Author: athina
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Concrete heritage: conservation with CONSECH20
Concrete heritage does not share the same recognition and conservation as other tangible heritage. While several concrete monuments exist, their significance lies in architectural or historical values. Rarely, if ever, you will hear the words uttered: “I need a little culture, some nice concrete building neighbourhood will do the trick”. Concrete defined life for the…
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Curated Reading List: September 2021
Your curated reading list for September is out!!!! While we are sure you will curl up with OUR good book this rainy Autumn, it is always fun to diversify your reading. Here are our picks -outside of the Creative Commons Global Summit recordings, which we are positive you watch before you go to bed! Covid…
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Get our first book today! How to Heritage
How to heritage is the first publication of Local Approach with all our 2020-2021 articles. The book is curated and divided into chapters as: What is Heritage Heritage 101 Tools and “What can I do?” Technology for Heritage Education Participatory heritage management Gaming and heritage and more! Effectively, creating a How-to heritage management guide. You…
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Towards a National Collection: massive digital access to heritage
Towards a National Collection is an initiative to create a unified virtual collection of art and heritage housed among the United Kingdom’s cultural institutions. The project has a five-year timeline, which will set collaboration and communication amongst professionals in the sector and easy access to heritage for all. The project answers a real need for…
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MetoDHology: a resource you need!
MetoDHology is a platform for free access to various resources on digital methodologies. The resource is open and community-based, with detailed and current information on the subject. Centre for Digital Humanities at the Australian National University created this tool to give easy access to everyone seeking digital methodologies. You can find articles on multidisciplinary topics,…
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Experience a cultural memory: MEMEX APP
MEMEX, MEMories and EXperiences for inclusive digital storytelling project join cultural heritage, memory and augmented reality designed with marginalised communities. The project started in 2019 to address the need for social cohesion through cultural heritage, interpreting its relationship with place, memory and stories into an augmented reality experience accessed with your phone. © MEMEX MEMEX…
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REGISTER NOW: CC Global Summit
The annual CC Global Summit will take place virtually between 20-24 September bringing current exciting panels, topics and tutorials! Creative Commons promises a week of creativity, discussion and collaboration with their second virtual summit marking their 20th anniversary! The event offers a great program and pay-what-you-can tickets granting everyone full access. Creative Commons is one…
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I DIG Dinosaurs: Wyoming Dinosaur Center
Wyoming Dinosaur Center is a museum, laboratory and active dig site at Thermopolis, USA. In 1993 fossil collections were unearthed at Warm Springs Ranch, prompting scientific research. The numerous finds required storage or display rather than shipping them to natural history museums around the States, a museum was built near the site opting to keep…
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Archaeogaming: Video Games as Archaeological Sites
Archaeogaming is a blog on archaeology and video games, created in 2013. The blog discusses archaeology as featured in video games as well as interpretation of video games as archaeological sites. Games and virtual heritage are a growing concept within cultural heritage and archaeology. While the vast majority of heritage institutions are only now discovering…
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Curated Reading List: August 2021
Your curated reading list is out! August was loaded with appealing concepts, new digital applications and news-good and bad-; many of which we could not cover in our pieces. Have a look: Rethinking The Language We Use to Describe What We Do. Read article here. Why should museums invest in digital condition reporting?. Read article…