Digital meets Culture

Brussels (Belgium), 13 November 2014

Tools to Maximise Impact in Digital Cultural Heritage – workshop

The need for greater interaction and engagement with audiences and users is widely understood by those working in the the digital cultural heritage sector. But finding tools to help with this is difficult.

This workshop will focus on how you can assess the impact of your work and get support in promoting your results for better engagement with peers and users.

Registration: here

AGENDA

A day full of interactive discussions and presentations to better support you in reaching your research and organisational goals and covering:

09:00 – 09:45: Impact assessment for digital cultural heritage research projects, Francesco Bellini (Eurokleis)

09:45 – 10:30: Supportive actions to grow and promote your work, Margaretha Mazura and Goranka Horjan (The European Museum Forum)

10:30 – 11:00 Networking Break

11:00 – 12:00 Tools for social engagement and communities of practice, George Ioannidis (IN2)

12:00 – 12:30 The importance of impact assessment for EU-funded DigiCult projects, Mikolt Csap (European Commission DG CNECT, Creativity Unit)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break / Networking

14:00 – 14:45 Outcomes from the impact assessment, Antonella Passani (T6)

14:45 – 15:30 Brokerage Platform and Ambassadors, Philippe Wacker (EMF), Eleni Toli (ATHENA)

15:30 – 16:00 Networking Break

16:00- 16:45 5 high impact project outcomes, David Crombie (VDJ)

16:45- 17:30 Open discussions, closing, Moderated by Francesco Bellini (Eurokleis)

The event is sponsored by MAXICULTURE and eCultValue

Coordination and Support Actions funded by the European Commission’s Creativity unit.

fostering international discussion and communication about heritage in the Digital Age

INNOVA – Virtual Archaeology International Network

The Virtual Archaeology International Network, INNOVA, is composed of Centers, Institutions and Companies in this disciplinary field from more than 20 countries. The main objective of the Network is to promote coordinated research, innovation and training among all researchers around the world, working in the field of Virtual Archeology, forging closer links between those who develop their work in public institutions and those who do so from the private sector.

Among the numerous objectives that form the mission of the society: research, innovation, development and formation; most of all, INNOVA wishes to create an environment for the international discussion and communication necessary to address and define heritage in the Digital Age.

INNOVA also offers innovative trasnational training programmes, also accessible online through the SEAV Training Campus.

Further information:

Download the INNOVA NETWORK document (PDF, 3,5 Mb)

Official INNOVA website: http://virtualarchaeology.net/

SEAV Training website: http://www.seavtraining.com/

Joanna Zylinska was invited to Resonance 104.4fm's Making Conversations series

Open & Hybrid Publishing pilot, on air!

A programme entitled Making Conversations broadcasted by the British Radio Resonance 104.4fm included Europeana Space, on Tuesday 21 October 2014 (and repeated Saturday 25th).

The speaker Bronac Ferran discussed new models of hybrid publishing in the internet era with guests Doug Sery, Senior Acquisitions Manager for New Media, Games Studies and Design at The MIT Press; Professor Joanna Zylinska of Goldsmiths Department of New Media and Communications, author of “Bioethics in the Age of New Media;” and Ben Pester, Podcasting Coordinator at Goldsmiths.

The programme tried to answer questions such as: What are the new models in relation to business, knowledge and information-sharing which are influencing academic publishing today? Can we start to predict future trends? What needs to change, when and why?

Joanna discussed there, among other things, the Open and Hybrid Publishing pilot, and located it in the context of the Europeana Space project as a whole.

http://notesfromunderground.fm/post/100494909743/making-conversations-12-noon-tuesday-21-october

A conference and a presentation based on the images digitized by the project and published into Europeana portal

Europeana Photography celebrates the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

The 27^th October is the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, organized by UNESCO. EuropeanaPhotography joined the celebrations in Girona thanks to the active participation of CRDI, Centre for Image Research and Diffusion of the Girona Municipality.

Girona celebrates the October 27th

World Day of Audiovisual Heritage

Girona City Council, through the Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI) and the Museum of Cinema, with the collaboration of Amics de la UNESCO, celebrate the World Day of Audiovisual Heritage with the follow activities:

– Conference: “An overview of the portrait in Girona”, by David Iglésias Franch, archives technician of CRDI.

– Presentation: Japanese Photographic Album (ca. 1885-1890)”, by Jordi Pons, director of the Museum of Cinema.

