SECreTour project, together with Photoconsortium, Europeana, UNESCO Chair of the Università della Svizzera Italiana in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in world heritage sites and UNESCO Chair of the Università di Genova in Anthropology of Health, Biosphere and Healing Systems, is … Continue reading
EUreka3D-XR partners Bibracte and NTUA School of Electrical and Computer Engineering are jointly progressing towards the creation of two XR tools applied to the French archaeological site. The pilot is named “The AR narrative of the hidden side of Bibracte … Continue reading
Topic: museum & library information systems
The 2017 edition of the FIAT/IFTA World Conference will be organised in October 2017 in Mexico City. FIAT/IFTA’ s annual conference is a unique opportunity to discover the future of the audiovisual domain and its new tendencies and uses, exchange knowledge and experience, and promote the study of any topic relevant to the development and valorisation of audiovisual archives. Continue reading
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
Analysis of the research tasks that were difficult or impossible with the IPSA website, but which CULTURA makes possible and easy. Continue reading
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
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
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed to formalise the fruitful cooperation started in the past months between the two projects funded by the European Commission. Continue reading
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
This is a standard-based web 2.0 demonstrative platform that enables search in parallel in different online repositories of linked data. The users can search across the tens of millions of resources contained in the CHAIN-REDS Knowledge Base as well as in the Europeana, Cultura Italia and Isidore repositories. The service is available both in a web-based version and with a mobile app. Continue reading
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
Organized by the Archeology of Photography Foundation, the National Museum in Warsaw and the national Institute of Museology and Collections protection, the seminar included a panel of international speakers. “Bringing together an array of internationally renowned speakers, the conference provided ample platform for debate and creative comparison”, said the organizers. Continue reading
