Digital meets Culture

The Hague, 2 October 2014

PREFORMA at SUCCEED interoperability workshop

Bert Lemmens from PACKED represented PREFORMA at the Interoperability Workshop organised by the SUCCEED project to discuss best practices and possibilities for cooperation on a technical level between European Centres of Competence and Digital infrastructures.

The aim of the workshop was to discuss best practices and possibilities for alignment and cooperation on a technical level between European Centres of Competence and Digital infrastructures.

Each of the invited attendees presented their experience with interoperability.

Download here the PREFORMA presentation.

Venice hosted the plenary meeting of the project ahead the grand opening of the Conference

Europeana Space plenary meeting, 15th October 2014

The plenary meeting of the project took place at the beautiful location of Ca’ Foscari University, one day ahead the Opening Conference of Europeana Space. After the welcome speeches by Sarah Whatley (Project Coordinator) and Leonardo Buzzavo (representing the hosting partner Ca’ Foscari), the project manager Tim Hammerton (in the photo below) and the technical coordinator Antonella Fresa illustrated the main activities carried on so far, and anticipated about the next steps for the progress of the project.

Then the discussion became very lively about the 6 themed pilots (Dance, Photography, Games, Open & Hybrid Publishing, Europeana TV, Museums) and their digital content, to be re-used within the Content Space developed by the project for experimenting with new applications. “Pilots are certainly the major strenght of the project” said Antonella. Coordinating and monitoring the pilots is a task for wp4 co-leaders Promoter and iMinds: Frederik Temmermans described the monitoring methodology that will help keeping an alignement among the pilots and their interconnected activities. The discussion then went rather “technical” about the infrastructure and technical framework of the project, presented by Nasos Drosopoulos.

After a lovely lunch with view on Canal Grande, the plenary got into the discussion of hackathons, monetization and incubation activities, which are intended to drive the pilots output to the real market: Gregory Markus provided a good overview of the tasks, while Christine van den Horn got the ball rolling for the hackathons that are planned for each pilot starting from Spring 2015, in different locations. A very inspiring speech by Simon Cronshaw and Peter Tullin about cultural entrepreunership made everybody very enthusiast and forward-looking to the monetization activities which will make very concrete the general aim of the project (“to unlock the business potential of digital cultural heritage”).

But Europeana Space is not composed only of the 6 pilots and related activities: some demonstrators, with educational purposes, are part of the project and their status was presented by their reponsible partners: Thodoris Chiotis for the application dedicated to the greek poet Cavafy; Ruth Montague for the Irish Folktales and Poetry demonstrator, Frederik Temmermans for the demonstrator about photographic investigantion of works of art.

An interesting and interactive moment of the plenary that involved all the participants was the debate, drove by Charlotte Waelde, reflecting upon project activity and planning related to Intellectual Property, open content and creative licenses.

Final speech by Antonella Fresa with participation of Fred Truyen was about communication & dissemination and educational training.

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Rome, 17 October 2014

RICHES at the EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON REFLECTIVE SOCIETIES

The European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, unit B6 Reflective Societies, in cooperation with the FLASH-IT project kindly organises the workshop “Bridge over troubled waters? The link between European historical heritage and the future of European integration” being held in Rome, on the 17^th of October 2014.

The Horizon 2020 Research Framework Programme provides funding for research that aims “to contribute to an understanding of Europe’s intellectual basis, its history and the many European and non- European influences, as an inspiration for our lives today”. The research domain is located under the “reflective societies” part of Societal Challenge 6: Europe in a changing world – Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies.

The workshop on “reflective societies” revolves around the problematic of the interconnectedness of the past, present and the future in the current European societies. It initiates a discussion about the potential meaning of “reflective societies” as societal challenge for current European societies in general and for setting the European research agenda under Horizon 2020 in particular.

The workshop brings together specialists of history, cultural heritage and identity studies (fields that cover a large and intimately related part of the research area under “reflective societies” as defined by the H2020 Research Framework Programme) and policy makers and managers from the European Commission and national funding bodies.

In the workshop’s afternoon session, RICHES Coordinator Prof. Neil Forbes of Coventry University will chair the Round Table on Cultural Heritage, discussing the topics and aims of the project.

