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Cultivate Interactive Issue 8: Features

IST Projects:

CHIMER: Children's Heritage Interactive Models for Evolving Repositories Daniel Weiss writes for us on the CHIMER Project which is aiming at establishing the European Cultural Heritage Archive on an open platform and retrieving local heritage from 6 partner countries.
CIPHER: Enabling Communities of Interest to Promote Heritage of European Regions Paul Mulholland, Zdenek Zdrahal and Trevor Collins report on CIPHER, a new project aimed at developing sustainable cultural heritage forums to celebrate national and regional heritage across Europe.
The online Compendium: a web-based information system on cultural policies in Europe Gesa Büttner and Joerg Torkler present the Compendium, a web-based information service on cultural policies in Europe.
Not only Shamrocks: Digitising Local Studies Material in Ireland Annette Kelly and Domitilla Fagan report on the Cultural Heritage Project, a new digitisation initiative addressed to Irish libraries, museums and archives.
The Information Society and Technology in Russian Culture: Strategic Review and New Initiatives Nadezhda Brakker and Leonid Kujbyshev of Centre PIC provide us with a view of new trends in state information policy in the Russian cultural sphere.
The ORIEL Project - biological information management from a new perspective Les Grivell reports on the EU-funded ORIEL Project, a project focused on digital information management in the biosciences.
A Russian Province: ICT and culture in the Smolensk region Natalia Fedianina provides us with an overview of the state of ICT development in her home region. She provides encouraging news of progress made, but also examines the challenges facing digital cultural heritage professionals in and around Smolensk.

Other Areas:

Giving Presentations with Accessibility in Mind Alistair Edwards gives advice on public speaking - bearing in mind that not everyone in the audience may be able to see your slides or hear you speak.
Handscape: Exploring potential use scenarios for mobile computing in museums Dr.Geri Gay, Angela Spinazze and Michael Stefanone write about the research being undertaken in the Handscape Project which is focusing upon potential use scenarios for mobile (hand-held) computing in museums. Further material on Handscape is available on its recent symposium.
Can I Link To Your Site? Authors of Web pages normally provide links to other Web resources. But should permission be sought before doing this? Can creating a link to a public document on the Web even be illegal? Brian Kelly considers the matter.
Weasel: Access to Music Notation for Blind People Ben Challis reports on a non-visual approach to presenting music notation for blind music learners. Weasel is an audio-tactile approach to addressing common problems associated with conventional non-visual notations like Braille music and vocally annotated scores.

Date of Page:15 November 2002