Events

Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment, Florence, Italy

Call for papers

Deadline of the Call for Paper Submission: 22, December 2011
Call for papers

Conference web page

Part of the IST-Africa Initiative, which is supported by the European Commission under the ICT Theme of Framework Programme 7 (FP7), IST-Africa 2011 is the seventh in an Annual Conference Series which brings together senior representatives from leading commercial, government & research organisations across Africa and from Europe, to bridge the Digital Divide by sharing knowledge, experience, lessons learnt and good practice and discussing policy related issues.

STARC is hosting the Virtual Heritage School on Digital Cultural Heritage in Nicosia, Cyprus.

The Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) 2012 conference will be hosted by the Archaeological Computing Research Group in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southampton on 26-30 March 2012. ADS, York and DCU, Athens are running a workshop entitled "CARARE – Archaeology in Europeana" on Monday 26th March.

Digital Strategies for Heritage is the bi-annual international conference on digital heritage and the strategies for heritage institutions.

“Skaitmeninės mokslo infrastruktūros ir tinklai: situacija ir galimybės”

Organized by: Vilnius University Faculty of Communication.

Discussions focused on various projects carried out in Lithuania (including CARARE), best practices sharing and the creation of common strategy.

Virtual Palaces Part 1 is organized by the ESF Research Networking Programme PALATIUM and the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation, University of Leuven. The Call for Papers deadline is the 30th September 2011.

ASSETS: Advanced Service Search and Enhancing Technological Solutions for the European Digital Library

Benedetto Benedetti of SNS, Italy will be presenting a paper on CARARE and another EU project, ENARC at LuBec. The paper is titled "La gestione digitale degli archivi storici: il progetto europeo ENARC e CARARE". (Italiano).

VAST 2011 is being held in Prato, Tuscany, Italy between 18-21 October 2011.

This year's theme for the annual conference organised by the Museums Assocation of the Netherlands is "The museum as a source of knowledge".

N303 and Erfgoed Nederland will be talking about CARARE there.

EuropeanaTech

EuropeanaConnect final conference in collaboration with Europeana Foundation

Location: Austrian National Library, Vienna
Organised by: EuropeanaConnect and Europeana Foundation
Participation: free and open to all but places are limited - waiting list only.

CARARE will be presenting at EuropeanaConnect and have a stand on the morning of October 4th.

The 15th TPDL conference (formerly the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - ECDL) brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2011 is organised by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin School of Library and Information Science, the Computer and Media Services and the Department of Computer Science).

The Committee is currently calling for research papers, demos, workshop and tutorial propsals.

Main conference: September 26-28, 2011
Tutorials, Workshops: September 25 and 29, 2011

Please see the conference website for further details.

The plenary meeting for CARARE project partners will take place in Vilnius on 22-23rd September 2011

Ambitions and Realities: remote sensing for archaeology, research and conservation

The main - but not exclusive - theme of this conference will be exploration of objectives and challenges in the effective use of remote sensing techniques in archaeological and landscape studies, not only for research but also for the promotion of conservation and public understanding.

The Second EUscreen International Conference on Use and Creativity takes place at the National Library of Sweden, Stockholm. Attendance is free, but registration is required at http://euscreen2011.eventbrite.com.

The 23rd CIPA Symposium will be held in Prague, the CzechRepublic. Abstract submission deadline is 10th March.

The National Heritage Board of Poland and the General Directorate of the Protection of the Environment will be holding an international conference on the implementation of the Inspire Directive in the field of “protected areas”. The conference will held in Cracow and Zakopane, Poland.

Arqueológica 2.0, the third International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation, will be held at the Centro Cultural de La Villa, San José de La Rinconada, Sevilla. The conference is aimed at archaeologists, historians, researchers, 3D developers, graphics programmers, students, and all those research groups interested in archaeology, applied infography, virtual reconstruction and cultural Heritage, by means of graphic digital tools.

For more information see the conference website (Español and English).

