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The new NEMO report on digitisation and copyright
The challenges that EU museums face to digitise their collections

Digital tools offer numerous opportunities and can significantly support the work of museums and strengthen the public exchange.

Throughout this digitalization process, museums often have had to overcome many obstacles connected with insufficient resources and insufficient staff.

On these topics the Network of European Museum Organisation, NEMO, conducted a survey to identify challenge that museums encounter when digitising their collections and establishing online access to them.

 

The study was conducted analising three different target groups:

  • national museum organisations,
  • national ministries in charge of museums
  • individual museums

It also debated the national implementation processes of the EU Digital Single Market Directive and arised questions about Intellectual Property Rights.

The results of this survey, in which participated 60 museums in 15 EU countries, were collected in a new report on digitisation and copyright that is just published.

In this, NEMO and its Working Group Digitalisation and IPR, provided recommendations to EU policy makers as well as to national museum organisations, to help museums on their way to digitalised collections.

Furthermore information here.

Click here for the full report.

online event, 30 November - 4th December 2020
MTSR 2020, 14th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference

The 14th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2020), as well as the SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS, due to the COVID-19 pandemic will take place virtually on 30th November – 4th December 2020.

MTSR is an annual international inter-disciplinary conference, which brings together academics, researchers and practitioners in the specialized fields of metadata, ontologies and semantics research. The conference provides an opportunity for participants to share knowledge and novel approaches in the implementation of semantic technologies across diverse types of information environments and applications.

*** Submission deadline: August 2nd, 2020 ***

Proceedings will be published in Springer CCIS series. CCIS is abstracted/indexed in Scopus, SCImago, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, DBLP, Google Scholar. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

Website:

AIM AND SCOPE
Cultural Heritage collections are essential knowledge infrastructures that provide a solid representation of the historical background of human communities. These knowledge infrastructures are constructed from and integrate cultural information derived from diverse memory institutions, mainly libraries, archives and museums. Each individual community has spent a lot of effort in order to develop, support and promote its own systems, tools and metadata for the management of cultural information, mainly related to its particular resources and use.

In this framework, the management of the cultural information has to deal with challenges related to (i) metadata modeling, specification, standardization, extraction, (semantic) enrichment, mapping, integration, effective use, and evaluation, (ii) knowledge representation as conceptualization to provide the context for unambiguously interpreting metadata, and (iii) information integration from different contexts for the provision of integrated access, reuse and advanced services to users.

At the same time, there are also inter-domain efforts targeted to semantically align data (research data, educational data, public sector information etc.) to cultural information. New challenges are also emerged from the need to incorporate cultural information into the new publication paradigms, where a variety of resources (data, metadata, processes, results, etc) are linked and integrated, providing better shareability and reusability. Currently, Linked (Open) Data, as part of the Semantic Web Technology, is having a major role in modernizing cultural heritage collections.
Providing to users the possibility to re-use and integrate data into their own systems is currently more than a need, given that transparency and access to information is a prerequisite. A critical factor to the effectiveness of many aspects of all the above efforts is the quality of metadata, as interpreted by its context and use and evaluated by the proper measures and methods. Many institutions and aggregate infrastructures are dealing with the poor quality of metadata that inevitably results in poor integration, search and reuse, while their enrichment, in terms of contextualization, co-referencing, alignment, etc, is really challenging.

The aim of this Special Track is to maintain a dialogue where researchers and practitioners working on all the aspects of the cultural information will come together and exchange ideas about open issues at all stages of the cultural heritage information life cycle. The track also welcomes works related to semantics and applications for new approaches to cultural information publication and sharing, as well as to interlinking to other datasets published in the Semantic Web universe.

TOPICS
The papers in this special track should be original and of high quality, addressing issues in areas such as:
* Cultural Heritage metadata models, standards, ontologies, knowledge organization and representation systems
* Cultural Heritage information integration, interoperability and mappings
* Automated extraction of metadata, entities, and patterns from Cultural Heritage resources
* Metadata manual or automated (Semantic) enrichment and search
* Metadata quality metrics, tools and services
* Linked Open Data approaches in the Cultural Heritage domain
* Publication, linking and citation of Cultural Heritage information and resources
* Large volume content management
* 3D models-indexing, storage and retrieval approaches
* Infrastructures for sharing content
* Digital Curation workflows and models
* Provenance and preservation metadata for Cultural Heritage digital resources

