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Preliminary Program Tuesday, November 11, 2008 I Session 1 – MICHAEL   09:00-11:00   Giuliana De Francesco, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, Italy MICHAEL - European Digital Cultural Heritage Pre-registration required. Contact: Orly Simon Session 2 - eContent: Large-Scale Based Content in Israel (In Hebrew) Chairs: Prof. Judit Bar-Ilan, Bar-Ilan University and Ora Zehavi, University of Haifa     Israel Learning Resources in the European Learning Resources eXchange /ISRACORE Ronny Dayan, Director, Department of Computer Applications in Education, Directorate for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education Culture and Sports and Dov Winer, MAKASH – ICT for Advancing Education The E-Learning Object Database Project Eli Shmueli, Meital Inter University Center for e-Learning Hebrew Journals: Building a digital archive Oren Weinberg, Library Director, University of Haifa A Step Further: Free Opening of E-Books, Audio-Books and Educational Resources at the Open University of Israel Prof. Yoav Yair, Open University of Israel Kotar – your personal online library on Israel and Jewish studies. Gidi Zand, The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) משאבי למידה ישראליים ברשת האירופאית/ISRACORE רוני דיין, מנהל מדע וטכנולוגיה, משרד החינוך ודב וינר, מק"ש  לקידום יישומי תקשוב בחינוך מאגר חומרי למידה מתוקשבים אלי שמואלי, מיט"ל כתבי עת בעברית: בניית ארכיב דיגיטלי אורן וינברג, אוניברסיטת חיפה פרופ' יואב יאיר האוניברסיטה הפתוחה צעד נוסף הלאה: פתיחה חופשית של חומרי לימוד וספרים אלקטרוניים וקוליים באוניברסיטה הפתוחה כותר – ספרייה אישית מקוונת בנושא ישראל ותרבות ישראל גידי זנד, מט"ח Session 3 - Collaboration and 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 and Dr. Allison Kupietzky   Collaborating for the Digital Future: Some Case Studies Simon Tanner, Director King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College London , Centre for Computing in the Humanities Simon Tanner will talk about the benefits of collaborating to attain digital project success. Tanner will illustrate his points with many examples from the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. Classifying Cultural Objects (CCO) and the Artefacts Canada Cleanup Project Meira Josephy, Activate Kulture and Artefacts Canada Object workgroup chair Artefacts Canada is a resource of more than three million records and approximately 600,000 images contributed by more than 1300 Canadian heritage institutions to aid researchers in studying Canadian culture and collections. The project developed out of a Canadian mandate to provide the public with access to an inventory of objects in Canadian cultural institutions, and is supervised by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN). The size of the database, diverse classification schemes and contributions by French and English collections have contributed to some challenges in searching Artefacts Canada. To address these challenges, CHIN has established workgroups or "communities of practice" of contributors to examine existing standards and the needs of their institutions. This presentation will examine the recent exploration of the VRA's Classifying Cultural Objects (CCO) for the needs of Canadian museums and the results of that exploration. Working Together to Build a National Bilingual Museum Thesaurus Hagai Rabi, Alon Shchori and Dr. Allison Kupietzky - The Department of Museums of the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem The museum and the Department of Museums have forged a collaborative project whereby the Israel Museum, Jerusalem will export its lexicon to the Ministry and the Ministry will supply this lexicon for the cataloguing of the 54 museums of Israel. A pilot stage has recently been completed at the Erez Yisrael Museum in Tel Aviv.   11:00-11:30 Coffee break   Opening Plenary (in the Senate Hall) Chair: Rossella Caffo, Ministry of Cultural Resources and Activities, Italy             Conference Opening address: From MINERVA to ATHENA 11:30-13:00   The National Library of Israel – welcome address. Israel, Europe and Digitisation: Dov Winer, Israel MINERVA Network for Digitisation of Cultural Heritage Keynote Address: Prof. Dr. Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt University (Berlin), head of WP2 for Europeana (EDL – European Digital Library) : Technical Semantic Interoperability Europeana Semantica – why should we want semantic foundations for The European Digital Library? The presentation will recapitulate the history and genesis of the semantic foundations for the Europeana object space and user interface as currently specified. I will briefly go through the findings of the EC working group on Digital Libraries Interoperability and on the way these findings and recommendations have been taken up by the EuropeanaNet working group on Technical and Semantic Interoperability. In the second, more substantial part I will then discuss who will actually benefit most from semantic foundations for Europeana: the focus here will be on the new opportunities created for Digital Humanities Scholars and which are likely to deeply enrich and transform scholarly work in the arts and humanities research area. # EUROPEANA - the European digital library, museum and archive – is a flagship project of the European Commission. Initially it will give users direct