The results of the workshop will contribute to define future research topics on European history, heritage and identities that will respond to the needs of contemporary European societies and that will reinvigorate the link between interpretations of the past and the willingness to share common European objectives.

For the programme of the event and the registration, please visit this link

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It will provide support and tools about the possibility of re-use of public domain and open content

Open Knowledge Foundation joins Europeana Space

by Lieke Ploeger and Marieke Guy, Open Knowledge Foundation

Open Knowledge is a nonprofit organisation that promotes open knowledge, including open content and open data. Open Knowledge hosts over 20 working groups: domain-specific groups that focus on discussion and activity around a given area of open knowledge. OpenGLAM is an initiative run by Open Knowledge since 2012 for the promotion of open cultural content. The OpenGLAM working group is a global network of people who work to open up cultural data and content held by GLAM institutions. The OpenGLAM community provides documentation for cultural institutions wanting to open up their data and content and regularly organises events and workshops bringing together groups that are committed to building an open cultural commons.

With such great OpenGLAM credentials it seemed natural for Open Knowledge to participate in the Europeana Space project to cooperate on WP3 – The Content Space.

Open Knowledge will be providing a ‘Knowledge Base’ on ‘Open Content Exchange’ known as the ‘OpenContent Exchange Platform’ for the Content Space. This platform will comprise of collated public domain and open content materials related to the value of digital public domain and best practices around open licensing. One particular area of focus will be the monetising of Europeana open content by creative industries and the challenges this poses related to IPR.

The OpenContent Exchange Platform will help answer, in an accessible, user-friendly way, the question “What would those working in creative industries want to know or to happen to enable them to reuse Europeana content?”. Questions from those working in creative industries may include:

What is the license of the content? What does the license mean? What can I do with the content? Can I make money from this content?
Do licence rules for what I can do differ by country? Do licence rules vary for the type of content I want to use? Are there differences between the licence for physical work or a digital work?
How do label my own content correctly? What is rights labelling?
Is IPR content embedded within content? What technical standards are there around embedding IPR content?
How can I get legal advice on IPR issues? How can I get content cleared to reuse?

It is anticipated that results from the platform will inform further research and policy making in the cultural heritage sphere, specifically around business models for open cultural content. Any poorly covered areas in the currently available materials will be identified with the intention of ‘filling in the gaps’.

Handing over a book from the Institut für Realienkunde. This image is Public Domain marked and available on Europeana portal.

The OpenContent Exchange Platform will be an online, publicly accessible platform consisting of:

Links to open content to be made available through the exchange platform both from partners of the Europeana Space project and from the wider cultural heritage community;
Blog posts and articles on open content being provided by Europeana Space partners and the wider cultural heritage sphere presenting this material thematically and in a highly curated way to maximise interest in it;
Documentation on open licensing for both suppliers and users of open content so that both parties fully understand the technical and legal implications of their work and make best use of its open character;
Materials on the re-use of openly licensed materials targeted at the creative industry, including manuals on how to source public domain works from other repositories

A first version of the OpenContent Exchange Platform will be ready in early 2015: the full version is planned for February 2016.

About the authors:

Lieke Ploeger is community manager of the OpenGLAM initiative and project co-ordinator of the DM2E project at Open Knowledge. OpenGLAM is focused on promoting free and open access to digital cultural heritage held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums, while DM2E is building the tools and communities to enable humanities researchers to work with manuscripts in the Linked Open Web. Before joining Open Knowledge, she worked at the National Library of the Netherlands, where she was involved in several large-scale European research projects, such as IMPACT in the area of digitisation and SCAPE in the field of digital preservation.

Marieke Guy is a project co-ordinator at Open Knowledge. She is just completing work on the LinkedUp Project through which she supported a series of competitions aiming to get people to reuse open and linked data relevant to education. Many of the LinkedUp Catalogue datasets have come from the GLAM community and many of the tools developed have been museum related. Prior to working for Open Knowledge she spent 13 years at the University of Bath based at UKOLN, where she worked on a variety of Cultural Heritage projects including Cultivate, Exploit and IMPACT – a mass digitisation project which aimed to improve access to historical text. Marieke is co-ordinator of the Open Education Working Group and writes a blog about Remote Working.

The Netherlands, 27 September – 15 November 2014

Pisa is approaching and…we start co-creating!

