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MICHAEL PORTAL
MUSEU - HUB
Devoted to European cultural heritage valorisation, Michael Culture Association gathers a strong network of more than 100 public and private organizations from all over Europe. Key actor in the promotion and valorization of the digital cultural content, Michael Culture develops tools and services for cultural institutions and the general public. Linked to other major European cultural heritage networks and projects such as Europeana, Europe's Digital Library, Michael Culture Association supports European and national cultural policies. It also aims at enhancing the network of European professionals working on digital cultural heritage, through the actions towards the Minerva Network.
Through the multilingual MICHAEL service, people are able to find and explore European digital cultural heritage material using the Internet. The MICHAEL service provides access to digital collections from museums, libraries and archives.
Access to Multilingual Inventory
MUSEU-HUB is a reference point for European museums and other cultural institutions hosting museum collections in the field of digital cultural heritage and aggregation for Europeana.
It provides services, good practices, training, help-desk, documentation, updating on digitisation, standards, aggregation, IPR and reuse, multilingualism and terminologies, digital exhibitions, digital storytelling tools.
It's managed by Michael Culture.
Access to MUSEU - Hub online platform
EUROPEAN YEAR OF CULTURAL HERITAGE 2018
EU Call : Creative Europe
Call to support cooperation projects related to the European Year for Cultural Heritage 2018 has been launched.
The Call will support transnational cooperation projects linked to some specific objectives of the Year. It is an invitation to cultural actors across the EU to get involved in the Year's activities to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space and to promote cultural heritage as a source of inspiration for contemporary artistic creation.
The deadline for submission is 22 November 2017. The start date for successful projects should be between January and September 2018, with the maximum duration of a project being 24 months.
Access the Call for proposals (Call EACEA 35/2017, category 3 of projects) here.
European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 (EYCH2018)
The European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 (EYCH2018) has been adopted by the Council and European Parliament.
7-8 December 2017 - Official launch at the European Culture Forum, Milano January until December 2018 - Events and activities around Europe
Read more ...
- Decisions, NEWS, KEY DATES: European Commission - Culture
- EYCH priorities
EUROPEAN YEAR OF CULTURAL HERITAGE: 2018
Know more about Cultural Heritage & European actions thanks to European publications :
Linking Natura 2000 and cultural heritage - case study, 2017
European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 -
Voices of Culture Stakeholder Committee
Michael Culture is one of the 38 European Networks participating to the Stakeholders' Committee preparing for the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage who will assist it in implementing the European Year of Cultural Heritage at European level.
The first meeting of the group took place on April 2017, in Brussels.
Read more about YECH 2018
Read More about Voices of Culture
NEWS
Virtual Info day 2017-3 CEF Telecom call
12.09.2017
The 2017-3 CEF Telecom calls virtual Info Day will take place on Tuesday 12 September 2017 and will cover four priorities of the 2017 CEF Telecom Calls including Europeana - generic services.
Contribute to : Europeana Task force Group Survey on Advanced documentation of 3D Digital Assets
23.08.2017
This 15 minutes long survey aims to gather your advice concerning the current and future e-documentation of 3D CH objects.
The results of this survey will be published before the end of this year on the channels of Europeana Professional (pro.europeana.eu), CIPA (Comité International de Photogrammétrie Architecturale - http://cipa.icomos.org/), Digital Heritage Research Lab (http://digitalheritagelab.eu/dhrlab/lab-overview/) and Digitale Rekonstruktion (http://www.digitale-rekonstruktion.info/uber-uns/).
Save the date : NEMO’s 25th Annual Conference: “Open Heart Surgery – The Value of Museum Collections” | 9-12 November 2017 | Ghent, Belgium
23.08.2017
MCA's partner NEMO will organize its next Annual Conference on November in Ghent.
Collections are at the heart of museums. As their core and basis, the Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) wants to take an open look at how museums operate with their collections nowadays. How do museums make their heart beat, how is it connected to other organs in the museum-body, to communities and to society?
Find out more about NEMO’s 25th Annual conference and join here: http://www.ne-mo.org/our-actions/ac2017.html
Know more about Europeana
Annual Report 2016 is online.
