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Issue : February 2003
Cultivate Interactive Issue 9: Features
IST Projects:
- Who Needs Statistics? : A note on the LIBECON Project
David Fuegi gives us an expert picture of the role of the LIBECON
Project in providing library statistics for policy makers and how you can make
use of them yourselves.
- OpenHeritage: Developing cultural tourism in
lesser-known regions Salvatore Lusso writes for us about a project seeking to
create a cultural heritage community in the less well-known regions of Europe
where culture, environment and tourism represent the main resource of the area.
He explains how a revised business model and the use of technology represent a reaslistic
hope of economic development.
- PAST - Bringing archaeological sites to life
Emily Whetter reports on the PAST Project - a new
way of showing visitors to archaeological sites what life was like for their
early inhabitants.
- TREBIS - A biodiversity information system
Paul Schreilechner gives us an article on the TREBIS Project
which is working on new ways of presenting ecological insights by combining
multimedia technologies with geographic information and database systems.
- A mobile AR guide comes through:
Vassilios Vlahakis, John Karigiannis and
Nikolaos Ioannidis report on ARCHEOGUIDE, the
first mobile augmented reality guide for archeological sites and
museums.
- MESMUSES: Marco Meli
writes about an initiative to reuse innovatively the most valuable scientific
and technical heritage available in science museums so that it may serve as
an "active memory" of knowledge to be exploited in different domains.
- The Conceptual Reference Model:
Nicholas Crofts, Martin Doerr and
Tony Gill report on the CIDOC and its work on the
Conceptual Reference Model, an aid to comprehension and dialogue.
Other Areas:
Cultivate Interactive Issue 9: Regular Articles
- DIGICULT Column: Christine Michaut provides news of the European Commission's initiatives in the field of digital heritage and cultural content.
At the Event:
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Cultivate Interactive Issue 9: Miscellaneous
Articles
- Competition: Cultivate Interactive's
Spot the European City Competition provides the answers to last issue's puzzle.
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Issue 8: November 2002
Cultivate Interactive Issue 8: Features
IST Projects:
Other Areas:
- Giving Presentations with Accessibility in Mind
Alistair Edwards gives advice on public speaking - bearing in mind that
not everyone in the audience may be able to see your slides or hear you speak.
- Handscape: Exploring potential use scenarios for mobile
computing in museums Dr.Geri Gay, Angela Spinazze and Michael Stefanone
write about the research being undertaken in the Handscape Project
which is focusing upon potential use scenarios for mobile (hand-held) computing
in museums. Further material on Handscape is available on its recent
symposium.
- Can I Link To Your Site? Authors of Web pages
normally provide links to other Web resources. But should permission be sought before
doing this? Can creating a link to a public document on the Web even be illegal?
Brian Kelly considers the matter.
- Weasel: Access to Music Notation for Blind People
Ben Challis reports on a non-visual approach
to presenting music notation for blind music learners. Weasel is
an audio-tactile approach to addressing common problems
associated with conventional non-visual notations like Braille
music and vocally annotated scores.
Cultivate Interactive Issue 8: Regular Articles
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Praxis:
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Cultivate Interactive Issue 8: Miscellaneous
Articles
- Competition: Cultivate Interactive's
Spot the European City Competition offers two more puzzles for you.
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Issue 7: July 2002
Cultivate Interactive Issue 7: Features
IST Projects:
- ARTISTE image retrieval system puts European
galleries in the picture: Matthew Addis, Paul Lewis, Kirk
Martinez and other members of the ARTISTE consortium review its
achievements in developing an image retrieval system based on metadata and content
that explores and analyses thousands of images from major art galleries across Europe.
- COINE : Cultural Objects in Networked Environments :
Peter Brophy explains how this project seeks to
encourage and enable ordinary citizens to tell and share their stories in
networked spaces so that citizens can record, share and preserve
their own personal and community cultures.
- COVAX: Robin Yeates reports
on the investigation by the COVAX Project into the suitability of XML in
providing integrated access to collections and materials in libraries, museums
and archives.
- KALLIOPE : Jutta Weber
writes about an initiative which enables all institutions in Germany holding
hand-written documentation of a European cultural nature to present data effectively
about their holdings, and themselves, on the Internet.
