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On March 13th 2013, the TUG team of CULTURA has held a half-day workshop at the University of Graz, Center for Information Modelling in the Humanities. This center is doing applied research in the field of information and data processing in the humanities, with a focus on theory of data-modelling and, in particular, on the practical implementation in teaching and projects.

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Every year the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) organizes an international conference inviting submissions on any aspect of the digital humanities, encouraging interdisciplinary work and focusing on new developments in the field. The next Digital Humanities Conference will take place at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in July 2013: the call for papers was recently closed and, within the project CULTURA, four articles were accepted for the conference.

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On January 31th and February 1st 2013, the 9th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries held in Rome. In this occasion two papers within the CULTURA project have been presented.

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Salvalarte is an association that deals with Culture Heritage tutelage: the cooperation with Unipd aims at getting useful feedbacks from "informed users" in the artistic and culture area, and obtaining important hints towards the opening of the CULTURA Environment to the general public.

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Under the patronage of UNESCO, in Cyprus, from 29^thOctober to 3^rd November 2012, the cooperation among professionals, the policy makers and authorities will move ahead with research, development and technology in the field of cultural heritage.

The agenda of this prestigious international conference will include hundreds of excellent oral and poster presentations, as well as workshops and demonstrations from academia and industry, reflecting the wide scope of international work in the area of cultural heritage.

This conference will be an important occasion for dissemination. Two accepted articles represent a very prestigious result and witness how the CULTURA project is an appreciated experience, worth to be shared with a valuable audience as the one at Euromed.

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The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries is the successor of the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL). TPDL/ECDL has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 15 years. The conference continues to bring together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2012 is organised by the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) in collaboration with the University of Cyprus and the City University London. It will take place in Paphos, Cyprus on 23-27 September 2012.

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University of Padua – Department of Information Engeenering, the Italian partner of CULTURA, is hosting a very special guest: dr. Christine Borgman, Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

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The Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy, is now managing the organization of SEBD, a prestigious event about research which will take place in June. That will be the good occasion for further dissemination activities of the project Cultura. Currently at its twentieth edition, SEBD Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati is the major annual event of the Italian research community in the database field.

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The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL enhances the tradition of conference excellence already established by the ACM and IEEE-CS by combining the annual events that these professional societies have sponsored on an annual basis, the ACM Digital Libraries Conferences and the IEEE-CS Advances in Digital Libraries Conferences.

The CULTURA project will be disseminated through a contribution written by M. Agosti and N. Orio: "To Envisage and Design the Transition from a Digital Archive System Developed for Domain Experts to one for Non-domain Users."

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CULTURA and PROMISE just signed an official Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation.

PROMISE (Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation) is a very interesting project that aims at advancing the experimental evaluation of complex multimedia and multilingual information systems in order to support individuals, commercial entities, and communities who design, develop, employ, and improve such complex systems. PROMISE will provide a virtual and open laboratory for conducting participative research and experimentation in which it will be possible to carry out, advance and bring automation into the evaluation and benchmarking of complex multimedia and multilingual information systems.

The coordination of PROMISE is managed by University of Padua, and several Universities in all Europe are partners in the project as well as other agencies.

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The IRCDL conference series has been launched and initially designed by DELOS, an EU FP6 Network of Excellence on digital libraries, together with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy, which had sponsored the event for the initial six years.

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This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the First International Workshop on Multimedia for Cultural Heritage, MM4CH 2011, held in Modena, Italy, on May 3, 2011.

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The general theme of the Promise Winter School 2012 was "Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization

Irish and Italian researches met to have an update and sum-up of the progresses of the project, but mostly the core of the meeting was represented by a moment of genuine interaction with students and among researchers.