PROPOSAL FULL TITLE
European Network of Centres of Excellence
for Research & Education in Digital Culture
PROPOSAL ACRONYM
E-Culture Net
DATE OF PREPARATION
23 April 2003
TYPE OF INSTRUMENT
Network of Excellence (NoE)
E-Culture Net
Network of Centres of Excellence
for Research and Education in
Digital Culture
Links to Specialized Networks
e.g. Artnouveau
MINERVA
ERCIM
DELOS
Links to Sub-Networks
National
Mediterranean
Newly Accessed States
International
Integrating Activities
Jointly Executed Research
Activities to Spread Excellence
Build
DEED
Fill
DEED
Update DEED
Content Pilots
Tools for Access
Co-creation
European Masters
European Doctorates
Training, Conferences
Portals for Standards for
DEED
Multilingual Content for
DEED
E-Learning, E-Training with
DEED
possibly basis for
Distributed European Digital
Documentation Centre (EDDC)
containing Digital Centre of
Memory of Culture
In conjunction with
European University of Culture
Long-term public
DEED - DEER
Figure 1. How the NoE’s Phase 1 leads from the DEED to a DEER. In Phase 2 the DEER may
become an IP for which the NoE provides access to researchers and content (Figure. 3)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ORIENTATION TO E-CULTURE NET
Front page
Contents
List of Participants and Roles
Proposal abstract
Proposal summary page
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MAIN BODY OF E-CULTURE NET PROPOSAL
B.1 Objectives of the network
B.2 Relevance to the objectives of the IST Priority
B.3 Potential impact
B.3.1 Contributions to standards
B.4 Degree of integration and the joint programme of activities
B.4.1 Integrating activities
B.4.2 Programme for jointly executed research activities
B.4.3 Activities to spread excellence
B.4.4 Management activities
B.5 Description of the consortium and the excellence of the participants
B.5.1 New participants:
B.5.2 Other countries:
B.6 Quality of the integration
B.7 Organisation and management
B.8 Joint Programme of Activities
a) JPA plan introduction
b) Work Planning (Gantt)
c) Graphical presentation (Pert)
d) Detailed activity description broken down into workpackages:
i)
Workpackage list
ii)
Deliverables
iii)
Description of workpackages.
B.9 Other issues
B.10 Gender issues
B.10.1. Gender Action plan
B.10.2. Gender issues.
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1. State of the Art
2. Letters of Collaboration from Proknownce IP and SIMILAR NoE
3. European University of Culture
4. EoI re: SO.RE.CO. E.Excellence.Net
5. Digital Centre of Memory of Culture (DCMC)
6. UNESCO-NII MOU
7. Proposal for an Institute for Management and Policy
8. Detailed Lists of Members in WPs
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND NOTES
Separate Enclosure
9. Spanish Content Pilots
10. Letters of Intent
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APPENDICES TO E-CULTURE NET
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LIST OF MAIN PARTICIPANTS
Country
France
Institution
Network/Consortium/IP links
1. Co-ordinator: Laval Mayenne Technopole
Austria
2. Universität Wien1
Belgium
3. Université Catholique de Louvain
4. Tourism-site.org
(SIMILAR NoE)
(TICKET Consortium)
France
5. UNESCO
6. Centre Ginouvès (Paris X)
7. Sorbonne (Paris IV)
(MSH, AMP Consortium)
(Réseaux.doc, Campus numériques)
8. Universität zu Köln
9. Fraunhofer IMK
(Netzspannung, CAT, Proknownce)
Germany
Greece
10. Foundation of the Hellenic World (MEDINA)
Italy
11. Scuola Normale Superiore
12. Università di Bologna
13. CINECA
14. CNR-ITABC
(BRICKS)
(CIHV)
(E-Muse)
(Virtual Heritage Net)
Malta
15. Malta Centre for Restoration
(IKONOS, e-Heritage)
Norway
16. University of Oslo
Sweden
17. Lund University
Spain
18. Universidad SEK de Segovia
19. ANID
(BELE Consortium)
20. Univ. Complutense de Madrid
21. Universidad Politecnica di Valencia
Russia
22. Centre PIC, Ministry of Culture
UK
23. Oxford University
24. National Museums of Scotland
(SEMKOS Consortium)
(TEI)
(ORION, EVAN, SCRAN)
Table 1: Main participants in E-Culture Net.
CO-ORDINATOR:
Laval Mayenne Technopole
CO-ORDINATOR E-MAIL: lebras@laval-technopole.fr
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Contractors are in bold. This is a list of the section leaders. A full list is provided in Appendix 7.
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KEY ROLES & MEMBERS
WP 1
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
1.10
1.11
1.12
WP 2
2.1
2.2
2.3
WP 3
3.1
3.2
1: Build DEED
Security
Legal Arrangements
Storage
Multilingual Terminology
Semantic Mapping
DACOs
Interfaces
Multimodal Interfaces
3-D Spatial Access
Spatio-Temporal Access (GIS)
Virtual Environments, Agora
Virtual Heritage Centres
2: Fill DEED: Networks
Country Networks
Share Research in DEED
Harmonise Projects
3: Update DEED: Research Matrices
Co-ordinate with Networks
Knowledge Discovery
Université Catholique de Louvain
Universidad Politecnica di Valencia
UNESCO-EU DCMC
AMP Consortium
SEMKOS Consortium
Universität zu Köln
Intermedia, University of Oslo
SIMILAR NoE
ORION
Portsmouth Consortium
CINECA
CNR-ITABC
Laval Mayenne Technopole
Country Members
MINERVA (+Country Members)
ERPANET?
Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication
Joint Research Programme:
WP 4
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
Content Pilots
Multidimensional Museums
Historical European Cities
Cultural Tourism
Text and Image Databases, Online Slides
Greek Culture
3-D and Archaeology
Virtual Environments,V. Heritage Centres
Cultural Diversity
Universidad Complutense
Università di Bologna
Tourism-site.org
UzK
FHW
ORION
CINECA, CNR-ITABC
Paris 8
Activities to Spread Excellence:
WP 5
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
WP 6
5.7
WP 7
5.8
WP 8
5.9
WP 9
6.1
A: E-Learning and E-Training
Hypermedia E-Learning
PRONOWnce user group
French Examples
Greek Examples
Restoration and Heritage
European Masters and Doctorates
B: Expansion
Expand to NAS
C: International
International Dimensions
D: Dissemination
Annual Conferences, Summer Courses
E: Management
Progress Reports
ANID
Fraunhofer IUK
Sorbonne (Paris IV)
Foundation of the Hellenic World
Malta Centre for Restoration
Università di Bologna and Rome
Univeristät Wien
EVAN
Co-ordinator
Co-ordinator
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FORMAL PROPOSAL DETAILS
PROPOSAL FULL TITLE
European Network of Centres of Excellence
for Research and Education in Digital Culture
PROPOSAL ACRONYM
E-Culture Net
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE ADDRESSED
1. IST-2002-2.3.1.12 Technology-enhanced learning and access to cultural heritage
SPREADING EXCELLENCE RE: OTHER RELEVANT OBJECTIVES2
2. IST-2002-2.3.1.7 Semantic-based knowledge systems
3. IST-2002-2.3.1.6 Multimodal interfaces
PROPOSAL ABSTRACT
The long-term objective is to provide multi-lingual access to Europe’s cultural and scientific
heritage for all its citizens.
The immediate objectives are:
1) to integrate research communities and resources in digital culture for e-learning
2) to include resources that reflect national, regional and local diversity
3) to keep these up to date using new standards, solutions and trends in digital culture.
As a NoE, In Phase 1 E-Culture Net will:
1) build a tool to share research and critical methods and integrate these in e-learning;
2) add content through networks to include national, regional and local diversity;
3) update the tool working with other networks to create research matrices of the complete
knowledge production life-cycle. In phase two, the building of the tool can evolve into an IP for a
Distributed European Electronic Resource (DEER), the NoE will focus using the DEER to share
research, critical methods and content, and integrate this in e-learning and e-training.
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Please see B.2
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E-CULTURE NoE: PROPOSAL SUMMARY PAGE
Europe has enormous amounts of research concerning its unique cultural and scientific heritage.
Multilingual access to these resources is needed for e-learning to understand Europe’s unity of
diversities (Ruffolo1), to comprehend its evolving identity as it expands and to re-assess its role
in a rapidly changing world.
In Phase 1 of E-Culture Net, there are three basic challenges: 1) to develop a secure,
multilingual tool for sharing research and content; 2) to share content using this tool; 3) to keep
this tool and its resources up to date. To meet these challenges the E-Culture thematic network
has created roadmaps with three objectives:
1) to build a DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) resource to share research
2) to fill the DEED through networks to reflect national, regional and local diversity
3) to update DEED through specialised networks to create research matrices.
The first objective is to build a tool to share research and resources. E-Culture Net has built a
working prototype of a distributed resource (DEED)2 with access to over 1.5 million
pages/objects. Twelve modules have been identified, including security, multilingual mapping,
semantic, multimodal, spatio-temporal access and virtual environments. Specific groups of
researchers will work on each component, and integrate their efforts to create the next phase of
the DEED. A second objective is to use this tool to share research, resources and critical
methods. Initial examples have been identified. Networks are being developed at the country
level to ensure that national, regional and local diversity are duly represented. A third objective
is to work with other networks to create research matrices to understand the knowledge
production life-cycle through integration of industry, cultural organisations, research institutions
and co-ordination with governments adapting Fraunhofer’s semantic, knowledge discovery tool.
To spread excellence the DEED’s resources will be linked with new learning solutions (e.g.
PROKNOWnce), use existing Spanish, French and Greek networks, integrated into new
European Masters and Doctoral Programmes, in e-distance learning programmes involving both
wireless and satellite communications, as well as European and international training
programmes.
In Phase 2 of the E-Culture Net, the DEED will evolve into a Distributed European Electronic
Resource (DEER), ideally as an IP that builds on the results of BRICKS and PROKNOWNce.
The NoE will focus on developing physical and human networks to share research while the
research matrices will emerge as a separate activity for which the NoE offers user input only.
The connections with a) the Mediterranean, b) NAS and Russia and c) International networks
will evolve into subnetworks linked with the European NoE. Together this will help to give
substance to the European Research Area (ERA) and E-Europe.
An invitation to house the network in the new European University of Culture on the premises of
the European Parliament buildings in Strasbourg provides a fitting, enduring home for the ECulture NoE. The long-term objective of E-Culture Net is to provide multi-lingual, multicultural, spatio-temporal access to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage for all its citizens.
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B.1 OBJECTIVES OF THE NETWORK
The immediate objectives are threefold. First, to integrate research communities, resources,
methods and e-learning. Second, to reflect national, regional, and local diversity. Third, to keep
these up to date. To achieve these goals the E-Culture NoE will:
1) build a tool, a DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) resource to share research;
2) add content to the tool by developing networks to reflect national, regional and local diversity;
4) update the tool by working with other networks to create research matrices of the knowledge
production life cycle for an overview of solutions, standards and trends. The results will be
spread in European Masters and Doctorates, e-learning and e-training in Europe and
internationally.
The tool integrates a number of existing, emerging and new technologies. The networks integrate a
number of existing content holders with educational networks (figures 4-6) and provide them with content
for e-learning (figure 8) which is made available through new interfaces (e.g. figure 10).
1) Build a DEED for sharing research, resources, critical methods
A prime objective of the E-Culture NoE is to share research, resources and critical methods.
Small groups of researchers will work on twelve modules. These will be combined into a tool
that evolves into a DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) resource.
To achieve this, small groups will integrate existing solutions for each module beginning with
security, legal agreements and storage (adapting the UNESCO-EU DCMC project). AMP3 and
SEMKOS4 will address multilingual and semantic problems. Cologne’s Digital Autonomous
Cultural Objects (DACOs) will provide access to distributed resources. Intermedia (Oslo) will
lead a group on interfaces. The SIMILAR NoE5 will provide input for multimodal interfaces.
ORION will lead a group on 3-D reconstructions and reproductions. CINECA will lead a group
on Virtual environments, while CNR-ITABC (Rome) will address Virtual Heritage Centres.6 The
resulting DEED will be a secure, multilingual framework for sharing. Working together on the
DEED will integrate research communities, which have thus far produced isolated solutions
relevant for digital culture.
The next integrating activity will be for institutions and researchers to use the DEED to share
their research. Concrete examples of shared research include: 1) the Louvre’s EROS databases;
2) European cities such as the NUME project); 3) multidimensional museums (Complutense). In
parallel, other members of these groups will submit proposals for jointly executed research in the
form of STREPS: e.g. CINECA on virtual environments. This will create further integration both
within the specialist groups and the larger NoE and bring co-ordinated programming of the
partners’ activities.
2) Fill the DEED through networks to reflect cultural diversity
The DEED must be used widely to reflect the richness and diversity of national, regional and
local culture. To achieve this, networks at a country level are being developed. Eventually, each
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member country will have at least one representative concerned with integrating cultural
organisations, research institutions, and industry in that country that wish to use the DEED to
share research, resources and critical methods. These networks in member countries will link
closely with government policies (via MINERVA) and thereby help integrate European
standards and solutions, while avoiding problems of subsidiarity by fostering access to national,
regional and especially local diversity.
Greater access to Europe’s diversity will help to redefine Europe’s evolving identities. These
identities need to be compared and further defined with respect to neighbouring states and other
players in the global arena. Using the DEED to share resources will thus integrate a greater
spectrum into Europe’s unity of diversities at a technological, philosophical, social and political
level.
As a first step the NoE will expand to include representatives from the Mediterranean, Newly
Accessed States (NAS), and Russia. Specifically, the NoE will work closely with the FHW
(Athens), which is co-ordinating the MEDINA portal for the Mediterranean; with Vienna for the
NAS, and with the Centre PIC in Moscow. In these cases the DEED will have a reciprocal
function: to make European heritage better known beyond its borders and to make Europeans
better aware of how that heritage has been integrated in other traditions. In the longer term, these
areas may develop their own sub-networks.
Content pilots will serve as the glue for integration. The success of the DEED can be measured
quantitatively in terms of the number of resources shared, by the degree to which they integrate
the basic modules of the DEED and qualitatively by the importance of the resources made
available. This can be seen in a view of how the NoE contributes to the DEED (Figure 1), more
specifically from a survey of how DEED modules are linked with other activities of the NoE
(Figure 2) and from a global view of the big picture (Figure 3).
3) Update DEED through research matrices with other networks
A third objective is to ensure that the DEED remains up to date. This requires tracking new
solutions, standards and integrating them into the evolving DEED. To achieve this E-Culture Net
has produced macro-level and micro-level research matrices of the entire knowledge production
life-cycle. These new research matrices are necessary in light of a shift from analog to digital
modes of production. In analog mode each sense had its own production model: i.e. a visual
object had a completely different production process than a tactile object. In analog mode each
medium also had its own production cycle: e.g. book production was completely different than
film production. In analog mode content, context and communication were separate: i.e. the
author of content was usually very different from the commentators and communicators of
content. In digital mode, all senses and all media are potentially interconnected and cover the
whole range from content, context and communication. The new knowledge life-cycle is
(a)cross-media and thus includes production, conservation and access, as well as commentary,
editing, further creation and new learning. The research matrices will thus lead to a new
overview that integrates a number of previously separate specialties.
The E-Culture NoE will: 1) use its networks at the country level for inputs from cultural
organisations, research institutions, and industry; 2) co-operate with other specialised networks
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to remain up to date qua standards, solutions and trends, and integrate these into the evolving
DEED. Specifically it will work with networks such as DELOS and ERCIM. Such a network of
networks can work together in identifying individual processes of the knowledge life cycle with
their standards, solutions, conferences, publications etc. A next step will be to integrate these
research matrices with the tools of CAT (Communication, Art & Technology network,
Fraunhofer) in order to add knowledge discovery and other visualisation tools to the process.
To spread excellence the NoE will integrate the DEED with e-learning and e-training initiatives.
For example, this will be achieved via:
1) Hypermedia E-learning projects led by the Spanish National Association of Investigators in
Teaching which has links to networks in Spain, South America (cf. Figure 6) and Mexico
2) a user group for Fraunhofer’s PRONOWnce IP
3) French examples (Figure 4)
4) Greek examples
5) e-training in cultural heritage (led by the IKONOS project in conjunction with UNESCO)
6) European Masters and Doctorates (in conjunction with Bologna, Rome, figure 4).
7) It will further spread excellence by developing NAS links (Vienna) and connections with
international networks, building on the efforts of EVA Networking to integrate Europe’s efforts with
other important developments around the world.
In the past, the E-Culture NoE may have started as three separate NoEs: 1) to build a DEED; 2)
networks in each country to fill the DEED and 3) research matrices to update the DEED. This
would have led to precisely the fragmentation beyond which FP6 is intended to go. By
combining the three objectives in a first phase — to build, to fill and to update the DEED —
contributes to more fundamental integration by assuring that a tool is created, used and updated.
At a technical level, this integrates a number of fragmented solutions. In addition, the resulting
DEED achieves integration through new sharing of hitherto inaccessible resources, while the
research matrices integrate ongoing progress. Finally, an evolving DEED integrates the culturalhistorical complexity of Europe’s unity of diversities into e-learning and e-training.
In the case of Spain, the E-Culture Net TN, has demostrated how the network can lead to coordinated programming of partners’ activities (cf. Appendix 8). The E-Culture NoE will develop
this Spanish case as an example for other EU countries. The preliminary DEED will entail new
sharing of research platforms, tools and facilities and have a number of important outcomes:
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

building on the DEED, the pilot projects will lead to joint management of the knowedge portfolio
the e-learning and e-training activties will promote staff mobility and exchanges and encourage
relocation of staff, teams and equipment
DEED is a tool for sharing and simultaneously offers user requirements to evolve the tool.
These desired outcomes show precisely why the technology thrust and the network activities
need to be combined in the first instance. In Phase 2, as the DEED evolves into a DEER through
an IP, the product will result in reinforced electronic communication systems. In this phase, the
NoE can focus more on traditional network aspects and the peripheries can expand into subnetworks. Through this increased distribution of efforts, the network remains manageable as one
approaches a big picture as foreseen by the European Research Area (ERA) and e-Europe. The
long-term objective is to provide multi-lingual, multi-cultural, spatio-temporal access to
Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage for all its citizens.
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Objective 1: Build DEED through integrating activities
1.1. Security
1.2 Legal Agreements
1.3 Storage
1.4 Multilingual Mapping of Terminology
1.5 Semantic Mapping
1.6 Distributed Autonomous Cultural Objects (DACOs)
1.7 Interfaces
1.8 Multimodal Interfaces
1.9 Spatial Access (3D)
1.10 Spatio-Temporal Access
1.11 Virtual Environments
1.12 Virtual Heritage Centres
Objective 2: Fill DEED through networks in each country
2.1 Develop networks
2.2 Share research from national, regional local levels
2.3 Co-ordinate with national policies (MINERVA)
Objective 3: Update DEED using Research Matrices
3.1 Co-operation with other Networks
3.2 Adapt Netzspannung’s Knowledge Discovery tool
4. Joint Research
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
Multidimensional Museums
Historical European Cities
Cultural Tourism
Text and Image Databases
Greek Culture
3-D and Archaeology
Virtual Environments, Virtual Heritage Centres
Cultural Diversity
5.Spread Excellence
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
Hypermedia E-Learning
PRONOWnce user group
French Examples
Greek Examples
Restoration and Heritage
European Masters and Doctorates
Expand to NAS
International Dimensions
Training, Conferences
Figure 2. Overview of the three objectives & integrating activities in Phase 1 (cf. figures 11)
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FP6 Phase 1 (Year 1-2)
FP6 Phase 2 (Years 3-5)
Framework for a Tool
WP1: Build DEED
Identify requirements for DEED
Distributed European Electronic Resource (DEER)
IP: integrate preliminary work on DEED with IPs
such as BRICKS and PROKNOWnce
Networks
WP2: Fill DEED
through networks
- Country Networks
- Shared Research in DEED
- Harmonise Projects
NoE in stricter sense
E-Culture Network of Excellence based in
European University of Culture (Strasbourg)
- National networks supported by countries
- NoE + National networks share research
- NoE + MINERVA harmonise
Research Matrices
WP3: Update DEED
- CORDIS
- Co-ordinate with networks
- Knowledge Discovery
Research Matrices of Knowledge Production Cycle
WP4: Content Pilots
E-Content for DEER
WP5: E-Learning
E-Learning for DEER
WP6: Expansion
Sub-netwoks for E-Culture NoE
- Mediterranean cf. MEDINA
- Newly Accessed States
- Russia
WP7: International Liaison
Subnetworks for E-Culture NoE
- North America
- South America
- Asia (China, Japan)
- Africa
- Australia
WP8: Dissemination
E-Training for DEER by NoE
- Technology Watch led by CORDIS, ERCIM
- User contribution from E-Culture NoE
- Knowledge Discovery by Fraunhofer
Figure 3: Global view how these objectives lead to a comprehensive design.
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Integrate Existing Learning Networks
Figure 4a: The network of the European PhD in Social Representations; b: Network of Marie
Curie training sites; c) Network of Réseaux.doc, part of the Campus Numériques in France,
are starting points of the NoE
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Integrate Existing Learning Networks
Figure 5: Two examples of existing Spanish Educational networks that the NoE will use.
a) DGI, Ministry of Science and Technology for FP6 and Red Iris.7
b) Schema of how RedIRIS participates in the GEANT Project that constitutes
a pan-European network IP with backbone of 10 Gbps and access of up to 2.5 Gbps.