- The PRESTO Project: shows how to preserve
Multimedia in the most cost-effective fashion. Richard Wright
highlights the problems confronting broadcasting organisations and how technical
developments produced by the PRESTO Project can help.
- PULMAN -rolling on by night and day :
Rob Davies gives us a progress report on Europe's Thematic
Network for Public Libraries and cultural institutions operating at local level.
- SciX -towards open scientific publishing:
Ziga Turk, Bo-Christer Björk and Bob Martens
provide a very telling insight into current practices in the relationship between
publicly funded researchers and the commercial scientific publishing industry.
They see the existing situation as quite unsatisfactory and show how the SciX Project might
redress the situation.
- TOURBOT - interactive museum tele-presence through robotic avatars:
Panos E. Trahanias writes of the achievements of a project
which developed a way to provide remote users with a tele-presence in museums in
the sturdy shape of TOURBOT.
- VALHALLA - linking historic garden records with real-time web video:
John Counsell explains how this project aims to provide in-depth comparative historic garden information, linking Hatfield House
in Hertfordshire with the Château de Villandry on the Loire in France..
Other Areas:
- Towards a Digital Cultural Content Forum: Paul Miller, David
Dawson and John Perkins report on the second in a series
of international meetings at which representatives of cultural content creation
programmes from around the world work towards greater collaboration.
- WebWatching National Node Web Sites:
Brian Kelly reviews the CULTIVATE National Node Web sites using
a variety of automated tools, and makes some comparisons with a survey of National
Focal Point Web sites.
Cultivate Interactive Issue 7: Regular Articles
- DIGICULT Column: Christine Michaut provides news of the European Commission's initiatives in the field of digital heritage and cultural content.
At the Event:
Praxis:
Metadata:
- Challenges for a Semantic Web:
Kim Veltman reviews three approaches to the semantic web and
asks whether they fully reflect the cultural diversity that humanity represents.
News Items:
Cultivate Interactive Issue 7: Misc.
Articles
- CIMI Handscape: Angela Spinazze
writes to raise awareness of developments on the Handscape Project and promises
more for our next issue.
- Competition: Cultivate Interactive's
Spot the European City Competition offers two more puzzles for you.
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Issue 6: February 2002
Cultivate Interactive Issue 6: Features
IST Projects:
- Russia Joins the Cultivate
Family: David Fuegi talks about the impact
CULTIVATE-Russia, the newest addition to Cultivate, will have on
the current network.
- Regnet: Cultural Heritage in
Regional Networks: Silke Grossman,
Vic Haesaerts, Gerda Koch and
Walter Koch report on the Regnet Project which
aims to set up a functional network of service centres in Europe,
providing IT-services dedicated to Cultural Heritage
organisations.
- BioNet: Gordon
Clapworthy describes BioNet, the strategic development
of European Networks in Biomechanics.
- The COLLATE Collaboratory:
Adelheit Stein, Ulrich Thiel
and Jürgen Keiper report on developing a new type of a WWW-based collaboratory for cultural heritage information.
Other Areas:
Cultivate Interactive Issue 6: Regular Articles
- DIGICULT Column: Ian Pigott provides news of the European Commission's initiatives in the field of digital heritage and cultural content.
- The TRIAL projects and their accompanying measure TRIS: Monika Segbert introduces DIGICULT's trial action Projects which will encourage take-up of results and stimulate the implementation of innovative products and services in the cultural heritage sector.
At the Event:
Praxis:
Metadata:
- The Historical Data Warehouse: Frans Smit reports on adapting concepts from Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into the field of organising and giving access to metadata about historical archives and collections.
- Het Historisch Data Warehouse: Frans Smit past concepten toe die afkomstig zijn uit Informatie- en Kennismanagement (IKM) en van Informatie- en Communicatietechnologie (ICT) ten bate van het organiseren en toegankelijk maken van metadata over historische archieven en collecties.
News Items:
Cultivate Interactive Issue 6: Misc.
Articles
- Virtual Reference: A Letter from North America: Michelle Fiander, Manager of the Web Reference Center, sends us a letter from North America explaining what Virtual reference is and how it came about.
- Chodovec: The New Prague Archive Building: Borivoj Indra and
Vladimíra Hradecká talk about a recently opened monumental archive building located in the southern area of Prague, and the facilities it offers for Czech archives.
