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From Digitization to Preservation, Creative Re-Use of Cultural Content, and Citizen Participation – goes to DCDC2015

DCDC2015: Exploring new digital destinations for heritage and academia brought together over 70 speakers from across the UK, Europe and further afield exploring key questions facing the future of digital engagement. An interesting workshop entitled FROM DIGITIZATION TO THE CREATIVE RE-USE OF DIGITAL CULTURAL CONTENT AND CITIZENS PARTICIPATION presented several EU project and initiatives in the domain of (digital) cultural heritage, reserach and technologies. Continue reading


new book: Making the case for open licensing in cultural heritage institutions

In the digital era, libraries, archives, museums and galleries are no longer constrained by the physical limitations of their buildings, analogue books, manuscripts, maps, paintings and artefacts. Cultural collections now can be safely distributed and shared globally. To ensure that … Continue reading


New recommendation on culture, cultural heritage and landscape

On May 19 and 20, Turin (Italy) hosted the annual session of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. During the meeting the Council adopted a Recommendation on the role of culture, cultural heritage and landscape in helping to address … Continue reading


Call for PAPERS, VIDEOS and e-EXHIBITIONS in the area of INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE and e-ARCHIVES

MEMORIAMEDIA (MI/IELT) has a peer reviewed e-journal dedicated to promote, communicate and document projects, studies and archives of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). Authors are now invited to submit unpublished papers, videos or e-exhibitions about all the domains of ICH: oral traditions, performative … Continue reading


Visual Heritage 2018, Cultural Heritage and New Technologies

The next edition of CHNT – Cultural Heritage and New Technologies will be organized in cooperation with the EG GCH (Eurographics Symposium and Graphics Cultural Heritage) and  other partners in the City Hall of Vienna, Austria. Visual Heritage 2018 DIGITIZE: … Continue reading


Towards a New Audiovisual Think Tank for Audiovisual Archivists and Cultural Heritage Professionals

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has released its new White Paper, Towards a New Audiovisual Think Tank for Audiovisual Archivists and Cultural Heritage Professionals. The White Paper, the first effort from a new ‘AV Think Tank’ on audiovisual … Continue reading


Meet WEAVE Team: Europeana Foundation

Europeana is Europe’s platform for digital cultural heritage, empowering cultural heritage institutions to share their collections with the world.  Through the Europeana website, millions of cultural heritage items from around 4,000 institutions across Europe are available online. We work to … Continue reading


Idrija 2020 promotes HeritageHack , the hackathon for cultural Heritage.

The Idrija 2020 Association organized, from the 13th to the 15th March, a 3-day hackathon for cultural Heritage called HeritageHack. The Association was founded in 2012 when 5 professionals, highly educated and native to Idrija, rethought the cultural heritage of … Continue reading


The REACH Workshop on participatory approaches for Cultural Heritage management

  On 20 and 21 November 2018, an international workshop entitled “Daring Participation!” took place in Berlin, organized by the Institute for Museum Research/Institut für Museumsforschung (SMB-PK).   Participants from different institutions (museum, archive, library, ministry, association) were invited to … Continue reading