Thanks to the great motivation and engagement of the community, our team in Naples received an impressive number of abstracts and has now compiled a first draft of the programme for our Convention “European Travel Routes through GLAM. The Challenge of Becoming Digital” from 16th-18th of October at the Royal Palace of Portici/IT.

We’ll start on Wednesday, 16th October, early afternoon with the General Assembly of our Association, leading on to the official opening of the Convention at 16:00 with opening words and a keynote speech by Prof. Marina Buzzoni (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Associazione di Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale/IT) diving with us into the Convention topic of Travel Routes with “The Devisement dou Monde between real and virtual journeys: travels within the Polo's digital galaxy”.

The first day will also feature the traditional ICARUS soccer match and a common dinner (at one’s own expenses).

Thursday invites you to choose between parallel sessions, enlighting the topic of travel in connection with archival heritage from different perspectives. The afternoon is reserved for workshops on Monasterium and Didactic Education, closing off with a social gathering in the evening.

Friday morning will again offer parallel sessions, concluding around noon with a special guided tour through the Royal Palace of Portici to view the MUSA Gouache exhibition currently on display.

Our team in Naples compiled some relevant information for us:

• Preliminary programme
• List of accommodation
• Convention announcement and general travel information

As already announced in our last newsletter, our partner CompGen celebrates its 35th anniversary with a conference from 19-22 September in Halle/Saale, Germany. And, considering the fact that we can also look back on 15 years of the church register portal Matricula, the organisers arranged for a special treat: ICARUS4all members may apply for reduced participation fees! For more information get in touch with us!

The conference will be held in German with contributions from our ICARUS and ICARUS4all community.

The Research Lab 1.3. ‘Digital Heuristics and Digital History’ of the Leibniz Research Alliance ‘Value of the Past’ is organising a conference in Marburg on artificial intelligence in heritage institutions, such as archives and collections, and how these new technologies are transforming archival institutional practices. Topics will primarily focus on – but are not limited to – visual sources, such as photography and graphic collections or those with mixed image-text sources and multimodal information processing. 

The conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from the humanities, archives and collections to connect with researchers and engineers in the field of artificial intelligence, computer science and the digital humanities, to discuss new findings, and to exchange experiences. The event promotes an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral dialogue between research, development and practice.  

Stakeholders from all areas in the field are invited. Conference languages are German and English and the event will be held in hybrid format.

The deadline for the submission of papers has passed already, but the submission of posters is still open until 20 September.

The Department of Editions and Sources of the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences has long since worked closely with ICARUS in different research projects using the sources available on Monasterium. The most recent outcome of the work on illuminated charters, conducted within the project "IllUrk" ("Illuminierte Urkunden") and using Monasterium as a resource, is now available here. The website includes an informative introduction, a guide to search strategies, a blog and information on projects, interdisciplinarity, and many other features.

Thanks to the work of the colleagues at the institute the collection on Monasterium has also been widely enriched and the number of records has grown to well over 4000 thanks to new projects.

4000 documents with a focus on visual media! That's quite something! The research team is therefore eager to increase the visibility of illuminated cultural heritage and as a sign of this new media awareness, revised their logo demonstrating their passion for the intersection of documents, art, law, visual media.

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