- Competition: Cultivate Interactive's Spot the European City Competition.
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Issue 5: October 2001
Cultivate Interactive Issue 5: Features
IST Projects:
- 3D-Murale: Dr. John Cosmas reports on the 3D-Murale project that is developing a set of Recording, Reconstruction, Database and Visualisation tools for use by archaeologists at the excavation site and at their laboratories.
- CELIP: Licensing and copyright problems? Tuula Haavisto reports on how CELIP, Central and Eastern European Licensing Information Platform, is raising awareness amongst librarians about buying access to electronic information resources.
- CULTIVATE: David Fuegi introduces Cultivate Central and Eastern Europe (Cultivate CEE), a new addition to the Cultivate Cultural Heritage Applications Network (CULTIVATE).
- OpenHeritage: The OpenHeritage team talk about how they hope to 'enable the European Culture Economy' by creating an IT infrastructure and service that improves access to collections information held by regional museums and galleries.
- TEL: The European Library (TEL) team explore how, by combining the resources of some of Europe's national libraries, the idea of a single European Library has moved a step closer to becoming a reality.
Other Areas:
- T-News: Bridging the Museum Generation Gap: Do you have problems getting teenagers into your Museum? Nils Olander explains how Telemuseum tackled this problem by allowing them to create low budget news programmes using Telemuseum’s television studios.
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Paul Miller, David Dawson and John Perkins report on a recent meeting at which representatives of national and international cultural content creation programmes from around the world were invited to consider scope for greater collaboration.
- bibliotek.dk - a New Route to Danish Libraries: Leif Andresen introduces bibliotek.dk, the user-focused entry point for general public access to the Danish National Union Catalogue.
- ELVIL 2000: Ingrid Cantwell outlines the three main problem areas of access, learning and communication that the European Legislative Virtual Library Project (ELVIL) has had to face and explains how it is dealing with them.
- The Israel Museum and the Electronic Surrogate: Susan Hazan, the curator of new media for the Israel Museum based in Jerusalem attempts to answer the question “If the intrinsic experience of a museum is about its material collections, why would a museum even want an electronic surrogate?”
- CORDIS: Thibault Heuzé describes innovation opportunities available for the information community via CORDIS, the European Commission’s Research and Development Information Service.
- Creative Practices and the Design of Virtual Environments: Traditional approaches to the design of software emanate from technical practice yet, as environments come to contain more multimedia, there is a need to appreciate the nature of creative practice. Colin Beardon explores these ideas through the example of the Visual Assistant software developed for visualisation in the domain of theatre.
- PSInet: Public Sector Information Network: Rob Davies discusses the possible relationship between the e-Content's PSINet project, demonstrating the commercial potential of Europe's Public Sector Information, and digital culture.
- A Survey of Virtual Reality in the VIS.I.T. Theatre: The CINECA team (Interuniversity Consortium) talk about their role as a leading player in the visualization field.
- A True New Opportunity for Cultural Content Digitisation in the UK: Paul Miller and Sally Criddle report on the announcement of successful projects in the New Opportunities Fund's £50,000,000 nof–digi Programme.
Cultivate Interactive Issue 5: Regular Articles
- DIGICULT Column: Concha Fernández de la Puente provides news of the European Commission's initiatives in the field of digital heritage and cultural content.
- National Node Column: Austria: Karin Hafner of CSC Austria talks about Information events organised by the Austrian National Node held in Spring/Summer 2001.
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Issue 4: May 2001
Cultivate Interactive Issue 4: Features
DIGICULT Projects:
- ARION: Catherine Houstis and Spyros Lalis
describes the work of Project ARION, an advanced lightweight
architecture for accessing scientific collections.
- AMICITIA: Stephan Schneider reports on the 'Asset Management Integration of Cultural Heritage In The Interexchange of Archives' Project which attempts to find new solutions for today’s challenges in digital audiovisual archives.
- VIRTUOUS: Michal Haindl and Josef Kittler provide an overview of the VIRTUOUS (Autonomous Acquisition of Virtual Reality Models from Real World Scenes) Project.
Other Areas:
- Dot-museum: Cary Karp explains why we need the new .museum top level domain and details its evolution.
