Building Cultural Heritage Knowledge, British Museum (27-28 July 2017)

April 7, 2017EventsWeb Editor

A symposium on Building Cultural Heritage Knowledge will take place at the British Museum on 27-28th July 2017. A workshop on building semantic databases will also be held on the 29th (tba).

Dates: Thursday 27 July & Friday 28 July 2017

Location: British Museum, BP Lecture Theatre, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG

The conference seeks to highlight the challenges for sustainable knowledge building between cultural heritage institutions, universities and the other interested audiences.

‘How do we combine knowledge, skills and experience to create digital resources that have high research value, meaningful content, and are interesting to a wide range of people and groups? How can interdisciplinary work be practically supported and maintained? How can the outputs of digital research be academically robust and accessible for reuse in other projects? How can we avoid digital disruption and fragmentation? Finally, what role should cultural heritage institutions and organisations play in preserving and disseminating knowledge?’

A number of bursaries are available.

The event is advertised with details on EventBrite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-cultural-heritage-knowledge-tickets-33012703886 and will be updated regularly.

The British Museum/ResearchSpace symposium is funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation.

How to become a FISH member

March 27, 2017NewsWeb Editor

New members are always welcome.

Membership is free. All you need to do to join FISH is to subscribe to the FISH mailing list on JISCMail. This enables you to join our discussion forums and e-conferences, and participate in the development of heritage standards and documentation tools either actively or as an observer.

The FISH list: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=FISH

To join, please contact JISCMail and specify ‘FISH’ as the group you want to subscribe to. More information on how to join can be found here:

Email discussion lists for the UK Education and Research communities

UK Digital Strategy (1 March 2017)

March 7, 2017NewsWeb Editor

The Secretary of State for Culture Media & Sport has launched the Government’s UK Digital Strategy. The Strategy commits to ‘undertake a major enhancement and rationalisation of heritage records nationally and locally’ as well as considering how the planning system can be made both more efficient and give the public greater involvement through better use of data and digital tools.

Click here to read the strategy
Click here to see the section on Heritage Records (see the section ‘Culture’)
Click here to see a useful summary by Heritage Alliance

FISH Thesauri updated – Version 20 (February 2017)

March 7, 2017NewsWeb Editor

We have now updated the FISH Thesauri (version 20).

Click here to view the latest versions.

Candidate terms (terminology suggestions) are submitted to FISH all year round. Terms are processed and usually added to the FISH thesauri and authority files as and when they come in. Once a year the main thesauri are updated and uploaded to this website, where you can browse for a specific term, and Heritage Data, a related website, where you can download key thesauri as CSV, PDF and LOD formats.

Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding the FISH thesauri or candidate terms.

The US National Park Service and spatial data transfer standards

February 14, 2017NewsWeb Editor

In 2010 the US National Park Service (NPS) approved cultural resource spatial data transfer standards to help document the lineage of their cultural resource spatial data, used in geographic information system (GIS) applications throughout the NPS and for the public.

The standards also help integrate the numerous cultural resource databases maintained by the NPS for cultural resource management. In 2014 the Cultural Resource GIS Facility (CRGIS) implemented these standards with the Cultural Landscapes Inventory and List of Classified Structures databases.

Working with NPS regional GIS coordinators as well as regional cultural resource managers, the project automates legacy data contained within these databases, creating enhanced GIS data and forming a base for an authoritative NPS-wide cultural resource data set.

The purpose of these spatial data transfer standards is to facilitate updating, transforming and integrating digital experiences within the US National Park Service to enhance public understanding as well as internal NPS resource management.

3D Digital Documentation Summit, New Orleans (18-20 April)

February 14, 2017EventsWeb Editor

The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) will partner with Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, Heritage Documentation Programs (NPS) and APTI Technical Committee for Documentation to host a three day summit on 3D digital documentation for cultural heritage.

Date: April 18 – 20, 2017

Location: Old US Mint Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Cost of the symposium: $299 Registration

The purpose of this summit is to advance the use and understanding of the various methods of 3D digital documentation and capture of cultural heritage. In addition, the summit aims to address issues with the long-term storage and management of the data generated by 3D digital documentation. Also, the NPS hopes to start discussions on and establish goals for their use of 3D digital documentation for architectural heritage.

