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"Digital Strategies for Heritage (DISH) is a bi-annual international conference on digital heritage and the strategies that heritage institutions can follow. Triggered by changes in society, heritage organisations face many challenges and need to make strategic decisions about their activities and services. The key motivators for the conference are inspiration, knowledge, skills and networking."

Digital technology has the potential to influence every aspect of the cultural heritage environment. Archaeologists and cultural heritage scientists as well as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experts have in the past collaborated to find solutions to optimise all aspects of capturing, managing, analysing and delivering cultural information, but many unsolved problems remain. The goal of VAST 2012 will be to build on the open dialogue between these different areas of expertise, and in particular allow ICT experts to have a better understanding of the critical requirements that cultural heritage professionals have for managing and delivering cultural information and for the ICT systems that support these activities.

Digital Strategies for Heritage (DISH) is a new bi-annual international conference on digital heritage and the opportunities it offers to cultural organisations. Triggered by changes in society, heritage organisations face many challenges and need to make strategic decisions about their services.

Managing Growinng: A Cultural Heritage Web Presencea: practical guide to how to run a cultural heritage web presence - is now available to order from Amazon

"Welcome to UKOLN's Cultural Heritage blog. The blog aims to provide a key communication channel for UKOLN's engagement with the cultural heritage sector, for disseminating information on UKOLN's activities in this area and for encouraging discussion and debate on innovation and best practices."

Die digitale 3D-Rekonstruktion von Kulturdenkmälern ist eine längerfristige Projektinitiative der FHNW zum Aufbau eines interaktiven, digitalen 3D-Archivs von kulturhistorisch wertvollen Bauten und Objekten. Bei der Erstellung dieser virtuellen 3D-Modelle werden moderne geodätische Mess- und Auswerteverfahren eingesetzt und laufend weiter entwickelt. 3D Cultural Heritage erlaubt den Einbezug von Studierenden und ermöglicht diesen die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit kulturhistorisch wertvollen Objekten. Ausgehend von der Nordwestschweiz soll der regionale Schwerpunkt zukünftig auf die ganze Schweiz und das grenznahe Ausland ausgedehnt werden. Mit der Weiterentwicklung web-basierter 3D-Geoinformationstechnologien sollen die virtuellen Objekte aus dem Projekt schon bald der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht werden.

This conference focuses on the interaction between museums and communities. In times of mobility and change, history museums play an important role in societal questions of social cohesion, identity and belonging. In search of their roots, people turn to heritage. History is popular as never before and it surfaces in all contemporary media. At the same time, the communication era offers new possibilities to form communities, based on common interests and preferences or popular and corporate culture. Museums in general, as part of the public sphere, are an important tool in this dynamic process of heritage formation and the performance of community.  

3DVisA was funded between 2006 and 2008 by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The Network was hosted by King's Visualisation Lab in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. It was an integral part of a wider UK Visualisation Support Network, VizNET, spanning the UK academic research community. This website documents some of 3DVisA activities and provides access to publications and resources created in 2006-2008, some of which continue to be maintained by King's Visualisation Lab. 3DVisA was also the Secretariat of The London Charter for the use of three-dimensional Visualisation in the Research and Communication of Cultural Heritage.

"I thought you might want to know about and possibly contribute to this" (Museum Computer Group)EC consultation on digitisation and 'boosting cultural heritage online'. It's looking at "how best to speed up the digitisation, online accessibilityand preservation of cultural works across Europe. Contributions to thisconsultation will feed into the recommendations the Group will make beforethe end of the year" and they say, "the Group will come forward with a setof recommendations for the digitisation, online accessibility andpreservation of Europe's cultural heritage in the digital age, looking inparticular at the issue of public-private partnerships for digitisation inEurope".

Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web British Museum & UCL Study Day - Jan 13th The World Wide Web is an essential part of the Museum's toolkit for publishing information, engaging visitors and communicating across the globe. However, museum web sites and information systems are still largely silos that make it difficult for us to realize the benefits of bringing data together. The growing momentum of the Semantic Web movement means a greater investment in the technology and tools needed to convert its potential into practical opportunities that museums can utilise. Und: "A museum object is more like an illustration, or witness of the past, than information in its own right. Cultural historical research means understanding 'possible pasts', the facts, events, material, social and psychological influences and motivations. It lives from understanding contexts, by pulling together bits and pieces of related facts from disparate resources, which can typically not be classified under subjects in an obvious way. It lives from taking into account all known facts." 

German Traces NYC is mobile, augmented reality experience designed to let learners explore German cultural heritage in New York City. The application makes use of archival documents, photographs, and multimedia narratives to bring to life to this significant thread of New York City and United States history.

Digital stories by people in the North East. Inspired by musuems and galleries.

"Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage." Our community has been meeting since 1997, imagining, tracking, analyzing, and influencing the role museums play on the Web. The MW2010 Program is composed based on an open Call for Participation. The deadline for most proposals was September 30, 2009. Deadline for Demonstration Proposals: December 31, 2009

"What can all of this tell us? Museums are creating YouTube videos but only a small number of users watch them and an even smaller number interact with them. YouTube's front page shows us their most popular videos. Users are catching up on TV programmes, getting their celebrity fixes and watching those random funnies."

Hosted by Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, United Kingdom from 18-19 April 2011, the VIA 2011 Conference marks the culmination of the three year Visualisation in Archaeology project. The Organising Committee is drawn from Visualisation in Archaeology project staff alongside representatives of English Heritage, Institute for Archaeologists (IfA), and Association of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors (AAI&S).

The annual UKMW conferences, convened by the Museums Computer Group, have long been the place for high quality presentations and discussions on the matters that are shaping museums online today. As the UK heritage sector continues to live through difficult times, this year's conference is an opportunity to reflect on the new landscape museums are now in, learn from inspiring speakers and network with your peers.

TEC-CH is an advanced Master´s programme in Communication Sciences, specifically dedicated to the use of communication technologies for the Cultural Heritage domain. At the completion of the TEC-CH programme, students will be able to create effective comm

VAST2008 continues the tradition of excellence in the VAST symposia for technologies in service of cultural heritage. This year's symposium emphasizes the ephemeral nature of the tangible/ intangible cultural heritage artifacts - archaeological remains, b

"ECHO (Education Through Cultural and Historical Organizations), a partnership of six widely dispersed cultural institutions, fosters that learning. Individual missions vary, but the ECHO partners all seek to enhance appreciation of regional heritage;"

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