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Defining Paradata, Metadata & Data in 2D/3D Digital Heritage Documentation
2024-04-08 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | 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.

Heritage Horizons: Europeana Project Week
2024-11-25 09:30 - 2024-11-29 12:30
About Heritage Horizons: Europeana Project Week
The common European data space for cultural heritage is the European Commission’s flagship initiative to foster the creation and reuse of content in the cultural and creative sectors and accelerate the digital transformation of Europe’s cultural sector. Its achievements depend on the efforts and expertise of the data space consortium, led by the Europeana Initiative, but also on diverse and innovative projects which enrich and enhance the data space and cultural heritage sector.

The Heritage Horizons Europeana Project Week, taking place from 25 – 29 November 2024, will put the spotlight on these projects and their inspiring work. 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 developing the data space, preserving and engaging with cultural heritage, advancing social inclusion, encouraging reuse and promoting sustainability.

How to sign up

Register for Project Week through the link below! You can register for each day separately, allowing you to choose the days and sessions which interest you the most. We can’t wait to see you there, and in the meantime, invite you to explore the projects that will be in focus on the week.

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Essential Guide to 3D digitized heritage - Part 1
2024-11-27 15:30 - 16:30 | Online
Introduction to 3D
The registration for the series of 3 webinars, organized by CARARE under the framework of 5DCulture is now open!
The webinars will provide a useful and informative guide to 3D cultural heritage for a broad target group. They aim at supporting people beginning in the field of 3D but can also benefit those who already worked with 3D cultural heritage.
Part 1 of the series provides an introduction to creating 3D digitised heritage.
Register now!

10th Digital Library: „Back (and) to the future“
2024-11-28 10:00 - 2024-11-29 17:00 | Graz, Austria
For its 10th anniversary the Digital Library, organised by the University of Graz and Europeana Local is inviting you to Graz, Austria!
To mark the 10th anniversary, the 2024 conference looks back and into the future. Which topics continue to accompany us, which issues have been resolved, what new challenges do we face now and in the near future? Can the developments of recent years serve as a guide for future concepts and approaches? The aim of the event is to provide a platform for professional exchange and establishing new networks.
Main topics of the conference “Back (and) to the future” are:
– Technology: Established and cutting edge (e.g. AI, machine learning, …)
– Networks: Cooperations, partnerships, working together nowadays…
– Sustainability: How do we preserve knowledge? – What happens to knowledge/know-how that is not digitally available? – Can knowledge be “secured” – is it verifiable? New ways of knowledge transfer? New ways for GLAM institutions? Choosing which knowledge to preserve and process?

Experiences from the Europeana Research Community: data science and reuse of Europeana data at Leiden University
2024-12-03 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
This webinar, organised by Europeana Research, is part of the series “Europeana data reuse in academia and research” and focuses on data science and reuse of Europeana data at Leiden University.
The series is dedicated to the exploration of digital cultural heritage in Higher Education and Research and innovative practices surrounding the reuse of Europeana data.
If you want to know more about the event, visit EuropeanaPro or register now!

Essential guide to 3D digitised heritage - Part 2
2024-12-04 15:30 - 16:30 | Online
Capturing and Processing 3D Data
The registration for the series of 3 webinars, organized by CARARE under the framework of 5DCulture is now open!
The webinars will provide a useful and informative guide to 3D cultural heritage for a broad target group. They aim at supporting people beginning in the field of 3D but can also benefit those who already worked with 3D cultural heritage.
Part 2 of the webinar series provides and introduction to capturing and processing 3D data.
Register now!

Introduction to collections, audiences and stories on Europeana.eu
2024-12-10 10:00 - 13:00 | Online
This training course, organised by Europeana as part of the Europeana Academy focuses on using and telling stories with collections on Europeana.eu.
The course is aimed at people and institutions new to Europeana who look for a guideline on how to use collections, but also at researchers and educators who want to promote or use digital collections available at Europeana for learning goals.
Visit EuropeanaPro for more information or register now!

Essential guide to 3D digitised heritage - Part 3
2024-12-11 15:30 - 16:30 | Online
Archiving, Sharing and Re-using 3D Data
The registration for the series of 3 webinars, organized by CARARE under the framework of 5DCulture is now open!
The webinars will provide a useful and informative guide to 3D cultural heritage for a broad target group. They aim at supporting people beginning in the field of 3D but can also benefit those who already worked with 3D cultural heritage.
Part 3 of the webinar series provides and introduction to archiving, sharing and re-using 3D data.
Register now!

Eureka3D Final Conference
2024-12-13 | Girona, Spain
The EUreka3D Final Conference, organised by Ajuntament de Girona and CRDI, will take place in Girona on 13 December 2024.
There will be a hybrid public conference and a public onsite workshop focused on 3D digitisation and cultural heritage for local cultural heritage and museum professionals. The event will also focus on sharing the project outcomes with the following topics:

methodology for 3D digitisation
EUreka3D Data Hub
authenticity and standardisation for 3D
the project’s four use cases

For more information visit EuropeanaPro or the EUreka3D website where you can also register.

How to tell great stories and write for Europeana.eu
2024-12-13 10:00 - 13:00 | Online
This training course is part of the Europeana Academy and focuses on creating editorial for Europeana.eu and with cultural heritage collections.
At the end of the course you will be able to write your own blog according to Europeana’s structural and editorial guidelines as well as the right “tone of voice”.
If you want to know more specifics about the course, visit EuropeanaPro or register now.

Public Domain Day 2025
2025-01-09 | Royal Library of Belgium
This event, organised collaboratively between Europeana, Creative Commons, Communia, Meemoo, KBR, Wikimedia Belgium and Wikimedia Europe, celebrates Public Domain Day in 2025. It will be held in the KBR – Royal Library of Belgium and online.
The Public Domain Day will give you an overview about recent developments in the sector and institutions are invited to showcase their collections and achievements.
Click here for more information.
