Cultivate Interactive Issue 5: Features
IST Projects:
- 3D-Murale: Dr. John Cosmas reports on the 3D-Murale project that is developing a set of Recording, Reconstruction, Database and Visualisation tools for use by archaeologists at the excavation site and at their laboratories.
- CELIP: Licensing and copyright problems? Tuula Haavisto reports on how CELIP, Central and Eastern European Licensing Information Platform, is raising awareness amongst librarians about buying access to electronic information resources.
- CULTIVATE: David Fuegi introduces Cultivate Central and Eastern Europe (Cultivate CEE), a new addition to the Cultivate Cultural Heritage Applications Network (CULTIVATE).
- OpenHeritage: The OpenHeritage team talk about how they hope to 'enable the European Culture Economy' by creating an IT infrastructure and service that improves access to collections information held by regional museums and galleries.
- TEL: The European Library (TEL) team explore how, by combining the resources of some of Europe's national libraries, the idea of a single European Library has moved a step closer to becoming a reality.
Other Areas:
- T-News: Bridging the Museum Generation Gap: Do you have problems getting teenagers into your Museum? Nils Olander explains how Telemuseum tackled this problem by allowing them to create low budget news programmes using Telemuseum’s television studios.
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Paul Miller, David Dawson and John Perkins report on a recent meeting at which representatives of national and international cultural content creation programmes from around the world were invited to consider scope for greater collaboration.
- bibliotek.dk - a New Route to Danish Libraries: Leif Andresen introduces bibliotek.dk, the user-focused entry point for general public access to the Danish National Union Catalogue.
- ELVIL 2000: Ingrid Cantwell outlines the three main problem areas of access, learning and communication that the European Legislative Virtual Library Project (ELVIL) has had to face and explains how it is dealing with them.
- The Israel Museum and the Electronic Surrogate: Susan Hazan, the curator of new media for the Israel Museum based in Jerusalem attempts to answer the question “If the intrinsic experience of a museum is about its material collections, why would a museum even want an electronic surrogate?”
- CORDIS: Thibault Heuzé describes innovation opportunities available for the information community via CORDIS, the European Commission’s Research and Development Information Service.
- Creative Practices and the Design of Virtual Environments: Traditional approaches to the design of software emanate from technical practice yet, as environments come to contain more multimedia, there is a need to appreciate the nature of creative practice. Colin Beardon explores these ideas through the example of the Visual Assistant software developed for visualisation in the domain of theatre.
- PSInet: Public Sector Information Network: Rob Davies discusses the possible relationship between the e-Content's PSINet project, demonstrating the commercial potential of Europe's Public Sector Information, and digital culture.
- A Survey of Virtual Reality in the VIS.I.T. Theatre: The CINECA team (Interuniversity Consortium) talk about their role as a leading player in the visualization field.
- A True New Opportunity for Cultural Content Digitisation in the UK: Paul Miller and Sally Criddle report on the announcement of successful projects in the New Opportunities Fund's £50,000,000 nof–digi Programme.
Date of Page: 1 October 2001