access to some 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers. 13:00-14:00 Lunch  Session 4 - YOUsers – Designing Your Application as a User-Centered Experience Chair: Dr. Susan Hazan, MINERVA EC Working Group “Quality, Accessibility and Usability”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 14:00-15:30     Handbook on cultural web user interaction Edited by MINERVA EC Working Group “Quality, Accessibility and Usability” The new MINERVA handbook is targeted at YOU - professionals and institutions who are developing cultural web applications - ancient or contemporary, tangible or intangible, expert or popular, local or global - this is the handbook you have been waiting for. Maria Teresa Natale, Minerva EC, Athena Digital Archives Cultural Heritage, and the YOUSer Pierluigi Feliciati, ICT professor at University of Macerata, MINERVA EC. Athena Imaginative Access - Augmenting the Traditional Search Interface: the Possibility of Total Access Ardyn Halter and Michael Pincus Imaginative Access is a special technology for interacting with closed databases over the Internet in a unique way and a new approach to "imaginatively accessing" certain types of text and media including art, photographs, images, and all types of objets d'art, as well as literature, poetry and prose, scripts, journals, diaries, and historical and religious manuscripts Multimedia, Mythos and Mimesis - Virtual Reality and a Triple M of Museum Communication Sorin Hermon, PhD, Research Coordinator, STARC, Cyprus Institute Can technology bridge the gap between Jews and Arabs in Teacher Education? Dr. Elaine Hoter, Dr. Miri Shonfeld, Asmaa Ganayam The Center for Multi-Culturalism and Technology Session 5 - Best Practice in Archeological Digitisation and GPS/GIS Chair: Pnina Shor, Chief Conservator, The Israel Antiquities Authority   The Dead Sea Scrolls Go Digital Simon Tanner, Director King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College London , Centre for Computing in the Humanities The Archaeological Survey of Israel Goes Online Liat Ayzencot, The Israel Antiquities Authority IAA, Surveying of the Negev in terms of High Resolution Archaeology - Remote sensing methodology of Preservation of the desert landscape Moti Haiman, The Israel Antiquities Authority Concept-based Searching; Incorporating High Resolution Archaeology into  related databases Jessie Pincus, Mnemotrix Israel, Ltd. ADASR Session 6 -  User-Generated Content (In Hebrew) Chairs: Ora Zehavi, University of Haifa and Prof. Judit Bar-Ilan, Bar-Ilan University   Pikiwiki – Israeli Public Domain, Free License Digital Content Hedva Sanderovitz, Pikiwiki - Project manager and Sigal Ben-Amram, Pikiwiki - Content editor Why share your information over the Internet? Dr. Yifat Belous, Weizmann Institute of Science and Bar-Ilan University The effects of background information and social interaction on image tagging Prof. Judit Bar-Ilan, Bar-Ilan University (joint work with Dr. Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Dr. Yitzchak Miller and Dr. Snunith Shoham) פיקיוויקי - מיזם תוכן דיגיטלי ישראלי חופשי לשימוש הכלל חדוה שנדרוביץ,  מנהלת המיזם פיקיוויקי, סיגל בן עמרם, רכזת תכנים מיזם פיקיוויקי שיתוף מידע ברשת – מדוע? ד"ר יפעת בילואוס, מכון ויצמן למדע ואוניברסיטת בר-אילן  השפעת כמות מידע רקע ואינטראקציה חברתית על תהליך תיוג תמונות פרופ' יהודית בר אילן, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן  (עבודה משותפת עם ד"ר מעיין ז'יטומירסקי גפת, ד"ר יצחק מילר וד"ר סנונית שהם) 15:30-17:00 Professional Networking Session The Conference Networking Sessions offer the perfect opportunity to showcase leading projects, bringing together colleagues who are interested in a specific topic in order to discuss project ideas, ongoing research activities and potential partnerships. These sessions tend to be less formal than the official conference workshops, and encourage active participation in an informal atmosphere.  “Jerusalem Calling” Gala Event Chair: Dr. Susan Hazan 17:00 - 19.00   Announcing WSA – World Summit Award The World Summit on the Information Society, recognizing creative use of interactive digital media in content and diversity. Holy Fire Israel, 2008, 52 min This documentary film was shot over three years within one square kilometer of the old city of Jerusalem, as it moves from a Jewish holiday to a Muslim holiday, stopping off to celebrate with the Christians. Folded surreptitiously within each of these holidays is the inner truth of each religion. All these holidays are managed by a secular, police officer of the Old City, who attempts to navigate between the needs of all the religions, and finds himself in the role of nanny in one of the most complex and sensitive places in the world. By way of an impressive control center, into which pictures from 350 cameras in every street and alley are transmitted, police can be seen dispersing a Muslim demonstration after prayers; Muslim children in a playground, practicing throwing stones; an orthodox Jew aspiring to rebuild The Temple, prays defiantly at the Temple Mount despite it being prohibited, and the power struggles between the Greek and Armenian Patriarchs.  Director: Yoram Sabo Producer: Yoram Sabo Cinematography: Yoram Milo Editor: Boaz Lion, Yuval Erez
Preliminary Program Wednesday, November 12, 2008 II
	Session 7 - Coping with Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Digitised Content.
