http://www.interpret-europe.net/fileadmin/Documents/publications/interpret_europe_trend_analysis_2016.pdf As part of Interpret Europe’s (IE) strategic development process, this study is based on a short-term volunteer research project undertaken by 15 IE...
What is on the five-year horizon for museums? Which trends and technologies will drive changes to museum education and interpretation? What are the challenges that we consider as solvable or difficult to overcome, and how can we strategize effective...
Celebration of ViMM’s TA5 Working Groups Kick-off workshop on May 19 at Poblenou Campus of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
Museums are turning to virtual reality, apps, and interactive experiences to keep tech-savvy visitors engaged.
Introduction The Demand TA addresses ways in which VM can support the economic and social development of the CH sector by capitalizing on developments such as the multiplier effect of use of digital cultural resources in many fields, such as tourism, education, urban...
Introduction The Demand TA addressed ways in which VM can support the economic and social development of the CH sector by capitalizing on developments such as the multiplier effect of use of digital cultural resources in many fields, such as tourism, education, urban...
Introduction The Demand TA addresses ways in which VM can support the economic and social development of the CH sector by capitalising on developments such as the multiplier effect of use of digital cultural resources in many fields, such as tourism, education, urban...
Vi-MM is going to be presented at this year's conference of the German Museum Association (Deutscher Museumsbund) in Berlin, taking place from May 7 - 10, 2017. Theme of the conference is "digital. economic. relevant. Museums are changing!" The German expert group on...
Invitation to register for a workshop on Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana to be held in Leiden on the 13-14th June
1st Call for PapersSPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONSPart of the 11th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2017), November 28th – December 1st 2017, Tallinn, EstoniaSubmission deadline: June 15th,...
The team of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute ArchPro and their partner ZAMG have made new discoveries regarding gladiatorial games in Roman Carnuntum (Austria). Using latest geophysical prospection methods the archaeologists have revealed – without excavation – a yet unknown amphitheater and an entire city area containing essential infrastructure for Roman spectacles. The ArchPro Carnuntum project was carried out with the collaboration of the county of Lower Austria.
The European Commission and Europa Nostra revealed the winners of the 2017 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, Europe's top honour in the heritage field. The 29 laureates from 18 countries are being recognised for their notable...
Advancement in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and GeoinformaticsThe lectures will focus on trends and achievements of the following topics:Sensors and Data AcquisitionPhotogrammetry, Computer Vision and Remote...
The workshop assessed the potential of Copernicus in support of Cultural Heritage preservation and management, and to provide inputs for further research and/or operational implementation.The objectives of the workshop were:To identify intermediate and end-users'...
An extensive analysis and overview of availability of, needs for and use of technologies surrounding VR/AR used by CH. This includes interfaces, user interaction, community building, design, embodiment, tools, technologies, programming languages, etc.
The England's Historic Cities app tells the stories of several UK's famous heritage sites. Using innovative new mobile technology, visitors can gain new insights into the history of twelve historic locations. There are trigger points scattered throughout each...
1.Scope and ObjectivesThis working group focused on Gamification elements that will be integrated to the VMs. Gamification elements have the potential to motivate visitors to further research and explore the VM. Serious games are considered an ideal example of...
1. Scope and ObjectivesThe feeling of presence in a VR game can potentially enrich the learning elements as users will perform tasks in a digital environment very similar to the real world. An immersive environment sets an ideal canvas to present the content of a...
1.Scope and ObjectivesThe way in which the content of a museum is presented is a factor that needs much attention. There are various ways to present an exhibition but which one is more suitable considering the medium in which it is presented? A storytelling experience...
Scope and Objectives This Working Group of ViMM worked on a typology of virtual entities (e.g. virtual exhibition/ digital exhibition, virtual visitor, hologram, virtual reconstructions, 3D object, etc.). This typology resulted in a set of definitions outlining the...
Scope and Objectives ViMM Working Group 3.2 focussed the following aspects: Starting from an existing metadata element set (CIDOC-CRMdig, LIDO) and relating to the standards identified by ViMM Thematic Area 1, WG 3.2 experts analysed the applicability of these sets...