The Communication Faculty at Vilnius University is organizing an international academic conference "Communication and Information Sciences in Network Society: Experiences and Insights" on June 16-18, 2011, with a view to presenting and discussing current problems in communication and information research as well as elaborating the dialogue on the issues of media expression.

The UK and international conference for people who work with Collections.

Europeana is organising a series of hackathons to showcase the potential of the API usage for data providers, partners and end-users.

The hackathons are informal workshops bringing together competent and enthusiastic software developers to build cool projects within a day or two (sketches, prototypes, even working applications).

CARARE Training Workshop for CARARE content partners preparing for the harvesting of their metadata to the CARARE aggregation service to be held in Athens on 3-4 May.

A meeting of the CARARE 3D working group will be held in Jaen, Spain on 8th April 2011

CARARE Training Workshop for CARARE content partners preparing for the harvesting of their metadata to the CARARE aggregation service to be held in Jaen, Spain on 6-7th April 2011.

CARARE Training Workshop for CARARE content partners preparing for the harvesting of their metadata to the CARARE aggregation service to be held in Cologne on 30-31st March.

The purpose of this meeting in Amsterdam is twofold: Erfgoed Nederland want to introduce potential content providers to CARARE and show them the benefits of participation in the project. Secondly, the meeting is to inform existing content providers and partners about the Dutch developments of the CARARE project. Finally, Erfgoed Nederland will share ideas about the project, progress and challenges).

Please contact Anne Vroegop for further information:

a.vroegop@erfgoednederland.nl

Erfgoed Nederland
the Netherlands Institute for Heritage
Herengracht 474
1017 CA Amsterdam
T +31(0)20 716 73 50
F +31(0)20 716 73 55
www.erfgoednederland.nl

Outline of the day:
Morning – Europeana Context:
• Welcome – Jane Robinson, Museums Galleries Scotland
• Keynote – Nick Poole, Collections Trust
• Europeana – What it is, why it is important and technical developments (from Europeana Foundation Staff, including Jonathan Purday, Europeana’s Senior Communications Advisor);
• Introduction to Europeana Group projects (from various Europeana group project partners in the UK).
Afternoon – UK Opportunities:
• Europeana Local Project results (Mary Rowlatt, MDR Partners);
• LIDO – a new harvesting XML schema (Gordon McKenna, Collections Trust);
• Culture Grid – Why, What and How (Phill Purdy, Collections Trust);
• Round table (The way ahead in Scotland).

Conference webpage

Vaclovo Biržiškos skaitymai

“The readings of Vaclovas Biržiška” conference is organized by the Faculty of Communication of Vilnius university. V. Biržiška (1884-1956) was the librarian, bibliographer, cultural historian, Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University and Vilnius University professor. As the pioneer of library science in Lithuania, the annual national conference of library science was named in his honor. The conference topics cover not only traditional library concepts but also digital library issues as well. The CARARE project and the creation of the European digital library (Europeana) as an important European heritage data base will be presented to national library and information science community at this year's event.

Skaitmeniniai lituanistikos paveldo ištekliai šiandien: pasiekimai, problemos, perspektyvos.

Lithuanian language only - please see conference website.

CARARE and its work on 3D will be exhibited at the "Borsa Mediterranea del Turismo Archeologica" on 18-21 Nov, 2010, in Paestum, Italy.

The Paestum exhibition, the largest on archaeological tourism in Europe (http://www.borsaturismo.com/2010/eng/presentazione.htm), includes ArcheoVirtual - a demonstration of the latest ICT technologies for archaeology (http://www.vhlab.itabc.cnr.it/archeovirtual/). CARARE will be present at this demonstration showing some 3D use cases for tourism to test some ideas on how tourists could use the CARARE results in general, and the 3D in particular.

The 7th Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage focuses on how advanced technologies are applied to augment the preservation, access, and the dissemination of cultural heritage through advancing education and training in information and communication technologies (ICT). During the two-day conference, projects will be presented relating to the digital preservation of cultural heritage in Europe and in Israel.

