May, 17, 2012, Nuova Fiera di Roma, stand Telecom
FORUM PA 2012 launches a key issue: “Digital Agenda, Semplification and Development in Open Government”.

During the section dedicated to G-cloud (cloud computing for PA), will be introduce the CUSTOM project, aimed to the creation of a cloud platform for SaaS merchandising of technological services for promotion and management of cultural heritage and turistic services correlated.

Art&Tourism – Fortezza da Basso, Florence, May 18, 2012

CARD, WEB E DIGITAL IMAGING PER FIRENZE PATRIMONIO DELL’UMANITA’

Art&Tourism Café – Padiglione Spadolini h 15,30

Art&Tourism, the first international fair dedicated to culture and art tourism that will be held from 18th- 20th May, 2012, will be the opportunity to propose and promote knowledge diffusion tools as “Florence Heritage”, a format to propose Florence’s art and “Zocchi Touch®”, the interactive installation allows you to visualize very high resolution images of Giuseppe Zocchi’s masterpieces, browsable in detail. Projects have been realized in collaboration with Patrimonio Unesco of Comune di Firenze office and Linea Comune.

The tradition and the innovation of Officina Profumo – Farmaceutica of Santa Maria Novella has met Centrica digital technologies for a new valorization of its products.

To celebrate Officina Profumo 400 years of activity, Centrica has created a new touch screen application for the store in Via della Scala, Florence, and for the shop in Milan. This app employs the same technologies used for Uffizi touch, the evolution of the product premiered at Shanghai EXPO, in the section “Italy of Innovators 2010” (here you can find a video about Uffizi Virtual digital exhibition”). The application created for Officina Profumo allows you to visualize very high resolution images of the products, browsable in detail, both 2D and 3D. Each product is accompanied by an information fact sheet and by a specific function of “suggestions” about the product categories, based on the modeling of knowledge relative to Officina Profumo products.
The seven interactive installations in Florence and the one in Milan show the map of the shops and give the possibility to visualize all the products on sale in each hall. You can find also an introductive section about Florence and the history of Officina Profumo. Centrica has realized also the new website that will be soon on-line, employing the same enabling technologies of the touch screens (XLimage® e Xlknowledge®).

Parco Urbano dell’Innovazione Spazio Urbano Contemporaneo
Piazza delle Murate, Florence, May 10, 2012

Centrica will be among the protagonists during the events in which will be introduce the CUSTOM project, aimed to the creation of a cloud platform for SaaS merchandising of technological services for promotion and management of cultural heritage and turistic services correlated.

CUSTOM, finished first in the bando R&D Regione Toscana’s ranking, has as partners, apart from Centrica, Telecom Italia Spa, Liberologico Srl and the scientific collaboration of Pisa’s Scuola Normale Superiore and MICC – Media Integration and Communication Center of Florence University and subcontractors META and Geosolutions.

Centrica will partecipate with the speech of Paolo De Rocco entitled “Fedora DL, XLimage and XLStreamer on CUSTOM cloud platform”.

The event takes part of LiquidLab program, for days of meetings, workshop, exhibition and conferences of ideas and project of people who think for a better future.

Also this year Centrica will be among the protagonists of Eva Florence 2012. The key aim of this Event is to provide a forum for the users, suppliers and scientific research communities to meet and exchange experiences, ideas and plans.

Participants will receive up to date news on new EC and international arts computing & telecommunications initiatives as well as on Projects in the visual arts field, in archaeology and history. Working Groups and new Projects are promoted. Technical demonstrations are presented. Centrica will be present with Uffizi Touch® and Zocchi Touch®, in which it is possible view each detail of twenty-six Giuseppe Zocchi’s tables.

Eva Florence
Florence, 9-11 May 2012

Victor Magazine by Hasselblad, one of the most important quarterly magazines on photography, has dedicated the cover of May to Centrica.
After logging in or registering, you can browse the pages about thehigh resolution scanning where Paolo De Rocco describes the techniques developed by Centrica to capture the most precious art works in the world. These digitizations can be viewed at high resolution on Internet and on mobile devices through our software XLimage, as mentioned in the article.