Date: 22 January 2026, 13.30 CET
Location: Online, registration here.
Language: English
Heritage Malta and the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology are hosting a webinar dedicated to the multidisciplinary community engaged in the digital data acquisition of the past.
The webinar presents survey results gathered within the framework of the EU-funded Europe project HERITALISE in collaboration with the Eu eArchiving Initiative and the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).
The survey provides a real-world, cross-sectoral snapshot of how digital data acquisition is currently approached across disciplines, institutions, and geographic contexts. Rather than promoting a single methodology, it highlights the diversity of practices, priorities, and workflows shaping cultural heritage digitisation today, examining who is digitising what and why, the complexity and quality of data acquisition processes, the role of metadata and paradata, technologies and standards in use (including 3D Digital Twins and the MemoryTwin approach), as well as challenges related to ethics, sustainability, and long-term preservation. Grounded in input from professionals worldwide, the findings aim to benchmark emerging practices and support the development of inclusive, future-ready strategies for cultural heritage digitisation.