From: Marinos Ioannides <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:29:05 +0200
The “Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage: Projecting our
Past to the Future” with acronym ITN-DCH, is the first and one of the
largest Marie Curie fellowship projects in the area of the e-documentation
/ e-preservation and Cultural Heritage protection funded by the European
Union under the FP7 PEOPLE research framework. The Project started on the
1st of October 2013 and its a consortium comprising of 14 full partners and
9 associate members covering the entire spectrum of European CH actors,
ranging from academia, research institutions, industry, museums, archives
and libraries. The project aims to train 20 fellows (16 Early Stage
Researchers and 4 Experienced Researchers – 500 person months) in the area
of CH digital documentation, preservation and protection in order to create
for them a strong academic profile and market oriented skills which will
significantly contribute to their career prospects. The consortium and the
fellows training programme will be supported by a prestigious advisory
board.
ITN-DCH aims -for the first time worldwide- to analyze, design, research,
develop and validate an innovative multidisciplinary and inter-sectorial
research training framework that covers the entire lifecycle of digital CH
research for a cost– effective preservation, documentation, protection and
presentation of cultural heritage. CH is an integral element of Europe and
vital for the creation of a common European identity and one of the
greatest assets for steering Europe’s social, economic development and job
creation. However, the current research training activities in CH are
fragmented and mostly design to be of a single discipline, failing to cover
the whole lifecycle of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) research, which is
by nature a multi-disciplinary and inter-sectorial research agenda. ITN-DCH
targets all aspects of CH ranging from tangible (books, newspapers, images,
drawings, manuscripts, uniforms, maps, artefacts, archaeological sites,
monuments) to intangible content (e.g., music, performing arts, folklore,
theatrical erformances) and their inter-relationships. The project aims to
boost the added value of CH assets by re-using them in real application
environments (protection of CH, education, tourism industry, advertising,
fashion, films, music, publishing, video games and TV) through research on
(i) new personalized, interactive, mixed and augmented reality enabled
e-services, (ii) new recommendations in data acquisition, (iii) new forms
of representations (3D/4D) of both tangible /intangible assets and (iv)
interoperable metadata forms that allow easy data exchange and archiving.
The ITN-DCH project is seeking highly motivated and valuable researchers
for PhD positions in the entire field of Digital Heritage, such as: Data
Acquisition (Photogrammetry, Terrestrial laser scanning, GIS) and Computer
Vision data processing, 3D reconstruction and modeling, symbolic, semantic
and ontology representation, metadata, mixed and augmented reality
technologies, CH e-services. All the fellows are supposed to travel between
the project partners and attend a series of complementary training courses,
scientific workshops and summer schools. The call for fellows will be very
soon available on the ITN-DCH website: www.itn-dch.eu
For more information:
www.itn-dch.eu
Dr. Marinos Ioannides
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