- Eurospeak: The European Commission's Translation Service's Emma Wagner discusses what she calls 'the disease of Eurospeak' and details guidelines for improvement, which the Translation Service are trying to get across to authors inside the EC.
- Asia IT&C: Mike Robbins takes us on a tour of a European Commission Initiative that is attempting to bridge the digital divide in Asia.
- Global Museum: Roger Smith, the founder and director of this highly successful international Webzine, shares his experiences of online publications and the rationale for establishing a museum-based compendium site.
- EMII: Rosa Botterill outlines the work of the European Museums' Information Institute, a consortium of key organisations in the cultural heritage field.
- Making the PIE ...GEL: Will the Library become the University? ...or will the University become the Library? John Paschoud explains how the HeadLine 'Personal Information Environment' for academic library users will evolve into part of ANGEL's 'Guided Environment for Learning'.
- UKISHELP: Peter Walters introduces 'UK Information Society Help', an UK initiative set up to help newcomers understand and evaluate Information Society European programme's funding opportunities in the context of their business.
- VADS: Phill Purdy talks about the Visual Arts Data Service's role in the preservation of high quality digital materials and outlines some of the issues and methodologies employed in creating its archive of cross-searchable visual arts digital image collections.
- LIFT: Steve Glangé on how you can turn your Research and Development results into successful ventures with a little help from the Linking Innovation Finance and Technology group.
Cultivate Interactive Issue 4: Regular Articles
- DIGICULT Column: Concha Fernández de la Puente provides news of the European Commission's initiatives in the field of digital heritage and cultural content.
- National Node Column: Belgium: Pascale Van Dinter of the Scientific and Technical Information Service (STIS) reports on the Belgian role in the Cultivate Project.
At the Event:
Praxis: 
- An Introduction to Streaming Video: David Cunningham and Neil Francis report on the technologies available, as well as some of the problems encountered when trying to stream video content across the Internet.
- Streaming Video: A Look Behind The Scenes: In our second article on this topic Jim Strom gives us a behind the scenes look at what can be achieved with streaming video using a number of examples and case studies.
Metadata:
- JNUL's Ketubbot Digitisation Project: Elhanan Adler and Orly Simon on the Jewish National and University Library's digitisation project aimed at making many of its unique collections accessible to remote users.
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Articles
- Competition: Cultivate Interactive's Spot the European City Competition.
- The Scramble Game: As an extra distraction from the pile of papers on your desk try our
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Issue 3: January 2001
Cultivate Interactive Issue 3: Features
DIGICULT Projects:
- SCHEMAS: Makx Dekkers, the Schemas Project Co-ordinator,
outlines the concept of application profiles, a mechanism for mixing and matching metadata.
- COVAX: Carlos Wert and Francisca Hernández on the Contemporary Culture Virtual Archive in XML Project.
- The RENAISSANCE Project: Francesca Tinelli
takes us on a virtual journey in a Renaissance Court using a new 'edutainment' application.
- EVA Project: René van Horik reports on the European
Visual Archive Project (EVA), which reviews the obstacles and alternatives in providing access to the
photographic collections of public archives.
Other Areas:
- The European Information Association: Catherine Webb introduces an organisation that
attempts to help you through the EU Minefield and Marieke Napier reports on a recent workshop on Electronic
Sources of EU Information held by the EIA.
- From Research to Innovation, from RAMA to OpenHeritage: Dominique Delouis looks back on
one of the original attempts to put Museums online, the Remote Access to Museum Archives (RAMA) Project and considers two of its follow up projects,
the MENHIR Project which ran from 1997 to 1998 and the OpenHeritage Project which has just started.
- Netting Local History in Norway: Sidsel Hindal and Tone Moseid
on an initiative which has been organised by the Norwegian Directorate for Public Libraries and consists of seven local projects
that improve the public's access to records on local history.
- Developing Russian Museums Online: Dmitriy Luchkin reflects on the
development of the Russian Cultural Heritage Network’s main resource centre.
- Making English Heritage Thesauri Available On-line: Daphne Charles reports on new methods of generating and disseminating the National Monuments Record thesauri produced by English Heritage. By generating the thesauri as static HTML pages it has been possible to reduce the cost of publication, distribute digital copies online and offline, and meet the needs of a far wider range of users.
