This year’s autumn FISH-HEIRNET meeting will take place on Tuesday 29^th November (1pm to 4.15pm), at the Historic Environment Scotland office in Edinburgh.

Address: Conference Room, John Sinclair House, Historic Environment Scotland, 16 Bernard Terrace, Edinburgh, EH8 9NX

The afternoon session is open, however there are limited numbers so if you would like to attend please register through Eventbrite.

Topics & updates

• Spatial Hub
• The Ariadne Portal
• Enhancements to Canmore Mapping
• The Thesaurus of Cultural Heritage
• Heritage Information Access Strategy
• Scotland’s Historic Environment Data Strategy
• Welsh Language Standards
• Scotland’s Urban Past
• OASIS redevelopment and ADS Library
• Moving on from OASIS – creating knowledge from information – developing a digital platform for English Research Frameworks
• ScARF: Scottish archaeology as a regional jigsaw – creating localised frameworks

CIfA conference, Newcastle University, 19 to 21 April 2017

One of the sessions will be: ‘Down amongst the dead men – The Bedern Group, digital preservation and the Historic Environment’ 

Peter McKeague, Kirsty Lingstadt , Emily Nimmo and Louisa Matthews

Call for papers

Digital technologies play a central role in documenting our heritage and provide a vital resource for creative, cultural and commercial activities in archaeology and beyond. Yet, without long-term commitment to active preservation and access, this resource is under threat from loss, fragmentation and obsolescence and will ultimately be lost. Digital Preservation requires effective management, meaningful access and reliable, verifiable research to ensure the potential of data is realised. Collaboration between data creators and curators is key to preservation management and ensures data remains accessible for posterity.

Convened under the auspices of the Digital Preservation Coalition, the Bedern Group is an alliance of key agencies concerned with the long term preservation of the intellectual record of the historic environment of the UK. We welcome papers for our session from data creators and curators addressing issues such as awareness, training, collecting and charging policies, data standards and accessibility

Proposals for this particular session needs to be submitted to peter.mckeague@rcahms.gov.uk, Historic Environment Scotland.

Deadline: 14 October 2016

For further details  about the conference and list of proposed sessions please see: http://archaeologists.net/conference/2017

Naples (Italy), 27 November – 1 December 2016

‘The combination of the Internet and emerging technologies such as near-field and BLE communications, real-time localization, and embedded sensors lets us transform everyday objects into smart objects that can understand and react to their environment.

In the last years, Cultural Heritage has turned out to be one of the most suitable domains in which such achievements can be profitably exploited, since it characterizes a domain where several aspects have to be considered at the same time. In line with SITIS tradition of promoting interdisciplinary research, the international workshop on Visions on Internet of Cultural Things and Applications, VICTA ’16, aims to be a profitable informal working day to discuss together hot topics about Internet of Things and its applications within the Smart City and the Cultural Heritage domain.’

Topics of interest

• Internet of Things.
• Innovative ICT solutions within Cultural environments (e.g. museums, exhibitions, etc.)
• Smart Objects and Smart Environments
• Smart City solutions
• Knowledge classification and semantic representation in Cultural environments
• Embedded platforms and sensors
• Multimedia systems, applications and services for Cultural Heritage
• Multimedia recommendations and User profiling techniques
• Interactive 3D media and immersive environments
• Data in social networks
• Data mining analytics applied to Smart Cities
• Data collection and management
• Semantic-Web data
• Big Data in Cultural Heritage applications
• User studies, such as museum and sites applications, human interfaces, interaction and usability
• e-Learning: Tools for Education, Documentation and Training in Cultural Heritage

Call for papers: submission deadline 6 September 2016

    VICTA 2016

Cultural Heritage: Reuse, Remake, Reimagine

Berlin, (Germany), 21-22 November 2016

Venue: Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art.

Digitization is progressing at Cultural Institutions, and previously hidden treasures of Cultural Heritage are becoming visible. However, in today’s digital society existing on the web is not enough. Audiences want to engage with culture, they want to create their own stories not just read the ones that exist, they want to integrate the information in their teaching, their creative projects, they want to play with the material, not only look at it: they want to reuse, they want to remake, they want to reimagine.

The third conference from the Europeana Space project will showcase the myriad ways that cultural heritage can be used and enriched through new technologies, innovation and the ingenuity of the creative industries. Attendance is free.

Click here for more information. 

