EVA/MINERVA 2007: Jerusalem, 20-21 November, 2007

EVA/MINERVA 2007

The Fourth Annual Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
will take place Tuesday the 20th and Wednesday the 21st of November 2007
For further information contact <mailto:dovw@savion.huji.ac.il> Dov Winer
or <mailto:susan.hazan@gmail.com> Susan Hazan

<http://www.eva-conferences.com> EVA Conferences International ~~~
<http://www.minervaeurope.org/> Minerva eEurope

EVA/MINERVA, the Jerusalem 2007 Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural
Heritage convenes in Jerusalem and hosts museum professionals, librarians,
archivists, audio-visual developers, architects, lawyers, cultural policy
makers, plastic and performing artists working in the digital realm.

SAVE THE DATE November 20-21, 2007

The perfect opportunity - <http://tour.jerusalem.muni.il/?lng=2> visit
Jerusalem and enjoy the timeless beauty of the Old/New City. Savour Israel's
rich cultural mosaic and its fabulous desert landscapes combined with an
exciting two-day conference and the opportunity to get together in Jerusalem
with the digital heritage community and discuss the critical issues in the
areas where culture and technology intersect.

Registration

To download and save (right click) the Hebrew registration
<http://filelibrary.unitedapps.com/1/file1330.doc> form (Word Doc or PDF)
International Registration
To download and save (right click) the
<http://filelibrary.unitedapps.com/1/file1332.doc> English registration
form (Word Doc or PDF)

Send in your registration by email attachment to evaminerva07@gmail.com or
by fax (the PDF page) to: 02-5333269

Conference Networking Sessions

The call for presentations at the Conference Networking Sessions is open.
Visit the call page and register <http://minerva.unitedapps.com/s527.html> .
Do not forget to invite your colleagues who are working in areas related to
the digitization of science and cultural heritage. This is your opportunity
to present your work at the conference - the perfect moment to introduce
your work and be able to discuss it with your colleagues.

European Projects

The annual conference hosts several of the leading IST related Cultural
Heritage projects funded by the Commission in the IST and the eContent Plus
program. The 2007 conference will highlight the European Digital Library
initiative developments. We are delighted to host leading projects supported
by the European Commission from the different frameworks that advances
European digital vision.

<http://www.michael-culture.org/mpf/portal/choose-language.html> MICHAEL
MICHAEL aims to provide simple and quick access to the digital collections
of museums, libraries and archives from different European countries. Work
began in June 2004, with the focus on implementing an innovative
multi-lingual open source platform that will be equipped with a search
engine. By 2007, the MICHAEL platform will be capable of retrieving digital
collections that are dispersed across Europe. The services will also support
cultural tourism, the creative industries and other interests. The project
consortium includes members from the Czech Republic, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal,
Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom with representatives from public
authorities, research institutions and private companies.

<http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/organisation/about_us/aboutus_en.h
tml> The European Library
The European Library service is for anyone world-wide seeking for library
material; books of course but also book references, maps, photographs,
music, videos, etc.The European Library provides a vast virtual collection
of material from all disciplines and offers visitors with interest a simple
access to European cultural resources.

Currently The
<http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/organisation/about_us/aboutus_en.h
tml> European Library gives access to 150 million entries across Europe.
The amount of referenced digital collections is constantly increasing.
Quality and reliability are guaranteed by the 47 collaborating national
libraries of Europe. A national library is the library specifically
established by a country to store its information database. National
libraries usually host the legal deposit and the bibliographic control
centre of a nation.

<http://www.delos.info/> DELOS
The DELOS Network of Excellence aims at integrating and coordinating
European research in the field of digital libraries. The project is carrying
out research on digital library architecture, information access and
personalisation, audio/visual and nontraditional objects, user interfaces
and visualisation, knowledge extraction and semantic interoperability,
preservation and evaluation.

<http://www.multimatch.eu/> MultiMatch (To be confirmed)
On the web, cultural heritage content is everywhere, in traditional
environments such as libraries, museums, galleries and audiovisual archives,
but also in popular magazines and newspapers, in multiple languages and
multiple media. The aim of the MultiMATCH project is to enable users to
explore and interact with online accessible cultural heritage content,
across media types and language boundaries.

<http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/> DPE - Digital Preservation
Europe (To be confirmed)
Proliferation of digital content has resulted in an increasingly urgent need
for commercial organisations, the public sector and individual users to
protect their digital resources from the risk of getting lost. To a much
greater extent as this is the case with analogue materials, the rapid pace
of change of electronic devices and formats for recording, storage and use
represents a threat to the long-term accessibility of digital objects.

<http://www.epoch-net.org> EPOCH
EPOCH is a network of about a hundred European cultural institutions joining
their efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of the use of
Information and Communication Technology for Cultural Heritage. The
Network's vision is of a multi-disciplinary team working with a framework
which encapsulates the holistic view of the problems to be solved. All parts
of the pipeline, from data collection and historic discovery through to
real-time visitor experiences and scholastic communication of heritage
visualisations, work in balance towards a complete system rather than
partial solution to narrow research problems.

