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Policy office hours on data governance and the Europeana Licensing Framework
2024-01-23 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Online
Join this copyright office hours session to talk about data governance and the Europeana Licensing Framework with peers and experts in the copyright community.
The webinar, organized by the Europeana Copyright Community, will be held online.
Registration will be available soon!

Collections as Data: collaborating across data spaces for cultural heritage and open science
2024-02-19 - 2024-02-20 | Royal Library of Belgium
The event is organised by the Royal Library of Belgium and the Europeana Foundation. It offers European national libraries a unique opportunity to explore and discuss their role in the common Europeana data space for cultural heritage and beyond.
It takes place in the Royal Library of Belgium and focuses on Collections as Data.
More information about the programme and how to participate in the event will be published shortly on Europeana.

Copyright office hours on collective rights management
2024-02-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Join this copyright office hours session to discuss collective rights management: understanding how this type of licensing works, when it is suitable, and how to best negotiate licensing conditions, with peers and experts in the copyright community.
The webinar, organized by the Europeana Copyright Community, will be held online.
Register now!

Creative Online Residency 2024 - Information Session
2024-02-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Join us to find out all you need to know to apply for this year’s Digital Storytelling Festival Creative Online Residency!
The online information session will start at 3 p.m., February 21st. The Digital Storytelling festival is organised every year by the Europeana Initiative and encourages cultural heritage professionals, educators, creatives and students from Europe and beyond too improve their storytelling skills connected to culture and education.
Register here for the information session!

Public Domain Day 2024
2024-03-07 09:00 - 17:00 | KBR, Kunstberg 28, Brussels
If you are working in a GLAM organisation and curious about learning how to manage and open you public domain collections, the Public Domain Day 2024 may be the right event for you.
The event is hosted by meemo and organised by various partner organisations including Europeana Foundation and the Europeana Network Association. It is taking place at KBR in Kunstberg, Brussels, but can also be attended online.
For more information or to register, visit the webiste.

GIF-making workshop: women’s history
2024-03-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
To celebrate International Women’s Day, the Europena Foundation provides an online GIF-making workshop on March 8, 2024. The aim is to teach how to browse through Europeana’s cultural heritage collections to find specific materials, such as about women’s history.
Using free online tools you will learn how to create animated stickers and GIFs out of the materials.
Register now!

Europeana Impact Community Café: building peace and safeguarding heritage through digitisation
2024-03-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
This Europeana Impact Community Café will explore the role of digitisation in fostering peace and safeguarding heritage within conflict zones.
The interactive session will encourage attendees to share their own cases, shedding light on how digital heritage can contribute to building positive societal impacts in conflict-affected and post-conflict societies.
The event is organised by Europeana and will take place online.
Register now!

CREA Cultura Festival
2024-03-20 - 2024-03-22 | Foligno, Italy
The C.R.E.A. Cultura Festival is taking place in Folgino, Italy and hosts school institutes of all levels and civil society organisations that have implemented a project or intitiative exploiting the potential of digital technologies in the cultural, civic or social domains, and that are interested in disseminating the results and get in touch with other national and international stakeholders.
The event is organised by the CRHACK LAB FOLIGNO 4D and aims to support young people to develop their innovative and cnoscious thinking about digital practical culture.
Participation is completely free and includes entry, setting up an stand for your own institution and taking part in several workshops.
Register here!

46th European Conference on Information Retrieval
2024-03-24 - 2024-03-28 | Glasgow, United Kingdom
The 46th ECIR is an annual event aiming to present new research results in the field of Information Retrieval. The community welcomes the engagement of postgraduate or postdoctoral researchers reporting on their research.
The physical event will take place in Glasgow, Scotland form the 24th to the 28th of March.
View the website to get more information.

De-biasing digital cultural heritage collections
2024-03-25 09:00 - 12:00 | Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, Netherlands
This training event, targeted at aggregators, will provide participants with the opportunity to learn more about the DE-BIAS project’s activities. It is an in-person event.
The event is organised by Europeana and gives the opportunity to learn more about the project’s activities and findings so far and to actively engage with some of the models and approaches the project applies in detecting and categorising bias and in deciding which actions to take.
Register here or visit the event’s website for more information!