.
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Integrate Existing High Speed and Satellite Learning Networks
Figure 6: a) The ANID works with the national University of Mexico (UNAM) which is on
Internet 2 links with IPV6 capacity;8 and b) the Universidad SEK’s existing e-distance learning
facilities in South America.
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Integrate Satellite Networks
Figure 7: The future neuron-like high-QoS broadband satellite telecommunications for remote
and mobile E-Culture Net applications (Siberian Telecommunications University and Mobile IST
Centre. (Source: Proceedings of the International Workshop “European Cooperation in the
Field of Mobile Personal Communication-IST Projects”, Moscow, May 15-17, 2002. 90-96)
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Integrate Content
Figure 8 a) An example from the NUME (Nuovo Museo Elettronico) project9 and b) a digital
model of the Casa del Centenario visualized in a Virtual SET Set (RAI di Milano and
CINECA).10
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Integrate Existing, Emerging and New Learning Tools/ Methods
Figure 9: a) Conceptual model and b) Basic architecture of the BELE approach by the
Associacion National de Investigadores en Didattica (ANID) which is a starting point for the
Hypermedia E-Learning content pilots
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Integrate New Interfaces
Figure 10. An interface from the Fraunhofer CAT’s (Communication, Art & Technology
network) knowledge discovery and visualisation tool.11
In essence, the E-culture NoE will integrate technology with
Existing Learning and Training Networks
Satellite Networks
Content
Existing, Emerging and New Learning Tools/ Methods
New Interfaces
figures 4-6
figure 7
figure 8
figure 9
figure 10.
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OBJECTIVES, TEAM LEADERS & CONTRIBUTORS
Lists of the full names and employing organisations of researchers who will participate in the
network and have been counted in form A3 in Part A are included in Apprndix 5.
OBJECTIVE 1: Build DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) resource
1.1. Security
Team of Professor Benoit Macq, UC Louvain
Researchers
Position
Xavier Marichal
M Dr.
Jean-Francois Delaigle
M Dr.
Frederic Lefebvre
M Dr.
Monica Gemo3
F PhD st.
Université Catholique de Louvain
Université Catholique de Louvain
Université Catholique de Louvain
Université Catholique de Louvain
Mediterranean Connection
Tolga Túfekçi
(5.1.1)4
M
Dr
TUBITAK (Sc. Tech. Res.Coun.Turkey)T
NAS/Russian Connection
Evgeny D. Patarakin
M
Dr
Prog. Sys. Inst. Russ. Acad. Sc.
BE
BE
BE
BE
RU
1.2 Legal Agreements
Team of Nuria Lloret Romero, Working Group: E-Contents, cultural contents and legal aspects of
the information society,12 Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Researchers
Position
Nuria Lloret Romero
F Dr., Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (4.1) ES
Fernanda Peset Mancebo
F Dr., Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
ES
Antonia Ferrer Sapena
F Ms. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
ES
Subproject
Nuria Lloret Romero
Role of Digital Object Identifiers
F Dr., Universidad Politecnica di Valencia (1.2) ES
Mediterranean Connection
Nikolaos Gizelis
M
Dr.
NAS and Russan Connection
Irina Bogdanovskaya
F
Dr., Inst.of State & Law: Russ. Acad. of Sc.
RU
Further
Paolo Galdieri
Pedro Picazo
Eduar Chaveli
M
M
M
Mr. Studio Galdieri & Crea
Mr. IC AV
Mr. Dedatos
ES
ES
ES
3
4
FHW
(1.8) GR
Also available for advice: Yannick Verschueren, Jerome Meessen, Christophe Devleeschouwer.
Indicates other NoE activities where individual is active in integration.
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1.3 Storage
UNESCO-EU Digital Centre of Memory of Culture (DCMC) Project
Researchers
Position
Yong-Nam Kim
M Dr.
UNESCO
Tofig Babayev
M Dr.
UNESCO
Jean-Claude Dauphin
M Mr.
UNESCO
Davide Storti
M Mr.
UNESCO
Yuriy Zharkikh
M Professor
UNESCO
Amir Kataev
M Professor
UNESCO
Batyr Karriyev
M Dr
UNESCO
Vladimir Grebnev
M Dr
UNESCO
Sergey Karpov
M Mr
UNESCO
Yong-Sok O
M Dr
UNESCO
Duncan Burbridge
M Dr
Stream UK Media Services
Joseph Bray
M Mr
Stream UK Media Services
.José Meireles
M Professor
University of Minho (4.4,5.6)
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
KZ
FR
UK
UK
P
Mediterranean Connection
Nikolas Mitrou
Vasilios Stathopoulos
GR
GR
M
M
Professor
Dr.
Nat. Tech.Univ. Athens (NTUA)
Nat. Tech.Univ. Athens (NTUA)
NAS/ Russian Connection
Yury Plastinin
M Dr.
ARTINFO, Russia
RU
Evgenia R Lozhkina
F Dr.
Prog. Sys. Inst.Russ. Acad. Sc.
RU
*To be further defined as project evolves. The persons on the UNESCO list will also be active in other
aspects of the DEER. Cf. Appendix 6.
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1.4 Multilingual Mapping of Terminology
Team of Pierre Rouillard, Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie (MAE) – René Ginouvès,
Nanterre (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme): Host of Accès Multilingue au Patrimoine Consortium
Researchers
Position
Pierre Rouillard
Bruno Helly
Christof Wolters
Frank Braemer
Brigitte Lequeux
Isabelle Donze
Bernard Geyer
Rafik Belhaj Kacem
Laurence Darmezin
Anne-Sophie Dalix
Saba Farès-Drappeau
Leonard Will
Richard Light
Koiti Hashida
Pascale Sébillot
Anicet Kouomou-Choupo
Concecpcion Sanz
*
Sebastian Rahtz
Christophe Roche
*Awaiting names
M
M
M
M
F
F
M
M
F
F
F
M
M
M
F
M
F
M
M
M
Professor
MAE, MSH Nanterre
Professor
MAE, MSH Nanterre
Dr.
MAE, MSH Nanterre
Professor
MAE, MSH Nanterre
IR
MAE, MSH Nanterre
DocumentalisteMAE, MSH Nanterre
Professor
MOM, MSH Lyon
IR.
MOM, MSH Lyon
IR.
MOM, MSH Lyon
Doctorant
MOM, MSH Lyon
Doctorant
MOM, MSH Lyon
Mr.13
MOM. MSH Lyon (Consultant)
Dr.14
SGML/XML Mus. Info. Consult
Assoc.Scientist LMT
Dr ,
IRISA
PhD Student IRISA
Dr.,
UdeC –La Mancha (CHIME)
Dr.,
UdeC–La Mancha (CHIME)
Dr.,
Oxford RTS
Professor
Condillac, LISTIC Lab Savoie
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
UK
FR
FR
FR
ES
ES
UK
FR
Mediterranean Connection
Efstathia Chatzi
Sofia Spiliotopoulou
Olga Yannoutsou
Athanassia Fourla
Panagiotis Karioris
Constantine Spyropoulos
Georgios Paliouras
Jamal Habayeb
Usama Rusan
F
F
F
F
F
M
M
M
M
Ms
Ms
Dr.
Dr
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
NAS and Russian Connection
Gerhard Budin
Kirill Meerov
Yakov Shraberg
Alexander I Plemnek
Vladimir Fitsov
Elena D Zabko
Adonjeva Svetlana Borisovna
M
M
M
M
M
F
F
Assoc.Prof.
Director
Prof Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr
UWien
(1.5, 2.1)
State Hist.Museum, ADIT
Assoc.of Reg. Library Consortia
Assoc.of Reg. Library Consortia
National Library of Russia
National Library of Russia
St. Pertersburg St. Univ Propp
AU
RU
RU
RU
RU
RU
RU
Further
Giorgios Hatzianastasiou
Kiki Gouzamani
Panagiotis Kenterlis
Antonios Filipopouliis
Giogios Sidiropoulos
M
F
M
M
M
Mr.
Ms.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
IDEC Pireaus
IDEC Pireaus
IDEC Pireaus
IDEC Pireaus
IDEC Pireaus
GR
GR
GR
GR
GR
IDEC SA, Pireaus
IDEC SA, Pireaus
ILSP, Athens
ILSP, Athens
ILSP, Athens
NCSR Demokritos
NCSR Demokritos
Royal Scientific Society
Royal Scientific Society
(5.1)
(5.1)
(1.11)
(3.2)
GR
GR
GR
GR
GR
GR
GR
JO
JO
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1.5 Semantic Mapping
Team of Traugott Koch and Semkos* Consortium
Researchers
Position
Anders Ardö
M Professor
Lund University
Traugott Koch
M Dr.
Lund University
Johan Hallenberg
M Programmert
Lund University
*
F PhD Student
Lund University .
Elham Andaroodi
M PhD Student
LMT
Tome Merete Bruvik
F Dr.
Oxford RTS
Mariangela Contenti
F PhD Student
LUISS
(1.7)
Laure Berti-Equille
F Dr.
IRISA TEXMEX
Anicet Kouomou Choupo
M PhD Student
IRISA TEXMEX
Catherine Deshayes
F Researcher
Val de Seine
André Del
M Researcher
Val de Seine
Kleber Pinto
M PhD Student
Val de Seine
* This will be further defined when it is clear whether the SEMKOS IP bid is successful.
Mediterranean Connection
Ioannis Kompatsiaris
M
Nikolaos Grammalidis
M
Vasilis Mezaris
M
Petros Daras
M
Martin Doerr
M
Panos Constantopoulos
M
Vassilis Kotsopoulos
M
Panagiotis Katsambanis
M
Mario Brito
M
Alexander Matos
M
NAS and Russian Connection
Gerhard Budin
Kirill Meerov
Gerasimova Natalia Michajlovna
Dr.
ITI-CERTH
Dr.
ITI-CERTH
GR
PhD Student
ITI-CERTH
GR
PhD Student
ITI-CERTH
GR
Dr.
ICIS-FORTH
GR
Professor
ICIS-FORTH
GR
Mr.
IDEC SA, Pireaus
(1.6)
GR
Mr.
IDEC SA, Pireaus
(1.6)
GR
Prof.
Cultura Digital
P
Mr.
Cultura Digital
P
M
M
F
Assoc.Professor
Director
Dr
(1.12)
SE
SE
SE
SE
FR
UK
GR
GR
GR
FR
FR
FR
GR
UWien
(1.4, 2.1) AU
State Hist. Museum, ADIT
RU
St. Petersburg St. Univ. Propp RU
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1.6 Digital Autonomous Cultural Objects (DACOS)
Team of Manfred Thaller, Universität zu Köln,
Researchers
Manfred Thaller
Jürgen Nemitz
Patrick Sahle
Torsten Schassan
Almuth Bedenbender
MartIin Iordanidis
Ursula Kumpel
Suzanne Kurz
Wei Wang
Frederic Andres
Jerome Godard
Christine van Assche
Christine Loke
Nurul Khalique
Nunzio Casalino
Fernando Cabral
Antonio Almeida
M
M
M
M
F
M
F
F
F
M
M
F
F
M
M
M
M
Position
Professor
Universität zu Köln
Dr.
Universität zu Köln
Phd Student Universität zu Köln
Phd Student Universität zu Köln
Phd Student Universität zu Köln
Phd Student Universität zu Köln
Phd Student Universität zu Köln
Phd Student Universität zu Köln
Phd Student Universität zu Köln
Associate Prof. LMT
(2.1)
PhD student LMT
Dr.
Centre Pompidou
Ms.
Stream UK Media Services
Mr.
Stream UK Media Services
PhD Student LUISS
(4.6)
Mr.
Sistemas do futuro
Mr.
Sistemas do futuro
Mediterranean Connection
Vassilis Kotsopoulos
Panagiotis Katsambanis
Saqer AbdelRahim
Samar Mezayek
M
M
M
F
Mr.
Mr.
Dr.
Mrs.
IDEC SA, Pireaus
(1.5)
IDEC SA, Pireaus
(1.5)
Royal Scientific Society
Royal Scientific Society
GR
GR
JO
JO
NAS/Russian Connection
Evgeny D. Patarakin
M
Dr
Prog. Sys. Inst. Russ. Acad. Sc.
RU
Further
Nuno Ferreira
Natalia Jorge
Clara Vaz Pinto
M
F
F
Mr.
Ms.
Dr.
Sistemas do futuro
Sistemas do futuro
Cultura Digital
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
FR
FR
FR
UK
UK
IT
P
P
P
P
P
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Sonia Cerquiera
Adelaide Costa
Ana Paula Avelar
Gloria Bastos
Isabel Barros Dias
Joan Luis Cardoso
Maria Alexandra Camara
Maria do Ceu Marques
Maria Filipa Palma dos Reis
Maria do Rosario Lupi Bello
Rosa Maria Squcira
F
F
F
F
F
M
F
F
F
F
F
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Cultura Digital
Universidad Aberta (Lisbon)
Universidad Aberta (Lisbon
Universidad Aberta (Lisbon
Universidad Aberta (Lisbon
Universidad Aberta (Lisbon
Universidad Aberta (Lisbon
Universidad Aberta (Lisbon
Universidad Aberta (Lisbon
Universidad Aberta (Lisbon
Universidad Aberta (Lisbon
1.7 Interfaces
Team of Andrew Morrision, InterMedia, University of Oslo
Researchers
Position
Andrew Morrison
M Associate Professor University of Oslo
Ole Smørdal
M Dr
University of Oslo
Jan Dolonen
M Programmer
University of Oslo
Cecilia Katseff
M Dr.
Interactive Inst.,
Torbjörn Johannson
M Professor
Interactive Inst., Umea
Mariangela Contenti
F Ph D Student
LUISS
Ramon Guardans
M Professor
Medialab Madrid
Luis Rico
M Dr.
Medialab Madrid
Adolf Mathias
M PhD Student
ZKM, Karlsruhe
*
CHIME Accessibility
*
CHIME Accessibility
Michael Schnaider
M Dr.
ZGDV - Artnouveau :
Kim Pen
M PhD Student
LMT
Julian Florez Esnal
M Dr
VICOMTECH
Dagny Stuedahl
M PhD Student
InterMedia
Palmyre Pierroux
F PhD Student
InterMedia
*
M PhD Student
Interactive Institute
*
F PhD Student
Interactive Institute
*Awaiting names
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
NO
NO
NO
SE
NO
IT
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
DE
FR
ES
SE
SE
SE
SE
Mediterranean Connection
Angel Sappa
Sotirios Malasiotis
Filareti Tsalakanidou
M Dr.
M Dr
F PhD Student:
ITI-CERTH
ITI-CERTH
ITI-CERTH
ES
ES
ES
NAS and Russian Connection
Kirill Nasedkin
M Director
RCHN
RU
Further
Johannes Behr
Frank Seibert
Cornelius Malerczyk
Patrick Dähme
Cristina Escaleira
M
M
M
M
F
Pedro Pimenta
Leonel Valbom
M
M
ZGDV
ZGDV
ZGDV
ZGDV
Associaçao CCG/ZGDV
University of Minho
University of Minho
MSc
Dipl. Inform
Dipl. Inform
Dipl. Inform
Dr.
Professor
PhD Student
DE
DE
DE
DE
P
P
P
25
Pedro Branco
M
PhD Student
University of Minho
P
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1.8 Multimodal Interfaces
Team of Benoit Macq, Université Catholique de Louvain, SIMILAR NoE
Researchers
Benoit Michel
Xavier Marichal
Jean-Francois Delaigle
Monica Gemo
*
*
Alessandro d’Atri
Ana Bettencourt
Luis Almeida
Daniel Beauchene
Cécile Millon
* Awaiting Names
Mediterranean Connection
Stavros Perantonis
Evangelos Karkaletsis
Basilios Gatos
Volkan Atalay
Adnan Yazici
Yasemin Yardimci-Cetin
Gözde Bozdagi-Akar
Aydin Alatan
Asuman Dogac
Adem Mulayim
Serhat Tuncay
Arif Turner
M
M
F
F
POSITION
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
PhD student
M
F
M
M
F
Director
Professor
Dr.
Dr.
Ph D Student
UCL +SIMILAR NoE
BE
Université Catholique de Louvain BE
Université Catholique de Louvain BE
Université Catholique de Louvain BE
CHIME Accessibility
ES
CHIME Accessibility
ES
LUISS
IT
University of Minho (1.3, 4.1, 5.6) P
Associaçao CCG/ZGDV
P
Condillac, LISTIC Lab, Savoie
FR
Condillac, LISTIC Lab, Savoie
FR
M
M
M
M
M
F
F
M
F
M
M
M
Professor
Dr.
Dr.
Assistant Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor Dr.
Dr
PhD Student
PhD Student
NCSR, Demokritos
NCSR, Demokritos
NCSR, Demokritos
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University
Intro Solutions15
Intro Solutions
Intro Solutions
Intro Solutions
GR
GR
GR
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
NAS/ Russian Connection
Vadim Chebanov
M Mr
ZAO ProSoft-M JSC
RU
Further
Selcuk Kopru
Aziz Sozer
Habil Kalkan
Burçak Otlu
Ulas Yilmaz
Aykut Erdem
M
M
M
F
M
M
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University
T
T
T
T
T
T
Researcher
Researcher
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
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1.8 Spatial Access (3-D Reconstructions and Reproductions)
Team of David Clarke, National Museums of Scotland, ORION
Researchers
Position
Fraser Hunter
M Dr.
National Museums of Scotland
Val Duncan
F Mrs
National Museums of Scotland
Luis Salgado
M Professor
Univ. Politecnico di Madrid
Apostolos Birbilis
M Mr.
Athens Technology Center
Jorge Soler Diaz
M Dr.
Alicante Prov. Museum of Archaeology
Roberto Caldelli
M Dr.
Università di Firenze
Sebastien Duval
M Dr.
LMT
Francisco S. Lemos
M Professor
University of Minho (1.9, 3.2 4.1. 4,2)
Christine Rieu
F Dr.
Condillac, LISTIC Lab, Savoie
Christoph Tricot
M PhD Student
Condillac, LISTIC Lab, Savoie
UK
UK
ES
GR
ES
IT
FR
P
FR
FR
Mediterranean Connection
Nikolaos Gizelis
Ioannis Pratikakis
Ersin Esen
Alper Koz
Burcu Kopenekçi
Anna G Marrangou
Martha Tsapatoris
FHW
NCSR Demokritos
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University
Gamma Tech
Athens Technology Centre
GR
GR
T
T
T
CY
GR
ADIT, Kunskamera Museum, SPb,
RU
GfaI, Berlin
Neanderthal Museum
Dion Archaeological Museum & Site
University of Minho
Universidad Politecnico di Madrid
DE
DE
DE
P
ES
M
M
M
M
F
F
F
Researcher
Dr.
Researcher
PhD student
PhD student
Dr
Dr
NAS and Russian Connection
Tatiana Bogozomova
F Dr.
Further
Lothar Paul
Gerd Weniger
Yannis Mavroudis
Luis Fontes
Unnamed
M Dr.
M Dr.
M Dr
M PhD Student
M Dr
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1.10 Spatio-Temporal Access (GIS dimension)
Team of Humphrey Southall, Portsmuth University
Researchers
Position
Humphrey Southall
M Dr.
University of Portsmouth
UK
Nicholas Burton
M Mr.
University of Portsmouth
UK
Ian Turton
M Dr.
Leeds University
UK
Alistair Walder
M Dr.
Leeds Univeristy
UK
David Medyckyj-Scott
M Dr.
Edinburgh (EDINA)
UK
James Reid
M Mr.
Edinburgh (EDINA)
UK
Göran Kristiansson
M Mr.
National Archives of Sweden (Riksarkivet) SE
Mårten Johansson
M Mr.
National Archives of Sweden (Riksarkivet) SE
Michael Goerke
M Dr.
European University Institute, Florence (docs) IT
Maria Manuela Martins
F Professor
University of Minho (4.2, 4.7, 5.6)
P
Cristina Escaleira
F Dr.
Associaçao CCG/ZGDV
P
Vitor Sá
M Professor
University of Minho
P
Mediterranean Connection
Georgios Sidiropoulos
Stratos Stylianidis
Rolandos Ioannides
NAS/Russian Connection
Elena Netchaeva
M Dr.
M Dr.
M Dr.
F Dr., Dep’t Dir.
FHW
Gamma Tech
Gamma Tech
GR
CY
CY
State Univ.Higher Sch. of Ec.
RU
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1.11 Virtual Environments and Virtual Agora
Antonella Guidazzoli, CINECA
Researchers
Position
Antonella Guidazzoli
F Dr.
Massimo Alessio Mauri
M Dr.
Maria Elena Bonfigli
F Dr.
Luigi Calori
M Dr.
Mauro Felicori
M Dr.
Renzo Salvi
M Mr.
Maria Chiara Liguori
F PhD Student
Elisasbetta Farella
F PhD Student
Marc Le Renard
M Engineer of Research
Ramon Guardans
M Professor
Adérito Fernandes Marcos
M Professor
Anthony M. Lavender
M Dr.
