Time Machine Austria Info Day
22 January | TUtheSky
On 22 January 2020 the TU Vienna, ICARUS and the Austrian National Library invited interested stakeholders to join a workshop that informed on the current status quo of the Time Machine project as well as its institutional framework, the Time Machine Organisation (TMO). Moreover, the event informed on groundbreaking Austrian projects in the field of technology and cultural heritage.
Event language: German
The workshop will take place at TUtheSky, Getreidemarkt 6, 1060 Vienna.
The Time Machine project
The Time Machine project is by far the most ambitious and far-reaching project ever undertaken with Big Data of the Past. The project is an international collaboration revolutionizing the way we experience European history and culture by creating a map of European history spanning thousands of years. This open-source, vibrant resource will benefit everyone, from academics to industry, arousing interest in the future generation of humanities scholars, transcending the boundaries of science and technology, and enabling the public to explore their own past.
For further details on the Time Machine project, please follow the links below:
The Time Machine Organisation
The Time Machine Organisation (TMO) is the recently founded leading international organization for technology, science and heritage collaboration that supports the goals of the Time Machine project as its institutional framework. The TMO is an internationally oriented association under Austrian law head quartered in Vienna. Thus, the association welcomes all interested legal entities dealing with science, technology and cultural heritage to join the network and proactively co-shape the course of the Time Machine project.
Session 1:
Time Machine – Groundbreaking Technologies for the Cultural Heritage of Europe
Opening by Thomas Aigner (Vice president TMO) 
Opening by Thomas Aigner (Vice president TMO) 
Opening by Barbara Weitgruber ( Head of Section V “Scientific Research and International Affairs” in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research) 
Opening by Jürgen Meindl (Head of Section II “Art and Culture” at the Federal Chancellery of Austria) 
Max Kaiser (Head of the Research and Development Department at the Austrian National Library and Austrian Time Machine Ambassador) 
Robert Sablatnig (Director of the CVL at the TU Vienna and Austrian Time Machine Ambassador) 
Robert Sablatnig (Director of the CVL at the TU Vienna and Austrian Time Machine Ambassador) 
Session 2:
Pioneering Projects from Austria
Kurdiovsky, Wittine, Resch and Huemer: “A Time Machine for Vienna, Temporally and spatially localized representation of research data in 3D models and 2D plan material” 
Vitovec and Zahlbruckner: ” Networked Database: Regional Goes Global – Regional Objects on the way Into the Digital World” 
Seidl: “Digital Analysis of Cultural Treasures and use Digital Artifacts in Museums” 
Neubauer: “Archeology in Space and Time – Spatio-temporal Analysis and Visualization of the Cultural Heritage Hidden in the Ground” 
Session 3:
Trend-Setting Applications from Austria
Mühlberger: “After the EU Funding: Transkribus and READ-COOP SCE as Independent Entities” 
Thallinger: “DIGITAL.culture@JOANNEUM RESEARCH” 
Seirafi: “New Possibilities of Digital Storytelling: Recontextualizing Cultural Heritage With Digital Storytelling” 
Klein: “The Production of Time Travels With Over 22 Million Participants” 
All photos © CVL TUWien
In Other News
JOANNEUM RESEARCH has published an article (in German) on the event on their website recapitulating their innovative solutions on documentation, preservation and use of cultural heritage.
The Topotheque is a platform which makes local, historical relevant material and knowledge kept in private hands accessible online in cooperation with the local popluation. This international community is partner of Time Machine and attended the Info Day. Read their review (in German) via the link below.