TECNODI and Alinari have established a cooperation for the creation of a set of quality images available with special glasses in 3D format     http://eu.alinari.it/tecnodi/index.php

FIRB: Digital Restore. The aim of the present proposal is to develop a methodology for automatically or semi-automatically restoring digital images concerning archaeological and monumental inheritance of Mediterranean coast. The project assumes that a knowledge based model, exploiting automatic tools of digital restoration, is able to further increase the enhancement and the use of historical images, especially if the huge quantity of pictures concerning historical building of Mediterranean dock is considered.     http://firb.alinari.it/

	2KAN is a research and development project which is part funded under the Information Society Technologies theme of the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme. It aims to address the new work items being developed within the JPEG 2000 Standard, with the goal of maintaining a major European presence in this process. It will also add major enhancements to the public JPEG website, with the twin goals of encouraging a European dimension to the site, and allowing it to become self-financed through sponsorship and specific commercial services.     (Test site here)  ( JPEG2000 images here)     http://www.2kan.org
	The project refers to Integrating knowledge, semantics and content for user-centred intelligent media services.  (we will soon add more information).     aceMedia focuses on generating value and benefits to end users, content providers, network operators, and multimedia equipment manufacturers, by introducing, developing and implementing a system based on an innovative concept of knowledge assisted, adaptive multimedia content management, addressing user needs.      http://www.acemedia.org      aceMedia Video Demos: The concept
	MultiMatch plans to develop a multilingual search engine specifically designed for access, organisation and personalised presentation of cultural heritage information.     On the web, cultural heritage content is everywhere, in traditional environments such as libraries, museums, galleries and audiovisual archives, but also in popular magazines and newspapers, in multiple languages and multiple media. The aim of the MultiMatch project is to enable users to explore and interact with online accessible cultural heritage content, across media types and languages boundaries.      http://www.multimatch.org
	TRIPOD TRI-Partite multimedia Object Description This is the TRIPOD Reserved Area, the access is restricted to the EU Commission, and project partners only. TRIPOD aims to develop a series of techniques which will significantly and rapidly advance both the quality and breadth of search results returned from collection of image and multimedia content. The project will use a novel multi-disciplinary approach based on the hypothesis that place plays a key role in image retrieval. Another key aspect is the creation of a large and diverse collection of geo-referenced photographs, which will be used for testing. The technology developed in TRIPOD will be relevant to the image library market, cultural heritage groups and users of geographic information science systems. If you encountered any problem on this site, please contact the Administrator.          http://www.projecttripod.org
	MILE (Metadata Image Library Exploitation) is an EC funded project which aims to improve the use, accessibility and trade of digital images throughout Europe. The project is divided into three core areas of investigation: Metadata classification; Metadata search & retrieval; Intellectual Property Rights as metadata. MILE brings together skilled and experienced professionals in each of these core areas including: Picture archives; IPR lawyers; Trade associations; Information technology providers. This expert partnership will explore the current obstacles surrounding each of these three areas and provide recommendations on how best to overcome any problems, so as to improve the use, trade and accessibility of Europe's digital images.       http://www.mileproject.eu/  International Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Metadata (PDF)
	The EUROGENE's project objective is to migrate towards more efficient development of higher quality (multimedia) didactic material on genetics through the guided editing and "assembly" of educational packages based on the IMS learning design metadata framework and the sharing of different types of "learning objects" between content owners, in 9 languages. Final aim is to establish the European reference portal for genetics that enables authors to develop multimedia educational content better, faster and with lesser resources.       http://www.eurogene.eu
	CulturaItalia proposes a guided access to the world of Italian culture. Thanks to innovative IT solutions, the portal gathers and organises millions of informational elements on the resources that make up the country’s vast cultural universe, and place them at the disposal of web users at large. The data on the cultural resources are not produced by the Portal, but are provided directly by the entities who own and manage the resources. All the operators in the cultural sector – public administration and private companies – upload only the “metadata”, that is, the descriptive information of the resources in their possession. CulturaItalia offers users the opportunity to consult and search the information on Italian cultural resources within a single site.       http://www.culturaitalia.it  Full press release (PDF).
