Digital meets Culture

a presentation and a panel were organized in this event about dance scholarship and research

Dance Pilot and E-Space colleagues at DanceHE event “Sustaining the Discipline”

DanceHE (Dance in Higher Education) represents the interests of its members from Dance higher education to organisations such as the funding councils, HEFCE and HEA in areas concerning funding, policy and processes. Acting as a mediating body DanceHE facilitates collaboration and debate across institutions – drawing together teachers, practitioners and researchers to share information and best practice.

“DanceHE Sustaining the Discipline” took place on 28-29 October 2016 at the University of Leeds, debating dance scholarship and research at a time when arts knowledge and engagement face precarious economic futures. Taking Sustainability as central theme and exploring the value and further progress of dance as a social, cultural asset and route to individual identity.

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A team from Coventry University participated to the event with a presentation of the Dance Pilot as part of C-DaRE Intangible Cultural Heritage Panel.

DanceHE website: http://dancehe.org.uk/

The E-Space group: Coordinator Sarah Whatley, IPR expert Charlotte Waelde and representatives from the Dance Pilot.

In CREA, students come in with an idea and go out with a concrete project with business model.

CREA Summer Academies and Europeana Space: collaboration!

CREA is an European Network of Summer Academies with the aim to strengthen entrepreneurship in innovative sectors by using ICT and Creativity as levers. Objective is to select and support talented students, who have a real interest in becoming entrepreneurs. In CREA, students come in with an idea and go out with a concrete project with business model.

The Academic and business prospective converge in CREA through a partnership among European Universities, Incubators, Regional Development Agencies and Business Support initiatives. Students from all Europe can apply for the CREA Summer Academy program at leading Universities in UK, Italy, Estonia, Slovenia, Holland and Germany and learn about entrepreneurship while concretely developing their business idea.

Of course, evident synergies with Europeana Space incubation activity are present and for this reason a cooperation agreement was just signed between the two projects!

http://www.europeana-space.eu/network/cooperation-agreements/crea-summer-academy/

Newport (UK),15-16 February 2017

Digital Past 2017

Digital Past is a two day conference which showcases innovative digital technologies and techniques for data capture, interpretation and dissemination of the heritage of Wales, the UK and beyond. The conference aims to promote learning, discussion and debate around a range of digital technologies in current use, or in development, to record and understand the historic environment by bringing together individuals from the commercial, public, academic, third sector and voluntary sectors.

The event has been running for eight years, regularly attracting delegate numbers of up to 175, largely from the UK but including those from as far away as the USA and Israel. The ethos of the conference is to promote contact and cross-working between the diverse organisations within, or associated with, the heritage sector, from those involved within the development of digital technologies within industry and academia to those involved in engagement and dissemination in a more traditional heritage background.

The 2017 event, to be held at The Riverfront, Newport on the 15th and 16th February 2017, will focus on two session themes: ‘Digital Technologies’ and ‘Digital Heritage’.

Delegates will be offered a combination of presentations and hands-on workshops and demonstrations in a friendly and informal atmosphere that aims to promote networking and exchange of ideas. Unconference sessions will be provided on the first afternoon, giving the opportunity for delegates not on the formal timetable to present on projects, research, ideas or issues within or outside the themes of this year’s event. Exhibition and Poster stands will also give the opportunity for display and demonstration of projects or products, and the chance to talk to heritage organisations, societies, universities, product developers and retailers.

Digital Past is organised by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

More information and registration: http://rcahmw.gov.uk/digital-past-conference/

Berlin, (Germany), 21-22 November 2016

Cultural Heritage: Reuse, Remake, Reimagine

After the nice success of previous events in Venice and in Tallinn, E-Space Third International Conference took place in November 2016 in Berlin, hosted by partner SPK at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art.

The conference themes spread from the fact that digitization is progressing at Cultural Institutions, and thus previously hidden treasures of Cultural Heritage are becoming visible. However, in today’s digital society existing on the web is not enough. Audiences want to engage with culture, they want to create their own stories not just read the ones that exist, they want to integrate the information in their teaching, their creative projects, they want to play with the material, not only look at it: they want to reuse, they want to remake, they want to reimagine.

The Programme (PDF, 359 Kb) included as keynote speakers renowned experts: Cornelia Sollfrank, well-known new media artist and independent researcher; Joyce Ray, digital curation and preservation expert and teacher at the Johns Hopkins University; Thomas Bremer, professor of Game Design and Head of VR-Studio at HTW Berlin. Other relevant speakers are Marcel Waletet from European Commission and Michael Freundt from Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

Together with Harry Verwayen and Nicole McNeill from Europeana and the various E-Space project leaders who explored, within Europeana Space, the multifaceted experience of reusing digital cultural heritage, the third conference from the Europeana Space project showcased the myriad ways that cultural heritage can be used and enriched through new technologies, innovation and the ingenuity of the creative industries. As a real example of this, the 7 incubated projects supported by E-Space were protagonists of the event with individual pitches, a round table and desks to present and discuss their experience and ideas.

