Topic: heritage showcases

Enabling Users: Options for Joining eduGAIN

The pan-European data network (GÉANT) has released in December 2013 a report titled “Enabling Users: Options for Joining eduGAIN”, which explores three options for adding services to eduGAIN to help decide which of them is best suited to a particular research community or case. Continue reading


Succeed technical workshop on interoperability of digitisation platforms

The aim of the workshop, organised by Succeed project, is to discuss best practices and possibilities for alignment and cooperation on a technical level between European Centres of Competence and Digital infrastructures. Continue reading


Europeana Photography Seminar – Software for managing digital collections

Organized by CRDI – Centre de Recerca i Difusió de la Imatge (Ajuntament de Girona) and GenCat – Generalitat de Catalunya (Department de Cultura), a seminar in the framework of EuropeanaPhotography project has take place in Barcelona (29th January 2014), at the premises of Palau Moja, Carrer … Continue reading


DCH-RP plenary meeting in Catania

On January 20th and 21st, all the DCH-RP partners met in Catania for the project’s plenary meeting, hosted by INFN at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Catania. This plenary meeting was particularly important for the partners because … Continue reading


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


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


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