Conference: Discovering Chinese Cultural Heritage in Europeana (23-24 September 2021)

Date of event:   23/09/2021 − 24/09/2021

Title: Discovering Chinese Cultural Heritage in Europeana
Format: Online event
Duration: 23-24 September 2021

DAY ONE: 23 September 2021

9:30   CEST – Registration
9:40   Welcome messages:
Hilde De Clercq, Director of KIK-IRPA
Mauro Fazio, director at MISE Italian Ministry of Economic Development and Coordinator of PAGODE

Session 1 – Keynote speeches (10:00 – 11:00)
Chair: Antonella Fresa, Promoter S.r.l.
10:00   Key note from Europeana Foundation executive director Harry Verwayen
10:20   Key note from Mr. Xiang Xiaowei, Minister Counsellor, Mission of P.R. China to the European Union
10:40   Key note from Ms. Kyriaki Tragouda, HaDEA
11:00 – 11:20   Break

Session 2 – The PAGODE tools (11:20 – 12:30)
Chair: Erik Buelinckx, KIK-IRPA
11:20   Semantic background, Maja Veselič and Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, University of Ljubljana
11:40   Crowdsourcing annotation, Spyros Bekiaris, Sofie Taes, Valentina Bachi, Photoconsortium
12:00   Automatic Enrichment, Orfeas Menis – Mastromichalakis, Mina Karatza, PostScriptum
12:20   Q&A
12:30   End of morning session

AFTERNOON EVENTS
Networking meeting (15:30 – 16:30)

Open roundtable: how to participate in further collaborations
Chair: Maja Veselič, University of Ljubljana
Introduction to new funding opportunities and lessons learnt, Antonella Fresa, Promoter S.r.l.
Building upon and beyond PAGODE, Kostas Kostantinidis, PostScriptum
Debate

16:30 – 17:00   Break
17:00 – 18:00   Launch of the PAGODE book
Welcome words
Forewords from the academic partners
Browsing the book together
Europeana China virtual exhibition at Museo della Grafica, Pisa (18:00 – 19:00). Social event follows.

DAY TWO: 24 September 2021

9:20   CEST – Registration

Session 3 – Connecting Europe with China (9:30 – 10:40)
Chair: Kostas Kostantinidis, PostScriptum
Presentations of the Partner Content Providers
Presentations of the Associate Content Providers
Presentations of Chinese Associate Partners (tbc)
10:40 – 11:00   Break

Session 4 – Spreading the word (11:00 – 12:20)

* PAGODE Digital Festival: Video Highlights
* Europeana China Feature Page
Chair and curator: Sofie Taes, Photoconsortium
Curatorial and editorial approach, selection of themes and formats, workflow
Result: the China feature page (Thematic Collection) on Europeana
A virtual tour of the exhibition

12:20 – 12:30   Conclusions
12:30   End of the conference

 

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