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The Library of the University of Amsterdam is pleased to announce a new image database. This database contains the portrait gallery of the University Museum. The creation of this database is part of a general production process to make a variety of image collections available.
Using the web interface the images of the portraits are available through the MrSID format. These are derivatives from the master images in TIFF. In the development of the database SGML/XML has been used, together with an SGML/XML-aware search engine. This search engine provides excellent support for word and phrase searching, indexing of SGML/XML elements and attributes, fast retrieval, and open systems integration. Dublin Core metadata has been used in order to make searching across all image collections.
Further Information?: See the
Portrait Collection
or
Image Database
or email
hartills.art@sympatico.ca
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Personalisation Technologies were featured for the first time this year at the latest Webmaster exhibition, held at the London Olympia in October. The event had a real buzz about it with many new developments in the industry being evident, as always. One key development was the demonstration of technologies with empathy.
This area created significant interest, under the heading of personalisation technology. At the forefront of this was Applied Psychology Research (APR) with their complete empathic personalisation solution, Youmeus. Dr Daniel Brown, a prolific figure in the personalisation field, gave a visionary talk to a packed auditorium, entitled "The Future of Empathic Technology."
Talking on the contemporary issues facing internet users and people in general Dr Brown said "Due to the plethora of information cascading upon us all on a daily, hourly, minute by minute basis people need intelligent tools to allow them to receive the information they need and want, so as to avoid becoming awash with irrelevance."
APR intend to solve this increasingly significant problem through their Youmeus technologies, showcased at Webmaster for the first time. These technologies learn and understand users’ tastes and preferences so that applications only present information that is truly relevant to each individual. This has far reaching implications as to how consumers and products are matched as the technology ensures users are guided to the right products, in the right location, at the right time. Working across a multitude of platforms the result is a website that can suggest the perfect product to buy and a TV that knows exactly what it should record while you’re out.
Further Information?: For more information see
the Applied Psychology Research Web
site
or contact
James Burwood
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The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) was set up in 1996 to provide, preserve and promote
quality digital resources for the Higher Education Visual Arts Community.
VADS is part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), a distributed service set up in
1996 to serve the Higher Education community in the provision and promotion of digital
resources. Other subject areas covered by the AHDS include Archaeology, History, Textual
Studies and the Performing Arts. VADS and the AHDS are funded by the Joint Information
Systems Committee of the HE Funding Councils, and the Arts and Humanities Research Board.
VADS is pleased to announce the following new collections available from its on-line catalogue:
Bretton Hall
Two image databases from Bretton Hall, College of the University of Leeds, National Arts Education Archive Trust, resulting from the JISC Image Digitisation Initiative.
Basic Design Collection
The Basic Design Collection shows an approach to tertiary art education during the
1950s and 1960s which introduced notions of the Europeanavant-garde through such
artists / educators as: Richard Hamilton; Tom Hudson; Victor Pasmore and Harry Thubron.
The collection includes examples of students' work, slides and photographs representing the
Basic Design courses at King's College, Newcastle, Leeds, Leicester, Lancaster and Cardiff
Colleges of Art, plus teaching programmes in Canada and in the USA.
A.E. Halliwell Collection
A E Halliwell was a design educationist and professional graphic designer, who taught in higher education from the mid 1930's until the 1960's. The collection includes original designs by Halliwell for publicity posters, etc. from around the 1920s to 1940s e.g. for tourism and public services and material illustrating graphic and industrial design work by Halliwell and students at Camberwell College of Arts and Crafts and Central School of Art and Design.
Further Information?: See the
Vads Web site
or email
info@vads.ahds.ac.uk
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Headfiller is a new Web site from Blackwell's aimed specifically at the student community, primary concentrating on textbook provision but looking to move into digital learning materials.
Further Information?: For more information see
the Headfiller Web
site
or contact
Lucy Smith
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ELC operates like a law centre, but is unique in that it specialises in Fundamental Freedoms and Human Rights relating to Health and the Environment. They are currently seeking volunteers from all sectors.
Further Information?: If you are interested in volunteering please fill-in the
online form on the ELC Web
site
or contact
Kartar Badsha
.
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Where?: Darmstadt, Germany
When?: 4 September - 8 September 2001
Source?: Email from Matthew Dovey
ECDL is the 5th in the annual European Digital Libraries conferences. This gives a good opportunity to review the impact Digital Libraries have on science, technology, and society in general. In this perspective the conference will emphasise applications of Digital Library systems and their integration in the user communities. Future perspectives, such as the convergence of libraries, museums, and archives into Collective Memories, will be discussed.
The Deadline for all proposals is 1 April, 2001.