Alberto Larazabal Lassosa
M Ing
Katerina Mania
F Dr
Paul Lister
M Professor
Aurkene Alzua
F Dr
Jose Achon
M Dr
Larraitz Arretexea
F Ph D Student
Fromme Rens
M Dr
Tayeb Sehad
M Researcher
Evangelo Thomopoulos
M Researcher
Philip Hristov
M PhD Student
CINECA
IT
CINECA
IT
CINECA
IT
CINECA
IT
Comune di Bologna
IT
RAI
IT
Universita' di Bologna
IT
Universita' di Bologna
IT
LMT
FR
Media Lab, Madrid
ES
University of Minho
P
University of Minho (artnouveau rep) P
VICOMTECH
ES
Sussex University VLSI
UK
Sussex University VLSI
UK
Duesto University
ES
Duesto University
ES
Duesto University
ES
V2
NL
Val de Seine
FR
Val de Seine
FR
Val de Seine
FR
Mediterranean Connection
Georgios Papaioannou
Dimitrios Tzovaras
Constantine Spyropoulos
FHW
ITI-CERTH
NCSR Demokritos
M Dr.
M Dr.
M Dr.
NAS and Russian Connection
Dmitry Rubashkin
M Dr.
Further
Stavroula Zoi
Panagiotis Stathopoulos
Giovanni Zanzotto
Alexander Oliveira
Luis Fontes
Maria do Carno Ribeiro
Rui Morais
Paulo Bernardes
Helena Paula Carvalho
José Manuel F. Leite
Natália C. Botica
F
M
M
M
M
F
M
M
F
M
F
Ms.
Mr.
Dr.
Dr.
PhD Student
Ms.
PhD Student
Mr.
PhD Student
Mr.
Ms.
(1.4)
NGO TIME, SPb.
Nat’l Tech.Univ. Athens (NTUA)
Nat’l Tech.Univ. Athens (NTUA)
Università di Padova
Associaçao CCG/ZGDV
University of Minho
University of Minho
University of Minho
University of Minho
University of Minho
University of Minho
University of Minho
GR
GR
GR
RU
GR
GR
IT
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
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1.12 Virtual Heritage Centres
Maurizio Forte, CNR-ITABC
Researchers
Position
Maurizio Forte
M Dr.
Sofia Pescarin
F Dr.
Claudio Rufa
M Dr
Eva Pietroni
F Dr.
Paolo Segala
M Engineer
Mauro Annunziato
M VR artist
Oleg Missikoff
M PhD Student
Silvia Filippini
F PhD Student
Stephen Kay
M PhD Student
François Crison
M Engineer of Research
Sebastien Gagnon
M Engineer of Research
Sandra Fauconnier
F Dr.
Graham Turnbull
M Mr.
Paul Newbury
M Dr.
Phil Watten
M Dr. Phil.
*
M PhD student, Tech. Assist.
*Awaiting name
CNR-ITABC
CNR-ITABC
CNR-ITABC
CNR-ITABC
Wiegand Foundation, Padua
Plancton Art Studio, Roma
LUISS, Roma,
UCL
British School at Rome
LMT
LMT
V2 (Rotterdam)
SCRAN
Sussex University VLSI
Sussex University VLSI
CNR –ITABC
IT
IT
IT
IT
IT
IT
IT
UK
UK
FR
FR
NL
UK
UK
UK
IT
FHW
Gamma Tech
GR
CY
Mediterranean Connection
Afroditi Kamara
Yiorgos L Chrysanthou
F
M
Dr.
Dr
Russian Connection
Irina Gasllikova
Irina Bazileva
Larisa L. Travina
Olga Kissel
Evgeny B Zalmanov
Victor N. Kolesin
F
F
F
F
M
M
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Mr.
Mr.
International Connection
Bernard Frischer
Lon Addison
M Professor
M Professor
UCLA
US
University of Berkeley (Virt.Her.Net)US
Further
Marco Mozzo
Sofia Gameiro
Nino Ferreira
Natalia Jorge
Natalya V. Ivanova
Tatyana E. Kolpakova
M
F
M
F
F
F
Scuola Normale Superiore
Associaçao CCG/ZGDV
Sistemas do Futuro
Sistemas do Futuro
State Russian Museum
State Russian Museum
Dr.
Dra.
Dr.
Dr.
Ms.
Ms.
ISIE, State Univ H. Sch. of Ec.
RU
ISIE, State Univ H. Sch. of Ec.
RU
Prog.Sys.Inst. Russian Acad. Sc. RU
State Russian Museum
RU
State Russian Museum
RU
State Russian Museum
RU
IT
P
P
P
RU
RU
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OBJECTIVE 2: Fill DEED through networks to reflect diversity
2.1 Country Networks16
Team of Frederic Andres, LMT and NII
Country
University
1. Austria
Universität Wien
2. Belgium
Science and Technical Information Service (STIS)
3. Cyprus
Gamma Tech
3. Denmark
*
4. Finland
*
5. France
Laval Mayenne Technopole
6. Germany
Universität zu Cologne
7. Greece
Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens
8. Italy
Scuola Normale Superiore
9. Netherlands
NIWI
10. Norway
University of Oslo
11. Poland
ICMSS, Torun
12. Portugal
Faculdad de Letras da Universidade do Porto
13. Russia
Centre PIC: Ministry of Culture of Russia
14. Spain
Universidad SEK, Segovia
15. Sweden
Interactive Institute Stockholm
16. UK
*
*Awaiting Names
M
F
M
Researcher
Gerhard Budin
Prof
Pascale Van Dinter
Marinos Iioannides Prof
M
M
M
M
F
M
F
M
F
M
M
Frédéric Andres. Prof
Manfred Thaller
Prof
Giorgios Giannoulis Dr
Benedetto Benedetti
Michelle Van den Berk
Andrew Morrison Prof
Maria Sliwinska Prof
Mário Brito
Prof
Nadia Brakker
Mrs
Arturo Colorado Rector
Halina Gottlieb
Dr
2.2. Share Research in DEED
Team of
Italy
LUISS
Oleg Missikoff PhD st.
Country Reps as above + members in each country (to be further defined).
2.3 Harmonise projects
Team of Rosa Caffo, list of researchers to liase with MINERVA (to be confirmed)
Country
Institution
Researcher
1. Austria
*
2. Belgium
Science and Cultural Federal Services (SSTC)
Pascale Van Dinter
3. Denmark
*
4. Finland
*
5. France
*
6. Germany
*
7. Greece
*
8. Italy
LUISS + MINERVA
(cf. 3.1)
M Oleg Missikoff
PhD st.
9. Netherlands
*
10. Norway
*
11. Portugal
*
12. Russia
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation M Eugeny Kuzmin Dr
13. Spain
*
14. Sweden
*
15. UK
*
* To be determined.
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OBJECTIVE 3: Update DEED through Research Matrices
3.1 Co-ordination with Specialised Networks (provisional, awaiting clarification re
other networks in FP6). Team of to be determined
Researchers
Position
Technologies and infrastructure
*
ERCIM
*
ERCIM
Linda Hardman
F Dr.
CWI (WWW)
Content Creators
Michael Schnaider
M Dr.
ZGDV (Artnouveau)
(1.7)
Anne Nigten
F PhD student
V2 (Rotterdam)
Wolfgang Strauss
M Dr.
Netzspannung
Content Holders
*
DELOS
*
DELOS
*
MUSICNET
*
IFLA
*
ICOM
*
ICA
Content Brokers
Seamus Ross
M Professor
ERPANET*
Lou Burnard
M Dr
Oxford University
Content,Context,Communication
Sandy Buchanan
M Mr
SCRAN
François Burlin
M Mr.
Tourism-site.org
Francesco Barbini
M Dr
LUISS Link with MINERVA (2.1)
Pat Young
F Mrs
CHIN
Kurt Deggeller
M Dr.
IASA
Crispin Hewitt
M Mr.
Standing C.Eu.AV Archives (SCENAA)
*To be further defined as the other NoEs for FP6 are more clearly defined.
Mediterranean Dimension
Antonia Zervaki
*
NAS/Russian Dimension
Evgeny D.Patarakin
F
M
Ms.
Dr.
M Dr.
FHW (MEDINA)
Turkish Multimedia Forum
DE
NL
UK
UK
UK
BE
IT
CA
SW
UK
GR
GR
Prog.Sys.Inst. Russian Acad. Sc. RU
3.2 Knowledge Discovery with adaptation of the tools of CAT (Communication, Art &
Technology network, Fraunhofer, Sankt Augustin) Team of Monika Fleischmann
Researchers
Position
Monika Fleischmann
F Dr.
Fraunhofer IMK
Wolfgang Strauss
M Dr.
Fraunhofer IMK
Jasminko Novak
F Dr.
Fraunhofer IMK
Stefan Paal
M Dr.
Fraunhofer IMK
Predrag Peranovic
M Dr.
Fraunhofer IMK
Gabriele Blome
F Dr.
Fraunhofer IMK
Mediterranean Connection
Georgios Paliouras
NAS/Russian Connection
Alexander S. Dricker
NL
M
Dr.
NCSR Demokritos
M
Director, Professor ADIT, State Russian Museum
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
DE
GR
RU
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4. Joint Research Programme 4.1. Multidimensional Museums
Team of Isidro Moreno Sanchez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Researchers
Position
INTEGRATING TEAM
Isidro Moreno Sanchez
M Professor
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Maria Teresa Garcia Nieto
F Professor
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Antonella Guidazzoli
F Dr.
CINECA
Subproject a:
Virtual Net of Spanish Olive Oil Museums
José Ignacio Rojas Sola
M Professor
Universidad de Jaén
Subproject b:
European Sport Museum
Miguel Ángel Betancor León M Professor
Univ.de Las palmas de Gran Canaria
Karin Ohlenschläger
F Co-Director
Univ.de Las palmas de Gran Canaria
Luis Rico
M Co-Director
Univ.de Las palmas de Gran Canaria
F. Javier Ramírez Perdiguero M Researcher
Univ.de Las palmas de Gran Canaria
Subproject c:
Spanish Museums
Mikel Asensio Brouard
M Professor
e-Cultura Net, S.A
Amparo León Cascón
F Dr.
e-Cultura Net, S.A
Subproject d:
Collaborative Digital Art and Artistic Creation
Luis Hernández Ibañez
M
Dr
Universidad A Coruña– VideaLAB
Javier Taibo
M PhD Student
Universidad A Coruna
Glòria Munilla Cabrillana
F Professor Titular
Univ. Oberta de Catalunya (Grup Òliba)
Cèsar Carreras Montfort
M Mr
Univ. Oberta de Catalunya (Grup Òliba)
Diego Gutiérrez Perez
M Assoc. Professor Universidad de Zaragoza
Francisco Serón
M Dr.
Universidad de Zaragoza
José Ramón Alcalá Mellado M Researcher
MIDE (Museo Int. de Electrografía)
Javier Ariza Pomereta
M Assoc. Professor MIDE (Museo Int. de Electrografía)
Subproject e:
Vatican Map
Antonella Guidazzoli
F Dr.
CINECA
Subproject f:
EU Communications portal
Bernardo Díaz Nosty
M Professor Dr
Málaga University: EU Com
Delfina Morán Arnaldo
F Professor
Málaga University: EU Com
Pedro Farias Batlle
M Dr.
Málaga University: EU Com
Teodoro León Gross
M Professor
Málaga University: EU Com
NAS and Russian Connection
Alexander V. Dremailov
M Director
Alexey Lebedev
M Dr
Further
Manuel Canga Sosa
M
Franci.Borja Lopez Barinaga M
Elena Mozo Alonso
F
Andrea Vituzzi
M
Emilia Masci
F
Félix Lozano Corbacho
M
Arantza Barandiaran
F
Maria Luisa Balenciaga
F
Ana Santo Domingp
F
*
M
*
6 F+ 4 M
*Awaiting Names
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Dr.
Dr.
Ms
Ms
Ms
PhD Student
PhD Student
ADIT, Moscow Kremlin Museums
ADIT
Complutense da Madrid
Complutense da Madrid
Complutense da Madrid
LUISS
Scuola Normale Superiore
e-Cultura Net, S.A
Patr.Cult.Ayunt.San Sebastián
Patr.Cult.Ayunt.San Sebastián
Patr.Cult.Ayunt.San Sebastián
Universidad A Coruna
Universidad SEK de Segovia
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
IT
ES
ES
ES
ES
RU
RU
ES
ES
ES
IT
IT
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
4.2. Historical European Cities
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Team of Francesca Bocchi, Bologna, CIHV
Researchers
Position
ITALIAN CITIES
Francesca Bocchi
F Professor
Manuela Ghizzoni
F Dr.
Laura Berti Ceroni
F PhD student
Massimo Neri
M PhD student
Vittorio Valenti
M PhD student
Marco Adorni
M PhD student
Rosa Smurra
F Dr.
Hubert Houben
M Professor
Benedetto Benedetti
M Dr.
Umberto Parini
i
M Dr.
SPANISH CITIES
Arturo Colorado Castellary
Miguel Jaime García
Eugenia Lopez Reus
Fernando Hermoso de Ancos
Adelina Giralt Batista
Juan José Prat Ferrer
Miguel Angel Chavez Martin
José María Lozano Maneiro
José Morilla Critz
León Atilano González Sotos
Margarita Vallejo Girvés
Sebastián Rascón Marqués
Pedro Enriq.Gómez Fernández
Vanesa Freixa Riba
Lluis Noguera
Ramón Maspons
Miriam Torres
Lluis Tintó
Jaume Cascuberta
M
M
F
M
F
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
F
M
M
F
M
M
FRENCH AND ENGLISH CITIES
Liliane Gallet-Blanchard
F
Jacques Carré
M
Marie-Hélène Thévenot-Totems F
Pierre Dubois
M
Séverine Letalleur
F
Fabien Jeannier
M
Rector
Professor
Dr
Mr.
PhD Student
Dr
Dr
Dr
Dr
Dr
Dr.
Co-Professor
Co-Ordinator
Università di Bologna
Università di Bologna
Università di Bologna
Università di Bologna
Università di Bologna
Università di Bologna
Università IULM di Milano; Bologna
Università di Lecce
Scuola Normale Superiore
Scuola Normale Superiore
IT
IT
IT
IT
IT
IT
IT
IT
IT
IT
Manager
Ing., Director
Ms.
Director
Mr
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Universidad Alcalá de Henares
Universidad Alcalá de Henares
Universidad Alcalá de Henares
Universidad Alcalá de Henares
Universidad Alcalá de Henares
Ayunta. de Granollers
Ayunta. de Granollers
Ayunta. de Granollers
Ayunta. de Granollers
Ayunta. de Granollers
Ayunta. de Granollers
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
Professor
Dr .
Dr.
Dr.
Ph D student
Ph D. Student
Université de Paris IV
Université de Paris IV
Université de Paris IV
Université de Paris IV
Université de Paris IV
Université de Paris IV
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
NAS and Russian Connection
Petr A. Grinfeld
M Mr., AltSoft, Spb, (Pskov, Novgorod)
RU
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4.3. E-Learning and Cultural Tourism: Team of Nuria Lloret Romero, Diego Gutierrez Perez
Researchers
INTEGRATING TEAM
Malika Hamza
F
TICKET Consortium18
M
Nuncio Casalino
M
Nuria Lloret
F
Subproject a:
Alejandro Bermúdez Medel
M
Virginia Galván Amrtinez
F
Miguel Larrañaga Zulueta
M
Adelina Giralt Batista
F
Fernando Hermoso de Ancos M
Subproject b:
Nuria Lloret Romero
F
Joan Aliaga Morell
M
Luisa Tolosa Robledo
F
Fernanda Peset Mancebo
F
José Luis Clemente Marco
M
Margarita Cabrera Méndez
F
Fernando Canet Centellas
M
Adolfo Muñoz Muñoz
M
Subproject c:
Magdalena Valor Piechotta
F
Nieves Gonz.Fern.Villavicencio F
Ricardo Córdoba
F
Miguel Angel Tabales
M
Alejandro García San Juan
M
José Ramírez del Río
M
Araceli Rodríguez
F
Manuel Vera
M
Pilar Lafuente
F
Mª Teresa Henares
F
Inmaculada Babío
F
José Luis Villar
M
Fernando Daza
M
Pablo García
M
Subproject d:
Pilar Espona Andreu
F
Jaume Coll Conesa
M
Subproject e:
Luis Rico
M
Karin Ohlenschläger
F
Ramón Guardans
M
Pablo Cárcama
M
Pau Alsina
F
Subproject f:
Antonella Guidazzoli
F
Subproject g:
José Antonio Gómez Municio M
Isidro Moreno Sanchez
M
Maria Teresa Garcia Nieto
F
Arturo Colorado
M
Position
Mrs.
Tourism-Site.org Network17
Mr
OGM Organisation Gestion Marketing-B
PhD Student LUISS +u-Tourism Consortium
Dr
Politenica di Valencia
Saecula Net
Dr.
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Dr.
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Dr.
Universidad SEK de Segovia
PhDStudent Universidad SEK de Segovia
Mr.
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Environment of Treaty of Westphalia
Dr
Universidad Politecnica di Valencia
Dr
Universidad Politecnica di Valencia
Dr.
Universidad Politecnica di Valencia
Dr
Universidad Politecnica di Valencia
Vice-Dean Universidad Politecnica di Valencia
PhDStudent Universidad Politecnica di Valencia
Dr
Universidad Politecnica di Valencia
Dr.
Universidad Politecnica di Valencia
Landscape in Medieaval Southern Sierra
Professor
Universidad de Sevilla
Professor
Universidad de Sevilla
Professor
Universidad de Sevilla
Assoc. Prof. Universidad de Sevilla
Mr.
Universidad de Sevilla
Mr.
Universidad de Sevilla
Ms
Universidad de Sevilla
Mr.
Universidad de Sevilla
Phd Student Universidad de Sevilla
PhD Student Universidad de Sevilla
Phd Student Universidad de Sevilla
Phd Student Universidad de Sevilla
Phd Student Universidad de Sevilla
Phd Student Universidad de Sevilla
Ceramics
Dr., Proj.
Mus. Nac. de Ceramica y Artes Sunt.
Dr
Mus. Nac. de Ceramica y Artes Sunt.
Banquets On-line
Co-Director MediaLab Madrid
MediaLab Madrid
Dr.
MediaLab Madrid
Mr.
MediaLab Madrid
Ph D Student MediaLab Madrid
Web Portal
Dr.
CINECA
Gardens and Cultural Landscapes
Professor
Universidad de Valladolid
Professor
Universidad da Valladolid
Professor
Universidad Complutense Madrid
Rector
Universidad SEK de Segovia (2.1)
BE
BE
IT
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
IT
ES
ES
ES
ES
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Mediterranean Connection
Ellen Minolakaki
F Dr.
IDEC SA, Pireaus
GR
NAS and Russian Connection
Sergey E. Zuev
M Dr.
Moscow school of Soc. and Ec. Sci.
RU
Note: Again some of these researchers will be engaged in spreading excellence through e-training
(cf. 5.4 of these lists below).
Further
Giovanna Dorigati
Giorgio Zanoni
Johann Stockinger
Fernando Liso Bartual
Mario Liedo Silla
Margarita Mortera Domenech
Nuria Ramon Marques
Daniel Moneieno Escribano
F Mr.
M Mr.
M Mag, Director
M
M
F
F
M
4.4 Art and Text Databases and Slide collections
Team of Manfred Thaller, Univerisität zu Köln
Researchers
Position
Manfred Thaller
M Professor
Suzanne Kurz
F Ph D Student
Torsten Schassan
M PhD Student
Michele Ciliberto
M Professor
Virginia Angeletti
F Dr.
Rafaella Spagnoli
F Professor
Michele Paoli
M Dr.
* Awaiting Details re: Names
Mediterranean Connection
Lambros Makris
Despoina Palaka
Eleni Manolakaki
Anastasia Kazantzidou
M
F
F
F
e-Tour (Rovereto)
e-Tour (Rovereto)
Austrian Computer Society
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Univerisität zu Köln
Univerisität zu Köln
Univerisität zu Köln
Scuola Normale Superiore
Scuola Normale Superiore
Scuola Normale Superiore
Scuola Normale Superiore
Mr.
PhD student
Dr
Ms
ITI-CERTH
ITI-CERTH
IDEC SA, Pireaus
IDEC SA, Pireaus
NAS/ Russian Connection
Vadim Chebanov
M
Anna Pikalova
F
Galina Borisovna Andreev
F
Tatyana.Vladimirovna Yudenkova F
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Electronic Archives
ISIE, State Univ H. School of Econ.
State Tretyakov Gallery
State Tretyakov Gallery
Further
Daniiella Lombardini
Carmelo Occhipinti
Elena Vaiani
i
Miriam Fileti Mazza
Dr.
PhD. Student
PhD Student
Dr.
Scuola Normale Superiore
Scuola Normale Superiore
Scuola Normale Superiore
Scuola Normale Superiore
F
F
F
F
( )
IT
IT
AU
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
DE
DE
DE
IT
IT
IT
IT
GR
GR
GR
GR
RU
RU
RU
RU
IT
IT
IT
IT
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4.5. Greek Culture and E-learning Projects by FHW (Athens):
Team of Giorgios Giannoulis
Yoannis Karachristos
M Dr.
FHW
(5.4)
Eleni Charou
F Dr.
NCSR Demokritos
Note: FHW has a research projects which are externally funded and already available online.
Their role in the NoE will be to make these accessible using the parameters of the DEED.
GR
GR
4.6 . 3-D Reconstructions and Archaeology (ORION)
Team of Dr David Clarke
Researchers
Position
Roman Berka
M Dr.
Czech Tech University
Pavel Krsek
M PhD Student
Czech Tech University
Barbara Tucholka-Wlodarska F Dr.
National Museum, Gdansk
Konrad Wojciechowski
M Professor
Technical University of Silesia
Bogdan Smolka
M Dr.
Technical University of Silesia
Justina Poskiene
F Dr.
Vilnius University, Dep’t Arch.
