Minerva - EVA/Minerva 2008 Conference

2008 Conference
The EVA/MINERVA Jerusalem 2008 Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage The 2008 Edition of the EVA/MINERVA Jerusalem Conference will take place next 11 and 12 of November 2008 at tje Maiersdorf Conference Center, at the Hebrew University, Mount Scopus Campus (map). For further information contact the conference co-chairs, Dov Winer dovw@savion.huji.ac.il or Dr. Susan Hazan susan.hazan@gmail.com or http://www.minervaisrael.org.il http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
	Hebrew registration form - English registration form
	See here the program and the presentations of the previous 2007 conference See here the program and the presentations of the previous 2006 conference
	Conference Networking Sessions	EVA/MINERVA 2008 is supported by:
	The Professional Networking Sessions offer the perfect opportunity to showcase your project, bringing together colleagues that are interested in a specific topic in order to discuss project ideas, ongoing research activities and potential partnerships. The two EVA/MINERVA networking sessions tend to be less formal than the official conference workshops, and encourage active participation in an informal atmosphere. Invitation to Present in the Professional Networking Session
	A sample of events included in the upcoming 2008 conference program
	EUROPEANA – the European digital library, museum and archive – is a flagship project of the European Commission. It will produce a prototype website giving users direct access to some 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers. The prototype will be launched in November 2008 by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media. Many of the projects contributing to EUROPEANA intend to run workshops at the EVA/MINERVA 2008 Jerusalem Conference. See: http://www.europeana.eu The plenary session of the conference will feature two of leading figures in this context: Chair: Rossella Caffo, MiBAC, Ministry of Cultural Resources and Activities, Italy (MIBAC - Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali). Lead person at the MINERVA Network, MICHAEL and ATHENA projects. Keynote addres: Prof. Stefan Gradmann who plays a central role in defining the concept and requirements of the European Digital Library, EUROPEANA – details here.	MINERVA network in Israel and members of the conference Steering Committee: The National Jewish and University Library Israel State Archive Israel Antiquities Authority Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports Directorate for Culture The Department for Museums and Visual Arts The Department of Public Libraries Council for Public Libraries Ministry of Education Israel National Commission for UNESCO Ministry of Foreign Affairs Division for Scientific and Cultural Agreements The Forum for Preservation of Multimedia Heritage in Israel ICOM Israel – The International Council of Museums MALMAD – Israel Center for Digital Information Services Meital – The Israel Universities Center for Learning Technologies The Jewish Agency for Israel Pais Council for Arts and Culture
	ATHENA This is an half day workshop by the new project from the MINERVA Cluster, ATHENA. This project focuses on museum contributions to the European Digital Library (EUROPEANA) that will be launched on November 2008. It is part of the last batch of projects approved in the framework of the eContentPlus program. Consortium lead by MiBAC, Ministry of Culture, Italy – Rossella Caffo.
	EuropeanaLocal (EDLocal) Local and regional cultural institutions from across Europe will work with the EDL Foundation. Together they will find ways through which the institutions can make their content available to Europeana. The expected results include the establishment of a network of regional repositories that are highly interoperable with Europeana, an integrated EuropeanaLocal prototype service and the development of thematic areas for Europeana services which integrate content from both the national and the local/regional level. Lead by Rob Davies. Coordinating partner: Fjordane County Municipality, Norway. Joint workshop with the Union of Local Authorities in Israel. Avi Rabinowitz, Deputy Director General.
	EFG - European Film Gateway is a project which will start in September 2008. It will develop an on-line portal, providing direct access to some 790.000 digital objects, including films, images, posters, drawings, photos, sound material and text archive documents. The collections to be made accessible have been selected to serve as a sample to represent the actual digitised content held in the film institutions to date. The EFG gateway will be linked to the Europeana portal. (Georg Eckes, Deutsches-Filminstitut). Joint workshop with the Forum for Preservation of the Audiovisual Heritage of Israel - Liat Ben Habib, Professional coordinator of the forum and director of the Visual Center, Yad Vashem; Jonathan Nadav, Director of the Forum.
	JSTOR and Ithaka JSTOR is an online archive of important scholarly content, best known today for its collections of scholarly journals (www.jstor.org) but with increasingly important primary source collections. JSTOR’s close affiliate Ithaka is presently incubating the Portico digital preservation service for scholarly materials (www.portico.org) and the NITLE initiative to help colleges use technology effectively to strengthen undergraduate education (www.nitle.org). Ithaka maintains a research unit that works to help the higher education community adapt strategically to new technologies (www.ithaka.org/research) and a consulting unit that provides strategic advice and business planning services to support new and growing initiatives (http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services). (Roger Schoenfeld, Manager, Research)
	Advanced technologies for Music and Sound Digital Libraries Michel Fingerhut, Director of the Media Library of IRCAM , IRCAM Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Centre Pompidou, Paris and Scientific director of the Portail Français des ressources de la musique contemporaine. See: http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/ and http://www.musiquecontemporaine.fr/pages/accueil Sponsored by the French Embassy in Israel. Chris Clark, Head of the cataloguing unit of the Sound Archive of the British Library; Dominique Theron – coordinator for digitization of the Phonoteque, Bibliothèque nationale de France; Albrecht Haefner, Former head of documentation and archive, Sudwestrundfunk and presently consultantfor Mass Storage Systems for Audio Archives; Simon Tanner, Director KCL Digital Consultancy Services, Kings College, London.
