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Cultivate Interactive Issue 4: News and Events

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News

Vucedol Orion and the 'Oldest European Calendar'

An exhibition showing what the Zagreb Archaeological museum have called 'the Oldest European Calendar' is now taking place and will carry on until the end of June 2001.

"The right bank of the Danube River in eastern Croatia was settled by members of the Vucedol Culture at the beginning of the third millennium BC. This predominant cultural phenomenon had a great influence on other contemporary cultures, and it also left behind traces in European heritage as a whole. One pot from the Vucedol layer in Vinkovci, dated prior to 2600 BC. displays the most complete European (Indo-European) calendar based on astral symbolism representing the relevant constellation characteristic for all four seasons. The calendar is synchronous with the Sumerian and Egyptian calendars. The year at Vucedol began with the spring equinox, when the Sun symbolically supplanted the most important winter constellation of Orion. To be more exact, on that night Orion's Belt would appear for only a short while in the winter sky before disappearing for several months. This chance circumstance no longer exists today, but it helped the Vuedol people to determine the first day of the new year."

The exhibition has been organised by the Archaeological Museum of Zagreb and the Municipal Museums of Vinkovci and Vukovar. The initiator of the the exhibition is Aleksandar Durman.

Further Information?: Those wishing to find out more should contact Jacqueline Balen or look at the exhibition Web site .

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The EC's Fight the Fog Campaign - or how to write clearer documents

The European Commission's Translation Service is running a campaign called "Fight the FOG" to encourage authors and translators to write more clearly. This light-hearted campaign draws attention to the dangers of FOG - that vague grey pall that descends on EU documents, obscuring meanings and messages, causing delays and irritation.

The campaign activities include:

• creation of a booklet on how to write clearly
• forging links with similar projects in other languages (for example, Finnish, French)
• anti-FOG merchandise and the FOG song
• training for European Commission staff and translators

Further Information?: See the Fight the Fog or the Eurospeak article in this issue of Cultivate Interactive.

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Comparative Literature and Culture Journal

For a Journal detailing work in the humanities as cultural studies, comparative literature, comparative cultural studies, culture theory, literary theory, communication and media studies have a look at Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, CLCWeb for short. CLCWeb is published quarterly in free-access mode by the Purdue University Press. The journal is archived by the National Library of Canada. Material submitted for publication is peer reviewed (blind). In addition to new work in scholarship, the journal maintains a LIBRARY with cumulative and selected bibliographies for work in the humanities (postcolonial studies, ethnic minority writing, film and literature, etc.), selected research and course materials such as in/for audience studies.

Further Information?: For more information see the CLCWeb Web site .

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Photos of the Renardus DDC Mapping Workshop

Photos of the Renardus DDC Mapping Workshop at SUB Göttingen held between 22 and 23 February 2001 are now available for viewing.

Further Information?: For more information view the UKOLN Web site .

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The Asia IT&C Programme

The Asia IT&C Programme supports mutually beneficial partnerships in IT&C between Europe and Asia. The Programme's contact database is now accessible from the "Search for partners" page of the Asia IT&C Web site. A call for Proposals 2001 has also now been published on the Web site of the European Commission. The Call for Proposals 2001 and the Guidelines for Applicants 2001 (and annexes) can be downloaded from "How to apply" page of the Asia IT&C Web site.

Further Information?: For more information see the article in this issue of Cultivate Interactive - Bridging the Digital Divide in Asia.

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The Renaissance Library Calendar

The new Renaissance Library Calendar for 2002 will feature:

• Austrian National Library, Vienna
• Austria Bernadotte Library, Royal Castle, Stockholm, Sweden
• Freising Cathedral Library, Germany
• George Peabody Library, Baltimore, USA
• Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA
• Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada
• Library of Parliament, Wellington, New Zealand
• Library of St. Walburga, Zulphen, Netherlands
• Marazine Library, Paris, France
• National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
• National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
• Queen's College Library, Oxford, UK

The 2002 edition will be available from June.

