Sneak preview of the EUscreen portal during the Learning on Screen conference
By Eve-Marie Oesterlen The British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) was proud to present a sneak preview of the EUscreen portal as part of
License to Remix! – Experiences from the Video Remix Workshop and the IPR workshop
By Kati Hyyppä, Sanna Marttila and Wietske van den Heuvel The License to remix! video remix workshop was organized in the context of the EUscreen project and the Remix
BBC Research & Development launched Musical Moods sound experiment at National Science & Engineering Week 2011
Press release by the BBC As part of National Science & Engineering Week and BBC Research & Development’s Multimedia Classification project, BBC R&D, the British
Project Launch: “Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten” – The First World War in everyday documents
Press release by Europeana Pictures, letters and memorabilia wanted Berlin, 24 March 2011: “The First World War in everyday documents” is launched today with a
EUscreen welcomes a new associate partner
The EUscreen consortium is being expanded with the Nasjonalbiblioteket from Norway. With Norway included, 20 European countries are contributing to the EUscreen project. The Nasjonalbiblioteket has
EUscreen has organised a workshop on IPR-issues
By Wietske van den Heuvel Date: March 16 Place: Hilversum, the Netherlands Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) legislations are different in every European country. One of
Conference: Video Vortex #6
Date: 10-12 March 2011 Location: Amsterdam The Video Vortex events come back to Amsterdam. Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, and in a top
Film Heritage, Digital Future: Practice and Sustainability for the Film Archive Sector
Press release by the BUFVC A one day event for professionals in film and TV archiving. Friday March 4th 2011 Organised and hosted by Birmingham
BUILDING A NEW FRAMEWORK: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION FOR DIGITAL CURATORS
Press release from Europeana/DigCurV Work has begun on Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV), a new project funded by the European Commission’s Leonardo da Vinci
European Film Gateway project publishes report about copyright issues
By the European Film Gateway (EFG) In order to bring archival materials held in film archives online and giving access to them, rights clearing is a
National Library of Sweden and the Swedish Film Institute launch new web site for moving images
By Christopher Natzen On February 10 the new web site Filmarkivet was launched by the National Library of Sweden and the Swedish Film Institute. On
5 Million Manuscripts, Films and Texts for Europeana
Press release from Europeana Work begins this week to add over 5 million digital objects, ranging from Spanish civil war photographs to handwritten letters from
The Power of Television: Including the Historicizing of the Live Romanian Revolution
Press release from Utrecht University Date: February 4 Place: Utrecht The dissertation “The Power of Television: Including the Historicizing of the Live Romanian Revolution” by
‘Rundfunk und Geschichte’ publishes report on the first EUscreen International Conference
By Dana Mustata The German journal ‘Rundfunk und Geschichte’ will publish in their upcoming issue of February 2011 an extensive report on the results of
The Comité des Sages calls for a “New Renaissance” by bringing Europe’s cultural heritage online
Press release by Europeana The report of the Comité des Sages (high-level reflection group) on Digitisation of Europe’s cultural heritage was delivered to Neelie Kroes, European
New AV Competence Centre will launch during Screening the Future 2011 Conference
Press release from PrestoPrime The new AV Competence Centre ― entitled PrestoCentre ― is a membership driven, non-profit organisation that will serve stakeholders in audiovisual
1914-18 archive alliance signed
Press release by Europeana The German National Library, Oxford University and Europeana have signed an agreement to digitise family papers and memorabilia from the First
Media & Learning Conference report online
By Sally Reynolds The first Media & Learning conference took place on 25-26 November 2010 in the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training. Participants included