Preserving the past for our future

EVA/MINERVA 2006
The First Annual Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage

For further information contact Dov Winer or Susan Hazan

EVA Conferences International

Tuesday 14th November
Program

8.30 - 9.30	Coffee and registration
9.30 - 11.00	Welcome and Opening Session
	Chair: Prof. Elhanan Adler Deputy Director for IT, The Jewish National and University Library Pier Giacomo Sola, MINERVA EC, NRG Developments Dov Winer, JNUL, Coordinator of MINERVA Network, Israel: Digitisation in Israel and the work of the working groups of the MINERVA Network in Israel Dorit Geifman ISERD, Director for IST (Information Society Technologies) Programme The 7th RTD Framework Program of the European Union: opportunities in digitisation of Science and Cultural Heritage
11.00 - 12.30	Parallel Sessions
UNESCO Panel on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage Commemorating 60 Years of UNESCO
	Chair: Prof. Niv Ahituv, Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University www.openinfobook.com Professor Michael Turner Chairman, Israel World Heritage Committee, World Monuments Fund: The UNESCO program (High Level International Experts Committee) for the urban renewal of Jerusalem Dr. Merav Mack Cambridge Research Technology, Head of Research: Community of Knowledge across the Divide: Survey of Archive and Libraries in Jerusalem Hasia Israeli, Deputy Director, Jewish Diaspora Museum (Beth Hatefuzoth) The Digitisation Program of Jewish Diaspora Museum Zvi Schwartzman, Afeka Technological College (TBC) The Program for Collecting Testimonies from the Last Family Survivors
IPR Intellectual Property Rights and Cultural Heritage
	Chair: Amalyah Keshet, The Israel Museum Jerusalem Ethel Chait Stein, (Adv) The State-of-the Art Protection of Databases. Amalyah Keshet will present a report of the MCN conference and the session she organized on IP in Pasadena and the New York IP / Tech conference, and the session she moderated on  "Searching for Fair Use: How Google's Copyright Battles will Affect Access to Assets". Elad Wieder Coordinator, Haifa Center of Law & Technology Faculty of Law, University of Haifa Project Lead - Creative Commons Israel Creative Commons – So what is it REALLY about?
Tags, Images and Sites
	Chair: Ora Zehavi, Haifa University Library and Dr. Judit Bar-Ilan, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Humanities and Department of Information Sciences  Judit Bar-Ilan Structured vs. unstructured tagging – A case study (A joint project Snunith Shoham, Asher Idan, Yitzchak Miller and Aviv Shachak), Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University Rivka Shveiky, JNUL – The Jewish National and University Library Metadata for Internet sites archive – cataloguing of multi-version items Dr. Susan Hazan, Web 2.00 - blogs and wikis; Flickrs and folksonomies - can a museum simply hand it all over? Ora Zehavi, Photographs that bring our history to life - preservation of cultural heritage at the University of Haifa Library >>> read more
12.00 - 13.30	L U N C H
13.30 - 15.30	Parallel Sessions
Designing for a Digital World
	Chair: Prof. Rivka Oxman, Technion, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Head of the program for Digital Design Theories and Research Prof. Rivka Oxman Theory and Design in the first Digital Age Shoham Ben Ari, Roi Hamer, Alex Eitan and Tal Kasten Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion Virtual Reality: Digital Surfaces and Digital Spaces Ori Palmon Laboratory for Innovation in Rehabilitation Technology, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Haifa Virtual Reality: Virtual Environments for Barrier Free Design Rina Kolominski Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion Real Virtuality: Designing a Virtual Museum Zvi Elhanani Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion Digital Historiography >>> read more
Multilingualism
	Chair: Dr. Allison Kupietzky, http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/multilingualismandthesaurus.htm Dr. Allison Kupietzky Accessibility and the Multilingual Collections of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem Debbie Lin IDEA Information Systems A Virtual Thesaurus at Yad Vashem Liat Ayzencot and Rachel Kudish-Vashdi Web Editor and Chief Editor of Hadashot Archeologiyot Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Online publication of the Israel Antiquities Authority The establishment of a bilingual electronic publication at the Israel Antiquities Authority Prof. Elhanan Adler Deputy Director for Information Technology, Jewish National and University Library The use of bilingual metadata in the Jewish National and University Library's Ketubot Digitization Project Naomi Kimchi Chief Librarian of the Knesset, The Israel Parliament Bi-directionality in the trilingual website of the Knesset Wendy Luterman Senior Librarian, Aleph Systems Manager and Webmaster Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Creation vs. Evolution: The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Evolves from a Monolingual to a Bilingual Site Gabriela Szaloki National Szechenyi Library, Hungary, Coordinator of WP3 – Minerva Plus Inventories and Multilingualism - Minerva Plus WP3 Pan European Report >>> read more
Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age
	Boaz Hashavia IDEA Information Systems Managing Information for Communities Carmit Hirsh The Jabotinsky Institute A Digital Window to the Historical Heritage Moshe Barrav and Ziv Moreno (IDEA) The Krinitzi Museum - Ramat Gan Preserving Heritage in the Municipal Domain
15.30 - 17.00
Conference Networking Session Wine and cheese at the JNUL Jewish National Library entrance hall
17.00 - 18.30
Building a Community - Three Years Later (Beit Belgia)
	Chair: Dr. Susan Hazan, Conference Co-Chair Dr. Doron Avital, Director General of the Jewish National and University Library Dr. Yehoshua Freundlich, Israel State Archivist Daniel Bar-Elli, Secretary General, Israel National Commission for UNESCO, Ministry of Education Pier Giacomo Sola, European Digital Library Initiative Ariel Malka – The JavaScriptorium A preview of the 3d installation developed for the Shrine of the Book, Visitor Center, The Israel Museum, jerusalem. The animation describes the theme of desert wandering and the representation of the concept of sanctuary that is based on passages from the Bible and from the sectarian body of the Dead Sea Scrolls.  The name of this work alludes both to the programming language that has compiled it - Java, an environment created by Sun, Microsystems which, in this highly contemporary iteration resonates with the ancient tradition of the writing or archiving of ancient scrolls and manuscripts that took place in a scriptorium.

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