Digital meets Culture

Galera, 4th November 2023

INCULTUM participated in the interpretative route through the Acequia de la Alpanchía

Last November 4 2023, the Spanish pilot of the INCULTUM project participated in the interpretative route through the Acequia de la Alpanchía, in Galera, municipality of the Altiplano de Granada.

The Spanish pilot of INCULTUM is led by University of Granada, coordinator of the INCULTUM project.

The activity was organized by the Vegas del Conocimiento project, the Alpanchía Association and the City Council of Galera, with whom the University of Granada is collaborating from INCULTUM.

Forty people participated in the tour, in which they could appreciate all the values of the irrigation ditches and meadows, accompanied by the main experts of all these aspects: the irrigators.

Some pictures of the event.

Written by Helena Nogué (CRDI - Ajuntament de Girona), it is the second blogpost of EUreka3D project and it showcases the ways people used to

Optical views: a way to travel through Europe – a new blogpost on Europeana

img. from Europeana website

As part of the EUreka3D project, a blogpost authored by Helena Nogué (CRDI – Ajuntament de Girona) was recently published on Europeana.

The blogpost showcases how optical views were used in 18th and early 19th century by people who were not able to travel in order to see the most famous cities and capitals of that time and to satisfy their hunger for knowledge.

Read the blogpost here.

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

On 2-3 November 2023, the Europeana ecosystem met in the twice-a-year gathering, hosted this time at Eötvös Loránd University in Múzeum körút in Budapest, Hungary

EUreka3D presented in the Fall edition of Europeana Aggregators Forum 2023

The Europeana ecosystem and network of Aggregators and partners met for the second edtion of 2023 Europeana Aggregators Forum, held as an hybrid event in Budapest and online. In this occasion updates on EUreka3D development were presented to colleague institutions, partners and Europeana aggregators by the Project Coordinator Antonella Fresa, vice president of Photoconsortium.

View presentation (PDF, 0.5 Mb)

During the Forum, a session “What if…?” – Gathering Aggregators’ expectations and requirements towards the Data Space for Cultural Heritage discussed about the development of the Data Space for Cultural Heritage, which EUreka3D is also contributing to by sharing new high quality 3D data and supporting the development of services, tools and standards.

Additionally, a focus on Europeana’s Twin It! campaign presented the status of progress for the campaign to create a collection of iconic 3D cultural heritage items from the Member States in Europeana, including a presentation of upcoming Europeana publishing guidelines for 3D contentEUreka3D – EAF Meeting Autumn 2023, also basing on the requirement and developments of 3D-related projects like EUreka3D.

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

understanding the change that the project brings to its community and how value is created for beneficiaries

EUreka3D impact assessment, supported with the Europeana Impact Playbook

all images in this post courtesy of Europeana.

In the committments of EUreka3D project, that is focused on supporting the digital transformation process in the cultural heritage sector, a major task is about reflecting on the impact and the increased knowledge that the project delivered to individuals, organisations and other stakeholder communities engaged with the project and involved in our capacity building programme.

The methodology established in EUreka3D makes use of the Europeana Impact Playbook, and in this light we’ve been very happy to attend a series of 4 Impact Assessment workshops run by Europeana in the Fall 2023. We followed The Change Pathway, equipping us with the necessary skills to collect, analyse, respond and share data from our project activities to the benefit of our stakeholders.

The Europeana Initiative started talking about impact over a decade ago, with a long-term goal to support the cultural heritage sector in understanding how their work creates value for their organization and in the world surrouding them. The Europeana Impact Playbook has been designed as a practical tool for impact-focused project design and impact assessment. It sets out an interactive approach that helps design for impact, plan an impact assessment, collect and analyse the data, draft impact narratives and evaluate the taken approaches.

It emphasises that thinking about, and measuring, impact, is not a one-off action, but a flexible and ongoing process that can benefit from in the long-term as you embed impact thinking in your processes and organisational culture.

In the course of Winter 2023 starting on 8th November, Europeana organizes a series of open Impact Cafés for any professional in the cultural sector to ask questions and to learn more about impact design and assessment.

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

Public presentation on 31 October 2023 at Palazzo dei Priori in Volterra

The UNCHARTED study on the Case of Volterra22

The UNCHARTED case study on Volterra22 will be presented in Volterra at Palazzo dei Priori on 30 October 2023 at 6 pm in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, the historical City Hall.