How cultural institutions can renew themselves, finding new active forms of interaction with their audiences? How can heritage professionals create the conditions for the visitors to leave the role of observers and instead be active contributors to the development of heritage? How can the consumers become producers of cultural heritage? How can cultural heritage be co-created?

RICHES is trying to answer these questions through a series of co-creation sessions: experimental activities aimed at demonstrating how the public can be creator – and so co-creator, together with the heritage professionals – as well as user of cultural contents. The outcomes of these initiatives will be presented during 5 December’s afternoon programme of the First RICHES International Conference, being held in Pisa, at the Museum of Graphics of Palazzo Lanfranchi (4-5 December 2014).

From the 27^th of September to the 15^th of November 2014, three co-creation sessions are being held in the Netherlands, jointly organised by the RICHES partners Waag Society (Amsterdam) and Stichting Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (RMV, in Leiden)

On September 27, the first session took place in De Waag, Amsterdam. Waag Society hosted 15 youngsters and three employees from the Museum of World Cultures.

One question will remain central during Waag and RMV’s co-creation workshops: how can museums (in the context of a changing European society) remain relevant to today’s youth? Goal of these sessions is to design two or more “interventions” for how this group of people deals with cultural heritage. That means: what do they think is important within a museum collection? Which stories would they like to see in these collections? And what is the most suitable interactive form for relating these particular stories?

Organisers and participants will explore the different possibilities together.

Youngsters mapping ideas and visions during the first co-creation sessions by Waag Society.

Youngsters mapping ideas and visions during the first co-creation session by Waag Society.

One of the foreseen co-creation sessions, on the basis of the work carried on in 2014 by Waag Society in collaboration with the Dutch Association of Botanical Gardens, will focus on the external environment.

During this year, Waag Society and the Dutch Association of Botanical Gardens have already conducted several co-creation sessions, with both existing and potential new visitors, as part of a strategic renewal programme in which they jointly explore and design a new innovative public programme. The learnings of these co-creation sessions will be, by the way, part of the upcoming RICHES publication on “good practices and methods for co-creation”.

The 20plus gardens constitute important Dutch heritage sites, with a living collection. The central concept of the Botanical Garden (stemming from the encyclopaedic tradition of the Renaissance) that all knowledge is collectible, as well as the form of a beautiful and lush garden – often in the inner city – and the collections themselves (both “natural” and cultured species) are a representation of historic and contemporary society. The gardens are very diverse, some are academic, some are connected to large park areas, some are connected to zoos, etc. Their collections and stories are relevant in a large number of current topics (such as our relationship with our food, reconnecting to nature, circular economy, etc.), but they have a hard time to renew their audience and connect to younger and/or multicultural groups. The potential of the gardens is very well explained by this video of the BGCI (Botanical Garden Conservation International).

The co-creation sessions brought together staff from the botanic gardens, designers and developers of technological applications and members of the public (the gardens’ current audiences and targeted new audiences). The aim of these sessions was to find new ways to connect the knowledge about plants and biodiversity to the needs of diverse audiences. The session involved running six weekly design sessions focused on different topics. Participants of these sessions explored which stories from the botanic gardens are important and relevant to the public, identify who our current visitors and new target audiences are and design new storytelling methods that can be used to reach these new audiences.

In addition the participants explore what technology might be interesting and what infrastructure (in terms of collaboration and technology, national and international) is future proof. The added value of media/ICT in the context of the gardens is to open up their processes: to linked open data initiatives, opening up their collections to others, but also incorporating crowdsourced materials (“citizen science”); to creative re-use of materials (connecting to DIY and maker movements); to new locations and channels outside their own physical and geographical location.

The participants prepared for the sessions with a set activities from a “sensitizing toolkit” that makes them look at their own garden with different eyes (image 2): “where’s the hidden treasure in my garden”, “what does my public enjoy least?”, “what type of behavior does my audience have”?

Image 2

Image 3

The first session started with each garden sharing those findings and was followed by an activity in the garden with a set of “ambiguous prototypes”, designed to let them imagine what these objects could do in their garden, just a free format explorative activity, which gets the participants in a specific mindset and also lets them get to know each other better (image 3).

Image 4

Towards the end of the six week activities they designed a number of specific interaction scenarios and prototypes, including a Physical Storytelling tool for grandparents and grandchildren, a Talking Tree and an Urban Gardeners programme, that will be developed further (image 4).

