This year's APA (Alliance for Permanent Access) conference, to be held at the BMA in London, addresses the theme "Putting the infrastructure in place for digital preservation" and brings together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders. Programme
Performing Arts Digital Collections:
ECLAP. Opportunities, Advantages, Experiences
with the participation of Nobel Laureate
Dario Fo & Franca Rame
Thursday 20 October 2011, 15 p.m
Aula Magna, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 Roma.
Participation in the event is free of charge but space is limited. Registration is open through October 18th, 2011 . Registration
From March 23rd to 26th 2011 the Department of History and Civilisation of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, host THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp), an important event in the field of Digital Humanities and Digital History organized by several European scholarly institutions. THATcamp is a so-called "un-conference" promoted by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Virginia, which is our partner in organising this event for the first time in Italy. FRD is one of the organizers of this event. Information and Registration.
Pinakes 3.0 and Pinakes Text will be used for Renaissance disciplines and arts. Texts, data base and research tools thanks to an agreement for scientific collaboration among the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale and the PRIN Research Unit of the Milan University, Florence University and of the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (ILC) – CNR (Pisa).
In collaboration with the Princeton Dante Project at Princeton University (USA) and the Italian Dante Society, the FRD is preparing the implementation of the digitization of the "bulletin" of the Dante Society itself. The "bulletin" was published between 1893 and 1923 and contains "works on the research and the news of facts" relating to the life and works of Dante.
The PersID <http://www.persid.org> is an international project devoted to develop a meta resolver for Persistent Identifiers at European level. This infrastructure started from the RFC3188 (NBN) specification. After one year of activity, the PersID project is delivering the first MetaResolver prototype, able to resolve any NBN name issued by the 5 countries joining the initiative.
"Comité des Sages" on bringing Europe's cultural heritage online has write the report "The new Renaissance" Excerpt: "Can Europe afford to be inactive and wait, or leave it to one or more private players to digitise our common cultural heritage? Our answer is a resounding 'no'. Member States, Europe's cultural institutions, the European Commission, and other stakeholders will all have to take up their responsibilities in order to ensure that Europe's citizens and economy fully benefit from the potential of bringing Europe's cultural heritage online. Our goal is to ensure that Europe experiences a digital Renaissance instead of entering into a digital Dark Age."
Giovanni Bergamin, Maurizio Messina, Digital Stacks: from prototype to service, in "Digitalia", anno V, n. 1, giugno 2010, pp. 115-122.
Excerpt: The project “Digital Repositories” started in 2006 on behalf of the Digital Renaissance Foundation, the National Central Library of Florence and the National Central Library of Rome. It aims to develop a system for permanent preservation of electronic documents - published in Italy and diffused over the IT Network in accomplishment to the legislation on legal deposit (L. 106/2004, d. p.r. 252/2006).
Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Interoperability among digital library systems, in "Digitalia", anno V, n. 1, giugno 2010, pp. 95-112.
Excerpt: "The paper presents the various dimensions that are part of the concept of interoperability when the concept drops into the world of digital libraries and digital library systems. After having analyzed the various aspects of interoperability, we analyze the interoperability among homogeneous and heterogeneous systems and, finally, among heterogeneous systems that want to provide advanced services to users. For each kind of system we analyze a significant case - in this case The European Library, Europeana – and an heterogeneous system that provides end users with a records management service."
ESTS - European Society for Textual Scholarship. The 7th International Conference: Texts Worth Editing
From 25th to 27th November 2010 held, in Pisa and Florence, The Seventh International Conference of the European Society for Texual Scholarship (ESTS): Text worth editing co-sponsored by the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” - CNR (Pisa), the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale - (Firenze) and the Società Dantesca Italiana - (Firenze).
The Saturday session will be hosted by the Società Dantesca Italiana, and held in the Palagio dell'Arte della Lana, Florence.