The Summit will include two days of lectures organized into themed sessions. Presenters will be allotted 25 minutes with an additional 5 minutes for questions. Also, during the first two days, a poster session will be held to highlight new, upcoming, and student research in 3D digital documentation and capture. The Summit’s third day will include hands-on sessions. These sessions will take place at the around New Orleans and be led by various companies and firms who develop and practice 3D digital documentation.

This Summit will include sessions on topics such as Data Acquisition, Data Management, and Data Applications.

Arches CIPA 2017 Workshop, Ottawa (27 August)

February 14, 2017EventsWeb Editor

For anyone interested in attending the next International CIPA Symposium in Ottawa (see earlier post), there will be an Arches Workshop on 27 August, the day before the Symposium starts (28 August).

Workshop registration: Arches Heritage Inventory and Management Platform Version 4.0 Workshop

CIPA 2017: Invitation and Registration

Arches™ 2-Day Workshop, Liverpool (29-30 March)

February 13, 2017EventsWeb Editor

Introduction to Arches v4 and the new Arches Designer

UPDATE (January 25, 2017): The workshop is now FULL!
However, in the event that we are able to accommodate more attendees or if you would like to be updated about future events, please email contact@archesproject.org.

Location: Liverpool John Moores University

Attend for one day or two. Free workshop.

Day One (Wednesday, March 29):

What is Arches?

An overview of Arches, including creation/management of data, search and reporting functionality, and geospatial layers
Controlled vocabularies; manage satellite/aerial imagery; import and export capabilities
Plans for a mobile data collection app and crowdsourcing tools
Customizations for the UK: compliance with MIDAS Heritage; a consultations module; and UK heritage vocabularies
How Greater London and Lincoln HERs are preparing for deployments of Arches, including costs and support options
Considerations for an Arches implementation
Other international implementations; the Arches community and how to participate

Day Two (Thursday, March 30):

Installation and Configuration of Arches

Arches download and installation
Hands-on comprehensive configuration of Arches
Arches database: graph/data structure (Arches Designer); thesauri management (Reference Data Manager [RDM])
Permissions/user-profile management, base maps and GIS overlays

For more information: http://archesproject.org/liverpool-2017/

TermNet: International Terminology Summer School (Cologne July 2017)

January 13, 2017EventsWeb Editor

The International Terminology Summer School (TSS) is the leading and largest international summer school for terminology professionals with about 80 participants from some 40 countries and almost every continent. TSS offers a one-week, practice-oriented training course covering a comprehensive overview of the methods and principles of terminology management. The course is taught by some of the most renowned and prominent terminology experts in the world. Participation in TSS qualifies to obtain the ECQA Certificate for Terminology Managers.

Date: 10 to 14 July 2017

Location: TH Köln (former Cologne University of Applied Sciences), Cologne, Germany

Programme

Understanding terminology management

What is terminology?
Why terminology management?
How terminology work is embedded in my organisation and work environment?

Terminology management skills

Data Modelling: Data Categories for Terminology Management
Terminology Tools – Terminology Management, Extraction and Control
Terminology Exchange
Creating a Terminology Database
Exploring TBX

Terminology strategies for business processes

How to present the business case for terminology
Terminology Policies and Terminology Planning
How to calculate and argue costs & return on investments for terminology
Legal translation and Terminology

Standards and legal issues for terminology work

Copyright Issues for Terminology Management
Standards for Terminology Work: Principles, Definitions and Relations

For more information: http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2017/index.php

Arches (open source heritage management software): Project Update

December 8, 2016NewsWeb Editor

The Getty Conservation Institute (USA) has entered into collaborative agreements with Historic England and the City of Lincoln Council (England) to implement the Arches software platform, which will categorize, map, and describe the rich cultural heritage of Greater London and the City of Lincoln. The partnership provides a new way for the three organizations to work together to promote the understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of these cities and their histories.