Workshops
Date: Saturday,29 September & Sunday,30 September
Time: 10:00 : 17:30
Duration: Full day
Place: Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion (CCCH)
Date: Saturday,29 September & Sunday,30 September
Time: 10:00 : 13:00
Duration: Half day
Place: Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion (CCCH)
The Documentation Standards Working Group invites as many collections management system vendors as possible to a round-table discussion of the past, present and – most important – the future of software tools for museum documentation. Digital collections management systems are proliferating –...
Date: Sunday,30 September
Time: 10:00 : 16:00
Duration: Full day
Place: Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion (CCCH)
Collection management standards are best created from the practice of the people working in the sector. This has been the experience of Collections Trust, formerly the Museum Documentation Association (MDA) in the United Kingdom. Since its publication in 1994 Spectrum has undergone changes which...
Date: Sunday,30 September
Time: 10:00 : 13:00
Duration: Half day
Place: Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion (CCCH)
This tutorial provides lectures, demonstrations, discussion, and hands-on practice with software tools for creating and validating context and process metadata for photographic image sequences. The initial software is designed for...
Date: Sunday,30 September
Time: 14:00 : 17:30
Duration: Half day
Place: Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion (CCCH)
Today, the term Virtual Museum is mainly used to describe initiatives such as 2D and 3D digital collections available on the web, virtual tours to existing physical museums or (in its advanced form) a systematic use of web technology and tools, as well as multimedia content, to communicate...
Date: Sunday,30 September
Time: 10:00 : 13:00
Duration: Half day
Place: Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion (CCCH)
Analysis of ancient DNA (aDNA) is new powerful means to study biological excavation specimens and answer paleontological and archaeological science questions.
Comprehensive genome sequencing of genetic material, salvaged into ancient biological specimens (bones and teeth of human and...
Date: Sunday,30 September
Time: 10:00 : 17:00
Duration: Full day
Place: Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion (CCCH)
This workshop will offer a hands-on introduction to the process of data integration from heterogeneous cultural heritage (CH) data sources.
Increasingly CH professionals working in the museum sector are faced with the challenge of bringing together a holistic view of the information...
Date: Sunday,30 September
Time: 14:00 : 17:30
Duration: Half day
Place: Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion (CCCH)
The Documentation Standards Working Group proposes to work with museums and museum collection management system software creators (vendors) to devise and implement a mechanism, grounded in existing data standards, that facilitates ‘at the touch of a button’ the exchange of object and object...
Date: Sunday,30 September
Time: 10:00 : 17:30
Duration: Full day
Place: Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion (CCCH)
This workshop will provide a basic introduction on how museums can be present, visible and connected via the free and non-profit Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia., Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.
Goal of the workshop:
• To present an overview of the Wikimedia projects, with...
Date: Tuesday,2 October
Time: 18:15 : 19:15
Duration: Half day
Place: FORTH- amphitheater
In recent years complex diagnostic and restoration problems have been efficiently approached by means of laser techniques. In fact a number of laser material processing and spectroscopic methods has been specifically adapted with exceptional success to the requirements of a wide range of...
Date: Tuesday,2 October
Time: 18:15 : 19:15
Duration: One session
Place: FORTH - AMI amphitheater
The ICS-FORTH Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Programme is a long-term horizontal interdisciplinary RTD Programme aiming to develop and apply pioneering human-centric AmI technologies and Smart Environments.
In the context of the AmI Programme, more than 130 integrated systems have been...
Date: Sunday,30 September
Time: 14:00 : 17:30
Duration: Half day
Place: Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion (CCCH)
Arguably all museums use digital tools to fulfill their tasks. Museums take digital photos of exhibits and use data bases as the central knowledge systems of their object documentation. They make online collections available to their visitors and social media teams use object information for...