An Island at the Crossroads

🌊 Explore the world of 3D digitization of cultural heritage at the Clean Oceans - Mapping our Seas conference! 🐚 Calling all museum professionals, multimedia creators, conservators, curators, outreach and interpretation experts, and those passionate about preserving our cultural treasures. This TwinIt-supported event is FREE to attend. Secure your online presence now for the July 19th conference starting at 9am CET. Register here: https://lnkd.in/dfiJiZmh #CleanOceans #CulturalHeritage #3DDigitization #TwinIt #Conference

💦🗣 Rebecca Xerri’s Speech During Afternoon Session 1, Clean Oceans & Mapping Our Seas Conference, 19th June 2024. Rebecca Xerri is an archaeologist with a passion for making underwater cultural heritage more accessible. She is currently a museum educator at Heritage Malta and doctoral candidate at the University of Malta. In the latter capacity, Rebecca is conducting research into the management and communication of deepwater cultural heritage, with a specific focus on the Xlendi Underwater Archaeological Park. For More Information Please Visit: https://lnkd.in/dmTJm-BE #MaritimeArchelogy #Archeology #Enigma #CulturalHeritage #Museums #stavangermuseum #HeritageMalta #3D #Digitisation #CulturalHeritage #UNESCO #TwinIT! #Europeana #EuropeanCommision #Standards #Malta #CleanOceans #Digitisation #Culture

⚓️🏛 Keith Gatt’s Speech During Afternoon Session 3, Clean Oceans & Mapping Our Seas Conference, 19th June 2024. Keith Gatt is a curator with Heritage Malta at the Malta Maritime Museum, where he plays a key role in preserving and presenting Malta’s rich maritime history. He holds an M.A. from the University of Malta’s Faculty of Arts, Department of History. His expertise encompasses maritime history, museum curation, and historical research, with a particular focus on Malta’s strategic role during the Second World War. Watch Keith's speech online: https://lnkd.in/dUdBPJU3 For More Information Please Visit: https://lnkd.in/dmTJm-BE #MaritimeArchelogy #Archeology #Enigma #CulturalHeritage #Museums #stavangermuseum #HeritageMalta #3D #Digitisation #CulturalHeritage #UNESCO #TwinIT! #Europeana #EuropeanCommision #Standards #Malta #CleanOceans #Digitisation #Culture

Dr. Marinos Ioannides’s Speech During Morning Session 3, Clean Oceans & Mapping Our Seas Conference, 19th June 2024. Dr. Marinos Ioannides is since the 1st of January 2013 the director of the Digital Heritage Research lab at the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol. He received his MSc in CS from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in safety and security of Multitasking, -user Repository-systems. He continued at the same University for his PhD (Dr.-Ing) on the development of a 3D reconstruction engine of digitized objects, where he participated in several EU and national DFG research projects. He was involved as PI in several European projects in digital cultural heritage and his pioneering work he has been awarded a range of awards as the IBM award (1993), the EU KIT award (1994), the Spanish Tartessos prize (2010) and in 2018 the UNESCO Chair and the EU Chair on DCH with 2.5 MEuro financial support. In 2020 he has been nominated as a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. He was also the coordinator of the FP7 MSCA ITN-DCH project, the H2020 ViMM Virtual Multimodal Museum project, the coordinator of the EU Study VIGIE2020/654 on Quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage and of the ERASMUS+ GLAMers project. Watch Marino's speech online: https://lnkd.in/dDvVaXNE For More Information Please Visit: https://lnkd.in/dmTJm-BE #MaritimeArchelogy #Archeology #Enigma #CulturalHeritage #Museums #stavangermuseum #HeritageMalta #3D #Digitisation #CulturalHeritage #UNESCO #TwinIT! #Europeana #EuropeanCommision #Standards #Malta #CleanOceans #Digitisation #Culture

🧑🎓 Jacob Saliba holds a Bachelors in Fine Arts (2020) and a Masters in Fine Arts (2022) in Digital Arts from the University of Malta. He is a Multimedia Artist at Heritage Malta’s Digitisation Unit and a part-time lecturer in the Digital Arts Department at the University of Malta. Jacob’s work focuses on audience-centered experiences, the convergence of physical and digital spaces, and interactivity. At Heritage Malta, he is responsible for creating digital content for museum experiences such as the Dockyard 4D experiences (2024), and the digitisation of cultural heritage for the national collection both locally and internationally. Watch Jacob's speech online: https://lnkd.in/ezVb6x8b For More Information Please Visit: https://lnkd.in/dmTJm-BE #MaritimeArchelogy #Archeology #Enigma #CulturalHeritage #Museums #stavangermuseum #HeritageMalta #3D #Digitisation #CulturalHeritage #UNESCO #TwinIT! #Europeana #EuropeanCommision #Standards #Malta #CleanOceans #Digitisation #Culture