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

The special challenge presented by archaeology in an urban environment has become a motor, an impulse-giver, for development and innovation – in project design, excavation philosophy and technology. Deeply stratified sites in town for example gave rise to new stratigraphic thinking, single context planning and of course the Harris Matrix. Latterly modern digital technologies have been used to great effect for 3D recording and reconstruction of lost townscapes – a development of which we are still only at the beginning. Visual Dimensions from the CARARE project will be presenting a paper "A CIDOC-CRM based metadata scheme for virtual reconstructions". See Abstract. Another CARARE partner, the Heritage Direction, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium will also be presenting their experiences with urban archaeology in Brussels.

Further information is available from the conference website.

VU Komunikacijos fakultetas kviečia į mokslinį seminarą "Besikeičiantys archyvai: skaitmeninimo projektų patirtis ir perspektyvos“.

Seminaro tikslas – pristatyti besibaigiančių ir prasidedančių skaitmeninimo projektų patirtį, besikeičiančią archyvų sampratą iš savininkų ir skaitmeninio turinio naudotojų pozicijų. Aptarti valstybės archyvuose, bibliotekose, muziejuose, mokslo institucijose bei privačiai saugomų duomenų skaitmeninimo eigą, galimybes ir kitus su tuo susijusius klausimus.

Kultūros paveldo ir su juo susijusių mokslinių duomenų skaitmeninimo projektai tampa kasdienybe. Lietuvos ir Europos Sąjungos lėšomis skaitmeninami bibliotekose, muziejuose, mokslo ir studijų institucijose saugomi tekstiniai, vaizdiniai ir garsiniai duomenys. Su šiais projektais susijusių neatsakytų klausimų ratas apima skaitmeninio turinio kūrimą ir tvarkymą – pasaulinių ir Lietuvos standartų taikymą, informacinių sistemų kūrimą ir naudojimą, efektyvų duomenų valdymą ir paiešką, autorių ir gretutines teises, sklaidos pobūdį ir mastą.

Seminaras vyks lapkričio 10 d. VU bibliotekos B3 auditorijoje.

Programą rasite čia.

CARARE will be presenting at the third international EuroMed conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus in November 2010. Its main goal will be to illustrate the programs underway, by public bodies (e.g. UNESCO, European Union, National States, etc.), rivate foundations (e.g. Getty Foundation, World Heritage Foundation, etc.) and projects to promote a common approach to the tasks of recording, documenting, protecting and managing World Cultural Heritage.

For more information see: http://www.euromed2010.eu/

This EuropeanaConnect cross-project networking workshop is dedicated to the discussion of recent trends and developments relating to the use of geospatial data and technologies in the Digital Cultural Heritage domain. The workshop not only invites partners from Europeana-related projects, but also representatives and researchers from related external projects and institutions.

Workshop Scope and Topics

- Application of Geographical Information Systems and related technologies (e.g. spatial entity text mining) in Digital Cultural Heritage

- Spatial metadata and Linked Data for Digital Cultural Heritage

- Digital Cultural Heritage and the Geospatial Web: search, visualization, and publishing of geospatial Cultural Heritage material

- Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and Digital Cultural Heritage

- Mobile location based access and novel interaction paradigms.

See the workshop website for further information.

The 1st International Congress on Ceramic Studies is a tribute to Mercedes Vegas. This scientific meeting was initiated, on the one hand, to pay the deserved professional recognition to one of the most important Spanish researchers in protohistoric and Roman pottery, internationally renown, Dr. Mercedes Vegas, and on the other hand, contribute to the development of new lines of research on ceramic studies that are becoming popular in the scientific community.

