Digital meets Culture

Maribur, Slovenia, 23 October 2023

CaTH Conference: Call for posters deadline extended

The CaTCH Conference is organised by the VAST project in Maribor, Slovenia on 23 October 2023.

VAST is the acronym of Values Across Space and Time. It is a project funded under Horizon 2020 that participates in the UNCHARTED Network. As part of the collaboration between the two projects, VAST presented its poster in the poster session organised by UNCHARTED at its Central Event in London in January 2023.

UNCHARTED is willing to disseminate the announcement of the CaTH Conference organised by the VAST project in Maribur, Slovenia on 23 October 2023.

The conference will discuss the theme of capturing the intangible of cultural heritage.

We read on the conference website: “Cultural Heritage, whether tangible or intangible, along with contemporary creation, is the unifying thread of the past, the present and the future of our societies. Besides offering knowledge about the past, our interaction with Cultural Heritage comes in the form of experiences that: raise awareness about ideas and values, instigate emotions, as well as foster reflection and communication.”

The call for posters has been extended until 29 September 2023.

Call for posters and registration are accessible on the conference website.

The project will be introduced during Part III of the event

EUreka3D project will be presented at Spanish Presidency Europeana conference

EUreka3D project will be presented at the Spanish Presidency Europeana conference, that will take place on 17 October 2023 (9h – 15h CET). The conference will foster a multidisciplinary dialogue on 3D capacity building for the cultural heritage sector, showcase a number of best practice examples and case studies, and promote collaboration and networking among key actors and stakeholders.

EUreka3D project will be part of this major event, and will be displayed during Part III of the event ― 3D Data Governance & Access, with the participation of project coordinator Antonella Fresa. The discussion will focus on the challenges around the governance and status of copyright for 3D content, engaging the audience, that will learn how to approach these challenges. The session will be supported by a few practical use cases.

To register and to get updated on the event, follow this link.

EUreka3D project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.

Pamplona and online, 17 October 2023

Accelerating 3D in the common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage

The Europeana conference organized on the occasion of the Soanish EU Presidency will take place on 17 October 2023 (9h – 15h CET), in a hybrid format in Pamplona and online. The conference is titled ’Accelerating 3D in the common European data space for cultural heritage: Building capacity for 3D‘ and will be hosted in Palacio de Congresos Y Auditorio De Navarra, BALUARTE in Pamplona. The event is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport.

The conference will contribute directly to the ‘Twin it! 3D for Europe’s culture’ campaign. As such, the conference will foster a multidisciplinary dialogue on 3D capacity building for the cultural heritage sector, showcase a number of best practice examples and case studies, and promote collaboration and networking among key actors and stakeholders.

The primary audience at this event will consist largely of members of the European Commission’s Expert Group on a common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage, Member States’ contact points for Twin it! and Spanish and European cultural heritage institutions and professionals. Others in attendance online will include the wider Europeana Network and digital cultural heritage professionals engaged in the common European data space for cultural heritage, and/or 3D in culture.

To participate online registration is mandatory. The complete programme of the conference will be published as soon as it will be confirmed.

PwC Campus Bruxelles, 22 September 2023

Unleashing the power of data-driven tourism

On Friday 22 September, 2023, PwC will organise an event, “Unleashing the power of data-driven tourism“, featuring Amazon Web Services (AWS), to inspire and create synergies between different stakeholders to unleash the power of data and accelerate data pooling and data sharing in the tourism sector.

The goals of the event is to highlight the benefits of a tourism data space, present the technologies that can enable secure and trustworthy exchanges of data in the tourism sector, and bring relevant actors together to discuss and operationalise concrete use cases through engaging collaborations that are expected to emerge from this event.

It is expected to be of interest to those working at the intersection of cultural heritage and tourism.

To attend the event, registration is mandatory.
To read more about the event and to register, follow this link.

online, 29th September 2023 h. 17.00

Dreaming of AI: Perspectives on AI Use in Cultural Heritage

image from BPOC website.

The Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) hosted a new episode of its free ‘Dreaming of’ webinar series, Dreaming of AI: Perspectives on AI Use in Cultural Heritage, on September 29th at 5PM CEST/8 AM PT/11 AM ET

Attendees joined Nik Honeysett, Jack Ludden, and Alexandra Kron-Daleo from the BPOC Team with Jeff Steward from Harvard Art Museums in a friendly discussion on and off camera to talk about our experiences with AI.

Along with this webinar, BPOC is surveying AI use in cultural heritage.
We would love to hear from you whether you currently use AI tools or not. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey: https://forms.gle/JiDKNa1xDs9CFtGF9

Written by John Balean (TopFoto, on behalf of Photoconsortium), it is the first blogpost of EUreka3D project and it reflects on past and future of 3D

The History of 3D digitisation – a new blogpost on Europeana

img. from Europeana website

As part of the EUreka3D project, a blogpost authored by John Balean on behalf of Photoconsortium was recently published on Europeana.

