Digital meets Culture

Boston, 24-27 September 2018

iPres 2018 – where art and science meet: the art in science and the science in art

iPRES 2018 – Where Art and Science Meet – The Art In the Science & The Science In the Art of Digital Preservation – will be co-hosted by MIT Libraries and Harvard Library on September 24-27, 2018.

Come celebrate the 15th conference with us at iPRES 2018 in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. We are pleased to announce that iPRES2018’s online registration is now open: https://ipres2018.org/registration. There are workshops and tutorials to sign up for, papers and panels, posters and demonstrations, and more. Watch for updates about the first digital preservation game room, original graphics, lightning sessions, and other programming.

Do note that early bird registration ends June 30. Please contact the registration team if you require any further information regarding your participation at this conference.

The theme for iPRES 2018: where art and science meet: the art in science and the science in art – aims to broaden the voices and approaches participating in the conference. iPRES brings together a broad array of practitioners, researchers, educators, providers, students, and others to share lessons learned from engaging in digital preservation, including recent research, developments, and innovations. MIT Libraries and Harvard Library are co-hosting the conference is in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 24-27, 2018.

The iPRES 2018 Organizing Team seeks contributions that tell stories about bridging knowledge gaps in teams, implementing technologies, and overcoming barriers towards proper digital stewarding of digital items, assets, works and collections. Be creative. Be inspiring. Be inclusive. In keeping with the theme, we will embrace creative proposals that demonstrate how research and theory directly impact and influence practice at all levels.

Important Dates

Optional Abstracts: We encourage authors to submit papers abstracts to receive feedback on your proposal prior to submitting your paper. The iPRES 2018 Organizing Team will provide feedback to submitters for abstracts received between 15 February and 20 March.
Papers: Full papers for peer review are due by 15 April.
- Submitters will receive review comments by 15 May.
- Revised papers with revisions that address reviewer comments are due 15 June.
Other peer-reviewed contributions: proposals for posters and demonstrations, workshops and tutorials, and panels are due 15 April.
Non-peer reviewed contributions: digital preservation games, original graphics, and lightning talks will not be submitted through EasyChair. These contributions will be due beginning in May – watch for details.
Post-conference revisions: Authors are encouraged to update their papers based on discussions during the conference. These will be due by October 31.

See iPres2018.org for the full text of the Call for Contributions and submission instructions.

See iPres2018.org for the full text of the Preliminary Call for Contributions.

NPM is the first Asian museum to join the innovative Musebooks platform

National Palace Museum (Taipei) Digitizes Collection Publications with Musebooks

The National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taipei – the most visited art museum in Asia according to The Art Newspaper – has teamed up with Musebooks and will now put its priceless collections online with catalogues in an innovative digital format. The National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taipei is the first Asian museum to make its publications available through Musebooks, a Belgium-based start-up. Musebooks already works with MoMA New York, Thames & Hudson, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, and other museums and publishers around the world on the production of digital art books.
This international partnership, facilitated through Acer Inc., will bring the NPM’s priceless collections of Chinese artifacts to a European and US audience in an accessible and cutting-edge digital format. Musebooks is delighted to work with NPM publications and add Asian art to the platform’s current strengths in Old Masters and Modern art. NPM publications on Musebooks will be available in English with a selection also in Chinese. The first of these publications are already online and available to the public.

Previews
Splendors of the National Palace Museum: www.musebooks.world/eu/en/reading/preview/307
Landscape Reunited: www.musebooks.world/eu/en/reading/preview/303
Landscape Reunited (in Chinese): www.musebooks.world/eu/en/reading/preview/310

Contact
Sophia Rochmes, Managing Director of Art Partnerships
sophia.rochmes @ musebooks.world | +32 485.42.39.69
www.musebooks.world | www.facebook.com/musebooksworld

About Musebooks: The Musebooks format is the first digital reading experience specially designed for art books. Unlike the traditional ebook format, which is not suited for image-heavy books, a musebook allows readers to zoom in on images at high resolutions and to easily switch between 3 different reading modes: text view, image view, and page view. Musebooks are stored in the reader’s personal cloud library and are accessible on all devices via a web browser or the free Musebooks app available for Apple and Android.
Video intro to Musebooks (1min): http://video.musebooks.world/

About the National Palace Museum: The NPM in Taipei is one of the top 10 most visited art museums in the world (#1 in Asia), with attendance of over 4.6 million people per year. A leader among museums, the NPM has used digitization to increase the public’s access to its collection of nearly 700,000 Chinese artifacts. The NPM website offers educational videos, open data and image downloads, and the museum partnered with Acer in 2015 to create its first e-books for purchase online.