Highlights of 2016 include the delivery of an update to Europeana Strategy 2020, joint efforts with Cultural Heritage Institutions to improve metadata, and innovative and creative ways to engage users with the content.
Participate to Online Getty Survey
The Getty is currently in the planning stages for improving and expanding the Vocabularies LOD web site. In order to get feedback from the user community, we have posted a survey online that offers a chance to review current functionality and request new features.
There are 11 questions, and it will take only a few minutes to fill out.
Free NEMO Webinar: Museums, Health and Well being | Registration open until 13 June 2017
NEMO – the Network of European Museum Organisations – is offering its next free Webinar “Museums, Health and Well Being” on 16 June 2017 at 15.00h (CET). The facilitator Mark O’Neill, former director of Policy & Research for Glasgow Life, will discuss the role of museums in new approaches to public health. Many museum staff intuitively believe museums make a positive contribution to people's health and well being and are increasingly developing activities and projects which seek to enhance their impact.
Read more
Registration for the Webinar is open until 13 June 2017.
Save the date : Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana #13-14 June 2017, Leiden
This two-day workshop organized by Carare & Europeana will explore how digital content for the archaeological and architectural heritage can be made available to users of Europeana, experiences and best practices, and potential re-uses of the content for education, tourism, and researchers.
SAVE THE DATE : May 22-23 2017, Venice - Italy
Fashion Digital Memories EUROPEANA FASHION SYMPOSIUM 2017 In Collaboration with IUAV University of Venice and The New School - Parsons Paris
The symposium wants to tackle a variety of issues, concerning innovative techniques developed to update consolidated museum and archival practices, as conservation and traditional studies of material culture; reflections on how to incorporate technology in the conceptual and material development of displays and exhibitions; actions aimed at presenting fashion heritage to a wider - and often unspecialised - audience in appealing ways, exploiting the potential of social media and experimental platforms.
10.03.2017 New NEMO Publication
Money Matters: The Economic Value of Museums
With “Money Matters: The Economic Value of Museums” NEMO, the Network of European Museum Organisations, follows up on its conference of the same name held in November 2016. The articles introduce and discuss spill-over effects, innovative business models and cooperation strategies for museums and their economies.
Sharing is Caring - Hamburg Extension
Opening Up! - Building Connectivity through Cultural Heritage
20-21.04.2017 Hambourg - Germany
As digitization has become a major task for the cultural heritage sector, more and more cultural institutions are providing access to their digitized collections. But sharing is not only about creating online access, it is about sharing the authority to interpret the digitized assets and to create value by opening them up for reuse....
Read more, registration, agenda http://sharecare.nu/hamburg-2017/
Art Nouveau season on Europeana Art
(21 February - 29 May)
Europeana launched the Art Nouveau season on Europeana Art, a three-month celebration of this popular style. A major new exhibition was published, featuring almost fifty artworks from over twenty museums.
Europeana created beautiful new Pinterest boards for the season and an Art Nouveau Colouring Book. They will be having animated fun on Europeana’s GIPHY page.
Please help Euroepana make the season a success on Twitter and Facebook by using the hashtag #ArtNouveauSeason.
LAST ACTIVITIES - MICHAEL CULTURE
EVA Florence 2017 - 10-11.05.2017
Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts : "The Foremost European Electronic Imaging Events in the Visual Arts"
Conference, Workshops, Meetings & Exhibition
The key aim of this Event is to provide a forum for the user, supplier and scientific research communities to meet and exchange experiences, ideas and plans in the wide area of Culture &, Technology.
Rosella CAFFO, President of Michael Culture Aisbl,(MCA) gave a presentation on 10th afternoon about MCA activities.
EdMuse project - Education and Museum: Cultural Heritage for science learning 26_27.06.2017
The Sapienza University, coordinator in the Erasmus+ Edmuse project, in cooperation with the Michael Culture Association, organized an International Conference 26-27.06.2017 in Roma to disseminate the results of the initiative and to provide a place of discussion on the importance of cultural heritage in learning environment.
HUMANITIES AND GLAMS GOING DIGITAL
International Workshop Florence, 4-5 May 2017
A 2 days workshop organized by Dariah IT, Michael Culture, DILL- Parma & Tallinn Universities, to give to participants the capabilities to understand the issues involved in Humanities and GLAMS digitization with a focus on Europe and apply the suggested ways of enhancing digital services. Programme
DSI Workshop
04.04.2017, Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest
An European event dedicated to museums.
