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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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DSI4 WEBINARS
19 & 29 April 2021
In the framework of the DSI initiative, MUSEU aggregator, managed by Michael Culture, is organising two webinars:
« Benefits of sharing content with Europeana » (19 April 2021)
and
« Museums going digital: why invest on quality digital content? » (29 April 2021)
The two webinars are open to the cultural heritage institutions and Museums professionals.
More information and registration HERE
EUROPEANA SPORT ONLINE WORKSHOPS
01 & 07 April 2021
In the framework of the Europeana Sport project, Michael Culture is co-organising with Europeana two online workshops about Copyright and sports related data.
The two workshops are open to the Europeana Sport project partners and other institutions interested in aggregation of online sport collections.
More information and registration HERE
Save the date ! INDICES
INDICES is organising the next consultation #workshop with two sessions on April 20 & 21
✔️ The first session will focus on the emergent forms of digital cultural production/re-production, participation and re-use of CHIs’ content in DSM
✔️The second session will focus on sharing collections sustainably and meaningfully, an introduction to rights management in cultural organisations
More information to follow soon, so stay tuned!
Read more about INDICES: HERE
NEW EU PROJECT: 4CH COMPETENCE CENTER
January 2021-December 2023
4CH is a Horizon 2020 project funded by the European Commission (Grant Agreement n.101004468).
The 4CH project will design and prepare for a European Competence Centre (CC) on the Conservation of Cultural Heritage which will work proactively for the preservation and conservation of cultural heritage (CH). The project aims to start implementing the structure, organization and services of the CC which will operate as a virtual infrastructure providing expertise, advice and services using state-of-the-art ICT with a special focus on 3D technology
The project is coordinate by ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE (Italy) bringing together 18 partners including Michael Culture Association
Read more about 4CH: WEBSITE
NETCHER - FINAL EVENT: Results & Recommendations Networking Experiences in the Fight against Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property
March 2021 - 1 & 2, Online
NETCHER is a transnational project, started in January 2019 with a duration of 27 months, aiming at reinforcing the fight against cultural heritage looting and trafficking, by bringing together relevant international actors (security and research communities, public and private institutions, art market specialists, policy makers) and intends to build a sustainable social online Platform.
The Final Forum of NETCHER presented overall results and achievements of the project, final recommendations, research and technology roadmaps, good practices and addressed the issue of communication and awareness raising.
Read more: HERE
Launch of the project "EUROPEANA SPORT"
October 2020 - January 2022
The project aims to increase the amount of high-quality content and metadata accessible under the Europeana Sport collection. The project will deliver almost 24,000 new digital objects relating to sporting heritage and improve more than 5,000 objects already available on Europeana.
Additionally, the project will hold a series of collection day events inviting the public to share their stories and memories related to sport in each of the EU Member States in which partners are based.
The project is coordinated by ICCU (Italy) and brings together 9 partners including Michael Culture / MUSEU-HUB.
The project is co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union.
Read more about the project on Europeana Pro: HERE
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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