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INVITATION TO THE CONFERENCE
Culture Online
Brdo Conference Centre, Slovenia
5 - 7 June, 2008
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The Slovenian Presidency and Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia cordially invites you to the international conference Culture Online.
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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?
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All participants, i.e. both the official delegation members and any other guests (e.g. partners), are invited to register immediately because the official deadline 15 May 2008 has been expired, using the on-line registration form. The instructions on how to proceed with the registration are at the bottom of page.
To begin with the registration procedures the following URL address is required: https://acc.gov.si/acc_delegation/ as well as the following event security code: DHCKDZCG.
If you are using the Vista operating system, please consult the following webpage for instructions:
http://www.eu2008.si/info/includes/Downloads/Vista_nastavitve_v_brskalniku-ENG.pdf

 
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
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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:
Jelka Pirkovič, State Secretary, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

Jan Figel, Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, TBC
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9:30 -10:00 Coffee Break ---
10:00 – 12:00

Cultural Content Interoperability

- national strategies of digital cultural content
- national interoperability frameworks
- online cultural heritage for creativity
- WEB 2.0 and cultural portals
- new challenges for multilingualism

Cultural Content Creation, Preservation and Use
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multimedia content and multimedia  centres
- “user generated” cultural content
- 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
Web 3.0?

Moderator: Rosella Caffo

Keynote:

Monika Hagedorn-Saupe
Deputy Director Institut für Museumforshung, State Museums of Berlin, Germany
Access to cultural heritage through portals

David Dawson
, 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

Marjan Zupančič, Archive of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia
e-Archive of Slovenia

Moderator: Peter Tomaž Dobrila

12:00-13:30 Lunch at Brdo Conference Centre ---
13:30-15:00

MinervaEC Workshop

Scope of the workshop and MinervaEC General Presentation (Rossella Caffo, MiBAC)

eContent+ Programme (Federico Milani, EC)

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 )
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15:00-15:30 Coffee Break  
15:30-16:00

MinervaEC Workshop (cont.)

Interoperability (Stefanos Kollias)

Technical Guidelines v.2  (David Dawson, MLA)

3D Best practices and Guidelines (Giuliana De Francesco, MiBAC)

Best practices for innovative services (Christophe Dessaux, MCC)

Map of cultural heritage sector in Europe (Martin Spiteri, Heritage Malta / Irene Hyna, Austrian Ministry of Culture)

Athena: New project (Rossella Caffo, MiBAC)
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17:30-18:00

Closing session
Xavier Troussard, Head of Unit for Culture Policy and Intercultural Dialogue, General Directorate for Education and Culture, European Commission

Jelka Pirkovič, State Secretary, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
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19:00-22:00 Dinner transfer from Conference Centre
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Saturday, 7 June 2008

9:00-13:00 Excursion to Lipica (optional)
 

During the entire Thursday, 6th of June also the on line and multimedia presentations will take place in show hall at Brdo Conference Centre.
All participants are kindly invited to participate in this show session with their live and/or video and/or powerpoint presentations concernig the topics of the conference. The broadband internet access is provided. The posters are desired as well. If you are interested, please contact the programme coordinator.

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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
 
Invitation to the conference

Programme of the conference

Instructions for online registration

Hotel reservation form

Practical information for participants

 

 
 
 
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