Newsroom about Digital Cultural heritage

Today, Bulgarian Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative Maria Koleva signed three Declarations launched at Digital Day 2019 in the presence of Deputy Director General of DG CNECT, Claire Bury.

This report reviews and assesses the overall actions and progress achieved in the European Union in implementing the Recommendation (2011/711/EU) which is one of the main EU policy instruments on digitisation, online access and digital preservation of cultural heritage material.

This expert group provides a forum for cooperation between Member States' bodies and the European Commission in the area of digitisation, online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation and gives guidance on Europeana’s annual work programmes under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).

25 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.

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Ongoing Horizon 2020 projects in the field of Digital Cultural Heritage were invited to identify common challenges and perspectives. The workshop aimed at building on lessons learnt and identifying ways and policies for strengthening the societal impact of H2020 projects on Digital Cultural Heritage.

The European Media Literacy Week is a new initiative by the European Commission to underline the societal importance of media literacy and promote media literacy initiatives and projects across the EU. From 18 to 22 March 2019, various events around the topic of media literacy took place in Brussels and in Member States.

This year's first event of the European Film Forum 2019 took place during the Berlinale. With Creative Europe MEDIA and Horizon 2020 supporting a number of subtitling projects, the debate focused on how to use technology to make European films travel across Europe and beyond by discussing the possibilities that exist for subtitling and dubbing.

VI-SEEM, an EU-funded project, creates the necessary infrastructure and user training to enable local scientific communities to conduct groundbreaking cross-border research spanning many areas.

A breakthrough in handwritten text recognition, layout analysis and keyword spotting has been made. A service platform helps reveal European and international cultural heritage and search for centuries-old documents.