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Hello and welcome to the third issue of Cultivate Interactive, the first to be published in 2001. We hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and have returned to the Museums, Libraries and Archives world freshly rested and refreshed.
Issue 3 of Cultivate Interactive has lots to offer you from many areas of the digital cultural heritage community. Feature articles include an introduction to the European Information Association, an organisation that attempts to help you through the EU Minefield with their training seminars, e-mail discussion list and journal. There are also several pieces on relevant EU projects: Dominique Delouis takes a look back at one of the original attempts to put Museums online through the Remote Access to Museum Archives (RAMA) Project. This initiative led to two follow up projects, the Multimedia European Network of High quality Image Registration (MENHIR) Project which ran from 1997 to 1998 and the current OpenHeritage Project. On a UK based project Daphne Charles reports on new methods of generating and disseminating the National Monuments Record thesauri dynamically, capable of being viewed with most Web browsers.
Many of you may receive regular email News bulletins on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from NINCH Announcement; David Green gives an overview of the providers of this service, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), and the framework which the NINCH coalition are building. More general articles include: Franz Fischnaller of F.A.B.R.I.CATORS consideration of virtual reality's origins and discussion on whether it too can become an established technology, and Brian Kelly's piece on how to give successful presentations at conferences. This issue the regular National Node column comes from Israel and the metadata column covers the use of standards in the geographic information field by the Methods for Access to Data and Metadata in Europe (MADAME) Project.
The three DIGICULT projects providing articles for this issue are RENAISSANCE, SCHEMAS and COVAX. There is also a piece on the European Visual Archive Project (EVA), part of the INFO2000 initiative. All 14 projects currently running under the Digital Heritage area of the IST programme have now been covered. There will be updates on the projects in future issues but it is worth considering the new opportunities for participation in the Digital Heritage and Cultural Content area under the IST programme. Two new calls are being launched as Cultivate Interactive goes to publication. The first will be "Next generation digital collections" aimed at substantial improvement in access for citizens and professionals to Europe's expanding repositories of scientific and cultural knowledge. The second area will be "Heritage for All" which it is hoped will encourage online communities to create and document a digital record of their activities and interests while safeguarding accessibility for the future. More information on these calls is available from the IST Web site [1]. This issue's ' Netting Local History in Norway' article is a good example of work in this area. It shows how, through collaboration, archives, libraries and museums are managing to put local content on the Web thus providing a living digital record of local cultural activities.
Other highlights in this New Year issue include the popular 'Spot the European City' Competition and the new Cultivate Interactive 'Scramble Game'.
Enjoy the issue!
Marieke Napier (Editor) and Philip Hunter
Date of Page: 29 January 2001
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