Defining Paradata, Metadata & Data in 2D/3D Digital Heritage Documentation
2024-04-08 14:00 - 17:00 | Online
In collaboration with the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage and the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol the 3-hour webinar is hosted online on April 8 from 2-5 pm.
The training event focuses on the importance of the use of paradata and metadata in the digital documentation of the past in 3D. Therefore it brings together experts from the field of Digital Cultural Heritage sharing their knowledge and experience of using paradata and working with it.
It is also possible to share your own experience about the topics presented on the event’s webiste. You can submit your contribution until March 29.
Find more information here!
Recording of the event: YouTube channel: https://unescochair-dch.net/1st_Webinar_3D_Digital_Documentation_CH

DE-BIAS: Diskriminierende Sprache in Archivdaten erkennen und beheben - Herausforderungen und Chancen
2024-04-17 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
The event, organised by Europeana, focuses on the ongoing debates about gender neutral and inclusive language in cultural heritage institutions. It addresses the problem of historical collection descriptions and catalogue entries using discriminating language.
For that purpose the project DE-BIAS developed a tool to detect terms in collection and object descriptions that do not conform to the present understanding of gender and inclusivity anymore.
The webinar is aimed at the german cultural heritage sector and will also be held in german.
Find more information on the event’s website or visit directly the registration website.

EMAF - European Media Art Festival
2024-04-24 - 2024-05-28 | Osnabrück, Germany
The 37th EMAF takes place in Osnabrück from April 24-28. The call for submissions is now closed.
If you want to learn more about the EMAF and last year’s festivals, visit the website!

New Professionals’ Twin Talks
2024-04-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Europeana organises an education and communication event aimed at new professionals and those who can take a profit of them on April 24th.
The need for digital skills becomes ever more pressing in the cultural heritage sector as well a in the education sector. Europeana Research began exploring the level of digitization in university curricula and how they could be further improved to prepare the scholars for the growing need for digital skills in cultural heritage.
Therefore, the Twin Talks will host farely new professionals in the sector who want to speak about their experiences in this matter, state challenges they came across and provide recommendations what to improve about educational programs.
You can register here.

Shaping the Future of Digital Cultural Heritage Professionals. Pioneering Approaches in Higher Education
2024-05-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
This online event, organised by Europeana Research invites you to a roundtable discussion about innovative and new approaches to enable new professionals with the necessary skills for the future of the cultural heritage sector.
The webinar is connected to the New Professional’s Twin Talk on 24 April 2024 and reaches out to universities wanting to build education programs as well as cultural heritage institutions, students and policymakers.
Visit the event website for more information or register right now.

TwinIt! 3D for Europe's culture campaign
2024-05-14 13:45 - 16:30 | European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
The event is organised by Europeana and takes place on May 14th in Brussels. The aim is to showcase the achievements of the TwinIt! 3D for Europe’s culture campaign until now.
The focus lies on the developments in the approach to 3D digitisation and those that are yet to come.
More information about the event will arrive soon!

What’s next for Digital Skills? Beyond the European Year of Skills and the European Elections
2024-05-14 14:30 - 17:30 | Microsoft Center Brussels, Rue Montoyer 51, Brussels, Belgium
The ALL DIGITAL Weeks 2024 launch event is taking place in Brussels and includes a panel discussion on Digital Skills in modern society, focusing on Equity, Citizenship, Entrepreneurship and Cybersecurity.
The event series runs from 13th to 31st May and is co-funded by the European Union. For more information about ALL DIGITAL visit the event’s website.

Defining Paradata, Metadata & Data for Documenting 2D/3D Digital Cultural Heritage
2024-05-17 14:00 - 18:00 | Online
This webinar, organised by the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage in Cyprus, is in direct continuity to the similarly named webinar from April 8th, which focused on the topic of paradata and metadata for 3D Aquisition in Cultural Heritage.
The event now gives the spotlight to Case Studies & Implementations in that matter. Its aim is to work towards a community-built set of standards for the application of paradata to 3D documentation and is therefore addressed at the whole Digitial Cultural Heritage Community, to start with a location determination of paradata and metadata.
Visit the event’s website for more information or register here.
Note: If you already registered for the first part of the webinar series (8th April 2024) you do not have to register again.

Digital Storytelling Festival
2024-05-21 09:00 - 2024-05-22 14:00 | Online
Join the Digital Storytelling Festival – organised by the Europeana Initiative – to boost your storytelling skill and tell stories about culture!
The annual event takes place from May 21st to 22nd 2024 and is organised by the Europeana Initiative.
Register now!

Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
2024-05-26 - 2024-05-30 | Heraklion, Greece
The ESWC 2024 is a key academic conference for research results and new developments in the area of the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs.
It will take place from May 26-30, 2024, in Heraklion, Greece and will feature Workshop and Tutorial sessions.
The call for Tutorials and Workshops will be open until November 23rd, 2023.
Important dates:

Workshop & Tutorial proposals due: 23-11-2023
Notification of acceptance: 07-12-2023
Workshop & Tutorial websites online: 14-12-2023
Workshop papers due*: 07-03-2024
Workshop paper notifications*: 04-04-2024
Workshop paper camera-ready versions due*: 18-04-2024
Tutorial material due (online): 18-04-2024
Workshop/tutorial days: 26/27-05-2024

EUreka3D: Preserving Values through #MemoryTwins
2024-05-29 15:00 - 16:30 | CTU Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus
This hybrid Public Demo event takes place on May 29th 2024 in Limassol (Cyprus) and online. It was organized to present the latest developments of the EUreka3D e-infrastructure that aims to manage and share 3D cultural heritage datasets.
Visit the event’s website to get more information.

