Digital meets Culture

Tallinn, 23-24 April 2014

DCH-RP e-Infrastructure Concertation Workshop

On April 23rd and 24th, 2014, an e-Infrastructure concertation meeting has been organised in Tallinn by DCH-RP project (Digital Cultural Heritage – Roadmap for Preservation) to discuss in more detail the strategy and recommendations presented in the DCH-RP roadmap study and the intermediate roadmap and how to prepare for future cooperation.

Following the fruitful collaborations set up during the implementation of the former DC-NET project, including the signature of a series of MoUs, contacts between DCH organisations and e-Infrastructures were continued, expanded and developed under DCH-RP via a series of experiments (the Proof of Concepts), a virtual platform and small workshops held at different occasions.

The workshop was very successful as all the speakers and the participants provided their feedback on the intermediate version of the Roadmap, both from the point of view of the memory institutions (on the first day) and of the e-infrastructure providers (on the second day). This feedback will be analysed and took into account in the final version of the Roadmap which will be published in Semptember 2014.

Here below you can find and download all the presentations that were delivered during the 2-days event. A detailed report is being produced and it will be available on the DCH-RP showcase in the coming weeks.

Introduction to the roadmap (B. Justrell): download PDF

Day 1 (23/04/2014): DCH institutions views on the Roadmap (download all presentations)

Patrimoine Numérique (M.V. Leroi): download PDF
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (M. Messina): download PDF
Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage (H. Arijs): download PDF
Ministry of Education and Research (E. Stenskold): download PDF
National Archives of Estonia (K. Aas): download PDF
Digital Heritage Netherlands (M. De Niet): download PDF
DARIAH and CNR (V. Virgili): download PDF
Silesian Digital Library (R. Lis): download PDF
Lithuanian Art Museum (S. Bagdonas): download PDF
Digital Preservation Coalition (W. Kilbride): download PDF
Culture Information Systems Centre (L. Valdovska): download PDF
National Széchényi Library (M. Toth): download PDF
Deutsche Kinemathek (J. Keiper): download PDF
Discussion (chair: R. Ruusalepp): download PDF

Day 2 (24/04/2014): e-infrastructure views on the Roadmap (download all presentations)

e-IRG (L. Laaksonen): download PDF
ESFRI (J. Dubucs): download PDF
EENet (H. Teder): download PDF
EGI.eu (M. Dresher): download PDF
APARSEN (H. Brocks): download PDF
Discussion (chair: T. Devenport): download PDF

Conclusions (J. Moulin): download PDF

The workshop was followed by the fourth DCH-RP plenary meeting, whose main objective was to plan the editing and delivery of the final version of the Roadmap, which will be published in September in the occasion of the DCH-RP final conference as the major result of the project.

Stay tuned on www.digitalmeetsculture.net/heritage-showcases/dch-rp/ to follow the progress of the project!

See SCAPE in action by visiting one of the partners!

SCAPE Project Demonstration Days

The EU-project SCAPE invites you to visit a SCAPE partner to be introduced to some of the developments within the project. The Demonstration visits will take place during May/early June 2014.

To schedule a visit, please send an email to Jette Junge (jgj@statsbiblioteket.dk), explaining which partner and/or topics you would like to see presented as well as preferred dates for the visit.

SCAPE addresses long term digital preservation of large-scale and heterogeneous collections of digital objects. Learn more about SCAPE at www.scape-project.eu.

A number of partners will demonstrate the tools and services developed in SCAPE and used in their own environments. The demonstration assets include:

The SCAPE Platform
SCAPE Preservation Components
Preservation Watch
Commercial Products

Choose your visit by topic: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/Visiting+Opportunities+by+Topic

Decide which partner to visit by location: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/Visiting+Opportunities+by+Institution

Or browse the ever growing list of planned events: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/Planned+Events

We are looking forward to showing what SCAPE can do for your organisation!

On behalf of the SCAPE Demo Team,

Jette Junge
Statsbiblioteket, Denmark

Cambridge, (Trinity College) 27 April 2014

DiXiT Supervisory Board Meeting

The DiXiT Supervisory Board will take place in Cambridge (Trinity College) on Sunday, 27 April (10am – 1 pm).

The External Experts Advisory Board (EEAB) consists out of four members:

Arianna Ciula, Research Facilitator in the Department of Humanities at the University of Roehampton (London), consultant for and previously science officer (Humanities) at the European Science Foundation (Strasbourg), member of the TEI board of directors and secretary of the European Association of Digital Humanities.

