Digital meets Culture

Vilnius, 7 November 2013

Europeana Photography @ ICT2013, IPR networking session

ICT2013 was a major event this year, in Vilnius during the semester of Lithuanian Presidency of EU.

EuropeanaPhotography could not miss to participate in it, to disseminate to the whole community the important results that were achieved so far, in particular on the side of IPR related to digital content.

A special get-together networking session that took place on 7th November to discuss such important topic with experts from public and private institutions, Europeana Foundation, representatives from other digitization and research EU projects, as well as private companies and consultants.

The participant speakers were:

Antonella Fresa, Promoter srl, Technical Coordinator of EuropeanaPhotography
Andrea de Polo, Fondazione Alinari
Viktorija Jonkutė, Lithuanian Art Museums
Julia Fallon, Europeana Foundation
Jacqueline Cawston, the Serious Games Institute
Evgeny Kossev, Regional Museum of History – Stara Zagora, INSIDDE project

The session also included a presentation related to the IPR activities at the University of Coventry, coordinator of EuropeanaSpace and RICHES projects, both in negotiation. The presentation was illustrated by Antonella Fresa on behalf of dr. Marion Doyen.

The session was intended to foster knowledge exchange and networking actions to address a very common and shared issue from different points of view and backgrounds, also in the light of enabling a true, exploitable creative re-use of the digital content available in Europeana and in other online collections.

Download the presentation “IPR related to digital content” (PDF, 1,7 Mb)

Outline of the session (PDF, 192 Kb)

Networking session description on ICT2013 page.

ICT2013 at booth 5, 7th November 9.00 am.

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Panel discussion chaired by Wim Jansen (DG Connect, EC) at the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries TPDL 2013

eInfrastructures and Digital Libraries…
the Future

The result of the digitisation initiatives carried out by memory institutions (museums, libraries, archives) in Europe and world-wide has produced a large amount of cultural content, which is continuously growing.

The existing services – e.g. the metadata aggregators, such as Europeana and the national cultural portals -, even if important to mobilise attention and resources on the general theme of the digitisation of cultural heritage, have limitations that do not allow to unlock the whole of this potential. On the other hand, the research infrastructures (e.g. DARIAH) are currently missing most of the cultural heritage data, including the data that are hold by local institutions.

The idea of a digital cultural heritage e-infrastructure is to set-up a “common pot”, where institutions can deliver safely their content, which can be seen as a “continuum” by the users. Further, the content that are ready to be open can then be used to develop and demonstrate use cases to encourage more institutions (both national and local one, also small institutions) to adhere to the initiative.

The digital cultural heritage content is made of several different kinds of information: data (2D images and 3D models), metadata, publications, digital exhibitions, virtual reconstructions.

Even if growing very rapidly, the actual size of this content, if measured in byte, is still very much smaller than the amount of data produced by the experiments and the observations of the “hard sciences”.

However, its value is very much high, also because the content related to the digital cultural heritage is produced with a very intensive human work, which makes it expensive and unique. Therefore, preservation has the highest priority for the digital cultural heritage domain and the e-infrastructure services envisaged for cultural heritage and humanities should include preservation features, ranging from long-term to short-term storage. In addition to the storage resources, also the computing resources of the research e-infrastructures (both grid and cloud) can serve the preservation needs. An interesting experiment is the use of the grid to perform regular check-sum test, to monitor any damage or corruption to the data.

Further, the digital cultural heritage content is composed by information that is strongly linked. For example, the individual cultural object needs to be studied with respect to its context (that is made of information possibly coming from different data bases) and in the frame of the collections it belongs to. The improvement of the search technologies, in particular the application of semantic technologies, is very promising in this field. More generally, the linked (open) data movement is very much discussed in the cultural sector as a frontier to be reached to empower the digital cultural content with more links. Features to manage semantic search and linked open data are necessary components of the digital cultural heritage e-infrastructure.

