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Fetched On: April 23rd, 2013
Auto-tagged: Europe Contribution: Beth Daley
Name: Beth Daley
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Blog by Milena Popova, Europeana Senior Marketing Specialist.
On 18 April, the Foundation for the History of Technology in Eindhoven – ‘the city of bulbs and brains’ – hosted a discussion about ways of diffusing historical knowledge via new media with a focus on two case studies – the Golden Age Game and the virtual exhibit, Inventing Europe.
The first case study presents scientific knowledge in a gaming format. Gamers acting as merchants during the Dutch Golden Age can get acquainted with the ins and outs of the financial markets of the time. The Inventing Europe exhibit showcases an excellent online platform that connects research results with cultural heritage collections, visualising context and allowing visitors to make (sometimes unexpected) correlations. It is a pioneering collaboration between historians and cultural heritage institutions across Europe and explores the modern history of Europe through six curated exhibitions and 36 tours. These virtual journeys are based on the objects and images of partner heritage institutions and are enriched with relevant materials from Europeana collections through the Europeana API.
At the end of the event, in the presence of more than 150 researchers, students, partners and journalists, Drs Mary-Ann Schreurs, Eindhoven alderman of innovation, design, culture and public space, announced the launch of the newer version of Inventing Europe.
Drs Mary-Ann Schreurs, Eindhoven alderman, launches the new Inventing Europe site.
This portal version has built upon its technology and content to become the Inventing Europe: European Digital Museum for Science and Technology. The website now has an improved design and code, and a better functioning content management system. It also uses the new Europeana API (2.0) which ensures access to over 26 million objects from Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage and feeds the visitors’ research with extra objects in a more efficient way.
The website now includes an extended educational environment which is a result of the project’s seven-month collaboration with 11 teachers in eight universities in seven European countries. The site gives teachers access to ready-made tools for lecturing and samples of shorter and longer assignments on modern European history. There are also outlines for two complete courses built around the themes and exhibitions of Inventing Europe.
The new Inventing Europe website is launched.
With this contextually rich, very visual and interactive portal, the newly launched Inventing Europe: European Digital Museum of Technology and Science is certainly on the way to becoming a dynamic and engaging educational online space for researchers, students and cultural professionals. Explore it at www.inventingeurope.eu!
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Fetched On: April 23rd, 2013
Auto-tagged: Uncategorized Contribution: Dawid Kobiałka
Name: Dawid Kobiałka
Source Name/URN: Archaeolog
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There is always something to learn from Sherlock Holmes. It is a good sign that an archaeologist has been often identified with the private detective: The Sherlock Holmes type detective has become a common association with archaeology. Although the detective… [...]
Fetched On: April 17th, 2013
Auto-tagged: Europe Contribution: Beth Daley
Name: Beth Daley
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The Europeana Awareness project has published an online survey to be sent to around 20,000 archives across Europe. The survey, which is available in four languages, will assess the potential role of local archival collections of all kinds in the future development of Europeana. Its responses will give us a better picture of the digital holdings and planned digitisation work in local, regional, smaller and other specialised archives. This is important because archives are currently underrepresented in both the Europeana dataset and in the Europeana Network. The survey’s findings will go some way to helping us look at how to address this problem.
The survey will be open until the end of May and the findings will be analysed in June, after which time they will be shared with the Network.
If you work for a local, regional or specialist archive, please help us to ensure that the wealth of valuable digital content held by Europe’s archives of all kinds is fully accessible through Europeana in the years to come by taking the survey and joining the Europeana Network.
A pilot survey carried out in 2012 began the process of scoping out digitisation in local archives. This chart shows the answers to the question, ‘By how much is the amount of digital content likely to increase by 2017?’
Why are local archives important?
Local and regional archives are broadly defined to include heritage objects, documents and knowledge held, for example, by local history societies, associations for genealogical studies, church councils etc. as well as municipal and regional archives. This currently underexploited sector forms a bridge between the more formal cultural institutions whose content is currently ingested by Europeana on the one hand and user-generated content on the other. A vast reservoir of potential content exists in such collections. For the public, they provide a vital link to their own local cultural history, and beyond that to both the cultural history of others and more widely known heritage. Proper digitisation and access would greatly enhance the durability and value of these local, regional and specialist archives.