In the blogpost, a brief history of 3D and 3D digitisation gets addressed, starting from a cartoon by Roland Emett from Punch Magazine in 1953. The narration goes through different hisotrical periods and locations, from Ancient Greece to the present day, and it’s an occasion to reflect on the value of 3D throughout history – and the one it has today, and how it will affect the future of digitisation.

Read the blogpost here.

EUreka3D project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.

Thanks to CRDI presentation video and EGI exhibition booth, the project will be showcased at the Conference

EUreka3D partecipating in EuropeanaTech 2023

EUreka3D project, coordinated by Photoconsortium, will be hosted at the conference, that will take place from 10 to 12 October 2023. The project will be showcased through a video presentation, currently in preparation, and the partecipation of EGI and their exhibition booth.

This opportunity will be crucial to disseminate EUreka3D work, progress and service to the community of professionals, technical providers and other stakeholders operating in the cultural and creative sector.

Europeana Tech is a conference aimed to all tech-minded professionals, developers, researchers and students working in and around digital cultural heritage across the globe: it’s an opportunity to meet with, learn from and work with collegues from all around Europe, exploring the challenges and opportunities that AI and 3D bring to the sector.

The main goals of the series is to introduce and explore the intersection of citizen science and cultural heritage.

Citizen Heritage presents “Citizen Heritage 101”, a series of educational videos on the project scopes and topics

Citizen Heritage is an Erasmus+ Project that aims to provide Higher Education Institutions with new insights and opportunities to include Citizen Science teaching and learning activities for social purposes into their curricula, in order to offer a selection of good practices on how to benefit from the knowledge circulation in and outside academia and how to adopt a more vibrant role in civil society.

“Citizen Heritage 101” is a serie of six educational videos, coordinated by the partner Erasmus University Rotterdam and produced by the students themselves, which purpose is to enrich the curricula and experiences of university students in this domain, who will be the cultural heritage professionals of the future.

Check out “Citizen Heritage 101” on Photoconsortium YouTube channel.

Across Summer 2023, the show which narrates the stories at the local Ethnographic Museum has been represented several times

Updates on the theatrical performances narrating the stories of San Pellegrino in Alpe

images courtesy of University of Pisa

The summer performance season in San Pellegrino in Alpe, in the municipality of Castiglione di Garfagnana, opened on 25 June 2023. This is part of the programme for cultural tourism promotion of the INCULTUM Pilot 5 in Garfagnana (Tuscany).

The series of four theatrical performances that has taken place between June and August was held in the rooms of the Don Luigi Pellegrini Ethnographic Museum, which were set up especially for the occasion. The actress Elisabetta Salvatori narrates the museum’s exhibits and its incredible history through her performance ‘A priest, two saints, a border and 4000 unique pieces‘

This serie of performances were the first ever to take place directly inside the museum, and many of the spectators praised the suggestiveness of the combination of the actress’s words and the fact that they were in the museum rooms.

The last two shows were held on the 30th July and 6th August, and the last summer date is scheduled for the 3rd of September, and both of them were a success: visitors were numerous, and all the seats made available on the fresco hall on the second floor were occupied.

The show on the 6th of August was also attended by the pilot coordinator for the University of Pisa, Professor Enrica Lemmi, who introduced actress Elisabetta Salvatori’s performance by talking about the progress of the INCULTUM project and what has been achieved so far.

The last show will be held on the 3rd of September 2023.

Download the posters for the events – PDF 4.7 Mb

The installation was successful and has sparked the interest of all the visitors.

New multimedia installation has been placed in the San Pellegrino in Alpe Museum

Text and images courtesy of University of Pisa

Inside the San Pellegrino in Alpe Museum, a multimedia installation has been created, to be followed by others, with the aim of enhancing the exhibits and making the visiting experience more immersive and accessible for the user. In fact, through user-selectable audio and video content, it will be possible to delve into the contexts of use of the objects housed in the museum.
The installation consists of a small wooden container structure (the shape and size of which will be developed taking into account the space available inside the museum), a device for audio (speakers) and video (screen) playback, and a reading system designed to scan tags that can simply be ‘placed’ on top of the structure.
The equipment has an extremely intuitive and immediate use. To accompany the main installation, small ‘framed’ prints will be added, depicting the rooms of the museum. By placing the small frame on the appropriate holder, the tag player will immediately play an audio-video file of 1-2 minutes in length, related precisely to the theme chosen to be explored.

The installation was received with interest and curiosity by the visitors: in fact, both adults and children appreciated the intuitiveness of the instrumentation, without forgetting the informative contribution.

To discover more about the installation, you can download this file (italian language, PDF, 537 KB)