Conference website: http://www.congresointernacionaldeestudiosceramicos.com/presentation.htm

One hour presentation by Daniel Pletinckx of Visual Dimension as part of a workshop on the 3D digitisation of museum objects at FARO (Flemish Interface Centre for Cultural Heritage) in Brussels on the 28th October. The presentation will elaborate on the potential uses of digital 3D objects in museums and give an overview of the possible techniques, the digitisation workflow and integration into museum organisations. In this presentation, we will focus on the free applications ARC3D and MeshLab for 3D digitisation of museum objects, on the 3D aspects of CARARE and will show new examples of the use of 3D PDF for museum objects.

Registration at http://www.faronet.be/kalender/demonstratie-3d-digitaliseren-van-museale-objecten/

Centre for Science of Sciences, Henryk Wieniawski 17/19, Poznan with Europeana Day on 19th.

The Workshop on "Digital Libraries" is a regular event organized by the PSNC and PFSL since 2004. From the very beginning the main objective of the workshop is to popularize digital libraries and to stimulate their growth in Poland by creating a space for exchanging experiences and community integration of people dealing with this topic. Each edition of the workshop has its own unique character, closely related to the current state of development of digital libraries in Poland and the most important problems and challenges existing in this area. Workshops are aimed at the practical aspects of creating and developing digital libraries in Poland. This year they are focused around the use of advanced aspects of the dLibra software.

The conference will have dual translation for English and Polish except Europeana Day which is Polish language only.

Conference website (English language translation).

Colleagues from Europe’s galleries, libraries, archives and museums – GLAMs – will hear about innovations in their sector from Wikipedia and Google at the annual Europeana conference, Open Culture 2010, in Amsterdam on the 14/15 October.

Peace, Love & Metadata: a cultural collaboration with Wikipedia is the title of Liam Wyatt’s keynote speech on 14 October. Liam was the British Museum’s first Wikipedian in Residence, where he brought curators, content and the Wikipedia crowd together in new ways. The collaboration was a great success and heralds a change in the way that GLAM professionals will engage with their online users.

In the keynote on 15 October, the Engineering Director for Google Books, James Crawford, will talk about the present and future of the project, which has the goal of scanning the world's books and making the data searchable online. Recent developments include Google’s digitisation agreements signed with Europeana’s host, the National Library of the Netherlands, and with Europeana’s main technology co-ordinator, the National Library of Austria. One result of these agreements is that a further 560,000 digitised historic texts will be made available through Europeana.

Further information is available in the press release:

Cyfrowa przeszłość (Digital Past) conference is organised by the Institute of Archaeology of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw and focusses upon IT and archaeology.

Conference website (some English information, mainly Polish/Polski)

Location: Casa del Cinema. Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1, Rome, Italy.

EUscreen has organized a two-day conference on content selection policies and contextualisation in the audiovisual domain, to be held in Rome on October 7 and 8 2010. The conference will focus on contextualisation of audiovisual material, especially in the academic field. The conference programme is still under construction, but the first day includes a plenary session focussing on contextualisation of audiovisual material with keynotes and presentations of use cases. The second day comprises two workshops: one on European IPR legislations in the audiovisual sector and the impact on the exploitation of audiovisual and television archives, and one on best practices and guidelines for digitising audiovisual heritage. Attendance at the conference is free but online registration is required.

See www.euscreen.eu for more information on the final programme and for registration.

The Swedish National Heritage Board (SwNHB) has a programme of tours to museums in different regions to present CARARE, SOCH and other web services to them.
7th-8th October: Stockholm, Linköping

Digitale Fotografien, Film- und Tonaufnahmen, Bücher und Museumsobjekte sind nicht länger in Archiven, Bibliotheken und Museen oder auf deren Webseiten verborgen, sondern vielfältig nutzbar über zentrale Services und Internetportale - so die Vision, die die Europeana vorantreibt.
Auf dieser Tagung bringen wir die Beteiligten zusammen und diskutieren sowohl über erste Erfahrungen als auch weitere Entwicklungen.

Mehr Informationen.