22 October 2010, Palagio di Parte Guelfa, Florence, Italy. The Conference is organized by Tk Formazione srl on behalf of the "C-E.N.T.E.R." European project – in cooperation with Europe Direct Firenze - Municipality of Florence, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale – Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze and the LLP National Agency-Italia. Programme - Invitation - Registration Form (admission free). The registration deadline has been postponed to 15 October 2010.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale has started a partnership with the University of Macerata within the IV edition of the first level master in Training, management and preservation of digital archives in public and private spheres, academic year 2010/2011.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale collaborates with Firenze University Press (FUP) and Distribuited Systems and Internet Technology Laboratory (DISIT) to the project FUP /www.e-journal.it. The project involves the study and organizational activities to develop the prototype of an multi-publishers infrastructure for scientific electronic journals that can, at a later time, be a tool for the whole scientific community giving the chance to identify, access and use the scientific publications produced in Italy.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale is one of the partner of the European project PersID to predispose a resolution’s infrastructure for Persistent Identifiers based on the standard IETF RFC 3188 "Using National Bibliography Names as a Uniform Resource Name" URN:NBN.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale is partner of the European Library of Artistic Collected Performance (ECLAP). ECLAP intends to create an online archive for all the performing arts in Europe, and providing solutions and tools to help performing arts institutions to enter the digital Europe by building a network of important European performing arts institutions and archives and publishing content collections on Europeana.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale took part this year too in the iPRES 2010, the major world conference on digital preservation presenting a tutorial dedicated to the Persistent Identifiers and the paper Relevant metadata to preserve “Alien” AIP based on a testing of PREMIS in Italy that involves, besides the FRD, the National Library of Florence, ICCU and the British Library of Rome.
Cooperation agreement among the Archivio Storico della Pontificia Università Gregoriana, the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” - CNR (Pisa) and the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale for the use of Open Source Web Applications Pinakes 3.0 and Pinakes Text in the digitization and catalogue different types of documents belonging to historical and modern collections of the Archivio Storico della Pontificia Università Gregoriana.
La Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale promotes and supports the World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Council, 23-27 august, Milan 2009.
Thurday 27 august will be presented Project NBN (National Bibliography Number): Persistent Identifier distribuited system for digital libraries
In the framework of the annual IFLA Conference 2009 hosted in Milan on 23-27 August, three Pre-Conferences have been organised in Florence on 17-21 August:
Libraries Plus: Adding Value in the Cultural Community
Looking at the Past and Preparing for the Future
Emerging trends in technology: libraries between Web 2.0, semantic web and search technology
The three Pre-Conferences are coordinated by a joint secretariat set up by the three local organisers and supported by the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale.
For information and registration: http://www.ifla2009satelliteflorence.it.
The second edition of the conference Cultural Heritage online – Empowering users: an active role for user communities, has confirmed a great interest for the subjects proposed, as well as the reliability and the stable network of collaborations that the Foundation Rinascimento Digitale has been earned in the field of new technologies for cultural heritage. Available:
Official Conference Proceedings
Papers and Slides - Links - Photo Gallery
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale partecipates to EVA Florence. Will be present: Paolo Galluzzi about Digital Galielo, Maurizio Lunghi about International Cooperation and Anna Maria Tammaro about Building and Sustaining Digital Libraries: an evaluation model for digital humanities.
Programme
Agreement between Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale and Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence (BNCF) to participate in the trial of legal deposit of voluntary digital publications.
Agreement between the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale and the Gabinetto Vieusseux <> of Florence for the use and evaluation as final user of the web aplication Pinakes3.
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale aiming at the definition of standard, methodologies and tools for digital memories creation, usage and preservation, is in charge of organizing, during the VMDL, an open discussion between end-user, operators, researchers and institutions on present and future of digital libraries applications.
During the PGDay sessions (Prato, Florence, on friday July 6th, 2007), Andrea Scotti (Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale) will present a paper: Pinakes 3 modelling: schema, input and navigation sample.