<http://www.imagination-project.org/page.php?id=14> IMAGINATION
The main objective of IMAGINATION is to bring digital cultural and
scientific resources closer to their users, by making user interaction
image-based and context-aware. Our aim is to enable image-based navigation
for digital cultural and scientific resources. Our vision is a system where
users receive meaningful contextual information about images and image
parts, which makes images easier to understand. Moreover, users can simply
navigate to new, relevant images and texts in the knowledge repository only
by clicking on interesting image parts.

<http://itacitus.org/> iTACITUS
iTACITUS aims to provide a bespoke experience for the individual cultural
traveller, based upon a dispersed repository of cultural (e.g. historical,
scientific and archaeological) resources, enabling both location-based and
context-based interface paired with location-independent services. iTACITUS
will investigate new methods for representing historical sites virtually and
develop mobile technologies for dynamic, user-directed support to visitors.

<http://www.minervaeurope.org/> MINERVA
The aim of Minerva is to create a network of Member States' Ministries to
discuss, correlate and harmonise activities carried out in digitisation of
cultural and scientific content, for creating an agreed European common
platform, recommendations and guidelines about digitisation, metadata,
long-term accessibility and preservation. The new phase of MINERVA to begin
in September 2006 will focus on the support to the implementation of the
Dynamic Action Plan <http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/dap.htm> for
the EU do-ordination of digitisation of cultural and scientific content.
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See: http://www.minervaeurope.org

<http://www.mosaica-project.eu/> MOSAICA
MOSAICA is envisioned as a technologically advanced web portal, featuring
multifaceted interfaces for knowledge based exploration and online
utilities. Contents focus initially on the European Jewish Cultural
Heritage.
The project will also provide a framework for the ontology based,
interactive conceptualisation of cultural resources: Online semantic
annotator. Free text annotation tools to comment and recommend individual
cultural objects or to associate them with relevant ontological concepts.
Online ontology editor. Empowers users with convivial means to further
develop their own conceptual models, and to dynamically enrich the MOSAICA
ontology with their own semantics.

<http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/easaier/about.htm> EASAIER
EASAIER will increase the effectiveness of sound archive access. An archive
used by musicians and music students, requires that the material can be
manipulated or modified appropriately at playback; archives of recorded
broadcasts need to emphasise appropriate segmentation and interactive speech
recognition features. An efficient and effective retrieval system needs to
be grounded in semantic description, similarity, and structure in order to
provide rich functionalities related to the exploration of sound archives.

<http://www.callas-newmedia.eu> CALLAS <http://www.callas-newmedia.eu>
(To be confirmed)
The CALLAS Integrated Project aims to design and to develop a multimodal
architecture which will include emotional aspects in order to support
applications in the new media business scenario with an "ambient
intelligence" paradigm. The vision underlining the CALLAS Project is that
new media can enhance user participation in content, media, and social
interaction

Israel lead sessions

Digital discourse as a new source of cultural heritage
Wikis, blogs, talkbacks, elearning repositories, and forums. Are these new
technologies really part of our (future) cultural heritage?

Staking a Claim - Memory Institutions take on a [Second] Life of their own
Now that Second Life has hit the front page of Newsweek it seems Neal
Stephenson's vision of the Metaverse has crossed over - from being a fringe
fantasy land for pure escapists to a persistent world for play, commerce,
creativity and exploration - its time to take a close look at this synthetic
world. Presented by three leading avatars directly from Second Life, this
panel will showcase some of the leading cultural insitutions from their 3D
graphic locations, and will explore how they welcome visitors, guests and
colleagues in-world.

Copyright for Cultural Heritage Institutions
This year's speakers will discuss topics including "Beware: Shrink- Wrap &
Click-Wrap Contracts" and ''Perils of Reproduction: Transformative Use and
Moral Rights."

Dissemination of standards - Images, Texts, and Multimedia
The session will familiarize the cultural heritage sector audience with
recommended standards for the digitization of images, texts, and multimedia.
The standards will include those published by MDA, RLG, CHIN, and TASI as
well as those publicized by EU organizations. The session will also review
standards recommended by the EU which have been translated into Hebrew. In
addition, within the framework of the MinervaEC workgroup of "Assessment and
Evaluation", a list of Minerva products publicizing standards and
dissemination techniques will be discussed.

~~~ Gala celebration of the 2006/7 national winners of the ~~~
<http://www.digital-heritage.org.il/wsa> WSA Israel contests

Registration

To download and save (right click) the Hebrew registration
<http://filelibrary.unitedapps.com/1/file1330.doc> form (Word Doc or PDF)
International Registration
To download and save (right click) the
<http://filelibrary.unitedapps.com/1/file1332.doc> English registration
form (Word Doc or PDF)

Send in your registration by email attachment to evaminerva07@gmail.com or
by fax (the PDF page) to: 02-5333269

If you have any questions about the conference, or seek further information
about the Digital Heritage, Israel contact

Dov Winer and Dr. Susan <mailto:susan.hazan@gmail.com> Hazan
Conference Co-Chairs
The Jerusalem 2007 Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
Digital Heritage, Israel
EVA MINERVA Israel

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