Perils of Reproduction:
Transformative Use and Moral Rights
The Natural History Museum in London
prepared a catalogue for an exhibition about dinosaurs, and reproduced a
series of cartoons made by the artist Bill Tidy. In the catalogue, the
cartoons were reproduced in reduced size and changed color. The artist
sued for copyright infringement and violation of moral rights. Was the
reproduction close enough to the original to be considered a copyright
infringement? Was it changed enough so as to constitute a moral rights
violation? Can it be a violation of both?
Ethel Chait Steinbio
Master ofLawspecializing inIntellectual Property Law and ICT Beware: Shrink- Wrap & Click-Wrap Contracts
UNESCO Chair in Urban Design and Conservation Studies
BezalelAcademy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
The PUSH project: A tri-lateral regional project aimed
at fostering mutual respect, dialogue, discovery and presentation of our
cultural and natural heritage.
Dr.Yaarah Bar Onbio
Vice President, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design,
Jerusalem
Art, Architecture and Design Archives - The National Art Register
Prof. Zvi Efrat Architect, Head of the Department of Architecture, BezalelAcademy
of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Richard Rabnettbio Architect, Am-gar Project Management, Jerusalem
International Design Competition forBezalelAcademy
of Arts and Design new
campus : A Digital Approach to Breaking the Participation Barrier and
Promoting Cultural Diversity
Maria Teresa Natalebio
MINERVA EC WP5 / Italian Association of Libraries
MINERVA EC for cultural websites: from the quality principles to the Handbook
on cultural websites user interactionSee presentation
The
presentation will show what MINERVA Project has produced until now in the
field of cultural websites. Work in progress of the Handbook on cultural
websites user interaction will be introduced and commented.
Jerusalem stands at the heart of the religious and
cultural heritage of millions of people throughout the world and the city's
written treasures have enormous historical, cultural and educational value.
The primary goal of this project is to carry out a survey of the archives,
libraries and private collections of Jerusalem.
The longer term vision is to see the written treasures of Jerusalem free from risks and properly
preserved for future generations.
Dr. Merav Mack, Survey of Archives and Libraries of Jerusalem, Institute of
Historical Research, University of Londonbio
Peter Jacobsen, Survey of Archives and Libraries of Jerusalem, Institute of
Historical Research, University of Londonbio
QasemabuHarb , Researcher of the Palestinian Libraries and
Archives, Survey of Archives and Libraries of Jerusalem , Institute of
Historical Research, University of Londonbio
KhaderSalameh, Director of Al Aqsa Library
Daniel Alemu, Researcher of the Ethiopian libraries,
Survey of Archives and Libraries of Jerusalem , Institute of Historical
Research, University of Londonbio
Yehuda Horovitz, Researcher of the Ultraorthodox libraries
and archives, Survey of Archives and Libraries of Jerusalem , Institute of
Historical Research, University of Londonbio
11.30-13.00
Plenary Session
Stitching it all up: The European Digital Library and the
role of National Libraries in the Digital Age
MICHAEL aims to provide simple
and quick access to the digital collections of museums, libraries and
archives from different European countries. Work began in June 2004, with the
focus on implementing an innovative multi-lingual open source platform that
will be equipped with a search engine. By 2007, the MICHAEL platform will be
capable of retrieving digital collections that are dispersed across Europe.
The services will also support cultural tourism, the creative industries and
other interests. The project consortium includes members from the CzechRepublic,
Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Malta,
Italy, the Netherlands, Poland,
Portugal, Spain, Sweden
and the United Kingdom
with representatives from public authorities, research institutions and
private companies.
The European Library is a free services
that offers access to the resources of the 47 national libraries of Europe. Currently the European Library gives access to
150 million entries across Europe. A
national library is the library specifically established by a country to
store its information database. National libraries usually host the legal
deposit and the bibliographic control centre of a nation. The European
Library is a central pillar of the envisioned European Digital Library.