The Digital Preservation Exchange Programme (DPEX), promoted by the European project DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) of which the Foundation Renaissance Digitale is partner, it aims to encourage innovative practices in the preservation of the digital resources, through research collaboration and to build bridges between practitioners and researchers.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale participates in the meeting L'Editoria Universitaria tra ricerca e mercato with a presentation of Maurizio Lunghi:
I temi comunitari per i programmi di finanziamento dell'e-content 2007-2010.
Digital PreservationEurope (DPE) has carried out a state of the art review on international competence centres for digital curation and preservation activity and expertise.
Maurizio Lunghi will attend the: L'azione Digital Preservation Europe in una rete di best practice.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale takes part: DELOS - NSDL Summer School: Digital Libraries for the Digital Librarian. Making the Journey from Traditional to Digital Libraries
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale will attend the The Challenge: Long-term Preservation. Strategies and Practice of European Partnerships.
The DigCurv ((Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe), project, where Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale is involved, is carrying out a survey of training opportunities in digital curation and long-term preservation within Europe and internationally. The objective of the questionnaire is to find out about the training opportunities available for digital curators in libraries, archives, museums and cultural heritage sector. We kindly invite you to complete our online questionnaire, and provide information about your training offer: you will help us to build a profile of the training opportunities, the subject coverage, approaches and methodologies. The deadline is April 15th.
Pinakes 3.0 and Pinakes Text will be used for Digital online edition of Ferdinand de Saussure's manuscripts, thanks to an agreement for scientific collaboration among the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale and the PRIN Research Unit of the Dipartimento di Filosofia - University of Calabria, of the Dipartimento di Linguistica - University of Firenze, of the Dipartimento di Studi Linguisitici e Letterari - University of Salerno and of the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” - CNR (Pisa).
We would like to invite you to take part in a survey on the training needs of staff in the field of digital preservation and digital curation within Europe and internationally which Goettingen State and University Library, Germany, is carrying out on behalf of Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV). Italy is linked to the project through the participation of Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale.
We are inviting managers, curators and experts in digital preservation to take part in this survey of training needs. Your input will really help inform the curriculum framework and we greatly appreciate your time in assisting with this research. .
The survey is online at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/544426/DigCurV-Survey-on-Training-Needs and will take you about 15 minutes to complete.
We would be grateful for your response by 7th August.
Conference, Training & Workshops in Florence from 4th to 6th May 2011. The key aim of EVA Florence is to provide a forum for the users, suppliers and scientific research communities to meet and exchange experiences, ideas and plans in the wide area of Culture & Technology. Participants receive up to date news on new EC and international arts computing & telecommunications initiatives as well as on Projects in the visual arts field, in archaeology and history. Working Groups and new Projects are promoted. Scientific and technical demonstrations are presented.
FOCUS 2011. Second UNESCO World Forum on Culture and Cultural Industries -The Book Tomorrow: The Future of the Written Word
FOCUS 2011 is organized by UNESCO and the Italian Government in collaboration with the Regione Lombardia, which has provided financial support. FOCUS 2011 will provide a unique opportunity to bring together numerous high-level stakeholders to discuss on the e-book economy, the Copyright in the Digital Era and the Digital Library; and to build bridges between often-opposing visions. The objective of the meeting, held in Monza from 6th to 8th June, is to provide a highly visible, authoritative and global platform for discussing and exploring solutions to the principle challenges facing the diverse realms of publishing (traditional and electronic), and reading today.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale is a partner of the European project PersID. A guaranteed access to digital publications and other electronic resources over time is an important aspect of the scientific and cultural heritage domains. It requires an unambiguous identification of digital objects.
