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EIT Culture & Creativity – TMO and Europeana Foundation as partners in this new (ad)venture
The ICE consortium made the winning bid for EIT Culture & Creativity (formerly KIC on CCSI) and we are proud to be part of this initiative, enabling the Time Machine Organisation to actively co-shape the future of the Cultural Heritage sector and industries in Europe.
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Find and follow the EIT Culture & Creativity on social media!
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News from our Local Time Machine projects
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Proof of concept: Creating Synergies in the Time Machine Community
The pilot project “Living with water in Amsterdam” is a joint venture of the Amsterdam Time Machine and the German Local Time Machine project UrbanHistory4D, experimenting with the implementation of the latter’s workflows of employing photogrammetry for the virtual recreation of historic buildings in 3D. A proof of concept for the Time Machine community.
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Exhibition “Fluid Matter – Designing with water in Amsterdam”
Results of the above-named cooperation can be experienced in the recently opened exhibition in the Arcam Architecture Centre Amsterdam, contextualising life in Amsterdam with water through interactive installations, models, data visualisations, animation and art.
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Mnemosine Project: Digital Library of the Other Silver Age Spain
Earlier this year we featured this inspiring project with a special #LTMThursday episode, interviewing project manager María Dolores Romero López from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She provided insights into the main focus of the research initiative called "Mnemosine" aiming at selecting, categorizing and making available forgotten literary texts of the period between 1868 and 1939.
Follow the link below for updates on the project including a call for participation and the publication of a data set in the Local Time Machine environment.
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Virtueel Princenhage
The ambitious project aims to digitally rebuild the Dutch village of Princenhage of the year 1900. The project team calls for participation of local citizens willing to share old photos, building plans etc. from their private holdings to help enrich the 3D visualisation.
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Timeline Travel – Mobile App
Adding a new dimension to the teaching and studying of architectural history was the aim of the Erasmus+ project "Timeline Travel". Now the desktop version was enhanced by a mobile app, enabling users to more easily create their own timelines on their mobile devices.
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Italgas Heritage Lab
With its over 500,000 digital acquisitions, Italgas' museum and digital laboratory is on the way to become a leader in the field of digital humanities applied to industrial heritage.
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Nicosia Time Machine – Cooperation with PERIsCOPE
The Local Time Machine project Interactive Visualisation of Historic Nicosia is cooperating with the project Portal for heritage buildings integration into the contemporary built environment (PERIsCOPE) in a collaborative testing workshop to explore the capabilities of the platform Urban Periscope enabling multi-scale and multi-modal studies of cities, functioning as a Time Machine of historic neighbourhoods.
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Lausanne Time Machine at the DHdays 2022
Running from 22-23 June in the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne, the DHdays co-organized by the EPFL College of Humanities (CDH) and the UNIL-EPFL dhCenter, in partnership with the Initiative for Media Innovation, was a major success! Swiss television (RTS) featured a video on the Lausanne Time Machine as part of the evening news on 23 June (minute 30:02).
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Citizen Heritage – Citizen Science Practices in Cultural Heritage
Our partner the PHOTOCONSORTIUM – International Consortium for Photographic Heritage recently organized a multiplier event within the project Citizen Heritage in cooperation with the Museo della Grafica di Pisa and the University of Pisa, encouraging local communities to participate in cultural heritage, more specifically photographic heritage. Conference attendants had the opportunity to bring along private photos to be digitized on the spot and fed into Europeana.
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Local Time Machine Thursdays
To highlight our Local Time Machine projects as such and increase the visibility of our Local Time Machine landscape, we initiated our #LTMThursday campaign. Every other Thursday we invite our audience to discover a unique Local Time Machine project featured in our Time Machine newsroom and on Twitter.
Please be kindly invited to discover our manifold Local Time Machine projects featured in this campaign to date and get in touch if you wish to participate with your project.
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News from our Time Machine members
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Project CREARCH ‒ News
The project "CReative Europen ARCHives as innovative cultural hubs ‒ CREARCH" is carried out by Time Machine partners Banco di Napoli Foundation, ICARUS Hrvatska, University of Peloponnese and Regionaal Historisch Centrum Limburg. The focus of the project lies on audience development in archives, digital storytelling, engagement of the public and fostering creative and cultural interactions.
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Critical Catalogue of Martin Luther Portraits (1519 - 1530)
Hundreds of different portraits exist depicting Martin Luther in the early 1500s, many of them by the hand of Lucas Cranach the Elder. A comprehensive catalogue of digitised images enables the critical evaluation of the historical sources.
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n-Dame_Heritage –Bbuilding Cathedrals of Knowledge
Building upon the mass of digitally born data produced within the framework of the scientific worksite of Notre-Dame de Paris, the project is working on a generalisable approach, a replicable methodology and an open and reusable digital ecosystem to build cathedrals of knowledge.
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BoostDigiCulture – Enhancing Digital Capacities of Adult Cultural Professionals
The Erasmus+ project aims to foster the digital skills of professionals in implementing digital culture in their institutional agenda and promote awareness of the importance of digital readiness and training for adult cultural professionals for institutional resilience and sustainability.
Our (German-speaking) community is also invited to take part in a pilot testing phase of the project’s e-learning platform and self-assessment tool (deadline: 15 July 2022).
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Latest Accessions to the Time Machine Network
Since our last issue another four new members joined our network:
We are excited to see our network grow continuously!
Welcome on board and we are looking forward to our future cooperation!
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News from our Time Machine Ambassadors
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New Addition to the Ambassador Network
We are proud to announce the accession of a new Time Machine Ambassador: Salvatore Spina, Research Fellow at the University of Catania. He received his Ph.D. in History of Mediterranean Europe (Cultures, Society and Institutions, centuries 15th-20th), at the University of Messina. His main research topics are Digital Humanities and Digital History, based on interdisciplinary methodologies that can create a bridge between History, Genetics, Medicine and Science.
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A very warm welcome and we are looking very much forward to our future cooperation.
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1 September 2022
"Data Sprint on Historical 3D Amsterdam"
Amsterdam Time Machine invites to share experiences with 3D modeling of historical data (in Dutch!).
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21 - 22 October 2022
“The Rhône and its links with the city of Sion through the centuries.”
Valais-Wallis Time Machine Organisation's to host its first interdisciplinary hackathon.
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