CHNT 21 2016:  Urban Archaeology and Data: Re-use and Repurposing of Archaeological and Historical Material and Data

City Hall of Vienna, Austria on November 16-18, 2016

Ever increasing understanding of our primary sources and technological progress have led to higher and higher standards of recording and analysis in archaeological and historical research.

Session Topics

• Preservation and Re-Use of Digital Archaeological Research Data with Open Archival Information Systems
• Digging for the Digital Dividend: Information Systems and Excavation Data
• The Employment of Mobile Applications for Survey, Documentation and Information
• Combining ‘physical’ and ‘digital’ in archaeological practice: collaborative visualisation during excavation
• New realities2: virtual, augmented reality and other techniques in Cultural Heritage for the general public
• 3D reconstruction as an interpretative melting pot of the (art-)historical data
• Photogrammetry in Underwater and Aerial Archaeology
• (Inter)relating to the Dead
• PhD / Master Session

Round Table

• Long-term preservation and access: Where is an archive for my data?
• The integration between archaeology and history based on ICT
• Target Groups, Users, Followers, Fans – The Nature and Potential of Social Data in Archaeology

Derry (Northern Ireland), 11-12 October 2016

CARARE Best Practice Network has joined forces with the Discovery Programme and the FabLab Nerve Centre to organise two days of Digital Heritage Events in Derry Guildhall, Northern Ireland with the focus on looking at how we can promote digital cultural heritage data (with the focus on archaeology and architecture) and how it can be re-used across a range of sectors.

Programme

• A hands-on workshop for school children and teachers “How can education reuse data?”, organised in conjunction with the FabLab
• CARARE network meeting
• A workshop/assembly to explore the uses of cultural heritage data across education, tourism, the creative industries and in communities for co-creation projects.

The CARARE Best Practice Network was funded under the European Commission’s ICT Policy Support Programme and was designed to involve and support Europe’s network of heritage agencies and organisations, archaeological museums and research institutions and specialist digital archives in:

• making the digital content for the archaeology and architectural heritage that they hold available through Europeana,
• aggregating content and delivering services,
• and enabling access to 3D and Virtual Reality content through Europeana.

CARARE website: http://www.carare.eu/ 

Collections, connections, collaborations: from potential to impact

Salford, 10 – 12 October 2016

Venue: The Lowry, Pier 8, Salford Quays, M50 3AZ

DCDC2016 conference will look at the varied and innovative ways in which archives, museums, libraries, and academia can help realise the potential of collections and translate this into social, cultural, and economic impact.

The main conference themes will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Beyond apps: how technology can be used to enhance the impact of heritage collections and their place within society.
• Dynamic partnerships: academic impact and collaboration with heritage organisations
• Future and hidden histories: exploring new narratives for our collections
• Out of the strong room and into the street: new uses for collections within social, cultural and economic contexts
• Show me the money: new frontiers for funding and fundraising
• Who do we think we’re for? Working with new audiences and taking heritage “outside of heritage”
• Making collections work harder: social impact and cohesion through heritage
• Joining the dots: connecting collections and communities

Genova, Italy, 5-7 October 2016.

The 14th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2016) aims to foster an international dialogue between ICT experts and CH scientists to have a better understanding of the critical requirements for processing, managing, and delivering cultural information to a broader audience.

The objective of the workshop is to present and showcase new developments within the overall process chain, from data acquisition, analysis and synthesis, 3D documentation, and data management, to new forms of interactive presentations and 3D printing solutions. Interdisciplinary approaches for analysis, classification and interpretation of cultural artefacts are particularly relevant to the event.

The intention of GCH 2016 is also to establish a scientific forum for scientists and CH professionals to exchange and disseminate novel ideas and techniques in research, education and dissemination of Cultural Heritage, transfer them in practice, and trace future research and technological directions.

Topics

•    2/3/4D data acquisition and processing in Cultural Heritage
•    Multispectral imaging and data fusion
•    Digital acquisition, representation and communication of intangible heritage
•    Material acquisition analysis
•    Heterogeneous data collection, integration and management
•    3D printing of cultural assets
•    Shape analysis and interpretation
•    Similarity and search of digital artefacts
•    Visualization and Virtual Museums
•    Multi-modal and interactive environments and applications for Cultural Heritage
•    Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
•    Semantic-aware representation of digital artefacts (metadata, classification schemes, annotation)
•    Digital libraries and archiving of 3D documents
•    Standards and documentation
•    Serious games in Cultural Heritage
•    Storytelling and design of heritage communications