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Michael Culture Association (Aisbl - Belgium) is an European trans-domain devoted to European digital cultural heritage valorisation. It 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 and advocating for DCH.
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.
Museu is managed by Michael Culture.
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Michael Culture Association has now a YouTube Channel!
Watch the records of our workshops and webinars HERE
Contribute to the survey: Public consultation on a set of European Digital Principles until the 2nd of September!
Next to several other action points, the European Commission proposes under the chapter on ‘Digital Citizenship’ to formulate a set of digital principles that should shape Europe’s digital society in the European way. The consultation activities aim at collecting the views of all interested stakeholders that have opinions and views on the formulation of such a set of European digital principles. It is open to other EU institutions, Member States, regional and local authorities, NGOs and civil society organisations, international and umbrella organisations, other digital stakeholders, and citizens.
MCA supports the contribution from SDEPS and the Statement published by Europeana ecosystem and contributed as well to the consultation by highlighting the hereby issues:
- Digital Education should be a key component of digital principles and
should be understood in a broad sense beyond technological skills;
Ethics, Critical Thinking, Environmental issues are at the heart of a
human-centered, inclusive and sustainable digital environment. - Digital sobriety: the principles of digital sobriety should be more developed in the digital principles both for professionals and for citizens.
- Information about copyright, the use and reuse of contents should be more evident, clear and easily accessible.
The GLAMers publication and events (September - october 2021) :
At the crossroads of 3 main concepts, Youth, the pandemic and GLAMs, The
GLAMers study aims to support the dialogue of Cultural Heritage institutions in their attempt to face COVID-19 related challenges by better engaging youth in their outreach activities. The GLAMers first output, “Practices of digitally mediated youth engagement in GLAMs during the pandemic”, is now available as open access publication.
In September and October 2021, Web2Learn deploys 2 interactive sessions as an opportunity to support and advise European GLAMs in building better connections
with audience, especially youth audience, during the pandemic. More info HERE
4CH videos and newsletter (September 2021):
Two videos about the 4CH project were released, about "the aims of the project? - What is a Competence Centre?" and "Why a European Competence Centre for Cultural Heritage?". Discover them on 4CH Vimeo channel and stay tuned for the next short videos!
The next issue of 4CH newsletter was released! Subscribe to be informed about the last news about the project.
News about MEMEX project: Policy Brief & Teasers !
July 2021
The first Policy Brief (PB) has just been released. It contains recommendations for policy and decision makers on the capacity building actions targeting social and cultural professionals involved in community engagement as key tool for inclusion.
The PB is available in various languages
Read the PB https://memexproject.eu/en/resources/policy-briefs
Discover the first stories created durong the workshops in the 3 Pilots !
The video teaser of the Barcelona stories is available on MEMEX Youtube channel. Stay tuned for the Paris teaser in august and the Lisbon teaser in september !
Following the CAE board elections in June, the board members have recently met and decided upon the new presidium.
Therefore Corinne Szteinsznaider, coordinator of Michael Culture, is joining the board presidium of Culture Action Europe as co-treasurer.
With renewed forces, CAE and its board are looking forward to continuing joint efforts to put culture at the heart of public debate and decision-making.
More info and full presidium on Culture Action Europe website
EU guidelines for the safe resumption of activities in the cultural and creative sectors - June 2021
The European Commission proposes coordinated measures aimed to ensure both the safe reopening and the sustainable recovery of cultural activities across the EU, in line with the specific national, regional and local conditions of the Coronavirus pandemic.
DSI4 WEBINAR
2 1 July 2021
In the framework of the Europeana DSI (Digital Service Infrastructure) initiative, MUSEU aggregator, managed by Michael Culture, organised the webinar:« DIY digitisation: tips for ambitious GLAMs » on 21 July 2021. The video is now available HERE or on Michael Culture YouTube channel.
WE-Hope announced a callout for Artists to work with collected living testimonials to create an interactive digital animation for public outdoor space to be premiered at Frequency festival 2021 in Lincoln.
The call out is open until the12th of July 2021.
Porto Santo Charter
MCA was honoured to to co-chair a workshop of the Conference “From Democratization to Cultural Democracy: Rethinking Institutions and Practices” organised under the auspices of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, between the 27th and the 28th of April 2021. The Conference gathered 450 participants from 37 countries around the world.
More resources, including videos of the conference, will soon be posted online at https://portosantocharter.eu/ .
EC CONSULTATION ON DIGITAL & CULTURAL HERITAGE
OPEN LETTER VIMM, CUT, NEMO, CAE & MCA
September 2020
Digital technologies are a decisive factor for the relevance of Cultural Heritage in the future.
Beyond responding to the public consultation, we - VIMM, CUT, NEMO, CAE & MCA - would like to stress some key developments and challenges that we deem central to digital cultural heritage. wish to contribute to the ongoing discussion a few additional ideas, which can be found in the attached Open Letter to the EC: Open Letter
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