International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision
2024-06-03 - 2024-06-06 | Pilsen, Czech Republic
The conference, organised by the University of West Bohemia, takes place in May 3-6 2024. The 32nd conference will be held in hybrid mode.
Accepted and presented papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG and Computer Science Research Notes. Visit the website to learn about the submission conditions.

IIIF Annual Conference and Showcase
2024-06-04 - 2024-06-07 | Los Angeles, California
The 2024 IIIF Annual Conference will take place in Los Angeles, California from June 4-7. It is organised by the IIIF Consortium in cooperation with UCLA Library and Getty.
This event is intended for a wide range of participants and interested parties, including digital image repository managers, content curators, software developers, scholars, and administrators at libraries, museums, cultural heritage institutions, software firms, and other organizations working with digital images and audio/visual materials.
Following the 2 conference days, there will be a free showcase on June 7. This event aims to introduce newcomers to IIIF and its applications and framework.
You can register here.

FRAME Basics
2024-06-12 - 2024-06-21 | Online
The INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) is having its annual FRAME training programme from June 12-21, aiming to cover all audiovisual archiving process steps and aspects, from preservation, digitisation, documentation to acces, reuse and promotion.
The training is ment for European and international professionals working in the audiovisual archives field, willing to reinforce or acquire the fundamental of audiovisual archiving.
The event will take place online. For more information, go to the FRAME website.
The call for applications is now open!

International conference on the decolonisation of museums - ICOM Working Group on Decolonisation
2024-06-17 10:00 - 17:00
The concept of decolonising museums means different things in different parts of the world. ICOM, the International Council of Museums, established a Working Group on Decolonisation. The Working Group will meet in June in the Netherlands, and during this conference they will share experiences from their daily practice, offering a broad variety of perspectives.

Reviewing the Europeana Public Domain Charter
2024-06-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
This office hours session will host professionals sharing their view on an evaluation of the Europeana Public Domain Charter, and constul participants into additional challenges around the public domain.
The Charter was developed in 2010 and tried to communicate the importance of widely reusable digital cultural heritage objects by encouraging to maintain the public domain status.
The re-evaluation shall identifiy old and new challenges, and give us an idea on how well we followed the charter’s principles.
Visit the event’s webiste or register here!

Licences, labels, statements and tools
2024-07-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Europeana organises this office hours session to address various questions around the use of Creative Commons licenses, tool, and rights statements.
Creative Commons licenses help you and the people using your digital objects to clarify access and re-use of cultural heritage. The webinar will provide information on how and which tools to use when searching for attribution advice.
Visit the website for more information or register here!

30th EAA Annual Meeting
2024-08-28 - 2024-08-31 | Rome
The 30th EAA Annual Meeting this year will take place from the 28th to the 30th August in Rome.
To enrol for the meeting you have to be a current member of the EAA. In addition, the call for papers is now open. You can submit until the 8th February.

28th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
2024-09-24 - 2024-09-27 | National and University Library Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The conference will be held from September 24-27 in Ljubljana, Slovenia and is hosted by the National and University Library of Slovenia. There will be the possibility to follow the event online, but authors of accepted papers are encouraged to take part in-person.
The TPDL is an international forum focused on digital libraries and their associated technical, practical, and social issues. It includes the whole spectrum of the LAM (libraries, archives, museums) community and the development of new technologies in this fields.
In this year’s conference there will be two new research areas to be discussed during the event: Document Analysis/Recognition and Information Retrieval.
If you want to learn more about the upcoming event, visit its website.
The submission deadline for full papers is on April 30th and for short papers on May 7th.

IIIF 2024 Online Meeting
2024-11-12 08:00 - 2024-11-14 17:00
The Online Meeting is intended for a wide range of participants and interested parties, including digital image repository managers, content curators, software developers, scholars, and administrators at libraries, museums, cultural heritage institutions, software firms, and other organizations working with digital images and audio/visual materials.
As a counterpart to the IIIF in-person Annual Conference, this event is meant both to introduce newcomers to IIIF and to provide a forum for discussion and dissemination for those with experience implementing and working with IIIF in a variety of contexts.