Ten national organisations in eight European countries combine their expertise in the PersID initiative to establish an infrastructure for Persistent Identifiers. This infrastructure must be open, interoperable, trusted and controlled by all actors in the research and cultural heritage community – and capable to incorporate other global identifier initiatives. There are many ways to set up such an infrastructure. The partners have chosen to use "Uniform Resource Names for National Bibliography Numbers" URN:NBN as we regard this to be the most open and versatile system. It is able to accommodate existing national URN:NBN identifier schemes as well as other systems (DOI, Handle, ARK, etc.) within the overall URN scheme, using proven methods and technologies in an open and transparent way. The project will provide a shared Persistent Identifier resolver service which will be able to resolve requests to local URNs but also to other Persistent Identifiers. The first prototype of the service will be available next autumn.
EUscreen, the best practice network for Europe’s television heritage, organizes its Second International Conference on Use and Creativity. The conference takes place in Stockholm on 15 and 16 September 2011. The programme consists of two workshops, a plenary session with keynotes and case studies by renowned experts in the field. Attendance is free but on-line registration is required at the following address: http://euscreen2011.eventbrite.com.
Programme and other information
Hack4Europe! is a series of hack days organised by the Europeana Foundation and its partners Collections Trust, Museu Picasso, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and Swedish National Heritage Board. The hackathon roadshow will be held simultaneously in 4 locations (London, Barcelona, Poznan and Stockholm) in the week 6 - 12 June and will provide an exciting environment to explore the potential of open cultural data for social and economic growth in Europe. Registration:
Hack4Europe! UK: 9 June 2011, London, hosted by Collections Trust
Hack4Europe! Spain: 8 - 9 June 2011, Barcelona, hosted by Museu Picasso
Hack4Europe! Poland: 7 - 8 June 2011, Poznan, hosted by Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Hack4Europe! Sweden: 10 - 11 June 2011, Stockholm, hosted by Swedish National Heritage Board
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, in partnership with the University of Florence and the Florentine Museums, is pleased to present the International course in Museology and Museography.
This course, extremely innovative and unprecedented in the landscape of Advanced Professional Training, weaves a dialogue between art historians, curators and architects, both in terms of those aspects museological and museographical, with the aim to trace the methodological path which led to the production of exhibitions L'acqua, la Pietra, il Fuoco - Bartolomeo Ammannati Scultore - Water,Stone, Fire - Bartolomeo Ammannati Sculptor (National Museum of the Bargello, 11 May - 18 September 2011) and Vasari, gli Uffizi e il Duca - Vasari, the Uffizi Gallery and the Duke (Uffizi Gallery, 14 June - 30 October 2011).
Programme, FAQs and other information
The DigCurV project will establish a multilateral stakeholder network that aims to extend the availability of vocational training for digital curators in the library, archive, museums and cultural activities sector. The network will bring together the actors involved in vocational training for digital curators (continuing education programmes in universities, training organisations, employing organisations offering in-service training and others) with practitioners (libraries, archives, museums and other culture agencies) and facilitate cooperation between these actors. Join to Network
The Centre VivaVoce focuses on the experience gained in the field of preservation and enhancement of sound recordings of MARTLab - Conservatorio di Musica “L. Cherubini”, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, ISTI - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Fondazione Mediateca Regionale Toscana, RAI Sede Regionale della Toscana. This enables to provide to cultural operators of audiovisual tools the skills and the experience they need to achieve the digitization, preservation and enhancement processes of sound files.
Thanks to the new agreement signed between the National Central Library of Florence, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Rome, the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale and CRUI for the assignment of NBN (NBN IP) persistent identifier in the 'coordinated framework service storage and access of digital resources in the “digital long term preservation”, opened the third phase of NBN that will bring to the implementation of a nation wide service.
The survey on Persistent Identifiers (PI) systems in support of digital preservation, promoted by the teams of Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale (FRD) and University of Trento, part of the APARSEN (Network of Excellence on Digital Preservation), has closed the 10th of July.
The general aim of the survey was to gather information about digital preservation practices and needs, regarding the management of digital content.
