🏺 Day 1 of the 4th EXCALIBUR Consortium Meeting in Munich connected #DigitalCulturalHeritage with hands-on heritage practice, from Egyptian funerary culture and the “Blue Coffin” to toolkit updates, 3D scanning and ideas for a future exhibition. #HeritageScience #HorizonEurope

🔗https://excalibur-eccch.eu/excalibur-at-the-2nd-european-researchers-night-in-conservation-restoration-of-cultural-heritage/ #EXCALIBUR #DigitalHeritage

Eleven toolkits. Four use cases. One consortium. A growing ecosystem of digital heritage assets that all need somewhere to live. 🏛️ THE HUB is the centralized platform where every EXCALIBUR solution, digital twin, and discovery comes together. #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheHub #DigitalHeritage

Soon the first two sentences in every student’s homework, peer reviewed academic article, novel, news item, and funding application: “AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind this piece”. #writingsky

Richard Van Noorden@richvn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dean of Science at Stellenbosch University writes that although AI generates almost all the words for his articles (including this one): "AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece." www.nature.com/articles/d44...

One artifact. 12 datasets. 6 institutions. 3 schemas that don't talk to each other. The insights are there — they just can't find each other. 🗂️ 🔠 THE TRANSLATOR maps it all under a shared ontology connecting every EXCALIBUR data source! #HorizonEU #ToolkitTuesday #TheTranslator #KnowledgeGraph

What if you could see a threat to a heritage site before it happened? 🛰️ THE ORACLE fuses satellite+ UAV data into risk maps and time-series plots that turn conservation from reactive to proactive. Don't just map the past. Monitor its future. 🔮 #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheOracle #EarthObservation

Bones hold an entire biography: age, height, physical history, cremation temperature. We just needed the right questions. 🦴 THE DETECTIVE asks them. 3D scanning+CT+SEM+ML, automating biological profiling of ancient remains at scale. #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheDetective #Bioarchaeology

Every archaeology dig destroys the very context that makes it meaningful. Once a layer is lifted, it's gone. ⛏️ THE TIME MACHINE records every layer in 3D so you can follow exactly how artefact was found in the pit, long after the dig ends. #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheTimeMachine #Archaeology

What an exciting topic! My new Ph.D. student and #CINDAQ scientific cave diver, Julien Fortin presented his work on the exploration and protection of the aquifer and underwater archaeological heritage of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula @lmu.de #InstituteofDigitalCulturalHeritage #AcademicSky ‪🏺

Tens of thousands of heritage artefacts still waiting to be digitised. By hand. ⏳ THE ACCELERATOR changes that —AI algorithms for feature recognition, inpainting & completion, embedded across every EXCALIBUR toolkit. Twelve months of work. Compressed. 🏎️ #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheAccelerator #AI

You're a facing a painted coffin from the Minshat Abu Omar cemetery but a small label can only say so much. 🏺 THE VOICE lets you ask for more — AI + a verified knowledge graph, built by LMU. Every artifact has a story. 🗣️ #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheVoice #AI

Marketised model ‘clearly coming to an end’, says ex-Greens leader Natalie Bennett, saying the environmental party remains committed to free tuition, and building a system where universities are no longer ‘places of fear’, reports Helen Packer #highered #studentdebt #edusky https://ow.ly/x3Uz50ZjkbC

Can VR help save a 2,000-year-old tomb? #EXCALIBUR pitched its XR + digital twin toolkits at Immersive Tech Week 2026 in Rotterdam. Here's how 👇 excalibur-eccch.eu/excalibur-at... #EXCALIBUR #XR #CulturalHeritage

Satellites are watching 3,000-year-old burial sites right now. 🛰️ Meet EXCALIBUR #ΤK2! THE SENTINEL maps erosion, salinity & urban pressure on heritage sites. The wall won't warn you when it's about to fall. THE SENTINEL will. 🛡️ #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #CulturalHeritage #TheSentinel

🏺 Imagine inspecting a 2,000-year-old artifact by controlling a virtual sun from your laptop. 💻 Meet EXCALIBUR Toolkit #1! 🛠️ Our MLIC system lets non-experts digitize & remotely relight artifacts to uncover hidden history. 🔍✨ #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #Archaeology #DigitalPreservation #ECCCH

This sarcophagus hasn't been opened in 2,400 years. 🏺 THE REVEALER looks inside anyway — fusing 3D scanning + CT imaging into one digital model. Non-invasive. Non-destructive. Exact. The lid stays on. We look anyway. 👀 #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheRevealer #CTScan

So, the Sony Alpha 7R VI has been launched prez.ly/DFGd Any suggestions if this camera can be a good buy for digital photography work? Budget is not an issue and we already own Sony FE lenses #photography #digitalphotogrammetry

Ready to shape the future of cultural heritage? Ready to start/continue your academic career in Germany (while studying in English)? Apply for the new MA #DigitalCulturalHeritage at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München lnkd.in/dD_j2b4G

Only one month left until the deadline for admission for the new Master's #DigitalCulturalHeritage @lmu.de Find all details at www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/study... Please share!

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All steps from application for the Master’s program Digital Cultural Heritage to your registration at the university

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No more digital silos! 🏛️💻 EXCALIBUR is co-building the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (#ECCCH) to unify burial heritage data. From 3D tombs to bioarchaeology, we're making tools open & reusable across Europe. 🇪🇺✨ 🔗Read More: lnkd.in/dDEjUpaz #ECCCH #EXCALIBUR

We’ve just presented our #ML paper “Hierarchical Point Patch Transformer for Semantic Segmentation of High Resolution Multimodal Archaeological LiDAR Point Clouds” at #CAA2026. Thanks to all co-authors and @lmu.de Prof. Rügamer for connecting us with his wonderful Data Science students #AcademicSky

#ForensicArchaeology session at #CAA2026Vienna. What an interesting and macabre field! Folks from the #NetherlandsForensicInstitute are using the same #ProximalSensing methods as used in landscape archaeological research to help police investigations on clandestine burials #AcademicSky

Finally, I’m attending the #CAA2026Vienna with my team of talented researchers from the @lmu.de Institute for #DigitalCulturalHeritageStudies. Go #DigitalArchaelogy!

This is what happens when ignorance and #ChristianFascism are elected as government. Science is disregarded, ignorance prevails, our Earth and us will pay the consequences for decades. Europeans take note please. bbc.com/news/article...

Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health

The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.

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It seems 300 years later the situation in Germany is quite similar with all those Prof. Med. Dr. Hab. Last name and the like 🤣

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Meet the putto that is responsible for handing out academic and working titles: a figure blowing soap bubbles as a sign for vanity. Take this, #academicsky, feel addressed.

Meet the putto that is responsible for handing out academic and working titles: a figure blowing soap bubbles as a sign for vanity. Take this, #academicsky, feel addressed.

This political ad about a need for #digitalisation in Germany made my day…with my broken German I understood “No to time for fax machines” which is quite appropriate given the tech backwardness of this country an wide use of fax… the actual translation reads “No time for non-sense” 🤣

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

The “best” of two worlds… pagoda on ice at #WestparkMuenchen in Munich, Bavaria