San Francisco (US), 26-30 October 2018

Digital Heritage 2018 – 3rd International Congress & Expo

New Realities: Authenticity & Automation in the Digital Age

In San Francisco, at the epicenter of the digital revolution, DigitalHERITAGE 2018 was organized with an amazing lineup of talks, exhibits, workshops, tutorials, special sessions and more, including:

Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on the future of net
Prof of Digital Museology Sarah Kenderdine on reframing museums, immersion and more
California State Archivist Nancy Lenoil on Yosemite and digital archives
Prof Lin-Shan Lee on breakthroughs in voice search for heritage
Prof Deirdre Mulligan of the Center for Law & Technology on digital truth
Dr Brian Fisher on the effort to 3D digitize every ant species on earth, and
a special conversation on the future of preservation with father of the internet & Google Vice President Dr. Vint Cerf

5 days, 18 federating events, 100s of talks, 3 amazing venues, 50,000 sqft expo, 10 tours

WHAT: The leading global event on digital technology for documenting, conserving and sharing heritage—from monuments & sites, to museums & collections, libraries & archives, and intangible traditions & languages. Featuring keynotes from cultural leaders & digital pioneers, a tech expo, research demos, scientific papers, policy panels, best practice case studies, hands-on workshops, plus tours of technology and heritage labs.
FOCUS: Culture and technology fields from computer science to cultural preservation, archaeology to art, architecture to archiving, museums to musicology, history to humanities, computer games to computer graphics, digital surveying to social science, libraries to language, and many more.
WHO: Some 750+ leaders from across the 4 heritage domains together with industry to explore, discuss & debate the potentials and pitfalls of digital for culture. Heritage and digital professionals, from educators to technologists, researchers to policy makers, executives to curators, archivists to scientists, and more.
WHERE: In the heart of the digital revolution on the waterfront in San Francisco, USA. For the first time outside Europe following our 1st Congress in Marseille in 2013 and 2nd in Granada in 2015.
WHEN: 26-30 October 2018

Workshop, Tutorials & Special Session Proposals Due online: 15 April 2018
Papers & Expo Proposals Due online: 20 May 2018
Notification: 15 July 2018
Camera Ready Deadline: 1 September 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS, EXPO, EXHIBITIONS >> PDF, 881 Kb

Website: http://www.digitalheritage2018.org

A federated Congress of many leading events, DigitalHERITAGE 2018 included:
2 Conferences:

the Int’l Society on Virtual Systems and Multimedia: VSMM 2018 – 24th International Conference
the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium: PNC 2018 – 25th Conference & Joint Meetings

1 Exposition by ARCHAEOVIRTUAL & Italian National Research Council: DigitalHERITAGE Expo & Livestream from Paestum, Italy

+15 Special Events.

DigitalHERITAGE 2018 run 5 days and explores digital innovation and challenges across 4 heritage domains: Built Heritage, Artifacts & Collections, Libraries & Archives, Intangible Culture & Traditions, and across 3 broad groups of digital technology: Reality Capture (digitization, scanning, remote sensing, …), Reality Computing (databases & repositories, KM, GIS, CAD, 3DCG, authoring, archives, …), Reality Creation (VR, AR, MR, games, visualization, multimedia, 3Dprinting, embodiment, …).

Deadline for submission postponed to 10 April 2018

REACH Opening Conference: Call for Posters

The opening conference of the REACH project will be held the 10th and 11th of May 2018 in Budapest organized by ELTE University, Eötvös Loránd Tudomanyegyetem and kindly hosted by the Hungarian National Museum.

A poster/video session will be opened during the event; it will be dedicated to innovative and creative projects on the theme of resilient communities and social participation, in order to show the results obtained in establishing a participatory and resilient cultural environment.

We are looking for Cultural Heritage projects that involve resilient communities and social participation from Europe and around the world.

Projects and Proposals will be selected by REACH’s Conference Committee. Special consideration will be given to ensure that a variety of topics, geographical and cultural ranges will be represented.
Visit the Call for Posters page for submission guidelines and selection criteria and complete the application form by ~~15 March~~ 10 April 2018.
ATTENTION: deadline Call for Posters/video postponed through April 10 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
For the REACH project: www.reach-culture.eu
For the REACH Opening Conference: reach-culture.eu/budapestconference2018

Budapest (Hungary), 10-11 May 2018

REACH Opening Conference

The opening conference of the REACH project will be organized by ELTE University, Eötvös Loránd Tudomanyegyetem on the 10th and 11th of May 2018 in Budapest, kindly hosted by the Hungarian National Museum.

