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Cultivate Interactive Issue 5: News and Events

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News

The first step to Cultural Tourism

ilMuseums is the biggest source of information about Israeli museums and their exhibitions to appear online and in print. The site Database contains information on more than 180 museums in Israel in three languages: Hebrew, English and Russian.

The site has been recommended by the Ministry of tourism, the Israeli Embassy, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, local authourities and by tourist agencies and guides as the leading project in the area of Israeli museums.

ilMuseums is special in that it allows museums to edit information about themselves, their exhibtions, etc. at real time on-line. This facility is completely free of charge. Museums that don’t have access to the Internet can also place their info, sending it by any possible way. The site allows searching by category and region and features different museums daily.

Further Information?: Visit the ilMuseums Web site or contact Vlad Wolfson .

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Would you Like to Evaluate Renardus, the New Academic Internet Service?

Renardus is a collaborative project that aims to improve academic users' access to a range of existing Internet-based quality information services across Europe. Renardus is currently in its pilot phase. The fully-operational Renardus service is due to be launched in June 2002. Potential end users' opinions are needed for developing the pilot.

The Renardus target audience is academics, researchers, library and user support staff in higher education and other relevant organisations across Europe. You can evaluate the Renardus pilot yourself between 17 September and 15 November 2001 by exploring the pilot service and completing a Web-based questionnaire. Participation does not require any advance knowledge or experience of similar services. Normal computer skills and some experience in using the Internet is enough.

Further Information?: Further details and evaluation questionnaires in English / French / Dutch / German / Finnish are available from the evaluation page . An article on Renardus entitled Renardus: follow the fox! appeared in issue 1 of Cultivate interactive.

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European Education News Exchange

A new discussion list for news editors, journalists and researchers working on education and technology in Europe has recently been set up. Members contribute rights-free articles to the list, so that fellow editors can re-publish them to promote their own publications.

Further Information?: See the list Web site or contact Alexa Joyce .

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Dot-Museum Domain has begun accepting Requests

The Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma) announced that it will accept preliminary requests for name reservations in the new top-level domain (TLD) .museum from June 30. The .museum TLD, one of the first sponsored TLDs, was created to provide bona fide museums, their professional associations and individual members of the museum profession with a distinct and unified online identity.

Further Information?: See the MuseDoma FAQs or the article by Cary Karp in the last issue of Cultivate Interactive .

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Europe’s Network of Excellence for Libraries, Museums and Archives

The PULMAN Network of Excellence is now launched under the European Commission’s research programme for a User-Friendly Information Society (DG Information Society).

Europe's public libraries and cultural organisations have a vital role to play in the development of an e-Europe. The PULMAN Network will stimulate and promote sharing of policies and practices for the digital era, in public libraries and cultural organisations which operate at local and regional level.

Initial membership of the PULMAN Network includes representatives of 26 European countries (see list attached). The PULMAN approach is inclusive and participation will be extended, in the first instance by the establishment of wider groups of activists in each country.

The PULMAN Network will:

• Compile and publish DIGITAL GUIDELINES MANUALS covering all aspects of innovative public library service provision, such as support for access to culture online, lifelong learning, social inclusion, digital literacy and e-government. The Manuals will be translated into major European languages and promoted to policy makers and practitioners.
• Host CONSENSUS BUILDING CONFERENCES, to promote collaboration and obtain input into the Digital Guidelines Manuals.
• Encourage EUROPE-WIDE AWARENESS, COLLABORATION AND DIALOGUE on digital initiatives and best practice by identifying key national players, lobbying and communication activities and by organising national cross-sectoral events
• Organise a POLICY CONFERENCE early in 2003 targeted to senior policy makers, practitioners and national representatives of public libraries, museums and archives. The agenda will be to build scenarios for future co-operation and cross-sectoral strategies.
• Issue a POLICY MANIFESTO OR DECLARATION designed to drive forward future phases of collaboration and innovation in the work of local public cultural organisations.
• Promote an INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION AGENDA intended to disseminate the work of the PULMAN Network internationally and to extend interaction with the PULMAN Network to other parts of the World.
• Sponsor TRAINING WORKSHOPS on innovative practice for public library managers, to be held in Centres of Excellence across Europe.
• Publish and maintain a web-based DISTANCE LEARNING REGISTRY, to offer improved access to high quality distance learning materials for professionals working in local public libraries, museums and archives.