09:00-10:30		Creative Commons: latest developments for Educational and Cutural Heritage Content Prodromos Tsiavos PhD. Information Systems Group, Department of Management London School of Economics and Political Science and Creative Commons, UK MINERVA IPR Handbook Dott. Giuliana De Francesco Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities (Italy) This guide is conceived for the use of cultural heritage institutions which are digitising cultural material and publishing it online, or are considering doing so. The objective of the document is to provide pragmatic, concise advice to cultural heritage institutions on the topic of intellectual property rights, as it impacts on digitisation projects. Shopping for the right copyright protection? Ethel Chait, Master of Law, Specializing in Intellectual Property Law and Information Technologies
	Session 8 -UNESCO Memory of the World / ATHENA Welcomes Israel's Museums to Europeana (European Digital Library)
09:00-10:30		UNESCO's programme aiming at preservation and dissemination of valuable archive holdings and library collections worldwide Daniel Bar-Elli, Secretary General, Israel National Commission for UNESCO Welcoming the Israel Museums to ATHENA Pier Giacomo Sola, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities (Italy) ATHENA is a 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. Israel's Museums online Israel's national museum project Ram Shimony,  EAS Ltd.
	Session 9 - Building a Digital Library of National Heritage Music: the Case of the National Library of Israel - Part I Chair: Dr. Gila Flam, Head, National Sound Archives, National Library of Israel
09:00-10:30		Prof. Elhanan Adler, Dr. Gila Flam Ms. Orly Simon - Senior Directors - National library of Israel Challenges of conducting a preservation Project of the National Sound Archive of Israel Dr. Stephen Horenstein Composer and Musicologist The Importance of Robust Sonal Archives for Music Creativity and Research Mr. Dominique Theron Project manager for Digitisation programs, National Library of France Best practice in digitisation of audio and video material at the Bibliothטque nationale de France Michael Fingerhut IRCAM, France Preservation of and access to archives of music events
10:30-11:00		Coffee break
	Session 9 -  Building a Digital Library of National Heritage Music: the Case of the National Library of Israel - Part II Chair: Dr. Gila Flam, Head, National Sound Archives, National Library of Israel
11:00-13:00		Chris Clark Head of Selection & Documentation, Sound Archive. British Library, UK  Making catalogue data work harder and integrating with user environments: documentation and resource development at the British Library Sound Archive Mr. Albrecht Haefner Consultant for AV archives, Germany Fundamentals of Digital Mass Storage Systems for Large Audio Collections Discussion
11:00-13:00	Session 10 - Does digital Jewish Cultural Heritage content have the potential to enhance Jewish Peoplehood? Jewish Cultural Heritage content holders report on their projects and discuss their relevance for Jewish Peoplehood. Smadar Bar-Akiva, director of the World Confederation of Jewish Community Centers will report the conclusions to the WJCC conference a week after EVA/MINERVA. Chair: Prof. Elhanan Adler, Deputy director for Information Technologies, The National Library of Israel
		Prof. Elhanan Adler, The Digitisation program of the National Library of Israel   Laurent Munnich, Directeur d'Akadem Multimedia AKADEM : le Campus numיrique juif - http://www.Akadem.org     RACHELNET : Toutes les Bibliothטques en ligne - http://www.Rachelnet.org   Hadassah Assouline, Director, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People   Ariella Amar, Head of the Synagogues and Ritual Objects Section, The Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dr. Nurit Chemo, Content Director, International School for Jewish Peoplehood Studies, Hayim Ghiuzelli, Director of the Department of Internet and Databases, The Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora. Dr. Motti Friedman, upcoming Academic Director, The Central Zionist Archives. Dov Winer and Dr Susan Hazan: Mapping European Jewish Cultural Heritage Collections in MICHAEL, the Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe – a project of the European Association of Jewish Culture.