Volterra is the city selected as the main case study of the Axis 1 on Strategic Cultural Planning of the UNCHARTED project, as part of the Work Package 5 about experiential demonstrations.

After the field work conducted by Promoter, the UNCHARTED partner responsible of the study, with interviews and a public online questionnaire, the results of the research have been reported in a book that will be presented to citizens and stakeholders at the public event on the 30th of October. For the occasion the book will be distributed to all the participants.

The Mayor, the Councillor for Cultures and representatives of the UNCHARTED consortium will be present.

More more information are available on the project’s web page dedicated to the event.

The book with the full study about the Case of Volterra22 is available also online and downloadable from the UNCHARTED website in Italian and English versions.

Volterra22 Case study presented at the CaTCH Conference

The poster about the case study on Volterra22 has been presented in the framework of the CaTCH Conference, 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.

The conference discussed the theme of capturing the intangible of cultural heritage.

The poster about the UNCHARTED case study on Volterra22 is available for download (PDF).

The presentation of the poster about the UNCHARTED case study on Volterra22 has been accompanied by the delivery of a video that is accessible on Youtube.

The full study about the Case of Volterra22 is available as a book that is downloadable from the UNCHARTED website in Italian and English versions.

Turin and online, 20 October 2023

Unlocking value from digital heritage collections: international perspectives

Unlocking value from digital heritage collections: international perspectives

20th October, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

University of Turin, Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis” – Campus Luigi Einaudi, Lungodora Siena 100, Sala Lauree Grande Rossa

Streaming on https://media.unito.it/

Registration for the event is recommended at the following link: https://survey.wikimedia.it/index.php/751416

Over the last decades, GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) have started to digitise the heritage they preserve, but technological, social and economic changes call for reflection on how to unlock the economic value of the digital cultural heritage collections.

The event aims to provide an up-to-date perspective on this topic, considering two divergent perspectives: free access and re-use versus exclusive and economic control of digital assets.

Insights will be brought by international expert speakers, who will provide up-to-date insights and will attempt to answer the following questions:

What are the costs and benefits of diverse policies governing access and reuse of digital collections?
Under what circumstances does it become financially feasible for GLAMs to adopt exclusive rights and licensing schemes to commercialize digital collections?
How does adopting Open Access models impact society and cultural institutions
How have national cultural policies been devised to enhance the value of GLAMs’ digital collections between openness and restrictions in the use of digital cultural heritage?
In what ways are innovations like NFTS, Virtual Reality, or applications of Artificial Intelligence reshaping the opportunities and challenges pertaining to the control, access, and reuse of digital heritage collections?

Speakers:

Trilce Navarrete (Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL)
Matthias Sahli (WIPO & University of Neuchatel, CH)
Simon Tanner (King’s College London, UK )

Chair: Enrico Eraldo Bertacchini (University of Turin, IT)

Online, Friday 27th October, 10th November, 1st December 2023

Transforming heritage: from 2D to 3D digitisation – webinar series

International Council on Archives and EUreka3D consortium organise a series of webinars on 3D digitisation and digital transformation of cultural heritage. The three sessions focus on the quality guidelines for cultural heritage digitisation, the use of 3D digitisation for cultural heritage reuse and research, and innovative initiatives in 3D and the CH sector.

This activity is intended for archivists and records management professionals, CHI professionals, 3D digitisation and digital infrastructure providers, digital humanities researchers, and students in all these fields.

The webinar series is included in the EUreka3D capacity building programme, which offers online and onsite training to CHIs for high-quality standards of digitisation, advanced metadata management and aggregation to Europeana.

Registration and info here

This event series, organized by EUreka3D project in collaboration with ICA, supports the TwinIt! campaign on fostering and promoting 3D digitisation to broaden access to culture, preserve irreplaceable cultural heritage and to spur innovation and creativity, fostering reuse and potential new services and applications in other sectors. The webinar series also contributes to the multidisciplinary capacity-building of heritage professionals in 3D digitisation, exchange of practices and pan-European collaboration and networking.

