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E-Space Third International Conference
Cultural Heritage: Reuse, Remake, Reimagine
Hidden in museums, archives and libraries around Europe sit artifacts that tell a story and are waiting for their day in the sun. The Cultural Heritage institutions began to digitize these artifacts making them available online, so that users would discover them and find value in learning more about Europe’s cultural heritage. Digitization is progressing and more hidden treasures are becoming visible. However, in today’s digital society existing on the web is not enough. Audiences want to engage with culture, they want to create their own stories not just read the ones that exist, they want to integrate the information in their teaching, their creative projects, they want to play with the material, not only look at it. They want to reuse, they want to remake, they want to reimagine.
The Europeana Space project is a catalyzer for generating new ways of engaging with digital cultural heritage through creative reuse in education and learning as well as in the creative industries. Cultural Heritage: Reuse, Remake, Reimagine, the third conference from the Europeana Space project, showcased the myriad ways that cultural heritage can be used and enriched through new technologies, innovation and the ingenuity of the creative industries.
Cultural Heritage: Reuse, Remake, Reimagine
Monday 21st November h. 10.00 to Tuesday 22nd November h. 12.30
Conference website: http://berlinconference2016.europeana-space.eu
PREFORMA Innovation Workshop
Date: 7 March 2017
Venue: Botanical Garden, Via Orto Botanico 15, Padua (Italy), http://www.ortobotanicopd.it/en/
Aim of the workshop is to highlight the importance of standardisation and file format validation for the long term preservation of digtal cultural content, present the open source conformance checkers developed in the project and the business models that can be built around them, and involve memory institutions outside the PREFORMA consortium in testing, using and further developing the software.
The event will include:
- keynote speeches by international experts in digital preservation and open source business modelling;
- a panel to reflect on how to measure the impact of a project and to ensure its sustainability;
- live demonstrations of the software developed by the three suppliers (the veraPDF consortium, Easy Innova, MediaArea);
- an informal networking event where attendees can share experiences, meet the PREFORMA developers and learn more about the tools.
The day before the workshop, on 6 March 2017, the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua will host the fourth edition of the Networking Session for EC projects in the cultural heritage field, a successful initiative launched in the framework of the RICHES project and continued under the auspices of Europeana Space and PREFORMA.
All information available at: http://www.preforma-project.eu/workshop-in-padua.html