IMPORTANT DATES
August 2nd, 2020: Submission deadline
September 6th, 2020: Notification of decision (Acceptance/Rejection)
September 20th, 2020: Camera-ready papers due
November 30th – December 4th 2020: the Virtual MTSR 2020 Conference will take place

SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS
* Michalis Sfakakis, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece (sfakakis@ionio.gr)
* Lina Bountouri, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece and
EU Publications Office – European Commission, Luxembourg (boudouri@ionio.gr, linabountouri@gmail.com)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
– Trond Aalberg, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
– Enrico Francesconi, EU Publications Office, Luxembourg, and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Firenze, Italy
– Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece
– Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
– Sarantos Kapidakis, University of West Attica, Greece
– Christos Papatheodorou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Digital Curation Unit, IMIS, Athena RC, Greece
– Chrisa Tsinaraki, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Italy
– Andreas Vlachidis, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, UK
– Maja Žumer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

July 23 2020
Webinar “Museums after the pandemic” organized by UNESCO and ICCROM

Tomorrow July 23, the webinar “Museums after the pandemic” will be held, organized by UNESCO and ICCROM ( International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property).

This events aims to comprehensively address the critical issues about the future of museums, providing useful insights on ways forward to realize the full potential of museums as agents of transformation.

The need of a serius debate on these themes was emerged especially after the COVID-19 pandemia, which had a strong impact on the international museum community and brought to light how important it is for museums to adapt and proactively demonstrate their value to society in order to successfully overcome current and future challenges in the post-COVID-19 world.

More information on the speakers of the webinar is available here.

The link to register is this.

27-30 October 2020, on-line conference
ROCK Open Knowledge Week: Cultural Heritage Leading Urban Futures

The ten ROCK cities – Athens, Bologna, Cluj-Napoca, Eindhoven, Lisbon, Liverpool, Lyon, Skopje, Turin, and Vilnius – developed innovative solutions and demonstrated how heritage and cultural activities have essential importance for keeping the cities alive.

Culture and heritage can be the driving forces behind urban sustainability as well as the cultural interactions are surely at the core of the wellbeing of our societies.

The ROCK Open Knowledge Week was the occasion to share the results, lessons learned, and best practices collected during the project.

The meeting brought together local governments, policy makers, businesses and researchers looking for new ways in which cultural heritage can contribute to the regeneration, sustainable development, and economic growth of entire cities.

The Open Knowledge Week hold on-line on 27-30 October, and replaced the ROCK conference, originally scheduled on 14-15 May in Bologna, but cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recordings of the event are available online. To find the session of your interest look in the programme and click on the “play” button.

a new issue of the 44DEGREES online art magazine offers a review of artists and artworks
Digital art to talk about social distancing

NEW issue from 44DEGREES online art magazine. The subject of this issue is SOCIAL DISTANCING, which we all have been asked to respect and follow due to the COVID-19 crisis.

The issue presents contemporary Israeli and international artists, from various fields such as painting, sculpture, mixed media, digital media (photography, computer painting, who have chosen to discuss about social distance “through the languague of creation, which allows expression of the feelings of chaos, loneliness, anxiety, inspiration and pain”.

The issue is published as interactive item on issuu, and can be viewed with the mouse and arrows. It is highly recommended to view via computer and enlarge to full screen: https://issuu.com/44degrees/docs/social_distancing-44degrees-2020

44DEGREES is an online art magazine, founded to promote contemporary Israeli and international artists. The magazine provides a platform for many artists such as digital media artists, painters, sculptors, mix media and curators, with each issue dedicated to a different theme that unities the works.

Magazine’s website:  https://www.44degrees.net/

The new technology to promote accessibility to vulnerable cultural heritage sites
Factum Arte and Cabildo de Gran Canaria together to reproduce a pre-Hispanic sacred cave

 

The site of Risco Caído was incorporated into the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2019 as ‘Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape’.

It is a complex of 21 artificial caves used as living and storage spaces and cult cavities and it is a prime example of the pre-Hispanic cave-dwelling cultures of the Canary Islands.
The site is not easy to reach and its preservation is particularly delicate given its fragility.
Cave No. 6 is particularly interesting, because it has been interpreted as having a sacred function related to the movement of sun and stars and it can be considered as an example of a pre-historic solar calendar.

