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Cultivate Interactive Issue 6: Features

IST Projects:

Russia Joins the Cultivate Family: David Fuegi talks about the impact CULTIVATE-Russia, the newest addition to Cultivate, will have on the current network.
Regnet: Cultural Heritage in Regional Networks: Silke Grossman, Vic Haesaerts, Gerda Koch and Walter Koch report on the Regnet Project which aims to set up a functional network of service centres in Europe, providing IT-services dedicated to Cultural Heritage organisations.
BioNet: Gordon Clapworthy describes BioNet, the strategic development of European Networks in Biomechanics.
The COLLATE Collaboratory: Adelheit Stein, Ulrich Thiel and Jürgen Keiper report on developing a new type of a WWW-based collaboratory for cultural heritage information.

Other Areas:

Disclosing Digital Cultural Wealth: Museums and the Open Archives Initiative: John Perkins, Executive Director of the CIMI Consortium, discusses the potential the Open Archives Initiative may hold for museums and talks about how CIMI have been testing the OAI protocol.
News from the Russian State Library: Monika Segbert discusses how new funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help the RSL build on the results of the successful TACIS project.
SEPIA: Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access: Edwin Klijn introduces the SEPIA project and the SEPIA working group on descriptive models for photographic materials.
CHILDE: Children's Historical Literature Disseminated Throughout Europe: Esther Gregory and Michael Ryan lead us through the the development of the CHILDE project.
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: Carol Peters reports on CLEF, an initiative that provides an infrastructure for the testing and evaluation of information retrieval systems operating on European languages.
Activate: New Access And Services For Cultural Content: Annette Kelly and Caroline Clery talk about Activate, and how they hope to establish a thematic network to local studies collections held in two Irish libraries and provide a methodology and toolkit which will allow other cultural institutions to replicate the results of the project.
ARCCHIP: Advanced Research Centre for Cultural Heritage Interdisciplinary Projects: Miloš Drdácký and Jan Válek introduce Arcchip, a Centre of Excellence Project supported by the European Community. The project uses workshops as a way of exchanging knowledge between EU and CEE countries.
eIFL: Electronic Information for Libraries: Monika Segbert, Anna Maria Balogh and Rima Kupryte and Darius Cuplinskas outline one of the major OSI Information Programme projects, eIFL, whose aim is to facilitate affordable access to electronic journals for libraries and their users in developing countries.

Date of Page: 11 February 2002