The EVA/MINERVA Jerusalem 2009 Conference on
Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
The 2009
Edition of the EVA/MINERVA Jerusalem Conference will take place
next November 10 and 11 at the Van Leer
Jerusalem Institute (map).
This is the annual international event
convening the communities of professionals in the area of Culture in Israel,
who are interested in the application of advanced technologies in their
field, for an intensive exchange with their European colleagues.
For further information contact the
conference co-chairs, Dov Winerdovw@savion.huji.ac.il
or Dr.Susan Hazansusan.hazan@gmail.comhttp://www.minervaisrael.org.ilhttp://www.digital-heritage.org.ilNEW!!! See
the preliminary program: Tuesday,
November 10thWednesday,
November 11thNEW!!!
in coordination with the Department of Public Libraries and the Department of
Museums and Visual Arts at the Ministry of Culture
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.
The
joint seminar will present sided by side the treasures of mutual interest
curated by these institutions and cutting edge digitization programs and
bibliographical services. It is an opportunity to enjoy the lessons from a
comparative approach and for mutual learning. The draft program include:
Chairman: Rossella Caffo, director of the ICCU; Introduction, Shmuel Har Noy,
Director of the National Library of Israel; Cultura Italia, The Portal for
Italian Culture, Rossella Caffo; Edit16, The Census of the Italian editorial
production in the 16th Century (Cinquecento); SBN, the Shared National
Catalogue of the Library Resources in Italy, Cristina Magliano; The
Cataloguing programs of the National Library of Israel, Elhanan Adler; MANUS,
The National Program for Surveying and Online Cataloguing of Manuscripts in
Italy by Massimo Menna; The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscriptshttp://imhm.blogspot.com/and the Department of Manuscripts of the National
Library of Israel by Yael Okun; Italian treasures of the National Library of
Israel by Ariel Viterbo.
MINERVA network in Israel and members of the conference Steering
Committee:
The National
Library of Israel
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 Israel
Film Archive
Yad Vashem – Holocaust Remembrance Authority
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
Israel Center for Libraries
EUROPEANA – theEuropean digital library, museum and archive
– is a flagship project of the European Commission. It will provide by mid
2010 direct access to some 10 million digital objects, including film
material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and
archival papers. See prototype: http://www.europeana.euDevelopment sites: http://group.europeana.euhttp://dev.europeana.eu
.
Several projects
that are building EUROPEANA will run workshops at the EVA/MINERVA 2009
conference including ATHENA, APENET, EUscreen, STERNA and JUDAICA Europeana.
Educational Applications of
Digitised Cultural Resources
The National Library of Israel is
sponsoring and organizing a track dedicated to the use of Digital Resources
in Secondary and Higher Education. The increased availability of primary
documentation provides excellent opportunities for learning first hand from
primary sources. It challenges teachers and students by the opportunities for
incorporating digital sources in the learning process and in the re-creation
of new cultural products. The planned program will incorporate the
presentation of best practices in this area from Israel and the world. The
keynote speaker in this track will be Elizabeth
Ridgway, Director of Educational Outreach
at the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. Presenters
include:
Ofer Ramon director of the Directorate for Science and Technology of
the Ministry of Education of Israel (in charge of the computerization of the
educations system)
Dr. Gila Ben Har, Director, Center
for Educational Technology, http://www.cet.ac.il
Dr. Eli Eisenberg, deputy director of ORT Israel in charge of RTD, http://www.ort.org.il
APENET
objective is to build an Internet Gateway for Documents and Archives in
Europe where twelve European National Archives in close cooperation with theEUROPEANAinitiative will create a common access point to European
archival descriptions and digital collections.
Archives are a society's memory but
also its treasure chamber that can enhance the quality of life for any
citizen, on a personal as well as a societal level. Providing all Europeans
with easy online access to the content of the collective memory contained in
archives, will be an important contribution to the realisation of European
social and cultural objectives.
The APENET session is organized
by the Israel State Archives [ http://www.archives.gov.il/
] with the participation of the Israel Archives
and Information Association [http://www.archives.org.il/ ]
EUscreen: providing
access to audiovisual heritage
With the support of FIAT/IFTA, the
European Broadcasting Union and the EDL Foundation, the EUscreen Best
Practice Network aims at achieving a highly interoperable digitised
collection of television material. Access to audiovisual archives, television
in particular, remains fractured and scattered, due to:the lack of interoperability both at the
level of metadata and semantics; the non-existence of proven scenarios for
the use of audiovisual material; the complexity of rights issues and the lack
of contextualisation.
EUscreen will tackle these
problems by building a network of content providers, standardisation bodies,
television research partners and specific user groups around the task of
providing multilingual and multicultural access to television heritage. The
result will be a highly interoperable EUscreen platform, including a core
collection of >35,000 television items as well as references to digitised
items of the institutional collections. Comprised of 27 partners from 17 EU
member states (plus Switzerland) EUscreen has enormous impact in providing
access to television heritage and it will play an important role in the
advancement of the European Digital Library, Europeana.
STERNA (Semantic Web-based
Thematic European Reference Network Application)
Andrea Mulrenin (Salzburg Research)
Project Coordinator
STERNA involve in Europeana, the
European Digital Library, twelve European natural history museums and other
institutions that collect and hold content on biodiversity, wildlife and
nature in general. To help small content providers to make their valuable and
rich resources available to a wider audience, our vision is to create a
dispersed and networked information space, supported and sustained by a
member network of autonomous content serving users with a special interest in
nature and wildlife worldwide. STERNA developed an outstanding applicative model for Semantic
Web technologies.