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The survey takes less than 15 mins to complete!
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Become a Network member
Once you have completed the survey, a link will take you directly to the Europeana Network registration form. Please consider becoming a Network member if you are not one already. The Europeana Network is an open forum for content providers and experts across Europe that represents and reflects the diversity of Europeana and gives its more than 600 members an opportunity to voice their views. The Europeana Network is united by a common cultural mission to ‘work together to improve access to Europe’s cultural heritage in balanced and sustainable ways’. As a Europeana Network member, you can influence strategic decisions, collaborate with experts, improve your knowledge and find new opportunities (using Europeana channels for publication, project funding, etc.).
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Fetched On: April 16th, 2013
Auto-tagged: Europe Contribution: Beth Daley
Name: Beth Daley
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Guest blog from Breda Karun, Zavod Jara, an institute for library development in Slovenia.
This is not a story of the First World War, it is a story of how Slovenian librarians, inspired by Europeana 1914-1918 Family History Roadshows, are developing new services using the principles of ‘crowdsourcing’, ‘everyday history’ and ‘user-generated content’.
Background
We started with three Europeana 1914-1918 Family History Roadshows as part of our Europeana Awareness PR campaign in spring 2012.
Hosting libraries invited volunteers from other regional and smaller libraries to help. The response was very good and we had plenty of staff on hand on the days of the roadshows. Experts on the First World War from museums and archives were also keen to be a part of it and were happy to get in contact with contributors for possible future cooperation.
Volunteers shared their positive experiences when they returned to their libraries, so more libraries decided to organise roadshows in 2013 at their own expense. Two more roadshows ran in spring 2013 and another two are coming up in the autumn.
Young and old: left, a young girl looks up at the Ljubljana roadshow poster, and right, a 100-year-old man with his contribution.
Over the five roadshows run so far, we have welcomed 130 contributors who brought with them a total of 220 stories and 900 objects.
The response from the media has been incredible. We documented 108 mentions in the media around the three collection days in 2012, and more than 50 covering our two events in 2013, including interviews on the most prominent radio and TV stations, newspapers, social media and websites.
Television interview in progress at the Ljubljana event
We noticed that the events brought satisfaction to both staff and contributors. Older people were grateful to have the opportunity to tell their stories to very enthusiastic listeners. Slovenians are traditionally introverted people, sharing their private stories mostly within their family or social group. For this reason, we didn’t expect many contributors and were positively surprised about 30-40 people coming to each event. Being able to share the stories through Europeana, Europe’s digital library, was an additional stimulation for staff and contributors.
We were so pleased with our results that we presented our experience of Family History Roadshows at the public libraries conference in Macedonia (February 2013) and at the international conference of archivists (April 2013).
A couple of the interesting objects brought to the Slovenian roadshows
Beyond World War One
The successful events sparked interest among librarians and stimulated them to come up with the idea of inviting local people to share memories related to their communities, outside the realm of WWI. One of the planned topics is industrial history – inviting people to share stories about the important industries that were ruined in the 1990s. Whole generations of people worked in factories that have since been closed or destroyed, and many people still keep photos and documents from the time when industry was flourishing.
Our enthusiasm for this type of content collection has also speeded up the development of a user-generated content module on our own regional portal (KAMRA). At present, all the information from KAMRA is uploaded to Europeana on a monthly basis. We are looking forward to discussing with Europeana how our new user-generated content could be incorporated later this year.
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Fetched On: April 8th, 2013
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Source Name/URN: Digital Humanities Questions & Answers » Recent Topics
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Greetings all, I’ve been chosen to participate in Google’s beta rollout of their heads up display product Google Glass, and am curious to hear some interesting ideas as to how such technologies might be leveraged to do interesting things in the Digital… [...]
Fetched On: April 8th, 2013
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Are there any writings on the relationship between lexicography, discourse analysis, and text/data mining? As I continue work on a keyword-specific project, I’m wondering where the theoretical, historical, and methodological overlaps are in these vari… [...]