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Limassol, 3-8 November 2014

RICHES at EuroMed 2014

On 3 November 2014 in Limassol, Cyprus, RICHES particpated in the V International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2014), held on 3-8 November.

EuroMed brings together researchers, policy makers, professionals and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning cultural heritage today. In particular, this year the conference focused on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible CH, on the use of cutting-edge technologies for protection, restoration, preservation, massive digitisation, documentation and presentation of the CH content.

RICHES Coordinator Neil Forbes of Coventry University (UK) presented the project, its objectives and its first outcomes within a workshop, entitled The Digitisation Age: Mass Culture is Quality Culture. Challenges for Cultural Heritage and Society. The workshop, organised by Promoter Srl, brought together various EU projects, organisations and professionals for disseminating the latest achievements of the digital cultural heritage sector and providing an analysis about the impact of digital cultural heritage on the European society at large. The workshop’s themes are contained in a paper, entitled as the workshop and submitted to the conference Committee, presenting RICHES as one of the most important projects currently active in the digital cultural heritage domain.

Download the Workshop Programme

For more information visit the Conference website

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Karlsruhe, 14 November 2014

Symposium on Digital Society and Cultural Memory

“Die Digitale Gesellschaft”, by CODIGT

While in many cases the question of which digitalia should be designated as cultural heritage worthy of archiving can only be answered with difficulty, short-term research projects have been seeking methodological solutions in science and culture, without yet having installed lasting and systematically established processes.
This symposium was devoted to the goal of raising societal awareness about the benefits of archives and archiving in the digital domain. Politicians, the public and society at large should be made aware that archiving will remain a general task in which each person can play a role. Against the backdrop of primarily economic debates, the already conspicuous consequences of the lack of digital archiving of the cultural heritage are often ignored.

“Willkommen am KIT!”

Since the founding of early states in antiquity, keeping records of historical events was a state affair. Over the centuries, the preservation of both administrative documents and works of art joined the ranks of historiography as tasks of the state. The digital media revolution of the 20th and 21st centuries has led to the restructuring of state institutions’ monopolies on archives – the relatively recent laws related to archives are a legal indication of this restructuring. In addition to this, the homogenisation of archival material through conversion into binary code has accelerated these processes. The diffusion of digital technologies within archiving practice and the rapidly growing scope of digital archives are forcing both leaders and public into action.
This symposium, organised by the Center of Digital Tradition (CODIGT) at the ZAK Centre for Cultural and General Studies of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), aimed to expound and promote digital archiving in particular as a cultural technology. The ZAK hopes to raise public awareness about the significance of digital archiving as a necessary precondition for the future accessibility of knowledge.

The ZAK would like to contribute to the general awareness of archiving processes and stimulate reflection on new concepts such as “crowd archiving”. The symposium provided representatives from the domains of cultural and archival work, technology, politics and science with an opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange for the purpose of developing strategies together with the public.

Themes:

– Museums, archives and the public
– Political programmes for archiving under public participation
– Digital cultural heritage and the public
– Legal guidelines for public archiving projects

About CODIGT:

The research group CODIGT (Center for Digital Tradition) is a collaborative research and
service institution located at ZAK, the Centre for Cultural and General Studies under the direction of Prof. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha. Cooperation partners are Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), ZKM – The Karlsruhe Centre for Arts and Media- and the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG).
CODIGT is dedicated to the task of contributing to the preservation of digital cultural heritage and various types of science and research data. CODIGT develops and answers questions about digitizing culture and the contextualization of digital objects within the framework of projectoriented basic research and transdisciplinary knowledge transfer. It aims to tackle issues of digital preservation (DP) as well as access to these archived objects.

Further information and contact:
Dr. Ralf Schneider
schneider@kit.edu
Website: http://www.zak.kit.edu/codigt_tagung

Antalaya, Turkey, 24-26 November 2104

IMCW2014 calls for workshop and tutorial proposals!

The 5th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World took place in Antalya, Turkey, from 24 to 26 November 2014. To commemorate the 2014 Turkish-German Science Year, IMCW2014 was organised in cooperation with Hacettepe University and the Goethe-Institutes in Turkey.

IMCW2014 was held jointly with the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM2014) at the same venue so participants could attend both events.