The
goal of researchers in the digital humanities is to integrate technology into
their scholarly activities. It is defined methodologically by the belief that
means of knowledge-making, dispersal, and collection are common among the
disciplines that make up the liberal arts: discovering, annotating, comparing, referring, sampling, illustrating andrepresenting. (*)
Discovery is a European project
that is developing the technological backbone of the European Science
FoundationA32 COST Action.“Open Scholarly
Communities on the Web”. It created a federation of semantic Digital
Libraries and Open Access publishers in the field of philosophy.
The Discovery workshop will
present several tools for digitisation, image annotation, the deployment of
ontologies for semantic marking of documents and collaborative scholarship.
The workshop will expand on the integration of additional tools like the
Juxta textual comparing and collation tools and the SAKAI virtual learning
environment.
JUDAICA Europeana
will identify and manage Jewish content for Europeana, under the theme of
Cities, with a projected contribution of several million documents:http://group.europeana.eu. The presence of Jews
in European urban culture has been so high as to render them the symbolic
equivalent of the city itself. The project
main goals are:
Document Jewish expression in Europe in a way that reflect the
activities, creativity and self expression of Jews in European cities;
aggregation of this content into a coherent thematic collection to be
incorporated into Europeana.
Digitisation and Coordination
of standards across institutions
in order to synchronise the metadata with the interoperability requirements
of Europeana.
Deployment of knowledge
management tools to enable
communities of practice to adapt, and apply controlled vocabularies, thesauri
and ontologies for the indexing, retrieval and re-use of the aggregated
content pertinent to their own areas of interest.
Support the use of the digitised content in
scholarship and academic research; university-based teaching; online teaching
and learning; museum curatorship and virtual exhibitions; events and
initiatives of cultural institutions in European cities; cultural tourism;
plastic arts, music and multimedia development; formal and informal
education.
Survey of Digitization
Projects in Jewish Genealogy: Digitizing a Relative Science
Genealogical
Database Merging - A tool for the virtual reconstitution of vanished Jewish
Communities – Prof. H Daniel Wagner, Weizmann Institute of Science.
A
Document here, A Document there: Genealogy in Israel as a Cross-Archival
Project - Rose A. Feldman, Israel Genealogical Society and
The Yolanda & David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel-AvivUniversity
A Collection of
Indexes for a Sephardic Website - Mathilde A. Tagger, Israel
Genealogical Society, International Institute of Jewish Genealogy and
Paul Jacobi Center
MICHAEL – Multilingual Inventory
of Cultural Heritage in Europe
The Israel National instance of MICHAEL is now online and
began to register the Israel cultural heritage collections and include these
descriptions in the wide MICHAEL network. The Israel MICHAEL instance is
providing services for several other initiatives in Israel including the Israel
UNESCO Office Memory of the World project; the survey of Archival collections
in Israel carried out by the Israel State Archives and the Israel Archives
Association; the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design survey of art and
architecture; the project All about Jewish Theatre.
In Europe MICHAEL continues to expand
its registry of cultural heritage collections. A new European initiative is
focusing on mapping collections of Jewish culture interest [ http://www.judaica-michael.eu ]
The presenters in this session
will include Giuliana de Francesco (ICCU, MiBAC) who coordinates the
ingestion of collections in MICHAEL Italy and MICHAEL Europe; Orly Simon
(NLI) who coordinates with Galya Richler the Israel MICHAEL Instance ; Assaf
Tractinsky for the Israel State Archives survey of museum collections in
Israel; Rae'ut Stern research coordinator of the MOW Pilot at the Bezalel
Academy of Art and Design; Motti Sandak, All about Jewish Theater; and Dr.
Susan Hazan.
Digital Preservation of Historical Palestinian
NewspapersChair: Dr Merav Mack, The Van Leer
InstituteStuart Hamilton, IFLA Qasem abu Harb, Al Aqsa Mosque Library David Amitai, Givat Haviva Peace ArchiveOver the last couple of years two projects
of digital preservation of historical Palestinian newspapers have been taking
place side by side. The Givat Haviva Peace Archive contains some of the
oldest existing Palestinian newspapers. With the help of Unesco it has
been possible to begin a project of digitisation and online sharing of this
collection.The Al Aqsa Mosque Library through the
support of the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme has also been
digitizing its collection, following the British Library standards. The goal
of this project was primarily preservation and not online sharing.In September 2009 the two projects have
been brought together to evaluate the progress that has been made and to
learn from each other’s experience. The outcomes of these discussions are
presented in this session with some reflections and thoughts also about the
future.
Intellectual Property and Safeguarding
Intangible Cultural HeritageChair: Prof. Gabriel Motzkin, The Van Leer InstituteMr. Wend Wendland, Director of the Traditional Creativity, Cultural
Expressions and Cultural Heritage Section, Global IP Issues Division (TBC)Discussion of the recent compendium for Museums, Libraries
and Archives published by the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO).The background for the composition of the
compendium and the main issues it is set to tackle will be presented as well
as the proposed approach to handling such sensitive issues and the role of WIPO
in the identification of possible solutions.The compendium is an important guide that
is most relevant to those attendants of the conference involved in projects
of digitisation at museums, libraries and archives. It raises many moral and
philosophical questions as well as practical dilemmas. It includes a section
on the legal aspects and terminology as well as a survey of solutions, which
have been implemented in various countries.
New Projects, New Experiences (in Hebrew)Chair: Ora Zehavi, University of
HaifaNew topics in historical photos: the
Theater database.The Israel JSTORLong term preservation formats in the
Israel archives. Michal Hankin, Chairman, Israel Association of ArchivesHistorical perspective in design
Ruben Kohn, Head of the Shenkar Design Archive and Research Center, Shenkar
College of Engineering and Design
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.