© Oak Taylor Smith for Factum Arte

Factum Arte has been working with the Cabildo de Gran Canaria since early 2019 to record and re-materialise an exact facsimile of ‘Cave No. 6’.
The result of this project has been the realization of an exact facsimile of the Cave at 1:1scale that will be more accessible to the public since easier to get to than Risco Caído and meanwhile will assist this fragile site in its long-term preservation.
This is a clear example of how the new technology can serve to promote accessibility to vulnerable cultural heritage sites around the world whilst monitoring and maintaining their present condition.

The facsimile will be on permanent view at the new Risco Caído Interpretation Centre in the town of Artenara.

More information about the processes involved in the creation of the facsimile, photos and video, are here.

online event, 2nd – 5th November 2020
Web-EuroMed2020 on Digital Cultural Heritage

The newly established UNESCO and European Research Area (ERA) Chairs on Digital Heritage are announcing the International Web-Conference EuroMed 2020 dedicated to

Digital Cultural Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection

This unique conference is in cooperation with the European Parliament, the European Commission and the EU digital library Europeana and in collaboration with the prestigious publisher Springer-Nature to celebrate the 1.500.000 downloads of our publications.

2nd – 5th November 2020, Cyprus

www.euromed2020.eu

The conference starts on the 2nd of Nov. at 08:00am CET (09:00am EET) and will continue every day until the 5th of November. It will be streamed via ZOOM and via Facebook simultaneously.

1)      ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_T33t2XzmS6uX7NT0wA95Ng

2)      FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Unesco.DCH

The agenda-booklet of the event is available HERE .

The conferece includes five key workshops with outstanding invited speakers:

For more information about all the workshops: https://www.cut.ac.cy/euromed2020proceedings/workshops.html

Fourteen years of European – Mediterranean Conferences on

Digital Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection (EuroMed): 2006 – 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis around the World, all the authorities and governments are taking exceptional measures to avoid the spread of the disease and to keep the number of patients as low as possible. Even though these efforts and solidarity between all of us has led to improvements and containment and to confinement measures being lifted, the virus is still present and spreading across the world. For this reason, and given the persisting sanitary risks linked with an international gathering of several hundreds of experts, the EuroMed2020 Organising Committee decided, to organise this year conference fully online and to cancel the planned organisation of the traditional EuroMed conference, scheduled for November 2nd – 7th , 2020 in Nicosia, Cyprus (EuroMed2020).

We know that this decision will be appreciated and this was the best way to proceed during such an unprecedented situation.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Paper submission deadline: 15th September 2020 (24:00 London-UK time) http://www.euromed2020.eu/index.php/important-dates

The 8th biannual European-Mediterranean (EuroMed-2020) conference is co-organised by the UNESCO and the EU ERA Chairs on Digital Cultural Heritage. It brings together multidisciplinary researchers, policy makers, professionals, fellows, practitioners and stakeholders to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning Cultural Heritage today. In particular, the main goal of the conference is to focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, using cutting edge technologies for the protection, restoration, preservation, massive digitalization, documentation and presentation of the Cultural Heritage contents. At the same time, the event is intended to cover topics of research ready for exploitation, demonstrating the acceptability of new sustainable approaches and new technologies by the user community, owners, managers and conservators of our cultural patrimony.

Topics and themes:

Researchers and practitioners willing to participate to the Web-EUROMED 2020 conference are invited to submit papers on original works addressing the following subjects and research themes:

  1. DIGITAL HERITAGE DOCUMENTATION and PRESERVATION
  2. PROTECTION, RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION OF TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

More detail information regarding the themes can be found at: http://www.euromed2020.eu/index.php/call-participation

Submission of Papers

Submissions for the event are completely electronic through the on-line submission website available at http://www.euromed2020.eu/index.php/paper-submission

The conference accepts only original, unpublished work written in English which will be blind-reviewed and published by the prestigious SPRINGER-NATURE LNCS.

We are soliciting two types of contributions:

  1. PROJECT Research papers: they present new innovative research developments and results. They will feature a full-length oral presentation and will be published in a high-quality proceedings volume. Each submitted paper must not exceed 12 pages in total.
  2. SHORT papers /Posters: they present preliminary ideas and works-in-progress. These papers will have a short oral presentation and will be also available as posters during the entire time of the event online. Each short paper must not exceed 8 pages in total.

The 10 best submitted papers will be published on a special issue of upcoming International Journal Heritage in the Digital Era.