The integrated new outcome from Europeana Space project, the Pop-Up Museum, was presented at the conference, and visitors could interact with 3 stations and different virtual exhibitions.

Finally, the conference was enriched with the lovely exhibition of Photomediations, an outcome of the Open and Hybrid Publishing pilot of E-Space.

Event website with more photos and speakers presentations: http://berlinconference2016.europeana-space.eu

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Download the conference flyer (PDF, 306 Kb)

the integrated outcome of the E-Space Pilots is nearly ready to showcase in various events in the coming months.

Pop-Up Museum: ready, steady, go!

A strong group of E-Space partners from different Pilots is at work for developing an integrated outcome for creative reuse of digital cultural heritage: the Pop-Up Museum. Most of the action at the moment is in the hands of partners Noterik, NTUA, Sound & Vision (NISV) and KU Leuven, who are preparing the exhibition to be presented at E-Space international conference in Berlin at the end of Novemebr.

A blog recently appeared on Sound & Vision website, to tell more about the installation and the plans for showcasing to the public.

The Pop-Up Museum, which is a hybrid of both a digital and physical museum exhibition, is a way to showcase many of the prototypical ideas that have resulted from E-Space pilots. The exhibition can be controlled and interacted with by the visitors through a smartphone: answer questions, swipe through content, explore the storyline, select languages, and more interactive applications will be available.

The Pop-Up Museum serves as an ideal extension to the main museum: use the mobile installation at events and festivals where you would like to target a specific audience with your collection.

Currently, Sound and Vision is testing the Pop-Up Museum concept with an installation covering the closing of the Dutch State Mines fifty years ago, while the other E-Space partner KU Leuven is developing 3 exhibitions using digitized vintage photography.

Next to the premiere at the E-Space Reuse, Remake, Reimagine conference in Berlin in November, the Pop-Up Museum will be on show during the Cultuur in Beeld conference in Rotterdam in December.

Another event at Sound and Vision will be in January, with a special installation that will tie in with the current main exhibition at the museum, ‘Let’s YouTube’, which focuses on fashion and beauty themed videos specifically that month and is developed in collaboration with Europeana and Europeana Fashion.

KU Leuven is also planning an event in the beginning of 2017.

Read the full article by Kelly Mostert on Sound & Vision blog

Read more on the Pop-Up Museum development

images courtesy of Noterik BV

Learn more on Pop-Up Museum:

http://www.europeana-space.eu/pop-up-museum

https://www.mupop.net/

Brussels, 30 November 2016

FORWARD final conference: Digitisation of heritage and orphan works

The Orphan Works Directive, adopted in 2012, set out to foster digitisation and unlock Europe’s cultural heritage for education, research and other cultural purposes, but how does it work in practice?

The conference « Digitisation of heritage and orphan works » was a joint event of the Royal Library of Belgium and the FORWARD project, coordinated by CINEMATEK. It aims at presenting new tools to identify Orphan Works as well as digitisation projects carried out at national and European level.

During the morning session, the Commission’s Media Policy Directorate introduced into the scope of the Directive. Nicola Mazzanti (President of the Association of European Cinematheques) gave an insight into the challenges and prospects of the OWD for audiovisual works, while N. Lenaerts (Federal Public Service Economy) spoke about its transposition into Belgian law. Orphan works uses cases and new tools for printed as well as audiovisual material were presented by the Royal Library and the FORWARD project. The Commission’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) presented the EU Online Database for Orphan Works.

In the afternoon, a more hands-on workshop demonstrated how the FORWARD system supports the assessment of the copyright status and the diligent search for audiovisual works. It’s the first public presentation of the FORWARD system, which will be finally released in January 2017.

You can access the conference programme here

Venue: Royal Library of Belgium, Mont des Arts, 1000 Brussels (Royal Sky Room, 6th floor)
Date: 30th of November 2016, 9.30 – 16.30h

Technical Coordinator Antonella Fresa delivered 3 inspiring minutes to AGM audience about creative reuse of digital cultural heritage

E-Space Ignite Talk at Europeana AGM 2016 melts snow in Riga

The Europeana Network Association Annual General Meeting (AGM) is an annual key event for Europeana and its network. It provides the opportunity for Europeana and its partners for all to share, discuss and develop specific areas of mutual interest.

This year, at AGM2016 in Riga, E-Space was one of the protagonists with an Ignite Talk, that is a quick, inspiring and exciting short presentation of 3 minutes, focused on the project core action for creative reuse of digital cultural heritage.

