Category Archives: Announcements

Digital Hermeneutics nominated

Posted on June 15, 2011 by laroyo

‎”Digital Hermeneutics: Online Understanding of Cultural Heritage” paper by the Agora project team has been nominated today for best paper at the WebSci 2011 conference.

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User Involvement in Linked Cultural Data Symposium

Posted on January 28, 2011 by laroyo

on 7 February 2011 at 15:00 the Web&Media group at the VU University Amsterdam is organizing a mini-symposium on the topic of “User Involvement in Linked Cultural Data Symposium“. Three prominent speakers will talk about their experiences with users and … Continue reading →

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Plans for early 2011

Posted on January 7, 2011 by mariekevanerp

After a well-deserved break over Christmas, the Agora team is back in the office Here’s a little overview of what we’ve been up to and what’s coming up: The first version of our event browsing demo is online! This is … Continue reading →

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Agora will present at MW2011

Posted on November 23, 2010 by mariekevanerp

Agora’s proposal “Automatic Metadata Enrichment and Linking for Event-driven Access to Distributed Collections”, has been accepted for presentation at Museums and the Web 2011, which takes place in Philadelphia, PA, USA, April 6-9 2011. More details to follow.

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Agora Wins Public Prize Best Poster at SIREN//NL

Posted on November 3, 2010 by mariekevanerp

The Agora poster has won the prize for Best Poster as chosen by the audience at SIREN//NL. The poster shows the conceptual design of the event-browsing interface, with a puzzle pieces overlay.   The different puzzle pieces represent the input … Continue reading →

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Announcement: CATCH Meeting Nov. 26

Posted on October 29, 2010 by mariekevanerp

On November 26, another Agora sister project, namely LINKS, will organise a CATCH meeting. The theme of the meeting is linking families and populations. The programme is as follows: 12:00 Registration and lunch 13:00 Welcome by CATCH programme committee 13:10 … Continue reading →

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Best In-Use Paper Award at EKAW

Posted on October 15, 2010 by mariekevanerp

The paper “Mobile Cultural Heritage Guide: Location-aware Semantic Search” won the prize for “Best In-Use Paper” at the Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses conference (EKAW 2010) in Lisbon, Portugal.  This paper, which was written in collaboration with … Continue reading →

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CATCH Meeting October 22

Posted on October 12, 2010 by mariekevanerp

On October 22 Agora’s sister project Bridge will organise a symposium called “Finding, Linking and Organizing Sources for Media Research”. The symposium is free of charge and open to all interested parties. Please register beforehand though. The meeting will take … Continue reading →

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Authenticity, Authority and the Virtual Museum: the Challenge of Digital Data

Posted on August 4, 2010 by mariekevanerp

Together with Anne Beaulieu, Sarah de Rijcke and Martijn Stevens, the Agora team members Chiel, Johan and Susan, will discuss the concepts of “authenticity” and “authority” in relation to virtual museums at the 6th Annual Conference of the ESRC Centre … Continue reading →

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CATCH Symposium: Digital Cultural Heritage Goes Social

Posted on May 28, 2010 by mariekevanerp

On June 11, Agora will organise a symposium entitled “Digital Cultural Heritage Goes Social”. During this day, we will have talks by and discussions with internationally renowned researchers and cultural heritage professionals about the possible interaction between the social web … Continue reading →

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