Shmuel Har Noy
Director, The Jewish National and University Library
(JNUL)
The Israel
National Library –an old vision finds
its best expression in the digital age
The decision to establish a National Library for the
Jewish People was taken in 1897. Consolidated in 1925 and affiliated to the HebrewUniversity, the library is now being
established as an autonomous authority. The legislation is now being
completed by the Israeli Parliament which will bestow on it statutory status
and the tools it will need to carry out its mission. The digitization projects in which it has been engaged over the last years,
have had a strategic role in this process. The digitized treasures of the
library will continue to play a critical role towards the integration of Israel not only into the international
community of the Jewish People, but also within the Mediterranean and Europe communities.
13.00 -14.30Lunch
14.30-16.00
Parallel Afternoon Sessions
Crossing boundaries, past, future and the physical
Workshop: Long-term preservation of digital records
Chair: Prof. Kenneth Preiss, BenGurionUniversity
Parallel
afternoon
sessions
14:30 -16:00
The workshop will
present the work being carried out at the main European projects dealing with
long term preservation and accessibility to digital records: CASPAR,PLANETS and DPE.
Proliferation of
digital content has resulted in an increasingly urgent need for commercial
organisations, the public sector and individual users to protect their
digital resources from the risk of getting lost. To a much greater extent as
this is the case with analogue materials, the rapid pace of change of
electronic devices and formats for recording, storage and use represents a
threat to the long-term accessibility of digital objects.
Cultural heritage content is everywhere in the Web, in
traditional environments such as libraries, museums, galleries and
audiovisual archives, but also in popular magazines and newspapers, in
multiple languages and multiple media. The aim of the MultiMATCH project is
to enable users to explore and interact with online accessible cultural
heritage content, across media types and language boundaries.
Staking a Claim - Memory Institutions take on a [Second]
Life of their own
The panel will be presented from the EVA/MINERVA 2007
Second Life Platform especially constructed for the conference 400 metres
above sea level on the Kythio Island in Second Life
Fred
Boss (RL) / MilanBrynner (SL) Tressis Virtual Worlds (TVW) – http://www.tressis.nl
Virtual
Starry Night - Vincent's Second Life
This
permanent exhibition shows the works ofVan Gogh gathered from all around
the ‘real’ world and also a growing number of paintings in 3-dimensional
form. Visitors can literally ‘step into’ a Van Gogh masterpiece.
Second Life resident XanderRuttan has attracted an
international group of artists and art admirers to Cetus
Gallery District, an Second Life (SL) cultural site he created through his
company, Ruttan Development. The
community includes a group, the Cetus Gallery
District Association with a goal to provide a means of communication and
support among the residents, artists and gallery owners.
OlleWästberg (RL) / Olle Ivory
(SL)
Swedish Institute's director,
Stefan Geens (RL) / BelmeloroDiPrima (SL)
Manager of Sweden's
virtual embassy in Second Life
The Second House
of Sweden is the Sweden's
official representation in Second Life. It is a project conceived, directed
and funded by the Swedish Institute, a government agency with the mandate to
“share Sweden
with the world”.
Marie
Rytkyl (RL) / KajaLurra (SL
Stockholm's Old City, Gamla
Stan, Sweden Kaja is a SL terra-firma who specialising in sims
(simulations) that create specific cultural ambiance. Kaja
will take us to Stockholm's Old City, Gamla Stan,
that attracts swedes to listen to music, dance
together, wander around a sim of get a massage,
order pizza or beer or simply hang out together by the port and the beautiful
ships moored there. Rob Rothfarb
(RL) / Pepto Majestic (SL)
Director of WebDevelopment Center for Learning and
Teaching Exploratorium, San Francisco
The Exploratorium
is now creating an official presence in SL on ExploratoriumIsland, located adjacent to Sploland.
This multi-purpose space will feature both indoor and outdoor exhibit areas,
a large amphitheater for Webcast and other programs, as well as teaching
spaces for different audiences.
Round Table discussion for RL and SL participants -
Persistent Worlds; will they ever go away? Now that Second Life has hit the front page of Newsweek it
seems Neal Stephenson's vision of the Metaverse has crossed over - from being
a fringe fantasy land for pure escapists to a persistent world for play,
commerce, creativity and exploration - its time to take a close look at this
synthetic world. Presented by three leading avatars directly from Second
Life, this panel will showcase some of the leading cultural institutions from
their 3D graphic locations, and will explore how they welcome visitors,
guests and colleagues in-world.