🌊🗣 John Wood’s Speech During Afternoon Session 1, Clean Oceans & Mapping Our Seas Conference, 19th June 2024. John Wood is a University of Malta graduate, and has worked in the Information Technology field for almost 40 years. He has been an avid diver for the last 20 years and a technical rebreather diver since 2015. He joined the University of Malta Maritime Archeological diving team in 2017, focusing primarily on developing skills and techniques in underwater 3D photogrammetry for public outreach purposes as well as for technical documentation of sites and excavations. Watch John's speech online: https://lnkd.in/dsSazc3i For More Information Please Visit: https://lnkd.in/dmTJm-BE #MaritimeArchelogy #Archeology #Enigma #CulturalHeritage #Museums #stavangermuseum #HeritageMalta #3D #Digitisation #CulturalHeritage #UNESCO #TwinIT! #Europeana #EuropeanCommision #Standards #Malta #CleanOceans #Digitisation #Culture

👩🎓🗣 Aphrodite T. Andreou’s Speech During Afternoon Session 2, Clean Oceans & Mapping Our Seas Conference, 19th June 2024. Aphrodite Theodora Andreou works as a Coordinator (Cultural Assets) for Heritage Malta while also working for Mighty Boards. She is a visual artist from Athens, holds a Msc. in Digital Games from the Institute of Digital Games at the University of Malta, and a BA in Visual Arts from the Francis Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts at DEREE. Her research focuses on using game design as a medium of attempting to construct inter- species dialogues and collaborations while addressing problematic hierarchies through playfulness and care. She has designed playful artefacts for bottlenose dolphins and has experience both with board games and digital games. One of her main interests is the gamification of museums and the various ways that audiences interact with playful site-specific installations. Watch Aphrodite's speech online: https://lnkd.in/dcvTmSJN For More Information Please Visit: https://lnkd.in/dmTJm-BE #MaritimeArchelogy #Archeology #Enigma #CulturalHeritage #Museums #stavangermuseum #HeritageMalta #3D #Digitisation #CulturalHeritage #UNESCO #TwinIT! #Europeana #EuropeanCommision #Standards #Malta #CleanOceans #Digitisation #Culture

🤩👉Carlo Micallef’s Speech During Morning Session 1, Clean Oceans & Mapping Our Seas Conference, 19th June 2024. Watch Carlo's speech online: https://lnkd.in/ddbSciGp For More Information Please Visit: https://lnkd.in/dmTJm-BE #MaritimeArchelogy #Archeology #Enigma #CulturalHeritage #Museums #stavangermuseum #HeritageMalta #3D #Digitisation #CulturalHeritage #UNESCO #TwinIT! #Europeana #EuropeanCommision #Standards #Malta #CleanOceans #Digitisation #Culture

🎓🗣 Dr Andrew Pace's Speech During Morning Session 2, Clean Oceans & Mapping Our Seas Conference, 19th June 2024. Andrew Pace is responsible for implementing the collections management system across Heritage Malta’s sites and museums and developing the upcoming public access catalogue portal. Andrew’s work with the Digitisation Unit explores methods to effectively migrate catalogue data from Heritage Malta’s historic repositories to a consistent digital form, including working with the multimedia team to capture metadata and paradata relating to collection objects and sites scanned in 3D. Watch Andrew's speech online here: https://lnkd.in/dpdN8btx For More Information Please Visit: https://lnkd.in/dmTJm-BE #MaritimeArchelogy #Archeology #Enigma #CulturalHeritage #Museums #stavangermuseum #HeritageMalta #3D #Digitisation #CulturalHeritage #UNESCO #TwinIT! #Europeana #EuropeanCommision #Standards #Malta #CleanOceans #Digitisation #Culture

🤩 Dr Saida Ibragic’s Speech During Afternoon Session 2, Clean Oceans & Mapping Our Seas Conference, 19th June 2024. Dr. Saida Ibragic, a graduate of the Faculty of Pharmacy, holds a chemistry degree and works as an associate professor at the University of Sarajevo – Faculty of Science. As an external associate, she teaches at several other faculties and leads multidisciplinary research spanning biomedicine, analytical and phytochemistry, and cultural heritage. She is the project manager of the Horizon Europe project Stone monument ensembles and the climate change impact. Watch Saida's speech online: https://lnkd.in/dPpnyrvc For More Information Please Visit: https://lnkd.in/dmTJm-BE #MaritimeArchelogy #Archeology #HorizoneEurope #CulturalHeritage #Museums #stavangermuseum #HeritageMalta #3D #Digitisation #CulturalHeritage #UNESCO #TwinIT! #Europeana #EuropeanCommision #Standards #Malta #CleanOceans #Digitisation #Culture