Europeana, Europe’s digital library, has launched its first free iPad app. “Europeana Open Culture” introduces the public to hand-picked and beautiful collections from some of Europe’s top institutions, and allows people to explore, share and comment on them. The 350,000 images available through the app come from collections of museums, libraries and other institutions in Bulgaria, Estonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. (daugiau…)
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AthenaPlus – Access to Cultural Heritage Networks for Europeana
AthenaPlus is a CIP best practice network started in March 2013 and ending in August 2015. The consortium is composed by 40 partners from 21 Member States countries. AthenaPlus will build on the successful experience developed by the previous ATHENA project – where LIDO and the ATHENA Ingestion Server and Mapping Tool (MINT), widely used across the Europeana’s ecosystem of projects including the finished Linked Heritage project were developed, in order to further advance and complete the effective infrastructure and tools developed to support museums and other cultural institutions in their work to making available digital content through Europeana.
The Baltic Museology Summer School (BMS) – 2013
The theme for BMS-2013 is “Heritage and community. The role of museums”. “Society of Promotion of Museology in the Baltics” invites interested persons to apply for participation in the BMS-2013. Applications from Lithuanians or Estonians are being accepted by the respective Ministries of Culture, in the time frame determined by each Ministry. Application deadline is 30th April, 2013. More www.bms.edu.lv/
6–7 June 2013 – WE ARE MUSEUMS – a 2-day event for professionals of culture and innovation
International conference is for people who believe that the power of innovation and creativity can help museums grow. Place: Contemporary Art Center (SMC) in Vilnius (Lithuania).
More information and registration at conference website www.wearemuseums.com
EuropeanaPhotography
EuropeanaPhotography (EUROPEAN Ancient PHOTOgraphic vintaGe repositoRies of digitAized Pictures of Historical qualitY) is a consortium and project putting together some of the most important European photographic archives, public libraries and photographic museums covering specifically the length of time from the beginning of photography (1839 with the first example of images from Fox Talbot and Daguerre) to the beginning of the Second World War (1939).
EuropeanaPhotography is EU project funded under CIP – Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 2007–2013 (Starting date: 1st February 2012 – Ending date: 31 January 2015), coordinated by ALINARI 24 ORE SPA. More >
“EuropeanaPhotography” Content Seminar (12–13th April 2012) >
Workshop for Lithuanian museums involved in EuropeanaPhotography project (14th March 2012) >
Europeana Photography Kick-off meeting (Florence 9th–10th February 2012) >
EuropeanaPhotography
EuropeanaPhotography (EUROPEAN Ancient PHOTOgraphic vintaGe repositoRies of digitAized Pictures of Historical qualitY) is a consortium and project putting together some of the most important European photographic archives, public libraries and photographic museums covering specifically the length of time from the beginning of photography (1839 with the first example of images from Fox Talbot and Daguerre) to the beginning of the Second World War (1939).
EuropeanaPhotography is EU project funded under CIP – Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 2007–2013 (Starting date: 1st February 2012 – Ending date: 31 January 2015), coordinated by ALINARI 24 ORE SPA. (daugiau…)
4–5 April 2013 – Hack4LT
The first cultural heritage and digital humanities orientated hackathon in Lithuania inspired by EUROPEANA (the biggest multi-lingual online collection of digitized cultural heritage) and DARIAH (Digital Research Infrustructure for Arts and Humanities) and organized by Vilnius University Faculty of Communication and Vilnius University Library. More www.kf.vu.lt/en/hack4lt
Linked Heritage
It is a 30 month EU project, the main goals of which are to contribute large quantities of new content to Europeana, from both the public and private sectors; to demonstrate enhancement of quality of content, in terms of metadata richness, re-use potential and uniqueness; to demonstrate enable improved search, retrieval and use of Europeana content. (daugiau…)