Both activities are based on photographs already published in Europeana through EuropeanaPhotography project. These activities will be held on Monday 27th, at 19:30 h, in the Museum of Cinema (C. Sèquia, 1. Girona)

http://www.girona.cat/sgdap/cat/projectes_patrimoni_audiovisual_propera.php

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Nice success for the event organized in Venice, with many interesting speeches

Europeana Space Opening Conference

Title of the event was “Digital Cultural Content Re-imagined: New Avenues for the Economy and Society”, and it was held in the historical setting of Auditorium Santa Margherita in Venice. The core topic of the conference was how to enable a creative re-use of digital cultural content thus unlocking the business potential of cultural heritage and fostering the creation of new jobs and economic growth. A very interested audience almost fulfilled the parterre of the former theater, now conference venue.

The event was opened with a warm welcome to all the participants by Leonardo Buzzavo, teacher of Strategy at the department of management of Ca’ Foscari University – the hosting partner; then it followed an interesting speech by the University Rector Michele Bugliesi, on the importance of the digitization activity for cultural heritage.

After an introduction speech by the project coordinator Sarah Whatley, about the vision behind Europeana Space, the first keynote speaker was Harry Verwayen, deputy director of Europeana Foundation, who widely presented important lessons learnt during the project Europeana Creative and other initiatives, such as a nice example of winner of Apps for Europe project, the Europeana Beacons app exploring the city of Siena.

The second keynote speaker was Piero Attanasio of AIE (Italian Association of Editors) who talked about copyright and its relationships with digitization programmes, also providing an interesting economic interpretation on the current legal debate on IPR. After him, Antonella Fresa of Promoter described how Europeana Space is addressing the core issue, by trying to lower those barriers that limit the creative re-use of digital cultural data.

The show then began, with the 6 themed pilots presented in pitch-style and lively talks by their representatives: Dance, Photography, Open and Hybrid Publishing, Museums, Games and Europeana TV are developing nice prototypes which the conference audience could have a glimpse of.

At the end of day 1, a networking session was held with aperitif in a near bar.

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On the second day, Charlotte Waelde from University of Exeter opened the discussion with a speech entitled “This contested space” which again introduced the topic of Intellectual Property Rights, and the conference continued with an hands on talk of Prodromos Tsiavos about using open and hybrid licenses, and with Simon Cronshaw and Peter Tullin who spoke about digital cultural content as a plenty of new opportunities for growing audiences and income.

An interesting moment was offered then by Daniel Okeloen (Noterik), who showed the current state of multiscreen applications, examples of multiscreen applications under development and an open source multiscreen toolkit. The conference was closed with a panel discussion moderated by Antonella Fresa and including Harry Verwayen, Leonardo Buzzavo, Prodromos Tsiavos, Fred Truyen (KU Leuven): the panelists discussed around the theme of missing, so far, a real leveraging on digital cultural data: despite the constantly growing availability of digital content and the movement about public domain and rights licensing for re-use, the actual exploitation of such content is in facts not happening on the market.

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As a side activity, the registered participants could in the afternoon visit the Venice incubator H-Farm, an inspiring environment for creativity and technology.

deadline 24th October 2014

Survey about Bratislava plenary

London (UK), 2-3 December 2014

REMIX – Global Summit on Culture, Technology & Entrepreneurship

Join creative pioneers from across the globe at REMIX Summit London, 2nd-3rd December 2014. This is the flagship chapter in a series of global summits on Culture, Technology and Entrepreneurship. REMIX Summits are produced in collaboration with worldwide partners Google, Bloomberg & Dubai Design District, and media partners The Guardian, Time Out & The Art Newspaper. The 3rd REMIX Summit London follows sell-out events in Sydney and New York.

REMIX Summits tackle the big ideas shaping the future of the cultural industries and the creative economy. Uniting creative leaders from different sectors including technology, media and arts, they provide a ground-breaking forum for exchanging insights, growing ideas and working together towards common goals.

REMIX Summit London 2014 takes place at Google’s incredible Town Hall event space in their London HQ just off Tottenham Court Road.

More information can be found at www.remixsummits.com

Over 50 world class speakers will take to the stage over 2 days, including:

Amit Sood, Director, Cultural Institute, Google // Justine Roberts, Founder & CEO, Mumsnet // Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director, Barbican Centre // Fergus Linehan, Festival Director, Edinburgh International Festival // Fabien Riggall, Creative Director and Founder of Future Shorts & Secret Cinema // Stuart Trevor, Co-founder, AllSaints & Co-founder, Bolongaro Trevor // Tim Arthur, CEO, Time Out // Michael Morris, Co-Director, Artangel // Ruth Mackenzie CBE, Interim CEO / Launch Director, The Space // Simon Walker, Chief Strategy Officer, Rightster // Chris Wild, Director, Retronaut // Helen Marriage, Director, Artichoke // Chris Michaels, Head of Digital, The British Museum // Maddy Carroll, Campaigns Director, 38 Degrees // Kelly Sawdon, Chief Branding Officer, Ace Hotels // Lindsay Miller, Managing Director, Dubai Design District // Mike Sarna, Director, Programming & Exhibitions, Royal Museums Greenwich & many more…

Munich (Germany), 25 November 2014

“Building Effective Creative Clusters” Conference

This conference will address practical ideas to unlock the economic value of the Creative & Cultural Industries: expert speakers and panelists will be discussing practical ideas to unlock the economic value of the Creative & Cultural Industries.

