Topic: EU projects

DCH-RP features in SCAPE Newsletter

DCH-RP and SCAPE started to discuss possible synergies and cooperation strategies to find concrete actions to be performed together to promote a common infrastructure for the digital preservation of cultural data Continue reading


Digital Cultural Heritage 2017

Organised by CODATA-Germany, the German National Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council for Science, the DCH2017 International Conference will take place in Berlin, at the National Library, on August 30 – September 01, 2017. The conference focuses on providing key messages relating to the impact of new technologies and processes on cultural heritage. Continue reading


DiXiT presentation at 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


What’s on the agenda for EUDAT in 2014?

EUDAT is embarking on its third year with an even stronger focus on communities, services (both existing and new), training and collaboration. Continue reading


PREFORMA International Conference: Shaping our future memory standards

Following the successful workshops organised in Stockholm, Berlin and Padua, the PREFORMA project invites all the members of the digital preservation community to attend the PREFORMA International Conference – Shaping our future memory standards, which will be held in Tallinn … Continue reading


No Time to Wait! 2

The PREFORMA project and MediaArea are pleased to announce initial details for a 2nd No Time to Wait symposium, hosted by the Österreichisches Filmmuseum – Austrian Film Museum. Members of audiovisual archiving, digital preservation, open media development, and open format standardization communities as well as curious onlookers are welcome to attend, discuss, and present on subjects pertaining to the intersection of open media, standardization, and audiovisual preservation. Continue reading


New cooperation agreement between DCH-RP and CHAIN REDS

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the two projects to promote and support technological and scientific collaboration across different e-Infrastructures established and operated in various continents, in order to define a path towards a global e-Infrastructure ecosystem. Continue reading


CULTURA improves manuscripts identification, annotation and normalization

Analysis of the research tasks that were difficult or impossible with the IPSA website, but which CULTURA makes possible and easy. Continue reading


Feature Stories – Adaptive, personalised ICT to make new sense of the past

Text, illustrations, paintings and – more recently – photographs, video and audio recordings, much of them now digitised, recount many aspects of European history, from major international events to personal stories. Now, new technology is being brought to bear on these treasure troves of historical information, thanks to EU-funded researchers whose work promises to shed new light on the past. Continue reading


Interacting with Digital Cultural Heritage Collections via Annotations: The CULTURA Approach

Interesting paper presented by a group of experts and researchers at the ACM Congress DocEng 2013 to introduce the main characteristics of the digital cultural collections that constitute the use cases presently in use in the CULTURA environment. Continue reading