http://netvouz.com/PROJECTCONSULT/tag/culture?feed=rss PROJECTCONSULT's bookmarks tagged "culture" on Netvouz http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130502174710-2293140-disruptive-selection-natures-way-of-weeding-out-the-average Disruptive Selection - Natures way of weeding out the average business | Digital Darwinism | Brian Solis | PROJECTCONSULT Thu, 02 May 2013 18:01:21 GMT http://bit.ly/Europeana-Metadata EUROPEANA'S HUGE CULTURAL DATASET OPENS FOR RE-USE The Hague, 12 September 2012 - Opportunities for apps developers, designers and other digital innovators will be boosted today as the digital portal Europeana opens up its dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use. The massive dataset is the descriptive information about Europe's digitised treasures. For the first time, the metadata is released under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication, meaning that anyone can use the data for any purpose - creative, educational, commercial - with no restrictions. This release, which is by far the largest one-time dedication of cultural data to the public domain using CC0 offers a new boost to the digital economy, providing electronic entr... PROJECTCONSULT Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:47:59 GMT http://www.googleartproject.com/ Google uses Streetview technology to create virtual tours with images of the leading Art Galleries of the World - another competitor for Europeana? PROJECTCONSULT Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:34:04 GMT http://www.mukurtu.org/about.html From DownUnder ... Mukurtu - Free OpenSource Archiving for indigenous libraries, archives, museums and cultural centers. The word “mukurtu” in Warumungu means “dilly bag.” Dilly bags hold sacred items and are accessible by acting responsibly within the community and gaining the permission of knowledgeable community leaders. Like the dilly bag the archive is a “safe keeping place,” a community repository for cultural materials and knowledge. | Mukurtu is designed for indigenous libraries, archives, museums and cultural centers; Small cultural heritage centers; National and international collecting institutions that wish to partner with Indigenous communities globally to share content and metadata PROJECTCONSULT Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:30:09 GMT http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/468623/8b75b054-712e-432b-a0f7-761898e6f60e Semantics and Multilinguality for EUROPEANA | study | Report on multilingual and semantic enrichment strategy | The EuropeanaTech Task Force on multilingual and semantic enrichment strategy is happy to announce that its report is now available for download. During a workshop, we analyzed six datasets of Europeana extensively to determine the usage of each field in relation with its semantics, to study the multilinguality aspects of the dataset, and to understand what kind of enrichments were undertaken, why they possibly failed and how they could be improved. The Task Force provides recommendations on each of the stages that the metadata undergoes until it is displayed in Europeana: creation of the metadata by the provider, mapping to EDM and ingestion i... PROJECTCONSULT Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:09:57 GMT