Scope and ObjectivesThis working group collected best-practice examples from different fields of automatic information extraction, relevant to digital cultural heritage like: text-mining, image pattern recognition (interpretation) etc., but especially of UAV supported...
WG 6.1 – Flowchart of the digitalization process– Terms of Reference Scope and Objectives The Discovery Thematic Area has taken a broader look at Virtual museums, looking into digitisation as a process. Together with WG 6.1 the TA worked on a flowchart for...
WG 6.2 – Handling 3D-data and metadata of the digitized entities – Terms of Reference Scope and Objectives TA6, together with WG 6.2, analysed data handling in two ways: 1) data handling of 3D data in general; 2) interlinking between the 3D-data and...
WG 1.1 - Prospects from cooperation – Terms of Reference Scope and Objectives The aim of this working group was o set up a portrait of the situation in the cooperation process between the different stakeholders and raise the main factors that will help to...
SPECTRUM 5.0 consultation draft now online for commentThe consultation draft for SPECTRUM 5.0, the UK collections management standard that is also used by museums in many countries around the world, is now online at...
ITN-DCH FINAL CONFERENCE is an international event for the professionals of multiple disciplines and scholars working in the Digital Cultural Heritage domain. The aim of the conference is to bring together experts, stakeholders and researchers from the cultural domain...
"The VERGE" showed in the past the truth about HoloLens, the most expected device that will boost the Augmented Reality experience. Today they broadcast that "Software developers have managed to create 150 apps for the headset over the past year. Some unique apps...
Joint Event:Conference on Digital Encounters with Cultural Heritage / Workshop on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries March 30-31, 2017, Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB), Dresden, Germany Urban history, drawing on...
“Museums and virtual museums in Europe: reaching expectations”. A scientific paper published by Sofia Pescarin, director of CNR-ITABC, at SciresIt.
On February 22-23rd,Emotive held its first User Workshop at the University of Glasgow. The event brought together a small group of cultural and creative experts for two days of intensive, hands-on prototyping and preliminary evaluation work. Leading international...
meSch, Material EncounterS with digital Cultural Heritage, has just ended with great success. This project, funded by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme ‘ICT for access to cultural resources’, ran from 2013 to 2017. It goal was to design, develop and...
PLUGGY is organizing the Workshop “Plug into Cultural Heritage” as part of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment – INTETAIN 2017 that will be held in June 20–22, 2017 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
Link: http://www.intetain.org/2017/show/TPICH-2017
Museums and the Web is the only annual conference dedicated to exploring the on-line presentation of cultural, scientific and heritage content across institutions and around the world.
See all past conferences on-line and search papers here: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/
WG 1.1 - What is a Virtual Museum - Terms of Reference Scope and Objectives WG1.1 Collected definitions available for virtual museums as an input for the discussion, taking account of definitions provided in important earlier work, such as the V-MUST project,...
Scope and ObjectivesFor each type of Virtual Museum there may be a different set of metadata necessary for describing the Virtual Museum as such, but also for describing the single elements / objects / entities /actions of a Virtual Museum.Using the draft list of...
Scope and ObjectivesBy Month 7 WG 1.3 created a list of international and European-level organisations whose scope of activity is relevant to VM/VCH and their future. The list included organizations such as ICOMOS, UNESCO and major European bodies. The list will be...
Athens Time-Walk is an offline guide with 3D representations of Athens’ most famous archaeological sites.
This application presents you the cultural past of Athens in a virtual and augmented environment, featuring the famous site.
Download the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.diadrasis.athensTimeWalk
Today’s latest game engines and virtual reality devices make it possible to recreate ancient worlds and build experiences with a new aim in mind, not just to see the buildings in an ancient town, but feel as if you were back then.
During the last two years we have been working to process the archaeological information of the Iberian ancient town of Ullastret to a complete 3D model of the city that can be experienced in Virtual Reality.
A team of archaeologists, designers and programmers has translated all that data to a 3D complete model built with Unreal Engine, a videogame creation software that allows new immersive outputs like 360º videos and VR environments.