Gregory Crane, Professor in Computer Science and chair in the Dept. of Classics at Tufts University and currently holding a Humboldt professorship at Leipzig University

Hans-Walter Gabler, Prof. em. for English Studies and Editorial Science at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich

Espen Smith Ore, Head Engineer at the Institute for Linguistics and Nordic Studies, Oslo

Agenda:
– Camp 1 (supervision, deliverables, financing)
– Camp 2 in Graz
– further events (e.g. DH conference in Lausanne)
– Consortium Agreement
– Finances, especially:
— Consortium Finance Plan
— Accounting procedure (receipts, bills etc.)
— Eligible costs & redistribution from Category 3 (Training)
– Deliverables
– Secondments
– Announcement of ER fellowships
– Reports (… Mid-Term)
– other

The meeting is scheduled in the framework of the Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age 2014.

By Neasan ONeill

Networking for Digital Preservation

We live in a digital age we no longer commit knowledge to vellum or paper, storage solutions that have stood the test of time. Now everything is created, consumed and, hopefully, stored on computers. It is this last area that is of particular concern, how can we ensure that valuable digital information will remain accessible and usable? This is where digital preservation comes in.

EGI: What is the goal of the Networking Session?
Claudio Prandoni: Our aim with the session is to present to the whole digital preservation and e-infrastructures community the new opportunities offered by the pre-commercial-procurement launched by PREFORMA project. We are interested in engaging with everyone from the open source community and developers to standardisation bodies and memory institutions. At the end of May we launch a call for tender to develop and deploy a suite of open source tools that allow memory institutions to check that the files stored in their archives conform to a specific standard.

EGI: Who would you like to attend the session?
CP: The tender is quite broad and we want to have a wide range of stakeholders involved. So at the session we would love to see any potential supplier like SMEs, research centres or universities that have some experience in the field of standardisation and quality checks. However they are not the only people who should come along, we are interested in memory institutions and cultural heritage organisations coordinating or representing them, developers, research organisations, standardisation bodies, funding agencies, best practice networks and other projects in the digital culture, e-Infrastructures and policy arenas. There is a place for anyone interested in preserving our digital heritage.

EGI: What will attendees learn from attending?
CP: We hope attendees will have a better understanding of what PREFORMA does and how they can get involved, including funding opportunities. But most importantly for us is the opportunity for them to give us feedback and advice and ask specific questions around the issues and challenges that PREFORMA is addressing, helping us to improve and refine the requirements and the specification of the tender

The “Pre-commercial procurement on digital preservation” networking session will be held at 11am on Wednesday 21st at the EGI Community Forum in Helsinki.

You can find more information on the PREFORMA website at http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/preforma-egi-community-forum-2014

Source: http://www.egi.eu/news-and-media/newsfeed/news_2014_014.html

A joint initiative which involves several projects co-funded by the European Commission

A new registry of services and tools for digital preservation

DCH-RP (Digital Cultural Heritage – Roadmap for Preservation) and the partners of the Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry, i.e. The Digital Curation Centre (DCC), The Digital Curation Exchange (DCE), National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), The Open Planets Foundation (OPF) and Preserving digital Objects With Restricted Resources project (POWRR) are investigating the possibility to join their efforts to set up a common registry of services and tools useful for preserving digital information for the long term.

The aim of this registry is to help decision makers selecting quality, mature, sustainable (maintained) and portable tools to be used to plan and implement their digital preservation strategy.

The idea that is currently under discussion is to merge and integrate the work that has been done to set up the DCH-RP registry in the Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR), in order to collate the knowledge on preservation tools in one single place, thus providing a unique and sustainable reference point to the whole digital preservation community.

The DCH-RP registry of services and tools

The DCH-RP registry collects and describes information and knowledge related to tools, technologies and systems that can be applied for the purposes of digital cultural heritage preservation. It also reviews existing and emerging services developed and offered by R&D projects, public organisations and commercial solution vendors.

Whilst providing a broad overview of the existing solutions, the registry initiative focuses on analysing those services and tools that can enable cultural heritage institutions to benefit from the capacities of e-Infrastructures including cloud and grid systems.

Tools and services are categorized by purpose, technologies required, resource formats supported and domain-specific application, among many other criteria. Alongside this functional description, an attempt has been made (for a subset of the tools and services covered) to provide assessments of each. In the first iteration, assessment criteria chosen have been: popularity, support level, portability, scalability, licensing model, and modularity/openness of architecture.