	The objective of CITER project ("Creating a European History Textbook Repository") is the creation of a digital European history textbook base by integration of already existing material with the publishers in the respective countries. The integration is achieved by introducing language independent metadata schemata based on space (locations), time (dates), and thematic categories. The specific metadata corpuses defined in this project will be an European thematic ontology for history concepts and a multilingual location corpus.       http://citer.cti.gr
	Fotomemoria is an European partnership of groups working together to help people record their family photographs and stories, and share these memories online. http://fotomemoria.eu/
	The European Community Museum for Architecture and Design Exhibitions shall provide the citizens of Europe with access to an important area of their collective cultural heritage.     This online platform will make accessible to the general public, educational institutions and professionals alike, information about architecture, design and the city.        http://www.ecmade.net/en/index.jsp  (Visit Alinari here)
	The ORPHEUS project aims at making available a range of services targeted to the educational institutions in Europe, enabling them to access the European photographic heritage through the electronic interface of the Internet as a mean of common cultural denominator among the European academies.     European photographic heritage will be firstly represented by Alinari's archive, one of the largest ones in the world, and further other valuable archives will follow, utilising the same interface.     http://www.orpheus-edu.org
	The project idea is to offer to the educational institutions a wide source of unique, premium and mostly unpublished contents from different providers, i.e.: archives, libraries and photographic repositories. These contents will be accessible through a multilingual web based interface, within a client/server architecture.    http://www.euridice-edu.org/
	eRMIONE is a Market Validation project funded within the framework of eTEN programme of the European Commission; its objective is to lead the validation of the eRM (e-learning Resource Management) services in the cultural heritage domain.    http://www.ermione-edu.org/
	The aim of the SCHEMA Network of Excellence is to bring together a critical mass of industrial partners, end users, universities and research centres in order to improve the systematic exchange of information by the forging of links between partners. The SCHEMA Network of Excellence will create a synergy and a multiplier-effect enriching the capabilities of the group of partners by bringing together complementary skills and know-how.    SCHEMA Reference System Alinari's site:  http://schema.alinari.it/; A PDA application for SCHEMA: free download
	The eChase project seeks to demonstrate: 1- sustainable business models and processes that have been evaluated and proven for a range of cultural heritage content holders and content users. 2- policies and processes for cultural heritage content holders to filter and make accessible their content according to the needs, prospects, rights and usage of different user-groups at a European level.    eCHASE Video (Windows Media Video, 10 MB) http://www.echase.org
	The BRICKS Project - Building Resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services - researches and implements advanced open source software solutions for the sharing and the exploitation of digital cultural resources. http://dev.brickscommunity.org/
	REGNET aims to set up a functional Network of Cultural Service Centres through Europe which will provide IT-services dedicated to cultural heritage organisations. A technical and legal framework, the REGNET system, for such a service infrastructure will be developed. This will offer services like data entry, search and retrieval, and e-Business.    http://www.regnet.org/
	TNT intends to develop a sizeable demonstration project on the on-line cultural e-content trading. Its solution is based on a specific concept of trusted value-added network, which embeds Public Cultural Heritage Authorities and other players of the e-Content business chain and defines the organisational, technological and business model for them. A primary requirement for such an e-Content, Internet-based network to be participated in by European Public CH authorities is that it must achieve a public acceptance beyond pure commercial interest.

           
Useful links:

Cordis: http://www.cordis.lu/

Europa: http://europa.eu.int/

EVA Conferences: http://www.eva-conferences.com
   
We follow leading international standard bodies including: I3A, IEEE, IS&T, SPIE, ANSI, JPEG. Alinari also contributed to the IPTC (http://www.iptc.org) initiatives for the Photo Metadata white paper document released during CEPIC2007. In fact, in 2007 the IPTC collected requirements from different sectors of the professional photography business – with a focus on news photography and stock photography – and published these requirements in its Photo Metadata Today.