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Dublin, 23-25 October 2024
SECreTour at the 17th ECTN conference for smart and sustainable tourism

The 17th annual conference of the European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) held in Dublin from 23 to 25 October 2024 concluded with a great success.

The conference was dedicated this year to European cooperation for smart and sustainable tourism and it was supported by the Dublin City Council-European Capital of Smart Tourism 2024.

Together with very interesting communications from projects and local innovative initiatives, several representatives from very important bodies and organizations of the European Union attended and addressed the conference including UN Tourism, European Travel Commission, ENAT (European Network for Accessible Tourism) Europa Nostra, Committee of the regions and others.

The ECTN conference provided the opportunity to bring together a wide range of stakeholders and experts from both the cultural and tourism sectors with 45 presentations from 19 countries.

There were discussions and presentations on the latest trends in the field of cultural heritage, smart and sustainable tourism, including innovation, digital transformation and the development of transnational cultural tourism products.

The European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) was founded in 2009, it is based in Brussels and is the only pan-European in this field.

SECreTour participated in the conference with two presentations.

One presentation was delivered by Antonella Fresa of Promoter Srl, who talked about Tourism, archives, and culture: a digitally mediated relationship between preservation and experience. The presentation is available for download >>>

The other presentation was delivered by John Tierney of EACHTRA, who talked about Hyperlocal tourism intelligence; Ireland Historic Graves – Sustainable and Accessible.

The participation in the conference offered a great opportunity to establish many new contacts with organisations and projects from all over Europe, in the scope of contributing to the SECreTour networking efforts.

For any inquiry about the SECreTour Network, please contact us at the following email address:

Secretour-network@promoter.it

 

 

 

The EUreka3D project advances conservation and public access to Cyprus’ Timios Stavros Church through 3D Digitisation
UNESCO World Heritage Site Church of Timios Stavros successfully 3D digitised

 

The EUreka3D project partner UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at Cyprus University of Technology’s (CUT) Digital Heritage Research Lab (DHRLab) processed the record of the 14th-century Church of Timios Stavros (Holy Cross) at Pelendri village to provide an HBIM reference model aiding conservators and architects in the maintenance and protection of the building as part of the EUreka3D project.

The model, and its accompanying data, will be made publicly accessible through Europeana using the EUreka3D Data Hub. Additionally, it will be further developed to engage audiences and cultural tourists by incorporating both tangible and intangible heritage assets into compelling narratives that highlight the history and significance of the site through digital technologies.

Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985, the Church of Timios Stavros (Holy Cross) at Pelendri village is one of ten monuments making up the World Heritage List Painted Churches in the Troodos Region, Cyprus, and is decorated with exquisite wall paintings of the Palaiologan period (1261-1453AD).

Read more and explore the photo gallery here

 

this high profile event, taking place in Bucharest and online, addressed various themes and challenges on digital technologies to enhance sustainability, inclusion, and diversity in the heritage sector.
EUreka3D at 17th European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) Conference

The 17th annual conference of the European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) held in Dublin from 23 to 25 October 2024 concluded with a great success. The conference was dedicated this year to European cooperation for smart and sustainable tourism and it was supported by the Dublin City Council-European Capital of Smart Tourism 2024.

ECTN 2024 Conference

One presentation was delivered by coordinator of EUreka3D project Antonella Fresa, who talked about Tourism, archives, and culture: a digitally mediated relationship between preservation and experience (download PDF) with a specific focus on achieving quality in 3D digitisation. The presentation covers the role of metadata and paradata in digital preservation, presents the 3D Digitisation Guidelines based on the VIGIE Study 2020/654, and explores the whys of 3D digitisation  – help with sustainable tourism, accessibility, preservation of fragile tangible cultural heritage,

The presentation in the conference offered a great opportunity to establish many new contacts with organisations and projects from all over Europe, in the scope of contributing to the EUreka3D networking efforts.

