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Extensis Collaborates with IPTC on New Standard for Video Metadata
Extensis® and The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), a global standards body of media, today announced the release of a new standard for video metadata that streamlines workflows and defines video metadata fields. The new standard is supported in Extensis’s… Read more
Selectaglaze use its expertise in the conservation of Banqueting House at the heart of Whitehall
In 1619-22 after its predecessor was destroyed by fire, Inigo Jones designed the Banqueting House we see today. Since its erection, Banqueting House has stood witness to many historical events; its main use was to host State events, masques,… Read more
Marcon secures fit-out of new visitor centre at Pearse’s Cottage, Connemara
The famous cottage was used by Patrick Pearse, one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, as a summer residence and summer school for his pupils from St Enda’s in Dublin and the new visitor centre will house exhibitions, meeting… Read more
Mather & Co complete new National Horse Racing Museum at Newmarket
The National Horseracing Museum makes up one third of the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art at Palace House Newmarket. The new National Heritage Centre is situated in the Grade II listed Palace of Charles II and adjacent… Read more
New HLF report reveals overseas visitors to UK’s heritage attractions are driving country’s tourism economy
The report, The Impact of heritage tourism for the UK economy 2016, shows that Overseas visitor spend on heritage trips totalled £7.4 bn in 2015 – 42 per cent of the total £17.5 bn spend made by visitors… Read more
Eric, Britain’s first robot unveiled at Science Museum through Kickstarter campaign
Built less than a decade after the word robot was first used, Eric was everything we now imagine a robot to be – a talking, moving mechanical person, says curator Ben Russell, and amazed crowds across the UK, Europe and… Read more