Digital meets Culture

Sidney (Australia), 20-21 September 2019

HIP 2019 – Historical Document Imaging and Processing

The 5th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP 2019) will be held in conjunction with ICDAR2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, on September 21, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.

The manifold topics addressed in this workshop encompass the entire processing chain from image acquisition to information extraction. We include the growing importance of machine learning in this processing chain, such as convolutional and recurrent neural networks, and we also encourage the presentation of entire projects in the context of historical documents.

The workshop brings together researchers working with historical documents and is intended to be complementary and synergistic to the work in analysis and recognition featured in the main sessions of ICDAR, the premier international forum for researchers and practitioners in the document analysis community.

HIP 2019 Workshop: https://www.primaresearch.org/hip2019/

ICDAR 2019: http://icdar2019.org/

Important Dates for HIP 2019 Call for Papers

Paper submission deadline: 01 June 2019
Acceptance notification: 15 July 2019
Camera ready: 01 August 2019
Workshop: 20-21 September 2019

HIP 2019 Workshop Call for Papers

Workshop topics include (but are not limited too):

Imaging and Image Acquisition

Imaging for fragile materials
Multispectral imaging
Camera-based/non-invasive acquisition
Case studies/applications

Digital Archiving Considerations

Compression issues
Measuring essential resolution (color, spatial) and metadata
Modeling of document image degradation
Historical Collections
Military records, personal journals, church records, medieval manuscripts, etc.
Scientific, technical and educational documents
Government archives, documents from the world cultural heritage, multi-language

Document Restoration/Improving readability

Removing or minimizing damages, defects, ink-bleed
Completing and filling in missing pieces based on context, prior knowledge, supporting documents, i.e. inpainting, etc.
Machine-learning algorithms for enhancement based on example images
Interactive tools from a user viewpoint
Learning from user-directed image enhancement

Content Extraction (within the context of historical documents)

Content-based retrieval
Automated or semi-automated transcription / processing
Crowdsourcing, user interfaces
Machine-learning algorithms for content extraction, convolutional and recurrent neural networks, auto-encoders, unsupervised feature learning
Content recognition based on surrounding and supporting context
Ontologies for modeling historical document content

Family History Documents and Genealogies

Personal, Family, National and Historical Collections of Family Genealogy and Histories
Extracting and linking names, dates, places, etc.
Extracting, linking and piecing together personal and family histories and narratives
Discovering historical social networks

Automated Classification, Grouping and Hyperlinking of Historical Documents

Style identification (typography of printed text, handwriting style recognition for manuscript authentication, dating or author identification…)
On-line & web-based navigation within/among document images
Searching/querying, retrieval, summarizing/condensing of document images, large-scale databases
Document clustering, collecting, linking, analysis and search technologies
Parallel tagging of images, transcripts, and other document layers

15th February 2019, Prague

Small Towns Heritage Pilot- Regional meeting with associate partners

On 15 February Charles University, leader of the REACH Project Pilot on Small Towns Heritage, held a half-day regional meeting with the associated partners representing regional governance and the heritage institute in the Vysočina region.

This small informal meeting took place in Prague and was arranged in the format of an “open space” meeting to discuss the development of the pilot project.

The Prague team presented the progress of the pilot, in particular the article on the Podlasie region, highlighted what was done for the participative model, the contributions of the team to other pilots and how it affects the Vysočina region.

The next meeting is scheduled for May.

Read more about Small Towns Heritage Pilot

San Francisco (US),14-15 November 2019

Future Technologies Conference (FTC) series, edition 2019

The Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2019 is to be held from 14-15 November 2019 in San Francisco. FTC is the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of Computing, Electronics, AI, Robotics, Security & Communications.

FTC attracts researchers, scientists and technologists from some of the top companies, universities, research firms and government agencies from around the world. A call for papers is open until 01 March 2019. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three regular PC members or two senior PC members. The acceptance decisions will take into account paper novelty, technical depth, elegance, practical or theoretic impact, and presentation.

The conference programme will include paper presentations, poster sessions and project demonstrations, along with prominent keynote speakers and industrial workshops.

Researchers, academics and technologists from leading universities, research firms, government agencies and companies from 50+ countries present the latest research at the forefront of technology and computing. The 2018 conference successfully brought together technology geniuses in one venue to not only present breakthrough research in future technologies but to also promote practicality and applications and an intra- and inter-field exchange of ideas.

Important Dates:
Paper Submission Due : 01 March 2019
Acceptance Notification : 01 April 2019
Author Registration : 01 May 2019
Camera Ready Submission : 01 June 2019
Conference Dates : 14-15 November 2019

Complete details are available on the conference website : http://saiconference.com/FTC

FTC 2019 papers will be will be published in Springer series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” and submitted for indexing to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink.

