What happened? Following up on the past weekly log, at the beginning of this week, there was the Paris Conference on Open Research Information, the first conference entirely dedicated to the Barcelona Declaration, where several Declaration’s signatories, supporters, and other interested institutions met to discuss the core principles backing the Declaration, and to set up the roadmap to be implemented in the following months. They have been two very productive days, with a final wrap-up of the outcomes of several hands-on sessions organised on the second day. The work has just started, and the organisers and attendees are already setting up everything for the second meeting, which will be in Bologna next year – held within the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2025, 28-29 May 2025.
What I did. On Friday, 27 September, I attended the 2024 European Researchers’ Night in Piazza Antonio Scaravilli in front of the entrance of the University of Bologna. Together with other researchers from the University and the National Research Council, we have presented the initial outcomes of creating the digital twin of a temporary exhibition organised months before this event in the Museum of Palazzo Poggi. The temporary exhibition, which ended in May 2023, is no longer available for in-person museum attendance. Still, it has been recreated within a virtual environment. It will be published on the Web in the following months to enable citizens to discover still the marvellous world of Ulisse Aldrovandi, the primary topic of the temporary exhibition.

What to read. It is a bit self-referential, but we wrote a paper to introduce the acquisition and digitisation process we adopted to create the digital twin of the temporary exhibition mentioned above, which was published in the Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage journal a few months ago:
Balzani, R., Barzaghi, S., Bitelli, G., Bonifazi, F., Bordignon, A., Cipriani, L., Colitti, S., Collina, F., Daquino, M., Fabbri, F., Fanini, B., Fantini, F., Ferdani, D., Fiorini, G., Formia, E., Forte, A., Giacomini, F., Girelli, V. A., Gualandi, B., … Vittuari, L. (2024). Saving temporary exhibitions in virtual environments: The Digital Renaissance of Ulisse Aldrovandi – Acquisition and digitisation of cultural heritage objects. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 32, e00309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.daach.2023.e00309