- NINCH: David Green with an overview of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) where intellectual needs shape technical solutions.
- The Virtual Revolution: Franz Fischnaller compares Virtual Reality's origins with those of the Cinematography Industry
and contemplates whether it too will become an established technology. He also introduces his company F.A.B.R.I.CATORS which hopes to lead the move to the mainstream.
- What's Happened To My Slides?: Brian Kelly discusses the pitfalls that can be encountered when giving presentations at conferences and offers some practical advice on how to avoid them.
Cultivate Interactive Issue 3: Regular Articles
- DIGICULT Column: Concha Fernández de la Puente provides news of the European Commission's initiatives in the field of digital heritage and cultural content.
- National Node Column: Israel: Guy Ben-Ari of ISrael Europe Research and Development (ISERD), and National Node for Israel,
reflects on Israel's recent entry into the IST programme.
At the Event:
- A Chain of EVA Conferences: James Hemsley, Managing Director of VASARI UK, reports on the EVA conferences held in 2000.
- IST 2000 NICE: Walter Koch, Karin Hafner, Torill Redse and Jorunn Hesjedal
report on the Information Society Technologies conference held in Nice in November 2000. Discussion about Inclusion, elearning, globalisation and flexibility and
how "The easiest way to predict the future is to invent it".
- Internet Librarian International 2001 Preview: Caroline Milner of Rubicon Communications reflects on last year's successful conference and previews what's to come this year.
Metadata:
- The MADAME Project: Dr. Massimo Craglia provides an overview of the INFO2000 project on Methods for Access to Data and Metadata in Europe (MADAME). He sets the project in its policy context, describes its objectives, introduces the partners, and summarises its achievements.
News Items:
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Articles
- Polling Software: Cultivate Interactive investigates providing user feedback services through polling software.
- Book Review: Marieke Napier reviews
EUROJARGON by Anne Ramsay.
- Competition: Cultivate Interactive's Spot the European City Competition.
- The Scramble Game: As an extra distraction from the pile of papers on your desk try our
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Issue 2: October 2000
Cultivate Interactive Issue 2: Features
DIGICULT Projects:
- BRAVA: Jean-Hugues Chenot of the
Institut national de l'Audiovisuel, presents the BRAVA project: Broadcast Restoration
of Archives through Video Analysis.
- CULTIVATE: Klaus Reinhardt
reports on the establishment of the CULTIVATE network in the field of cultural heritage applications under the
5th Framework Programme (IST Programme).
- TOURBOT: Panos E. Trahanias
introduces the TOURBOT Project which aims at developing alternative ways
for interactive museum tele-presence, employing the novel approach of site viewing
through the ‘eyes’ of robotic avatars.
- VAKHUM: Serge Van Sint Jan
gives us a behind the scenes look at the new source of data on human kinematics created
by the VAKHUM Project.
Other Areas:
- Perseus Digital Library: Gregory Crane,
Brian Fuchs, Amy C. Smith and Clifford E. Wulfman
discuss the symbiosis between content and technology in the Perseus Digital Library.
- Virtual Exhibitions: Cèsar Carreras Monfort
introduces the Group Òliba and explains how they are attempting to extend museum potential.
- Public Netbase t0: Public Netbase t0, creators of World-Information.Org, are one of Europe's
most respected media-culture institutions. Martin Wassermair talks about its
international Success and recent struggles with Austria's new right-wing government.
- Networked Museums In The Learning Age: David Anderson,
Director of Learning and Visitor Services at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, talks about how museums
can contribute to the Learning Age.
- The Soldiers are in the Coffee: Cultivate Interactive
gives an general introduction to Machine Translation that includes a look at the European Union's
Perspective.
- Machine Translation: Alastair Lindsay
of Worldlingo.com explains how you can use MT as part of your Internet strategy.
- Cultural Heritage Networking in Russia: Dmitriy Luchkin,
describes the Russian Cultural Heritage Network (RCHN) and explains why the setting up of such a network was imperitive.
- Museums in the Digital Space: Head of Collections Management for the Science Museum, Suzanne Keene,
reflects on current political, economic, social, technical and organisational trends shaping
the UK digital cultural space.