Mikhailo Videiko
M Dr.
Institute for Archaeology
Vyacheslav V.Matsello
M Dr.
Int’l Research Training Centre, Kiev
Alla F. Manako
F Dr.
Int’l Research Training Centre Kiev
Nunzio Casalino
M PhD Student
LUISS
CZ
CZ
PO
PO
PO
PO
UA
UA
UA
IT
Further
Kamil Ghais
Jiri Zara
Ramunas Trimakas
Alexejus Luchthanas
Henryk Palus
Marek Szczepanski
Damian Bereska
Konrad Wojciechowski
CZ
CZ
PO
PO
PO
PO
PO
PO
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Professor
Czech Tech University
Czech Tech University
Vilnius University, Dep’t of Arch.
Vilnius University, Dep’t of Arch
Technical University of Silesia
Technical University of Silesia
Technical University of Silesia
Technical University of Silesia
4.7. Virtual Environments and Virtual Heritage Centres
Team of Antonella Guidazzoli
Researchers
Position
Antonella Guidazzoli
F Dr.
CINECA
Maurizio Forte
M Dr
CNR-ITABC
Liliane Gallet-Blanchard
F Professor,
Université de Paris IV
Marie-Madeleine Martinet
F Professor
Université de Paris IV
Bryan Carter
M Visiting Professor
Université de Paris IV
Tim Portlock
M Associate Developer Université de Paris IV
Yannis Cathelot
M PhD Student
Université de Paris IV
Audrey Rochas
F PhD Student
Université de Paris IV
Elsa Grassy
F PhD Student
Université de Paris IV
(1.11)
(1.12)
(4.1)
IT
IT
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
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4.8 Cultural Diversity
Team of Jacques Poulain, Université de Paris 8 and Founder. European Univeristy of Culture
Jacques Poulain
M Professor
Université de Paris 8
Martine Prétceille
F Professor
Université de Paris 8
Patrice Vermeren
M Professor
Université de Paris 8
Garbis Kortian
M Professor
Université de Paris 8
Marianne Kriegel
F PhD Student
Université de Paris 8
François de Bernard
M PhD Student
Université de Paris 8
Natalia Nikolaeva
F PhD Student
Université de Paris 8
Christoph Wolff
M Professor
Freie Universität, Berlin
Charles Alunni
M Dr.
École normale supérieure d’Ulm, Paris
Catherine Paoletti
F Dr.
École normale supérieure d’Ulm, Paris
Garbis Kortian
M Professor
Universität Wien
François Delaporte
F Professor
Université Jules Verne de Picardie
Reyès Maté
F Professor
CSIC, Madrid
FR
FR
FR
Fr
FR
FR
FR
GE
FR
FR
AU
FR
ES
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5. Activities to Spread Excellence
5.1. Hypermedia E-Learning
Team of Diego Antona Archilla, Associacion National de Investigadores en Didattica
RESEARCHERS
Position
Subproject a:
ON-LINE AUDIOVISUAL E-TEACHING
Javier Marzal Felici
M Dr
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
Rafael López Lita
M Dr
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
Jordi Adell Segura
M Dr
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
José Aguilar García
M Dr
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
Francisco Fernández Beltrán
M Mr.
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
Juan Salvador Pérez Villanueva M Mr.
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
César Fernández Fernández
M Mr.
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
Francisco López Cantos
M Mr.
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
Emilio Sáez Soro
M Mr.
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
Robert Roig Marzà
M Mr.
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
Antonio José Bellver Torlà
M Mr.
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
Subproject b:
Diego Antona Archilla
M
José María Requejo
M
Javier Fresnillo Nuňez
M
Manuel Montoro Navarro
M
Carlos E. Bengtsson
M
Lourdes Hernando deLarramendi F
Xavier Agenjo Bullòn
M
Alejandro Pisanty Baruch
M
Tolga Túfekçi
M
Ferda Topcan
M
Burak Kirmer
M
Oner Demirkol
M
Matteo Bartocci
M
Haydyn Shaughnessy
M
Jean-Claude Marot
M
Julian Florez Esnal
M
Maria Teresa Linaza Saldana
F
Amalia Ortiz Nicolas
F
Annalisa Sarasini
F
Félix Núñez
M
Adam Greissman
M
Gerardo Osorio
M
Subproject c:
Luis Martínez Zorzo
M
Pilar Aramburuzabala Higuera
F
Fernando Hermoso de Ancos
F
José María Lozano Maneiro
M
Carmina Rodríguez Hermoso
F
Felix Nuňez Paris
M
Subproject ci:
Vassiliki Foskolou
F
Efstathia Chatzi
F
Sofia Spiliotopoulou
F
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
BROADBAND FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Director
Assoc.Nat.Investigad.en Didattica
ES
Director
Esc,Turis.de Salamanca19 ANID
ES
Coordinator, Dr. Dig. Lib.Cervantes Virtual20 ANID
ES
MSc
ANID
ES
MSc
ANID
ES
MSc., Director
DIGIBIS
ES
Dir.
Fondacion Larramendi
ES
Director
Tech. Ac.Serv. UNAM
ME
Dr.
TUBITAK-Info.Tech.Elec.Res.Inst.
T
TUBITAK-Info.Tech.Elec.Res.Inst.
T
TUBITAK-Info.Tech.Elec.Res.Inst.
T
TUBITAK-Info.Tech.Elec.Res.Inst.
T
MSc
Galileo Net
IT
Dr
Via Knowledge
IE
MSc
JC Consultants
UK
Dr
VICOMTECH
ES
Dr
VICOMTECH
ES
Ing
VICOMTECH
ES
Sonic Software
(awaiting doc) UK
Universidad SEK
ES
UDICo Universal Data Interface Corporation
UK
Nexusware
(awaiting doc) US
Virtual Campus
Universidad SEK de Segovia
ES
Dr.
Universidad SEK de Segovia
ES
Universidad SEK de Segovia
ES
Dr.
Universidad SEK de Segovia
ES
Dr.
Universidad SEK de Segovia
ES
Universidad SEK de Segovia
ES
Mediterranean Connection
Dr
FHW
(5.4)
GR
Ms
IDEC SA, Pireaus
(1.4)
GR
Ms
IDEC SA, Pireaus
(1.4)
GR
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Subproject cii:
Tatyana Sherstinova
Grigory Martynenko
Subproject ciii:
Alexander Markhasin
Elena V. Kokoreva
Denis V. Paveljev
Sergey N Novikov
Subproject civ
Alexander Markhasin
Alexander F. Yaroslavtsev
Tatyana A Markhasina
Subproject d:
Antonella Guidazzoli
NAS and Russian Connection
F Dr.
St-Peterburg State Univ. Phon.
M Dr, Prof.
St-Peterburg State Univ. Comp. Ling.
RESEARCH: SATELLITES FOR E-REMOTE LEARNING
M Professor
SibSUTI and SibMobiIST (5.1e11)
F Post Ph D
SibSUTI and SibMobiIST
M PhD St
SibSUTI and SibMobiIST
M Dr
SibSUTI and SibMobiIST
Develop High QoS: Neuron Like Broadband Wireless
M Prof., Director
Siberian Centre of Mobile IST
M PhD
Siberian Centre of Mobile IST
F PhD Student
Siberian Centre of Mobile IST
Access Grid Node*
F Dr.
CINECA
Further
Aodhan O’Herlihy
Roos Demol
Tim Smithers
Jesús de Val Hernández *
Pascual Peset Ferrer
*
Francisca Hermandez
Jesus Domingues
Javier del Olma
Maria Jose de Acuna
Antonio Ontinana
Monserrat Martinez
Patricia Juez
Marina Bidetti
Letizia Gabaglio
Paola Coppoloa
Federico Ferrazza
* Not in Jaume Letter
M Mr
F Mr
M Dr
M PhD St
M PhD St
F MA
M Mr.
M MA
F MA
M MA
F MA
F MA
F Ms
F Ms
F Ms
M Mr
Via Knowledge (Cork)
Via Knowledge (Cork)
VICOMTECH
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
DIGIBIS
DIGIBIS
DIGIBIS
DIGIBIS
DIGIBIS
DIGIBIS
Fondacion Larramendi
Galileo Net
Galileo Net
Galileo Net
Galileo Net
5.2 E-Learning user group in culture for PROKNOWNce
Team of Drs. Boris Groth, Thomas Bendig, Fraunhofer IUK (Berlin)
Researchers
Position
Thomas Bendig
M Dr.
Fraunhofer IUK
Daniel Pfuhl
M Dr
Fraunhofer IMK
Felix Schmitz-Justen
M Dr.
Fraunhofer IMK
A user group of 10 researchers will be constituted from the members of 5.1 (cf. Appendix 2)
5.3 French Examples: E-Training at Paris IV, La Sorbonne and the French National Network
Team of Marie Madeleine Martinet
Researchers
Position
Subproject A
Computer and Information Skills: Reseaux.doc21
Marie Madeleine Martinet
F Professor
Université de Paris IV
*
F PhD st. Graduate Web Developer Université de Paris IV
*
F PhD st. Graduate Web Developer Université de Paris IV
Yannis Cathelot
M PhD st. Graduate Assistant
Université de Paris IV
RU
RU
RU
RU
RU
RU
RU
RU
RU
IT
IE
IE
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
IT
IT
IT
IT
DE
DE
DE
FR
FR
FR
FR
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*
M PhD st. Graduate Assistant
Université de Paris IV
*
M PhD st. Graduate Assistant
Université de Paris IV
Audrey Rochas
F PhD st. Graduate Assistant
Université de Paris IV
Elisa Grassy
F PhD st. Graduate Assistant
Université de Paris IV
*
F PhD st. Graduate Assistant
Université de Paris IV
*
M PhD st. Graduate Assistant
Université de Paris IV
*
F PhD st. Graduate Assistant
Université de Paris IV
*
F PhD st. Graduate Assistant
Université de Paris IV
Subproject B
Multimedia Authoring Seminars on Hypermedia
Jacques Carré
M Professor
Université de Paris IV
Bryan Carter
M Professor
Université de Paris IV
Mar.-HélèneThévenot-TotemsF Professor
Université de Paris IV
Liliane Gallet-Blanchard
F Professor
Université de Paris IV
Pierre Dubois
M Associate Trainer
Université de Paris IV
Tim Portlock
M Associate Trainer
Université de Paris IV
M Associate Trainer
Université de Paris IV
Fabien Jeannier
M Ph D st.
Université de Paris IV
Séverine Letailleur
F Ph D st.
Université de Paris IV
. *Awaiting details re Names. Note: This includes sessions with 40-50 PhD students
NAS/Russian Connection
Nikolay Borisov
M Dr.
Olga Shlykova Vladinirovna F Professor
Irina M Muzalevskaya
F Professor
M Prof. Dr,
M Prof.Dr,
M Dr,
5.4. Greek Examples
Team of Giorgios Giannoulis (FHW)
Researchers
Position
Yannis Karachristos
M Dr.
Dimitrios Palaiothodorus
M Dr.
Vasiliki Foskolou
F Dr.
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
St-Petersburg State Univ.
RU
Moscow St.Univ.of Culture RU
Moscow sch. Soc.and Ec.Sc.RU
Subproject C
International Training Sessions in Digital Culture
Marie Madeleine Martinet
F Professor
Université de Paris IV
Liliane Gallet-Blanchard
F Professor
Université de Paris IV
*
M PhD st., Graduate Assistant
Université de Paris IV
*
F PhD st., Graduate Assistant
Université de Paris IV
*
M International Guest Lecturer
Université de Paris IV
*
M International Guest Lecturer
Université de Paris IV
*
M International Guest Lecturer
Université de Paris IV
*
F International Guest Lecturer
Université de Paris IV
*
F International Guest Lecturer
Université de Paris IV
. *Awaiting details re Names . Note: This includes sessions with 40-50 PhD students
NAS/Russian Connection
Lev Y Noll
Alexey V. Lebedev
Nikolai Selivanov
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
FR
ADIT, Russ. State Humanit.Univ.
RU
ADIT, Moscow sch. of soc.ec.sc.
RU
ADIT- Prem. Russ. State Humanit.Univ. RU
FHW
FHW
FHW
(5.1)
GR
GR
GR
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5.5. Restoration and Heritage
Team of Dr. Joseph Cannataci, Malta Centre for Restoration (IKONOS)
Researchers
Position
Joseph A Cannataci
M Dr.
Malta Centre for Restoration
Martina Chruana
F Dr.
Malta Centre for Restoration
Christian Degrigny
M Dr.
Malta Centre for Restoration
Bernardine Scicauana
F Ms.
Malta Centre for Restoration
Vanessa Camilleri
F Ms.
Malta Centre for Restoration
Joseph Schiro
M Mr.
Malta Centre for Restoration
Noel P Zammlit
M Mr.
Malta Centre for Restoration
Duncan Abela
M Mr.
Malta Centre for Restoration
Claude Borg
M Mr.
Malta Centre for Restoration
Jevon Vella
M Mr.
Malta Centre for Restoration
PhD Student
M Mr.
Malta Centre for Restoration
MT
MT
MT
MT
MT
MT
MT
MT
MT
MT
MT
This group will have links to Fraunhofer’s Proknownce and UCL’s SIMILAR NoE.
5.6 European Masters and Doctorates
Team of Benedetto Benedetti, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Teams of Francesca Bocchi, Università di Bologna and Anna Maria Silvana De Rosa, Sapienza
Researchers
Position
Subproject a
European Masters
Benedetto Benedetti
M Dr.
Scuola Normale Superiore
IT
Umberto Parini
M Dr.
Scuola Normale Superiore
IT
Paolo Paolini
M Professor
Politecnico di Milano
IT
Allan MacInnis
M Professor
University of Aberdeen (NEHRN rep)
UK
Liliane Gallet-Blanchard
F Professor
Uniiversité de Paris IV
FR
Marie-Madeleine Martinet
F Professor
Uniiversité de Paris IV
FR
Françoise Deconinck-Brossard F Associate member Uniiversité de Paris IV
FR
Marie-Teres Albert
F Professor
Brandenburgische Tech. Univ. Cottbus DE
UNESCO W. Heritage Studies Programme
Jacques Poulain
M Professor
European University of Culture rep
FR
Maria Teresa Garciá Nieto
F Professor
Universidad Complutense da Madrid
ES
Russian Connection
Nikolay Borisov
Olga Shlykova Vladimovna
Lev Y Noll
Alexey V Lebedev
M
F
M
M
Dr,
Professor
Professor Dr.
Professor Dr.
Subproject b
Francesco Bocchi
Annamaria Silvana de Rosa22
Thomas Riis
Marco Gaiani
Serge Moscovici
Paola Barocchi
Arturo Colorado y Castellary
Jacques Poulain
Marie Madeleine Martinet
F
F
M
M
M
F
M
M
F
European Doctorates
Professor
Università di Bologna
Professor
Università di Roma, La Sapienza
Professor
Universität Kiel23 (NEHRN rep.)
Professor
Politecnico di Milano24
Professor
Universita di Roma, La Sapienza
Professor
Scuola Normale Superiore
Rector
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Founder
European University of Culture
Professor
Université La Sorbonne
Russian Connection
Alexey V Lebedev
M Professor Dr
St-Petersburg State Univ.
Moscow State Univ. Culture and Arts
ADIT, Russ .State Humanitarian Univ.
ADIT, Moscow Sch. of Soc.and Ec.sci.
Moscow School of Soc.and Ec.Science
RU
RU
RU
RU
IT
IT
DE
IT
IT
IT
ES
FR
FR
RU
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Alexander Chernych
M Dr.
Director, Centre PIC
Further
Niccolo Ceccarelli
M Dr.
Politecnico di Milano25
Mauro Ceconello
M Dr.
Politecnico di Milano26
Alessandro Deserti
M Professor
Politecnico di Milano27
Torsten Fischer
M PHD Student
Universität Kiel
Note. The Scuola Normale courses at Cortona and Volterra involve c.25 students.
The Sorbonne courses involve 40 graduates.
5.7 Expand to NAS and Beyond
Team of Gerhard Budin, Universität Wien
Researchers
POSITION
Gerhard Budin
M Associate Professor
Maria Sliwinska
F Director
Vojtek Balik
M Director
Andris Vilks
M Director
Milena Tetrevova
F Director
Dincho Krastev
M Director
Aleksandra Horvat
F Director
Alenka Kavcic-Colic
F Director
Mihkel Reial
M Director
* Awaiting documents
Mediterranean Connection
Dionysios Tzakis
Dimitrios Palaiothodoros
M Dr.
M Dr
Russian Connection
Nadia Brakker*
F Mrs
Leonid Kujbyshev
M Mr
Alexander Chernych
M DR
*Also included elsewhere so not counted on this occasion.
RU
IT
IT
IT
DE
Universität Wien (1.4-5, 2.1)
AU
ICIMSS,Torun
*
PO
National Library, Czech Rep. *
CZ
National Library of Latvia
*
LA
Univ. Library, Kosice
SLO
Central Libr. Bulg. Acad. of Sc.
BU
Univ. of Zagreb, Dep’t of Info.Sc. CRO
National and Univ. Library
SLO
Nat. Dig.Repository Proj. Tallinn EST
FHW
FHW
GR
GR
Centre PIC
Centre PIC
Centre PIC
RU
RU
RU
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5.8 International Networks and Conferences
Team of James Hemsley, National Museums of Scotland
Researchers
Position
James Hemsley
M Dr. Co-ordinator
Marie Theres Albert
F Professor (5.6)
Canada
Pat Young *
EVAN Network
UK
Brand.ech. Univ.Cottbus (5.6)
UNESCO World Heritage Studies DE
Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
F Mrs
CHIN
CA
*Was also the head of CIDOC and participates annually in the AMSU summer course.
China
Ling Chen
Chengyu Xi
Baogao Cui
Huifen Liu
Jambin Jin
Shujung Jiang
Yan Lao
Ping Lao
Yukan Lang
F
M
M
F
M
F
F
F
M
Chinese Digital Culture Heritage Network: (CDCHN)
Dr.
Tsinghua University
Professor Dr
Tsinghua University
Dr
Tsinghua University
Associate Professor
Tsinghua University
Dr
Tsinghua University
Phd Student
Tsinghua University
Phd Student
Tsinghua University
Phd Student.
Tsinghua University
Phd Student.
Tsinghua University
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
Japan
Asian Network of Excellence on Digital Silk Roads
Kinji Ono
M Director, Professor
NII
JA
Frederic Andres
M Associate Professor
LMT, NII
(2.1)
FR, JA
Takeo Yamamoto
M Professor
NII
Mitsutosi Hatori
M Professor
NII
Asanobu Kitamoto
M Dr.
NII
Kenro Aihara
M Dr.
NII
Elyor E.Karimov
M Professor
UNESCO
Bakyt Eltindievna Amanbaeva
M Dr.
UNESCO
Alexander Antonov
M Dr.
UNESCO
Tahir Saeed
M Dr.
UNESCO
Le Thi Lien
M Dr.
UNESCO
Shuicheng Li
M Dr.
UNESCO
Kadicha Tashbaeva
F Dr.
UNESCO
George Arbid
M Professor
UNESCO
Inci Kuyulu Ersoy
M Professor
UNESCO
Ehab Ahmed Ibrahim
M Professor
UNESCO
Annette L. Juliano
F Professor
UNESCO
Judith A.Lerner
F Professor
UNESCO
Katsumi Tanabe
M Professor
UNESCO
Terukazu Akiyama
M Professor
UNESCO
Wang Rui
M Professor
UNESCO
Muhammad Arif/UNESCO
M Professor
UNESCO
Zhang Huiming
M Professor
UNESCO
With the exception of the first two these names are not being counted qua EU funding.
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Russia
Kirill Nasedkin
Anna Mikhailovskaya
Dmitry Olshansky
Olga Puchnina
Vladimir Tsvetkov
Roman Savin
Russian Cultural Heritage Network (RCHN)
M Dr., Director
F
M
F
M
M
RU
RU
RU
RU
RU
RU
United States
National Science Foundation: American Culture Grid
William Grosky
M Director, Professor
NSF (American Culture Grid)
US*
* The American Culture Grid will participate in the Silk roads project. A further list of American participants is
included in the Letter of Collaboration from the NSF. These names are not being counted qua EU funding (see
Appendix 6).
5.9 Training, Conferences and Summer Courses
Team of Secretariat (6.1 below) + members
Researchers
Position
Alana Henry
Val Duncan
Christof Wolters
Anna Maria de Rosa
To be developed.
F
F
M
F
Ms.
Mrs
Dr.
Professor
Culturtec rep
AMSU rep
National Museums of Scotland
AMP rep
La Sapienza
ES
NL
UK
FR
IT
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B.2 RELEVANCE TO THE OBJECTIVES OF THE IST PRIORITY (Recommended length 3pp.)
The European Union seeks integration “of research capacities currently existing or emerging at
both national or regional level.”28 In culture, this goal is complicated by the problem of
subsidiarity. The E-Culture NoE overcomes this hurdle by networks at the country level, which
enable the European network to reflect national, regional and local cultural diversity. This
answers one fundamental objective of the IST priority and addresses the objectives of
UNESCO’s universal declaration on cultural diversity.29
Strategic Objectives
The NoE contributes to Technology-enhanced learning and access to cultural heritage (IST2002-2.3.1.12) through each of its three objectives:
1) Creating a DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) resource integrates a number of
existing solutions into a secure, multilingual tool for sharing research, resources and critical
methods (1.1-12). This sharing of research platforms/tools/facilities will lead to reinforced
electronic communication systems.
