EPOCH Network of Excellence in Open Cultural Heritage

EPOCH is a network of about a hundred European cultural institutions joining their efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of the use of Information and Communication Technology for Cultural Heritage. Participants include university departments, research centres, heritage institutions, such as museums or national heritage agencies, and commercial enterprises, together endeavouring to overcome the fragmentation of current research in this …

Open Educational Resources

The Higher Education Academy and JISC have been working in partnership to support the HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resources programme. This InfoKit offers an overview on Open Educations Resources (OERs) and the issues surrounding them. It explores management, legal and technical issues you will need to consider when planning to make your educational resources openly available. It is aimed at senior …

Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage (DOCAM)

The mission of the DOCAM Research Alliance has been to identify and implement five research axes and propose tools, guides and methods that contribute to the preservation of the media arts heritage. The axes are conservation, documentation, cataloguing, history of technologies and terminology. The website contains cataloguing and conservation guides as well as a technological timeline and a documentation model. …