The aim of the workshop is to increase the knowledge and awareness of Hungarian museums concerning Europeana platform and digital tools to manage on line collections.
Co-Organized by Michael Culture, Petőfi Literary Museum and Schola Graphidis Art Collection
Under the framework of Europeana Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI) project
Europeana DSI Workshop: «Publishing on Europeana & tools to make your collection widely visible»
23-24.02.2017, Barcelona
A two days European workshop.
A Museu-Hub activity to increase the knowledge and awareness of museums concerning Europeana platform and digital tools to manage on line collections.
Co-Organized by Michael Culture, Departament de Cultura and Generalitat de Catalunya
Collaborator: Ajuntament de Girona. Centre de Recerca i Difusió de la Imatge (CRDI) Under the framework of Europeana Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI) project
Read more & access to presentations....coming soon
03.02.2017 ALLIANCE FOR CULTURE AND THE ARTS
Michael Culture supports the Alliance for culture and the arts. Alliance gathers 34 European networks urging policy makers to re-think the European approach and include culture and the arts in the long-term strategic goals of the European project.
Support the alliance by signing & disseminating the appeal: https://allianceforculture.com/the-appeal
More information : https://allianceforculture.com/
Culture Action Europe : BtO "Europe Quo Vadis"
26-28.01.2017, Budapest - Hungary
Michael Culture - member of Culture Action Europe - participated to the conference organized by Culture Action Europe in Budapest "Beyond the Obvious".
BtO is an annual gathering for privileged and inspirational exchange between the European cultural community, civil society, researchers, thinkers, institutional and political representatives.
NEMO ANNUAL CONFERENCE
10-12.11.2016, Karlsruhe
Michael Culture participated to the 24th Annual Conference of NEMO – the Network of European Museum Organisations – “Money Matters: The Economic Value of Museums” in Karlsruhe, Germany. NEMO serves as a voice and network for museums and museum organisations throughout Europe providing them with information, networking and opportunities for cooperation.
NEMO and Michael Culture have developed a strong partnership since several years.
Further information is available at http://www.ne-mo.org
ІV International Scientific and Practical Seminar
Kyiv (Ukraine), 24-25.11. 2016
The National Technical University of Ukraine hold hold the annual scientific and practical seminar, the forth in a series of informational and training events on the subject of digitizing of historical, cultural and scientific heritage.
Michael Culture made an online presentation of Museu Hub & tools, managed by the association (Project Europeana DSI 2 - Digital Service Infrastructure).
Conference Image and Research
16-18.11.2016, Girona
Michael Culture participated to the 14th edition of the international conference last November. This event was organized by The Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI) of the Girona City Council and the Association of Archivists of Catalonia, with the support of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Spanish Ministry of Culture .
Franc. J. Zakrajsek. - Researcher at the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Slovenia and Michael Culture member - animated a workshop about Photography at the eCultureMap.
IODC16, 6-7.10.2016, Madrid
Preconference meetings 3-5.10.2016
ODC is a meeting point for the global community to debate and study the future of open data. It aims to build stronger relationships between open data initiatives from the different governments and establish a dialogue between these voices: Policy makers and Public Sector Information (PSI) holders ; Private companies, startups and freelancers ; Activists and NGO’s ; Data journalism ; Representatives of civil society from all over the world.
Michael Culture made a presentation of Museu Expert Hub on 5th October.
“Culture 4D: Digitization, Data, Disruptions, Diversity”
29-30.09.2016, Tallinn
The 3rd Council of Europe Platform Exchange on Culture and Digitisation was hosted by Estonia. The conference rationale is based on an understanding that the new digital and networked infrastructures should be used to reinforce access to and participation in an open culture, thereby strengthening democracy. The conference focused on some of the opportunities and challenges that are emerging in relation to digitization of culture and management of cultural data.
European experts & participants including Prof. Monika Hagendorn-Saupe - Vice President of Michael Culture.