	Second Life A Second Live event featuring leading Cultural Heritage professionals and institutions currently active in-world. Organized by the Israel Museum and the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (IDC).
	Museums networks Welcoming the Israel Museums to ATHENA - Pier Giacomo Sola, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities (Italy) Israel's Museums online - Ram Shimony, EAS Ltd.
	Research session on User-generated content (Hebrew) e-Content Session on large Israel based content initiatives (Hebrew)
	IMPACT – Improving Access to Text An 11.5 million Euro EC FP7 project that just started and will: (1) Significantly improve access to historical text (2) Innovate OCR technology by exploring the challenges using different approaches and not just one side and by developing cutting edge approaches such as collaborative correction (3) Provide innovative language technologies to remove the historical language barrier (4) Remove constraints to mass digitisation by providing Best Practice guidance about the operational context for digitization. See: http://www.impact-project.eu
	Friedberg Genizah Project (http://www.genizah.org/index.htm) .The Cairo Genizah, discovered at the end of the 19th century, is a collection of over 200,000 fragmentary Jewish medieval texts (which may well equal three times that number of folios) that were stored in the loft of the ancient Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt between the 8th and 17th centuries. The Friedberg Genizah Project (FGP) was established to facilitate and rejuvenate Genizah research. It is achieving this goal by locating the Genizah manuscripts and then identifying, cataloging, transcribing, translating, rendering them into digital format (i.e., photographing) and publishing them online. Prof. Yaacov Choueka, Chief Computerization Scientist.
	Collaboration – joint digitization projects showcasing cultural heritage holdings. Many cultural heritage institutions have begun to work in collaborative projects which, by their own admission, no single institution could accomplish on its own. They are constructing online, image-centered, cross-platform relational database of human cultural heritage. The session will focus on a few local and international initiatives both in the art and archival worlds whose goals include collecting and assembling a rich intellectual storehouse openly available to the public. Chairs: Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College London; Dr. Allison Kupietzky Collections Database Manager, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Simon Tanner: Case studies of projects in a collaborative environment; Meira Josephy, Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN(: Classifying Cultural Objects (CCO) and the Artefacts Canada Cleanup Project ; Hagai Rabi (ALD), The Department of Museums and Plastic Arts, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports and Dr. Allison Kupietzky: Working Together to Build a National Bilingual Museum Thesauri .
	UNESCO Session: Multiculturalism in Israel Prof. Oz Almog, University of Haifa, Dr. Miriam Shoenfeld, The Seminar Hakibutzim Academic College
	Intellectual Property Rights and Cultural Institutions Creative Commons: latest developments for Educational and Cutural Heritage Content – Dr. Prodromos Tsiavos , Information Systems Group, Department of Management -London School of Economics and Political Science and Creative Commons, UK. MINERVA IPR Handbook, Giuliana De Francesco Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities (Italy); Shopping for the right IPR Solutions, Ethel Chait.
	MOSAICA This MOSAICA Workshop will provide an hands-on experience on Semantic Annotation, search and retrieval of cultural heritage resources. MOSAICA demonstrator focus on European Jewish Cultural Heritage. As the project reaches completion the tools develop are already mature. See: http://www.mosaica-project.eu
	GPS/GIS in Archeological Research Laeticia Barda and Iris Hadar: The history of the transition of data from archaeological surveys from paper to a computer based database (GIS); Moti Haiman, IAA: IAA, Surveying of the Negev in terms of High Resolution Archaeology - Remote sensing methodology of Preservation of the desert landscape; Jesse Pincus, Mnemotrix Israel, Ltd. ADASR: Concept-based Searching; Incorporating High Resolution Archaeology into related databases
	Registration and other files
	Hebrew registration form English registration form Hebrew Registration Form for Commercial companies Invitation to Present in the Professional Networking Session Information sheet for exhibitors Invitation to attend EVA/MINERVA2008 Invitation to attend - Hebrew
	Conference Networking Sessions
	The Professional Networking Sessions offer the perfect opportunity to showcase your project, bringing together colleagues that are interested in a specific topic in order to discuss project ideas, ongoing research activities and potential partnerships. The two EVA/MINERVA networking sessions tend to be less formal than the official conference workshops, and encourage active participation in an informal atmosphere. Invitation to Present in the Professional Networking Session