Due to the pandemic Covid-19 the conference will be this year online and free of charge, however the registration is mandatory

Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, a unique access point to the digital collection of fragmented and scattered documents of Mandela's archive
Nelson Mandela Foundation is promoting the preservation of Madiba’s legacy

Text by Caterina Sbrana.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF), founded in 1999 by Nelson Mandela also known as Madiba, is a non-profit organisation committed to promoting Madiba’s living legacy through the collection of all documentation scattered throughout the world. The aim of NMF is to collect this vast resource, facilitate the access to it and promote its preservation and use. To achieve this goal, NMF records where documents are stored and enters into partnerships, to ensure that they are preserved and accessible.

As we approach Nelson Mandela International Day or Mandela Day celebrated on July 18th (Mandela’s birthday) we consult part of the archive dedicated to Madiba.

Nelson Mandela and P.W. Botha’s secret meeting, South Africa – Repository: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory -Name of creator: Ehlers, Ters (Private secretary to President Botha). Image from https://archive.nelsonmandela.org website.

To understand the meaning of the project, just read the presentation. “The Mandela archive is fragmented and scattered all over the world in various places. […] However, a small amount has been collected since the establishment of the Centre of Memory in 2004, which has been categorised into […] archive groups and special collections. As these records and collections are organised and processed, the finding aids to them will be made available”.

The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory delivers the core-work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and digital materials provided on its platform are for research purposes. The online archive is divided into thematic groups to provide user-friendly access: Records, Awards, Papers, Photographs, Sound and Video, Speeches, Bibliography and Filmography.

The Photographic Collection includes various historical photos.

Photo of Madiba with a poem: “A hero from the Southern Land” by Aisha Kingu – We knew that the text was sent through an e-mail by Aisha Kingu to Mandela- Repository: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory. Image from https://archive.nelsonmandela.org website.

In the Private and Personal section there are photographs that reproduce the passport of Mandela while in the Tributes section you can find different kind of awards to Madiba.

The Speeches section consists of interviews, speeches, messages, media releases, testimony, lectures, toasts, oaths and declarations made by Nelson Mandela.

Consulting this site, every researcher interested in the life of Nelson Mandela finds an incredible amount of information, even very nice and special ones. I can mention a few: from 2 December 1994 to 12 January 1995 there was in South Africa a Mandela Trophy for cricket; in Kampala, Uganda, there is the Mandela National Stadium; in the section Awards there is a subseries called “Human geography named after Mandela” and many more curiosity can be found.

Honorary Citizenship of the City of Sao Bernardo, Brazil. 2000. Repository: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory. Image from https://archive.nelsonmandela.org website.

The collection, series and archival records contained within the Access to Memory (AtoM) instance, a web-based open source application for “standard-based archival description and access in multilingual, multi-repository environment”,  is an effort to capture both local and international repositories as well as to describe the collections hold at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.

To this revolutionary but at the same time pacifist man, leader of the anti-apartheid movement that costed him prison in 1956 on charges of treason, the United Nations in November 2009 dedicated, even before his death in 2013, UN Mandela Day celebrated for the first time on 18 July 2010.

It is not difficult to understand how the work of collecting documents by the Nelson Mandela Foundation is of fundamental importance for our present and future generations.

https://archive.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/about

https://atom.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/za-com-nmfpc-nmf-photographic-collection

https://archive.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/za-com-mr-t-7-6-2200

https://archive.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/za-com-mr-t-1435

https://atom.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/te-jul1989-madiba-botha

Gallery of innovative and interesting Cultural Heritage projects
UNCHARTED poster on the REACH digital gallery

 

The REACH project had to cancelled their final conference planned for the 4-5 June 2020 in Pisa due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the REACH Consortium decided to keep alive the call for posters and videos until October 2020 and to publish the contributions received on a dedicated digital gallery that collects contributions from innovative and interesting Cultural Heritage projects that involve resilient communities and social participation from all over Europe.

The REACH project encourages people to engage in culture and cultural heritage in order to foster creativity and innovation and to empower the social values associated with culture. It is a action to build upon participatory experiences with cultural content and to empower cultural heritage a greater, more relevant and even transformative role in the economy, communities, and territories.

The REACH Final Conference would have been the place to be for presenting the UNCHARTED project and launching its key messagge.

For this reason the team behind UNCHARTED produced a special presentation poster to introduce the topics, the research plan, the medology and the expected results of the project.
The poster is now published on the digital poster gallery hosted by the REACH project’s website.

UNCHARTED poster
Digital Poster Gallery
Posters and Videos from REACH community

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