Topic: EU projects

Open e-IRG Workshop to discuss Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures

The main themes about “Infrastructures in the Digital Age: the Data Challenge” and “e-Infrastructure commons” were discussed in two tracks, including speeches by very important and international experts. The workshop organized by e-IRG was held under the Lithuanian EU Presidency of the European Union. Continue reading


NALIS celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Sofia University

This year, the General Meeting of the NALIS Foundation is joined to the celebrations of the 125th anniversary of the Sofia University, and includes an important workshop: “Undisclosed Treasures from the Photo-archives”. Following the workshop there will be the official opening of an exhibition: “Treasures among the Donations to Library “Theology” of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Continue reading


Current Practices and New Directions in Digital Epigraphy

This event was aimed at anyone interested in epigraphy (digital or non-digital) as well as to the establishment and diffusion of general best current practices for digital editions. It covered many aspects of digital technology applied to inscriptions, from content to management and networking. It was composed of 3 workshops (Harmonization and interoperability of Inscriptions, Translations of Inscriptions, Intellectual Property Rights) and a photographic workshop on shooting high quality images for online publication and research. Continue reading


Adaptive, personalised ICT to make new sense of the past

Navigation may not be very simple when dealing with wide digital collections, and researchers often are forced into a laborious and time-consuming process of decrypting texts and correlating names, concepts and dates to create an understandable overall picture. CULTURA project provides a ICT based solution that allows more effective and easier research and nattarive. Continue reading


The digital cultural heritage towards Horizon 2020

The event was divided in two sessions; the first one was dedicated to the policy, highlighting the decisions by Italian Government and Parliament related to the central role of culture for the economic recovery in Italy, and also in Europe. The second session was dedicated to the digital content Aggregators and to the research infrastructures in the sector of SSH (Social Science and Humanities) and cultural heritage, to share objectives and to develop a common, operative roadmap for digitization. Continue reading


DiXiT project launched

DiXiT offers a coordinated training and research programme for 12 early stage researchers and 5 experienced researchers in the multi-disciplinary skills, technologies, theories, and methods of digital scholarly editing. The consortium is composed by important universities as full partners, coordinated by University of Cologne, plus associated partners that provide valuable scientists in charge. Continue reading


Creative re-use of digital cultural content and private-public-partnerships

Promoter participated to LuBeC 2013 with a presentation of dr. Antonella Fresa about the creative re-use of digital cultural content and best practice for private-public-partnerships. The presentation starts from the consideration that the amount of Digital Cultural Heritage is very large and constantly growing, thanks to the digitization programmes that both private and public content holders are carrying on since the last 10 years. The return on investment should be assessed against the impact delivered to society both in terms of… Continue reading


Linked Heritage training programme

The Learning Objects, developed in the frame of Linked Heritage, range from Europeana to aggregation, metadata standards, linked data, terminology, etc.) and address an identified shortage of awareness of these important topics. Continue reading


Improved search and higher-quality metadata through terminology management

Different organisations and different languages use different terms to describe similar concepts. Incompatible terminologies impede effective searching by end users and are also an obstacle for web services that rely on consistent metadata. Linked Heritage aimed to address this challenge by standardising terminologies. Continue reading


Linking Cultural Heritage Information

Linked Heritage demonstrated the publication of Linked Data to the digital cultural heritage community, including the establishment of a linked data server which delivers our metadata as linked data triples. To identify the most effective way for the cultural heritage sector to create, manage and apply permanent identifiers. Continue reading