scholarly journals EAGLE and EUROPEANA

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro Maria Liuzzo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Aggregate Data ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Latin Epigraphy

EAGLE, The Europeana network for Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, a project co-founded by the European Commission, has as its sole aim to harmonize and aggregate data for Europeana “the trusted source of cultural heritage”. Very easy to say, but no easy task in practice. It is extremely challenging to achieve the trust users have in the original resources with the aggregated content.

A Mock-up for the Development of a Digital Edition for Ancient Greek Fragmentary Poetry

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Alberto Eugenio Stefanini ◽  
Anika Nicolosi ◽  
Monica Monachini
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
University Students ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
User Evaluation ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Poetry ◽  
Digital Edition ◽  
Study Support

Ancient Greek poetry is an essential part of the western cultural heritage; thus, it is important that people have access to its texts and whatever relates to their understanding in a reliable and easy way. Whenever user evaluation is concerned, mock-ups are used by designers to acquire feedback from users. A mock-up is defined as a model of the final product, and may be used for demonstration, evaluation and other purposes. The authors prototyped a mock-up for focusing on the requirements of a scholarly digital edition of Archilochus. This was put under evaluation to assess its usability: it was submitted to extensive use and testing by a sample of prospective users, to better focus on the requirements from a product's perspective. Experimentation involved a group of university students, attending a Greek Philology course at Parma University. More than half of the respondents considered the mock-up a useful study support. The evaluation also pointed out that the mock-up had to be revised, so as to guarantee better cognitive simplicity of the user interface.

Archaeology in the home: neoclassical ceramics for new audiences in mid-nineteenth-century Britain

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-88
Author(s):  
Paul Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Transfer Printing ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ceramics Industry ◽  
Material Evidence

Abstract For audiences not familiar with antiquity, the shattering of the Portland Vase at the British Museum in 1845 raised awareness of a classical past which was claimed by many European nations as their cultural heritage. This article explores how the British ceramics industry quickly exploited a ready market, prompted by such interest. A new genre of wares was produced industrially, mainly in Stoke-on-Trent until the 1870s, although manufacture continued sporadically until 1900. Modern techniques, including moulding and transfer-printing, allowed the creation of versions of black- and red-figure ancient Greek ceramics, sometimes in vivid polychrome. Hitherto largely overlooked by museums and standard histories of ceramics, the material evidence of this fashion endures. Although the resulting artefacts were often marketed without reference to their origins in antiquity, an argument is presented here for their having more than merely decorative significance.

On the Rules Regulating the Celebration of the Eleusinian Mysteries

1959 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Sokolowski
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Eleusinian Mysteries

The old and very illegible inscription from Athens containing the charter of the Eleusinian Mysteries was happily completed by a few small fragments discovered during the American excavations on the Agora. It was not an easy task for Professor B. D. Meritt to bring together the broken pieces and the stone bearing the inscription (now in the British Museum). He did it with his usual epigraphical expertness and contributed very much to the reading and to the restoration of a document which has been a real problem to many scholars for a long time. Of course, the inscription so old and so badly preserved will continue to be debated by specialists in different fields of Classical studies, but the part of Professor Meritt in elucidating this important testimony of the ancient Greek cult always will be gratefully appreciated. I should like to discuss some passages of the document in question in the hope that small changes in certain lines may perhaps make it more intelligible.

Cultural Opposition: Concepts and Approaches

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Péter Apor ◽  
Sándor Horváth ◽  
Tamás Scheibner ◽  
Éva Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Horizon 2020

This article describes the concepts and approaches to Cultural Opposition used by the COURAGE project (funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 programme). It examines how can the legacy of Cultural Opposition be analyzed from the perspective of the cultural heritage and collections and what are the promises of the Cultural Opposition term for the emergence of new possibilities in the historiography of the Communist Era. This article argues that the use of cultural heritage of the socialist Cultural Opposition is strongly linked to the history and trajectory of the Cultural Opposition collections, and that the analysis of the collections story offers a clearer understanding of the post-communist transformation from a different point of view.

