Seminar Global Interoperability and Linked Data in Libraries, will take place at University of Florence, piazza San Marco 4, June 18-19, 2012.

It promoted by: Università degli studi di Firenze, Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane (ICCU), Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Casalini Libri, Comune di Firenze, Conferenza dei rettori delle università italiane (CRUI), Associazione italiana biblioteche (AIB), Istituto di teoria e tecniche dell’informazione giuridica del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (ITTIG-CNR), Fondazione Rinascimento digitale. Programme

On 1 March 2012 the Europeana Fashion, project was launched. The Europeana Fashion project is coordinated by Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale. This exciting three-year project, co-funded by the European Commission within the ICT Policy Support Programme, will publish online by March 2015 over 700,000 fashion-related digital objects, ranging from historical dresses to accessories, photographs, posters, drawings, sketches, videos, and fashion catalogues. Europeana Fashion is a best practice network of 23 partners, representing the leading public and private museums, archives and collections from 12 European countries.

During an inspection on audio-visual documentary funds for monitoring the Tuscany’s archives and institutions, the VIVAVOCE Florence Competence Centre has found a copy of a 16 mm B/W film containing the movie L’Arno è anche un fiume (Arno is also a river), director Vittorio Togliatti with music by Luigi Nono. Realized by Unitelefilm in 1968 under the direction of V. Togliatti, L’Arno è anche un fiume is dedicated to the 1966 flood of the Arno river, the conditions of fields’ abandonment (which led to the flood) and its dramatic consequences on the social fabric. The DVD will be released in February 2012, enclosed with the magazine Grandevetro. See an excerpt of the movie.

The European Commission has just adopted a Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation, asking Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material and making it available through Europeana. The Recommendation is an update of a first recommendation adopted in 2006. It takes account of Member States’ progress reports from 2008 and 2010, which show that although progress has been made, more and better action is needed as regards financial resources, quantitative targets for digitisation and solid support for Europeana. It also builds on the conclusions of the Comité des Sages, appointed by Commissioners Kroes and Vassiliou in 2010, on bringing Europe's cultural heritage online.

The redesigned Europeana that went live today is now more visual and easier to use. Here are some of the new things you can do on Europeana:

• You can easily find our latest virtual exhibitions, content highlights and Europeana initiatives on the image carousel, the “Featured item” section or in the top navigation link “Explore“.
• You can translate information about an item into your language with the translate function.
• You can copy your favourite item to your site with the embed function.
• You can quickly find ways to interact with other users through our blog, Facebook page, or Europeana Remix

Video about the new look and functions. Visit Europeana and experience for yourself!

The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale on the 12 and 13 September took part in Granada in the founding Symposium of Mediterranean Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (HUMED), which gathers some of the major institutions that deal with humanities in the Mediterranean. HUMED will serve as a site for the discussione of issue germane to the fostering of cross-disciplinary activity and as a network for the circulation of information and the sharing of resources within the Humanities. Programme

The Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV) project is delighted to announce the first issue of the DigCurV newsletter! The purpose of the newsletter is to share news and information about the project’s activities, about the sector, as well as events and developments in digital curation from the members of our network and related projects. To sign up for DigCurV’s newsletter, Ahead of the CurV

The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale renews its partnership with the University of Macerata within the first level Master in Training, management and preservation of digital archives in public and private spheres, academic year 2011/2012. The Master aims to train participants in streamlining processes in document management, exploiting the potential offered by new technologies and providing the training and the preservation of digital and physical archives. Information

After a year of preparatory work and virtual discussions, on March 25th, 2011, was founded in Florence the Association for Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale. The Association is based at the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, which takes care of the Secretariat. The newborn Association immediately begun to play a role in international collaboration. It participated, indeed, in the Unconference THATCampFlorence, at the European University Institute, 23rd-26th March 2011. By next June, the Association will hold its first meeting in Florence at the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, where its organs will be nominated and the organizational procedures for the Association established. More information