Full Programme

Webinar 1

Friday 27th October, h.14.30-15.30 CET
World day of audiovisual heritage

Being digital, being standard. Guidelines for digitisation of cultural heritage
14.30 Welcome and introduction – Antonella Fresa, Photoconsortium (PDF, 1 Mb)
14.40 Quality Management and quality digitisation in GLAMs – Ismo Malinen, Hannu Häkkinen, Museovirasto the Finnish Heritage Agency (PDF, 3 Mb)
15.10 Question and answers
15.30 Conclusion – David Iglésias Franch, CRDI/Ajuntament de Girona, PAAG (Photographic and Audiovisual Expert Group / ICA)

Recording available at: https://eureka3d.eu/transforming-heritage/

Webinar 2

Friday 10th November, h.15-16 CET
World Science Day for Peace and Development

Boosting 3D digitisation for research and reuse of cultural heritage collections
15.00 Welcome and introduction – Antonella Fresa, Photoconsortium (PDF, 1 Mb)
15.10 The VIGIE 2020/654 Study on digitisation of tangible heritage – Marinos Ioannides, Cyprus University of Technology
15.40 Question and answers
16.00 Conclusion – John Balean, Topfoto

Recording available at: https://eureka3d.eu/transforming-heritage/

Webinar 3

Friday 1st December, h.15-16 CET

3D Innovation and creativity in the cultural heritage sector
15.00 Welcome and introduction – Antonella Fresa, Photoconsortium
15.10 TwinIt! 3D for Europe’s culture – Valentine Charles, Europeana Foundation
15.40 Question and answers
16.00 Conclusion – Giulia Martini, Qatar National Library, PAAG (Photographic and Audiovisual Expert Group / ICA)

REGISTER HERE

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

Tokyo, from October 7th to November 12th 2023

Swaying Calmly, Gazing Quietly: the new TOKAS exhibition

TOKAS exhibition “Swaying Calmly, Gazing Quietly”

From October 7th to November 12th 2023, the exhibition Swaying Calmly, Gazing Quietly will commemorate the partnership between Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) and the Province of Quebec, with theme of cities and culture.

TOKAS is an arts center dedicated to the creation and promotion of contemporary artistic expression from Tokyo and supports a wide spectrum of artistic activities including crossover and experimental projects. Ever since it first opened in 2001, it has continued to collaborate with international artists, curators, arts centers, and cultural organizations to produce exhibitions and pioneer related programs.

TOKAS Project, which began in 2018, aims to shine a contemplative light on the arts, society, and various other themes from a multicultural perspective. In its sixth edition, this exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Quebec Government Office in Tokyo and the 5th anniversary of full-fledged exchange with the Province of Quebec, and it is centered on Quebec-based artists who have participated in TOKAS residency programs. The exhibition presents the works of four groups: Jean-Maxime Dufresne & Virginie Laganière, Jen Reimer & Max Stein, Michel Huneault, and Kokubun Yuko. Each of them explores the transformation of cities and the resulting adaptation of culture and environment.

The time the Quebec-based artists spent in Tokyo coincided with the runup to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, a period of major changes for the city and Japanese society as a whole. Each of them explored different aspects of this shift – the psychological struggles of individuals adapting to urbanized working environments, scenes that usually go unnoticed and unperceived due to familiarity but become visible when viewed from a somewhat detached vantage point, other scenes of the construction of massive breakwaters that seemingly symbolize a departure from nature, the subtleties of people’s emotions – quietly observing and gathering material from which they developed their works. Over the past five to ten years, we have all faced events that drastically disrupted both individual mentalities and society as a whole. Particularly, the locked-down period beginning in 2020 when the world came to a standstill highlighted the ways in which culture and environment imprinted on the body can subtly fluctuate and manifest as a state of cognitive dissonance.

Today, as the reopened world goes about its business as if nothing had happened, these works created by capturing and intertwining space, time, sound, emotion, and landscape may offer fresh awareness of what has fundamentally changed and what remains unchanged.

Discover here TOKAS project and the artists!

The Environmental Sustainability Practice Task Force of Europeana's Climate Action Community is looking for professionals in the digital heritage to fill in a survey to evaluate the sustainability of the field

New survey by the Climate Action Community

Title: Twelve different species of bees swarming a flowery meadow. Coloured etching by J. Bishop after J. Stewart.
Creator: James Stewart

The Environmental Sustainability Practice Task Force of the Europeana Network Association Climate Action Community has just launched a survey to evaluate the sustainability of digital preservation practices in European cultural heritage institutions, with a view to finding ways to mitigate our sector’s environmental impact.

The Climate Action Community is looking for responses from digital professionals working in a cultural heritage institution, or part of a heritage institution IT team, or involved in any way in the digital preservation or management or provision of digital content.

The survey is accessible here, and it will be closing for responses by the 13th of October.