ECLAP - E-Library for Performing Arts First Workshop 2011. Performing Arts Digital Collections for the New Millennium
From 9th to 10th June, in Bruxelles, the leading experts and practitioners will provide an overview of their state-of-the-art Perfoming Arts digital collections. The discussions will focus on best practices regarding the themes of each working group in the ECLAP Project. These themes are, respectively, digital library tools, education and research facilities, and copyright and IPR issues. The workshop are devoted to creating space for dialogue and exploration; to discuss in depth these most urgent themes concerning the ECLAP project. Each session is constituted of one internationally renowned guest speaker reflecting on the central session topic and best practice case studies
From May 23rd to 25th May 2011 held, in Tallinn (Estonia), the Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation conference. This conference will enable preservation programs from different countries and regions to share information with each other for the purpose of building strategic international collaborations to support the preservation of our collective digital memory. Maurizio Lunghi from FRD is chair of the session "Economic Alignment".
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale has conducted the first workshop on Tools for Performing Art Digital Libraries of the European project ECLAP Performing Arts Digital Collections for the New Millenium, held at the ‘La Bellone’ theatre, Brussels.
On April 5th at the Faculty of Letters, University of Geneva, took place a seminar to present the progress of the project on the use of Pinakes for cataloguing the manuscripts of Ferdinand de Saussure. The presentation was divided into two parts: Andrea Bozzi presented The Pinakes special application for scholarly editing digital documents on the web. New tools for a cooperative research on the de Saussure’s manuscripts corpora and Valeriano Sandrucci spoke about Methodologies and tools for the digital edition. Pinakes de Saussure’s project.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale participated at the workshop Exploring interoperability of Persistent Object Identifier Systems organized by the consortium of Knowledge Exchange in Den Hague as scientific leader of the PersID project and the WP leader of workpackage citability and identifiers of the European project APARSEN.
Imago et umbra. Digitization program for the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University: criteria, methods and tools
Andrea Bozzi, Martín Maria Morales, Marco Rufino, Imago et umbra. Digitization program for the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University: criteria, methods and tools, in "Digitalia", year V, n. 2, December 2010, pp. 79-99.
Excerpt: "The title of this project refers to an expression in the corpus of the writings of Nicolò Cusano («Sermo LXI, […] Vita igitur istius mundi non est vita, sed imago et umbra vitae verae; ita de sapientia et prudentia et laetitia et singulis aliis») used to point out the realities of this world that, although on the one hand have to “represent” (imago), on the other, at the same time, don’t do it in a complete and absolute manner (umbra). Similarly, the project presented here, while bringing to light documents by using images, will never be able to exhaust the content. The Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University (APUG) has an heritage that witnesses the intellectual activity of the Jesuit professors of the Collegio Romano, beginning from its foundation in 1551 until the closure of the Society of Jesus and, again, from 1824 to the Unity of Italy. This whole represents a unique example of documentary collection whereby the history of teaching of one of the most famous universities in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries can be reconstructed".
Chiara Cirinnà, To train the skills of the near future: the coming digital curators, in "La Rivista di FormareNetwork", 11th March 2011.
Excerpt:"The constant development of digital technology continually opens new scenarios and opportunities, both professional and private. [... ] Italy is represented by the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale in a strategic European project for the training of digital curators, DigCurV, Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe. The project officially started in January 2011 and is sponsored by the European Commission within the Leonardo da Vinci program. It is a sub-program of the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP), one of the most important programs in education and training. DigCurV aims to improve the training of digital curators working in libraries, archives and museums and in fields related to cultural heritage to enable the development of new skills that are considered essential for the management and long-term preservation of digital resources".
Following the work done on Persistent Identifiers issues in PersID, the IETF opened a Working Group for reviewing the URN standards. This working group is chartered to update the key RFCs describing the URN system, including RFC 2141 (URN Syntax), RFC 3406 (Namespace Definition Mechanisms), and review and update selected URN namespace specifications including those for ISBN, NBN and ISSN.
