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The webinar \u2018Cultural Heritage in Digital Age\u2019<\/strong>, held virtually on 21st April 2021,<\/strong> served as a platform to present and discuss opportunities and challenges that lay ahead of Europe in fostering the involvement of researchers, innovators and other relevant actors in the process of digitisation of cultural heritage. A particular attention was paid to current policies and instruments, developed under Horizon Europe, Creative Europe or other programmes such as Digital Europe programme, Erasmus+, Next Generation EU, and their potential to preserve and enhance cultural heritage with advanced technologies. Also, it showcased some European funded research projects and other relevant initiatives on the digitisation of Europe\u2019s cultural heritage. This online event was a unique chance to get up-to-date, first-hand information from various experts in this field, representing European Commission, European networks, universities, research centres and libraries. If you interested in main conclusions coming from the webinar, please read through the webinar summary and\/or watch the video recording – both are available below.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The event, organised by the Polish Science Contact Agency \u2018PolSCA\u2019 of the Polish Academy of Sciences\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0the Polish Institute Brussels,<\/em><\/strong> was attended by over 100 participants, representing R&I institutions such as research centres, institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences, universities, academies of arts and various institutions of culture, like museums, libraries as well as theaters, opera houses and philharmonics. We also welcomed a wide range of national, regional and local stakeholders, including NGOs, enterprises and governmental authorities.It is worthy noting that during the webinar the presence of participants from all over Europe was greatly appreciated, inter alia, from Poland, Belgium, Lithuania, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Norway, Spain or Portugal. We strongly believe that this event was one of the examples of synergistic approach<\/strong> that will contribute significantly to create networking links with aim to protect and preserve European cultural heritage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The webinar was officially opened\nby the organisers: Tomasz Poprawka<\/strong>, Director of the PolSCA and Agnieszka\nBolecka<\/strong>, Director of the Polish Institute of Brussels. Both of them emphasized\nthat coronavirus pandemic makes the digital transformation more relevant than\never, thus common efforts on preserving our European cultural heritage shall be\nintensified. A similar approach was also presented at the beginning of the\nevent by the special guest, Dorota Walczak-Delanois<\/strong> (Free University in\nBrussels, ULB) who shared with the participants a brief reflection on the\nliterature as the essential part of our common human heritage and the core of\nEuropean identity. She stressed how fundamental is power of preserving thanks\nto ongoing digitisation which can be seen as a guarantee of preserving values, ideas, the most important legacy for\nfuture generations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the webinar, the speakers\ndiscussed in two thematic sessions. The first one, entitled Opportunities and challenges for\ndigitisation of cultural heritage<\/strong>, was\nmoderated by Mariusz Dzi\u0119glewski<\/strong>, Director of the InLAB Research and Innovation Centre at the\nPedagogical University of Cracow. In its first part, Marita Kayamanidou<\/strong>\n(EC, DG RTD) provided participants with the general overview of Horizon Europe Cluster\n2 and with some examples of digital dimension in different activities which\nwill be developed in 2021-2022 under the Work Programme for Destination 2 of\nthis Cluster. A slightly different\nperspective was given by Maciej Hofman<\/strong>\n(EC, DG EAC) who placed a special emphasis on EU strategic documents on\nculture, presenting a policy context, a strategic vision of European Union when\nit comes to the cultural heritage. He also underlined various digital\ncomponents in EU actions by highlighting tools and programmes like Europeana or\nCreative Europe. The last speaker, Tomasz Parko\u0142a <\/strong>(DARIAH-EU) described major\nchallenges in digitisation from ICT R&D perspective. As he stressed out, to\ndeliver effective digital transformation in the context of cultural heritage close\ncollaboration between Cultural Heritage institutions, Digital Humanities and\nComputer Science is needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second session, entitled \u2018Digitisation of\nculture in practice\u2019 <\/strong>and\nmoderated by Justyna Kramarczyk<\/strong> (Polish Science Contact Agency PolSCA in\nBrussels), revealed how these opportunities and challenges are\nimplemented in wide range of activities. Participants learnt why it is worthy to be involved\nand how to be more engaged in projects or actions on digitisation of cultural\nheritage. Additionally, they got some unique, practical and useful insides from\nthose who have already done it and, what is more important, who have done it\nsuccessfully. It is worthy adding that broad scope of topics\n– literature, music, art – was covered in the second session, at the same time\nunderlining how crucial is the involvement of libraries, museums, cultural\norganisations, cultural heritage institutions, researchers in the entire\ndigitisation\u2019s process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this session, Maciej Eder <\/strong>(Institute of the Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences) presented main achievements of the Institute in the field of digitisation of cultural assets, particularly handwritten index cards and further text analysis with advanced machine learning technics. In this context, two significant European projects were mentioned: COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History<\/a> and Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure<\/a> (H2020). Next speaker, Sonia Wronkowska<\/strong> (National Library of Poland) pointed out four key aspects which are essential as it comes to digitisation of cultural heritage and which should be always taken into account: strategy, infrastructure, the scale of operations and challenges. <\/strong>Moreover, she shared with attendees few initiatives such as Polish Digital Library POLONA<\/a> or International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)<\/a> consortium that is driven by a community of research, national and state libraries, museums, companies and image repositories committed to providing access to high quality image resources. Interesting examples were also provided by Mike Kestemont <\/strong>from Antwerp Centre for Digital Humanities and Literary Criticism (ACDC) which is involved, for instance, in INSIGHT project<\/a> on music iconography detection and classification, using AI to enrich of digital heritage collections. All of the speakers agreed that the digitisation of culture on the mass-scale with high-quality data should be continued. They also highlighted the importance of being part of international communities, of engaging in diverse activities and networks, stressing out the added-value of international collaboration that lies in great opportunity to learn from each other and to use already developed and tested solutions. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to learn more about <\/strong>key opportunities and challenges, emphasized by speakers during both sessions, <\/strong>read the summary of the event. This document – available below – will provide you with all necessary information about EU current programmes, main documents and useful tools on digitisation of cultural heritage<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary_Webinar_Cultural Heritage In Digital Age<\/a>Pobierz<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

What is more, you are invited to watch the recording of the event on YouTube: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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