The i2cat Foundation, in collaboration with the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) and the Citilab, organises a Workshop about Digital Cultural Heritage and Living Labs.

Institutions active in the field of Cultural Heritage like museums, foundations, companies, academia, knowledge and innovation centres, public administrations, living labs, are invited to physically or virtually participate in this workshop that aims at bringing together the Cultural Heritage and the Living Labs communities to explore synergies to jointly help the boost of the digital cultural heritage industry, to broadly involve citizens in the transformation of our museums and cultural heritage institutions and in general to explore how innovation in the digitalization of the Cultural Heritage  can benefit our society.

Background

Europe is a continent of culture. Its rich historical heritage is now in the process of becoming digital. This paramount enterprise needs the collaboration of all kind of actors, public, private and finally also the citizens. Living labs are just emerging as this new kind of partnership facilitating the collaboration between people, public and private institutions. How citizens are already participating in projects of digital heritage? What kind of role can play Web 2.0 tools to facilitate the digitalization of cultural places, works, events of cultural interest? Several cases and tools developed for encourage the participation of citizens, SMEs, local actors in the preserving the cultural heritage in digital format will be showed. The goal is to develop a user-driven approach to digital heritage field in Europe. 

Europe is the main world hub of tourism industry. Next decades millions of new visitors from emerging countries, mainly from Asia, are expected to come to our continent. The main attraction will be its culture. How our citizens will host this new wave of tourism? Could living labs establish a more positive mutual learning relationship between visitors and natives? How cultural heritage can really become a distributed activity that could generate more benefits to our communities?

This workshop is organized as a side-event to the Linked Heritage Plenary meeting (http://www.linkedheritage.org/). The The main goals of this project are to contribute large quantities of new content to Europeana, from both the public and private sectors; to demonstrate enhancement of quality of content, in terms of metadata richness, re-use potential and uniqueness; to demonstrate enable improved search, retrieval and use of Europeana content.  On November 22th a public Workshop on Europeana, aggregation of content and Linked Data for the Cultural Heritage will take place also in Barcelona organized by the Generalitat of Catalonia and i2cat Foundation.

(http://www.linkedheritage.org/index.php?en/146/events/48/barcelona-workshop-on-europeana-aggregation-of-content-and-linked-data-for-the-cultural-heritage)

Objectives

Main objective of this first workshop on Digital Cultural Heritage and Living Labs is to bring together both communities identifying current synergies and defining a communication mechanism between them.

Other objectives of this session are:

To increase awareness and interest of the Citizen-driven innovation approach within the Digital Cultural Heritage community

• To explore new areas of synergy between digital cultural heritage and cultural tourism in our cities.
• To discover synergies between Digital Cultural Heritage community, Smart Cities and Living Labs
• To activate the Culture Thematic Domain at the European Network of Living Labs. 

10.00 – 10.15: Welcome, introduction and objectives of the workshop (Artur Serra, I2CAT)

10.15 – 11.30: Living Labs, Cultural Heritage and Museums (session 1) (Moderated by Ana Garcia, ENoLL Office)

• Introduction to the Living Lab concept and ENoLL (Anna Kivilehto, ENoLL Office) 

Presentations / Demo cases from: 

• Living labs in Catalonia and Cultural Heritage (Artur Serra, I2CAT)
• Virtual Exhibition in Flemish Museum  (Tanguy Coenen, IBBT)
• Tourism of Knowledge. Colonia Güell (Nahida Habash, CITILAB)
• Instrumental e-learning and @-muse project (Noel Conruit, Reunion Island University Living Lab)
• MIMMA Living Lab (Frank Siering, Emotional Exhibitions)
• SAMPL LAB (Federico Avanzini, SAMPL LAB)

11.30 – 12.30 Innovation in Cultural Heritage in Europe (panel) (Moderated by Artur Serra, I2CAT).

Panelists:

• Alèx Hinojo, GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador 
• Antonella Fresa, coordinator of the Linked Heritage project
• Antoni Rojas, Institut  Català de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural
• Conxa Rodà, Museu Picasso
• Hector Zapata, Tetravol SL (company dedicated to Architecture and Virtual Reality)
• Daniel Gutiérrez, Diagnosis Cultural Consulting
• Anna Busom, Direcció General del Patrimoni Cultural, Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya
• Stephane Cagnot, Dédale (Culture+Technologies+Social Innovation)

 12.30 – 13.00: Open discussion for the definition of a common strategy and objectives, and to define a communication mechanism between both communities.

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Target Audience

• Living Lab community involved in Cultural Heritage activities
• Europeana
• Digital Cultural Heritage industry and researchers
• European, National and Regional Policy makers
• Cultural Heritage institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc)

Event is free but registration is required: http://livinglabscultureworkshop.eventbrite.com

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