REACH, Re-designing Access to Cultural Heritage for a wider participation in preservation, (re)use and management of European culture, is a three-year project, started on the 1st of November 2017, to establish a Social Platform for participatory approaches and social innovation in culture.
The project is supported by the European Commission in the frame of the
Horizon2020 programme, and coordinated by Coventry University.
The REACH Social Platform aims to offer a sustainable space for meeting, discussion and collaboration by all those with a stake in the field of culture and Cultural Heritage.
By showcasing concrete, participatory experiences and identifying good practice by means of the project’s pilots, a robust framework will be developed for building and sustaining a resilient European Cultural Heritage

The REACH international conference in Budapest will introduce the scope of the project, offering a great opportunity to discuss and compare successful examples of participatory processes and researches. Interesting speeches, excellent occasions for networking and discussion, and participatory activities will be part of the event. Moreover, a dedicated poster/video sessions complements the conference, where the participants will present projects of interest around the conference topics.

Event website: www.reach-culture.eu/budapestconference2018
About REACH project: http://reach-culture.eu/

About 80 persons involved in a captivating showcase of rural heritage preservation good practice

Annual cleaning of the medieval irrigation channel of Barjas

On Saturday 17th of February, the University of Granada, together with the local irrigators community, organised the annual cleaning of the medieval irrigation channel of Barjas and of the branch La Hijuela, surrounding Cáñar. In this fieldwork activity took part 80 people, 64 volunteers and 16 irrigators.

The volunteers involved were university students from different disciplines, cultural and environmental associations members, and people interested in the conservation of this particular rural heritage and its corresponding cultural landscape. They came from Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Chile, and for some of them was the first time visiting Sierra Nevada and discovering historical irrigation channels.This annual cleaning is intended to help local farmers to put in use 3 km of irrigation channel, recovered in 2014 as part of the FP7 MEMOLA project (http://memolaproject.eu/node/927), and to start the irrigation period. This irrigation channel helps having water during summer period and increase the water availability in the village springs.

Volunteers participating in this one-day action came in contact with the local population, working side-by-side and learning from their practices the values of this hydraulic rural system.The cleaning was carried on throughout the morning, then, when the water could flow through the channel, the traditional water celebration started and the local community invited all participants to have lunch together, tasting local products and traditional kitchen recipes. After lunch, a local group of musicians entertained the public with traditional music.
The University of Granada took the opportunity to hand over the Hispania Nostra good practices award(http://memolaproject.eu/node/2316) to the local irrigators community, for the recovery of Barjas channel in 2014. Similar events will take place next month in collaboration with others local irrigators communities in Sierra Nevada, in the framework of REACH project pilot case on rural heritage.

Outcomes of the first workshop on small towns heritage pilot headed by Charles University with Czech Republic associated partners, 15th February 2018, Prague.

Small towns in promotion of their cultural heritage: possibilities and experiences

The project team in Prague has organized the first meeting of the REACH network of associate partners. The event took place on February 15th and was arranged in the format of a one-day workshop that was intended to prepare ground for collaboration in the upcoming pilot on small-town heritage. It was visited by a significant number of twenty partners from the pilot regions in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Belarus and a new potential member from Poland, a doctoral student of cultural studies from Wroclaw University. The program was organized into four panels. The first one was devoted to presentation of the project’s major objectives and to explanation of the method of critical mapping, SWOT analysis and composition of the database of best practices in cultural heritage protection, its re/use and management. The second panel focused on possible forms of collaboration with associate partners. What can they offer, and what they expect to achieve from the partnership. The third panel opened discussion about the ways in which the actors operating in national scale approach local actors and motivate their activities related to heritage use and re-use. The fourth panel was devoted to the heritage activities carried out by towns, places and associations.

The debate was fueled by interesting cases of participatory activities in relation to cultural heritage that were presented on one hand by experts from official institutions such as National Heritage Institute and CzechTourism, and on the other hand by architects operating as volunteers in European Council for the Village and Small Town (ECOVAST) in Slovakia and in Petr Parler Association on one side and local actors from towns represented by partners from Slovak town Svidník, a large factory operating in the town Česká Třebová, and a microregional project for participatory activities created by a group of citizens based mainly in small town Stařeč on the other. The experts operating in NGOs Institute for monuments and culture/ Institut pro památky a kulturu o.p.s. and Anthropictures, Studio antropologického výzkumu /Anthropology research studio represented those who register, survey, motivate and support the participatory activities.
The discussion indicated several themes for further reflection, such as: the persisting tendency to limit the idea of heritage in small-town setting to old and tangible monuments; the discrepancies between the values of local residents and the perspectives of protection agencies; the double-edged relations between tourism and local sustainability; or the impact of participation by the local citizenries in all phases of the heritage practices on their success or failure. Very informal and friendly atmosphere, lively discussion and a desire to meet soon again was the feeling generally shared by all participants as well as organizers. It was intellectually very rewarding and pleasant event.

Further information:
Poster of the workshop, programme of the workshop, presentation .

Berlin (Germany), 3 - 5 October 2018

Languages & The Media – 12th International Conference on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media

A “fourth industrial revolution” is going to transform the way we use languages in the media, according to the organisers of a leading European conference of experts.

