Robin Higgons, Qi3

This document outlines the vision and goals of E-RIHS, a proposed European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science. E-RIHS aims to be a flagship infrastructure that provides access to analytical instruments, scientific archives, and mobile laboratories for advanced study and preservation of cultural heritage objects and collections. It identifies key priorities such as developing interdisciplinary collaborations, connecting knowledge through data sharing, and ensuring excellence, ethics, quality, and community engagement in heritage science research. The infrastructure is intended to foster new discoveries, methods, and generations of scientists working at the intersection of heritage and science.

Matija Strlic, UCL

This document discusses heritage scientists, including what they study, where they are employed, their backgrounds and fields of expertise. Heritage scientists work in materials analysis and the scientific investigation of cultural heritage to better understand and manage decay mechanisms, and to enhance understanding of the past. They are employed in universities, research institutions and cultural heritage organizations. The largest numbers are found in the UK, USA, Italy and China. Their work has significant economic and societal impacts, and the E-RIHS project aims to foster collaboration and provide a shared identity within the heritage science community.

Roberto Ferrari, Regione Toscana

This document discusses the relationship between science and society. It notes issues with how the internet, education, and mass media currently interact with science. It argues that engaged scholars are needed to help address these issues and promote evidence-based public policy solutions. The author believes cultural heritage can help unite society and that tools for monitoring and analysis can help develop optimal funding strategies to balance research timelines with institutional needs and ensure research relevance.

Emilio Cano, IPCE

The CSIC-IPCE cooperation for heritage science in Spain outlines the collaboration between the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute (IPCE) on research projects, scientific advice, strategic planning, and organization of events related to cultural heritage conservation. CSIC is Spain's largest research institution with 15,000 staff including 3,000 researchers across 120 institutes. IPCE is the national institution for cultural heritage conservation and study with 103 staff. Since 1990, CSIC and IPCE have worked together through a framework agreement between CSIC and the Ministry of Culture. Their collaboration helps advance heritage science in Spain.

Alison Heritage, ICCROM

This document discusses the global challenges facing heritage science. It notes that heritage encompasses both the arts and sciences, as well as both past and present. Cultural heritage provides insights into how different cultures are organized. The document outlines the many fields that contribute to heritage science today, and questions how this may evolve tomorrow. It examines inequalities between the global north and south in areas like knowledge generation and research collaboration. The goal of science should be to address grand societal challenges through open knowledge systems and global collaboration. Measuring the real-world impact of research is difficult but important. Stakeholder participation is key to ensuring research has relevance and impact.

ICCROM Forum 2013: Conservation Science

ICCROM

This document provides an overview of the ICCROM Forum 2013 on Conservation Science. The Forum was a strategic think tank meeting organized by ICCROM that brought together 80 people from 27 countries to discuss how conservation science can better support conservation practice and contribute to wider societal needs. It was funded by a consortium of 15 cultural heritage organizations from 14 countries. Participants engaged in evidence-based discussion on trends in conservation research and training. The Forum featured inspiring keynotes from experts in science and policy and concluded by developing consensus recommendations and next steps to build an integrated and impactful future for conservation science.

Eaa2021 session 476 abstracts

The COVID-19 pandemic unleashed during 2020 implied a change in the way of doing archaeology on a global scale. In Argentina, in particular, activities had to move to the domestic sphere and, most times, the possibility of carrying out fieldwork, material analysis and collection management in the usual workplaces was lost. This practice showed the need for repositories, libraries and online databases that would allow access to archaeological information. Suquía, the institutional repository of IDACOR, has been compiling and disseminating archaeological information since 2016, although it had not yet developed its capacity to include databases that would allow meta-analysis of the information hosted. So, the needs raised by the lockdown led to implementing an action aimed at incorporating data from 1938 archaeological sites in the Province of Córdoba (Argentina) together with IDACORDIG (an implementation of the Arches software) which links this set to a spatial database, creating a gazetteer of archaeological sites for the region. This integration is the first of its kind in Argentina, and fosters an increase in primary information and grey literature visibility, together with publications preprints and prints that allow continuity in the study of archaeology on a regional scale. In this presentation we will characterize this process and its technical aspects to aware on the potential of this type of platform for its integration into digital infrastructures of global impact.