Outcomes of the meeting held the 12th February 2019 in Budapest

REACH project local encounter: Mini-conference “The Roma Heritage of the 8th district”

The conference was co-organized by ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, together with the students of the Cultural Heritage MA programme of the Atelier department.
The students completed a research during the first semester in three groups: they had been researching the community, the musical and the fine arts heritage of the Roma community in the 8th district.
During the research, they were cooperating with the local REACH partners and other stakeholders (like Glove Factory/Kesztyűgyár, the local Roma minority Self-Government, the Budapest Roma Cultural and Educational Centre (FROKK) and several Roma artists (musicians, painters who are also involved in community building practices).

The conference included two key-note lectures. Péter Szuhay, former director of the Roma collection in the Museum of Ethnography presented a digital repository entitled the Virtual House of Roma Culture. Tibor Sándor, head of Budapest Collection, Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library, Budapest talked about the Topotéka project of 8th district (http://jozsefvaros.topothek.at/).

The key-note lectures were followed by the three presentations held by the MA students:
1. Adrienn Tóth, Tamás Tüske, Zsófia Vajda and Bianka Vilonya: The role of the individual in Roma community-building
2. Anett Jánosi, Melinda Lovag, Zsófia Szalai, Julianna Szántó and Edina Szathmári: Roma fine-arts through the lens of contemporary artists
Anna Klára Andor, Dóra Nagy, Sára Kónya and Gergely Szabó: From the “Mátyás University” to the Mátyás Pince

The third section of the conference comprised a round table discussion about the possibilities of institutionalizing Roma heritage, the participants were Eszter György, István Gábor Molnár, president of Roma Minority Self-Government, Újpest; founder and director of Roma Local History Collection, Újpest and Kálmán Káli-Horváth, actor, painter and committee member of the future Cziffra Centre (Roma Cultural Centre, to be opened in the 8th district in 2020)

The conference was accompanied by a photo-exhibition. Gyula Nyári’s photo document the Roma cultural events that took place in the 8th district over the past two-three decades. Some of the places, institutions depicted on the photos do not exist anymore so the pictures are extremely important in maintaining the collective Roma memory of the district.

The event was very successful, over 50 people attended the conference and besides the university students, a lot of different stakeholders and representatives of other, Roma or non-Roma cultural and educational institutions came (Tom Lantos Institute, CEU, University of Debrecen, etc).

Poster of the event

For more information, articles in Hungarian are available here and here

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International Conference, 2-5 April 2019, Madrid (Spain)

«The Museum for all people: Art, Accessibility and Social Inclusion»: call for papers

The International Conference “The Museum for all people: Art, Accessibility and Social Inclusion” will be held in Madrid between 2nd-5th April 2019 organized by the MUSACCES Consortium (UCM-UNED-AUM).

The conference aims to provide a forum for exchange and debate among museum managers, professors, researchers, artists, students and other professionals from the world of culture regarding improving access in art museums to all people. It invites a reflection on factors such as the experiential dimension of art and cultural heritage, focused on its audiences or the history of museums as spaces for universal knowledge. Similarly, the conference will delve into the needs of museum audiences that lie within education and cultural action, including the needs of particular groups to promote inclusion.

The conference will have breakup sessions, specific seminars, concurrent activities and will feature internationally renowned speakers.

In the frame of the activities in a more inclusive museology, the MUSACCES Consortium (UCM-UNED-UAM) invites the scientific community to submit contributions, such as oral communications or posters, in relation to the following areas:
1. Pluralism in art. Aesthetic and sensory perceptions.
2. Cultural heritage at everyone’s reach.
3. Museums as spaces for knowledge .
4. Museums and 21st century audiences .
5. Museums and universities .
6. Museums as spaces for inclusive innovation and technology
7. Accesibility beyond the museum
8. Outstanding projects and practices in museology accessibility or social inclusion (poster)

The deadline for submitting papers is 15h February 2019.
General participation rules and the communication submitting form may be found at the link: http://museumforall.musacces.es/en/papers/
Further information at http://museumforall.musacces.es/en/home/
All queries about the congress will be processed through email: museumforall@musacces.es

Lumen organises an annual juried competition, exhibitions and opportunities for artists around the world

Lumen Prize for Art and Technology 2019: call for entries

Calling all artists engaging with technology
The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology celebrates and promotes artists working with
technology globally through its annual juried competition and exhibitions.

Now in its 8th year, The Lumen Prize has already awarded over $70,000 in prize money.
Through Lumen Art Projects, over 45 exhibitions in 15 cities worldwide have been staged, including London, New York, Shanghai, St Petersburg, Beijing, Cardiff and Athens.

Prize Fund in 2019 is $11,000. The 2019 Prizes are:
● Gold Award ($4000)
● Moving Image ($1000)
● Still Image ($1000)
● XR ($1000)
● 3D/Interactive Award ($1000)
● The BCS Artificial Intelligence Award ($1000)
● The Rapoport Award for Women in Art and Technology ($1000)
● Photomonitor Student Prize ($500)
● People’s Choice Award ($500)

There is an administration fee of US$48 to enter which covers two entries. Any additional
artwork is US$24. As a not-for-profit based in the UK, all entry fees go directly towards the prizes and events programme.