Contribution: FotoArcheologia
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Source Name/URN: Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
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AUC Press e-Books
History and Biography
being Tafrij al-kurub fi tadbir al-hurub by ‘Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Awsi al-Ansari Edited and translated by George T. Scanlon
Foreword by Carole Hillenbrand
Free online facsimile anniversary edition
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History, Literature, and Culture Edited by Aleya Serour
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Fetched On: April 8th, 2013
Auto-tagged: Uncategorized Contribution: Beth Daley
Name: Beth Daley
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Cloud technology is a hot topic. We recently blogged about the launch of Europeana Cloud. Today, Sarah McSeveny-Aril from Arts Council Norway, tells us about another cloud-based project launched recently – LoCloud.
The launch of the LoCloud project took place at the National Archives of Norway in March. 32 partners from 28 different countries gathered on a Tuesday morning at the venue in the snow-covered forest on the outskirts of Oslo to discuss the project’s main goals: the development and strengthening of local institutions through cloud-based technology. Norway is one of the countries represented in this project with both the National Archives of Norway taking the leading role as project coordinator, and the Norwegian consultancy company Avinet as one of the technical partners in the project.
The National Archives of Norway – the snowy venue for the LoCloud launch
Content from smaller local institutions such as archives and libraries is still sorely underrepresented in the digital European arena. This important content needs to be made accessible and the current trend toward cloud-based technology could prove the solution to increasing the availability of local historical data. The LoCloud project aims to develop new cloud-based models and instruments that will offer smaller institutions user-friendly and affordable tools that can be used in the digitisation and aggregation of their data. The project will explore the possibility of a cloud-based infrastructure for aggregating local content. It will also look into developing a number of micro-services, which will be able to offer geolocation enrichment, metadata enrichment, multilingual vocabularies for local history and archaeology, a historical place name gazetteer and a Wikimedia application to handling relevant ‘crowd-sourced’ content.
The LoCloud launch in full swing
The project plans to add over 4 million new items to Europeana, and the hope is that these cloud-based services will help ensure that local content can be more easily aggregated while also increasing its searchability and interoperability. LoCloud aims to build on the achievements of CARARE in establishing a repository-based aggregator for archaeological and architectural heritage and of Europeana Local in its work with local institutions and their regional and national aggregators, which resulted in the contribution to date of well over 5 million items to Europeana.
It was clear from the kick-off that this project has a strong group of partners eager to take on the ambitious task ahead of them. As project coordinator Gunnar Urtegaard from Riksarkivet underlined during the meeting’s close: ‘If we can keep it simple for content providers, keep it simple for users and remove all the complexity in-between, then this project has the potential to be a great success.’
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Fetched On: April 4th, 2013
Auto-tagged: America, Asia, Iran, Literature, Near East, Near Eastern Studies, Open Access, open publications, Philosophy, West Asia Contribution: samarkeolog
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Source Name/URN: Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
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 “Academic cooperation between McGill University and the University of Tehran can be traced back to 1964, when Dr. Mehdi Mohaghegh, following a two year teaching position (1961-1962) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), was delegated by the University of Tehran to McGill’s Institute of Islamic Studies to teach Persian Language and Literature. During his time at the Institute (one of the first institutes of its kind in North America), Dr. Mohaghegh undertook the teaching of Shi`i Philosophy, Discourse, Mysticism, and Jurisprudence, fields not extensively studied in the west previously. It was during his time at McGill that Dr. Mohaghegh began to collaborate with Dr. Toshihiko Izutsu, a professor at the Institute, with whom he jointly published a number of texts in a series called “Wisdom of Persia” (Silsilah-i dānish-i Īrānī).”
 The site currently includes ten of the Tehran Branch publications with many more to be added.The publications are predominantly on Iranian philosophy, history of science and literature.
The Tehran Branch website is here. [...]
Contribution: eamonmelvin
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Jerusalem Virtual Library: The Academic Database on Historic JerusalemThe Jerusalem Library, initiated in 2001 by Prof. Sari Nusseibah, President of Al-Quds University and Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is meant to be a… [...]
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