Miracle Hotel, venue of IMCW2014

Research and innovation (R&I) is the lifeblood of development. Digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer tremendous opportunities to set up a truly global e-science infrastructure to foster research and innovation and facilitate sharing not only the research outputs but also the research data. The EU countries will spend some 71 billion euro for research under the Horizon 2020 program. An enourmous amount of research data gets created, collected, processed and analyzed during the research process and it has to be managed effectively. As the life of research data is far longer than the research projects themselves, preservation of, access to and reuse of research data is of great importance. Effective management of research data requires infrastructure and data repositories as well as policies and standards for metadata, interoperability, knowledge discovery and reuse. It is estimated that the effective management of research data and opening up “big data” will save Europe about 150-300 billion euro annually.

Main topics of the Symposium included:

• Research Data

• Research Data Infrastructure

• Research Data Management

• Open Access to Research Data

• Knowledge Discovery in Research Data

• Education for Research Data Management

Research Data Management and Knowledge Discovery being the main theme of the Symposium, IMCW2014 aimed to bring together researchers, data scientists, computer engineers, data repository managers, information scientists and information professionals, data librarians and archivists to discuss the issues pertinent to research data management and open data repositories and to contemplate on how to design and develop innovative and collaborative knowledge discovery and mining services over the research data. This was an opportune time for IMCW2014 to tackle the challenges of research data management and knowledge discovery, ranging from research data infrastructure to metadata standards, from current research information systems to open source data management systems, from research data journals to metrics and from knowledge discovery techniques to semantic enrichment of research data.

The Organising Committee of IMCW2014 invited interested individuals, research teams, societies and project groups to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials to be organised within the conference.

To encourage participation, IMCW2014 did not charge additional fees for participants registered in the conference to attend workshops/tutorials and proposers of accompanying events with at least four registered speakers/participants had their Symposium fee waived.

Download the Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals here

Keynote speakers of IMCW2014 will be:

• Kevin Ashley, Director of the UK Digital Curation Centre

Mr. Ashley has been responsible to increase the enabling capacity and capability of DCC amongst the research community in matters of digital curation, as the DCC was set up by JISC in 2004 to give practical advice and guidance to colleges and universities on digital preservation, curation and information management. His specialties are digital curation, digital preservation training, electronic record management and hybrid archives.

Earlier, Mr. Ashley worked as the Head of Digital Archives at the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) for 13 years, during which time his multi-disciplinary group has provided services related to the preservation and reusability of digital resources on behalf of other organisations, as well as conducting research, development and training. At ULCC, Dr Ashley’s group operated the National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) for The National Archives of the UK for over twelve years, capturing, preserving, describing and releasing government data.

Mr Ashley was chair of the JISC Repositories and Preservation Advisory Group and is currently a member of JISC’s Infrastructure and Resources committee. He is on the steering committee for the Archives Hub at MIMAS and the policy working group of the DL.ORG project. He was part of the task force that developed the RLG/NARA audit checklist for trusted digital repositories, and was a member of the NSF-DELOS Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation which produced the report “Invest To Save”.

Mr. Ashley holds a BSc degree in Mathematics from University College London.

• Professor Michael Seadle

Director of the Berlin School for Library and Information Science

Dean of the Faculty of Arts I, Humboldt University

Chair of the ISchools Caucus, Germany

Professor Seadle holds a PhD degree in Sociology from the University of Chicago and an MS degree in Information Science from the University of Michigan. He is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts I as well as the Director of the Berlin School of Library and Information Science (Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and serves as the chair of ISchools Caucus comprising more than 50 ISchools around the world. Prior to his current position, Professor Seadle served in various administrative capacities at the University of Chicago and Cornell University, among others, and carried out sponsored projects (LC, NSF, IMLS, DFG). He is the editor of the peer-reviewed journal “Library Hi Tech” published by Emerald. He has written more than 100 papers and authored books on long term digital archiving, computing management and copyright.

