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eCHOing project:Social innovation and social entrepreneurship through EU funding for NTNU and partners

Post author By Alexandra Angeletaki
Post date 10. February 2022
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Website: https://echoing.eu/

eCHOing project:Recovery of cultural heritage through higher education and open innovation

Erasmus +, KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education

January 2022 to June 2024

The project is faninced by EU with Erasmus+ funding

The eCHOing Partners

Acronyms: P1 NTNU; P2 SSSA; P3 W2L; P4 SU; P5 UT; P6 OSYGY

NTNU, leading institution. Coordinator: Alexandra Angeletaki, NTNU Ålesund, Partners: Paula Rice, Inga B. Langfeldt
Santa Anna University, Pisa, Italy specialises in : 3D technology and Artificial Intelligence apps with Dr. Chiara Evangelista.
Web2Learn, SME, Greece, specialises in Citizen Science and educational innovation with Dr. Katerina Zourou.
University of Sofia, Digital technologies in the GLAM sector with Dr. Milena Dobreva.
Universty of Tartu, Viljandi Culture Academy, Estonia, Vocational training of crafts with Dr. Ave Matsin.
OSYGY Women’s Association in the Cyclades volunteer organisations safeguarding local and regional cultural heritage and crafts with Vice president, Anna Mavroudi.

With the emergence of COVID-19, the world has not only been hit with a severe economic blow, but with a political, social, ethical, and cultural crisis. Thus NTNU as an Higher Education Institution (HEI), has an obligation to fight such a crisis by providing up-to-date educational tools and transforming teaching design and implementation to become more resilient and accessible.

The main challenge eCHOing will address is how to establish an effective transfer of knowledge based on experiential learning and co-create resilient solutions for CHOs after a crisis in different European countries. The NTNU UB, Gunnerus branch has been working with similar initiatives since 2008 and has established both a national and international network of such collaborations( See Mubil.no, ARK4). The fact that Libraries work with integrated learning through hands-on seminars and have a long tradition in following digital transformation as it develops through time through services for students and researchers, allows the NTNU library to challenge its role as an important educational partner in the HEIs landscape. Our application was funded with ca 360.000 euro for 30 months and our project called eCHOing has just started in January 2022 with NTNU UB coordinating the project.

We, in eCHOing, believe in the “recovery of cultural heritage through higher education and open innovation.” In other words, we strive to find a way for our culture to be revived and our diversity to be celebrated, by creating a bridge between higher education institutions (HEIs) and society. We will do so through open innovation (OI), a process in which a new idea, device, or method addresses a certain problem in a way that gives importance to an individual or group, with the help of modern technology. Openness, thus, offers an opportunity for citizens to get involved and serve a social purpose, by participating in digitally enhanced activities. Such activities include hacktivism (activism by means of hacking for a social purpose), maker movement (DIY technology-based inventions), citizen science (participation of citizens in a scientific research), and crowd initiatives (such as crowdfunding and crowdsourcing).

With the participation of HEIs and members of small or medium-sized Culture Heritage Organizations (CHOs), such as universities, staff and students, local and national museums, cultural clubs and associations, local learning centres and libraries, and the help of OI, we can create more contemporary, innovative, and sustainable teaching methods within a diverse and socially responsible culture.

The overall impact of eCHOing will be for HEIs to become more agile in adjusting their curricula, teaching and learning methods and practises to the increasing number of extra-curricular forms of knowledge creation and circulation in which university students and staff are called to participate in during their studies. Through Open innovation forms and participation in international competitions for students, telecollaboration and virtual exchanges, etc. HEIs can rethink how niches of knowledge creation and circulation happening outside HEIs but in which students and staff are involved during their studies, can be incorporated and used to upgrade knowledge in academic curricula, and also upscale these examples to other curricula or disciplines. Thus in close collaborations with small and medium CHOs, they can contribute to the recognition/acknowledgement by HEIs of the importance of the focus on small CHIs: safeguarding the pluralities of culture, being decentralised, thus closer to local population being strongly interconnected with issues of identities, civic engagement and sustainable local development and promote intergenerational and cross-sectoral participation.

Through this International collaboration NTNU aims at fostering innovation in order to follow the changes happening in research and education in the HEI landscape of digital transformation. NTNU invites students, education professionals and cultural organisations to an open, knowledgeable and creative exchange of digital participation in order to establish active initiatives of resilience and digital transformation initiatives with its collaborating host institutions and find solutions that fit the regional profiles of its partner countries.