The deadline for submitting photographic projects for the AIPAI PHOTO CONTEST has been extended
AIPAI Photo Contest 2024: deadline extended to October 31

The deadline for submitting photographic projects for the 3rd edition of the AIPAI PHOTO CONTEST, the photography contest organized by the Italian Association for Industrial Archaeological Heritage ETS, has been extended to October 31. The contest is organized in collaboration with DICEA – Sapienza University of Rome, Do.co.mo.mo Italia, Ministry of Culture – General Secretariat – UNESCO Office, Appia Antica Archaeological Park, Appia Antica Regional Park, AEM Foundation (Milan), ISEC Foundation (Sesto San Giovanni), Maire Tecnimont Foundation (Rome), Musil Foundation (Brescia), RoMe Museum Exhibition, and Photography Network.

For the winners are up are three 1000 euros prizes, publication in the magazine “Patrimonio Industriale” and display in a traveling exhibition of the winning, mentioned and selected shots.

The contest, designed to raise awareness and promote industrial culture, memory of work and the architectural, technological and landscape heritage of industrial archaeology, is open to professional photographers, amateurs, students, temporary or permanent groups and associations, without limits of age and nationality who will be able to tell, document and represent the industrial heritage through a photographic project, to be presented by 00:00 on October 31, 2024.

Read more about the contest

The next Activity will take place in Cyprus from December 5th to 7th
EUreka3D joined Training Activity in Malta and Cyprus

img. courtesy: EUreka3D website

From the 23rd to the 27th of September 2024, EUreka3D partner UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), in collaboration with Heritage Malta, organised a key training activity to exchange knowledge on heritage digitisation methodologies for artefacts, monuments and archaeological sites. During the week-long event, the CUT team presented the EUreka3D workflow for the reconstruction of 3D digital twins, the corresponding metadata and related paradata needed for the upload to the project’s cloud platform Datahub. Moreover, emphasis was given during the demonstration for the automatic harvesting of digital 3D records to Europeana.

Hands-on training was held at the auspices of the National Museum of Archaeology in Malta, by digitising unique tangible movable objects from the famous megalithic Tas-Silg site located directly outside of Valetta. The collection of objects included a Punic inscription on a brown limestone fragment and a disk with imprint resembling an infant’s hand and foot, giving participants experiential training in photogrammetry and hand-held laser scanning.

Particular attention was given on a special on-site training in 2D and 3D digital survey techniques using UAV photogrammetry, Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS), hand-held scanning, and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) at the Tas-Silg Archaeological Complex  megalithic Maltese heritage site with extensive and varied historical layers spanning the prehistoric Tarxien phase to the Arab period.

The selected data processed partially on-site and finalised at the auspices of the Heritage-Malta. The attendees had the opportunity to apply the EUreka3D Methodology based on the EU VIGIE2020/654 Study results.

At the end of the training activity, the results were presented to the 25 fellows and experts, followed by a fruitful discussion on the difference between the Digital- and Memory Twin in the domain of Digital Cultural Heritage and its usability for the benefit of the multidisciplinary user community.

The second training activity will take place in Cyprus from 5th to 7th of December. Participants will work on the digitisation of the Panagia Aimatousa Church, in Aradippou, Cyprus. They will digitise both the exterior and interior, byzantine icons and key objects.

eu emblemEUreka3D project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.

 Online, November 25th – 29th, 2024
EUreka3D and EUreka3D-XR projects showcased at Heritage Horizons, the Europeana Project Week

Heritage Horizons Europeana Project Week

 

The ‘Heritage Horizons Project Week: Shaping the common European data space for cultural heritage’ takes place from 25 – 29 November 2024.

This event – organised by the Europeana Initiative – puts the spotlight on the diverse and innovative projects encouraging reuse, innovating in technologies and enhancing sustainability which enrich and enhance the common European data space for cultural heritage.

Each day of project week will have a focus relevant to the data space and cultural heritage sector and spotlight the projects which focus on that particular topic.

On day 2 Tuesday 26 November 2024 the topic will be 3D, discussing the transformative potential of 3D technologies in the cultural sector, including their impact on digital heritage, accessibility, and immersive cultural experiences. Valentina Bachi (Photoconsortium) was part of a dedicated panel session at h. 10, bringing in the view and experiences matured in the course of EUreka3D project and its work to support Cultural Heritage Institutions in their digital transformation journey.

Later, Ignacio Lamata Martinez (EGI) delivered a demo presentation of the EUreka3D Data Hub and its functionalities to store, visualize and share 3D collections of cultural items.