2) Adding Content to DEED by developing networks at the country level allows sharing of research
that reflects Europe’s diversity (2.1-3).
3) Updating the DEED by creating research matrices brings new integration between content,
context and communication (e-learning, 3.1-2).
The quest to create research matrices by working with specialised networks (objective 3)
integrates fragmented efforts of these communities into a more effective whole (3.1). Working
together with the tools of Fraunhofer (CAT from IMK and Proknownce from IUK) and
SIMILAR NoE integrates learning and knowledge discovery tools with content for e-learning.
The NoE contributes to co-ordinated programming of partners’ activities through its jointly
executed research programme. Three transverse themes (multidimensional museums, historical
European cities, cultural tourism) will bring together a series of content pilots especially from
Spain, and Italy. The multidimensional museums project (4.1) will make available new kinds of
virtual museums for e-learning. The European cities project (4.2) will make the latest
developments in historical reconstructions available for e-learning. The project linking culture,
tourism and e-learning (4.3) explores new business potentials. The link with Greek projects (4.5)
explores how already successful projects can gain added value by using the DEED. Material
from Italy and France will combine text and image databases as an example of advanced digital
library services. Other examples, 3-D Archaeology (ORION) and virtual environments
(CINECA) will serve as content for e-learning.
The NoE further contributes to this objective through its activities to spread excellence. First, a
series of Hypermedia e-learning projects headed by the Spanish National Association of
Researchers in Teaching (ANID), working with DGI, Ministry of Science and Technology for
FP6, Red Iris and the University SEK’s trans-atlantic network with South America. Among
these are projects involving broadband for foreign language teaching (BELE project). It builds
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on existing e-learning and e-training infrastructures involving combinations of Internet, satellite
and mobile communications.
Second, the NoE creates user groups for the proposed PROKNOWnce IP. Third, it links these
with French examples; fourth with Greek examples and fifth with restoration and heritage. Sixth,
it integrates these results and the evolving DEED into European Masters and Doctorates (5.6),
thus preparing a next generation for these potentials. Finally, it builds on existing projects,
networks and structures internationally to link European and global developments (5.7-9). For
instance, co-operation with the Euromed II IKONOS30 project (5.5), links us with UNESCO’s
heritage training programme. Co-operation with NII (Tokyo) links the NoE with UNESCO, the
US National Science foundation (NSF, 5.8). The NSF’s Cultural Grid Consortium has joined the
E-Culture NoE (Appendix 6) as have the Russian, Canadian and Chinese national networks.
Through co-operation with consortia (e.g. AMP, SEMKOS), the E-Culture NoE will help to
spread excellence of the results of partners with respect to a second strategic objective in FP6:
Semantic-based knowledge systems (IST-2002-2.3.1.7). Similarly by working closely with the
SIMILAR NoE (UCL) the E-Culture NoE will assure that advances in another strategic
objective, Multimodal interfaces (IST-2002-2.3.1.6), become an integral part of the DEED.
Scientific, technical objectives
The EU has invested a great deal on individual components needed to share digital cultural
materials: e.g. security, multilingual mapping, intelligent, virtual environments. The NoE’s
DEED integrates these efforts in the form of a tool that can unite research communities in a
single research infrastructure. A key challenge in sharing such heterogeneous collections is to
have controlled vocabularies for names, keywords, places, etc. By starting with systems
produced by major collections and by multilingual mapping as proposed by the Accès
Multilingue au Patrimoine Expression of Interest (AMP Consortium) such a cumulative
framework can be developed. Links with the Text Entering Initiative (TEI) via Oxford ensure a
commitment to international standards and, where possible, to open-source solutions.
A next challenge lies in assuring that diversity from local, regional and national levels is properly
reflected in such a distributed resource. As a thematic network, E-Culture Net has successfully
shown how digital, autonomous cultural objects (DACOs) provide access to distributed,
heterogeneous resources (over 1.5. million cultural items). In contrast to solutions such as the
Dublin Core, which require that local databases are re-written or restructured, the DACO
approach assumes that local, regional and national collections remain intact. As such it maintains
diversity while at the same time providing common access, thus overcoming concerns of
subsidiarity. This offers an European solution and provides the DEED with e-content.
Using research matrices will keep the DEED updated by providing an ongoing survey of
solutions, standards and trends. This is also important in order to recognize clusters of activities
as well as areas where there are gaps in knowledge. Such research matrices, if linked with the
knowledge discovery tools being developed by Fraunhofer (Monika Fleischmann) are potentially
important for EU strategic thinking and policy because they allow a new global view of semantic
relations among key concepts and offer new methods for knowledge discovery.
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Socio-economic objectives
Developing a Distributed European Electronic Dynamic (DEED) resource will make Europeans
more aware of their rich unity of diversities. Connections with the new European University of
Culture and a proposed NoE on cultural diversity will strengthen this connection. Multilingual
access to this resource will ensure against the dangers of becoming a melting pot and give access
to many new materials. Making these materials available for European Masters, Doctorates and
e-learning will increase the substance and range of Europe’s educational materials. Making these
materials available for citizens will increase awareness of European identity and help an
expanding Europe to re-define its place at the global level.
The integration of rich European cultural content through the DEED with the latest e-learning
methods (e.g. PROKNOWnce and BELE) provides contextualised learning. The use of 3-D
objects in virtual environments adds experiential dimensions and promotes virtual collaborative
learning. Making this available available via regular and broadband Internet will improve both
the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of learning. Integrating this with latest developments in
satellite and mobile communications will make e-learning ubiquitously accessible “to individuals
and organisations independent of time, place and pace.” The use of virtual and augmented reality
(1.10) as well as avatars (4.3) contributes to virtual presence and simulation.
The integration of a series of content pilots with the latest hypermedia e-learning methods via
broadband using both existing connections to the GEANT backbone, to Internet II using Ipv6
will demonstrate “next generation learning solutions in sizeable field experiments (cf. figures 410). The coupling of e-learning and tourism introduces experiments in intelligent heritage,
which combine repositories of European culture, history, science and technology.
The educational and public service uses of the DEED will eventually become the purview of
ministries of education and culture. Other components offer obvious economic potentials for
tourism, future versions of electronic publishing, film/television production, games, theme parks
and other forms of entertainment. The presence of companies, SMEs, links with Fraunhofer and
proposed IPS such as PROKNOWnce, PRESTO SPACE and BRICKS assure this.
Policy Objectives
While a small core group is largely academic, through its networks at a country level the NoE
brings together players from cultural organisations, research institutions, industry and
government. The DEED and networks provide a practical framework that furthers the policy
interests of the Lund Agreement as pursued by MINERVA. The co-operation promoted by the ECulture NoE addresses directly the COUNCIL RESOLUTION of 21st January 2002 on the role
of culture in the development of the European Union.31 It also answers the COUNCIL
RESOLUTION of 21st January 2002 on culture and the knowledge society, which explicitly
calls on the European Union to “promote the networking of cultural information to enable all
citizens to access European cultural content by the most advanced technological means.”32
The E-Culture NoE integrates hitherto isolated communities from domains as different as digital
libraries, intelligent heritage and e-learning. This offers a broad inter-, and trans-disciplinary
approach that helps to create the critical mass needed to achieve the EU’s quest for an European
Research Area (ERA). In the longer term, making the DEED available to all citizens will
advance the quest for E-Europe (Lisbon 2000). The E-Europe 2005 report specifically aims to
“facilitate the exchange of experience, of good practice and demonstration projects,” which is the
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also the goal of the DEED. This bottom-up, inductive DEED will further identify challenges,
user needs and other components for future versions thereof in the form of a DEER. Ultimately,
the DEER offers a multilingual, model for Europe to make the unity of its diversities accessible
to all its citizens, and develop awareness thereof through training.
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B.3 POTENTIAL IMPACT (recommended length – 5 pages)
Integration in four domains
Existing need to strengthen or reinforce S&T excellence on the topic concerned by means of a
restructuring of existing research capacities and the way research is carried out.
The NoE is concerned with needs for integration in four domains:
1) technology
2) legal/administrative/organisational structures
3) links between networks, &
4) needs for coupling e-content and e-learning.
1. Need for technological integration
All over Europe there are cultural organisations, research institutions and industries with rich, inhouse research, which is not being shared with others. Obvious obstacles include security, legal
arrangements, and storage. More subtle obstacles lie in the need for multilingual authority files
for names, subjects, places; the need for semantic access; adequate (multimodal) interfaces
which allow access to all citizens including those with disabilities, spatial 3-D access and the
need for access using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). At the broadband level, these
needs include (“intelligent”) virtual environments, which permit personal access as well as
sharing with/through collaborative groups and more comprehensive Virtual Heritage Centres.
Over the past decade the EU and others have made enormous progress by addressing each of
these challenges in isolation. A detailed survey of this previous work and the state of the art is
provided in Appendix 1. We now have all the ingredients for a new tool for sharing research,
resources and critical thought. The ingredients “only” need to be combined or “integrated.” In
terms of structuring we have everything in place to bring experts on a subject together, but we
need integration whereby the technologists with different specialities combine their efforts for a
common goal to build a secure, multilingual tool for sharing research and resources.
2. Need for legal, administrative & organisational integration
Research in digital culture also typically proceeds in terms of specific problems, disciplines and
institutions, which has again led to fragmentation that requires synthesis. There are many
examples of access to individual libraries, museums, archives and other collections, which are
often available in a single language. There is a pressing need for more systematic access to
digital culture at a European level, and new access to large resources in museums and research
institutes, which are not yet available.
There are exceptions.33 In the United Kingdom, for instance, the significant initiatives of the
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) have made many contributions: e.g. the Arts and
Humanities Data Services (AHDS).34 The JISC introduced the idea of a Distributed National
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Electronic Resource (DNER), which has led to their work on an Information Environment with
committees on Content Services, and on Learning and Teaching.35 These initiatives give access
to an enormous amount of resources at the level of collections, some organised with respect to
“trusted” subject gateways or portals. This is splendid for searching in uni-lingual collections on
a given subject, say mediaeval history. Needed is secure, multilingual access to individual,
cultural objects, e.g. to pages and images in all kinds of collections.
A series of projects have also addressed such problems. In 1995, G7 pilot project 4, Bibliotheca
Universalis, began a union catalogue that combined the authority files for names from five of
Europe’s national libraries. The EC’s, The European Library (TEL) is also addressing this
challenge. Projects such as RENARDUS have addressed these multilingual problems with
respect to subject gateways. The problem of creating mappings between different classification
schemes in the cultural field was broached by projects such as AQUARELLE, CHIOS, MACS
and through work by TEI, WWW, CIMI and UNESCO. More details concerning previous work
and the state of the art are available in Appendix 1.
Strikingly, these approaches, almost invariably, remain discipline based: i.e. they explore
solutions for libraries, or museums, archives, or some other even more specialised research
community. Exceptions are AMP and the latest efforts of the SEMKOS group. Government
initiatives such as MINERVA rightly point to the need for much closer co-ordination and
harmonisation of efforts in digitisation. Such excellent efforts at the policy level need closer
coupling with practice. We still need much better access to individual objects of culture. We
have access to great museums such as the Louvre and Uffizi. We need access to resources at the
national, regional and local level to reflect the rich diversity of Europe’s cultures.
3. Need for links among networks
Meanwhile, most networks in digital culture also still focus on specific institutions/disciplines
(e.g. DELOS for libraries) or individual problems (e.g. ERPANET for preservation and access).
Hence, we have excellent solutions for individual problems but little understanding of the big
picture. In an analog mode this makes sense. In a digital mode where all these processes are
interconnected (cf. above p.9), we need a new co-ordination among networks to understand the
full knowledge production life-cycle. This is essential if we are to continue to keep our
technological tools up to date.
4. Need for coupling between e-content and e-learning
In a sense there are still three different worlds. Technologists who create isolated solutions
(industry); content producers (cultural organsations and research institutions) and educators. We
have many tools, many pieces of e-content and an enormous amount of e-learning projects and
programmes. Needed are 1) a secure, multilingual tool for sharing content; 2) administrative
structures to add content to the tool; 3) integration of efforts to ensure that the tool and contents
are updated and 4) to ensure that they are used in e-learning.
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How the network will achieve such integration
In essence, the E-culture NoE integrates technology with existing learning and training networks,
satellite networks, content, with existing, emerging and new learning tools/ methods and new
interfaces (figures 4-10). The E-Culture NoE addresses the challenges with concrete steps by
which progress can be measured quantitatively and qualitatively: namely in terms of three
objectives, joint research and its activities to spread excellence.
Objective 1: build the DEED: a tool for sharing
Building a Distributed European Electronic Dynamic (DEED) resource integrates the efforts of
fragmented technological communities to work towards a common goal. The NoE has identified
ten modules for a regular DEED and two further modules for a broadband (at gigabit rates)
DEED (figure 2). The use of Distributed Autonomous Cultural Objects (DACOs, module 6)
overcomes challenges of granularity. Once these modules, and rules for their use, are in place
researchers throughout Europe will be able to share their resources using the DEED. The number
of resources available can be measured quantitatively and the degree of integration can be
measured by checking how many of the modules are used in each resource (cf. matrix of
integration, figure 20).
The group for each module is typically led by a significant European partner with respect to that
topic. In addition each group typically has representatives from Greece/Mediterranean and
NAS/Russia to ensure that these dimensions are integrated into the activities of each working
group.
Each of the research areas identified for the DEED will need to elaborate its own descriptive
standards, identifying the new objects and methods it makes available, and how they may be
integrated into the whole. If this cornucopia of voices is not to become a cacophony, an
additional research area will be necessary concerned exclusively with that integration. As a first
step the groups will choose from amongst themselves a person to represent them in this
integrating group. In addition combinations of individual groups will meet amongst themselves
to arrive at a cumulative solution.
Needed is a standards based framework that will integrate the ingredients. One candidate for this
role is the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), which provides a robust and well-established standards
development framework for that activity, leveraging current standards (XML), as well as a
decade of acceptance within the European humanistic and linguistic research communities. The
TEI is now embarking on a major new development exercise, directly addressing both new areas,
and areas where its original proposals have become obsolete or overtaken by events.
Following the complete XML conversion of the TEI Guidelines published in June 2001, the TEI
has now set up expert groups to produce additional or enhanced recommendations on the
following: multimodal annotation; ontologies, linguistic annotation, and feature structures;
character encoding beyond Unicode; migration of legacy systems; manuscript cataloguing and
encoding.36 Whether or not it proves to be the framework, involvement of the TEI with ECulture Net is clearly essential.
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Objective 2: fill the DEED using country networks to assure diversity
To ensure that these resources reflect adequately European diversity, networks are being
developed within each individual country to identify and integrate resources at national, regional
and local levels. The DEED will provide secure, multilingual access to many resources not
available on the regular Internet. Specifically there will be five content pilots (figure 14)
involving transverse themes such as multidimensional museums, and European cities, which
bring together hitherto isolated topics into a larger European framework while at the same time
allowing for local diversity. As a case study there has been a focus on Spanish examples. The
integration means that reconstructions of Spanish cities are linked with Italian, and French
examples. As in the case of the DEED (objective 1), most of the content pilots have
representatives from the Mediterranean and NAS/Russia to ensure that content from these areas
is also integrated. Providing a cumulative, enduring set of resources will lead to restructuring of
research capacities by dramatically increasing the materials available and widening the sources
for development of critical methods.
Objective 3: update the DEED working with other networks on research matrices
In order to track new solutions, standards and developments research matrices will be developed
by two means, drawing on: 1) experts within the NoE in different countries; 2) experts outside
the NoE who are members of specialised networks throughout Europe. These research matrices
will enable the DEED to be updated.
Activities to Spread Excellence
To couple the DEED, e-content and e-learning the NoE will a) develop joint Hypermedia
research projects; b) serve as user for consortia in the e-learning field notably Fraunhofer’s
PROKNOWnce; c) include DEED resources in European Masters, Doctorates and Training to
ensure that students and professionals develop new awareness of multilingual, European
dimensions of digital culture. In the past the above would probably have been different projects.
Uniting them means that a tool for sharing is built in DEED, is filled with content, kept up to
date and shared in a number e-learning environments. Working with the group at the Sapienza
will ensure that these initiatives are integrated with the Marie Curie Training initiatives. Once the
framework is in place, a second phase can move to a more specialized approach whereby IP
(technology construction) and NoE (networking functions) evolve in parallel (cf. figure 3).
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Plan for spreading excellence beyond the network and disseminating knowledge and exploiting
results.
At the simplest level there the E-Culture Net website which will continue to evolve and report
on progress:
http://www.mmi.unimaas.nl/eculturenet/index.htm
The E-Culture NoE is linked with E-Learning projects, namely, the proposed PROKNOWnce IP
(Fraunhofer, IUK, Berlin), in touch with proposed IPs such PRESTO SPACE and BRICKS and
working with ANID’s BELE, CHIME as well as the SIMILARnet NoE. By serving as a user
group for these projects it will spread their excellence. BELE (Madrid), for instance, is linked
with CUDI and the USEK Network in Spain, is working with RedUNAM-IpV6 (Mexico), which
is linked to the US Internet2 project.37 BELE is also working with Universidad SEK, which
heads the Spanish branch of the e-Culture NoE and has satellite links with 22 sites in South
America (cf. figure 6).
The links from the outset between the E-Culture NoE and a number of existing networks at the
European (e.g. NEHRN, ORION, SCRAN) and international levels (E.g. CHIN, NII), ensure that
E-Culture net will have both an integrating effect of sharing among different communities and a
multiplying effect of making its messages available throughout those different communities. For
instance its links with NII’s (Tokyo) Asian Network of Excellence in Digital Silk Roads have led
to new co-operation with UNESCO qua their Silk Roads efforts; with the National Science
Foundation (NSF) with respect to their new Digital Silk Roads Cultural Grid Network. In
addition to the Silk Roads projects, E-Culture Net is working with UNESCO on a number of
levels such that its work will have an international impact, specifically with respect to Virtual
Heritage Net, and heritage training programmes (cf. appendix 6). For instance, the E-Culture
NoE is working with the Euromed II IKONOS project, which is using satellites for new kinds of
e-distance learning around the Mediterranean. Their use of some of the information in the DEED
will spread excellence to parts of the heritage community focussing on conservation and
restoration.
The E-Culture NoE is working with leading universities (e.g. Bologna, Rome, Pisa, Sorbonne) in
the creation of new European Masters and Doctoral programmes. The University of Rome has
been a pioneer in the development of a network for a European PhD in social representations
with a corresponding network of Marie Curie Training Centres (figure 4a). The NoE will explore
how existing training structures can be integrated with other fields of digital culture.
E-Culture Net, has established a number of links in the Mediterranean, Newly Accessed States
(NAS) and Russia. Some of these are candidate members of the NoE and will spread its
excellence beyond the boundaries of Europe. In addition, it is foreseen that these areas will
subsequently develop sub-networks, which will further spread excellence. Through its
connections with the European Visual Arts Networking (EVAN), e-Culture Net will be
represented at EVA conferences internationally. The NoE will have a further impact through its
links with other international networks in Canada, the U.S., Japan and elsewhere. Indeed,
beginning from a firm base in Europe, E-Culture Net is the first NoE in this field to propose a
global approach to digital culture.38
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E-CULTURE NET & its durable structuring impact on European research
How the proposed approach will have a durable structuring impact on European research after
the ending of Commission funding
Each of the three objectives will have consequences beyond the period of funding of the NoE.
Objective 1: DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) Resource
The DEED is intended as a first concrete step in an evolving set of products. The prototype,
which is being developed will become an evolving, cumulative, permanent database/set of tools
and content, which will housed at the new European University of Culture in Strasbourg
(appendix 3) and thus become an integral part of their integrating efforts in the European arena.
Already in phase 1 all participants will have an improved electronic communication system for
sharing their work.
By using the latest products of the Proknownce IP and the SIMILAR NoE the DEED is linked
with the best that Europe has to offer in the field. Precisely how the DEED will evolve has yet to
be determined. One scenario is that the concrete achievements of the DEED become the basis for
a future integrated project, which incorporates all the components (figure 13). The full-blown
DEER will have some free components (possibly as part of the activities of ministries of culture
and education), some self-sustaining and some for profit. In a related scenario for profit
dimensions support free dimensions. A practical framework for the DEER will be provided as a
WP by the E-Culture Net TN in June 2003.
Whether or not these scenarios become a reality, the DEED will provide research communities in
digital culture with an initial tool for secure, multilingual sharing of resources. Since all the
members of the NoE benefit from its results, it is in everyone’s interests that its contents will be
kept on-line after direct funding has ended. A successful DEED will inspire improved versions in
future. In any case, access to many new resources using this tool will be a permanent asset for
Europe.
Objective 2: Fill DEED through networks in each Country to provide diversity
An immediate rationale for developing networks in each country is access to research resources
at the national, regional and local levels. Such networks are intended as bridges between
activities at national and European levels. Preliminary discussions with some national
governments suggest that individual countries may take over these tasks as part of their quest for
harmonisation between policy and practice (cf. MINERVA). Since these networks in each
country are based in permanent institutions, they are likely to continue activities that benefit all.
Objective 3: Update DEED through research matrices
The research matrices will provide information about both solutions and emerging trends in
research. It will be in the interests of networks to continue this work, especially when it becomes
linked with CAT (Communication, Art & Technology network, Fraunhofer). This activity could
become linked with the EC’s activities qua its CORDIS database and thus serve as a more
general tool for knowledge discovery with respect to European research.