Help us to select the most relevant and used services for digital preservation!

In order to improve the registry, we prepared a survey to rank the services that are listed.

The questionaire, which is anonymous, is intented to determine what services are especially interesting and used by the DCH community.

Please help us in identifying the most relevant services by filling in this survey!

The results will be taken up while working in the next iteration of DCH-RP registry and in the set up of the common registry of services and tools for digital preservation together with the partners of the Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry.

Claudio Prandoni and Paul Wheatley

Stockholm, 3-4 June 2014

Joint DCH-RP/EUDAT workshops on digital preservation

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

On the 3rd and 4th of June 2014, the National Archives of Sweden hosted in Stockholm two workshops organised by DCH-RP in cooperation with EUDAT on the theme of digital preservation of cultural data.

Workshop 1: Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation

In focus of this workshop were the possibilities and challenges connected to long-term digital preservation of on one hand cultural heritage institutions’ holdings and collections and on the other hand research data. The aim was to present the intermediate results of work conducted in the frame of the EU projects DCH-RP and EUDAT, both looking into distributed infrastructure solutions. The results will be taken into account for the final version of the Roadmap for the long-term preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage content, which is due by the end of September 2014 and which represents the main outcome of the DCH-RP project.

Workshop 2: The Concept of Trust – Research data and Cultural Heritage Data

The second workshop had its focus on collaboration issues between the DCH-RP and EUDAT projects on the concept of trust. The aim was to discuss the needs for trust models suitable for digital cultural heritage data and e-science and their use in distributed preservation architectures. The discussions was based on three case studies mirroring different situations involving cultural heritage information and research data.

PROGRAMME

Download here the programme of the event.

PRESENTATIONS

Workshop 1: Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation

Introduction & different aspects of digital preservation (Börje Justrell, Director Operational Support, the National Archives) – download
The EU project Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation (DCH-RP) (Antonella Fresa, Technical Coordinator, DCH-RP) – download
Digisam (Sanja Halling, Senior Advisor, Digisam) – download
European project EUDAT (European Data Infrastructure) (Per Öster, Director Research Infrastructures, CSC-It Center for Science Ltd, Finland) – download
Digital preservation among cultural heritage institutions (Sanja Halling, Senior Advisor, Digisam) – download
Proof of concept DCH-RP (Eva Toller, Principal Administrative Officer, the National Archives) – download
Trustbuilding: State of the art in Digital Cultural Heritage (Raivo Ruusalepp, Digital Preservation Expert, The Ministry of Culture, Estonia) – download
Trust & Risk: Two sides of the same coin? (Börje Justrell, Director Operational Support, the National Archives) – download

Workshop 2: The Concept of Trust – Research data and Cultural Heritage Data

Research information EUDAT (Raphael Ritz, Head Data Science and Services Computing and Data Centre of the Max Planck Society and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics) – download
Research information EUDAT (Ingrid Dillo, Head Policy Development and Communication, DANS – Data Archiving and Networked Services) – download
Cultural Heritage and research information (Kevin Holston, Curator, the Swedish Museum of Natural History) – download

Rome, 16 May 2014

Best Practices for the Fruition and Promotion of Cultural Heritage

Best Practices for the Fruition and Promotion of Cultural Heritage:
EAGLE & Wiki Loves Monuments
&
Award Ceremony Wiki Loves Monuments Italia
EAGLE Special Prize

The opportunities offered by modern technology for the safeguarding and fruition of cultural heritage are virtually boundless, yet their successful implementation requires that all players involved (public institutions, private sector, sector operators) adopt new attitudes.
This event, event organised by EAGLE, Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy e Wikimedia Italia with the support of Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma, aims to serve as a platform for sharing knowledge and good practices while stimulating reflections on the role of digital technologies in the preservation and promotion of cultural digital heritage.

At the end of the event, the winners of Special EAGLE prize for WikiLovesMonuments Italy will be announced. An award will be given for the best photograph of an ancient inscription within a participating monument of the WikiLovesMonuments contest.
Special EAGLE prize for WikiLovesMonuments Italy seeks to promote the intrinsic testimonial value of inscriptions and to do so in such a way that this patrimony, which exists right under the eyes of the world yet often goes barely noticed, emerges and gains the visibility that it deserves.

www.eagle-network.eu
www.wikilovesmonuments.it

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Registration

Participation in the event is free of charge but places will be limited.

