Bringing ancient manuscripts to life
“Tikkoun Sofrim” (Hebrew for “Scribal Correction”) is a joint French-Israeli project to integrate the wisdom of the masses to digitalize ancient manuscripts using Handwritten Text-Recognition.
Arts & Culture
Visualising the story of Australia’s largest ever naval loss
An ambitious project is creating digital 3D reconstructions of shipwrecks for virtual underwater heritage museum experiences
Remote music education at 10 Gbits per second
Powerful R&E connectivity enables musicians and actors to learn and perform together, although they are hundreds of kilometers apart.
Microclimatic IoT monitoring to protect museum collections
Universities, tech companies and museums are joining forces in the CollectionCare project to develop digital conservation technology to better monitor the condition of their collections.
Bringing the Stars Within Our Reach: California Academy of Sciences Makes Data Come to Life
Highly networked planetariums are using “domecasting” — live broadcasting a planetarium show to audiences at other planetariums — to share the latest cosmic discoveries.
Integrating amateur metal detectorists into the network of archaeological knowledge
In the past 30 years amateurs with metal detector have done wonders for archaeology. Some call it the most effective surveying method since the invention of the shovel.
Why TROLLing is the thing to do for linguists
Researchers not only need access to relevant scholarly publications, but also to the data sets and the software used to yield the research results. Take a look at the data repository for linguistics, TROLLing. Warning: linguist humour may occur!
Building expertise for a new era of online artistic collaboration
Two Norwegian universities have launched a joint master programme training musical and artistic collaboration over the Internet, with super-fast connectivity linking two experimental labs, 500 km apart.
Singapore and Sapporo scenic sites come to life via R&E network link
In February 2018 spectators in Singapore were enchanted by crystal clear video images of the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan whilst viewers in Japan could remotely take in the beauty of Singapore’s iconic Botanic Gardens: long-distance cultural exchange powered by cutting-edge video technology and high-speed R&E network links.