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B.3.1 CONTRIBUTIONS TO STANDARDS
Describe contributions to national or international standards, which may be made by the
network, if any. (Recommended length – one page)
Objective 1: Many of the members of the NoE, especially those on the technical side (e.g.
Fraunhofer, the SIMILAR NoE, UCL, CWI (linked with the WWW), Oxford qua TEI) are
directly engaged in many European and international projects involving standards such as JPEG
2000 and MPEG 4-7. The participation of University of Vienna means that there are direct links
to ISO TC-37 and 46.39 Members such as AMP are actively engaged in the revision of
internationally relevant standards. Members of SEMKOS have also been pioneers in standards
for the semantic web. Their participation in the NoE means that such standards will become
adopted by all the members of the NoE. The impact of these standards will be correspondingly
greater because the NoE’s members are in turn linked with numerous other networks. Where
possible the NoE will encourage open source standards. For example, the section on digital
objects (1.6) will use WWW standards such as OWL; the section on spatio-temporal access
(1.10) will use the Open-GIS standards.
Objective 2: Using the DEED to share research resources, methods and critical thought entails use
of authority files which, although they do not introduce new standards, contribute to a
standardised approach that makes possible new distributed access to heterogeneous resources.
Networks at the country level which overcome problems of subsidiarity create new bridges
between European and national initiatives and help in adoption of uniform standards and
solutions while at the same time promoting access to regional and local diversity. The concept of
Digital Autonomous Cultural Objects (DACOs, cf. Manfred Thaller, Univeristät zu Köln), offers
a new solution that allows access to individual cultural objects without requiring a fundamental
restructuring of the metadata or the databases they represent: this makes us less dependent on
standards that require a complete revamping of existing databases.
Objective 3: This entails the development of research matrices to identify new solutions and
standards, which will help members of the NoE to learn about developments and apply them
with respect to the DEED and elsewhere.
The integration of the resources made accessible through the DEED into post-graduate European
Masters, Doctorates and training will increase awareness of these standards among students and
professionals. The use of broadband networks, Internet, satellites will ensure that standards and
solutions in the DEED modules will be used widely.
This use will be further aided through co-operation with a number of other Consortia (e.g.
CHIME, E-Heritage) and networks within Europe and around the world.
The integration of the resources made accessible through the DEED into post-graduate European
Masters, Doctorates and training will increase awareness of these standards among students and
professionals. The use of broadband networks, Internet, satellites will ensure that standards and
solutions in the DEED modules will be used widely.
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B.4. DEGREE OF INTEGRATION AND THE JOINT PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES
(Recommended length for the whole of section B.4 – twenty-five pages)
Full duration of project: 5-7 years
Project acronym –E-Culture NoE
Partner 1
short name
Integrating activities:
1: Build DEED
1.1. Security
1.2 Legal Arrangements
1.3 Storage
1.4 Multilingual
1.5 Semantic
1.6. DACOs
1.7. Interfaces
1.8 Multimodal
1.9 Spatial 3D
1.10 Spatio-Temporal GIS
1.11 Virtual Environments
1.12 Virt. Heritage Centres
Integrating activities:
2: Fill DEED:
2.1 Develop Networks
2.2 Add Content
2.3 Harmonise projects
Integrating activities 3
Update DEED
3.1 Co-op. with Networks
3.2 Co-op. with Members
3.3 Matrices- Adapt CAT
Joint research programe
5.1 Hypermedia e-Learning
5.1 PRONOWnce
5.3 French Examples
5.4 Greek Examples
5.5 Restoration, Heritage
5.6 EU MAs and Doctorates
5.7 Expand to NAS
5.8 International Dimen.
5.9. Training, Conferences
Management activities
6.0 Secretariat
6.1. Distributed Secretariat
6.2. EEIG
6.3. Executive Board
6.4. Management Board
UCL
Valencia
UNESCO
MSH Nanterre
Lund (SEMKOS)
UzK
II Oslo
UCL
NMS (ORION)
Portsmouth
CINECA
CNR-ITABC
LMT + c. reps.
C reps +mem.
C + min reps
BE
ES
FR
FR
SW
DE
NO
BE
S
UK
IT
IT
Partner 2
short name
Partner 3
short name
TUBITAK
Acad. Sc.
NTUA
MSHLyon
LMT
LMT
T
RU
GR
FR
FR
FR
Acad.Sc. RU
II Stockh.
SW
CHIME
ES
AthensTC
GR
Leeds
UK
Com Bolo IT
Plancton
IT
Art INFO RU
LMT
FR
ITI-CERTH GR
Stream
UK
Medialab ES
LUISS
IT
U Florence IT
UEdinburgh S
RAI
IT
Br.S.Rome IT
Partner 4
short name
Partner 5
short name
IRISA
FR
CHIME ES
LUISS
IT
ZGDV DE
METU
T
LMT
Fr
RiksarchSW
LMT
FR
LMT
FR
All members
All members
All members
All members
All members
All members
All members
All members
All members
All members
All members
All members
FR
1rep./country
1rep./country
1rep./country
ERPANET
S
To be determined
Fraunhofer
IMK
CWI
NL
ZGDV
DE
NCSR
GR
ADIT
RU
ANID
ES
Fraunhofer IUK GE
Paris IV
FR
FHW
GR
MaltaCentre
MT
Unibo
IT
UWien
AU
NMS (EVAN)
S
Secretariat +mem
DIGIBIS
ES
Nat.Library ES
UNAM
ME
Reseaux
Reseaux
Reseaux
Reseaux
Sapienza
ICMSS
NII
ParisIV
FR
FR
FR
FR
SIBSUTI
SIBSUTI
SIBSUTI
SIBSUTI
RU
RU
RU
RU
IT
PO
JP
FR
U SEK
U SEK
U SEK
U SEK
SNS
Nat Lib
NEHRN
S
NatLib
Slo
CHIN
CA
*
U SEK
U SEK
U SEK
ES
ES
ES
LMT
*
UWien
UWien
UWien
V2
NL
Oxford
UK
All members
NMS (EVAN) S
Sapenza IT
All members
All members
All members
All Members
All members
EUC
FR
Acad. Sc. BU
NSF
US
AMP
FR
*
UzK
UzK
UzK
*
SNS
SNS
SNS
UniBo
IT
UniBo+ctryreps
Tsinghua
ES
ES
ES
ES
IT
Cz
C
FR
AU
AU
AU
GE
GE
GE
IT
IT
IT
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6.5. Advisory Board
6.6. National Reps
6.7 National Teams
6.8. Subnetworks
ERCIM
DELOS
IFLA
ICOM
*
Mediterranean
*
Russia
*
S. America
*
China
ICA
1 /country
*To be determined.
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B.4 DEGREE OF INTEGRATION AND THE JOINT PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES
Description of the Joint Programme of Activities
E-Culture Net comprises three linked components which are key to the development of
European networking on digital cultural heritage.
COMPONENT 1
The first of these components refers to the building an electronic information and
communication system. This system is called a DEED,40 that is a Distributed European
Electronic Dynamic resource. This will be a relational computer database, which presents the
means to access an array of digitally stored and mediated resources which are distributed across
Europe. This system will also contain a variety of media types, knowledge forms and high
quality research concerning cultural heritage. As a communication system, the DEED will
provide a recognisable and functional ‘interface’ between layers of information, databases,
projects and research in digital cultural heritage. This interface will further provide a gateway to
excellence on existing, new and emerging resources in this field. Here, focus will be given to
developing a multimodal interface to highlight key developments in the area of cultural heritage
and its digital forms and representations. In this sense as a dynamic environment, the DEED will
make it possible to realise transitions between database and interface. The DEED will present
clear, tangible ways of linking, sharing and commenting on digital resources relating to cultural
heritage. The design and implementation of this information-communication system will be
based on from cutting edge research among the project participants as well as from the market.
COMPONENT 2
The second component of E-Culture Net concerns the ways in which such a network
infrastructure and platform will be realised at the level of linked, distributed content and
critique. Sets of connected, integrated projects will provide the nexus for the conceptual and
practical building of this electronic information and communication system, the DEED. Work on
filling the DEED will involve the active participation of project members and related institutions
and projects in providing a variety of links to content for the database. E-Culture Net will
therefore function as a meeting point concerning excellence in content-based research and
collections on cultural heritage in digital form. The partners to the project will collaborate online
and face-to-face. Their specialised inputs and related projects and interests will help in the filling
of the DEED. The network will operate dynamically through integrated actions concerning the
storage, retrieval and sharing of content specifically relating to digital cultural heritage.
COMPONENT 3
The third component refers to how maintain and update the DEED during the project period.
A management structure and processes of ongoing upkeep will be established. At this level, the
DEED will be an active resource for building secure, multilingual solutions for sharing research
and content. In the long-term, it is envisaged that this project may lead to formation of a DEER
(Distributed European Electronic Resource). This will involve the scaling up of a network built
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on excellence and collaboration to a more thoroughly informed Integrated Project. The
connections and relationships between these three phases and their convergence in the form of a
projected Integrated Project are presented in Figure 1. As a Network of Excellence, the DEED
will provide an informed, participatory mechanism for the professional construction of online
digital cultural heritage resources. This will have the effect of linking key institutions, research
partners and developers in the crucial conceptual and pragmatic building of knowledge about and
on content in this field and ways to work together to place such knowledge on a wider European
and international stage.
THE PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES AND INTEGRATION
How the joint programme of activities brings about the expected degree of integration.
Basic Objective & Activity 1: Build DEED to share research
The first basic activity integrates members of different technological research communities by
giving them a common goal of creating a DEED. It combines a number of existing solutions into
a single tool that will allow a larger group to share their research resources, methods and develop
critical thought. By using a multilingual interface the DEED will make accessible materials from
countries throughout Europe. The modules for this tool also serve to measure the degree of
integration of resources: i.e. how many modules does the resource use? (cf. figure 20). The
DEED serves as a common research infrastructure whereby a number of members can perform
jointly executed work together, thus further strengthening the common activities of these
communities.
Basic Objective & Activity 2: Fill DEED through networks to reflect diversity
The second basic activity integrates three main constituencies, which have thus far often worked
in isolation, namely, cultural organizations, research institutions and industry. Their use of the
DEED, will allow integration of further research resources including examples at national,
regional and local levels to reflect Europe’s diversity. Degree of integration can be measured in
terms of the quantity and quality of participants sharing research and resources in DEED.
Connected with this basic activity are eight joint research activities to integrate different research
communities on a number of specific themes and which entails co-ordinated programming of
partners’ activities on topics (cf. figure 11a). Some of these groups are working on STREPs and
other projects to permit more detailed research than allowed for by the NoE funding (cf. figure
11b). Their simultaneous participation in the NoE means that their research results will feed into
the DEED and other activities of the E-Culture NoE.
Basic Objective & Activity 3: Update DEED through research matrices
E-Culture Net will work with other specialized networks to create research matrices of the entire
knowledge production life cycle in order that the DEED can be updated. In addition, members of
the networks in each country will contribute to these matrices in order to track developments of
the knowledge production life cycle. This activity assures that the solutions in activity 1 remain
current and that the contents of activity 2 remain accessible.
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LEVEL & COMPONENTS OF ACTIVITIES
Overall JPA broken down to the level of activities and the components of each of the activities
Activity 1: Build DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) tool to share research
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
1.10
1.11
1.12
Components
Security
Legal Agreements
Storage
Multilingual Mapping of Terminology
Semantic Mapping
Distributed Autonomous Cultural Objects
Interfaces
Multimodal Interfaces
Spatial Access (3D)
Spatio-Temporal Access
Intelligent Virtual Environments
Virtual Heritage Centres
2.1
2.2
2.3
Components
Develop networks in each country
Share national, regional, local research
Co-ordinate with national policies (MINERVA)
3.1
3.2
Components
Co-operation with other specialised networks
Adapt Netzspannung’s (Fraunhofer) CAT
Example or Lead Organisation
UCL (ASPIS)
Valencia Team
UNESCO DCMC
AMP
SEMKOS
UZK, DACOs
Media Lab +Interactive Institutes
SIMILAR NoE
ORION
Ghent GIS
CINECA
CNR-ITABC
Activity 2: Fill DEED through networks in each country
Example/ Lead Organisation
LMT+ country representatives
Country reps. +country members
MINERVA + Country reps.
Activity 3: Update DEED through research matrices of knowledge production life-cycle
1
Joint research programme
Multidimensional Museums
2
European Cities
3
Cultural Tourism and E-Learning
4
Art and text Databases
5
Hellenic History, Encyclopaedia…
6
3-D Reconstructions and Archaeology
7
8
Virtual Environments,
Virtual Heritage Centres
Interactive Video
9
Foreign Language Teaching (BELE)
Example/ Lead Organisation
ERPANET (HATII)
Netzspanung
Goals of activities and potential STREPs
Combine different types of museums online, interplays
between virtual museums and technological processes.
Share methodologies re: reconstructions of historical
cities to develop critical methods.
Explore how digital cultural content can be used for both
tourism and e-learning.
Combine databases of images with functionalities of
online slide libraries.
Use 3 existing projects of the FHW and make them more
accessible using secure, multilingual modules of DEED
Share methodologies re: 3D images and reconstructions
of individual objects in context of virtual archaeology.
This is complementary to JRP 4.
Create intelligent virtual heritage and virtual heritage
centres.
Explore the potentials of interactive video in
combinations of culture and e-learning.
Combine DEED with tools for foreign language edistance learning in Spain and South America.
Figure 11a): The three basic activities/components: 1. Build DEED; 2. Fill DEED; 3. Update
DEED; b): The joint research activity programme and potential related Strategic Targeted
Research Projects (STREPs)
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How this integrates the various components to a coherent network
Essentially the NoE is about a new tool for sharing research, which provides a new research
infrastructure for digital culture, namely, the DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic)
resource. The three basic integrating activities focus on three fundamental steps in reaching this
goal: 1) build the tool; 2) add content and 3) update it. Together these basic activities lead to an
evolving product that remains up to date and continues to make accessible new resources. If all
the components of these activities had to be developed from scratch then E-Culture Net would
need to become one or a series of Integrated Projects (IPs). Because it builds on existing
solutions from a number of NoEs, Consortiums and projects, the E-Culture NoE is a coherent
network. This is amplified through its various components.
Activity 1, the DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) resource entails in a first
instance “development and utilisation of electronic information and communication means.” The
joint work on collaborative environments and virtual heritage centres will contribute to the
“development of virtual and interactive working methods.” The DEED will foster “development
and use of joint research infrastructures. The DEED will also lead to “adaptation of the existing
facilities with a view to a shared use,” specifically by providing members of the NoE secure,
multilingual access to research resources/materials presently available only in the institutions,
which carried out the research.
The first ten components (figure 11a) will integrate different communities by working together
on a common goal, the DEED, which can be used in a regular intranet and will be of use to the
entire research community. The final two components will extend the DEED to broadband
contexts. In a first instance, this will be used by a small group of core members in the NoE. The
twelve basic elements/modules for the DEED also serve to measure the degree of integration. In
future, scholars wishing to make their research available on the intranet can be asked how many
of these elements they have are included thus far. They can also help to create time lines for
making research compliant on all twelve items.
To ensure that these modules are integrated into a coherent whole there will be periodic
meetings, which bring two or three of the working groups together in order to share research and
methods (5.12). At the frontiers there is a need for a permanent updating of professional
competences. Hence this work in progress of the teams can be combined with Marie Curie
scholarships such that the equivalent of refresher courses for the experts and training of new
experts goes hand in hand.
Activity 2, content for the DEED through the development of networks in each country, makes
researchers at national, regional and local levels more aware of resources, solutions and
standards at the European level, and will lead “to adaptation of the participants' research
activities in order to strengthen their complementarity.” The Spanish E-Culture network offers an
excellent case in point. A census of major research projects in the field has led to the evolution of
transverse projects that integrate research within the country and beyond. It is also leading to a
paradigmatical general model, which offers a framework for understanding individual projects
and contributions.
Activity 3, keeping the DEED updated by building research matrices, will further support the
above goal. Gathering solutions, standards, and projects with respect to basic processes/activities
in the complete knowledge production life from major specialised networks, and from members
in individual countries will allow the NoE to keep informed of developments with respect to
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standards and solutions all over Europe, and thus to keep the DEED up to date. Making these
visible through the knowledge discovery tools developed by Netzspannung will allow
researchers better to perceive trends and thus “to promote innovation.”
Activity 1 brings together technologists in different communities to create the DEED, a common
tool for those active in digital culture. A series of jointly executed research projects including
broadband experiments will add existing content to the DEED. These same groups are defining
STREPs and other projects to provide new content for the DEED (figure 11b). These activities
and projects will integrate a number of research communities. Activity 2 extends these links
between communities and ensures that the DEED’s content becomes representative of the entire
European Union. Activity 3 ensures that the process is updated and thus remains relevant. The
three basic activities thus produce a coherent network by creating a tool, filling it with content
and keeping it updated.
Through its activities to spread excellence, the NoE will further contribute to a coherent network
by integrating these basic activities with developments in e-learning and e-training. Through
activities 5.7-8 the NoE will foster “short-, medium- and long-term exchanges of personnel, the
opening of positions to researchers from other members of the network, or their training.”
Through activities 5.8-11 the NoE will ensure integration of communities/resources
internationally. This will make others more aware of Europe and make Europeans more aware of
the role European culture elsewhere.
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B.4.1 INTEGRATING ACTIVITIES
How the integration effort of the network is comprised of a number of different activities (major
elements or blocks of work). Describe each of these activities, identify who will be involved in
carrying out the different integrating activities.
As noted above the NoE has three basic activities or blocks of work: to build, fill and update the
DEED.
Basic Integrating Activity 1: Build DEED. This has twelve elements.
1.1 Security
Team of Benoit Macq, Université Catholoique de Louvain (UCL)
A secure intranet is a first prerequisite for major institutions to share their databases with the
equivalent of a club of trusted members. The team of Professor Benôit Macq, Université
Catholique de Louvain (UCL) has produced a series of open-source tools for security including
ASPIS (An Authentication and Protection Innovative Software System for DVDROM and
Internet).41 Meanwhile, Oxford, (within the RTS and with JISC funding) has begun an
investigation into authentication and personalization systems appropriate to a distributed
complex environment. This project, called DCOCE, is just starting. A small group from UCL in
conjunction with Oxford will deploy these existing/emerging solutions with respect to the ECulture Net intranet and apply them to resources as a first module for the DEED.
The above represents an interim solution to a large range of issues. We are aware that the
SEMKOS Consortium in their bid for an IP have a more complex approach to security issues in
the bibliographical and cultural domains. Our intention would be to draw on their solutions as
they become available. Indeed since security is also one of the large objectives of the
Commission, there should soon be other solutions that become available.
1.2. Legal Agreements
Team of Nuria Lloret Romero, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
A working group at the University of Valencia, “E-Contents, cultural contents and legal aspects
in the Information Society,” which has worked with the EU on legal issues in culture, will be
responsible for monitoring developments in IPR and DRM systems needed for users of the
network and assess studies such as that of the University of Bristol’s Centre of IT and Law, 42 the
Sorbonne’s work,43 LITRU44 and track the EU’s new legal site.45 They will compose basic letters
of agreement reflecting laws of different countries whereby each member of the network using
the distributed resources agrees to use this only for research purposes. This group will also
provide advice on legal issues pertaining to the E-Culture NoE as a whole.
1.3. Storage
UNESCO
As a separate project, UNESCO, in conjunction with E-Culture Net and a series of leading
museums (e,g. Louvre, National Gallery, London and the Uffizi) are developing an EUUNESCO Digital Centre of Memory of Culture (DCMC, Appendix 5). This project will develop
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digital centres, or mirrored repositories, which are the equivalents of backups at the level of
major institutions and national collections. They will also explore how the DCMC can be linked
with the principle of digital legal deposits emerging in the context of European national libraries
(cf. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Hague). It is foreseen that the DCMC will one day become an
important component of a future version of the DEED (cf. figure 13). A small working group
will explore how the results of this UNESCO project can be applied to the NoE’s storage needs.
This group will define basic rules for storage and backups for all contributors to the DEED.
1.4. Multilingual Mapping of Terminology
Team of Pierre Rouillard, Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie (MAE) – René
Ginouvès, Nanterre (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme): Host of Accès Multilingue au
Patrimoine Consortium
Without practical solutions to the problem of multilingualism there won't be any low-barrier
access to the cultural diversity expressed in heritage databases in Europe.
The project AMP (Accès Multilingue et Patrimoine) was created in 2001 by a request from the
Director of the Department for Humanities and Social Sciences in the Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and later financed by the French Ministry of Research. The
AMP Newsletter is published in French and English: it can be accessed on the French Ministry of
Culture and Communication website46 AMP has been exploring methods of mapping the terms of
different database vocabularies. It aims to facilitate access to these complicated multilingual
constructs, through interfaces based on the widely known and well-understood methodology of
dictionaries.
AMP plans to make controlled vocabularies from a wide range of subjects machine-readable,
bringing them into the public arena. Instead of another effort to make cultural heritage databases
use one standardised language, AMP will offer a method of connecting them. This will allow
queries to be translated from one frame of reference to another, and from one language to others.
This technique will facilitate the networking of the players and users, and encourage interaction
between them. To achieve this, AMP proposes a joint programme of activities in which the
crucial integrating activities and an ambitious programme for the training of experts are closely
linked to jointly executed research into the more technical and language-oriented aspects.