	Session 11 - The Digital Film Library: Gaining Access to the Viewers of the Future in the Era of New Media
11:00-13:00		Session presentation Jonathan Nadav, CEO of The Forum for the Preservation of the Audio Visual Memory of Israel Work in Progress Report: EFG – The European Film Gateway Film Archives and Digital Libraries. Legal and Technical Challenges Georg Eckes, Deutsches-Fiminstitut, EFG – European Film Gateway   The Yad Vashem Visual Center: The leading international repository, database and VOD system for  Holocaust-related  Films and Video Testimonies. Liat Benhabib, Director of the Yad Vashem Visual Center   Technology and Infrastructure: The Forces behind the Scenes at Yad Vashem databases. Michael Lieber, Yad Vashem CIO   Q&A
11:00-13:00	Session 12 – ITHAKA Chair: Prof. Carl J. Posy, Academic Director, National Library of Israel Dr. Roger Schonfeld, Director of Research, ITHAKA
	This session presents ITHAKA, a repository of some of the world's leading academic and cultural heritage content, and services in conversation with Israel's higher education system, and the local academic publishing and digital repositories. ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org) maintains online repositories and archives such as JSTOR (www.jstor.org ) that includes over one thousand of the highest-quality academic journals, as well as ARTSTOR's (www.artstor.org ) primary sources focusing on scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts.  Portico is responsible for long term digital preservation, and NITLE support colleges and the use of technology to strengthen undergraduate education.
13:00-14:00	Lunch
	Session 13 -  MOSAICA Chair: Raphael Attias, ORT France 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.
14:00-15:30		The DAAT/MOSAICA Semantic Model Nahum Korda, ORT France Jewish Cultural Heritage content in MOSAICA Dov Winer, MAKASH ICT Applications in Education Virtual Expeditions Prof. Yehudit J. Dori, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
	Session 14 - IMPACT EC Project and the Genizah Friedberg Programme Chairs: Hildelies Balk (KB), Coordinator;  Guenter Muehlberger (UIBK); Eugene Walach, Asaf Tzadok (IBM Research) - IMPACT See full description of workshop
14:00-15:30		IMPACT is a European project that aims to speed up the process and enhance the quality of mass digitisation in Europe. The IMPACT research programme will significantly improve digital access to historical printed text through the development and use of innovative Optical Character Recognition software and linguistic technologies. IMPACT will also build capacity in mass digitisation across Europe. In the workshop we will inform the participants on ·         The concept and early achievements of IMPACT and how the project will contribute to the i2010 vision  of Europe’s Digital Library (Hildelies Balk, KB, coordinator of the IMPACT project) ·         The challenges to be faced in  the digitisation of historical printed texts on a large scale and the innovative solutions for the improvement of automatic text recognition (Guenter Muehlberger, UIBK, leader of the Sub Project Text Recognition) ·         The work of IBM  in IMPACT on Adaptive  Optical Character Recognition  and Collaborative Correction (Eugene Walach, Asaf Tzadok IBM Research) Friedberg Genizah Project Prof. Yaacov Choueka, Chief Computerization Scientist The Cairo Genizah, discovered at the end of the 19th century, is a collection of over 200,000 fragmentary Jewish medieval texts 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.
	Session 15 -  EuropeanaLocal
14:00-15:30		EuropeanaLocal Led by Mary Rowlatt, MDR Partners, Scientific Co-ordinators of EuropeanaLocal 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 led by Mary Rowlatt. Avi Rabinovitz – Deputy director, Union of Local Authorities in Israel Nurit Libman, Director, Beit Ariela Library and Tel Aviv Public Libraries Network for ULAI Department of Culture Miriam Hiller, Director, Association of Directors of Public Libraries in Israel
15:30-17:00	Professional Networking Session The Conference Networking Sessions offer the perfect opportunity to showcase leading projects, bringing together colleagues who are interested in a specific topic in order to discuss project ideas, ongoing research activities and potential partnerships. These sessions tend to be less formal than the official conference workshops, and encourage active participation in an informal atmosphere.