Within the frameworks of the EU-funded project “community as opportunity. the creative archives‘ and users‘ network” (co:op), the Institute for Balkan Studies hosts the international workshop for researchers and archivists on
Digital Archiving of Medieval Documents:
Concepts and Experiences
which is to be held on Thursday, June 21st, in the hall II at the 1st floor of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Within the first session of the workshop, the work-in-progress Diplomatarium Serbicum Digitale will be presented through three contributions, while the second session is dedicated to similar projects concerning digital processing and publishing of medieval charters, to be presented by our international partners.
The programme of the workshop is available here.
The ICARUS Meeting #22, hosted by the University of Naples Federico II (IT), will incorporate the second international convention of the EU-funded project “co:op (community as opportunity – the creative archives’ and users’ network)”. The motto of the entire event:
“Cooperation as Opportunity. Historical Documents, Research and Society in the Digital Era”.
The convention’s thematic priority
Thematic priority of the convention will be to discuss how societal changes of the Digital Era affect archive structures, research methods and the handling of historical documents and vice versa.
Not only do archives and historical documents of the Digital Era call for new (digital) research methods by scholars and teachers (hitherto traditional users of this cultural asset). What’s even more remarkable, today, archives are faced with completely new types of users (that have no specific scholarly background).
By tailoring the technological advancement of the Digital Era to the diversified needs of this new, heterogeneous audience, participatory user communities can be explored, served, activated and expanded.
How to reflect on these aspects? Through discussion, exchange, the sharing of experiences and the development of possible solutions and strategies!
The convention’s structure
The convention will act as a sharing place where professionals and user communities will have the possibility to present, discuss and share their ideas, visions and concrete projects, with the aim to prepare new partnerships, as well as the planning and implementation of common new projects.
During the three days of the convention there will be five sessions and equally as many round tables, which will become a unique opportunity for public discussions, actively engaging and encouraging the the participation of the audience.
The keynote “Big Data of the Past” by Frédéric Kaplan (DHLAB) will set the visionary tone of the convention and kick-off the first debate and round table “Big Data of the Past: Vision or Near Future?”
On a not to be overlooked side note: The convention will also celebrate the 10th anniversary of ICARUS – the network that has since its beginning spearheaded the digital advancement of the archive community.
8th co:op partner meeting
This event furthermore marks the final meeting of all partners of the co:op project. Within the administrative co:op meeting, concluding preparations for successfully finalizing the projects will be made.
Click on the image below to enjoy a video introducing the many facettes of Naples:
Within the frameworks of the EU-funded project “community as opportunity” (co:op) the complete stock of documents of the Monastery of St. Emmeram in Regensburg (DE) at the Archives of the Bavarian State in Munich (DE) has been digitised: ca. 4500 charters from the year 194 to about 1800 will soon be available online. By taking the example of this corpus of source material, the workshop intends to bring together research questions and technical exploitation models.
Original title of the workshop:
“Entziffern, Forschen, Mitmachen: Das Kloster St. Emmeram in Regensburg und seine digitale Überlieferung”
The workshop will be held in German.
Please find further information on the programme (in German) via the link below. Registrations can be made via the form also provided via the link below:
The Bavarian State Archives
© Luiza Puiu
Expect the Unexpected!
Hrvatski državni arhiv
The film festival organized within the EU-funded project “co:op – community as opportunity” is the concluding activity of the project and signals the end of a four year long inspiring and exciting cooperation project with our project partners from all over Europe.
The festival will look back and reflect on on two special activity types carried out within the project: the “Adventures in Archives” film happenings and the “Bring Your History Days”.
“Adventures in Archives” invited high school kids, equipped with modern recording devices like digi cams and smartphones, behind the walls of archival institutions to spot the hidden treasures of historical material, learn about the various occupational areas in an archive and eventually discover how our cultural identities have evolved and their witnesses are being safe-guarded for the future.
The close cooperation between archives and education centres encouraged the understanding and perception of archives in the public, educated our younger generations on the manifold possibilities of professional qualifications, be it modern-day archivist, (art) historian, media production, journalism, restauration, international project or cultural management, and rose awareness for the shared heterogeneity of our cultural identities.
At the festival, the movies and clips produced by the students will be screened. Discussion rounds will reflect on the experiences made by the students themselves and also on the experiences made by the archive staff and pedagogues involved.
The “Bring Your History Days” documented the process on setting up Topotheques, an online service tool joining historic material from private collections and thus highlighting the vivid history of municipalities and communities. The documentations give insight into what it takes to build a topotheque and how important historic materials kept in private collections are with regard to enriching and broaden the perspective of the past.
At the film festival a closer look will be taken at the role a Topotheque can play for a community and how the voluntary participation of citizens in setting up a Topotheque raises awareness for the importance the past plays in the present – and for the future.
Hear speakers from Europe’s leading science, technology and cultural institutions discuss the potential of cultural heritage data for education, creative and media industries, entertainment, urban planning, policymaking and more.
Meet and connect with companies and academics from throughout Europe who are actively working to realise the vast potential of our cultural heritage across fields and industries.
Further details and continuos updates on the conference´s programme can be found on the corresponding website.
ICARUS starts a new series of online lectures!
Dr. Julian Holzapfl: „Reading (and) learning online – Digitale Schriftkunde of the Bavarian State Archives“
On September 30th, 2021 at 04:00 p.m. CEST Dr. Julian Holzapfl – Munich State Archive – presents the online learning platform for palaeography “Digitale Schriftkunde“.
The presentation will take place via Zoom in German.
Click here to join via zoom: ZOOM
ID: 884 1718 9116
Passcode: 835786
Looking forward to seeing you there!
The next ICARUS Lecture #3 is already confirmed!
Sven Lepa (National Archives of Estonia) is going to talk about “Experiments with object and facial recognition on historic photos of the National Archives of Estonia” on 17th of November, 2021 – 04:00p.m. CET.
Sven Lepa, National Archives of Estonia.
Zoom Details:
ICARUS Lecture #3
17.11.2021 04:00 p.m. CET
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86282528523
Meeting-ID: 862 8252 8523
For registration send an e-mail to:
stella.montanari@icar-us.eu.
The event will be held in English.
© National Archives of Estonia.
We are looking forward to an exciting event!
Do you want to know more about ICARUS and its activities? Seize the opportunity at ICARUS Jour fixe, an online meeting for members and external attendees, once in three months!
February 22nd at 1.00 p.m. CET
Join us at this link: Zoom
ID: 846 9252 0264
Passcode: 110497
We are looking forward to seeing you!
Do you want to know more about ICARUS and its activities? Seize the opportunity at ICARUS Jour fixe, an online meeting for members and external attendees, once in three months!
May 17th at 1.00 p.m. – hosted by Peer Boselie, Sittard City Archive and Archif De Domijnen
Join us at this link: Zoom
ID: 831 8514 0191
Passcode: 416675
We are looking forward to seeing you!
ICARUS Lecture #7: iMILK. An Open – Educational Resource for Mobile Learning Design
On June 08th, 2022 ICARUS hosts the seventh online lecture!
Antonella Ambrosio (Icarus 4Education, UNINA) will do an introduction. Alessandro Ciasullo and Flavia Santoianni (UNINA) will present the project iMILK!
More information about iMILK: HERE.
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08.06.2022 – 05:00 p.m. CEST!
Click here to join via zoom: ZOOM.
ID: 827 2027 5031
Passcode: 958672
The lecture will be held in English.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!