Cultivate Interactive Issue 6 is now available -
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue6/.
The magazine is geared towards those interested in Digital Cultural Heritage
and working in the Museums, Libraries and Archives communities.
Some interesting articles in this issue include:
Russia Joins the Cultivate Family: David Fuegi talks about the impact
CULTIVATE-Russia, the newest addition to Cultivate, will have on the current
network.
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue6/russia/
Disclosing Digital Cultural Wealth: Museums and the Open Archives
Initiative: John Perkins, Executive Director of the CIMI Consortium,
discusses the potential the Open Archives Initiative may hold for museums
and talks about how CIMI have been testing the OAI protocol.
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue6/cimi/
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: Carol Peters reports on CLEF, an initiative
that provides an infrastructure for the testing and evaluation of
information retrieval systems operating on European languages.
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue6/clef/
Content-Based Multimedia Information Handling: Should we Stick to Metadata?:
Paul Lewis, David Dupplaw and Kirk Martinez discuss retrieval and navigation
as ways of accessing multimedia information, and the use of content as an
aid to these activities.
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue6/retrieval/
The Historical Data Warehouse: Frans Smit reports on adapting concepts from
Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) and Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) into the field of organizing and giving access to metadata
about historical archives and collections.
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue6/warehouse/
Chodovec: The New Prague Archive Building: Borivoj Indra and Vladimra
Hradeck talk about a recently opened monumental archive building located in
the centre of Prague, and the facilities it offers for Czech archives.
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue6/prague/
If you wish to submit an article for the next issue of Cultivate Interactive
(out in June) please contact [log in to unmask]
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UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England, BA2 7AY
Home Page: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/m.napier/
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/nof/support/
Phone: 01225 386354
FAX: 01225 386838
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