16.00 -17.30
Professional
Networking Session
The call for presentations for the Professional Networking
Sessions is open. Visit the call page and
register. Do not forget to invite your colleagues who are working
in areas related to the digitization of science and cultural heritage. This
is your opportunity to present your work at the conference – the perfect
moment to introduce your work and be able to discuss it with your colleagues.
There is no agreement yet on what Digital Libraries
(DL) and Digital Library Management Systems (DLMSs) are and on which
functionality they must provide.
The objective of this DELOS
activity is to define a DLMS reference model i.e. a formal and conceptual
framework describing the characteristics of this particular type of
information system. The model will exploit the understanding of the
architecture and functionality expected from an operational DLMS
The DELOS Network of Excellence aims at integrating and
coordinating European research in the field of digital libraries. The project
is carrying out research on digital library architecture, information access
and personalisation, audio/visual and nontraditional objects, user interfaces
and visualisation, knowledge extraction and semantic interoperability,
preservation and evaluation.
Roundtable: The Mediterranean Digital Library
Chair:Prof. Franco
Niccolucci,
University of Firenze and The Cyprus Institute
MOSAICA is envisioned as a technologically advanced web portal,
featuring multifaceted interfaces for knowledge based exploration and online
utilities. Contents focus initially on the European Jewish Cultural Heritage.
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
11:00 -11:15Coffee Break
11.15-13.00
Parallel morning sessions
Regions, rights and rules
DELOS II: Presentation and Demonstration of the DELOS DLMS Prototype
Chair: Prof. Catriel Beeri, School
of Engineering and Computer Science,
HebrewUniversity
of Jerusalem
The overall goal of the DelosDLMS
is the implementation of a prototype of a next-generation digital library
management system. This system combines text and audio-visual searching,
offers personalized browsing using new information visualization and
relevance feedback tools, provides novel interfaces, allows retrieved
information to be annotated and processed, integrates and processes sensor
data streams, and finally, from a systems engineering point of view, is
easily configured and adapted while being reliable and scalable.
This session introduces and demonstrates the architecture
of DelosDLMS and the different DL services that
have been integrated.
Agenda:
- Introduction to DELOS and Delos
DLMS
- Content-based Image Similarity Search in DLs
- Delos DLMS
Architecture
- Content-based Similarity Search in DLs: Audio, Video,
3D
- Information Visualization
- Non-standard input devices for DLs (interactive paper,
speech)
iTACITUS http://itacitus.org/ The iTACITUS project aims
to explore how mobile technology can be used to enhance the experience of
cultural tourists. By prototyping a system which provides assisted itinerary
planning, visual augmented reality overlays, interactive audio plays and
location based contextual information.
In this session we discuss
the technologies in the context of a broader trend which creates both new
opportunities and new challenges for cultural institutions. For example
standards such as geoRss allow anyone to
annotate the real world and mobile technology allows content to be retrieved
from anywhere. Which raises the questions about how institutions can open up
and embrace external contributors while ensuring quality is maintained?
The CALLAS Integrated Project aims to design and to
develop a multimodal architecture which will include emotional aspects in
order to support applications in the new media business scenario with an
“ambient intelligence” paradigm. The vision underlining the CALLAS Project is
that new media can enhance user participation in content, media, and social
interaction.
This workshop explores to what extent, and in which ways digital
technologies affect performing arts and digital art, and focuses on
the interactive aspect and natural and "emotional-aware" interfaces.
Through examples drawn from the CALLAS experience this presentation will
showcase the state of the art of the advancement of usage of digital
technologies when applied to museums and libraries where "culture"
then becomes more appealing - especially for the young people.
Dissemination of standards – Images, Texts and
Multimedia
Metadata Standards for Works of Art: CIMI, CDWA, VRA and the Getty
Crosswalk The
session will familiarize the cultural heritage sector audience with recommended standards for
digitization, access and preservation of images, texts, and multimedia.
Danny Ilan bio and Danny Akermanbio The
Standards Institution of Israel
Dissemination
and Implementation of International Standards in an Israeli Setting
Within the framework of the MinervaEC the workgroup of "Assessment and
Evaluation", is examining a list of Minerva products, standards and dissemination
techniques to enhance the adoption of relevant standards.