The script contains key elements from the Iberian culture: their totemic animals, the social prevalence of warriors… The users are immersed in the dream of a member of the Iberian elite, who returns to the town and remembers the first time he saw the great walls, the children playing in the streets, the courtyard where he learned to fight…
The HTC Vive kit allow us to literally teleport the visitors to those town of 2200 years ago. They can physically move in a 3x3m area, where they can wander by the streets, enter a room and take a close look to the amphoras… The project can be seen too in an immersive room suited for little groups in the archaeological site where they are sorrounded by screens showing the same story but adapted to this media.
"What Shakespeare is tapping into is some of the latest cutting-edge technology in 1610 and referencing that in his work. I am absolutely sure that if Shakespeare was alive today he'd be going, 'Give me some more of that.'" Theatre has traditionally embraced...
The successor of googles cardboard is the new Daydream Headset which is especially build for high resolution mobile displays. Inspired by the clothes we enjoy wearing, the headset is made with soft, breathable fabric to help you stay comfortable. And just like your...
The LBI ArchPro’s stand for virtual archaeology at the 3rd Vienna Ball of Sciences (28.01.2017) was a huge success. Together with partner 7reasons the team presented virtual landscapes of the well-known archaeological sites Stonehenge and Carnuntum. Until the early...
Google has teamed up with the London and Berlin Natural History Museums to create a unique online exhibition featuring a staggering 300,000 specimens. Using the firm's Street View, interactive interior shots of the famous museums enable people to wander its halls from...
Virtual reality moves on to tourism presenting sites and touristic destinations. A interesting blog gathers information about the implementation of AR and VR into tourism....
During the opening keynote of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, August 16, 2016, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich unveiled Project Alloy, an all-in-one virtual reality solution leveraging Intel RealSense technology. Project Alloy will be offered as an...
Developing a volumetric display of the kind we see in science fiction movies is a dream of many display researchers. It seems that small breakthroughs are on the way as scientists of the Utsunomiya University (Japan) have proved. A interesting paper published in the...
The MAV is located a few steps away from archaeological excavations of ancient Herculaneum. It is a center of culture and technology applied to cultural heritage and communication among the most advanced in Italy. Inside is a unique and extraordinary museum: a virtual...
With the question in mind what really constitutes a "virtual museum" one can simply ask the search engines and soon will be brought to "virtualmuseum.ca", which calls itself "The largest digital source of stories and experiences shared by Canada’s museums and heritage...
Article published in the Art Spotlight Sketchfab blog on the proposal to create a methodology to recreate virtually polychrome sculptures and models of classic and medieval architecture. Art Spotlight: Romanesque Polychrome...
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The first ever ballet especially made for VR, created by &samhoud media in collaboration with the Dutch National Ballet, has arrived. Night Fall is an original ballet piece conceptualized and choreographed by Peter Leung and directed by Jip Samhoud and Marijn Korver....
Australians will soon be able to go back to the dinosaur age and walk among the prehistoric creatures that roamed our state, thanks to Deakin University innovation. While most researchers spend their days trying to take the world into the future, Deakin researchers...
ITN-DCH FINAL CONFERENCE is an international event for the professionals working in the Digital Cultural Heritage domain. The aim of the conference is to bring together experts and leaders from the cultural heritage domain and, addressing the current challenges, start...
Historium Brugge Historium takes you back in time to medieval Bruges (15th century). This historical attraction is a one-hour total experience where decors, film, music and special effects merge into a magical experience that excites your senses. You will be escorted...
Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage organizes a unique conference in Slovenia (23-25th May), do not miss out the chance to submit your extended abstract!Visit http://www.digitalheritage2017.eu/ to find out more details about the conference and the...
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Visitors to museums across Europe may soon be able to shape their own cultural experience before even leaving home or getting on a plane thanks to an innovation which uses mobile, augmented reality and geo-localisation technologies to turn an ordinary museum visit...
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This paper presents a multi-user virtual heritage application that allows children to experience and learn the hunting strategies depicted in a cave painting from 6000 BC. The application is based on a multi-touch vertical screen that allows for full-body interaction through carefully defined gestures that search to provide sufficient ecological naturalness and experimentation freedom to the users. This paper gives a detailed account on the experience and interaction design, agent programming and multi-touch technology. It also presents an experimental set-up, especially designed to assess the impact of the installation in the educational goal, the usability of the experience and the results obtained.
