Digital Heritage Support Actions Concertation Event

21 June 2001
Festsaal des Bundesamtsgebäudes
Radetzkystrasse 2
A-1030 Vienna

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DG Information Society, Cultural Heritage Applications unit is organising a concertation event for support actions in the area of digital heritage. The event will take place in Vienna on 21 June 2001. It will be hosted by the Austrian Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur, and organised in collaboration with the Cultural Service Centre Austria, the Austrian CULTIVATE node.

Report on the discussion and conclusions of the meeting

by Tom Bösser

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the event are to discuss issues related to the current IST support actions and to look into emerging trends and future needs of these types of actions. Some of the issues that will be discussed are:

AGENDA

09:00 Registration

09:30 Welcome, Peter Seitz (Austrian Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur)

09:45 Introduction, Thomas Bösser, ACit-Advance Concepts for interactive technology GmbH (Germany)

10:00 Overview of different types of non research initiatives and trends for FP6, Bernard Smith, European Commission.

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Session 1. Networks of Excellence / Co-ordination with national programmes / International cooperation
Session leader: David Fuegi, MDR Partners (United Kingdom), projects PULMAN, LIBECON & CULTIVATE

Presentation of key issues, session leader
Projects presentation: DELOS (C. Peters, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy), PULMAN (D. Fuegi, MDR Partners, UK), ELSNET (S. Krauwer, ELSNET/UiL OTS, The Netherlands), DLM-Forum
Trends, session leader
Discussion

12:00 Session 2: Legal issues / Socioeconomic frame /  Business models / Technology transfer 
Session leader: Flavio Tariffi, Atlantis S.p.A.(Italy), project TRIS

Presentation of key issues, session leader
Projects presentation: TRIS (F. Tariffi, Atlantis S.p.A., Italy), RADICAL (L. Goodman, The Institute for New Media Performance Research, UK), EVAN (G. Stanke, Gesellschaft zur Förderung angewandter Informatik e.V., Germany), LIBECON (D. Fuegi, MDR Partners, UK), CLEF (C. Peters, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy), PROACTE (T. Morris, Ecotec Research and Consulting Ltd., Belgium)
Trends, session leader
Discussion

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Session 3: Technical cooperation / Infrastructures and testbeds 
Session leader: Seamus Ross, HATII, UK

Presentation of key issues, session leader
Projects presentation: CHIOS (S. Krause, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Germany), TEL, VNET5 (E.-M. Melchior, ACit - Advance Concepts for interactive technology GmbH, Germany)
Trends, session leader
Discussion

15:00 Session 4: Information and dissemination / Mobility, skills and training 
Session leader: Walter Koch, CSC - Cultural Service Centre Austria, CULTIVATE measure

Presentation of key issues, session leader
Projects presentation: CULTIVATE (K. Hafner, CSC - Cultural Service Centre Austria), CELIP (S. Ianeva, American Center, Bulgaria), HEREIN (N. Dautier, FEMP, France), DIFFUSE (M. Bryan, SGML Centre, UK)
Trends, session leader
Discussion

16:00 Coffee

16:30 Debate and wrap-up, Thomas Bösser, ACit-Advance Concepts for interactive technology GmbH (Germany)

17:30 End

 

BACKGROUND DOCUMENT

 

POTENTIAL LIST OF PARTICIPATING SUPPORT ACTIONS (on going or in negotiation)

BIONET - Strategic Development of European Networks in Biomechanics
CELIP - Central and Eastern European Licensing Information Platform
CHIOS - Cultural Heritage Interchange Ontology Standardization
CHIPS - Consumer Hybrid Information Products and Services
CLASS - Collaboration in Language and Speech Science and technology
CLEF - Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
CULTIVATE - Cultural Heritage Applications Network
DELOS - A Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
DIFUSE - Dissemination of InFormal and Formal Useful Specifications and Experiences to research, technology development & demonstration communities
DLM-Forum
ELSNET - The European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies
EMII-DCF - European Museums' Information Institute: Distributed Content Framework
EVAN - Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts Networking
HEREIN - European Heritage Network
HERITAGENET II- Network of cultural institutions in Central Asia
HOPE - HLT Opportunity Promotion in Europe
LIBECON2000 - Millenium Study - Library Economics in Europe
MEDICI 
MULTIPRO - A Publishing and Management System for Cross-media Teamwork at Remote, Mobile and Heterogeneous Workplaces in Multimedia Broadcast Organisations
ONTOWEB - 
PULMAN - Public Libraries Mobilising Advanced Networks
RADICAL - Research And Development Informed by Creative Arts Labs
SCHEMAS - Forum for Metadata Schema implementers
TEL - The European Library
TRIS - Trials Support: supporting and facilitating the execution of IST TRIAL actions through standardisation, technology transfer and exploitation
VNET5 - Advancing User-Centred Product Creation in Interactive Electronic Publishing

 

RELEVANT PROJECTS TO EACH SESSIONS

Session 1. Networks of Excellence / Co-ordination with national programmes / International cooperation
Project:
DELOS, PULMAN, ELSNET3, BIONET, CULTIVATE, HEREIN, TEL

Session 2. Legal issues / Socioeconomic frame /  Business models / Technology transfer
Projects: TEL, PULMAN, RADICAL, TRIS, DELOS, BIONET

Session 3: Technical cooperation / Infrastructures and testbeds
Projects: SCHEMAS, TRIS, TEL, DELOS, PULMAN, CHIOS, CLASS, RADICAL, MULTIPRO, CLEF

Session 4: Information and dissemination / Mobility, skills and training 
Projects: CULTIVATE, HEREIN, EVAN, DELOS

 

 

REGISTRATION

Contacts:

Concha Fernandez de la Puente
European Commission
DG Information Society
Cultural Heritage Applications
Luxembourg
concha.fpuente@cec.eu.int

List of Internet-Registrations

Walter Koch
CSC-Cultural Service Centre Austria
Graz
kochw@cscaustria.at

Karin Hafner
CSC-Cultural Service Centre Austria
Graz
karin.hafner@cscaustria.at