May 4, 2012

Mid-term review meeting

On May 4, 2012 the DCA project coordinator and work package leaders will take part in the mid-term review of the DCA project. The first fifteen months have elapsed, showing very good progress and interim results.

The digitisation process at Fundació Antoni Tàpies

Fundació Antoni Tàpies - one of the content partners of the DCA project, has filmed some moments of the digitisation process at the Fundació to share them with the wider public.

February 6, 2012

The art world mourns the death of Antoni Tàpies i Puig

The Fundació Antoni Tàpies and the DCA consortium announce with sadness the passing of Antoni Tàpies i Puig, who died in Barcelona at the age of 88 on February 6, 2012.

February 6-7, 2012

Meetings and workshops in Berlin

With the digitisation performance well on its way, aggregation is becoming more and more the focus of attention. Work Package 5 of the DCA Project deals with all issues relating to aggregation.

December 6, 2011

DCA at Europeana CCPA Annual General Meeting 2011

In December 2011 DCA took part in the Annual CCPA meeting (Europeana’s Council of Content Providers and Aggregators)

October 11, 2011 - February 19, 2012

Digitisation process at Listasafni Íslands / National Gallery of Iceland

During a period of five months, the DCA partner National Gallery of Iceland created an open studio in one of their exhibition rooms. In this dedicated space museum visitors could follow the photographing of the works that have been selected to be digitised in the framework of the DCA project.

November 14-16, 2011

8th Annual Conference on The Digitisation of Cultural Heritage EVA/MINERVA 2011 Jerusalem

The international event for professionals in cultural heritage and advanced technologies

September 20 - 22, 2011

Meeting and Workshops in Porto September 20 - 22, 2011

The next phase of the project supports, complements and enriches the actual creation of the digital reproductions and will centre around the key issues of dealing with IPR, enhancing metadata, ensuring sustainability and preparing the aggregation. To ensure the highest quality in practice and sharing of knowledge, we will organise…

May 5 - 6, 2011

DCA Consortium meeting May 5 - 6, 2011

Our second plenary consortium meeting took place in Athens (Greece) on May 5-6 2011 on the premises of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). The main goal of the meeting was to finesse the preparatory work in order to ensure an optimal launch of the actual digitisation phase that…

March 24, 2011

Visiting NIMk (Netherlands media Art Institute) archive studio

A hands-on presentation, demonstration and Q&A at NIMk for audio-visual, especially regarding new media art digitisation workflow and NIMk's long-term preservation approach. www.nimk.nl

March 22 - 23, 2011

Digitisation Workshop in Brussels

Workshop "Introduction of digitisation workflow: everything you have
 to take into account before you start digitising".
The workshop introduces the content partners of the DCA project to the essential steps and decisions to be taken into consideration when creating the workflow for the digitisation of the
items agreed upon in…

January 25 - 26, 2011

DCA kick-off meeting

European Commission and the DCA consortium, comprising 25 partners from 10 EU member states and the 2 associated countries, Croatia and Iceland, officially launched the project Digitising Contemporary Art (DCA) 25th of January, 2011. The launch of the project initiated a significant increase in the presence of contemporary art in…