Even if not strictly a technological matter, the issue of openness of digital cultural content is another main challenge that the sector is approaching when moving online. To this regard, it should also be noted that the digital cultural heritage content is of great interest for many different targets: the research (both humanities and other sciences, e.g. archival data are currently offered for investigation to medical researchers and economists), educational products and the creative industries. Often, the partnerships for the exploitation of cultural data (both use and re-use of data) see public and private organisations working together, with the need to combine commercial and not-for-profit approaches. For this reason, digital cultural content needs to be accessed differently by each target, and therefore, authentication and authorisation mechanisms are important to be put in place efficiently by the e-infrastructure.

For more information:

download the presentation made by Antonella Fresa and Rosette Vandenbroucke at the EGI Technical Forum 2013 in Madrid;
download the background note of the e-Infrastructures panel at TPDL 2013
download all the presentations made during the e-Infrastuctures panel at TPDL 2013 (archive file RAR, 8 Mb) or download the single presentations below:

DCH-RP workshop organised in the frame of the 2nd EUDAT International Conference

Digital Preservation of cultural data @ EUDAT, Rome

“Digital Preservation of cultural data” is the title of the workshop organised by DCH-RP in cooperation with EUDAT, SCIDIP-ES and CHAIN-REDS in the framework of the 2nd EUDAT International Conference in Rome.

The workshop was a very successful event, bringing together projects and initiatives working world-wide in the domain of the digital preservation, with a specific focus on digital cultural heritage, digital arts, digital performances and digital humanities, to identify common goals and strategic approaches, find synergies, and discuss opportunities for cooperation, starting from concrete use cases.

Here below you can find all the presentations made during the event and some background information.

Programme and presentations

14:30 – 14:45 Welcome and introduction (Antonella Fresa, Promoter Srl, download PDF)

First Part: DCH and the e-infrastructures

14:45 – 15:10: Using EUDAT services to replicate, store, share, and find cultural heritage data in Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (Maciej Brzeźniak, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center – Damien Lecarpentier, CSC – IT Center for Science, download PDF)

15:10 – 15:35 Authentication and Authorisation in the Cultural Heritage community (Roberto Barbera, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, download PDF)

15:35 – 16:00 Scalability in preservation of cultural heritage data (Simon Lambert, Scientific Computing Department – STFC, download PDF)

16:00 – 16:30 Break

Second Part: OAIS model, standards, provenance and authenticity

16:30 – 16:50 Standard models and formats for digital preservation (Börje Justrell, Swedish National Archives, download PDF)

16:50 – 17:15 Implementation of authenticity evidence record model for supporting preservation scenarios (Luigi Briguglio, Engineering R&D Lab, download PDF)

17:15 – 17:30 Coordination of digitisation, digital access and digital preservation in Sweden (Sanja Halling, Digisam, download PDF)

Attendees

Download here the list of participants to the workshop.

Context and objectives

Medicine and Natural sciences, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth sciences and physics, already make use of standardized formats and e-Infrastructures services to generate, curate, share and analyse research data.

The need for novel more efficient and affordable solutions for digital preservation is now increasing also in the Social Science and Humanities, in particular the Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) sector is producing a large volume of digital content that needs to be safely stored and curated, permanently accessed, and easily shared and re-used by researchers.

Illustration from www.digitalbevaring.dk

Each digitisation programme is currently addressing the issue of preservation in a separate manner, a shared implementation of common e-Infrastructure layers could be beneficial and cost effective.

Moreover, preservation models are often inspired by the ISO OAIS standard, where transfers and preservation are built on information packages containing both data and metadata. Even if the transferred files are in standard formats, the implementation of standards cannot be guaranteed and it is not in control neither by the institutions that produces the software for implementing them, nor by the memory institutions.

E-Infrastructures and DCH communities entered a dialogue in the last years and several data-infrastructure projects exist and look how to set up data infrastructures, including DCH use cases:

DCH-RP: Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation
SCIDIPES: SCIence Data Infrastructure for Preservation – Earth Science
APARSEN: Alliance Permanent Access to the Record of Science in Europe network
EUDAT: Towards a European Collaborative Data Infrastructure
CHAIN REDS: Coordination and Harmonization of Advanced e-Infrastructures for Research and Education Data Sharing
DARIAH: Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities
DASISH: Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Science and Humanities
CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
SCAPE: SCAlable Preservation Environments

At the same time, new projects are about to start, such as a joint Pre-Commercial Procurement project – which is now under negotiation – whose main objective is the development of an open source software licensed reference implementation for different format standards as a tool to be used by memory institutions to check conformance with standard specifications.

