The Slovenian Presidency and Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia prepared the event at Brdo from 5 - 7 June which consisted of 2 International Conferences: 1.
Digital Content for Creativity
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Culture Online
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The Slovenian Presidency organised the International conference ‘Culture Online’, which was attended by 165 participants from 21 countries, including the countries of Southern and South-Eastern Europe.
The main theme of the conference was to review the cultural content already available online (particularly the content using the most advanced technologies) in all cultural sectors, education, lifelong learning and cultural tourism, to exchange experience in this field and to identify mechanisms which:
promote the integration of cultural content in the online environment,
enhance the accessibility of cultural content for all users - EU citizens,
ensure the implementation of Commission Recommendation No 2006/585/EC on the digitalisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation,
contribute to the implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions 2005, in particular Articles 6 and 7 thereof, establishing the right of the parties to the Convention to adopt policies and measures enabling creation, production, dissemination, distribution of cultural expressions and access thereto.
The conference generated the following conclusions:
Given that all EU Member States are parties to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, as is the European Union itself, it is absolutely vital for the European Commission and the Council to make every effort within their power to provide, together with the Member States, a permanent supportive environment for the promotion of cultural content in the online environment. The following activities in particular should be given support:
establishing dialogue and partnership between digital cultural content creators and online providers operating in the online environment,
enhancing national interoperability by linking up all the digital cultural content of museums, archives, libraries and other national and local cultural institutions,
promoting the central role of ‘Europeana’ (the European Digital Library) as a European project embracing all digital cultural content at the European level,
improving the functioning of informal cooperation networks in implementing digitalisation, storage and accessibility of digital cultural content and promoting the involvement of the Member State authorities competent for culture and cultural heritage, thus continuing the good practices adopted previously by the MinervaEC project,
enhancing the role of ‘Europeana’ in supporting and developing multilingualism in the online environment, including the creation and distribution of multilingual cultural content as well as the development and use of multilingual user interfaces,
improving the accessibility of cultural content online in time and place by using GIS technology,
expanding the possibilities of accessing cultural content free-of-charge on all technological platforms for everyone and in particular for the most vulnerable groups.
In its capacity as EU Presidency country, Slovenia recommends that the forthcoming French Presidency pursues efforts in this area in future.
The Slovenian Presidency and Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia organize in cooperation with MinervaEC Network the international conference Culture Online.
Conference material can be downloaded at the bottom of page.
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The purpose of the conference is to find out what kind of digital cultural content is ready for use and re-use in WEB 2.0 services, cultural industry, education, lifelong learning and cultural tourism. What is the state of current knowledge and experience concerning interoperability among various cultural institutions, especially on national level? What are the challenges and obstacles in creating, using and preserving digital cultural content in multimedia centres, museums, libraries, archives and other cultural institutions?
On the conference we would like: - to find out what kind of digital cultural content is ready for use in cultural and creative industry
- to discuss about national interoperability frameworks
- to foresee the browsing of digital cultural content in space and time
- to present the newest Minerva EC project working papers as are Handbook on cultural websites user interaction, Technical Guidelines v.2, and Map of cultural heritage sector in Europe
- to announce the Athena: new project of Minerva EC Network
Respective public and others are invited to discussion on conferences topics. You are kindly asked to mail questions, remarks, comments on our e-mail or join postconference discussion on forum.
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PROGRAMME
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Thursday, 5 June 2008---
19:00 – 22:30
Reception and dinner at Arboretum, Volcji potok
transfer to/from reception and dinner
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Friday, 6 June 2008
8:00 – 9:00
Registration
transfer to Conference Centre
09:00 – 9:30
Opening addresses:
dr. Vasko Simoniti, President of the Council of EU, Minister of Culture
Nataša Goršek Mencin, Head, European Parliament, Information Office for Slovenija
Jelka Pirkovič, State Secretary, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
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9:30 -10:00
Coffee Break
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10:00 – 12:00
Cultural Content Interoperability
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national strategies of digital cultural content
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national interoperability frameworks
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online cultural heritage for creativity
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WEB 2.0 and cultural portals
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new challenges for multilingualism
Cultural Content Creation, Preservation and Use
- multimedia content and multimedia centres
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“user generated” cultural content
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museums, libraries and archives online
- national long term preservation centers?
Keynote:
Rossella Caffo
Director of the Library of modern and contemporary history and Project Manager of MICHAEL and MINERVA initiatives, Italy National interoperability framework and cross-domain portals
Christophe Dessaux
Director of the Mission de la Recherche at the French Ministry of Culture; President of MICHAEL Culture Association, France Integration Of National Strategies For Trans-European Services
Franc J. Zakrajšek
National Representative for Digital Cultural Content, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia Digital Cultural Content in Space and Time
Carol Peters
Institute of Information Science and Technology, Italian National Research Council, Pisa, Italy Multilingual Information Access for Cultural Heritage
Susan Hazan, New Media and Head of the Internet Office at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem Peering down the Wormhole
Moderator: Rosella Caffo
Keynote:
Monika Hagedorn-Saupe Deputy Director Institut für Museumforshung, State Museums of Berlin, Germany Access to cultural heritage through portals
Kate Fernie, UK Government's agency for museums, galleries, libraries and archives (MLA) Digital Cultural Content for e-learning
Peter Tomaz Dobrila, Multimedia Center Kibla, Slovenija Digital Art
Zoran Krstulović, National and University Library, Slovenia dLib OnLine
Tomaž Pisanski, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics,
Slovenia Digitization: a walk from continuous to discrete paradigm
Tatjana Hajtnik ,
Archive of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia e-Archive of Slovenia
Moderator: Peter Tomaž Dobrila
12:00-13:30
Lunch at Brdo Conference Centre
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13:30-15:00
MinervaEC Workshop
Scope of the workshop and MinervaEC General Presentation (Rossella Caffo, MiBAC)
MinervaEC workprogramme (Antonella Fresa, MiBAC)
Handbook on cultural websites user interaction (Monika Hagedorn-Saupe, SPK and Maria Teresa Natale, MiBAC)
Directory of national legislations for cultural websites (Chiara De Vecchis, MiBAC)
IPR Guidelines (Ciaran Clissmann / Giuliana De Francesco, MiBAC)
Moderator: Franc J. Zakrajšek
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15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-17:30
MinervaEC Workshop (cont.)
Interoperability (Vassilis Tzouvaras)
Technical Guidelines v.2 & 3D Best practices and Guidelines (Giuliana De Francesco, MiBAC)
Best practices for innovative services (Christophe Dessaux, MCC)
Map of cultural heritage sector in Europe (Nadia Tauma, Paragon, Malta / Irene Hyna, Austrian Ministry of Culture)
Athena: New project (Rossella Caffo, MiBAC)
Moderator: Antonella Fresa
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17:30-18:00
Closing session
Jelka Pirkovič, State Secretary, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Marko Peljhan,
Artist, European Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue
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19:00-22:00
Dinner at Vila Bled
transfer from Conference Centre
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Saturday, 7 June 2008
9:00-13:00
Excursion to Lipica (optional)
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Programme Coordinator:
Franc J. Zakrajsek, National Representative for Digital Cultural Content, franc.zakrajsek@guest.arnes.si , phone: +386 (0)41 674 447