- Intellectual Property Rights: In a follow up article on the IPR Helpdesk Alexander Weir
considers the achievements of two years of operation and reflects on the new
community patent regulation.
- Www.European-Heritage.Net: Daniel Thérond introduces the European information network on
cultural heritage policies (HEREIN project).
- Www.European-Heritage.Net: Daniel Thérond présente le réseau européen
d’information sur les politiques du patrimoine culturel (projet HEREIN).
- The Information Society Programme in Greece: Theodora Stathoulia looks at
the Information Society Programme in Greece between 2000 and 2006, and considers the role libraries will play in it.
Cultivate Interactive Issue 2: Regular Articles
- DIGICULT Column: Concha Fernández de la Puente provides news of the European Commission's initiatives in the field of digital heritage and cultural content.
- National Node Column: Norway: Jorunn Hesjedal and Torill Redse of the Norweigan National Office for Research
Documentation, Academic and Special Libraries (RBT) give a Norweigan perspective on being a National Node.
At the Event:
- EVA: Philip Hunter gives a personal view of the Electronic
Imaging and the Visual Arts Conference (EVA) in Edinburgh.
- Information Days in Vienna: Gerda Koch reports on
the Austrian National Information Day and the Cultural Heritage Projects Concertation Event both held
as part of the accompanying Measure, CULTIVATE EU .
Metadata:
- Towards a Whole-Museum Response:
Neil Thomson reports on work in progress to provide information about the many and varied collections
that are held at The Natural History Museum. The work involves the research systems having their core fields mapped onto the
Dublin Core metadata standard, harvested and stored in a separate, publicly available, summary system.
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Issue 1: July 2000
Cultivate Interactive Issue 1: Features
DIGICULT Projects:
- ARCHEOGUIDE: Dimitra Papageorgiou, Nikos Ioannidis, Ioannis Christou,
Michael Papathomas and Markellos Diorinos
discuss the ARCHEOGUIDE project, an augmented reality based system for personalized tours in cultural heritage sites.
- ARTISTE: An integrated Art Analysis and Navigation Environment: Paul Allen, Roberto Vaccaro and Gert Presutti talk about the ARTISTE project
which aims to build a tool for the intelligent retrieval and indexing of high resolution images.
- The ASH project: A Virtual Control Room:
Jørgen Bøegh contemplates questions of Space and our Universe while talking about the development of a Virtual Control Room for young students by ASH (Access to Scientific Space Heritage).
- DELOS: A Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries: Carol Peters and Costantino Thanos introduce the DELOS Network of Excellence
which will promote and sustain digital library research and
applications in Europe.
- ECHO - European CHronicles On-line: Pasquale Savino and Costantino Thanos discuss the ECHO project which aims at developing a Digital Library (DL) service for historical films belonging to large national audiovisual archives.
- RENARDUS: follow the fox!:
Lesly Huxley reports on work in progress on the Renardus
project, funded under the European Union's Information Society programme.
- ETB: Alexa Joyce reports on the European Treasury Browser, the European Schoolnet's web-based educational resource infrastructure for schools in Europe.
Other Areas:
Cultivate Interactive Issue 1: Regular Articles
- DIGICULT Column: Concha Fernández de la Puente provide news of the European Commission's initiatives in the field of digital heritage and cultural content.
- National Node Column: United Kingdom: Rosalind Johnson provides an introduction to what a National Node is and gives a UK node perspective on CULTIVATE.
- At the Event Column: Carmel Smith reports on the consultation meeting on ‘Personalising Content’ - IST WORKPROGRAMME 2001 - Luxembourg 19th May 2000.
Metadata:
- Cultural and Historical Metadata: Kim Veltman enlightens us on dynamic metadata and introduces the vision of interoperability held by MEMECS (Metadonnées et Mémoire Collective
Systématique).
- Collaboration, consensus and community: Angela Spinazze talks about CIMI, museums and the Dublin Core. CIMI is a consortium of cultural heritage institutions and organizations working together to promote
interoperability and remove barriers to sharing valuable information.
- Standardisation of Dublin Core in Europe: Leif Andresen and Ian Campbell-Grant discuss
how the Information Society Standardization System (ISSS), the European Committee for Standardization's platform for standardisation in information technology, has worked towards a metadata standard through various workshops.
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