Aim of the workshop is:

To bring together projects and initiatives in the domain of the digital preservation, with a specific focus on digital cultural heritage, digital arts, digital performances and digital humanities;
To identify common goals and strategic approaches, to find synergies, to discuss opportunities for cooperation, starting from concrete use cases;
To progress towards establishing a Virtual Research Community for DCH acknowledged at European level and to prepare for Horizon 2020.

Target Users

Researchers in the humanities
Teaching and learning actors (schools, training centers, university courses)
Cultural and creative industry for the creative use and re-use of the digital cultural content
Content providers (e.g. cultural managers of national institutions and libraries, small institutions, private and public publishers, etc.).
Policy makers and programme owners
E-infrastructure providers, technology providers and R&D institutions
R&D projects and initiatives focusing on digital preservation

Contact details

Name: Claudio Prandoni

Affiliation: Promoter Srl

Email: prandoni@promoter.it

Project's progress, and a nice city

Vilnius, Europeana Photography meeting

Viktorija Jonkutė

by Valentina Bachi

The third EuropeanaPhotography plenary meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, took place on 9 and 10 September 2013, organized by Viktorija Jonkute at the premises of the Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum and the Lithuanian Art Museum (LAM). The meeting was the occasion for the partners to meet again and discuss the hot topics, in the light of progressing with the project towards its second year’s objectives.

Intermediate objective is to deliver to Europeana a huge number of metadata, in order to publish a first batch of images to witness the history of Europe and the art of photography in the period 1839-1939. The images are supposed to be on line and accessible to everyone by early 2014, and for this reason EuropeanaPhotography content providers are working closely to the technical deadlines to allow this result. In particular, the Vilnius meeting was also the place for another training about the use of the EuropeanaPhotography MINT tool and the integrated multilingual vocabulary.

The partners are followed up and supported by a special “metadata task force”, set up in July, that will help meeting and resolving any possible difficulty.

the metadata task force, A. Fresa, V. Bachi, N. Van Steen, S. Taes, N. Simou, during the meeting in Peccioli at Promoter’s premises

A major part of the meeting was dedicated to the communication strategy and the preparation of the final exhibition, which is going to have place in 2014: for this reason it is time to start thinking and planning its organization.

The exhibition will be a travelling event to show recent history, art and photographic techniques, thanks to masterpieces of photography from all over Europe, carefully selected to amaze the public.

More news are to come soon about this topic.

St. Peter and St. Paul church – internal

The plenary meeting was joined to other very interesting and important cultural events: a photographic exhibition and a international conference where some of the EuropeanaPhotography partners discussed valuable topics, as widely described by the project coordinator Fred Truyen in his blog.

Download the presentation “The creative re-use of digital cultural content” taken by Antonella Fresa

The Vilnius meeting was warmed by a summer sun and a kind welcome of the Lithuanian colleagues, who, beside their very nice hospitality, showed the very rich heritage belonging to Vilnius and to Lithuania. It is no surprise that UNESCO declared this city a World heritage.

Cathedral St. Stanislaus and St. Ladislaus

A bus tour allowed the participants to discover nice corners of the city, its two rivers, the newest modern quartier with high buildings and the wooden country houses so beautifully preserved, the elegant boulevards, the neoclassical city center, the KGB building with its sinister memories, the Uzupis Republic of artists – the fashion quartier, a self-proclaimed, unofficial republic inhabited by artists and dreaming bohemians.

Special stops allowed a visit to the magnificent church of St. Peter and Paul, the white pearl

“Miracle”

of the Baroque, and to the main Cathedral dedicated to St. Stanislaus and St. Ladislaus, where the recent history of 1989 about independence and renaissance of a whole country still permeates the atmosphere.. the belief and hope is that a miracle (stebuklas in Lithuanian) is going to happen soon.

Maybe will it involve the digital technologies and their applications, to unlock the potential of Europe’s cultural heritage?

EuropeanaPhotography was also presented on the national TV in a short reportage about the exhibition of old photographs (Lithuanian language, video here).

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BPN project on the Europeana Professional blog

Linked Heritage project presents results

We report below an article published on the Europeana Professional Blog*, on courtesy of Beth Daley.