Keywords: children, interaction, education, interactive communication, multitouch, HCI, museography, virtual heritage, cave paintings, full-body interaction
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CRUNCH NETWORKMuseums, startups and accelerators… oh, my!https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/02/museums-startups-and-accelerators-oh-my/
Conference on Collection Management organized by the AG Sammlungsmanagement (SIG Documentation) of the German Museum Association in Freiburg / Breisgau, April 27-29, 2017
Virtual Museums, a history - Part 1: the originsA brief history of virtual museums. Part 1: from early experiments to different types of digital museum to the virtual Guggenheim by Asymptote architects Virtual Museums, a history - Part 2: now and beyondHistory of...
LIFEPLUS proposes an innovative 3D reconstruction of ancient frescos-paintings through the real-time revival of their fauna and flora, featuring groups of virtual animated characters with artificial life dramaturgical behaviours, in an immersive AR environment. Read...
With the research “High Fashion in Equations”, a group of researchers at MIRALab, University of Geneva, virtually brought to life18 haute couture garments out of original ancient fashion drawings from designers such as Marc Bohan, Serge Guérin and Hubert de Givenchy,...
Rome Reborn: Take a Virtual Tour of Ancient Rome, Circa 320 C.E. A few years ago, we featured Rome Reborn, which is essentially “a 3D digital model of the Eternal City at a time when Ancient Rome’s population had reached its peak (about one million) and the first...
Khronos announces VR standards initiative The Khronos Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies, announced a call for participation in a new initiative to define a cross-vendor, royalty-free, open standard for access to modern VR devices....
The Church of St.Charles in Vienna is one of the most important baroque buildings in Austria and was used for a case study for 3d documentation and gamification through VR Headsets and Touch applications. Your watching a sneak preview -video of the VR Tour and can...
The Church of St.Charles in Vienna is one of the most important baroque buildings in Austria and was used for a case study for 3d documentation and gamification through VR Headsets and Touch applications.
VI-MM representatives will attend the International Europeana Space conference taking place in Berlin from November 21 - November 22, 2016. The conference will bring together GLAMs, stakeholders, creatives, start-ups and tech-nerds from all over Europe. This year's...
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The creation process of cinematic storytelling relied mainly on rendered sequences (of images) which where pre calcutated and therefore took a lot of time to process. Within the past few years GPU (graphic processing unit of the computers graphic card) was integrated...
Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts ‘The Foremost European Electronic Imaging Events in the Visual Arts’ EVA 2017 Florence Conference, Training & Workshops 10 - 11 May 2017 Main Topics 2D – 3D Digital Image Acquisition Leading Edge Applications: Galleries,...
CIDOC, the Documentation Committee in ICOM, the International Council of Museums, will held its 2017 conference in Tbilisi, Georgia from 25 September to 29 September 2017. The topic will be: Documentation - Past, Present, Future .... More information will be given...
NEMO – the Network of European Organisations annual conference this year in Germany
The virtual museum of the Designer Valentino Garavani is one of the most elegant solutions i have seen. Its mainly focusing on the morphology of his career and its resulting highlights in reflection to the fashion world. Technically the site was composed in a realtime...
Call CULT-COOP-06-2017 Research under this topic will critically assess the current state of cultural institutions and investigate new ways to develop the role of European culture ministries, cultural institutions and their networks as cultural service providers and...
Imagine being able to visit the Louvre, the Rijksmuseum and the Guggenheim all in one day! Imagine looking at the world’s most famous masterpieces from your favourite chair in your own home. Imagine being able to look around museums and visit heritage sites that you...
Call H2020-SC6-CULT-COOP-09-2016-2017 Collections in archives, museums, and at cultural heritage sites contain a wealth of digital texts, images, audio-visual content and 3D representations of objects or scenes as well as other information such as multispectral or...
The London Charter for the Computer-based Visualisation of Cultural Heritage was conceived, in 2006, as a means of ensuring the methodological rigour of computer-based visualization as a means of researching and communicating cultural heritage. Also sought was a means...
International Principles of Virtual Archaeology The Seville Principles 2011 Today, the worldwide application of computer-based visualisation in the field of archaeological heritage may be described as full of “lights and shadows”. The spectacular growth of cultural...