Important Dates

 Last date to send all types of extended abstracts and proposals: 31 March 2014

 Last date to send workshop and tutorial proposals: 10 April 2014

 Authors notification: 16 May 2014

 Submission of extended abstracts in final form: 16 June 2014

 Submission of full papers (if desired): 16 July 2014

 Notification of acceptance of full papers: 16 August 2014

 Submission of full papers in final form: 16 September 2014

 Registration (Early Bird): 16 Feburary 2014 – 31 July 2014

 Registration (Regular): 1 August 2014 – 3 November 2014

 Registration (Late / Onsite): 4 November 2014 – 26 November 2014

 Symposium: 24-26 November 2014

For more information visit: http://imcw2014.bilgiyonetimi.net/scope/

View the article we published on Digitalmeetsculture.net to announce the event

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in Paris, a very important event of the Europeana feeder project EAGLE included a poster session where the E-Space poster was displayed

Poster dissemination at EAGLE International Conference

The brand new poster of Europeana Space debuted in the poster session of the International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World organised by the EAGLE project (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy) on 29-30 September and 1 October 2014.

The poster is also showcased in the Digital Exhibition web page associated to the Conference.

It was an important event on the very specialistic field of digital technologies applied to ancient inscriptions. It saw the participation of over 150 attendees from all Europe and beyond, and offered interesting speeches and presentations related to the topics of Harmonization of Content and Geographical information, Translations and Linked Open Data, Intellectual Property Rights, User Engagement, Cultural Heritage and the Social Web, Digital approaches to cross-disciplinary studies of inscriptions.

The Conference was organised with the support of Collège de France Chaire Religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique and École Normale Supérieure.

For further details about the event please read this article.

RICHES’ Associate Net7 develops linked data tools for academic research in the Humanities

Pundit for Digital Humanities, by Net7

The open source semantic annotation tool Pundit is Net7’s main product for the Digital Humanities. The main idea behind semantic annotation is to enable users not only to comment, bookmark or tag web pages, but also to semantically create structured data while annotating. The ability to express semantically typed relations among resources, relying on ontologies and specific vocabularies, not only enables users to express unambiguous and precise semantics, but also, more interestingly, fosters the reuse of such knowledge within other web applications.

Pundit allows annotators to include machine-readable semantics in their annotations, by setting up links to the web of data and by collaboratively building a knowledge graph that connects and contextualizes (unstructured) web content.

Pundit enables this structured knowledge to emerge in online communities so that a variety of applications can exploit it by, for example, providing a powerful semantic search, building innovative ad-hoc data visualizations or improving the way scholars explore the web.

Pundit in action: a web page from the British Library’s “Medieval manuscripts blog” is being annotated using the “Annomatic” functionality. Annomatic enables automatic entity recognition, while matched entities can be confirmed or rejected before being saved as annotations.

Pundit aims to be part of an advanced research ecosystem, of which semantic enrichment and data curation are fundamental steps. Thus, the goal of the StoM project is to create a software-as-a-service platform named PunditBrain. PunditBrain is aimed mainly at scholars, journalists and students but will also perfectly fit into corporate environments, where document collection and consumption lie at the heart of their work.

It will be a web-based service, which will allow users to apply semantic annotations on web documents. Using the Pundit technology as its foundation stone, PunditBrain will focus on usability. Annotating will be similar to highlighting text in documents: for example highlighting with different colors could be used to add different specific semantics to the text.

Net7 develops advanced tools for academic research in the Cultural Heritage and the Digital Humanities domain. In fact the company is based in Pisa, Tuscany, at the heart of a region with a high density of excellent research institutions including the Italian National Research Council, the University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.

Since its founding in 2002, Net7 has developed web applications based on open source software and Semantic Web / Linked data standards aimed at digital humanists. Net7 has participated as a technical partner in 20 international research projects: HyperNietzsche (2003-2004), PRINHyperSchopenhauer (2006-2008) COST A32 OPen Scholarly Communities on the Web (2006-2009), eContentplusDISCOVERY (2006-2009), WEBSICOLA (2006-2010), ERC-2007-StGAFDMATS – Anton Francesco Doni Multimedia Archive Texts and Sources (2008-2011), FP7 Research for SMESEMLIB (2010-2012), CIP-ICT-PSPAGORA (2011-2013), Marie Curie ITN -DiXit (2014-2017), FIRB -GramsciSource (2013-2016).

At present, Net7 is a partner in two European-related projects (DM2E and Europeana Sounds), three ERC-funded projects (EUROCORR and ERC AdG 2011 – LookingAtWords) and in a Dissemination project (StoM – SemLib to Market). Since 2014 Net7 is also associate partner of the RICHES project.