Further Information?: See the conference Web site
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Where?: Berlin, Humboldt University
When?: 26 March - 30 March 2001
Source?: Email from Susanne Dobratz
This three-day Congress brings together university leaders in higher education information technology, heads of libraries and media centers from hundreds of European universities and other organisations to explore new directions in research, teaching and administration.
EUNIS is an international, nonprofit association whose mission is to support and enable transformational change in higher education by introducing, using, and managing information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management.
Further Information?: See the conference Web site
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Where?: Maastricht McLuhan Institute, Maastricht, Holland
When?: 11 July - 14 July 2001
Source?: Email from Bryan Corbett
All over the world, the titles and contents of the great libraries, museums, art galleries and archives are becoming available on-line. While interoperable, technological standards are emerging, problems of interoperable applications, tools, interfaces and usability remain.
The Maastricht McLuhan Institute (MMI) was set up to study and develop methods for knowledge organisation and knowledge management in a digital, distributed, multimedia world. The aim of the MMI is to create comprehensive strategies for searching, structuring, using and presenting digital resources more coherently and efficiently; to integrate past knowledge and to produce ordered knowledge that leads to new understanding and insights.
This year's seminar is concerned with integrating developments in finding aids (virtual reference rooms) with innovations in text and other analysis tools which will allow the most varied and rich access to cultural and historical information and knowledge. Following on from the experience gained in the last two cycles which focused on implications of digitalisation (1999) and interoperability of content (2000), this seminar will continue to explore how multimedia is transforming learning, knowledge organisation and knowledge management and will focus on archives. The cycle of attention given to all three kinds of memory institutions (museum, library, archive) is conceived to be a building and integrative process. The seminar provides an opportunity to gain exposure to the most recent developments in cultural heritage science and to interact with other professionals who share similar concerns. The conference will be limited to a maximum of fifty persons, with speakers and discussions in the morning and small workshops with a maximum of fifteen in the afternoons. A general foundation will be laid in the opening session by the Scientific Director of the MMI, Kim Veltman. This will be followed by treatment of finding aids and analysis tools, as they are used or projected for archives and other memory institutions. Among others, speakers will include Peter Horsman from the Archival School in Amsterdam, Manfred Thaller from the University of Cologne and author or KLEIO, Michele Paoli from the Information Research Center on Culture, Pisa, and Pat Young of the Cultural Heritage Information Network, Canada. On the last day a synthesis of the different topics will be offered by experts who will take a broader perspective on cultural heritage preservation and access. The afternoon discussion groups will be divided among those interests relevant to the current work of those in attendance. All seminars, presentations and debates will be in English.
Further Information?: Contact Alana Henry
or
see the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University
2000 Programme
Site.
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Where?: Seattle, Washington, USA
When?: 26 March - 30 March 2001
Source?: Email from Peter Boyer
The preliminary program for Museums and the Web 2001 is now online. Featuring speakers from 26 countries, the MW2001 program highlights innovations in cultural heritage web design from all types of museums and galleries. Selected by an international Program Committee from hundreds of submitted proposals MW2001 has something for all members of the cultural heritage community.
Further Information?: Full details about the Museums and
the Web 2001 conference, abstracts Of all papers and biographies of the
presenters are online from the
conference Web site
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Where?: Petrozavodsk State University, Moscow, Russia
When?: 11 September - 13 September 2001
Source?: Email from Jose Luis Borbinha
Digital Libraries (DL) is a field of research and development aiming to promote the theory and practice of processing, dissemination, storage, search and analysis of various digital data. Digital Libraries acting as knowledge depositories can be considered as complex information systems, development and use of which require solution of numerous scientific, technological, methodological, economic, legal and other issues. Digital Libraries technologies are rapidly developing. Challenges in semantics, integration of information, perception and presentation of various kinds of data call for significant innovations. Development of Digital Libraries technologies is becoming more and more essential for raising of the standards of health care, education, science and economy, as well as the quality of life on the whole. Projects devoted to generation of the digital form of the information concerning the Earth, Universe, Literature, Art, Environment and Humans, accumulated by the humanity, are examples of the intensive development of global information repositories.
The 2001 All-Russian Conference is the third conference on this subject (1999 - St. Petersburg, 2000 - Protvino). The principal objective of the series of conference is to promote the constituting of a community of Russian experts involved in researches related to Digital Libraries. The Conference offers such a community an opportunity to discuss ideas and outcomes and to make contacts for closer cooperation. The Conference also promotes the study of international experience, development of the international cooperation on Digital Libraries. In view of this, papers describing the advanced directions of research and development are welcome. Much attention will be paid to pilot applications and digital collections developed within the RFBR projects on Digital Libraries and other programmes.
Further Information?:
More information can be found on the conference Web site
.
The submission deadline for extended abstracts is 31 March 2001.
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