“The Linked Heritage project draws to a close at the end of September 2013. Linked Heritage – with the strapline, ‘Share culture, link content’ – was a content-focused project, which aimed to bring large quantities of content into Europeana, to enhance metadata quality and to improve the search, retrieval and re-use of Europeana content. So, has it achieved its aims? What has it brought to the world of digital cultural heritage?

The Linked Heritage end-of-project brochure is available in English and French.

30 months on, its results are impressive. 38 partners from 26 countries, together with 10 more external contributors recruited during the project including Lithuania, Russia, Croatia and Ukraine, coordinated the aggregation of over 2.7 million items to Europeana, making it one of Europeana’s biggest aggregators. The Linked Heritage aggregation includes data from archives, museums, libraries, research centres and universities, and covers 3D models, manuscripts, ancient prints, medieval antiquities, archaeological artefacts, monuments, Greek and Latin inscriptions, fossils, ancient and modern paintings, ethnographic collections and more.

Example of Linked Heritage data now available in Europeana. Michel Tordeux, Vélocipède, 1868-1870, copyright KMKG-MRAH. From project partner Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, KMKG, Belgium.

To achieve this, the project implemented a smooth workflow for mapping and aggregation activities, as well as training for content providers in the aggregation process. The Linked Heritage aggregation platform was made available online for training and validation.

In terms of metadata quality, the project gave advice about the use of persistent identifiers and their use in linked data. It addressed the issue of non-standard descriptive terminologies, enhancing the quality of Europeana content in terms of metadata richness, re-use potential, and uniqueness. The project also explored the management of metadata in the private sector and outlined the benefits of private sector interoperability with Europeana.

Example of Linked Heritage data now available in Europeana. Łazienki Królewskie (Royal Baths) in Warsaw, Palace on the Water, one of the most outstanding Neoclassical palaces in Poland, built in 1770 and commissioned by King Stanisław August Poniatowski. From project partner ICIMSS, Poland.

Marie-Claire Dangerfield, from Europeana’s Aggregation team, worked closely with Linked Heritage and says, ‘The Linked Heritage technical team maintained strong communication links with the Europeana throughout the project, particularly relating to the submission and ingestion of datasets. With their help we were able to communicate with their providers in a timely manner. The project’s focus on metadata also contributed to the way in which the Aggregation team will deal with metadata and metadata quality in the future.’

Example of Linked Heritage data now available in Europeana. Monument to Nicolaus Copernicus in Toruń univeristy campus, erected in 1973. Photo by Piotr Kożurno. Copyright by ICIMSS, Poland.

Linked Heritage published several reports that explored the state of linked data, its applications and potential:

A best practice report on cultural heritage linked data and metadata standards
A state of the art report on persistent identifier standards and management tools
A specification of the technologies for large-scale implementation of cultural heritage linked data
A linked data demonstrator

The project’s work with metadata was continued with an exploration into the management of metadata in the private sector and the benefits to Europeana of interoperability with the private sector. Key documents for this work are:

A vest practice report – Public-Private Partnerships
A specification of the technologies chosen
A specification of legal/licensing environment

Another working group addressed the large gap between the actual state of terminology management in cultural institutions, and the skills and means necessary to deliver these vocabularies in a standardised format.

Example of Linked Heritage data now available in Europeana. Art nouveau tiles from Bydgoszcz, Poland. Photo by Piotr Kożurno. Copyright ICIMSS, Poland.

So what happens now?

The project website and the showcase on Digital Meets Culture will be maintained. meaning that the main results (deliverables, publications, training material, learning objects etc.) remain available for interested users after the end of the project.

The majority of the content providers will continue to send their data to Europeana through the new best practice network Athena+, which started in March this year. Athena+ will carry on the work on terminologies too, with the aim of realising a stable version of the Terminology Management Platform developed in Linked Heritage.

For more information, go to the Linked Heritage website and visit the Digital Meets Culture showcase.”

Download the Linked Heritage end-of-project brochure in English or French.

By Beth Daley

Source: pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/1896343

* The Europeana Professional Blog is for people working in the field of digital cultural heritage.