Disaster and Risk Management: ICCROM Experience and Roadmap for the Future

ICCROM

This document discusses ICCROM's experience with and plans for disaster risk management of cultural heritage. It notes that both conflicts and natural disasters threaten cultural heritage in places like Mali and the Philippines. ICCROM has provided "First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict" trainings since 2010 to build skills for protecting cultural heritage during crises. These trainings bring together professionals from various fields in over 40 countries. ICCROM also works with partners like UNESCO, ICOMOS, and national governments on additional training programs and strategies. Going forward, ICCROM aims to establish a new collaborative program to strengthen capacity for cultural heritage protection during disasters and increase resilience through research, training, and communication.

Eaa2021 476 preserving historic building documentation pakistan

Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, FECYT

Like many countries around the world, Pakistan was forced to go into a COVID-19 national lockdown in March 2020. While this confined most people to their homes, it also had the unintended consequence of catapulting many institutions into embracing going digital. At the National College of Arts (NCA), Pakistan’s oldest art school, this meant embracing online tools and digital resources that had previously been resisted or under utilized in the teaching of art, design, and architecture. The experiences of lockdown have highlighted inadequacies and inequities within our systems, and as Pakistan returns to normal there is a renewed will to maintain the momentum gained during the pandemic, and an increased realization of the need for developing and sustaining digital infrastructures. The National College of Arts Archives collect and preserve the records, manuscripts, and other artefacts of historical and archaeological significance at the National College of Arts. From March 2021, the NCA Archives are initiating a project to collect, preserve, and digitize historic building documentation created at the NCA over the past 145 years. This paper will follow this process and document the NCA Archive’s attempt at creating a Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) database of historic building documentation in Pakistan. It will summarize the experiences of the six-month pilot project, including opportunities that have arisen in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, and in light of the Government of Pakistan’s ongoing Digital Pakistan initiative. The paper will also document and analyze the difficulties and hurdles that might emerge during the course of the project as the NCA Archive’s digital infrastructure is built from the ground up in a post-colonial setting and a post-COVID world.

Exploiting Digital Datasets

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Scientix 5th SPNE London 24 April 2015: EU Space Awareness

Brussels, Belgium

The document outlines the Space Awareness project which aims to inspire students, particularly girls and ethnic minorities, about space science careers using educational resources on space, Earth observation, and Galileo. The project will develop educational kits, provide access to existing materials, create a space career hub, and support teachers. Run from 2015-2018 by 10 European partners, it expects to reach over 120,000 students through 150 events and 3,500 trained teachers.

Jan Simons (UvA) over call Reflective 6 van Horizon 2020

Media Perspectives

This document discusses potential projects for the Horizon2020 Reflective 6 call on innovation ecosystems of digital cultural assets. It describes four potential projects: 1. Augmenting Masterpieces, which would develop interfaces between the physical and digital collections of the Rijksmuseum to augment visitors' experiences. 2. Modeling Crowdsourcing for Cultural Heritage (M.O.C.C.A.), which would analyze crowdsourcing projects to develop a model for determining when and how crowdsourcing is appropriate. 3. Concert 3.0, a collaboration with the Royal Concertgebouw aiming to enhance the classical music concert experience through digital technologies. 4. #Hooked,

EUROPA NOSTRA FORUM 'SAVING EUROPE'S ENDANGERED HERITAGE' - Stelios Lekakis -...

Europa Nostra

Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología

The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) promotes scientific culture, increases social participation in science, analyzes research and innovation metrics, provides services to support the R&D+I system, and supports the internationalization of Spanish science. FECYT manages funding calls and programs that support scientific dissemination projects, competitions, camps and activities for students and the public to engage with science. It also collects and analyzes indicators on the status of Spanish science and innovation to monitor policies and resources.

bellamy_budapest

Craig Bellamy

The document discusses the Arts-Humanities.net project which aims to advance computational methods in digital humanities. It does this by developing a taxonomy to capture and structure knowledge in the field through mapping methods and building an online resource. The project involves partners from various universities and seeks to promote digital scholarship, preservation of resources, and use of metadata.

Transcribathons as citizen science projects: a comparative analysis of Europ...

