News about Digital Cultural heritage

On 9 April, 24 European countries signed a Declaration of cooperation on advancing digitisation of cultural heritage. They will work more closely together to better use state-of-the-art digital technologies in addressing risks that Europe’s rich cultural heritage is facing, enhancing its use and visibility, improving citizen engagement, and supporting spillovers in other sectors.

Are you a European public procurer that wants to receive free of charge local assistance in the preparation and implementation of your next innovation procurement? Sign up for receiving assistance from the European Assistance for Innovation Procurement initiative (eafip). Eafip can help public sector organisations modernize public services (e.g. in e-gov, health, energy, transport, etc.) with innovative ICT solutions such as blockchain, AI, cybersecurity, big data, virtual/augmented reality. The call for assistance is open until 15 May 2019!

In winter 2018, the European Commission service DG CONNECT/"Interactive Technologies, Digital for Culture and Education" will organise the evaluation of proposals submitted for the H2020 topic ICT-25-2018-2020 - Interactive Technologies

A strong digital economy is vital for innovation, growth, jobs and European competitiveness. Digital technologises have a massive impact on the labour market and on the type of skills needed in the economy and society. The European Commission is promoting various initiatives aimed at increasing training in digital skills for the workforce and for consumers - modernising education across the European Union, harnessing digital technologies for learning and for the recognition and validation of skills together with anticipating and analysing skills needs.

The Commission is launching the second edition of the EU Film Contest today. Participants can test how much they know about European films for a chance to experience the Cannes Film Festival and discover the European audiovisual industry at work.

How can digital culture enrich your daily life and work? Do you share, access or use cultural heritage materials online? The Commission has launched a public consultation to hear the opinions from citizens and organisations with a personal or professional interest in digital culture available online. The Commission wants to know how citizens, professionals and organisations use Europeana, the European online platform for culture heritage that is visited approximately 700,000 times per month.

Europe's digital platform, Europeana, has received a 2017 Application Programming Interface (API) award for their REST API in the context of API World 2017. It's the world’s largest vendor-neutral API conference and expo organising the API economy.

Europeana published a virtual exhibition of vintage postcards of south-eastern Europe this year. They invite people to share their pictures of the same places as they are today as part of the Picture This! competition. To participate, send in your pictures before 31 August 2017 with #PicThisEurope.

SIGGRAPH 2017 has unveiled the winners of this year’s Computer Animation Festival, which is running throughout the SIGGRAPH event this year from July 30 to August 3, in Los Angeles.