As a first concrete step, AMP would begin with carefully chosen samples from several databases,
ranging from iconographical terms for art history image data bases (Iconclass – Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)47 to more specialised archaeological and
ethnological library databases (Frantiq – Brigitte Lequeux48 and Réseau Ethnologie – Isabelle
Donze – Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative)49 and to multilingual and
multiscript historical geography in the MOM (Darmezin, Dalix, Saba-Drappeau, Belhaj). The
owners of each vocabulary will develop a means of exporting their material, ideally as XML.
This will then be converted to a more standardised representation. Next the team will produce a
generic framework to maintain and disseminate these vocabularies, and software to convert them
to this framework. These projects have been described in AMP Newsletter Nr.2.50
ISO has issued a standard: ISO/IEC 13250:2000 Topic Maps, which defines a generalized
method of encoding concepts („topics“) and the relationships between concepts. An XML
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representation of this standard has been developed.51 This is actively supported by the
TopicMaps.Org consortium.52 It is the view of AMP that Topic Maps offer a standards-based
framework, which is sufficiently powerful to address the issues of relationships between
concepts in different languages and frames of reference.
This process will lead to enhanced understanding of the relationships between concepts in
structured vocabularies. We intend to feed this knowledge back to the bodies responsible for the
development of structured vocabulary standards.
Once the vocabularies have been converted from the format provided to standardised XML, a
study will compare the relative merits of using e.g. a Topic Map engine vs. an XML database for
the purpose of making them available on the Web. The chosen technology will then be used to
develop a Web application to provide the required access to these resources. This application,
and the vocabulary data, will be then be placed on a stable site as a module of the DEED.
Meanwhile, Oxford (RTS) is developing a new, linguistic analysis tool, capable of handling any
XML conformant corpus in any language. How this can be added to the DEED will be explored.
This group may be aided by members of the CHIME (Computing and Humanities in
Multilingual Europe) EoI,34 53which specializes in questions of automatic translation.
1.5. Semantic Mapping
Traugott Koch, Lund University, SEMKOS
The SEMKOS (Semantic Web meets Knowledge Organization for Large-Scale Information
Integration)54 group has been leading developments in integrating semantic web and knowledge
organisation activities. A group of researchers will address semantic mapping problems in the
cultural domain. SEMKOS is also applying for an IP in this area. Their precise role in the DEED
will be defined more precisely once it is clear whether their bid for an IP is successful. E-Culture
net might, for instance, provide one of the test beds for their work.
1.6. Digital Autonomous Cultural Objects (DACOs)
Team of Manfred Thaller, Universität zu Köln, cf. PROMETHEUS
In its phase as a thematic network, E-Culture Net has demonstrated the potentials of Distributed
Autonomous Cultural Objects (DACOs). In contrast to typical Internet approaches, which
provide access to collections and resources, the DACO approach provides access at a higher
level of granularity with respect to individual images and pages of heterogeneous, distributed
collections. A small working group under the direction of Professor Thaller will extend this
approach to the DEED and resources of members of the NoE. These extensions will be
threefold:
a) On the one hand the DACOs will be closely related to the concepts of the OAI (Open Archive
Initiative), communicating with a superset of the OAI protocol, which in turn means that all
DACO communication becomes fully acceptable for OAI harvesters, while at the same time
allowing a much closer integration of the created resources in terms of granularity.
b) A network of pilot implications for the DACO protocol for the major DBMSs (Data Base
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Management Systems) used in the cultural heritage area will be provided.
(c) The DACO communication, which is currently being refined in terms of the Semantic Web
via DF (Resource Description Format), will be extended to allow for integration of and
brokerage between different ontologies, using OWL (Web Ontology Language) for that purpose.
1.7. Interfaces
Andrew Morrison, InterMedia, University of Oslo and Interactive Institute
The Media Lab (Helsinki) in conjunction with the Interactive Institute in Sweden and other
partners in Scandinavia designed the initial interfaces for E-Culture net. In the thematic network
phase this group identified three phases: interaction design, system components and usability
parameters. In the NoE this group will develop this approach and be responsible for creating
coherent interfaces for early versions of the DEED.
1.8. Multimodal Interfaces
Benôit Michel, UCL, SIMILAR NoE55
The proposed SIMILAR NoE will unite over 30 laboratories to develop a number of multimodal
interfaces including speech, and various innovations with respect to human Computer Interface
(HCI) dimensions. A small group will work with the E-Culture NoE to test and adapt these
innovations to the needs of users as another module of the DEED.
1.9. Spatial Access (3-D Reconstructions and Reproductions)
David Clarke, National Museums of Scotland, ORION
In the context of the ORION thematic network, the National Museums of Scotland are, inter alia,
using the National Research Council of Canada’s laser camera technology capable of remarkable
photos and 3-D reproductions using stereo-lithography. A small group will make 3-D access into
a further module of the DEER and will explore how spatial access can be integrated into the ECulture framework as a whole. They will focus on three research questions:
1) Advanced, Accessible (N.B. for the disabled) 3D Archaeology web-site
2) development with consideration to multilingual, multicultural aspects
3) Large (and small) 3D Interactive Displays for Archaeology Exhibitions touring Europe and
internationally (related to work in 1).
4) 3D digitization cost trend analysis studies (N.B. This latter issue is a stated EC priority) with
obvious use in cost-benefit work etc.
The approach has been designed to be complementary with the specific STRP proposal being
developed by the ORION Consortium on ‘End to End 3D from Excavation to Museum Public
Display and Education’ and other initiatives. As in other cases discussed elsewhere, the plan is
again that specialized research from this STRP will filter down into the NoE which serves
effectively as a user group for the results. There will be close cooperation with the work in the
following topic.
1.10. Spatio-Temporal Access (HIS/GIS)
Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth
Treating spatio-temporal access to cultural resources involves three main components:
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(a) Resource discovery by location and date: Existing metadata for on-line cultural content
generally includes dates but the only locational data are place-names. Some place-names can
sensibly be translated into points on the ground ("Monaco"?) but others cannot ("Germany").
Names change over time ("London" and "Londinium", "Breslau" and "Wroclaw"). Toponymic
databases and on-line gazetteers are therefore central to enabling spatio-temporal searching, but
they must be linked to GIS frameworks recording geographical entities as polygons. We can
demonstrate spatial discovery of resources whose metadata contains only place-names, but it is
better if the metadata contains coordinates or direct references to polygons. We have a
demonstration gazetteer, whose core is neither a GIS nor a thesaurus but an ontology, on-line at:
www.gbhgis.org/demo_gaz.htm.
(b) Integration of spatio-temporal data held on different servers: Most digital cultural content is
held in database and other content management systems without spatial functionality; and GIS
software tends to lack other capabilities needed by the cultural sector. We therefore need to
integrate content held in different servers with different capabilities, based on standards
developed by the Open GIS Consortium. The initial GBHGIS web site, going live next month,
already combines content generated by a series of distinct servers, including an OGC Web Map
Server, into particular web pages: www.VisionOfBritain.org.uk.
(c) Spatio-temporal visualisation: Locating cultural content by geography and bringing it
together is not enough; the user must be able to see the content in a spatio-temporal framework
on screen. We have already built a demonstration system for the British Library which locates
cultural content on a zoomable map of the world. Users can select content by locality and
period, and then access the material. A slightly cut-down version of this system, excluding for
example sound recordings, is publicly on-line at:
http://www.ccg.leeds.ac.uk/geotools/blpilot/MapKiosk.html.
Accompanying this activity there will probably be an STRP. In a second phase it is foreseen that
this work will be integrated with the work on historical cities (cf. jointly executed work below,
p.67.
1.11. Intelligent Virtual Environments
Team of Antonella Guidazzoli, CINECA
For the E-Culture Net TN, CINECA in conjunction with the Supercomputing centre at the
Universidad Computense da Madrid has produced a broadband demonstration involving a digital
version of the Fresco Map of Bologna in the Papal Apartments of the Vatican.
CINECA in conjunction with RAI has developed virtual environments, which allow one to go
from a representation of an archaeological ruin, to a reconstruction of the site, which can then be
linked with a television set. A small group will explore how this can be added as a feature of a
broadband DEED and explore how this approach can be adapted for e-learning in classrooms
with full broadband connections.
The artnouveau thematic network will contribute to this group latest developments in mixed
reality and Human Computer Interfaces (HCI). At least one representative from Art nouveau will
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also be a member of the interface group (1.7) to assure that there is further integration between
the solutions for regular and broadband internet.
It is likely that, along with other major players such as the artnouveau thematic network (led by
Fraunhofer and including the FHW (Foundation of the Hellenic World)), Laval (MUVII etc.) and
the VICE (Virtual Collaborative Environments) Consortium56; CINECA will develop STREPs,
which address specialized research problems, that go beyond the scope of research possible
within the NoE per se. Here one of the starting points will be the work of the FHW.
FHW is active with CREATE (Constructivist Mixed Reality for Design, Education, and Cultural
Heritage) that aims at developing a mixed reality framework to enable highly interactive realtime construction and manipulation of realistic, virtual worlds based on real sources. This
framework will be tested and applied to cultural heritage content in an educational context, as
well as to the design and review of architectural/urban planning settings. The CREATE project
will:
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develop careful design methodologies to determine user requirements, based on a
human-centred, "constructivist" approach to working and learning, with special attention
paid to evaluation of the resulting mixed reality experience
adapt, develop, and combine novel visualisation, display and audio technologies based
on the requirements thus defined, to enable realism with interactivity, specifically for
immersive VR platforms (single/multiple-screen stereoscopic displays)
construct prototypes for two specific applications, cultural heritage and architecture/urban
planning, that incorporate more natural and usable interface approaches and permit
assessment of both the methodology and technology employed (March 2002-February
2005).
1.12. Virtual Heritage Centres
Maurizio Forte, CNR-ITABC
The Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage of the Italian Research Council
(CNR-ITABC), has outlined a plan for a small network of Virtual Heritage Centres, 57 that will
effectively integrate the above activities in a new kind of high-speed context. This work will
build on the virtual environments work led by CINECA and constitute another module of the
broadband DEED.
Basic Integrating Activity 2: Fill DEED through networks to reflect diversity
This has three activities plus a number of jointly executed research activities (cf. 4.1-9).
2.1. Develop networks in each country
As a thematic network, E-Culture Net, appointed a series of volunteers who made preliminary
surveys with respect to development of networks in each country. Some of these volunteers have
found replacements, others have agreed to stay on. In most cases these individuals are already
active in linking European activities with those at a national level in their respective countries.
Some countries such as Spain and Portugal have already created their own websites for ECulture Net. A team of 15 individuals, one per member state will continue this process (cf. 2.1
above). Initially, they will further enlist cultural organisations, research institutions, industries in
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their countries as members of E-Culture Net. This approach allows the network to gain a critical
mass through a distributed structure while maintaining a small central secretariat.
For the thematic network phase of E-Culture Net, the Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW)
surveyed potential candidates for a Greek and a Mediterrenean Website. They are now working
on MEDINA-MEDiterranean by INternet Access. The main objective of the project is to design
and pilot the development of a "federation" of integrated Websites concerning culture and
tourism in a number of countries of the Mediterranean Area. The federation will consist of a
number of "national" Websites, obtained by reorganising and adapting existing material, and a
"MEDINA Portal", integrating and rearranging selected information from the national Websites.
The national Websites and the Portal will be oriented towards both end-users, directly organising
their tourism, and professional operators looking for specific information. The national Websites
will organise information according to local points of view, interests and focuses. All the
national Websites, however, will share a common methodological approach, a common design
(in terms of structure and content topics) and compatible implementation. The MEDINA Portal
will provide a Mediterranean point of view, allowing the user to plan a global tourist activity
across several Mediterranean countries. State-of-the-art technological methodologies, partly
originated from previously funded European projects, multichannel access (ranging from
standard Internet connections, to broadband, WAP, UMTS, etc.), intensive training and an
effective dissemination of the results will allow, in the future, an further development of the
project to all Mediterranean Countries.
Organisations from the following countries participate to this project: Italy, Algeria, Austria,
Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria,
Tunisia. The project has started in July 2002 and will last for 40 months.
Within the context of the E-Culture NoE, the FHW will combine the standardization processes in
the two projects, MEDINA and DEED, in order to have optimal results concerning these issues.
E-Culture Net’s Mediterranean network has been formed formed mainly by organizations that
participate in the MEDINA project.
2.2 Share research to reflect national, regional local diversity
A second role of these E-Culture networks at the level of individual countries will be to provide
members with the DEED in order that they can add resources from national, regional and local
levels to reflect Europe’s unity of diversities.
2.3 Co-ordinate with national policies (MINERVA)
Another role of networks at the country level is to work in conjunction with national
governments to harmonise ongoing projects with policy goals (cf. MINERVA). Here the precise
role of the E-Culture NoE awaits further definition of the role of MINERVA within FP6.
Basic Integrating Activity 3: Update DEED through research matrices
This activity in turn has three components.
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3.1. Co-operation with other specialised networks
Component one entails co-operation between E-Culture Net and a) member networks such as
ERPANET, ENCORE, SCRAN and b) specialised networks such ERCIM and DELOS in order
to refine the research matrices and gather information with respect to solutions, standards and
trends.
3.2 Collect info re: standards, solutions, for research matrices to update DEED.
Another role of networks at the country level is to collect information from cultural
organisations, research institutions and industry in each country concerning evolving solutions,
standards, and trends for research matrices of the knowledge production life cycle to update the
DEED.
3.3 Adapt Netzspannung’s (Fraunhofer) Knowledge Discovery tool
Netzspannung has developed tools for the CAT (Communication, Art & Technology network)
for semantic views and knowledge discovery specifically with respect to projects concerning
electronic arts. In component three, a small group of researchers from Netzspannung will adapt
this project and extend it reflect the entire knowledge production life cycle.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTEGRATION PROCESS, INCLUDING
QUALITATIVE & QUANTITATIVE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Show the importance and contribution of each to the integration process, in particular in
relation with the qualitative and quantitative performance indicators that are proposed.
Basic Activity 1: DEED (Distributed Electronic Electronic Dynamic) Resource
1.1. Security
Security is fundamentally important for the DEED in order to convince major cultural
institutions that they can share their resources safely without danger of contravening copyright.
The security module contributes to the integration process by providing a context for safe
sharing.
* The effectiveness of the security module can be tested by asking candidates to identify: What
security aspects are not covered by the module? What provisions have been made for adding of
new security aspects? A second periodic test should be whteher there is hacker penetration?
1.2. Legal Agreements
Legal arrangements are a second important module of the DEED to ensure that a framework for
trust exists in writing. It will contribute to integration by spelling out concerns in black and
white. Here E-Culture Net can give guidance in development of European Directives on
copyright, digital goods and digital legal deposits.
Related to this is a small subproject on Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) connected with
Intellectual property rights. The partner in question, the Polytechnic University of Valencia is
also working on the DEED module 2 (legal agreements) and will compare the DOI approach to
the European DACO approach.
* The effectiveness of the module can be tested by asking: Do the agreements cover the legal
diversity of all the EU member states?The ultimate test of this module will be its contribution to
European legislation and jurisdiction.
1.3. Storage
Systematic storage and backups are of vital importance in order to ensure the preservation of the
DEED especially in emergency situations, whether natural or man-made. This module
contributes to integration by ensuring that the day-to-day efforts of the NoE have permanence.
* The effectiveness of the module can be tested by asking: Do UNESCO’s storage methods
adequately reflect the needs of all the NoE’s members? Traditional measurements of fault rate
and down time will be applied as quantitative measures.
1.4. Multilingual Mapping of Terminology
Multilingual mapping is of basic importance to ensure that adding resources becomes more than
a simple dumping process. This module contributes to integration by providing a single
framework for access to the DEED, which is at the same time multilingual to permit access from
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members in different countries. The addition of members from the CHIME Consortium includes
the dimension of natural language and automatic translation.
* The effectiveness of the proposed methodology can be measured by determining the range of
crucial parameters: mapping existing formats (e.g. thesaurus, classification, dictionary etc.),
languages (e.g. French, English, old and new Greek, Arab, etc.) and topics, which are relevant
to many applications and user groups (e.g. iconography, geography). Another important
measure will be the facility to create efficient exchange formats between collaborating
institutions/researchers. The actual building of multilingually mapped vocabularies is not part of
this workpackage.
1.5. Semantic Mapping
Semantic mapping is an important module of the DEED to ensure that one is sharing meanings
rather than simple homonyms. This contributes to integration by ensuring that members have
access to resources in other languages in which they may not be fluent.
* The effectiveness of the module can be tested by by asking: Does the semantic mapping entails
only standard meanings? How does the system deal with regional and local meanings and how
does the system deal with historical changes in meaning?
1.6. Distributed Autonomous Cultural Objects (DACOs)
Most solutions for sharing resources on the Internet give access to collections or at best single
resources. To share resources fully we need access to individual pages and single images.
DACOs provide this through a higher level of granularity in searching without requiring a
rewriting of metadata as in schemes such as the Dublin Core. DACOs give access to detailed
items of culture while permitting the maintenance of local, regional and national diversity.
DACOs are therefore an essential component of the DEED.
* The effectiveness of DACOs can be measured by simply asking how many cultural objects are
accessible via DACO?; How easily can new resources be made accessible? Can this be done by
non-specialists? Are there limits of scale in the application of DACOs? How do DACOs deal
with multilingual challenges?
1.7. Interfaces
Interfaces are recognized as an important aspect of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). The
contribution of this module is to take into account the central importance of users in all
technological experiences, including psychological factors.
* The effectiveness can be tested by asking whether there are explicit guidelines for construction
of interfaces for the DEED. Are the interfaces designed to accommodate persons with
disabilities? Can the interfaces be personalised?
1.8. Multimodal Interfaces
In addition to being one of the EC’s priorities, multimodal interfaces are important because they
offer multiple means of access to complex information. The contribution of this module is that
one can introduce new kinds of navigation through information and knowledge, some items
being guided by gesture while others through voice commands.
* Effectiveness can be measured by asking: How many senses are covered? To what degree do
the interfaces offer faster accessibility to ensorially challenged persons: e.g. the blind, the deaf?
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1.9. Spatial Access (3D)
A traditional photograph shows only one view of a vase, statue or other cultural object. Spatial
access is an important module in the case of all cultural objects, which are three-dimensional,
because it allows one to see the same object from all viewpoints. This is vitally important in
order to study the complete object. A further contribution of this approach is that objects are not
only represented in three dimensions but can also be reproduced in three dimensions (e.g. using
stereo-lithography). This permits production of virtual surrogates, which can be used to test
whether intervention on an unique cultural object is advisable. Integrative approaches (see 4.3)
are already being initiated e.g. the ECN Object – Room - Building – etc hierarchy with clear
interaction with other topics e.g. Cultural Tourism & e-learning.
The effectiveness of the component can be tested by asking: How easily can cultural objects be
rendered in 3D and at what costs? What interoperability is there between the considered by
ORION methods and other solutions (e.g. the SCULPTEUR project, Web 3-D consortium, Adobe
Atmosphere and 3D Consortium58)? Which alternative products offer best quality and are most
cost-efficient?
1.10. Spatio-Temporal Access
Spatio-temporal access is vitally important in the case of historical materials where the
boundaries of countries on maps change over time. The contribution of this module is to permit
access to historical resources. A further contribution is that it permits new ways of searching for
objects using Geographical Information Systems (GIS).
* The effectiveness of this component can be measured by asking: Does the GIS approach deal
with multilingual place names? Does the approach include historical changes in place names
multilingually? To what degree does the resource add to the experience of cultural
tourism?What degree of coverage is achieved?
1.11. Virtual Environments for Broadband Access
When bandwidth is not a constraint, virtual environments are an important component of the
DEED because they permit complete immersion into a reconstruction or other three- dimensional
space. This module enables lifelike versions of historical sites for e-learning.
* The effectiveness can be measured by asking: Can the virtual environment be shared on-line?
How many are being shared? What amount of preparations are needed to share these
environments? How readily can these virtual environments be shared via television? Can these
virtual environments be used in classrooms? If so what are the necessary technical parameters?
What change is there in the quality of learning?
1.12. Virtual Heritage Centres for Broadband Access
Virtual Heritage Centres are another important component of a broadband version of the DEED
because they permit multi-sensory, multi-lingual access to digital cultural heritage. Their
contribution lies in providing a single context that integrates a number of different techniques to
display, analyse and study cultural materials for e-learning.
* Questions concerning effectiveness include: How many networked virtual heritage centres are
there? How many of these are operated within the NoE? Are there provisions for groups outside
the NoE to use these VHCs? What is the minimum bandwidth for virtual heritage centres?
The real importance of the DEED lies in integrating technologies which now exist in isolation to
permit researchers to share their resources, research methods and critical thought in new ways.
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Activity 2: Fill DEED through networks in each country
2.1. Develop networks in each country for sharing internationally
The goal to build DEED (activity 1) becomes important once there is a framework to make
DEED available to a much larger group of researchers. If administered centrally such a
framework poses great difficulties to the efficiency of the NoE. Creating a (branch of the)
network in each country overcomes this challenge and also avoids problems of subsidiarity.
* The effectiveness of these networks at the country level can be measured by asking: Is there a
website for the country in question? How comprehensive is the website? Do these websites foster
co- co-operation beyond the boundaries of their country of origin? How many resources are
being shared both ways? Are there conferences at the country level which foster co-operation at
the European level? What part of the resources of a country are difitally accessible via DEED?
2.2. Share research to reflect national, regional, and local diversity
The introduction of networks at the country level is also important for strengthening and
integrating co-operation between cultural organisations, research institutions, and industry. This
can be achieved by their sharing research using the DEED and will ensure, in turn, that the
DEED reflects Europe’s diversity at national, regional, and local levels.
