN REDS and SCAPE, brought together projects and initiatives working world-wide in the domain of DCH, digital arts, digital performances, digital humanities and digital preservation to find synergies and discuss opportunities for cooperation, in particular around the theme of using e-infrastructures for the preservation of DCH. Continue reading


Preservation and use of digital collections of photographic documents

First International Scientific and Practical Seminar  DIGITIZED HERITAGE: PRESERVATION, ACCESS, REPRESENTATION Preservation and use of digital collections of photographic documents November 25-26, 2013 State Polytechnic Museum (NTUU “KPI”) held a scientific and practical seminar, the first in a series of informational … Continue reading


EAGLE plenary meeting in Pisa

EAGLE consortium recently met in Pisa for discussing and proceeding towards the project’s next steps. Next appointments for the EAGLE project are on the 18-20 February 2014, in Ljubljana, joining the Plenary Meeting with Workshops, Training, and a Public Event. Still to be confirmed as for dates and venues, the first EAGLE International Conference will also take place in early autumn 2014. Continue reading


Digital heritage international congress 2013

Over 13 Conferences, Symposia, Workshops and Exhibitions under one roof. In the 2013 European Capital of Culture, Marseille, this fall will have place the world’s largest gathering ever focused on Digital Heritage. A federated event of the leading scientific meetings in information technology for heritage… Continue reading


Europeana Photography in Marseille

Sofie Taes of KU Leuven gave a presentation of EuropeanaPhotography during the panel session of EU projects at Digital Heritage 2013. The workshop took place on the 29th October and included representatives of several EU projects, who delivered interesting speeches. It was an occasion to discuss and present the project to colleagues, experts and professionals in the cultural heritage, to foster reciprocal awareness and cooperation. Continue reading