CARARE is organising a workshop on metadata for 3D models at the 11th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. Palais du Louvre, Paris, France. For more information about the conference see http://vast2010.org/

iPRES 2010 will be the seventh in the series of annual international conferences that bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to explore the latest trends, innovations, and practices in preserving our digital heritage. Digital Preservation and Curation is evolving from a niche activity to an established practice and research field that involves various disciplines and communities. iPRES 2010 will re-emphasise that preserving our scientific and cultural digital heritage requires integration of activities and research across institutional and disciplinary boundaries to adequately address the challenges in digital preservation. iPRES 2010 will further strengthen the link between digital preservation research and practitioners in memory institutions and scientific data centres.

Conference website: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/ipres2010/

The Swedish National Heritage Board (SwNHB) has a programme of tours to museums in different regions to present CARARE, SOCH and other web services to them.
17th September: Uppsala, Falun, Västerås Gävle

The Swedish National Heritage Board (SwNHB) has a programme of tours to museums in different regions to present CARARE, SOCH and other web services to them.
9th September: Växjö, Kalmar, Jönköping, Karlskrona

The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) is the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field. ECDL 2010, the 14th conference in this series, will be organised by the University of Glasgow.

Conference website: http://www.ecdl2010.org/

In co-operation with the German National Library, the Institute of Information Management at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences would like to invite you to attend Concepts in Context, the conference on Interoperability and Semantics in Knowledge Organisation. The talks present current developments in the field of knowledge organisation, especially theoretical foundations for interoperability and semantic enrichment.

The conference will offer a platform for discussing recent developments and activities to improve interoperability and search functionalities of knowledge organisation systems with internationally renowned information specialists like Stella Dextre Clarke, Maja Žumer and Dagobert Soergel. It will also present and assess several ideas and models which have been developed in the context of two current research projects, CrissCross and RESEDA.

The programme as well as further information and a registration form are on the conference website.

The Institute for Archaeologists (IfA) will be holding its 2010 Annual Conferences in Southport this year. The programme covers a wide range of topics from underwater archaeology, construction sites to heritage crime. More information is available from the IfA website conference page.

CARARE will be represented at a Europeana UK conference organised by the Collections Trust and to be held in the Kingsway Hall in London.

An overview of the event and the presentations can be viewed via the Collections Trust blog.

EUscreen has organised a two-day open workshop on metadata schemes and content selection strategies in the audiovisual domain, to be held in Mykonos town, Greece on June 23 and 24. The workshop will focus on the presentation and analysis of metadata schemes and content selection policies within major European projects in general and EUscreen in particular, and will present some state of the art applications in multimedia retrieval and reuse.

See project website for further information: http://www.euscreen.eu/

Durham University is hosting an International Summer School in 3D Modelling in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (17th-20th June). The School aims to bring together young scientists, developers and advanced users in the field (photogrammetry, remote sensing, LiDAR, GIS, cultural and industrial heritage, archaeology, environmental monitoring) to study the latest developments in digital recording and 3D modelling of complex objects and sites. CARARE partner, the Archaeology Data Service is delivering a session on Data Archiving as part of the programme. More information (PDF download)

NESPOS is an open source information platform about Pleistocene humans, providing detailed information about important sites, their analytical results, archaeological findings and a selection of literary quotes. Moreover it is a repository where archaeologists and paleoanthropologists can exchange their research results and ideas by a protected Wiki-based collaboration platform with a continuously growing sample of 3D scanned human fossils and artefacts.

The 2010 Workshop "Pleistocene Databases - Acquisition, Storing, Sharing" is for NESPOS members - more information about NESPOS can be found at https://www.nespos.org/display/openspace/Home and about the Workshop at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=382904210536&index=1.

The forthcoming expert forum on Scholarly activity and information process forms part of DCU's work within the conceptual work-package of the DARIAH project (WP8), based on a combination of scholarly information behaviour literature survey with qualitative research on how arts and humanities researchers interact with information. It contributes to the development of a process model of scholarly information work, and also feeds into the specification of an object model for information resources and scholarly objects pertinent to humanities research, an important factor in determining digital infrastructure requirements for scholarship. Participation is by invitation only.