Bruges is famous and beloved worldwide. This Flemish city of art is one of the most renowned cultural heritage cities in Europe and the world. In 2000 Unesco named the inner city of Bruges a World Heritage Site, which is unique for Belgium and rare in Europe. Bruges...
LIFEPLUS is an EU funded project that commenced in March 2002 and was successfully completed in November 2004, under the scientific coordination of Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Tlahmann from MIRalab-Switzerland and the administrative coordination of Prof. Panos Trahanias from...
The mobile application "Roman Maastricht" was released in spring 2016 and features various 3d realtime technologies for mobile android and ios devices presenting the City of Maastricht in its heyday in the roman period. The famous Jupiter Sanctuary situated in the...
Yearly eveny organized by Fundació Recerca (a Catalan science foundation). During one week, different research institutions open their doors to the general public and hold different outreach activities. One of the topics this year is the local/global relationship. It...
A meeting with the curatorial team of Museu Episcopal de Vic (Catalonia, Spain) has been scheduled for early november (after ViMM kick-off meeting) to present the project, its goals, contributions from and opportunities for the museum...
Ms Mireia Romero is currently conducting a PhD research projects on Virtual Museums at the Department of Didactics of the Social Sciences at the University of Barcelona. She will design, implement and evaluate a virtual museum about the Fatarella Civil War heritage...
Pujol, L. and Lorente-Gall, A. (2013), "The Virtual Museum: a quest for the standard definition", in G. Earl, T. Sly, A. Chrysanthi, P. Murrieta-Flores, C. Papadopoulos, I. Romanowska and D. Wheatley (Eds), Proceedings of the International Conference Computer...
In this article we present a general classification of the different approaches that might be employed to constitute a visual representation of a cultural heritage item, including the ones featuring the use of traditional tools as the ones exhibiting the inclusion of...
Although the widespread use of gaming for leisure purposes has been well documented, the use of games to support cultural heritage purposes, such as historical teaching and learning, or for enhancing museum visits, has been less well considered. The state-of-the-art...
This paper presents an innovative 3D reconstruction of ancient frescos-paintings through the real-time revival of their fauna and flora, featuring groups of virtual animated characters with artificial life dramaturgical behaviors in an immersive, fully mobile...
CHESS (Cultural Heritage Experiences through Socio-personal interactions and Storytelling) is a project, co-funded by the European Commission, that aims to integrate interdisciplinary research in personalization and adaptivity, digital storytelling, interaction...
No other spot in the Netherlands can match the history of the Domplein in Utrecht. If is faced with only one problem: a major part of this history is under the ground and literally passed over by everyone. Domplein Initiative unlocks this history in a grandiose...
he French national heritage and Histovery have co-produced a new way of immersing visitors in their surroundings which is interactive, educational and fun, but is also at the cutting edge of technology. HistoPad will delight all kinds of visitors when they use...
Rijksstudio has been redesigned. Our website is now easier to use and even more visual. Mobile first Mobile is booming. Billions of people now use smart phones. For many of them, a smart phone is their first computer; a computer that they can use anytime and anywhere....
visitors to the newly extended Tate Modern can now discover a host of new ways to interact with, understand and debate modern art. The new Tate app uses location-aware technology to guide visitors on their journey around the museum and learn more about the art they...
meSch, Material EncounterS with digital Cultural Heritage, has the goal of designing, developing and deploying tools for the creation of tangible interactive experiences that connect the physical dimension of museums and exhibitions with relevant digital cross-media...
The 3D-COFORM consortium has one over-riding aim: to establish 3D documentation as an affordable, practical and effective mechanism for long term documentation of tangible cultural heritage. In order to make this happen the consortium is highly conscious that both the...
Indicators on the Impact of Cultural Activities on Democracy This collection of research papers, (draft) documents and comments intends to foster a broader debate on methodological and content issues of projects aiming at the development of indicator frameworks or...
The "Tholos" is the (FHW) Foundation's new dome-shaped Virtual Reality "Theatre" with a capacity of 130 people. It is a building of exceptional architectural design and with unique technological infrastructure, which hosts FHW's digital collections. The "Tholos"...
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