The Conference programme includes sessions on:

Developing strategies and services within creative clusters
Effective co-working and Incubation Centres for Creative Clusters
How Creative Industries can add real value in your city or region
Cross-sectoral and Cross-cluster collaboration – a catalyst for real growth

Register now!

About the European Creative Industries Alliance (ECIA)

ECIA is an integrated policy initiative that combines policy learning with 8 concrete actions on innovation vouchers, better access to finance and cluster excellence & cooperation. It is an open platform that brings together policy-makers and business support practitioners from 28 partner organisations and 12 countries. Its overall aim is to shape a community in Europe that actively supports creative industries as a driver for competitiveness, job creation and structural change by developing and testing better policies and tools for creative industries.

The conference is free of charge and is organised by the Cluster2020 and European Creative Cluster Lab Partners. To attend this conference on 25 November, please register here.

Other events taking place at the same venue the days before and after this conference.

– 24 Nov: ECCL pilot training on cross-sectorial innovation and collaboration among creative clusters (contact MFG directly about this at acheson@mfg.de);
– 26-27 Nov: EBN #TechCamp, with a special focus on creative industries.

This event will be organised by the Cluster2020 and European Creative Cluster Lab Partners and showcases the final results and findings from both of these ECIA actions.

Highlights from Europeana Photography at ICA congress 2014

Conference Girona 2014 Archives and Cultural Industries

by Sofie Taes, KU Leuven

The program of the monumental, multi-disciplinarian conference on archives and cultural industries held in Girona’s Palau de Congressos (13-15 October), and co-organized by EuropeanaPhotography-partner Ajuntament de Girona (CRDI), featured several members of our consortium: Antonella Fresa presented the PREFORMA-project, Nacha Van Steen led a double workshop connected with the EuPh-vocabulary, and my KU Leuven-colleague and project coordinator Fred Truyen was scheduled for a talk about All Our Yesterdays in the afternoon of day 1.

Accompanying Fred, I took the opportunity to immerse myself in the wave of inspiration that oozed from the enthusiasm, the creativity and the out-of-the-box solutions to manifold challenges that younger and older professionals from both sectors presented. After an impressive plenary session with Joan Roca, in which the essence and value of creative excellence were made tangible through some mind-blowing video-footage, I chose to continue the day with one of the parallel conference sessions devoted to novel ways of opening up city and university archives – with cases from Vienna (where a semantic Media-Wiki was produced), Stockholm (focusing on the marketing potential of archival/historical city projects) and Emporia State University (augmented reality apps to engage students in discovery the university archive and library collections).

All speakers illustrated with vigor and panache, that tight partnerships at the basis of a broader network (one person of the Wien-Wiki-team is sponsored by the city’s waste and sewer services!), a bit of money, a persistent attitude and a lot of conviction can go a long way. They also proved that trying to re-invent the wheel in search for highly innovative solutions, has more chances of shipwrecking a project, than a more down-to-earth, trial-and-error, step-by-step approach: different ambition, better result.

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In the afternoon, I attended the session devoted to early photography, featuring not only a fascinating research project on fascist undertones in Spanish war photography, thoughts on international metadata standards from a Brazilian point of view, and 19^th century image collections online, but also EuropeanaPhotography’s own Fred Truyen: filled to the final seat, the bursting conference room took in his thoughts on “All Our Yesterdays: Europeana and the Phenomenology of Photographic Experience through the Framing of Digitization”, reflecting upon intermediality, deframing/reframing and enhancing the image – from’ original’ to digital.

The 30’ discussion round closing the session was insufficient for all questions and statements from the crowd, which left me with a double conclusion: our adventures with early photography are definitely – and luckily – not over yet; and many, many enthusiasts from all over the world share our passion and fascination for this part of our cultural heritage.

Girona, 13 October 2014

PREFORMA presented at ICA 2014 Conference in Girona

The 2nd Annual Conference of the International Council on Archives, hosted and organised by Girona City Council, through its Municipal Archive, was a great success with almost 1000 registered participants.

PREFORMA was presented to the attendees in one of the parallel sessions in the afternoon of Monday 13th of October by Antonella Fresa, Technical Coordinator, and Peter Pharow, Responsible of the first design phase.

In the morning of the same day, the PREFORMA partners took the opportunity to meet together to analyse the results of the evaluation of the bids that have been submitted and to plan the next steps, in the light of finalising the negotiation of the contracts with the awarded suppliers by the end of the month.