Further Information?: For more information send an email to info@isim.org putting the word 'calendar' in the Subject field, and leaving the rest of the message blank. To find out about the 2000 calendar see the Creation of the Renaissance Library Calendar article in issue 2 of Cultivate Interactive.

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The Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk (IPR-Helpdesk) CD-ROM

The Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk (IPR-Helpdesk), a project funded by the European Commission Innovation Programme of Enterprise DG, has produced a CD-ROM for the EU-RTD community. Entitled It all starts with an idea, the CD-ROM incorporates a complete offline copy of the multilingual IPR-Helpdesk website, more than 10,000 pages of IPR information in English, French and German.

The CD-ROM It all starts with an idea is available free to all current and potential EU-RTD contractors.

Further Information?: If you would like to order a copy then either send an e-mail to promo@ipr-helpdesk.org or telephone +352 47 11 11 1 or fax your request to +352 47 11 11 60. In all cases please provide your full details. To find out more about IPR-Helpdesk see the articles in Cultivate Interactive issue:
URL: <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue1/ipr/>
URL: <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/ipr/>.

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COVAX News

COVAX (Contemporary Culture Virtual Archive in XML) has produced a newsletter for those in libraries, museums and archives interested in internet developments.

Further Information?: For more information view the Covax Web site .

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Events

Libraries Without Walls 4
The Delivery of Library Services to Distant Users: Distributed Resources - Distributed Learning

Where?: Aegean Island of Lesvos, Greece
When?: 14 September - 18 September 2001
Source?: Email from Zoe Clarke

The fourth Libraries Without Walls conference is organised by CERLIM - The Centre for Research in Library and Information Management. The conference continues the tradition of the LWW Conferences by bringing together international perspectives on the delivery of library services to users distant from the physical library. When the first LWW Conference was held in 1995, the focus was primarily on distance learning and geographical dispersion. Since then, however, rapid advances in the development of ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) based infrastructures and services have led to a situation where many library users now routinely access services remotely - even when 'remotely' means 'within sight of the library building'. As a previous conference attendee observed, "we are all distance learners now".

Conference themes:

• The role of libraries in supporting lifelong learning.
• The role of libraries in supporting distance and open learning.
• Libraries' role in the development of information skills by remote users.
• Technical and managerial solutions to providing remote access to large collections of datasets, including the design of portals and gateways.
• Design issues in the delivery of online services, including Web interface design.
• Specific solutions to problems created by technology e.g. authentication, security.
• Collaborative approaches, especially between librarians and others (e.g. teachers).
• Strategic and policy dimensions, including national and regional perspectives.
• Meeting the needs of disadvantaged users and non-users.

Further Information?: See the conference Web site

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Cultural Heritage Support Actions Concertation Event

Where?: Austrian Bundesministeriumfür Bildung, Vienna, Austria
When?: 21 June 2001
Source?: Email from Concha Fernández de la Puente

DG Information Society, Cultural Heritage Applications unit is preparing a concertation event for support actions in the area of cultural heritage. The event will be hosted by the Austrian Bundesministeriumfür Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur, and organised in collaboration with the Cultural Service Centre Austria, the Austrian CULTIVATE node. The objectives are to discuss issues related to the current IST support actions and to look into emerging trends and future needs of this type of actions.

Further Information?: Contact Concha Fernández de la Puente

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Institutional Web Management Workshop

Where?: Queens University,Belfast
When?: 25 June - 27 June 2001
Source?: UKOLN Web site

The Fifth Institutional Web Management workshop will cover a range of topics of interest to members of Web management teams in Higher and Further Education Institutes, and will include multimedia, dynamic content, personalisation, Web design, e-business, Web strategies and general management issues.

Further Information?: See the Workshop Web site

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There are more News Items and Events listed on the Cultivate Web site.
http://www.cultivate-eu.org/newsandevents/

For information on European Jobs currently available see the Jobs section.

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Date of Page: 7 May 2001

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