During the next few months, the following services will be progressively available at the site:

• Contact details for PULMAN Network Member organisations in each country
• Registration for the PULMAN Express electronic newsletter (first issue in September 2001)
• News of events and activities
• Email facility for contact and questions
• Links to key initiatives and Country Profiles
• On-line access to Digital Guidelines Manuals

Further Information?: See the Pulman Web site or contact Mary Gianoli .

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Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk Pilot Project Ends

The Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk pilot project ends on Friday 31st August 2001. Two articles on the project appeared in earlier issues of Cultivate Interactive:

• Issue 1 - Supporting Europe’s Entrepreneurs and Innovators with Intellectual Property issues
• Issue 2 - IPR-Helpdesk The Intellectual Property Rights Gateway For Digital Cultural Heritage

Further Information?: If you need further information about the IPR-Helpdesk contact Alexander Weir .

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Events

You've digitised but now what?

Where?: Bristol, England
When?: 23 November 2001

You've digitised but now what? is a workshop organised by TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images) in conjunction with UKOLN (a national focus of expertise in digital information management). The workshop aims to help those who have digitised to focus on ways of widening access to their collection. It will focus on ensuring that the resources you produce are useful and are used.

The days content includes:

• Putting your digital archive on the Web
• Security Issues
• Facilitating transactions
• PR & marketing
• Site usage
• Exit Strategies

Further Information?: See the TASI Web site .

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Sharing schemas: a review of progress and future plans

Where?: The Hague, The Netherlands
When?: 30 November 2001

The SCHEMAS project is hosting a workshop to review means by which projects can share information about metadata in use, and to consider ways in which collaboration can be made more effective.

Participants will be updated on recent developments regarding use of metadata schemas and application profiles. The role of registries in providing access to information about schemas will be reviewed, and the SCHEMAS registry will be demonstrated. A forum will be provided for discussion of future requirements. This will also be an opportunity to hear from a panel of experts about metadata related activity in their domains and developments in metadata standards.

Further Information?: See the Schema's Web site .

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International Conference on Web Delivering of Music (WEDELMUSIC2001)

Where?: Florence, Italy
When?: 23 November - 24 November 2001
Source?: Email from Jerôme Barthélemy

The focus of the conference is to explore the new challenges that the Internet, as a driver for business changes, poses for music distribution, and the new opportunities that it opens as infrastructure and enabling technology. The purpose of the conference is to promote discussion and interaction between researchers and practitioners. We are particularly interested in exchanging concepts, prototypes, research ideas, and other results which could contribute to the academic arena and also benefit business and the industrial community. WEDELMUSIC-2001 will bring together researchers, practitioners, developers and users of tools, technology transfer experts, and project managers to cover not only the different technical aspects, but also the impact of Internet for cultural heritage saving.

Further Information?: See the conference Web site or email WEDELMUSIC2001@dsi.unifi.it .

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Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts (EVA) 2001

Where?: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
When?: 3 December - 8 December 2001
Source?: Email from Jerôme Barthélemy

The Fourth International EVA Conference is to take place in Moscow in December with the theme ' Heritage for all: New Technologies for Museums, Galleries, Libraries & Archives'. The conference is suitable for those in the Cultural Sector: Museums, Galleries & Libraries; The Government Sector; International Organisations; Tourism & Travel Sectors; Media & Related Sectors; Technology & Visual Arts Research; University & Research Organisations; Education Sector; Hi-Tech Industries, SMEs especially from the Multimedia & Internet sector. It consists of 3 parts: the Conference, Workshops, Exhibition and Cultural Visits and participation is free.

Further Information?: See the conference Web site or email James Hemsley .

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Nordic Interactive Conference 2001 - Digital Visions and User Reality

Where?: Copenhagen, Denmark
When?: 31 October - 3 November 2001
Source?: Email from Helen Terre Blanche

NIC 2001 is a biannual conference initiated by Nordic Interactive, a new pan-Nordic network for leading Nordic IT research institutes and companies in interactive digital technology. The first significant landmark of the network is NIC 2001, featuring entrepreneurs and visionary leaders from industry and academia, artists and performers as well as a number of international keynote speakers. The conference provides a rich set of formats for interaction, presentation and discussion of the latest results and developments. NIC 2001 presents a four-day program consisting of five tracks, tutorials, informal workshops, expo (also open to the public), art gallery, job fair and a competition for postgraduate and doctoral students.

Conference themes this year are:

1. Living in intelligent environments
2. Nomadic computing
3. Learning in a distributed world - future pedagogical practices
4. Touch, hear, see
5. To be announced!

Further Information?: See the conference 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: 1 October 2001

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