BPN project on the Europeana Professional blog

EAGLE to make classical European inscriptions accessible

EAGLE is a best practice network that brings together the most prominent European institutions and archives in the field of Classical Latin and Greek epigraphy (epigraphy = the study of inscriptions/epigraphs), to provide Europeana with a comprehensive collection of unique historical sources which constitute a veritable pillar of European culture.

A ‘touch’ reading of a partially-faded inscription in the catacombs of St. Alexander on via Nomentana in Rome. Picture by Giorgio Crimi.

In particular, it will supply inscriptions from 25 EU countries, providing more than 1.5 million images and related metadata, including translations of selected texts, for the benefit of the general public. This represents approximately 80% of the total amount of inscriptions in the Mediterranean area.

Furthermore, EAGLE will implement an inscription-specific metadata model based on standards and recommendations developed through related Europeana projects and a bespoke service platform for epigraphy to allow for multi-format ingestion and multi-device distribution of content. The project will also bring new content providers and users to Europeana.

Base of a statue dedicated to the Emperor Septimius Severus by a group of soldiers in Ostia. Picture by H.G. Kolbe

Two flagship applications will be integrated to validate the project’s results with real users and to step up the mass adoption of EAGLE: a mobile application to enable tourists to understand inscriptions they find on location, and a storytelling application to allow teachers and experts to assemble epigraphy-based narratives for the benefit of less experienced users.

A multilingual wiki will be set up for the enrichment and curation of epigraphic images and texts, with special emphasis on translations – providing a basis for future translations of inscriptions in other European languages.

The results of EAGLE will be disseminated to the epigraphers’ community and to the general public to ensure the sustainability of the project. To this end, EAGLE will foster a tight integration of its collections with Wikipedia through their publication to Wikimedia Commons and it will develop an inscription-themed documentary with a related teaser video.

EAGLE will coordinate its activities with Europeana and the Europeana family of projects to ensure full integration of services.

Source: Europeana Professional Blog

More information on Eagle Project here

Siena, 26-27 September 2013

Agorà of Polis comes back: Mobility, Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Building

The annual event organized by Polis (Polo di Innovazione delle Tecnologie per la Città Sostenibile – Innovation Pole of the Technologies for a Sustainable City) was held in the Engineering College of Siena’s University on the 26^th – 27^th September 2013.

Two days of debate about the “Smart Specialization Strategy” general topic, structured on the three Polis themes MOBILITY (flow management and planning of the transport processes), CULTURAL HERITAGE (preservation, management and use) and SUSTAINABLE BUILDING (new building materials, energy systems): the talk was focused on technology, tourism, urban logistics, culture, storytelling, agrifood, green cities. The main Tuscan firms, experts and national and international excellences of the field took part in the event.

These were the agenda main sessions:

Thursday, 26^th September 2013/Chora

9.30/10.00 AM – OPENING

10.00 AM/01.30 PM – SMART SPECIALIZATION STRATEGY: research and innovation’s new generation

02.30/05.00 PM – MUSEUM IS TERRITORY, TERRITORY IS MUSEUM: ICT museumification strategies in the storytelling era

Thursday 26^th September 2013/Escathià

11.00 AM/01.30 PM – CULTURAL TOURISM, THE TERRITORY TELLING

02.30/06.30 PM – SUSTAINABLE CITY AND URBAN LOGISTICS: Dorothy project

Friday 27^th September 2013/Chora

9.30 AM/01.30 PM – SPAGHETTI START UP: new enterprises for the territory growth

02.30/06.30 PM – SMART GREEN CITIES

Friday 27^th September 2013/Escathià/Agorà – THE START Ups AFTERNOON

Following: SHINE – The Researchers Night: meeting at “Orto de’ Pecci” with aperitif and much more…

In the frame of the event, the project “Europeana Photography” (European Ancient Photographic Vintage Repositories of Digitized Pictures of Historic Quality) has been represented by Dr. Antonella Fresa of Promoter Srl. (Download the presentation here) EuropeanaPhotography is a digitisation project co-funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the University of Leuven. The project plays a key role in ensuring that digital content related to ancient photography is accessible in Europeana. In fact, Europeana has an impressive mass of images mostly representing cultural objects while photographic images, the early ones in particular, are underrepresented. Europeana Photography will fill this gap by providing photographic masterpieces from 1839 – with the first example of images from Fox Talbot and Daguerre – to the beginning of the Second World War (1939).

