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The third issue of PULMAN Express has
recently appeared with articles on the Autumn national workshops, The PULMAN
Guidelines, public libraries in Turkey and NAPLE (National Authorities of Public
Libraries in Europe) and others. The newsletter is available as a pdf file or as
an HTML document.
Further Information?: See the newsletter
or see the
LIS-EUROPEAN-PROGRAMMES list archive
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CULTURELINK based
at the Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia, has forwarded news
of the appearance of issue 37 of the Culturelink Review which is devoted to
redefining cultural identities, cultural industries and technological convergence.
This was the subject of the third in a series of postgraduate courses entitled
Redefining Cultural Identities, which has taken place every May for the last
three years at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik. The aim of the course was
to open discussion and research on the new influences that shape contemporary
cultural identities in south-east Europe. A welcome development, since in the
latter region processes that turn cultural creativity into industrial production
were hitherto neither sufficiently analysed nor statistically documented.
Further Information?: Visit the Web site of
the Culturelink Network
or see
issue 37 of the Culturelink Review
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How can you preserve
e-mails that contain important agreements? If asked by Parliament, can just any
ministerial employee find and retrieve important records created and saved by
someone else? Is a digital permit still readable after ten years? The Digital
Preservation Testbed is researching the answers to these questions for all Dutch
governmental organisations. The Testbed is experimenting with digital information
in a unique E-lab to determine the best methods of long-term preservation, not
just for now, but also over the next ten to one hundred years.
The Dutch Digital Preservation Testbed Initiative has made public three new items. These are:
Further Information?: See the
Testbed Web site
and for all the above publications, see
the Knowledge Bank and Publications section
or see the
LIS-EUROPEAN-PROGRAMMES list archive
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The Nationaal Archief
and the European Commission on Preservation and
Access (ECPA) have officially launched GRIP, Gateway for Resources and
Information on Preservation. GRIP is an Internet gateway, presenting a core
of accessible and recent materials selected by experts which provides an
introduction to a great many aspects of preservation. Resources selected
for inclusion in GRIP aim to be of interest to a wide audience, including
preservation professionals, collection managers, policy makers, librarians,
archivists, museum curators, audiovisual specialists and information
technologists.
Currently the GRIP database contains 2248 references to literature, organisations, projects, training activities and discussion lists. It can be searched by category, keywords (descriptors), keyword combinations and free search. Since all references are connected to a thesaurus system, users can browse through GRIP by using related, narrow or broader terms. In many cases the references in GRIP are annotated with short comments by the experts that selected them.
A team, consisting of experts at the Nationaal Archief, European Commission on Preservation and Access and the ECPA Scientific Advisory Committee, will maintain and regularly update the GRIP database. GRIP also intends to expand the number of on-line publications, providing an open platform for preservation literature.
Further Information?: See
the GRIP Web site
or see the
LIS-EUROPEAN-PROGRAMMES list archive
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El.pub reports a new study
from NFO WorldGroup which shows that 31% of US Internet users
change their e-mail address each year and that 53% of those people
lose touch with friends and business contacts as a result. This will
no doubt explain to many of you why the main source of lost members
on mail lists are simply bounces that give a "user name unknown" or
similar message.
El.pub stated that the main way it loses members from its mail lists is simply due to people changing address (usually company or university) and failing to report their new address, even when they have been subscribed for several years. According to the study, loss of contact with valued Web sites and newsletters is the most frequent consequence of changing address. In the US, Return Path provides an e-mail change of address service that can reconnect users with friends and business contacts. (Source: Newstream)
Further Information?: See the
news item on El.pub
or see the
Return Path site
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SMORE (Semantic Markup,
Ontology, and RDF Editor v2.0b) is described
as a semantic web markup editor which "allows users to markup their
documents in RDF/XML using web ontologies in association with user
defined terms and elements". (Source: AgentWeb)
Further Information?: See the
news item on El.pub
or see the
Mind Swap editor
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Where?:Darmstadt, Germany
When?:11-12 December, 2002
The workshops
will be organised in terms of working groups on:
notation, multimedia standards and music, music and libraries, music accessibility,
optical music recognition, restoring, digital right management, protection,
distribution, etc.
Participation in MUSICNETWORK is open to all: industries, research organisations,
publishers, libraries, archives, music distributors, schools of music, conservatories,
associations, etc.
Further Information?: Visit the
Interactive Music Network site or see the information on
the Open Workshop site
This event is taking place alongside:
Where?:Darmstadt, Germany
When?:11-12 December, 2002
The International Conference on Web Delivering of Music 2002 aims to address new ways to distribute music to larger audiences. The impact of these developments on cultural heritage will be considered, together with their availability to people with limited access to classical archives or libraries. In particular, proposals and solutions benefiting visually-impaired people are encouraged, to let everybody access this large and hidden cultural heritage. Tools for impaired people will contribute to broadening music playing and enjoyment.
The conference focuses on both the challenges posed by Internet in its role as a major player for business changes and music distribution, as well as opportunities as a new infrastructure for enabling technology. In addition, this conference seeks to promote discussion and interaction between researchers, practitioners, developers and users of tools, technology transfer experts, and project managers. Of particular interest is the exchange of concepts, prototypes, research ideas, and other results which could both contribute to the academic arena and also benefit business and the industrial community. WEDELMUSIC-2002 will bring together a variety of participants to address not only different technical issues, but also the impact of Internet on the preservation of cultural heritage.
Further Information?: Visit the
organisation Web site
or see the information on the WEDELMUSIC2002 Conference page
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Where?:Luxembourg
When?:13-14 February 2003
The European
Commission, DG Information Society, in co-operation with the EC funded accompanying
measure TRIS,(Trials Support) is organising an
Exploitation Event aimed at promoting and fostering the exploitation of the
results of 25 Take-up Trials, launched in 2000 by the Cultural Applications Unit
of DG Information Society, under the Action Line 'new access modes to cultural
and scientific content'. The event will conclude TRIS 2 years' work of co-ordination
and support of the 25 trials aimed at increasing their cultural, scientific and
commercial impact and at exploiting their results.
Further Information?: Visit the
TRIS Web site or see the information on
the TRIS and Take-up trials
Exploitation Event including preliminary agenda
or see the
LIS-EUROPEAN-PROGRAMMES list archive
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Date of Page: 15 November 2002
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