http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/ Cultivate Interactive Issue 7 en http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/artiste/ ARTISTE image retrieval system puts European galleries in the picture: Matthew Addis, Paul Lewis, Kirk Martinez and other members of the ARTISTE consortium review its achievements in developing an image retrieval system based on metadata and content ... http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/coine/ COINE : Cultural Objects in Networked Environments : Peter Brophy explains how this project seeks to encourage and enable ordinary citizens to tell and share their stories in networked spaces so that citizens can record, share and preserve their own ... http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/covax/ COVAX: Robin Yeates reports on the investigation by the COVAX Project into the suitability of XML in providing integrated access to collections and materials in libraries, museums and archives. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/kalliope/ KALLIOPE : Jutta Weber writes about an initiative which enables all institutions in Germany holding hand-written documentation of a European cultural nature to present data effectively about their holdings, and themselves, on the Internet. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/presto/ The PRESTO Project: shows how to preserve Multimedia in the most cost-effective fashion. Richard Wright highlights the problems confronting broadcasting organisations and how technical developments produced by the PRESTO Project can help. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/pulman/ PULMAN -rolling on by night and day : Rob Davies gives us a progress report on Europe's Thematic Network for Public Libraries and cultural institutions operating at local level. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/scix/ SciX -towards open scientific publishing: Ziga Turk, Bo-Christer Bj?rk and Bob Martens provide a very telling insight into current practices in the relationship between publicly funded researchers and the commercial scientific publishing ... http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/tourbot/ TOURBOT - interactive museum tele-presence through robotic avatars: Panos E. Trahanias writes of the achievements of a project which developed a way to provide remote users with a tele-presence in museums in the sturdy shape of TOURBOT. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/valhalla/ VALHALLA - linking historic garden records with real-time web video: John Counsell explains how this project aims to provide in-depth comparative historic garden information, linking Hatfield House in Hertfordshire with the Ch?teau de Villandry ... http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/washington/ Towards a Digital Cultural Content Forum: Paul Miller, David Dawson and John Perkins report on the second in a series of international meetings at which representatives of cultural content creation programmes from around the world work towards ... http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/webwatch/ WebWatching National Node Web Sites: Brian Kelly reviews the CULTIVATE National Node Web sites using a variety of automated tools, and makes some comparisons with a survey of National Focal Point Web sites. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/digicult/ DIGICULT Column: Christine Michaut provides news of the European Commission's initiatives in the field of digital heritage and cultural content. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/dlm/ Access and Preservation of Electronic Information: Best Practice and Solutions: Rosalind Johnson reports on the DLM-Forum 2002 conference, Barcelona, 6-8 May 2002. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/emal/ The 1st e-MAL conference of the Baltic States: Sanita Berzina reports on the conference "Co-operation of Museums, Archives and Libraries in the Electronic Era - Experience, Reality, Strategies for the Future", held in Riga, 25 - 26 April, 2002. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/prestows/ Multimedia Archive Preservation: a practical workshop: Richard Wright reports on the Multimedia Archive Preservation Workshop held in London this May. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/rss/ RSS- Sharing Online Content Metadata: Pete Cliff fills us in on a useful tool for Web site owners that brings them distinct benefits with relatively little maintenance effort. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/semanticweb/ Challenges for a Semantic Web: Kim Veltman reviews three approaches to the semantic web and asks whether they fully reflect the cultural diversity that humanity represents. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/mag-editorial/ The Cultivate Interactive editorial by the editor, Richard Waller http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/mag-misc/ Competition and other features.