EVA/MINERVA 2006
The First Annual Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural
Heritage
For further information contact Dov Winer or Susan Hazan
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Wednesday 15th November
Program
| 8.30 - 9.30 |
Coffee and registration
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| 9.00 - 13.00 |
Parallel Sessions |
Long Term preservation in a Digital Age |
| 9.00 - 11.00 |
CASPAR Workshop on Long Term Preservation: Applying the OAIS standard |
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Chair: Yitshik Cohen, Deputy General Comptroller, CIO, Ministry of Finance (to be confirmed)
David Giaretta, Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, UK.
How can digitally encoded information still be understood and used in the future when the software, systems, and everyday knowledge will have changed? This is the challenge of CASPAR.
A huge amount of precious digital information created and stored all over the world becomes unaccessible every few years at a very fast pace.
CASPAR research, implement, and disseminate innovative solutions for digital preservation based on the OAIS reference model (ISO:14721:2002). See: http://www.casparpreserves.eu/ and details of OAIS here.
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| Advanced technologies and ICT for the Performing Arts and Theatre |
| 11.15 - 13.00 |
Chair: Motti Sandak, All About Jewish Theater
Motti Sandak
Director of The International Institute of Jewish Culture, Tel Aviv and as the Director & Chief Editor of All About Jewish Theatre.
Global overview on Advanced technologies and ICT for the Performing Arts and Theater
with some examples of good practices from Europe, United States and Australia.
All About Jewish Theatre: From Vision to Realization.Raz Schwartz, CEO
Raz Schwartz New Media Consulting
Media Art and the Internet
Milana Gitzin Adiram, Curator
TheHeder Contemporary Art http://ww.theheder.com.
Functionality of video- from documenting to visual arts
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| 11.15 - 13.00 |
A Local Perspective on Digital Preservations:
How the main Israeli institutions intend to cope with the challenges of long term preservation
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Orly Simon, Head, IT Department, JNUL - The Jewish National and University Library
The Jewish National and University Library
Dr. Simona Cohen, IBM Haifa Research Labs
Preservation DataStores – Storage Assist for Preservation Environments
Revital Weitzman, The Israel Government Civil Service Authority:
Digital Records Management in the Israel Government Offices and the National Archives – a first glance.
Assaf Trantinsky, Information and Computing, Israel State Archives
National Archives
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| Best Practice in the National Sound Archives |
| 9.00 - 10.30 |
Chair: Dr. Gila Flam, Director, The National Sound Archives
Dr. Gila Flam, Best Practice in the National Sound Archives
Avi Nachmias, Digital Preservation at the national Sound Archives
Michael Lukin, Cataloguing Sound Archives
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| 10.30 - 11.40 |
EASAIER Workshop on Advanced Technologies for Sound Archives |
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Moshe Wasserblat, NICE,Israel partner,
The workshop will focus on the practical demonstration of the use of tools already available in EASAIER.
These tool will be fully integrated in the future EASAIER sound digitisation platform.
EASAIER will improve access to sound archives: multi and cross- media retrieval, interactivity tools, integration of speech and music processing methods, and systemic archive analysis. It will develop and integrate into prototypes innovative audio processing, data mining, and visualisation techniques, alongside user needs and evaluation studies. EASAIER is coordinated by the Centre for Digital Music at the Queen Mary College, University of London.
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| 11.50 - 13.00 |
MEMORIES Workshop |
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Stephen Weil, MEMNON Audio Archiving Services, Belgium – Coordinator of MEMORIES
MEMORIES will create a generic software library in order to facilitate the extraction of high level information from audio signals. It innovates with a user-friendly system that matches archivist needs for information retrieval in audio databases, the definition of a format for database structuring of information content descriptors and an efficient tool for audio restoration.
See MEMORIES on the DigiCult Website
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| 13.00 - 14.00 |
L U N C H
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| 14.50 - 15.30 |
Parallel Sessions
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| Visualising the collection, visualising the gallery, visualising the museum |
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Chair: Itzhik Brenner, Chairman of ICOM Israel (TBC)
This panel showcases the different ways in which collections are represented in the virtual. From the focus on the object to the ambience of the gallery, new forms of spatial representations now make collections more accessible to online visitors.
Prof. Alicia Haber, MUVA, Virtual Museum of Arts El Pais, Uruguay
Steven Allen, Panovisions, Israel
Exploring a museum campus before and after the visit
www.panovisions.com
Uzy Smilansky, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/uzy/archaeomath and Dr. Ilan Sharon, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/dor/IS.htm
Avshalom Karasik, PhD student affiliated to the HU and the WIS.
ARCHEOMATH: Using an high-resolution 3D camera as a tool in archaeological research and documentation.
Dr. Yaarah Bar-On, Vice-President, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem Bezalel
Digitizing Bezalel's Visual History
>>> read more
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| The Semantic Web Portal for European, Jewish Cultural heritage |
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MOSAICA
MOSAICA is envisioned as a technologically advanced web portal, featuring multifaceted interfaces for knowledge based exploration and online utilities empowering users to collaboratively author and manage cultural resources in a globally distributed environment. Contents focus on the European Jewish Cultural Heritage. It is financed by the European Commission in the FP6 program.
Contact: Norbert Benamou norbert.benamou@business-flow.com
Boaz Hashavia
IDEA Information Systems
The MOSAICA Semantic Web Architecture
Dr Miri Barak
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
The MOSAICA Virtual Expeditions
Dov Winer
JNUL Jewish National and University Library / JAFI
Criteria for selecting European Jewish Cultural Content for MOSAICA
>>> read more
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| Digitisation Resources for Genealogical Research |
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Chair: Ambassador Dr. Yosef (Neville) Lamdan
Director, International Institute for Jewish Genealogy
Prof. H.D. Wagner, The Weizmann Institute of Science
Towards the virtual reconstitution of Jewish Shtetls
Rose A. Feldman and Mathilde Tagger, Israel Genealogical Society
Volunteers in Genealogical Societies: Saving the Information and Serving the Community
Jean-Pierre Stroweis
Israel Genealogical Society
Digitizing Challenges For Jewish Genealogy
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