More information is available at http://sites.google.com/a/dcu.gr/scholarlyactivity/home.

The Swedish National Heritage Board (SwNHB) has a programme of tours to museums in different regions to present CARARE, SOCH and other web services to them.

3rd-4th June: Umeå

The Swedish National Heritage Board (SwNHB) has a programme of tours to museums in different regions to present CARARE, SOCH and other web services to them.

17th-20th May: Götebrog, Lund, Kristianstad

CARARE will be presented at the international seminar on heritage and digital information to be held in Lleida, Spain on 13-15 May, 2010. The aim of the seminar is to bring together European specialists from cultural heritage institutions and companies (museums, archives, research centres, universities, etc), many of whom are involved in EU funded projects such as 3D-COFORM, Europeana and CARARE, to reflect on the latest digital techniques applied to the study, conservation, restoration and diffusion of Europe’s historic heritage.

For more information see: http://www.heritagetechnologies.org/lleida2010/index.php?title=Portada&setlang=en

A meeting of the Europeana Communications Group is being held in Edinburgh on 29th April to plan events to launch the new release of Europeana in summer 2010. The day will include a masterclass in developing a Web 2.0 presence.

CARARE will be represented at a workshop for the 'museums' community to discuss the Europeana Data Model to be held in Berlin.

Transforming Culture in the Digital Age is a three-day conference in Tartu, Estonia. Increasingly, we see new forms of culture being born in the variety of online environments. Users have become producers taking over production of online content and traditional hierarchies of users and producers are collapsing. At the same time, traditional memory institutions like museums, archives, libraries and acknowledged artists struggle to make sense of the transformations that are coming together with new technologies. In this interdisciplinary conference we aim to look at the questions as how such developments influence culture - how is culture transformed in the digital age with a specific focus on the intersection of individuals and institutions. We hope to look at the notion of culture and transformations of the cultural heritage through a variety of disciplines ranging from arts and history to heritage studies and from museum studies to sociology and from media and literature studies to archival studies. The conference calls for variety of people both researchers and practitioners to discuss and analyze how digital culture is produced and consumed both in traditional and new forms.

Link to conference website

The Forum for Information Standards in Heritage (FISH) will be of interest to anyone involved in recording information about the history, heritage or current state of the many thousands of buildings, monuments, archaeological sites, wrecks and chance discoveries that together form the historic environment. This event is aimed at UK Heritage Managers and is being held in Birmingham. See the FISH website for further information.

The CARARE metadata working group will meet in Athens to review and discuss metadata standards, vocabularies and the Europeana data model.

The CARARE project will be launched at a kick-off meeting at the Fuhu conference centre in central Copenhagen, hosted by the Heritage Agency of Denmark.

Edge 2010 is a conference devoted to 21st Century public service delivery : how to innovate for digital inclusion, learning and e-government. New approaches to the regeneration of cities will be presented and exploration of how virtual libraries, along with information services, are revolutionising local authorities. The event will provide opportunities to learn about innovative practice in libraries, buildings and community information. Edge 2010 will demonstrate the latest thinking, tools and technologies available to the public sector. Participants will include elected members, Chief Executives, Directors, Heads of Service, trustees, E-government and community professionals, library vendors, and others with an interest in libraries and information.

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Two Day Documentation Seminar in Athens with entitled: “Athena – Carare - Europeana: the Dissemination of the Greek Archaeological Resources in European Digital Heritage Networks” aimed at Heads of the Archaeological Service, Documentation Depts and other Archaeologists. More information (in Greek).

The XXXVIII Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology will be held in the world famous city of Granada, Spain. Granada is said to be a fusion of cultures, and this idea matches completely with the aim of the CAA Conference: the interdisciplinary and complementary work of archaeologists, computer scientists and mathematicians. So, the title of the conference, Fusion of Cultures, refers both to the conference scope and to the spirit of the city that is proud to host it.

Conference website: http://www.caa2010.org/