On day 3 Wednesday, 27 November 2024, the focus will be on Reuse, exploring strategies to encourage the reuse of cultural heritage data, and foster collaborations between cultural heritage and education. In this context, a special session will take place organized by EUreka3D and EUreka3D-XR projects coordinator Photoconsortium in collaboration with CRDI/Ajuntament de Girona and Topfoto.

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Agenda

  • 10.00-10.10 Antonella Fresa (Photoconsortium): EUreka3D and EUreka3D-XR: enabling creation, use and reuse of 3D cultural collections
  • 10.10-10.30 circa – David Iglésias Franch (CRDI/Ajuntament de Girona): The reuse of AV Heritage to foster Modern Visual Culture – CRDI case study
  • 10.30-10.50 circa – John Balean (Topfoto): Story-seeing: methods of creating Visual Impact when promoting Photographic Collections
  • Discussion, Q&A, conclusion
 Online, November 25th – 29th, 2024
Heritage Horizons: Europeana Project Week

Heritage Horizons Europeana Project Week

 

The ‘Heritage Horizons Project Week: Shaping the common European data space for cultural heritage’ will take place from 25 – 29 November 2024.

This event – organised by the Europeana Initiative – will put the spotlight on the diverse and innovative projects encouraging reuse, innovating in technologies and enhancing sustainability which enrich and enhance the common European data space for cultural heritage.

Project Week will showcase their efforts while facilitating collaboration and connection, accelerating knowledge sharing and shaping new project opportunities. Sessions will highlight the role of digital technologies in preserving and engaging with cultural heritage, advancing social inclusion, encouraging reuse and promoting sustainability, as well as on leading technical developments in the data space.

Each day of project week will have a focus relevant to the data space and cultural heritage sector and spotlight the projects which focus on that particular topic.

On November 27, the EUreka3D and EUreka3D-XR projects will be showcased at 10am.

Join the project week and discover new innovations, collaborate with your peers and learn from experts about the latest developments in the data space and the efforts which underpin them.

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Programme

Day 1: Monday, 25 November 2024
Empowering triple transformation (Part I): social, green, and digital transformation in the cultural sector.

  • 09:45 – 10:20 Opening and welcome of the Project Week by Harry Verwayen
  • 10:20 – 11:00 DG Keynote EC
  • 11:00 – 12:00 European Heritage Hub – Project presentation by Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihail
  • 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
  • 13:00 – 15:00 European Heritage Hub – Online Meet-up
  • 15:00 – 15:15 Break
  • 15:15 – 15:45 Ignite talks
  • 15:45 Networking opportunities

Day 2: Tuesday, 26 November 2024
3D: discover the transformative potential of 3D technologies in the cultural sector, including their impact on digital heritage, accessibility, and immersive cultural experiences.

  • 09:45 – 10:00 Welcome to day 2
  • 10:00- 10:45 Panel session
  • 10:45 – 11:00 Break
  • 11:00 – 11:30 3D Competence center presentation
  • 11:30 – 12:15 3D & the data space for cultural heritage by EF representative
  • 12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break
  • 13:30 – 14:15 3DBigDataSpace by Sander Muenster
  • 14:15 – 14:45 Ignite talks
  • 14:45 Networking opportunities

Day 3: Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Reuse: explore strategies to encourage the reuse of cultural heritage data, and foster collaborations between cultural heritage and education.

  • 09:45 – 10:00 Welcome to day 3
  • 10:00 – 11:15 EUreka3D/EUreka3D-XR (current & new project) by Antonella Fresa / Valentina Bachi
  • 11:15 – 11:30 Break
  • 11:30 – 12:45 5DCulture/XR Culture (current & new project) by Alex Stan / Marco Medici
  • 12:45 – 13:45 Lunch break
  • 13:45 – 14:45 Watching videos like a historian by Steven Stegers
  • 14:45 – 15:30 DigiCher by Kristina Kovaite
  • 15:30 Pub quiz by Adrian Murphy

Day 4: Thursday, 28 November 2024
AI: discuss artificial intelligence’s ethical implications and applications in digital heritage efforts, including the need to balance innovation with cultural sensitivity and ethical considerations.