Technical Coordinator Antonella delivered the talk as a combination of few slides (PDF available for download, 270 Kb) and a trailer video of the 6 E-Space pilots:

Many partners of the project also were in Riga, and the meeting was a great occasion of networking and dissemination, also in sight of the third international conference of the project taking place in Berlin on 21-22 November.

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Objective of the action, which includes an open challenge, is to eventually have digital versions of the handwritten testimonies from WW1’s home and battle fronts in 22 languages

Europeana launches crowd source campaign to decipher unique First World War testimonies

Europeana launches Transcribe Europeana 1914-1918 — an online crowdsourcing campaign to unlock important testimonies of the First World War for future generations by transcribing handwritten texts that are otherwise difficult to read and cannot be searched or translated automatically online.

Transcribe Europeana 1914-1918 will run as an ongoing online challenge — a ‘Transcribathon’ — to encourage members of the public to transcribe digital versions of the unique letters and diaries of those who experienced the First World War and that can be found at Europeana 1914-1918. The challenge will run until 2018, the centenary of the end of WW1.

Nine teams from across Europe met in Riga AGM to launch the competition with a special 48-hour challenge event judged by an international jury. Prizes were awarded at the Latvian National Library to winning teams from France and the University of Latvia.

Members of the public are invited to take up the challenge at www.transcribathon.eu with digital versions of the handwritten testimonies from WW1’s home and battle fronts in 22 languages. Participants add their own transcriptions, geo-tags and other annotations to texts, enabling greater understanding and access to these original historical scripts. The website is free to use and open to all.

A simple e-tutorial teaches participants how to decipher old and difficult handwriting in various languages with an easy-to-use online transcription tool. It is hoped the challenge and the tool will help build an international community of contributors of all ages and nationalities who can share their knowledge and experience.

The Transcribathon is ‘run’ by accumulating virtual ‘miles’ with every word transcribed. Each participant works on the transcription of selected documents, for example a diary or a letter, in a specific language. A ‘Transcribometer’ charts their progress as they compete against others to move up the transcribers league.

People can take part individually from home or as teams at special Transcribathon events where a jury awards points for quality, quantity and presentation of transcriptions. All future event details will be announced on www.transcribathon.eu and www.europeana1914-1918. The first planned events are for Romania and Italy in the first half of 2017.

the 7 teams are invited to the global event REMIX SUmmit

E-Space Incubated projects go to London

We’re delighted to announce that the 7 winning teams from E-Space Incubation process will be attending the supercool REMIX Summit in London (January 2017), which will give them a great opportunity to network with creative leaders, institutions, brands, potential collaborators and investors.

REMIX explores the intersection of culture, technology and entrepreneurship bringing together thought-leaders from across industries to tackle the big ideas shaping the future of culture, creative cities and creative entrepreneurship. A video of the 2015 edition:

REMIX Summits London 2015 from REMIX Summit on Vimeo.

Discover the 7 Incubated projects from E-Space: We Make Known, NOUS, Vivl.io, Picasso’s cat, NORA, PostArt, Storypix.
http://www.europeana-space.eu/e-space-incubated-projects/

More info and registration REMIX Summit: http://www.remixsummits.com/ldn

London (UK), 18-19 January 2017

REMIX London summit on Culture, Technology and Entrepreneurship

REMIX EXPLORES THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP.

REMIX Global Summits bring together pioneers from different industries to explore the future of culture, creative cities and the creative economy. They are a forum where creative leaders from different sectors can exchange insights, ideas and work together towards common goals, and they are attended by leading global cultural institutions, creative businesses, startups, policy makers and media.

The 2017 London edition is scheduled for 18-19 January 2017 and hosted at Google HQ and Ace Hotel London Shoreditch.
The first group of speakers for 2017 is announced including:

– Alex Beard MBE – CEO, Royal Opera House
– Kevin Lim – Assistant Director, Corporate & Strategic Development, National Gallery Singapore
– Wayne Garvie – Chief Creative Officer, Sony Pictures Television
– Beatie Wolfe
– Alice Black – Deputy Director, Design Museum
– Gavin Poole – CEO, Here East
– Toby Coffey – Head of Digital Development, National Theatre
– Dave Patten – Head of New Media, Science Museum
– Rohan Silva – Co-Founder, Second Home
– Claire Cockerton – CEO, Entiq
– Lisa Westcott Wilkins – Founder, DigVentures
– Sam Bompass – Founder, Bompass & Parr
– John Cassy – Founder & MD, Canon Street

With many more still to be announced.
REMIX London is part of a series of international summits in leading creative capitals including NYC, Dubai & Sydney supported by global partners including Google, Bloomberg, Mindshare and Bridgeman Images.

More info and registration (early bird registration until 16 December): http://www.remixsummits.com/ldn