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Cultivate Interactive Issue 1: Editorial

Hello and welcome to the first issue of the Cultivate Interactive Web magazine. We hope you enjoy the varied range of articles we have brought together for you.

You may be asking 'what exactly is Cultivate Interactive?' First and foremost Cultivate Interactive is a mechanism for promotion and discussion of the DIGICULT projects and the challenges that surround them. It is funded by the Digital Heritage and Cultural Content (DIGICULT) area of the EC Information Society Technologies Programme (IST) and expands to include all memory institutions and organisations (in particular from archives, libraries, museums, publishers, multimedia and galleries), as well as organisations from Eastern Europe and other non-EU countries. The actual CULTIVATE programme continues the work started by the National Focus Points for the Telematics for Libraries Programme under the 3rd and 4th Framework. This work is discussed in the Exploit Interactive Web magazine <http://www.exploit-lib.org/> Link to external resource . The last issue of Exploit Interactive will appear in September.

However Cultivate Interactive is also a discussion platform for the broader digital cultural community. This issue includes articles on a number of diverse areas such as e-texts, Intellectual Property Rights, Web education, metadata and online museums. During Cultivate Interactive's run as a Web magazine we hope to try and raise questions and encourage discussion about the European Cultural heritage community and where it is going. A discussion forum has been set up to allow readers to air their views and suggest areas they would like to read articles on.

Finally we would like to say thanks to all the people who have contributed to the development of Cultivate Interactive. These include Concha Fernández de la Puente and the European Commission, Klaus Reinhardt, Martin Belcher and Jan Chipchase from ILRT, the National Nodes and of course UKOLN.

Jawaharlal Nehru once said "Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit". May your mind be Cultivated.

Marieke Napier (Editor) and Philip Hunter

cultivate-editor@ukoln.ac.uk Link to an email address