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INCULTUM Pilot: Annual cleaning of the Acequia del Barranco de Poqueira

text and images courtesy of Elena Correa Jiménez (University of Granada). On the 2nd and 3rd of April INCULTUM Pilot 1 Atiplano de Granada organized and carried out the annual cleaning of the Acequia del Barranco de Poqueira. There was … Continue reading


IMAGE AND RESEARCH 14th International Conference

The 2016’s edition of the IMAGE and RESEARCH International Conference will be held in the Palau de Congressos at Girona from 17th to 18th of November. Four Workshops, related to the main areas of interest of the event, will anticipate the Conference, on 16th November. Continue reading


The charming Roma Cultural Heritage

The upcoming local encounter of the Minority Heritage Pilot f REACH Project will be focusing on Roma intangible cultural heritage. It is hosted by the Gandhi High School in Pécs, the first Romani high school which became a part of … Continue reading


Scanning Technologies for Heritage

Theaters scalped in new 3D digital scanning and modelling technologies is at the heart of preservation, conservation and protection of ancient structures. It is using digital technology to preserve culture and heritage. This latest publication, written and prepared by the academic staff of the Dipartimento di Storia Disegno e Restauro dell’Architettura (DiSDRA) of La Sapienza Università di Roma, is a great addition to new technology scanning using 2D and 3D modelling with a special focus on the Merida theaters. Continue reading


Open & Hybrid Publishing pilot, on air!

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


Ancient Egypt and New Technology

The Egyptology program in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University –Bloomington and the Indiana University Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, invite Egyptologists and digital humanists with interest in Egyptology to a conference in Bloomington on 29-31 … Continue reading


E-Space at “Filming the Arts” international workshop in Florence

Filming the Arts is a research of the University of Florence that intends to develop knowledge of the role of the arts (cinema, music, theatre, dance, visual arts and folkore events) for enhancing and representing a certain territory. Filmed arts … Continue reading


7th Conference on Cultural and Media Economics

On 24-25 September 2015, at the François-Mitterrand site of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the 7th Conference on Cultural and Media Economics was held, organised by The French Ministry of Culture and Communication’s Department of Studies, Forward-Looking Analysis and Statistics, the KEDGE Business School’s “Creative Industries, Culture and Sport” research cluster and Sciences Po’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies. RICHES partner Karol Borowiecki intervened with a presentation of the project and a speech under the title “Europe’s cultural consumption in the digital age: does fiscal policy matter?” Continue reading


PREFORMA takes flight

The University of Padova hosts the kick-off meeting of a new Pre-Commercial Procurement project co-funded by the European Commission, under its FP7-ICT Programme. The main objective of PREFORMA is to give memory institutions full control of the process of the conformity tests of files to be ingested into archives. Continue reading


Fiscal and Economic Aspects of Europe’s Book Consumption

Working paper by Karol J. Borowiecki and Trilce Navarrete. One of the available tools in cultural policy at the national level includes the reduction of VAT rates for cultural goods and services. An improved understanding of the reduced cultural taxes will allow to effectively employ this policy in order to support consumption of, among others, the fast growing digital heritage markets, such as the e-books market. A reduction in VAT rates can stimulate household consumption and consequently should be designed in conjunction with a national cultural policy. Continue reading