For more information:

http://www.polis-toscana.it/index.php/agora-2013.html

Download the full agenda here (italian language)

Download the presentation taken by Antonella Fresa here

Follow the proceedings of the Conference on the Social Network

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agoradipolis

Twitter: @polistoscana #Agorà2013

Warsaw, 14-15 October 2013

International seminar Photography – Museum Narratives

On 14-15 October 2013 the National Museum in Warsaw hosted the international seminar Photography – Museum Narratives. The seminar was organized by the Archaeology of Photography Foundation, in collaboration with the National Museum in Warsaw and National Institute of Museology and Collections Protection.

The aim of the conference was to investigate the position of photography within contemporary museum institutions and to determine the function and premises of photography museums. This event bring forth an opportunity to become acquainted with histories of photographic collections and acquiring strategies of institutions such as: Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Getty Museum (LA), Art Institute of Chicago, Musée Nicéphore Niépce (Chalon-sur-Saône) , Musée de l’Élysée (Lausanne), and Rosphoto (St. Petersburg).

Below, a list of topics addressed:

Museum of Photography and its History — different models of developing photography museums.

Museum of Photography Today — does the museum of photography today have its raison d’être if so, what should be its shape, and if not, what consequences does this fact have for existing collections.

Photography on Permanent Display — past and current ways of constructing the narratives of permanent exhibitions of photography, as well as the ways in which photography is included in the permanent displays.

Historical Narratives of Temporary Exhibitions — analysis of select landmark exhibitions and their impact on the history of photography and acquisition strategies, such as The Family of Man.

Photography in the Collection of a Museum of Art — historical and contemporary perspectives on and strategies of collecting photography.

Photography as the Object of a Legal Transaction — copyrights, making the collections available to the public, official records, digitization, etc.; including photographing in museums: the rights of the visitors in the face of the duty to protect the heritage.

Photography has been present in museums ever since its invention, however, the ways it was collected and its status within the museum collections changed drastically over the course of the last 170 years. The museum institutions and curators played an important role in shaping the history of photography and are responsible for the fact that it is still very often seen from the perspective of the medium. Nonetheless, both collecting — that is acquisition strategies — and making available to the public — that is temporary and permanent displays — have defined photography as either closer to a technique, art, or to a document. These different statuses are still at play, though various museums adopt diverse methods of dealing with such pluralism. In some cases, photographs from all departments — library, iconography, art, and prints — are to be found in a single department of photography, which is responsible for the strategy of acquisitions and all photography-related projects. Another model involves keeping the photographs in their original locations in the collection; yet another focuses on challenging the media-based division and including the photographs in the general collection.

Participating speakers:

Jaroslav Anděl (artistic director at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague)
Quentin Bajac (chief curator of Photography Department, Museum of Modern Art, NY)
Tamara Berghmans (curator and researcher at FotoMuseum Antwerp)
Martijn van den Broek (head of the Collections Department at the Netherlands FotoMuseum in Rotterdam)
François Cheval (curator-at-large at Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône)
Antonella Fresa (technical coordinator at Europeana Photography); download the presentation in PDF (1,35 Mb)
Virginia Heckert (curator of Photography Department at the Getty Museum, LA)
Danuta Jackiewicz (curator of the Collection of Iconography and Photography at the NationalMuseum in Warsaw)
Adam Mazur (independent curator and researcher; paper on the photo collections at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź and National Museum in Breslau)
Wojciech Nowicki (freelance photographer, curator, and journalist; paper on Photography Museum in Cracow)
Ulrich Pohlmann (head of the Photography Department at the Stadtmuseum, Munich)
Mark Robbins (executive director at the International Center of Photography, New York)
Viktoria Tolpegina (international project manager, RosPhoto, Sankt Petersburg)
Matthew Witkovsky (head of the Department of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago)

Executive Organizer: Archaeology of Photography Foundation, Warsaw

Concept: Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska

Project financed by the National Centre for Culture within the framework of the Culture – Interventions programme

More information about the proceedings of the meeting here.

