In the age of digital technology, adapting content is extremely important to attract and interest people. This especially applies to the concept that people often consider boring or outdated, like museum exhibitions and art galleries. One of the best examples of modern art is Van Gogh Exhibit: The Immersive Experience. Read more…
Museums are often thought of as places that collect, care for, display and interpret objects. It’s also a place to share stories. A variety of new media experiences in cultural heritage settings can be self-characterized as storytelling, including guides offering purely informational content. Digital storytelling in cultural heritage contexts has Read more…
The Open Data Day is approaching. This annual celebration is planned on the 5th of March over the world. Groups from around the world are fostered to create local events on the day where they will use open data in their communities. Check out the closest events to you. The Read more…
As a recap, linked open data (LOD) is defined as data that can be used adapted and modified by anyone as well as being released under an open license, which does not impede its reuse for free (Berners, 2014). While, for many years much of its use was reserved for Read more…
The conservation and restoration of time-based media art should bring a creativity to the digital skills and competencies of youths, particularly in the field of conserving time-based media art. The overall intention is the development of the digital cultural field into a focused youth curriculum which will exploit digital tools Read more…
The Erasmus+ Project Digital Cultural Designer (DCD) aims to extend and enhance the digital skills and competencies of young people particularly in the field of culture by promoting cultural education through innovative online tools and methods. In the framework of the DCD project, a curriculum will be developed to cater to the needs of museums, archives, libraries, and cultural institutions. The Digital Cultural Youth Curriculum will encourage young people to increase their knowledge Read more…
Digital culture refers to the change in how technology is reformulating the way in which we behave as humans. It eludes to how technology has encompassed our everyday life and that it is simply not as mundane or restricted to the internet or modern technological devices but rather finds itself intertwined in Read more…
Traditionally, cultural institutions, such as libraries and museums, have been responsible for the storing and preservation of cultural material. However, due to technological advances, primarily digital tools, such institutions are coming up with new approaches to how users experience art and culture. This can be achieved via digitisation of artifacts, which is the process of converting information Read more…
Digital culture is the act of how we as humans communicate and interact with our surroundings through the ever-growing enhancement of technologies (GDS, 2020). This includes how we have capitalised on the Internet and used the data that has been made available to us. Sites such as social media platforms and devices such as Read more…
As discussed in our previous blog post on this subject, linked open Data or LOD is an online development— part of the semantic web— which has the potential to be hugely impactful for the cultural and educational sectors in particular. As we introduced previously, LODLAM, which stands for linked open data for libraries, museums and archives, is the name given to this area of work—projects Read more…