The “Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage: Projecting our Past to the Future” with acronym ITN-DCH (www.itn-dch.eu),
is the first and one of the largest Marie Curie fellowship projects in
the area of the e-documentation / e-preservation and Cultural Heritage
(CH) protection funded by the European Union under the FP7 PEOPLE
research framework (http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/
). The Project started on the 1st of October 2013 and it is 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 performances) 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.
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