The Regional Museums that have joined NTNU as members of the eCHOing Advisory board and its partners in this endeavour are:

1. Falstad Center, (middle scale regional museum) with Head of Research, Ingeborg Hjorth, member of eCHOing advisory board.

2. World Culture United, Oslo, Norway (NGO on arts and crafts) with Artist and Project manager, Irene Dominquez Marques.

3. Kvenna Kunstverk AS (AS ceramics production center), Artist and Project manager Britt Dyrnes

4. ULLDAGA 2021-2023 (Regional project on arts and crafts) , crafts artist, Anne Bårdsgård.

5. Stiklestad National Cultural Center (medium sized cultural center and regional history Museum) with Head of Research Hanna Mellemsether

The Project is funded by Erasmus+ EU

Tags Covid19, Digital Heritage, ERASMUS, EU

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Online webinar 4.6.21: Citizen science initiatives in the cultural heritage sector: insights into open cultural data

Post author By Alexandra Angeletaki
Post date 25. May 2021

Citizen engagement is crucial to the EU – it is the only way to make it a common project for all. Europeans need to be ensured a more active role in the setting of priorities, to make policy more relevant and better fit for purpose[i].

NTNU Brussels office has started a series of webinars on subjects related to the European calls and where best practices are presented. The target audience is Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences researchers and postgraduates as well as cultural sector professionals but also IT and education scholars and professionals.

In these seminars we try to map the pulse of EU financed projects that create open access-based citizen engagement through various initiatives. The first online webinar in line is coming up on the 4th of June 21 on zoom 11.00-11.45.

Please register here> Citizen science initiatives in the cultural heritage sector: insights into open cultural data, 4th of June 11.00 (ntnu.no)

About the webinar: The presentation discusses the concept of citizen science as a participatory research methodology in cultural heritage and reviews good practices in creating and communicating open cultural data in citizen science initiatives. A sample of 25 practices of European Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) that we analysed between December 2020 and March 2021 will be presented through the following nine dimensions of openness: Open access; Open data; Open metadata; Open metrics; Open-source software/hardware(use or development); Open access results; Open file formats ,Open datasets and Open documentation.

The analysis will take the form of data visualizations for the public. This presentation contributes to the understanding of barriers and enablers in the documentation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in participatory, citizen-enhanced ways.

The speaker for this webinar will be Katerina Zourou, PhD, who is a senior researcher in learning and teaching from an open perspective (open educational resources and practices) and from a networking and collaboration perspective (collective learning, social networked learning). She is also head of Web2Learn in Greece. She acts as project leader or partner in transnational projects funded by the Council of Europe, the European Commission, and national funds. Her Publications you can find here.

Organiser : NTNU BRUSSELS OFFICE, Alexandra Angeletaki

Citizen science — active public involvement in scientific research — is growing bigger, more ambitious, and more networked and supports the open science ideal through open knowledge circulation and open data (Irwin, 2018; European Commission, 2020).

Resources from EU

The European Data Portal

European Union Open Data Portal

A cultural change: the European Commission embraces citizen engagement | EU Science Hub (europa.eu)

Citizen Science

[i] https://europa.eu/citizens-initiative-forum/blog/design-engage-impact-european-citizens-initiative-20-driving-citizen-engagement-eu_en#:~:text=Citizen%20engagement%20is%20crucial%20to%20the%20EU%20-,policy%20more%20relevant%20and%20better%20fit%20for%20purpose.

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100 years of solitude

Post author By Alexandra Angeletaki
Post date 10. November 2020

As an archeologist I have always thought of our presence in relation to the past and the future. I have wondered why do we act as if we believe that our lifetime, this of hundred years, is so important when earth has existed for millions! When is it that we lost the perspective and the consciousness of being the smallest particle of a great universe that has existed before us for a long long time before we could even grasp its very existence!!

In times of crisis though as this year`s Corona pandemic, this becomes even a greater imperative, how will all these stories be preserved for the future. All these meetings we have had at work the last months, are they stored somewhere, how long will they last, will anyone ever try to reconstruct this digital period of our existence. As Leonardi (2010) argues we live in a time where we are moving “away from linking materiality to notions of physical substance” so we need to find new ways to discuss this and create strategies for preserving our digital present.

So, who takes the responsibility for a huge organization like our Universities and their digital productions (mine has with 40,000 students and 6,000 employees) with a prospective lifespan of, let’s say, 100 years.