All longlisted artists, finalists and award winners are eligible for Lumen exhibitions,
commissions and events.

Closing Date: May 3rd 2019
Questions about the prize? Visit the FAQ page or email info@lumenprize.com

www.lumenprize.com

the app allows to explore creative works, and to interact directly with creators who are appropriately credited.

daisie is a playground for creative collaboration, exchange and networking

daisie is a new app designed by a hugely passionate team who cares about the future of creatives in a rapidly changing world: daisie supports creatives work together and discover one another, by sharing original content, and facilitating exchange and networking.

The app is dedicated to filmmakers, writers, readers, listeners & speakers, poets, dancers, singers, chefs, entrepreneurs, developers & architects, for establishing a community that thrives on collaboration, and where creators are credited properly for their work and the roles they had and the impact they made on the overall project.

daisie allows to explore creative work in film, fashion, music, photography, art and literature, and to interact directly with the inspirational people who work in these fields.

daisie is available worldwide on the App Store.

https://www.daisie.com/

Venice International Art Fair 2019 analyzes the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary time

VENICE ART FAIR 2019 – call for artists is open

Venice International Art Fair will be held in Venice, at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space and in Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, from April 11th to May 3rd, 2019.

Venice International Art Fair is a contemporary art fair that presents collective and solo projects by leading and emerging international artists. Founded in 2001 by ITSLIQUID Groupthe 11th edition will represent a forum for direct exchange of ideas and contacts between collectors, artists, photographers, designers and art professionals. It provides artists and exhibitors with the unique opportunity to present their works to an international audience of professionals as curators, gallerists, collectors, editors and publishers who seek to acquire, publish and encourage the best contemporary art talents.

Venice International Art Fair 2019 analyzes the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary time, through two main sections: LIQUID ROOMS and FUTURE LANDSCAPES.

Deadline for applications is February 15, 2019 (11.59 PM of your local time)

For more information and submissions feel free to contact us via mail at:
mbramasole.itsliquid @ gmail.com

The overall aim of the task force is to inform, support and encourage organisations who are creating 3D media

New task force on 3D content in Europeana

Asinou Church in Cyprus – 3D point cloud

Europeana, the great European digital library, gives access to +58 million digital cultural items from important institutions across Europe. Most of this content has been digitized in recent years and a growing part of it is coming from 3D digitization projects. In facts, the creation of highly accurate 3D models of monuments, buildings and museum objects has become more widespread in research, conservation, management and to provide access to heritage for education, tourism and through the creative economy. The 3D content currently accessible in Europeana is very variable and 3D objects that can be directly manipulated by users are not distinguished from simple images or videos of 3D models.

To improve both the searchability and access/enjoyment of such content, a new task force has recently been created in Europeana, with the aim of offering better guidance to data providers and aggregators in order to ensure that 3D media is correctly labeled and enabling the availability of more functional 3D content for Europeana’s users to discover and explore also for use in education, research and in the creative industries.

Read More on Europeana Pro: https://pro.europeana.eu/project/3d-content-in-europeana

Grand prize of the European Commission honoring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts

STARTS Prize 2019 Open Call

STARTS is an initiative of the European Commission to foster alliances of technology and artistic practice. As part of this initiative, the STARTS Prize awards the most pioneering collaborations and results in the field of creativity and innovation at the crossings of science and technology with the arts. The STARTS Prize of the European Commission is launched by Ars Electronica , BOZAR and Waag.

Science, Technology and Arts (=STARTS) form a nexus with an extraordinarily high potential for creative innovation. And such innovation is considered to be precisely what’s called for if we’re to master the social, ecological and economic challenges that Europe will be facing in the near future. The role of artists thus is no longer seen to be just about propagating scientific and technological knowledge and skills among the general public but much more as a kind of catalyst that can inspire and trigger innovative processes. The artistic practice of creative exploration and experimental appropriation of new technologies has a wide reaching potential to contribute to the development of new products and new economic, social and business models. Accordingly, the STARTS Prize focuses on artistic works that influence or change the way we look at technology, and on innovative forms of collaboration between the ICT sector and the world of art and culture.

Two prizes, each with €20,000 prize money, are offered to honor innovative projects at the intersection of science, technology and the arts: one for artistic exploration, and thus projects with the potential to influence or change the way technology is deployed, developed or perceived, and one for innovative collaboration between industry/technology and art/culture in ways that open up new paths for innovation.

Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration Awarded for artistic exploration and art works where appropriation by the arts has a strong potential to influence or alter the use, deployment or perception of technology.
Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration Awarded for innovative collaboration between industry or technology and the arts that opens new pathways for innovation.

Submission phase ends on March 1, 2019!

More information: https://starts-prize.aec.at/en/