Discover the Athena Plus creative tools :
- MOVIO : To create virtual exhibitions
- SchoolTrip : To create your own scholar journey
- CityQuest : To create a quest online and publish it to a mobile app
- eCultureMap : Global geographical interactive knowledge map
- Urban Explore : Mobile app for touristic and cultural enriched tours
Other
Athena Plus International Conference : "GLAMs going digital ! Multilingualism, Creativity, Reuse " 20 & 21.10.2015, Roma (Simultaneous translation (EN/IT)
Final event of the European project AthenaPlus, coordinated by the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries, which sees the participation of forty partners from 20 European Member States. During the event, the main results of this project were presented, as well as tools and opportunities for cultural institutions in the field of multilingualism, creativity, reuse.
In cooperation with National Library of Roma
Find here Agenda
MICHAEL CULTURE WORKSHOP "Cultural institutions towards Europeana: opportunities, licenses and IPR issues" , 09.10.2015, Bologna
This workshop, organized within the Europeana DSI project, aimed at invite museums to join Europeana through the MUSEU aggregator, managed by the European Association MICHAEL Culture.
NEMO presented on this occasion his report "Survey on Museums and Copyright" published in August, 2015
Workshop organized In cooperation with Istituto per i beni artistici e culturali della Regione Emilia-Romagna and the AthenaPlus Project
Within Europeana DSI Project
Find here Agenda & Presentations
NEW ATHENAPLUS PUBLICATION
Digital storytelling and cultural heritage: stakes and opportunities
edited by AthenaPlus WP5 “Creative applications for the reuse of cultural resources”
texts by Julien Brouillard & Claire Loucopoulos, Dédale (France), Barbara Dierickx, Packed (Belgium)
What is digital storytelling? What tools, devices and services are available? What are the recommendations and technical guidelines for GLAMs wanting to carry out digital storytelling projects? The aim of this publication is to inform cultural institutions on stakes and opportunities given by digital storytelling and answer to their doubts.
NEW ATHENAPLUS PUBLICATION
Metadata for the description of digital exhibitions: the DEMES Element Set
Version 0.9 (August 2015)
Edited by AthenaPlus Digital Exhibitions Working Grouptexts by Giuliana De Francesco (MIBACT), Arlene Peukert (SPK), Stefan Rohde-Enslin (SPK), Werner Schweibenz (BSZ)
A set of 30 descriptive elements specific to digital exhibitions, grouped into seven semantic sections based on existing standards.the seven sections, including the elements, are packaged together in a wrapper called Digital Exhibition Metadata Elements Set (DEMES).
NEW ATHENAPLUS PUBLICATION
Implementing LIDO
text by Gordon McKenna (Collections Trust), Regine Stein (Bildarchiv Foto Marburg)
A methodology for implementing LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects), and in doing so give help and advice to potential and new users of lido seeking to employ it.
Athena Plus - MCA Workshop, Barcelona, 03 July 2015
Partners gathered for Plenary meeting in Barcelona, in Palau Moja building.
On the occasion of AthenaPlus meeting in Barcelona, Michael Culture Association organized an open workshop: "Digital storytelling & Cultural Heritage for cultural mediation, Education & Tourism".
New technologies are a major opportunity for cultural heritage to pass from digitization and aggregation of content to the editorialisation of this content. Digital storytelling offers great opportunities for innovation, participation, inclusion, new economical models in the fields of Education, Cultural mediation and Tourism This workshop focused on those specific roles of DCH, in perspective with European strategy, thanks to European projects, creative tools developed under Athena Plus and a debate on European perspectives.
Program : download
Report of the debate : download
View videos : Vimeo
Michael Culture and NEMO start partnership
18.06.2015
The aim of the cooperation is to strengthen the European museum sector by joining forces in the field of heritage and museum promotion, digitization and valorisation of cultural heritage, research and science.
NEMO, the Network of European Museum Organisations, is an independent network of national museum organisations representing the museum community of the member states of the Council of Europe. Together, NEMO's members speak for over 30.000 museums across Europe. NEMO ensures museums are an integral part of European life by promoting their work and value to policy makers and by providing museums with information, networking and opportunities for co-operation.
NEMO and Michael Culture share many common goals in the field of heritage and museums. The two organizations intend to develop a long term collaboration which includes promoting and complementing each other’s activities and sounding opportunities to develop joint projects in the future.
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