  • 09:45 – 10:00 Welcome to day 4
  • 10:00 – 11:00 Panel session on AI topics
  • 11:00 – 11:15 Break
  • 11:15 – 12:00 AI4Culture by Eirini Kaldeli
  • 12:00 – 12:45 Lunch break
  • 12:45 – 15:15 De-Bias project & Capacity Building workshop by Kerstin Herlt/Corinne Steinschneider
  • 15:15 – 15:30 Break
  • 15:30 – 16:00 Ignite talks
  • 16:00 Networking opportunities

Day 5: Friday, 29 November 2024
Empowering triple transformation (Part II): social, green, and digital transformation in the cultural sector.

  • 09:45 – 10:00 Welcome to day 5
  • 10:00 – 11:00 DEPLOYTOUR by Dolores Ordonez
  • 11:00 – 12:00 ECHOES by Xavier Rodier
  • 12:00 – 12:30 Thank you and Goodbye by Albert Verhaar & Milena Popova
  • 12:30 End of the project week
Cyprus, 3/12/2024
Cultural tourism workshop at Euromed2024

The SECreTour project, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at Cyprus University of Technology, is organising on the 3rd of December 2024 the workshop about Cultural and creative tourism as a driver for sustainable development in the frame of the renowned Euromed conference.

This workshop is designed for:

  • Professionals, researchers, and practitioners in cultural tourism innovation
  • The multidisciplinary community of experts involved in sustainable, engaging and creative tourism
  • Individuals interested in advancing the understanding of transition pathways for a green, digital and resilient European ecosystem of tourism

The participation in the workshop is free of charge.

The call for participation invites the submission of posters and presentations about the following themes that will be addressed in the event:

  • Engagement and participation of local communities in sustainable and creative tourism experiences
  • Innovative business models for cultural and creative tourism in rural and remote areas in Europe
  • Creation of new job opportunities and investments linked to innovative tourism practices
  • Social inclusion, promotion of local identities, valuing traditions and respects of the needs of local communities
  • Greener, more digital and resilient tourism
  • Economic, social and environmental sustainability
  • Tourism data collection and monitoring
  • Managing, communicating and valuing cultural heritage to promote peripheral destinations
  • Innovative tourism services using advanced technologies and digitised cultural heritage
  • Training and skills development
  • Enhancing accessible tourism services for all
  • Policy and governance frameworks

Submission Deadline: November 10th, 2024

Notification of Acceptance: November 15th, 2024

The accepted posters will be exhibited in the conference and published online in this SECreTour special section of digitalmeetsculture.

The accepted papers will be published in a special open access publication by Springer-Nature.

For any inquiries or additional information, please contact us at the following email addresses

Secretour-network@promoter.it

Unesco-dch@cut.ac.cy

 

 

 

 

closer collaboration between initiatives working around 3D is extremely important to sustain and foster the digital transformation of the cultural sector
EUreka3D presented in meeting of the IIIF Working Group on 3D

IIIF International Image Interoperability Framework is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs. IIIF is backed by a consortium of leading cultural institutions and, among the many activities, the IIIF community is leading a working group on 3D.

The IIIF 3D community group provides an opportunity for institutions interested in interoperability to coordinate strategies and facilitate conversations about open standards that support 3D use cases. The group is chaired by Ronald Haynes (Cambridge University), Mike Boyd (University of Edinburgh) and Thomas Flynn (Spatial Heritage Review). Many of the desired operations and interactions with 3D data are similar to the 2D and A/V use cases of IIIF for sharing images and annotation, and organizations are increasingly looking to integrate exhibits, displays, and comparisons of 3D data with other file types. A dedicated subgroup is particularly focused on technical specifications for 3D data domain.

On the occasion of the monthly meeting of the working group on 9 October 2024, EUreka3D work and its Data Hub and suite of services for 3D cultural collections’ storage, management and sharing were informally presented by Valentina Bachi (Photoconsortium), underlining how closer collaboration between initiatives working around 3D is extremely important to sustain and foster the digital transformation of the cultural sector and of the institutions, big and small, which are active part of it.

