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Seminar of Director Generals and Experts on Digitalisation of Cultural Material
"Digital libraries and copyright"
"The aim is to reflect on and to analyse the culture digitalisation process and the place it occupies in the knowledge society.
An essential element of the analysis will be the European Digital Library and its repercussion on the Member States.
• Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional,
12 – 14 April 2010
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Museums and the Web 2010
An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.
• Denver, Colorado, USA,
13 - 17 April 2010
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"EVA Florence 2010"
Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts
• Florence, 21 - 23 April 2010
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Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2010
"Libraries and information resources in the modern world of science, culture, education and business"
• University of Zadar,
Croatia, 24 - 28 May 2010
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Seventeenth International Conference "Crimea 2010"
"Libraries and Information Resources in the Modern World of Science, Culture, Education and Business"
• Sudak, Autonomous Republic
of Crimea, Ukraine,
June 5–13, 2010
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"EVA London 2010"
Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
• London, 05 - 07 July 2010
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ICT 2010
ICT 2010 will focus on policy priorities such as Europe`s Digital Agenda and the next ICT research programme of the European Union.
The two main themes for the event will be "ICT for sustainable growth in a low carbon economy" and "ICT for and by the citizen".
The event is co-hosted by the European Commission and the Belgian Presidency of the EU.
• Brussels Expo (Heysel, Brussels), 27 – 29 September 2010
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EuroMed2010
Digital Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries
• Limassol, Cyprus,
November 8 - 13th, 2010
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The European project ATHENA is a Network of Best Practice within the
eContentplus Programme, originated by the MINERVA network.
It involves 20 EU Member States + 3 extraEuropean observers, over 100 museums
and other cultural institutions as direct partners or associated to the project, in 20 European
languages. It is coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
The Centre on the Problems of Informatisation in the sphere of Culture (Centre PIC),
Russian Federation, is a disseminating partner of ATHENA.
ATHENA has the objective to:
- reinforce, support and encourage the participation of museums and other institutions coming
from those sectors of cultural heritage not fully involved yet in Europeana;
- produce a set of scalable tools, recommendations and guidelines, focusing on multilingualism
and semantics, metadata and thesauri, data structures and IPR issues, to be used within museums for
supporting internal digitisation activities and facilitating the integration of their digital
content into Europeana;
- identify digital content present in the European museums;
- contribute to the integration of the different sectors of cultural heritage, in cooperation
with other projects more directly focused on libraries and archives, with the overall objective
to merge all these different contributions into Europeana;
- develop a technical infrastructure that will enable semantic interoperability with Europeana.
The final aim of ATHENA is to bring together relevant stakeholders and content
owners from all over Europe, evaluate and integrate standards and tools for facilitating the
inclusion of new digital content into Europeana, so conveying to the user the original and
multifaceted experience of all the European cultural heritage.
ATHENA will work in close cooperation with existing projects (Europeana: the
European digital library network, and MICHAEL, both present in ATHENA) and develop intense
clustering activities with other relevant projects.
More information on the ATHENA project are available on the website:
www.athenaeurope.org
Publications
Preservation of Linguistic Diversity: Russian Experience
The book was prepared for the international conference “Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace”
(Yakutsk, Russia, July 2 - 4, 2008).
It sites practical examples to pre-sent the picture of diversified multi-level activities to preserve and to develop multilingualism in the Russian cyberspace.
The book is published by the Russian Committee of the UNESCO “Information for All” Programme and Inter-regional Center for Library Cooperation. Financial support for this publication is provided by Russia’s Federal Agency of Culture and Cinematography and UNESCO Moscow Office.
Compilers: Evgeny Kuzmin and Ekaterina Plys. Moscow, 2008
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Alfredo M. Ronchi
eCulture. Cultural Content in Digital Age.
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2009 – 456p.
ISBN 978-3-540-75273-8
e-ISBN 978-3-540-75276-9
The aim of the present book is to provide a comprehensive vision of a very relevant sector of the digital landscape: electronic content, or more precisely, cultural content. The relevance of content and services is now evident due to the contribution provided by the two phases of the World Summit on the Information Society, held in Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005).
The creation and provision of high-quality content and services are key actions to bridging the digital divide. A special initiative that addresses these goals, the so-called World Summit Award, was started during the Summit.
Scope
The work is subdivided into three main parts: the first is devoted to the main isues and general guidelines; the second to technological fundamentals and the main solutions; and the third to applications and services.
Starting from the basics, the reader will be introduced to issues and achievements associated with virtual museums, catalogueing, publishing, the sustainable exploitation of cultural content, and a relevant case study. Drawing upon the main years of experience and achievements in digital cultural content of the author, this last part aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues and achievements associated with digital collections and cultural content.
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