The Jerusalem 2006
Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
Reserve the dates in your calendar!
The 2006 Edition of the
EVA/MINERVA Jerusalem Conference will take place next 14 and15 of November at the Belgium House,
Hebrew University Givat Ram Campus.
Suggestions or get further information contacting either DovWinerdovw@savion.huji.ac.il
or Susan Hazanshazan@netvision.net.il
The call for presentations at the Conference Networking
Sessions is open. Visit
the call page and register. Do not forget to invite your
colleagues who are doing qualified work related to the digitization of
science and cultural heritage.
This is the main opportunity presented by our professional conference – to
meet that cluster of people that is really relevant for your work.
European
Projects
We are happy to host a substantial share of the new EC 6FP IST Cultural
Heritage projects. Among the confirmed sessions:
CASPAR
The project will establish an authoritative
foundation methodology for digital preservation activities.. Work include key
components providing characterisation, virtual storage and access services,
including intuitive query and browsing mechanisms and exploiting the
potential of semantic web and advanced storage technologies. It will be
validated through test-beds of science data, multimedia and music, and
digital representations of heritage sites.42 months IP with 8.8 million € funding.
Coordinator: David Giaretta , Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, UK.
EASAIER will improve access to sound archives: multi
and cross- media retrieval, interactivity tools, integration of speech and
music processing methods, and systemic
archive analysis. It willdevelop and
integrate into prototypes innovative audio processing, data mining, and visualisation
techniques, alongside user needs and evaluation studies. 30 months STREP with
2.1 million €. Coordinator: Dr. Josh Reiss, Queen Mary And
Westfield College, University of London, UK. Israel partner, NICE, Moshe
Wasserblat and Barak Gablinger.
EPOCH
EPOCH is a network
of about one hundred European cultural institutions joining efforts to improve
the quality and effectiveness of the use of ICT for Cultural Heritage.
Partners, include university departments, research centres, heritage
institutions, such as museums and national heritage agencies. It increases
the effectiveness of human experience at the interface between technology and
the cultural heritage. See EPOCH
Showcases . Since the first EVA/MINERVA Jerusalem Conference EPOCH
has organized very successful workshops as a joint effort with the Israel Antiquities Authority
(IAA).
MEMORIES (t.b.c.)
It will create a generic software library in order to
facilitate the extraction of high level information from audio signals. It
innovates with a user-friendly system
that matches archivist needs for information retrieval in audio databases,
the definition of a format for database
structuring of information content descriptors and an efficient tool for
audio restoration. 36 months STREP with 1.225 million € . Coordinator: Mr Michel
Merten, MEMNON Audio Archiving Services,
Belgium
MINERVA
The aim of Minerva is to create a network of Member States' Ministries
to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities
carried out in digitisation of cultural and
scientific content, for creating an agreed European common platform,
recommendations and guidelines about digitisation,
metadata, long-term accessibility and preservation.The new phase of MINERVA to begin in
September 2006 will focus on the support to the implementation of the Dynamic Action Plan for the EU do-ordination
of digitisation of cultural and scientific content. See: http://www.minervaeurope.org
MOSAICA
MOSAICA is envisioned
as a technologically advanced web portal, featuring multifaceted interfaces
for knowledge based exploration and online utilities empowering users to collaboratively
author and manage cultural resources in a globally distributed environment.
Contents focus on the European Jewish Cultural Heritage.
The MOSAICA interfaces include: GIS (Geographical Information System)
empowered map; Semantic directory; Semantic search engine; Repository of
educational resources. The project will also provide a framework for the
ontology based, interactive conceptualisation of cultural resources: Online
semantic annotator. Free text annotation tools to comment and recommend individual
cultural objects or to associate them with relevant ontological concepts.
Online ontology editor. Empowers users with convivial means to further
develop their own conceptual models, and to dynamically enrich the MOSAICA
ontology with their own semantics. Virtual expedition maker. online utilities
that guide users in designing their own virtual expeditions. 30 Months STREP
wit 2.5 million €.
Coordinator: Mr. RaphaëlAttias, ORT France.
Israel
partners: JAFI (JNUL); Technion,
IDEA.
