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.
Date of Page: 29 January 2001
