Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 283.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:13:56 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Cultivate Interactive issue 5
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 3, 2001
Issue 5 of Cultivate Interactive is now available:
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/
The latest issue of "Cultivate Interactive" is now available from the UK
Office of Library Networking. Funded by the European Commission's Digital
Heritage and Cultural Content (DIGICULT) program, Cultivate Interactive has
news and feature articles about he international networking of cultural
heritage materials. This issue features articles on internetaional
collaboration.
David Green
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>From: Marieke Napier <m.napier@ukoln.ac.uk>
>To: cultivate-editor@ukoln.ac.uk
>>Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:43:28 +0100
>
>Apologies for cross posting
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Welcome to Issue 5 of Cultivate Interactive
Issue 5 of Cultivate Interactive is now available:
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/
The highlights include:
Feature Articles
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T-News: Bridging the Museum Generation Gap:
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/telemuseum/
Do you have problems getting teenagers into your Museum? Nils Olander
explains how Telemuseum tackled this problem by allowing them to create low
budget news programmes using Telemuseum's television studios.
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants:
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/giants/
Paul Miller, David Dawson and John Perkins report on a recent meeting at
which representatives of national and international cultural content
creation programmes from around the world were invited to consider scope for
greater collaboration.
The Israel Museum and the Electronic Surrogate:
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/israel/
Susan Hazan, the curator of new media for the Israel Museum based in
Jerusalem attempts to answer the q uestion "If the intrinsic experience of a
museum is about its material collections, why would a museum even want an
electronic surrogate?"
CORDIS:
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/cordis/
Thibault Heuz describes innovation opportunities available for the
information community via CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and
Development Information Service.
A Survey of Virtual Reality in the VIS.I.T. Theatre:
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/cineca/
The CINECA team (Interuniversity Consortium) talk about their role as a
leading player in the visualization field.
Regular and Misc. Articles
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DIGICULT Column
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/digicult/
Concha Fernndez de la Puente writes her last column on the European
Commission's initiatives in the field of digital heritage and cultural
content.
At the Event: 5th European Conference, ECDL 2001:
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/ecdl/
The 5th conference in the series of European Conferences on Research and
Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries was held in Darmstadt, Germany
between 4 and 9 September 2001. Monica Bonett attended on behalf of the
IMesh Toolkit Project, and reports on some of the activities.
An Introductory Guide to Audio and Video Encoding:
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/jam/
In a follow up to last issue's Streaming Video articles David Johns of
Culturejam limited, a company who specialise in optimising video and audio
for the Web, introduces the art of encoding.
IFAEK: A Vision of Improvements for a More Structured and Personalized World
Wide Web:
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/ifaek/
Christian Guetl discusses a possible way of providing existing Web content
with more structure and context, which may help users to get more relevant
information from the Internet.
The most Fascinating Library Buildings in the World:
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/buildings/
Godfrey Oswald leads the search and introduces 'The Book of Library
Records'.
A Content Management and Web Publishing Systems Gazetteer
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/cms/
Philip Hunter follows on from a recent Ariadne article with a detailed list
of the different Content Management Systems currently available.
Other Areas
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Competition
Cultivate Interactive's Spot the European City Competition.
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/competition/
If you have any queries regarding Cultivate Interactive or writing for
Cultivate Interactive please send them to <cultivate-editor@ukoln.ac.uk>
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