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- AMRO 2024 was held in Linz from May 8 to 10, 2024
The 2024 edition of Art Meets Radical Openness (AMRO), the biennial festival for art, hacktivism, and open cultures, has just come to an end. Held in Linz from May 8 to 10, it offered a context for discussing the … Continue reading →
- Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, 20 May 2024
On 20 May, the INCULTUM project met with schools and local institutions in the closing event of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana. The research team of the University of Pisa, leader of the Pilot 5 related to the case of San Pellegrino … Continue reading →
Topic: e-infrastructures
This edition brings you news of an innovative partnership with PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, which gives researchers access to world-class data infrastructure and storage. Kimmo Koski calls for trust between researchers and technology providers, our roving reporter catches up with Carl Johan Håkansson to find out more about B2SHARE and we explore Augusto Burgueño’s vision for e-infrastructures in Europe. Continue reading
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers organises the SMPTE Forum 2015 “Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age: A European Perspective”, being held on 7-8 May 2015, at the Fraunhofer-Forum in Berlin. Factors as wide as EU policy, net neutrality, copyright and mining “big data” are shaping the possibilities in the complex European market and redefining how the industry engages its audience. The SMPTE Forum 2015 will examine these topics Continue reading
FutureEverything celebrated its 20th anniversary. For the last two decades the festival has brought people together to imagine, shape and question the vision of a truly participatory society. A belief in the emancipatory and creative potential of new technologies runs throughout digital culture. It is found both in the open source community and in the rhetoric of Silicon Valley start-ups. In recent years, the contradictions in this vision have come to the surface. The digital age has brought a collision of positives and negatives. This year was an ideal opportunity for FutureEverything to hit pause on its headlong rush into the future, to reflect on the consequences of the past decades and the prospects for the decades to come. Continue reading
WACREN is organizing its 2nd Annual Conference on 12-13 March 2015 in Abuja, hosted by the Nigerian Research and Education Network (NgREN). The main theme of the conference is Enabling Virtual Research and Education Communities. Continue reading
The International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) is a series of conferences on digital preservation. Since 2004, iPRES conferences have been held on three continents. iPRES 2015 will be held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA on November 2-6, 2015. It will be held at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education. Continue reading
The RDA Fifth Plenary is taking place in San Diego, US from 9th – 11th March 2015 and is open to RDA members and the public, particularly individuals that share the core values of creating the building blocks of common data infrastructures that can bridge disciplinary activities under a community-driven and non-profit model. Continue reading
The HOLA CLOUD project consortium met in Madrid on 19 and 20 January for the project kick off meeting. Aim of the project is to initiate an advanced conference series producing and revising an annual technology roadmap and providing an efficient venue for the members of the community to meet and exchange results and ideas for the future. Continue reading
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the two EU funded projects to look for new possibilities and funding to exploit the results of the two projects in joint initiatives, at European and national level, around the theme of digital preservation. Continue reading