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Submit your paper for the Student Award of the European Association of Archaeology (EAA)

8 Jul 16

A prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at the EAA conference by a student or archaeologist, working on a dissertation.

#DCAK2016 summer school

21 Jun 16The Digital Curation Unit of the Athena Research Centre hosted an ARIADNE summer school in Athens on legacy datasets and the digital curation of archaeological knowledge from 12-17 June.

Hungarian archaeology online

7 Jun 16

As of the 28 May 2016, the Hungarian National Museum’s Archaeology Database has been available online for researchers, field archaeologists, museum curators and members of the public.

The database was first introduced to archaeologists on the 4 May, 2016 at the Hungarian National Museum before the final testing and live launch. The database is part of the ARIADNE project and its development was supported by the 7th Framework Programme of the EU.

Humanities at Scale Survey

6 Jun 16

The DARIAH-EU project Humanities at Scale (HaS) has launched a survey on digital tools.  Researchers are invited to participate by 12th June 2016.

Call for papers – EUROMED 2016

23 May 16Progress in Cultural Heritage e-Documentation, Preservation and ProtectionIn cooperation with:

A)    European Commission, the Europa Nostra, the EU Member States Expert Group on Digitalisation and e-Preservation in Cultural Heritage, ICOMOS (www.icomos.org), ISPRS (http://www.isprs.org ), CIPA (http://cipa.icomos.org/ ), The EU Digital Library Europeana (www.europeana.eu)

B)    the EU Projects:
DARIAH-EU (www.dariah-eu) Research Infrastructure on e-Humanities and Art, Marie-Curie Initial Training Network on Digital Heritage ITN-DCH (www.itn-dch.eu), LoCloud (www.locloud.eu), 4D-CH-World (www.4d-ch-world.eu), I-Treasures (www.i-treasures.eu), Europeana-Space (http://www.europeana-space.eu/), EU Performa (http://www.preforma-project.eu/), the COST Action Innovation in Intelligent Management of Heritage Buildings and others more…

2nd call MTSR 2016

19 May 16MTSR 2016 has been relocated to the Universitats Bibliothek of Gottingen, Germany and the paper submission deadline has been extended to 24th June 2016.

ARM&P SIG 2nd Expert Forum

18 May 16The Expert Forum on The future of archaeological knowledge curation 2021-2026, will take place on 16-17 June 2016 in Athens. It is being organized by the Digital Curation Unit, IMIS-Athena Research Centre, and co-organized with the Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto and the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business.

CFP MTSR 2016

25 Apr 16Call for Papers for a special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Cultural Collections & Applications at the 10th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2016), 22 – 25 November 2016, Rome, Italy.
Submission deadline: May 15th, 2016
Proceedings will be published in Springer CCIS series

CFP preventive archaeology

25 Apr 16Call for papers for a one day workshop on (Re)thinking archaeological potential in preventive archaeology, to be held on Friday, 28th October 2016 in Ljubljana

CFP Eurographics 2016

25 Apr 16Call for papers for the 14th Eurographics workshop on graphics and cultural heritage
Genova, Italy, 5-7 October 2016

CFP VSMM 2016

25 Apr 16The VSMM organizing committee hereby invites submissions to the 2016 international conference. VSMM will be held for the first time in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia at Sunway University from October 17-21, organized by the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Science and Technology and the newly established Centre for Research Creation in Digital Media (CRCDM).

IJDL Special Issue related to ARIADNE

12 Apr 16A special issue on Networked Knowledge Organization Systems has just been published in Springer’s International Journal on Digital Libraries 17(1) with 3 papers directly reporting on ARIADNE related work and another paper discussing PeriodO.

PeriodO news

12 Apr 16IMLS has awarded funding to the University of Texas at Austin for the next stage of development of PeriodO.

ARIADNE data management workshops in Vienna and Ljubljana

22 Mar 16

ARIADNE delivered data management workshops in Vienna and Ljubljana in January of this year.

One of the venues – ZRC SAZU’s  main building at Ljubljana’s Novi Trg on the left, in the distance left National and University Library of Slovenia building at sunrise. Photo: B. Štular.

CHNT-2016 Call for Papers, Posters & Apps open

4 Mar 16

The 21st Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, CHNT-2016, will take place on November 16-18, 2016, in Vienna, Austria. ARIADNE will be conducting a session and a round table at this event.

Archaeological data management workshops highly successful

29 Feb 16

Training Workshop Ljubljana

Two highly successful one-day training events were held on the 19th and 21st of January on the topic of archaeological  data management.

The training materials are available on the website  at: http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/Resources/Training-Materials.

SIG Report

29 Feb 16During the last six months, the Special Interest Groups have been busy behind the scenes. Here are some of the highlights.

Call: Geophysics summer school

29 Feb 16Call for applications for an international summer school on “Geophysics and remote sensing for Archaeology” to be held at Pompeii, 9-13 May 2016.

TNA Experiences

25 Feb 16

ARIADNE has provided trans-national access (TNA) for the last two years and applications for access for the third year recently opened. The experiences gained from the two previous years allows us to reflect on what works well and where there are still challenges.

Open Context on the DAI Cloud

24 Feb 16The Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) recently announced a partnership for DAI to provide mirror hosting and backups for AAI’s innovative data publishing program for archaeology, Open Context.

CFP: Open access in Archaeology

19 Feb 16Will the availability of open data change the nature of archaeological research and publication? ARIADNE warmly invites submissions of papers from researchers, projects and publishers working on this topic to a session on Open Access and Open Data in Archaeology to be held at EAA 2016 in Vilnius.

The call is open to 1st March, 2016.