Dr. Allison Kupietzky,
Collections Database Manager,bio The
Israel Museum, Jerusalem Expert MinervaEC
WP2 on "Assessment and Evaluation"
From Theory to
Practice - Applying Standards to Digitization Projects
Purpose: Dissemination of standards - Images, Texts,
and Multimedia
The session will familiarize the cultural heritage sector audience with
recommended standards for the digitization of images, texts, and multimedia.
The standards will include those published by MDA, RLG, CHIN, and TASI as
well as those publicized by EU organizations. The session will also review
standards recommended by the EU which have been translated into Hebrew. In
addition, within the framework of the MinervaEC
workgroup of "Assessment and Evaluation", a list of Minerva
products publicizing standards and dissemination techniques will be
discussed.
13.00 -14.15Lunch
14.15-16.00
Parallel Afternoon Sessions
Tools, Sounds and Web 2.0
Enabling access to sound archives
Chair, Dr. Gila Flam, Head, Music and Sound
Archives, JNUL
Many digital sound archives still suffer from
tremendous problems concerning access. Materials are often in different
formats, with related media in separate collections, and with non-standard,
specialist, incomplete or even erroneous metadata.
Thus, the end user is unable to discover the
full value of the archived material. To expose the inherent value of the
archived material, powerful multimedia mining techniques are needed, in
combination with content extractors, meaningful descriptors, and
visualization tools. There is also a need to improve retrieval effectiveness.
This workshop will
demonstrate and discuss various methods of addressing these issues through
development of tools and techniques which allow archived materials to be
accessed in different ways and at different levels.
The main objective of
IMAGINATION is to bring digital cultural and scientific resources closer to
their users, by making user interaction image-based and context-aware. Our
aim is to enable image-based navigation for digital cultural and scientific
resources. Our vision is a system where users receive meaningful contextual
information about images and image parts, which makes images easier to
understand. Moreover, users can simply navigate to new, relevant images and
texts in the knowledge repository only by clicking on interesting image
parts.
Based on an analysis of
the user requirements, content owners prefer a work-integrated creation of
ontologies instead of using predefined ontologies created by knowledge
engineers. When the ontology is integrated into the image annotation process,
users are motivated to create an ontology to enrich their own
images with high quality semantic annotations in the hope to gain more
potential customers.
Workshop programme:
General Presentation
Image contents in the IMAGINATION project
Automated tools and benefits from iterative combinations
The ImageNotion tool: collaborative ontology development
Digital discourse as a new source of cultural heritage
Wikis,
blogs, talkbacks, elearning repositories,and forums. Are these new
technologies really part of our (future) cultural heritage?
Chair:Ora Zehavi, University
of Haifa, Library and Dr. Judit
Bar-Ilan, Bar-IlanUniversity, Department
of Information Science
Parallel
Afternoon
Sessions
14:15 – 16:15
Dr.
Alon Hasgallbio Bar-Ilan
University and MAVINIT
The Internet, the community and I - A perspective on the web evolution
Ami Salant, Director of the Information Center, Mofet
Institute, Tel Aviv bio and SigalitAdani,
HOT
The community of information specialists in Israel - the Joint Content Portal
Heiko Schuldt, Database and Information Systems Group, University of Basel, Switzerlandbio
DILIGENT aims at building
an infrastructure that can be used to create Digital Libraries (DLs) on
demand by exploiting shared resources. Shared resources for us are computing
and storage resources, services and content. See: http://www.diligentproject.org
The
DILIGENT test-bed will be built by integrating Grid
and Digital Library (DL) technologies. The test-bed will be
demonstrated and validated by two complementary real-life application
scenarios: one from the environmental e-science domain
and one from the cultural heritage domain.
In order to implement this infrastructure we exploit
grid infrastructures, technologies and framework. In particular, we exploit
the EGEE infrastructure - http://www.eu-egee.org/
, the gLite middleware - http://glite.web.cern.ch/glite/
and the WSRF.
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 working
in areas related to the digitization of science and cultural heritage. This
is your opportunity to present your work at the conference – the perfect
moment to introduce your work and be able to discuss it with your colleagues.