Rebecca Stromeyer, Chief Executive of ICWE GmbH, the Berlin-based company, which is organising ‘Languages and the Media’, set to take place in the German capital in October, says that new technologies are already having “a huge impact” on the way consumers use languages in audiovisual media.
“The fourth industrial revolution is a new age in which the physical, digital and biological industries are becoming ever more closely linked by new technologies. It is going to have a huge impact on almost every industry and economy but the audiovisual media industry will be particularly affected. The revolution, in which we are all about to be swept up, will transform the way we produce and access media.“

“It will change how we can use languages, opening up new means of communication and comprehension. It will mean that audiovisual media can be both globalised and deeply personalised too. The change that is coming is going to be really empowering. It will result in more choice and more accessibility. It will bring the rapid development of a whole range of new services for those with specific or special needs. It is not just about entertainment but about education too. This is a very exciting time for the audiovisual media industry and, at ‘Languages and the Media,’ we’ll be examining the scale of the change and the opportunities it will create.”

Ms Stromeyer said that the sheer variety of applicable new technologies has already begun to inspire innovative crowd responses to meet the needs of specific audiences and to exploit the potential for new forms of interaction.

“This is a huge issue,” she says. “Human and machine interplay within the audiovisual media industry will be a critical factor in the future. The possibilities are enormous. We’ll be looking at this subject, among many others, at ‘Languages and the Media’ and considering how exactly it is likely to affect work processes, training and research.”

‘Languages and the Media’, the twelfth international conference on language transfer in the audiovisual media, will take place in Berlin from the 3^rd to the 5^th October 2018. The conference and its accompanying exhibition will be attended by participants from all over the world, including broadcasters, language experts, technology players, investors, analysts and entrepreneurs. Subjects likely to be discussed at the event will include the future of work, new distribution models, language tools, interlingual transfer, quality standards, accessibility, crowd-sourcing and new media. A full list of subjects to be discussed is available on the conference website.

Keynote speakers at the conference will include David Padmore, the UK-based SVP of Content Services at TVT. With 25 years’ experience in the TV and media industries, he started out as a subtitler with the BBC before going on to lead Red Bee and Ericsson Access Service teams delivering subtitling, audio description and sign language translation for broadcasters in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, USA, Canada and Australia. At ‘Languages and the Media’, he will set out the scope and scale of new opportunities for content localisation and accessibility.

For more information about ‘Languages and the Media’, please contact info@languages-media.com.

Website: www.languages-media.com

Languages & The Media
12th International Conference on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media
3. – 5. Oktober 2017, Hotel Radisson Blu, Berlin

Registration fees:
Standard EUR 400 (early bird: EUR 370); supporting organisations EUR 350; students EUR 200
Organiser: ICWE GmbH, Leibnizstrasse 32, 10625 Berlin, Germany
Contact: Rebecca Stromeyer
Tel.: +49 (0)30 310 18 18-0
Email: info@languages-media.com

Vancouver, BC (Canada) 13-14 November 2018

Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018

The Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018 is to be held from 13-14 November’18 in Vancouver, Canada. 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. 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.

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

2017 Keynote speakers were: John Martinis (Google), James Hendler (RPI), Peter Mueller (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory), Ann Cavoukian (ex-Privacy Commissioner, Ontairo) and Kevin Leyton-Brown (UBC).

FTC 2018 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.

International Conference 27-29 September 2018, Burgas (Bulgaria)

Call for papers: Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage

The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has the pleasure to introduce the Eighth International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage-DiPP2018 which aims at presenting innovative results, research projects and applications in the field of digitisation, documentation, archiving, representation and preservation of global and national tangible and intangible cultural and scientific heritage.

The main focus is to provide open access to digitised cultural heritage and to set up sustainable policies for its continuous digital preservation and conservation.
The priority area is the digital presentation and preservation of cultural and historical objects under conditions of risk, including those from the Burgas region.
The forum will demonstrate innovative technologies and prototypes, including digital repositories, digital archives, virtual museums and digital libraries, which result from established practices and achievements in the field.

Representatives of public and specialised libraries, museums, galleries, archives, centres, both national and foreign research institutions and universities are invited to participate and exchange experiences, ideas, knowledge and best practices of the field.

The DiPP2018 is organized under the patronage of: UNESCO and Burgas District Administration.

Co-organisers: Regional Academic Center – Burgas, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Regional Historical Museum – Burgas, Burgas Free University, Index Ltd.

Location of the Event: Cultural center “Sea casino” (Морско казино), Burgas, Bulgaria

Deadline for papers submission: June 5, 2018
Submission of proposals for workshops and discussions: June 16, 2018
Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2018
Submission of final versions of papers: July 30, 2018

More information about the Conference here

Call for papers