Global Risk Forum GRFDavos

International Platform for Reducing Earthquake Disasters (IPRED)

IPRED is an international platform that aims to reduce earthquake disasters through three main activities: 1) Exchanging information on seismology and earthquake engineering between member institutions. 2) Establishing a system to dispatch experts after earthquakes to conduct field investigations and share lessons. 3) Addressing policy issues related to reducing earthquake risks such as building codes.

Ljubica Urosevic, Serbia - PCST2012

UNESCO Venice Office

This document provides an overview of science communication activities in Serbia. It discusses several key organizations that promote science engagement, including the Petnica Science Center, the Centre for Science Promotion, and the Nikola Tesla Museum. It also notes that while science programming on television has declined, radio and print media still cover science to a limited extent. Overall, the document outlines Serbia's current science communication landscape and some opportunities to strengthen engagement through additional journalist training and regional networking.

Dariah Advisory Board June 2009 Peter

pkdoorn

This document discusses the need for a new digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities called DARIAH. It outlines how humanities research is increasingly relying on large digital datasets and resources requiring networked infrastructure. The document describes how DARIAH would provide access to digitized cultural heritage resources and tools to analyze these resources. It also discusses the organizational structure and partnerships needed to establish DARIAH and ensure its long-term sustainability to support innovative digital humanities research across Europe.

Digital Resources for the Eighteenth Century

Alastair Dunning

The document discusses JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and its role in providing digital resources for the 18th century. It provides an overview of JISC's activities such as negotiating access to resources, funding digitization projects, and addressing issues around finding, prioritizing, and measuring the impact of digitized special collections and 18th century materials. Key projects mentioned include 18th century parliamentary papers and various digitized collections that will be available online in autumn 2009.

Introduction to the Session: Open Access and Open Data as Steps towards an Op...

Citizen enhanced open science in the cultural heritage sector

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS)

This document summarizes 8 citizen science initiatives in Belgium that contribute to open science and cultural heritage. The initiatives engage citizens in activities like crowdsourcing annotations, sharing migration stories, and documenting street art. They aim to move beyond just having citizens collect data by involving them throughout the research process. The initiatives vary in their openness, with some openly sharing datasets, metadata, and results while others are less transparent. Overall they demonstrate how citizen science can enhance open science and cultural heritage but more work is still needed to formalize open data standards and ensure projects follow core open science principles.

Cultural Heritage & H2020

locloud

This document summarizes funding opportunities and initiatives from the European Commission related to cultural heritage and the digital economy. It outlines recommendations and directives on digitizing cultural works. Major funding programs mentioned include Horizon 2020, which allocates €12.5 billion to ICT research, and the Connecting Europe Facility, which provides €1 billion for digital infrastructure projects like Europeana. Specific calls are noted that provide funding for areas like virtual museums, increasing access to cultural works, and boosting collaboration between artists and technologists.

The Library as a Digital Research infrastructure: Digital Initiatives and Dig...

lorna_hughes

Memory institutions have built up expertise and taken the lead in all aspects of digital humanities, especially the development and implementation of digital methods for the capture, analysis and dissemination of archives and special collections, including manuscripts. In recent years, these initiatives have become embedded into Digital Humanities Initiatives, Centres and Programmes within research libraries, adding value to the existing relationships between libraries and scholarly iniatiatives. These activities have fostered the development of new projects that bring into collaboration the skills and expertise of academics, librarians, and digital humanists, making the Library increasingly a “digital research infrastructure”. This presentation will discuss these developments based on the experience of the Research Programme in Digital Collections at the National Library of Wales, specifically discussing some recent experimentation with new methods for manuscript digitization and dissemination, including hyperspectral digitization of the Library’s Chaucer manuscripts. The presentation will also discuss the wider embedding of this work within the European Digital Humanities Context, through collaborations with the ESF Research Network Programe NeDiMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities).

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Miguel Navas-Fernández

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CONUL Conference

Librarians are well-positioned to take on leadership roles and partner with other university departments due to their expertise in areas like data management, curation, and ensuring inclusive and ethical use of information. As technologies like artificial intelligence advance, librarians can help address privacy concerns and make sure AI systems are optimized for both human and machine use of information. Their skills in organizing and providing access to information also make libraries important partners in developing the data capabilities needed for institutions to successfully implement AI.

AHRC Digital Transformations theme: the Story So Far

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