The questions are many and as time passes by they become even more. A few, to be posed here, have also been answered by my students who have had some interesting ideas on the subject.

What happens to all the digital data we produce today, email, photos, job documents?
Who will take care of it, who thinks that this should be preserved for 100 or more hundred years?
Do we need a computer conservator and a data archaeologist to be able to read formats that will be too old, that might not be readable in 30 years’ time?
How much do we lose along the way and who is to decide what and how to keep specific digital data?
Do we have any evidence or research on the time span of data degradation of the physical storage media of their habitat and migration strategies?
Who is then to decide where our digital data will physically be stored so that it is preserved?

In a busy working day things go so fast that we have no time to problematize preservation strategies or sustainable storage possibilities, migrating data degradation for a time horizon longer than 10 years away. But in order for the digital legacy we produce today to be preserved for the future and for technology itself not to stand in the way of sustainable development, we must be made aware and take responsibility.

But we must then be able to establish an understanding of each other’s subjects and expectations. An archaeologist thinks of it in terms of longevity, and there are many organizations such as EUROPEANA, UNESCO, ICOMOS-CIPA, CYARK500 who work on such issues. My title is 100 years of solitude because I have had a feeling that there is such a long distance between those who make the decisions and those who have to implement the actions, that strategy becomes a long floating bureaucracy where someone or something other than us is supposedly responsible for.

At the same time, we work constantly on infrastructure and updates and engage in discussions and strategies of workflows where metadata and important information do not disappear while all the physical compliance we still preserve for future generations, as stated in the Norwegian parliament Article 24:

“Digitization and preservation of cultural heritage: The vision for the Government’s ICT policy in the field of culture is to make as much of the collections in sour archives, libraries and museums as possible accessible to the maximum possible by future-oriented use of IK-technology solutions. The collections should be searchable and accessible across the entire ABC field, and the content should be communicated in a user-oriented manner”.

It is an eternal challenge.

“Digital culture heritage” though is slightly different than “digitization of heritage”. It was born digitally and though as of digital nature. UNESCO in its definition of Digital Heritage says

“Using computers and related tools, humans are creating and sharing digital resources – information, creative expression, ideas and knowledge encoded for computer processing – that they value and want to share with others over time as well as across space. This is evidence of a digital heritage. It is a heritage made of many parts, sharing many common characteristics, and subject to many common threats.

My students from the EIT (Country Village 9: Digital conservation of the Past) have tried to problematize the subject. “Experts in team” is a master’s degree course in which students develop their interdisciplinary teamwork skills and prepare themselves for their working life. Village 9 worked during the spring semester with ideas on Digital dissemination of the past and discussed the possibilities and the limitations technology can offer as a tool. The idea was to work interdisciplinary and discuss the challenges technology poses around the lifespan and the documentation strategies of today’s digital data production that the Museum and Library section deals with. Creative ideas as to what would be the best strategy to structure and disseminate the metadata of archives and special collections in the future is a demanding and ongoing task for our library and suggestions from young professionals is a way to stay in tune with the current technological developments. At the same time, contact with the general public is the main factor for the development of new visualization tools and allows us to think of new ways of approaching our users and their interests and achieve.

In times of crisis though this becomes even a greater imperative, how will all these stories be preserved for the future. All these meetings we have had at work the last months, are they stored somewhere, how long will they last, will anyone ever try to reconstruct this blizzard period of our existence.

So, who takes the responsibility with a prospective lifespan of, let’s say, 100 years.

The answer must be “ourselves, one and each of us”.

Alexandra Angeletaki

NTNU University

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Immersive Tourism for Heritage and Screen: 2D, 3D and 4D

Post author By Alexandra Angeletaki
Post date 10. November 2019

The 11th of December a seminar has been organised at Margaret River cultur center by the local community on heritage tourism and technology.

and by Professor Erik Champion, Dr Christina Lee

Perth-based and international speakers discuss exciting future projects in eTourism, Heritage and Screen Tourism.