 

 

 

Limassol (CY), 2nd December 2024 @ EuroMed2024
Paradata, Metadata, and Data in 3D Digital Documentation for Cultural Heritage: #DigitalTwins or #MemoryTwins

We are pleased to invite you to participate in a unique Workshop organised by the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage in cooperation with the EU Digital Europe EUreka3D Project, the Earth Observation Research Lab (EOCult), the Mechanical Engineering Design & Additive Manufacturing Laboratory at CY University of Technology, the EU CLARIAH-CY research infrastructure, the ARTEST and CREAMS projects, the CY-EUreka3D Competence Centre in Digital Heritage, as well as the Connecting-RPF and the EU HE Engineer.

This event will focus on the critical topic of Paradata, Metadata, and Data in the domain of 3D Digital Documentation in Cultural Heritage. It is part of the 10th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2024)

  • Date: 2nd December 2024 h. 14 EET
  • Venue: Cyprus University of Technology, location of the 10th Euromed conference 2024
  • Conference website: https://euromed2024.eu/
  • Workshop Call (link to PDF)

About the Workshop

Since its adoption in 2006 as part of the London Charter for the Use of 3D Visualisation in the Research and Communication of Cultural Heritage, the concept of Paradata has played an essential role in ensuring transparency in the creation of scholarly 3D Cultural Heritage assets. With further recognition by the ICOMOS Seville Charter (2017) and the European Commission’s EU VIGIE2020/654 Study on quality parameters for 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage (2020), Paradata has emerged as a key aspect of 3D digital documentation.

Paradata, alongside Metadata and Geometrical Data, forms a “trinity” of elements essential for ensuring high-quality, reusable 3D digital resources. However, despite its growing importance, the Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) community continues to grapple with fully defining and differentiating Paradata and Metadata, as well as understanding their role in supporting scholarly research, sustainability, and compliance with the European Commission’s recommendations for 3D-digitised cultural heritage.

This event will bring together professionals from across the spectrum of Digital Cultural Heritage to share their experiences, aiming to establish a common understanding of Paradata and lay the groundwork for a community-built set of standards and best practices for its application in 3D documentation.

Workshop Themes

The workshop invites participation and contributions on the following topics (but not limited to):

  • AI in 3D Documentation: The role of AI in improving/simplifying Complexity in data acquisition, pre-processing, and increasing quality of final results such as accuracy by the 2D/3D modelling, data compression and visualisation.
  • Understanding Paradata and its relationship with 3D Data Acquisition/Documentation and/or with AI: Its definition, role, and practical challenges, risks and applications.
  • Metadata and its affiliation with 3D Documentation.
  • Challenges in 3D Data Documentation for Cultural Heritage.
  • Challenges in AI-Driven 3D Digitisation: Data quality, ethics, and sustainability.
  • A #DigitalTwin vs. #MemoryTwin: #Geometry, or #Knowledge: What is the difference and which are the challenges for the tangible digital documentation of the Past.
  • BIM, HBIM and Holistic-HBIM and their relationships to #DigitalTwins or #MemoryTwins
  • 3D tangible objects: Authenticity and its relationship to AI – Risks and Challenges
  • Sustainability and long-term Preservation of 3D Digital Assets.
  • Standardisation and Best Practices for Paradata, Metadata, and 3D Data Use in DCH: Who is doing What and How?
  • 3D Viewers: The state of the art and where we are as EU?.
  • 3D in XR and in the Metaverse.
  • Looting, Destruction, Protection and 3D digital Documentation of tangible Cultural Heritage
  • 3D Data Sets: Safety,  Security, Compression and 24/7 Accessibility.
  • European Commission Recommendations on 3D Digital Documentation: The State of the Art after three years of Implementation in the EU.

Who Should Participate?

This workshop is designed for:

  • Professionals, researchers, and practitioners in Digital Cultural Heritage and AI in Cultural Heritage
  • Individuals working with AI-enhanced Digital Twins and MemoryTwins – Knowledge-Graphs technologies..
  • The multidisciplinary community of experts involved in 3D documentation, digitisation projects, and cultural heritage preservation.
  • Individuals interested in advancing the understanding and use of Paradata, Metadata, and 3D data in heritage projects

Registration Information

Participation is per registration and is mandatory.

Contact Information

For any inquiries or additional information, please contact us at unesco-dch@cut.ac.cy

Join us in shaping the future of 3D Digital Documentation in Cultural Heritage and contribute to advancing our understanding of Paradata, Metadata, and their significance about the Memory/Knowledge of the Past.

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