How 3D Scanning is Reinventing Paleoanthropology – the case of DNH 155
Paranthropus robustus SK-48. mBy Ditsong National Museum of Natural History - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11931381 This article by Jesse Martin, a graduate archaeology researcher at La Trobe University in Melbourne, was published on the 25th April [...]
Europeana Research Grants call open: Crowdsourcing & Research
The 5th call for proposals within the Europeana Research Grants Programme has been announced and is currently open for applications. The programme supports events that encourage collaborations between cultural heritage professionals and researchers and this year's theme is: Crowdsourcing & [...]
Creative Commons Certificate for GLAMS – beta test opportunity
Creative Commons (CC) is expanding their offerings for the Creative Commons Certificate, a training programme about open licensing and ways to engage in the global, shared digital commons. Currently, there are two CC Certificate courses, one for educators and one [...]
Transformational Impact of Information Technology Globinar 2
Our World Heritage is hosting the second online event, Globinar 2, to discuss the transformational impact of Information Technology on cultural heritage on Saturday 10th April 2021.. The Our World Heritage initiative aims to raise general awareness about the opportunities [...]
The 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
The 26th IEEE Symposium is going to take place in Athens, Greece, 5-8th September 2021 and is planned to be a hybrid physical and virtual event. ISCC sessions will include presentations on new research results and tutorials. Papers describing original [...]
International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2021)
The International Joint Workshop on “Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage” (SWODCH 2021) will be held on the 20th-21st September 2021. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the workshop will have a hybrid format, allowing both virtual and physical [...]
4CH kick-off meeting round-up
The 4CH Kick-off meeting was held on the 9th February by Zoom and hosted by Francesco Taccetti of INFN, the Project Co-ordinator. There were quite a few presentations with a peak attendance of 104 participants which is a great start. [...]
Cultural Heritage at Risk
A stated aim of 4CH is to establish a European-wide network of organisations that will provide advice, support and services focussed upon the preservation and conservation of monuments and sites. Whilst the public who visit the many thousands of cultural [...]
Digital Past 2021
New technologies in heritage, interpretation and outreach Organised by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Digital Past is an annual two-day conference which showcases innovative digital technologies and techniques for data capture, interpretation and dissemination [...]