Partners:

Media partnership:

Download the full seminar nota (PDF, 473 Kb)

Information for press:

Anna Micińska anna.micinska@gmail.com,

Tel. +48 605 937 627

Developed in the frame of the INDICATE Project, the document details the future priorities of Digital Cultural Heritage in the coming years

The Paris Declaration for the progress of the Digital Cultural Heritage

INDICATE Strategy and future plan workshop, which was held in Paris on 7th of June 2012, gave the opportunity to exchange on good practices and collaborations between the digital culture heritage sector and einfrastructures, and to give common trails for further cooperation.

This workshop highlighted that digital cultural heritage sector and e-infrastructures have common interests in working closely together, in Europe and beyond. It generates positive impacts:

for e-infrastructures: the adoption of the e-Infrastructures by the digital cultural heritage community will open new scenarios of use and exploitation
for the DCH community: cultural managers will access services provided by e-infrastructures such as storage, preservation, access services for the cultural institutions, etc.
for the research community: they will benefit from new advanced services and application
for other related sectors: digital cultural content will become more usable and re-usable for education, cultural tourism, long-life learning, non-professional cultural interests, creative industry, etc.

The Paris workshop pointed out the importance of fostering international cooperation between digital cultural heritage and e-infrastructures, and with other networks in target regions: the Mediterranean region (Egypt, Turkey and Jordan), China and South America.

One of the main results of this work is the preparation and signature by all partners of the Paris Declaration, developed in cooperation with DC-NET and Linked Heritage projects.

Conceived during the Strategy and future plans workshop and amended during the final INDICATE Conference in Ankara (15th-16th October 2012), this document is a shared vision of the INDICATE network of interest for the progress of Digital Cultural Heritage in future years. It is a legacy of the project, where the partners commit to support collaboration between cultural heritage, ICT and einfrastructures stakeholders, and it details the future priorities and commitments of the network beyond the lifetime of INDICATE.

The shared vision of the INDICATE network is that in ten years’ time, access and use of digital cultural heritage will be available to all and that collaboration with the e-Infrastructures community will facilitate realisation of this vision.

Download the full text of the Paris Declaration.

Sign the Paris Declaration.

Jerusalem, 12-13 November 2013

Xth Annual International Event for Professionals in Cultural Heritage and Advanced Technologies

On the 12-13 November 2013, at the Jerusalem’s Van Leer Institute, was held the Xth EVA/MINERVA Annual International Event for Professionals in Cultural Heritage and Advanced Technologies, focused on advanced technologies and the preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage through education and training in information and communication technologies (ICT). Scholars from all-over-the-world were invited to share their latest projects with the colleagues with a seven-minutes spot-light.

Present in the Steering Commitee: the National Library of Israel Jerusalem, the Israel State Archive, the Israel Antiquites Authority, the Ministry of Culture and Sports Directorate for Culture, the Department for Museums and Visual Arts, the Department of Public Libraries Israel Film Archive, the Yad Vashem – Holocaust Remembrance Authority, the Council for Public Libraries, the Ministry of Education Israel National Commission for UNESCO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Division for Scientific and Cultural Agreements, the Forum for Preservation of Multimedia Heritage in Israel, ICOM Israel – the International Council of Museums, MALMAD – Israel Center for Digital Information Services, MEITAL – the Israel Universities Center for Learning Technologies, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Pais Council for Arts and Culture, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

EAGLE, the Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, was presented at the conference by the Project Coordinator Silvia Orlandi from DigiLab, the newly formed Centre for Research on Digital Arts and Humanities of Rome’s Sapienza University.

EAGLE is a Best Practice Network, co-funded by the European Commission, that brings together the most prominent European institutions and archives in the field of Classical Latin and Greek epigraphy, in order to provide Europeana with a comprehensive collection of unique historical sources which constitute a veritable pillar of European culture. EAGLE’s important target is developing a single user-friendly portal to the inscriptions of the Ancient World, a massive resource for both the curious and the scholarly.

For more information:

http://www.digital-heritage.org.il/

http://www.digital-heritage.org.il/about.html

Eagle Project Official Website

Eagle Showcase on Digitalmeetsculture

Download an abstract about Eagle project here