Forthcoming event highlights - October
Here’s the must-know information for some of the forthcoming Europeana partner and cultural heritage key events. Interested? Follow the links to find out more or to register.
Forthcoming events
Europeana 1989 Collection Days
The public are encouraged to bring their experiences and memorabilia from the period of the fall of the Iron Curtain to collection days:
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Europeana 1914-1918 Family History Roadshows
Bring your First World War stories and memorabilia to Family History Roadshows:
12 October, Erfgoedcel Kempens Karakter - CC Lier, Belgium
12 October, Bonn, Germany
15 October, Aachen, Germany
18 October, Bochum, Germany
19 October, Breendonk – fort Breendonk, Belgium
22 October, Bremen, Germany
11-16 November, 40+ venues in France
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DPLAfest 2013, October 24-25, 2013, in Boston, USA
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will bring together librarians, archivists, and museum professionals, developers and technologists, publishers and authors, teachers and students, and many others to Boston, MA to celebrate the DPLA’s successful April 2013 launch, its recent milestones, and its future at the first annual DPLAfest.
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Digital Heritage international congress, 28 October - 1 November, Marseille, France
This event is the largest international scientific event on digital heritage in history, bringing together hundreds of researchers, educators, scientists, industry professionals and policy makers to debate, discuss and present digital technology applied to the protection, documentation, and understanding of humanity’s shared heritage. For the first time ever, under the patronage of UNESCO, the leading scientific and industry events from across the digital and heritage spheres will join together under one roof to explore the state-of-the-art and address future emerging research scenarios.
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ICT 2013 - Create, Connect, Grow, 6-8 November, Vilnius, Lithuania
More than 4000 researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, industry representatives, young people and politicians are expected in Vilnius. The event will focus on Horizon 2020 - the EU's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for 2014-2020.
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7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, 19-22 November, Thessalonkiki, Greece
This conference aims to bring together scholars and practitioners that share a common interest in the interdisciplinary field of metadata, linked data and ontologies. Participants will share novel knowledge and best practice in the implementation of these semantic technologies across diverse types of Information Environments and applications.
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Don't forget - Annual General Meeting of the Europeana Network and DISH - the bi-annual international conference about digital strategies for heritage, 2-3 December, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Together, the AGM and DISH form a very relevant two-day event for Europeana Network members.
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Our image for October: 'Philip A Bell B Battery R.G.A, and other members of the Bell family, item 26', Europeana 1914-1918, CC BY-SA.
More on events
Check out our events calendar for other diary dates and our presentations page for slides from recent events.
Your events
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