[artinfo] Fwd: Cultivate Interactive 5 (fwd)

[Andrea Szekeres]

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>Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:31:11 +0200
>From: DIGICULT@cec.eu.int
>Subject: Cultivate Interactive 5
>
>Dear colleague,
>
>Find below information on Issue 5 of Cultivate Interactive, that has just
>been published.
>
>Best Regards
>
>European Commission
>DG Information Society, Cultural Heritage Applications
>rue Alcide de Gasperi
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><digicult@cec.eu.int>
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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 question "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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