About this Event

[Image care of Ian Brodie, HIDDEN, Alexandra Angeletaki: MUBIL, and Barbara Bollard, Drone Lab]

Speakers:

Associate Professor Barbara Bollard (AUT NZ), will talk about her research on modelling environments such as 3D Antarctica hutsvia drone-based photogrammetry (see also ideolog article: up, up and away).
Archaeologist and Senior Research Librarian, Alexandra Angeletaki, (NTNU Trondheim Norway), will talk about her use of immersive VR and related technology projects to bring historical texts and artefacts alive in the Gunnerus Library, Trondheim (founded 1768) via projects like MUBIL and iManus: a film by Bjorn Ante Roe.
Mr Ian Brodie, award winning photographer and film tourism author, will engage us with his AR projects as part of HIDDEN.
Dr Christina Lee, Curtin University, will explain new and exciting possibilities of screen tourism in WA and across Australia.
Mr Mike Dunn is a visual effects artist who has been creating animations for film and television for over 20 years and is the owner of visual effects company, Phimedia.
Professor Erik Champion, Curtin University, will discuss exciting new futures arising magically between games, VR/ XR, cultural tourism and screen tourism.

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A seminar on eTourism and digital heritage at Curtin University in Perth Australia

Post author By Alexandra Angeletaki
Post date 7. November 2019

Invited to hold a lecture by Professor and UNESCO Professorial Chair in Cultural Heritage & Visualisation> Erik Champion on

About this Event

eTourism, Immersive GLAM and Virtual Heritage

Speakers:

Mr Alec Coles, OBE FRSA, CEO of Western Australian Museum
Associate Professor Barbara Bollard (AUT NZ), will talk about her research on modelling environments such as 3D Antarctica huts via drone-based photogrammetry (see also ideolog article: up, up and away).
Mr Ian Brodie, award winning photographer and film tourism author, will engage us with his AR projects as part of HIDDEN.
Archaeologist and Senior Research Librarian, Alexandra Angeletaki, (NTNU Trondheim Norway), will talk about her use of immersive VR and related technology projects to bring historical texts and artefacts alive in the Gunnerus Library, Trondheim (founded 1768) via projects like MUBIL and Imanus : a film by Bjorn Ante Roe.
Dr David McMeekin will explain the Getty Foundation funded Ancient Itineraries-Exploring Digital Art History project.
Professor Erik Champion will discuss exciting new futures between games, VR/ XR, and the GLAM sector.

My lecture is on : Engaging with cultural heritage, including your end-users in strategy discussions on heritage protection and sustainability.

Archives and memory institutions today, are challenged, because of the emergence of technology and internet, to find new forms of dialogue with their public, potential visitors, users project-participants. They have turned to today’s technology to entertain and inform the public but also to collect and manage data production. At the same time, they work on preserving the physical cultural heritage of the past, documenting and curating it in order to maintain and built robust infrastructure that holds for many years ahead.

At NTNU University library, the Gunnerus Library, we have treasures and collections of Norway’s past from far back in time that have been preserved and nurtured for hundreds of years. We have handwritten manuscripts, maps, and rare books. For the past 20 years, we have been engaged in digitizing and making it available for researchers and students, we offer courses and we establish projects in collaboration with teachers and researchers. In 2012 we established a Digital heritage lab MUBIL.NO in order to work with question connected to the use of emerging technologies especially, 3D AR and VR technologies in archaeology and humanities research. Here I would like to stress a point that has interested me as a metalevel of archaeology for the future researchers, and I Invite you to discuss and reflect on the way archaeological research thinking could be a tool to use into analyzing and curating digital culture today and the challenges connected to inclusion and diversity issues but also climate change.

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I-manus på Researchers night 2019

Post author By Alexandra Angeletaki
Post date 11. September 2019

I-manus er et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom NTNU UB og NTNU IMTEL VR lab og NTNU IDI. Martin Storødegård og Mathias Jørnsen har levert sine masters oppgave på prosjektet og vi er stolte av å presentere arbeidet deres her. Read more here , see the film here

“I-manus” lar brukeren oppleve atmosfæren i et bibliotek fra 1800-tallet og via AR og VR teknologi og beriker de gamle manuskriptene med illustrative hologrammer av historiske bygninger og gjenstander.

– Besøk et rom med eldgamle bøker og bla gjennom dem; noe som er ikke mulig i det virkelige liv for bibliotekets besøkende.

– Opplev en tidsreise i Pisa på 1700 tallet. Her kan du gå i gatene og oppleve flere historiske monumenter.