scholarly journals Developing EU Heritage Diplomacy: Notions of Cultural Diplomacy, Cultural Heritage, and Intercultural Dialogue among EU Officials and European Heritage Practitioners

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuuli Lähdesmäki
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Intercultural Dialogue ◽  
European Heritage

The European Commission has recently identified cultural heritage as a focus area for EU cultural diplomacy. The article explores EU cultural diplomacy that deals with cultural heritage and develops the concept of heritage diplomacy based on a critical discourse analysis of interviews with EU officials and heritage practitioners working at sites awarded with the European Heritage Label. What do these actors mean by cultural diplomacy and how do they understand the role and potential of cultural heritage for it and with what effects? The analysis indicates that heritage diplomacy means different things for EU officials and heritage practitioners. Their discourses on the uses of cultural heritage for diplomacy constructs certain understandings of cultural heritage and heritage diplomacy, and the power relations between these understandings.

scholarly journals SPACE-BASED APPLICATIONS FOR BUILT CULTURAL HERITAGE: EXPERIENCE OF COPERNICUS4REGIONS PUBLICATION

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branka Cuca ◽  
Raffaella Brumana
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Space Agency

NEREUS is a Network of Regions Using Space Technologies established in Brussels in 2007. The need of this network emerged out of conviction that the regions are the key users and procurers of space-based applications, products and services. Since more than decade, the mission of the Network has been to raise awareness of the benefits that space technologies can offer to the citizens, especially in a regional context, for public services and public policies. Within this framework, and with support by the European Commission and European Space Agency, NEREUS has developed several publications that have promoted different Earth Observation applications such as "The growing uses of Copernicus across Europe’s Regions" (2012) and the latest one "The Ever Growing Use of Copernicus across Europe’s Regions" (2018). Politecnico di Milano was in charge of Publication management of this last use-cases collection. The paper here presented illustrates and discusses the result of the Publication with a specific focus on applications regarding use of Earth Observation and Copernicus Programme for Cultural Heritage.

scholarly journals STUDY ON QUALITY IN 3D DIGITISATION OF TANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Pritchard ◽  
Thomas Rigauts ◽  
Francesco Ripanti ◽  
Marinos Ioannides ◽  
Raffaella Brumana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Plan Implementation ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
First Results ◽  
3D Documentation ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
One Year ◽  
3D Digitisation

Following the action plan implementation of the Virtual Multimodal Museum (ViMM) project, which finished in March 2019, the European Commission issued a Declaration on Cooperation on Advancing Digitisation of Cultural Heritage during the Digital Day in April 2019. One year later, in April 2020, the European Commission (EC) launched a call for tenders to develop a Study on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage (the Study), thus responding to the increasing demand for internationally recognised standards for the holistic 3D documentation of Europe’s rich cultural heritage (CH). To address this lack of standards, the Study aims to map parameters, formats, standards, benchmarks, methodologies and guidelines, relating to 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage, to the different potential purposes or uses, by type of tangible cultural heritage, and by degree of complexity of tangible cultural heritage. A team of researchers at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) is leading a consortium of partners from industry and academia across Europe to conduct this unique Study. This work in progress paper introduces the objectives and methodology of the Study, as well as presenting some of its first results.

Creating an Electronic Register of Collections of Cultural Opposition

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Miroslav Michela ◽  
Michaela Kůželová ◽  
Anna Vrtálková
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Great Variability ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Planned Activities

The call of European Commission of the Horizon 2020 programme, entitled Cultural Opposition in the Former Socialist Countries, was based on the assumption that there are a number of historical sources pointing out the great variability of independent cultural activities and movements opposed to socialist regimes in Europe. The call highlighted that the evidence of civic and political courage played an important role after 1989 and launched a competition to create a general online register of these collections. The text is dedicated to a presentation of the winning consortium called COURAGE (Cultural Opposition – Understanding the CultuRal HeritAGE of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries). Representatives of the Czech part of the project team make readers familiar with planned activities and, in particular, with the activities related to the creation of an online register which gives closer information on the destiny of various collections, combine the activity of agents and thus provide a unique insight into the history of the Cultural Opposition activities through both the history and the present of selected collections.

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