Further Information

The language of the conference will be Italian. Coffee breaks will be provided.

For any further information, please contact: info@eagle-network.eu.

Date & Venue

Venue: Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Sala Conferenze, Piazza dei Cinquecento 67, Rome

Date: May 16, 2014

Have questions about Europeana network of Ancient and Greek Epigraphy & Wiki Loves Monuments? Contact EAGLE- Europeana Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy

Report of the Information Day organised by the project on April 4th in Brussels

PREFORMA Information Day: follow up

On April 4th, 2014, PREFORMA organised an Information Day in Brussels to present the call for tender, which will be launched as part of the pre-commercial procurement.

The event, hosted by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), was successfully attended by almost 20 representatives of SMEs, research centres, universities and enterpreneurs coming from all over Europe to hear the presentations and to interact with the representatives from the PREFORMA project, asking questions and providing useful feedback.

Furthermore, the event has been webcasted and recorded to allow people who could not come to Brussels to participate remotely.

After a welcome message from Erik Buelinckx (KIK-IRPA), the project Coordinator Börje Justrell (Riksarkivet) introduced the context and the objectives of the PREFORMA project and of the pre-commercial procurement. Then, Bert Lemmens (Packed) presented the challenge brief, giving an overview of the requirements and specifications of the tender. Antonella Fresa (Promoter), the PREFORMA Technical Coordinator, followed illustrating how to get information about the tender, how to participate to the call and which are the different phases of the procurement, from the publication of the call until the evaltuation of the proposals. After a short break, the last three presentations covered how the design phase will be organised (Peter Pharow, Fraunhofer), the mechanisms which will regulate the evaluation of the prototypes (Nicola Ferro, University of Padua) and the open source approach which stands at the basis of the PREFORMA project (Bjorn Lundell, University of Skövde).

The Q&A session which followed involved many of the attendees around a number of key topics, among which: the usage scenarios to be addressed by the suppliers; the data sets which will be made available by the memory institutions participatng to PREFORMA and those that have to be provided by the tenderers; ideas on sustainability and business models; the conformancy check of the metadata associated to the digital objects; the reporting and feedback process, including the relationship with the standardisation bodies; the possibility to include in the tender other formats or processes.

Finally, in the afternoon, bilateral meetings have been organised with those participants who wanted to enter into more details, ask additional questions and further discuss the opportunity to participate to the call for tender.

Next appointment for exchange and consultation with potential suppliers will be the networking session organised by PREFORMA in Helsinki on May 21st in the frame of the EGI Community Forum 2014. For more information and to register to the event please visit the related blog post.

PRESENTATIONS OF THE INFORMATION DAY

Introduction to PREFORMA (B. Justrell): download presentation

Presentation of the tender (B. Lemmens): download presentation

Website, guidelines and help desk (A. Fresa): download presentation

The design phase (P. Pharow): download presentation

The testing environment (N. Ferro): download presentation

The open source projects (B. Lundell): download presentation

VIDEO RECORDING

Introduction to PREFORMA: Erik Buelinckx (KIK-IRPA)

Introduction to PREFORMA: Borje Junstrell, Project Coordinator (RIKSARKIVET)

Presentation of the tender: Bert Lemmens (PACKED)

Website, guidelines and help desk: Antonella Fresa (PROMOTER)

The design phase: Peter Pharow (Fraunhofer)

The testing environment: Nicola Ferro (Università di Padova)

The open source projects: Bjorn Lundell (University of Skövde)

Questions & Answers

http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/RICHES-Booklet.pdf

RICHES Booklet

Prague, 23-24 April 2014

EUDAT 3rd User Forum – Horizon2020 opportunities and Community collaboration

EUDAT’s 3rd User Forum focuses on close collaboration with communities, organisations and initiatives and how they are integrating and exploiting the current set of EUDAT research data services. The recent Call for Collaboration projects resulted in over 30 applications from a vast range of scientific communities covering, but not limited to, life sciences, atmospheric sciences, marine biology, physics, chemistry, nano-science and materials science, medical science, biodiversity and climate modelling and some will present their tangible collaboration plans.

The User Forum will also be a platform to look at Horizon 2020 opportunities, in terms of outlining EUDAT’s plans for research data management planning support for projects, how collaboration with existing and new users will evolve as well as interacting with attendees on their expectations and requirements for services and support from EUDAT under Horizon2020.
For more details see http://www.eudat.eu/3rd-eudat-user-forum