Lenke: https://youtu.be/bxmnMJNp6sE

Gunnerus-biblioteket vil takke Bjørn Ante Røe for filmet og professorer Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland fra NTNU IMTEL VR-lab, Theoharis Theoharis fra NTNU IDI. Prosjektkoordinator Alexandra Angeletaki NTNU UB

The project “i-manus” allows the user to experience the atmosphere of a library from the 19th century and then interact with the books by touching them and browsing through them; allowing thus the user to interfere with physical objects to fragile and valuable to be handled today. That is not possible in real life, for the visitors of the library, since the Knudtzon room from 1864 and the collection are protected and monitored by the library conservator in order to be a frozen iconic structure of the past. Martin Storødegård and Mathias Jørnsen have delivered their masters on the project and we are proud to present their work here. The Gunnerus library would like to thank Bjorn Ante Røe for filming and professors Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland from NTNU IMTEL VR lab, and Theoharis Theoharis from NTNU IDI. Project coordinator Alexandra Angeletaki NTNU UB.

More here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ar-vr-technology-applied-old-manuscripts-i-manus-night-angeletaki/?published=t

Tags AR, Digital Heritage, Digital Humanities, VR

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Experts in Team, the Future in service of the past

Post author By Alexandra Angeletaki
Post date 25. April 2019

A colorful palette of ideas of students projects was presented at the Gunnerus library yesterday. “Experts in team” is a master’s degree course in which students develop their interdisciplinary teamwork skills and allows them to prepare themselves for their working life. Village 9 worked during the spring semester with ideas on Digital dissemination of the past and discussed the possibilities and the limitations technology can offer as a tool. The idea was to work interdisciplinary and discuss the challenges technology poses around the lifespan and the documentation strategies of today’s digital data production that the Museum and Library section deals with. Creative ideas as to what would be the best strategy to structure and disseminate the metadata of archives and special collections in the future is a demanding and ongoing task for our library and suggestions from young professionals is a way to stay in tune with the current technological developments. At the same time, contact with the general public is the main factor for the development of new visualization tools and allows us to think new ways of approaching our users and their interests and achieve. For that, I must thank hashtag#NTNU IDI and my colleagues as well as the students that worked with great enthusiasm through the semester giving us the opportunity to experiment through this collaboration. I must also thank IDI professor Letizia Jacceri for mentoring and guiding me all these years through a number of collaborative projects. hashtag#eit hashtag#technology hashtag#interdisciplinary

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‘Museum exhibitions and their visitors’

Post author By Alexandra Angeletaki
Post date 21. March 2019

The Gunnerus library at Kalvskinnet Campus in Trondheim extends an invitation to a seminar on academic writing and work the 27.03.2019 from 15.00-16.00 at the library

Erlings Skakkes 1B

with

Dimitra Christidou, a senior researcher in the NTNU Department of Computer Science.

A seminar on methods used for conducting evaluation in museums. By discussing the ways in which researchers approach and explore learning in museums, the seminar aims at triggering inspiration regarding the methodologies one can use to explore a phenomenon or a question. In the seminar, we will also discuss the importance of ‘Peer feedback’ for improving writing performance and critical thinking.

Dimitra Christidou she is currently enganged in H2020 COMnPLAY SCIENCE project at NTNU. Her research focuses on museum learning, visitor studies, multimodality, and embodied interaction. Dimitra holds a PhD in Museum Studies from University College London (UCL) and has worked as a researcher in the museum sector in Sweden, Austria and Greece.

Tags Digital Humanities, museum, Research data

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Dh seminar and some thoughts!

Post author By Alexandra Angeletaki
Post date 3. November 2018

A DH seminar was completed yesterday with the visit at the Knutdzon room of the Gunnerus library which is part of the collection received as a gift in 1869 by Broder Lysholm Knutdzon. We would like to thank all scholars that participated from Norway and abroad and say that the purpose was to create a common ground of understanding of the tools and the research variation in the field. We invited scholars with many years of experience in the field to pose questions, share reflections and name challenges. The purpose of the seminar was to establish an academic forum where we can actually discuss further issues connected to all of the above in our research and try to address common challenges connected to as for example infrastructure compatibilities, long-term sustainability of the digital archiving methods, availability to the communities and the public, ethics in relation to disseminating strategies, issues connected to inclusion and diversity on the access of those archives in general. We discussed also strategies of outreach activities that will make our research relevant to the society we are a part of, either the academic or the general one. Many of these issues definitely need to be discussed more and we must continue to challenge ourselves as academic scholars but as conscious citizens too.

Thank you all for you contributions!

Here come the DH seminar presentations

Here come some pictures from the event, and I will soon be sharing the presentations as well!

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We keep in touch!

Alexandra.angeletaki@ntnu.no