On Tuesday 1 November 2016, in the important event EuroMed 2016, vicepresident Antonella Fresa talked about Photoconsortium in the session “From Data Acquisition to Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies in Cultural Heritage”.
Title of the talk is “PHOTOCONSORTIUM: digitizing Europe’s photographic heritage” and follows a paper co-written by Antonella Fresa and Fred Truyen.
Abstract: Photoconsortium is an association of photographic archives that contributed over 450.000images of early photography to Europeana. In this contribution we discuss lessons learned, in particular on digitization and copyright issues and describe the activities involved in managing state-of-the-artdigitized photographic archives. We discuss follow-on project activities such as Europeana Space, which focuses on creative reuse of digitized cultural heritage and the Europeana thematic photography channel.
Antonella’s presentation is available for download (PDF, 1.7 Mb) and this is the article as published in the conference proceedings (PDF, 2 Mb)
Also, the conference included the virtual exhibition All Our Yesterdays, accessible by the attendees in a dedicated corner.
The EuroMed conference is a biannual international event organized by the Cyprus University of Technology – Digital Heritage Research Laboratory, a new member of PHOTOCONSORTIUM association.
