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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, Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) 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