* The effectiveness of this component can be measured by asking: How many resources are on
the DEED from country x? How many of the DEED modules are being used? What links are
there between alternative interpretations of the same facts, events at different levels? How many
of the members of the E-Culture NoE participate in activities of the national network?
2.3. Co-ordinate with national policies (MINERVA)
The development of networks at the level of individual countries is further important because it
creates links among the key cultural players, which can help in co-ordination between European
and national policies as foreseen by MINERVA.
* The effectiveness of this component can be measured by asking: How many of the MINERVA
policies are evidenced in projects of the NoE? Is this number increasing?
Objective 2, with its three components, provides an administrative framework for expanding
greatly the use of the DEED and the diversity of its contents. Rather than being a limited tool
that affects a small network of a dozen or so institutions, this approach allows it to include
hundreds of institutions and as such gain a critical mass whereby it becomes seriously
representative of Europe’s complex cultural landscape. Through the notion of subnetworks, this
model further allows integration of players from Mediterranean countries, Newly accessed States
(NAS) and Russia in a way that fosters their uniqueness and diversity.
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Basic Category
Technologies and Infrastructure
Content Creators
Content Holders
Content Brokers
Context Creators
Content and Context Communication
Applications
Implications
Network
ERCIM,CWI
artnouveau, INCCA Consortium
DELOS ,MUSICNET
ENCORE, ERPANET
DELOS,TERMNET
SCRAN
C2RMF,PULMAN
NEHRN
Figure 12: Survey of basic categories of the micro-level research matrix
and corresponding networks to track developments
BASIC OBJECTIVE 3: UPDATE DEED THROUGH RESEARCH MATRICES
3.1. Co-operation with other Networks
This component is vital to ensure that the solutions for security, storage etc offered by the DEED
remain up to date. E-Culture Net already includes among its members a number of networks
including, ERPANET, ENCORE, SCRAN, NEHRN and artnouveau. In addition, the EU has
already created a number of specialised networks (e.g. ERCIM, DELOS, MUSICNET) that serve
as a technology watch for individual developments (cf. Figure 12). The research matrices take
this process of integration one step further by combining their expertise to provide a tracking of
the entire knowledge production life cycle. Such co-operation among the existing networks in the
direction of a network of networks will enable the NoE to the survey developments and keep the
DEED up to date. In future such research matrices can become one of the components of a later
version of the DEED (cf. Figure 13).
* The effectiveness of this component can be measured by asking: What quantitative evidence is
there of more co-operation between networks? How comprehensive is the information in the
research matrices? How well is it being updated?
3.3. Adapt Netzspannung’s (Fraunhofer) CAT
This component is important because it provides new ways of seeing, studying and analysing
information collected by the research matrices by providing new knowledge discovery tools in
the form of semantic connections, kohonen maps etc.
* The effectiveness of this component can be measured by asking: Does the adapted project
display the research matrices completely and in new ways; How many persons are using the new
system; What documented evidence is there that this is an improvement?
FUTURE STEPS
As we have noted, a prime objective of the E-Culture NoE is to share research methods and
resources. This requires creating a common research infrastructure in the form of a DEED
(Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) resource, which can be seen as a series of pilots.
These pilots will integrate the research community in digital culture and further the vision of a
European Research Area (ERA). The DEED pilots will also bring to light a number of user and
usability needs that serve as preliminary work for full-scale DEED in the future.
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As the research community in digital culture comes into focus it will increasingly make sense to
separate the strict network characteristics of the NoE, and to develop the DEED as an Integrated
Project (IP).
As a thematic network, E-Culture Net has identified a long-term framework for a DEED or a
DEER (Distributed European Electronic Resource), with at least eight components (figure 13).
As we have noted, a separate UNESCO-EU project (DCMC) is working on large scale backups
and storage at the European level, which will be used for the NoE’s DEED. This corresponds to
component 1 of the future DEED.
PRESERVE
1
Storage, Preservation,
European Digital Centre of
Memory of Culture (DCMC)
8
Learning to Use,
Preserve and Exploit
Digital Resources,
Commercial Applications,
New Work
LEARN
7
Dissemination:
Publications Conferences,
User Awareness Groups
2
Research Matrices:
Portal for Solutions,
Standards,
Roadmaps
3
Multilingual
Semantic Portals to
Resources (Cataloguing,
Metadata)
DEED
(Distributed European
Electronic Dynamic)
resource
6
E- Learning, European
Masters & Doctorates,
Training, Digital
Content-Context Creation
ACCESS
4
Share Content,
Context Creation,
Collaborative Workspaces,
Virtual Agora
5
Content Creation,
Collaborative Environments,
New Research Technologies
CREATE
Figure 13: Eight components for a future Distributed European Electronic Dynamic Resource
and leading to a more comprehensive DEER (Distributed European Electronic dynamic
Resource). (Diagram Alexander G. Bielowski adapted from Suzanne Keene, UCL)
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Objective 1 of the NoE will provide aspects of components 3 and 4 of the future DEED.
Objective two widens the application of component 3 to include national, regional and local
content. Objective three of the NoE will eventually become component 2 of the DEED. The
NoE’s activities to spread excellence address component 6 of the future DEED.
Using a DEED as a modular first step towards a future comprehensive DEED, has the enormous
advantage of gaining experience while integrating different communities relating to digital
culture, rather than attempting a grand solution without a proper basis. Connecting the ideas from
the outset has the advantage of providing these same communities with a sense of direction that
is vital if the vision of an E-Europe where culture is multilingually available to all citizens is to
become a reality.
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B.4.2 PROGRAMME FOR JOINTLY EXECUTED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Jointly executed research activities are focussed on activity 2: Content for the DEED.5 For the
initial phase of the NoE activities there is a focus on Spanish content as a point of departure. The
reason for this choice is a simple one. In the course of the past five years a working national
network with its own bi-annual conferences has emerged. This group is working on four
transverse theme to integrate research in the field, namely, multidimensional museums, historical
European cities, cultural tourism and hypermedia e-learning (see below B.4.3 Activities to
spread excellence). The Spanish examples are important for the NoE because they are already in
touch with colleagues in different centres across Europe. Making them part of the DEED will
overcome fragmentation and help the NoE to gain critical mass in terms of connections and
content.
We have also chosen other European examples based in France, Greece and the United Kingdom
to ensure diversity. Our criterion for selecting examples has been to find research that is rich in
local diversity and at the same time entails wider implications, of interest to Europe as a whole.
Seven content pilots have been chosen and will be described briefly.
4.1 Multidimensional Museums and Spaces
Team of Isidro Moreno Sanchez, 59 Universidad Complutense da Madrid
As mentioned above Multidimensional Museums are one of the transverse themes in the Spanish
E-Culture Network. These themes integrate hitherto isolated projects within a more coherent
framework of research. This group will produce five broadband subpilots. Of these the first two
are focussed on Spain: 1) is an existing network, which will be placed in a larger context; 2) has
wider interest because it entails processes in the history of agriculture and history of technology.
A third project looks at European sport using Spain as a point of departure. The fourth entails
collaborative digital art and collaborative artistic creation. It is included here along with 5)
CINECA’s project on a Vatican map, because they are developing links with Spain and is also
engaged in developing virtual environments and virtual heritage (project 4.7 below). Hence the
joint research will lead to interplay between Spanish and Italian approaches to these
collaborative spaces.
* The effectiveness can be measured by asking: How do these museums go beyond the virtual
and imaginary museums of the last decades? How many processes are included in the demos?
1. Spanish Museums
2. Virtual Net of Spanish Olive Oil Museums
3. European Sport Museum
4. Collaborative Digital Art, Artistic Creation
5. Vatican Map
e-Cultura Net, S.A
Universidad de Jaén
Univ.de Las palmas de Gran Canaria
A Coruña University – VideaLAB
CINECA
Figure 14: Five content pilots concerning multidimensional museum
5
Some of the specialised research communities are also developing Strategic Targeted Research Projects (STREPs)
to integrate further aspects.
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4.2 Spatio-Temporal Access: Historical European Cities
Team of Francesca Bocchi, University of Bologna, NUME, CIHV & CMH
The theme of digital cities is a second of the Spanish transverse, integrating themes. There will
be Spanish contributions from the Universidad Alcalá de Henares and the Universidad SEK,
Segovia, which is working with the Commission Internationale des Villes (CIVH).
Professor Bocchi, who leads the theme on Historical European Cities, is Vice President of the
CIVH and heads one of the most thorough reconstructions of an historical city over time as a
paradigm for a New Electronic Museum (Nuovo Museo Elettronico or NUME).60 Bologna is
working with colleagues at the University of Lecce and the IULM in Milan. Bologna, working
with Madrid will integrate their work in a distributed electronic environment.
NUME is already a famous project with many concrete results (figure 8). The purpose of
including it in the NoE is to share these results and methods to inspire further critical thought
about the important theme of historical reconstructions of cities. As the project’s title (New
Electronic Museum) suggests, this initiative has very important methodological consequences.
Rather than limiting the concept of museums to buildings with isolated artifacts, this project
treats the whole of a historic city centre as a museum, and allows one to trace how objects, once
in the streets of the city are now to be found in its museums and churches. This approach has
profound implications for the future of e-learning with respect to digital culture and for this
reason is included in the NoE.
In addition to the Bologna team and Spanish team there will be a French team under MarieMadeleine Martinet (Paris IV, Sorbonne) focussed on reconstructions of (British) Georgian
(Period) Cities; and a Russian team led by AltSoft Spb ((Pskov, Novgorod).
* The effectiveness can be measured by asking: How accurate is the match between the
reconstruction and original documents? How many cities are available in this way? To what
extent do the different methods in various countries reflect fundamental methodologies rather
than simple matters of taste?
4.3 Cultural Tourism and E-Learning
Team of D. Diego Gutierrez Perez Zaragoza plus Tourism Site Network,61
TICKET Consortium,62and the u-Tourism Consortium
A third Spanish transverse, integrating theme entails cultural tourism and e-learning and again
has seven subprojects. The first of these is an already existing local network on the culture and
history of the province of Leon in northern Spain. A second focusses on a famous European
historical event, the treaty of Westphalia with virtual tours using avatars; a third uses gardens and
cultural landscapes, while a fourth focuses on mediaeval landscapes in southern Spain.
Subprojects five and six focus on objects and events (banquets) while subproject seven focuses
on a common portal for these materials.
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1. Saecula Network of Culture of Leon
2. Environment of Treaty of Westphalia
3. Gardens and Cultural Landscapes
4. Landscape in Mediaeval Southern Sierra
5. Ceramics
6. Banquets On-line
7. Web Portal
SEK University, Segovia
Polytechnic University of Valencia
Universidad de Valladolid
Universidad de Sevilla
Museo Nac.de Ceramica y Artes Suntuarias
MediaLabMadrid
CINECA
Figure 15: Seven content pilots relating to tourism and e-learning (4.3)
As part of the DEED there are modules on 3-D spatial access especially to individual objects
(1.9) and spatio temporal access (1.10). Through the examples in the above content projects the
NoE can offer examples of moving from an object (ceramics 4.3.5), to museums (4.1.1) to cities
(4.2), to whole landscapes (4.3.3). These materials lend themselves for use in virtual
environments and virtual heritage centres (4.7).
This largely Spanish work will be given a larger significance through connections with the
Belgian Tourism Site Network, which is leading the TICKET Consortium and EoI, and with the
Italian u-Tourism Consortium. These partners will ensure that the economic implications of these
new developments are properly explored and developed.
* The effectiveness can be measured by asking: What evidence is there that these activities are
changing cultural tourism? Spain has bullfights, Italy has the Palio. To what extent do these
country specific events affect cultural tourism? How effectively is the Spanish group cooperating with other tourism networks in Belgium and Italy? Is it possible to identify how
European tourism is distinct from tourism elsewhere?
4.4 Art and Text Databases
Manfred Thaller, Universität zu Köln
C2RMF through continuous EU projects over the past 12 years has developed the EROS
database of the Louvre. This database of nearly 4 terabytes including 26,000 cultural objects with
c. 150 images per object offers an excellent example of the potentials of sharing via multilingual
interfaces. A German project63 has demonstrated how slide collections from art history lectures
can be made available on the Internet. This will be adapted and integrated into the emerging
DEED.
* The effectiveness of this project can be measured by asking: How many slides are made
available in this way? In how many languages are they accessible? How is this changing the
teaching of art history, cultural history? To what extent can these rsources be applied to
teaching of architecture, urban planning, art hostory and archaeology?
4.5 FHW Greek Content
Team of Giorgios Giannoulis, FHW
FHW has three projects, which are already funded and are being developed. For the purposes of
the NoE, FHW will explore how these three projects can be integrated within the DEED. FHW’s
contribution will be structured in three axes.
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The first one concerns the use of the Hellenic History on the Internet. The bilingual (Greek/
English) site covers the history of Hellenism from the Prehistoric period to the present day, all
over the world. It now numbers more than 30,000 electronic pages, including links and
bibliographic references, and contains around 4,000 digitised representations of historical
documents and materials, separated in 15 different periods: http://www.e-history.gr
The second one concerns the important terminology deposit of FHW aiming at the production of
a glossary within the framework of the Encyclopaedia of Greek Culture (EGC), the production
of which involves researchers of various historical disciplines from all around the world. The
EGC is an original and innovative project aiming at the collection, study, documentation,
presentation and dissemination of historical and cultural data concerning the Greek presence in
varying space- and time-settings. As first part of the project has been selected the Asia Minor
(from Antiquity to the early 20th century), which will be completed at later stages by analogous
contributions on all other areas, where Greek presence and activity has been registered. The EGC
will be available on the internet, making thus accessible to all, an enormous quantity of textual
and audiovisual information, organized in an easy-to-use way and providing the unification net
for most of the productions and projects of the FHW (3D models, GIS maps and models, videos,
architectural re-drawings, web sites, etc.).
Last but not least, the provision of the site entitled Olympics through Time completed in 1996
and regularly updated. The bilingual site offers a journey through time and presents the history of
the Olympic Games from the time when athletic contests were held during religious ceremonies
until the First International Olympic Games in 1896: http://www.fhw.gr/projects/olympics/.
What degree of integration is there with the DEED? What added visibility is there through
integration with the DEED/DEER?
4.6 3D Reconstructions and Archaeology
Team of Dr David Clarke, ORION Thematic Network
The National Museums of Scotland has been actively engaged in 3D imaging and display work
since the early 1990s as part of the MOSAIC system development work for the new Museum of
Scotland, opened in 1998. Since then these efforts have intensified thanks in particular to The
Multimedia Team spin-out in early 2003 to form part of an Irish company, KESTREL 3D, with
strong Canadian links. The NMS has taken a pioneering role in 3D in particular and initiated the
EC’s ORION project on 3D for Archaeological Museums (see www.orion-net.org) on building a
Network of Excellence and a Research Roadmap (due mid 2003).
Also of note is the ORION work on building a collection of ‘Good 3D practice in Archaeology’
(in CD-ROM form) to show the evolution of the state of the practice (shown at EVA2003
Florence, the Vienna April 2003 Archaeology & Computing Conference as well as elsewhere).
For this Broadband Pilot 3D Archaeology work we are deliberately focusing on NAS/NIS
countries and Russia in order to help stimulate progress in the field in these countries. The
proposed partners consist of leading technology institutions (all with cultural heritage interest
and relationships) which will concentrate on relevant technology advances with limited 3D
archaeology contents from these countries to exemplify this issues involved and the potential.
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Advice and support will be available from other ORION members and of course the work in 1.9
Spatial Access (3D) as well as other eCultureNet Broadband pilots e.g. 4.3, 4.5 and 4.7.
4.7 Virtual Environments and Virtual Heritage Centres
Team of Antonella Guidazoll (CINECA) and Maurizio Forte (CNR-ITABC)
The initial DEED addresses basic challenges concerning a common infrastructure for sharing
resources. In addition there are further challenges with respect to high-speed connectivity or
broadband. Many research resources are extremely large. At the highest level, paintings are
being scanned in at 30 gigabytes per image (cf. Crisatel project).. Historical reconstructions of
cities are up to 5 terabytes. Developing ways to share these enormous new resources is one of the
important rationales for the NoE.
As a thematic network E-Culture Net is working on a broadband demo linking the
supercomputers of CINECA and Madrid in May 2003. Building on this demo and the work of
WP6 of the thematic network, a small group will explore how this can be further operationalised.
Both CINECA and Madrid (UCM) are already on the GEANT network. In conjunction with
CNR-ITABC (1.12) this group will probably also apply for infrastructure funds to link other
centres with GEANT, namely, Bologna, Helsinki, Laval, London (UCL), Darmstadt, Vienna.
This group might develop the components of virtual environments and Virtual Heritage Centres
as a single project. These (core) members of E-Culture net can serve as an avant-garde set of
users experimenting with broadband connections. The group has already established links with
the artnouveau thematic network and is in contact with the Virtual Collaborative Environments
(VICE) Consortium.
In addition to these extremely high-speed experiments, the NoE has identified jointly executed
research projects to combine the functionalities of the DEER with virtual environments in highspeed contexts.
4.8 Cultural Diversity
A small group led by Paris 8 working with UNESCO will strengthen this dimension by
developing the subnetwork of excellence on cultural diversity. These connections will be further
strengthened in phase 2 when the NoE finds a permanent home in the new European Univeristy
of Culture in Strasbourg.
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B.4.3 Activities to spread excellence
WP 5
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
A: E-Learning
Hypermedia E-Learning
PRONOWnce
French Examples
Greek Examples
Restoration and Heritage
European Masters and Doctorates
ANID
Fraunhofer IUK
Sorbonne (Paris IV)
Foundation of the Hellenic World
Malta Centre for Restoration
Università di Bologna
Figure 16: Six themes for spreading excellence using the DEED
Like the groups devoted to specific modules of the DEED, the groups concerned with spreading
excellence will have a number of specific activities. At an informal level this will be fostered by
connections with existing specialized networks such as ERPANET, SCRAN, ERCIM and
DELOS, which are being developed qua research matrices (3.1). These networks can be used to
disseminate the results and spread excellence of the E-Culture NoE and conversely. In addition,
the NoE has chosen six content-based projects to spread excellence using the DEED (figure 16),
each of which will be described briefly.
5.1 Hypermedia E-Learning
This is the fourth of the transverse, integrating themes, which have been identified by the
Spanish group as part of their work during the thematic network and in turn entails five
subprojects (figure 19). All these projects are co-ordinated by the Associacion National de
Investigadores en Didattica (ANID) and are of particular interest because they build on existing
physical networks in Spain with close links to both Mexico (and thus to the US Internet II
projects) and South America (figure 6).
A first of these projects entails on-line audio-visual teaching (University Jaume I of Castellón)
and will be concerned with sharing different multi-media formats using the DEED tool and
Spanish content in Internet and Intranet environments.
* The effectiveness of this subproject can be measured by asking: how many media and how
many senses does the system include? How many languages are covered in the system?
The second and most elaborate of the Hypermedia e-learning subprojects (figures 9, 13-14) is
focussed on Broadband for Foreign Language Teaching or BELE (Broadband para la Enseñanza
de Lenguas Extranjeras).
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1. On-Line Audiovisual E-Teaching
2. Broadband Foreign Language Teaching
3. Virtual Campus
4. Mediterranean Examples
5. NAS and Russian Examples
6. Satellites for E-remote learning
7.Acces Grid for Culture
University Jaume I of Castellón
Assoc. Nat. de Investigadores en Didattica
SEK University, Segovia
FHW
Via Centre PIC
Siberian Centre of Mobile IST
CINECA
Figure 17: Seven subprojects for the theme of Hypermedia e-Learning
Addressed to institutions, companies and professionals teaching foreign languages, BELE
provides technology to reproduce off-line courses at a distance. Compatible with IPv6, it
responds to the requirements of a network Bandwidth (Internet2, 3G/UMTS). The modular
organisation of the tools allows an adapted operation to the different institutions in charge to
disseminate results, scalability, and an open connection with other projects, present or future.
The modular requirements allow the establishment of shared networks of resources and creation
of distributed networks under the global scheme of Multimedia Digital Libraries: repositories of
information and conservation of both linguistic and cultural patrimony. The use of
documentation standards (SGML/XML) guarantees visibility, portability, information survival
and multi-format characteristics.
BELE is a 'Distributed repository: Multimedia Digital Library [BELE-300-A]' which is oriented
to both multilingualism and rich cultural content with respect to distance e-learning for foreign
language teaching. The project includes DIGIBIS (MAPFRE), the most important digital
(Multimedia CD-ROM) publishing company at Spain, with classical Spanish titles. With the aid
of television there will be links to Latin American culture in Mexico (UNAM). The project is
based on a rich distributed multimedia repository of cultural contents, open standards, module
based, and broadband including 3G/UMTS and mobility compatibilities.
A small group will explore how results form this project can be used by members of the ECulture NoE and how the results can become part of future functionalities of the DEED.
* The effectiveness of the project can be measured by asking: How many languages does the
project include? What range of cultural materials are included? How many media are involved?
What new links does the project establish between Europe and Middle and South America?
A third project focuses on a Virtual campus in Spanish and English. The Internet potentially
offers virtual meeting and working space for many European professors who aim to project their
teaching and researching towards other areas of the World and especially towards America. The
creation of a network amongst these professionals and institutions in both continents, will allow
them to share high quality educational experiences and will make easy access to information,
diffusion of historical and technological heritage, a better knowledge and approach to the
scientific and educational societies, a correct foreseeing of the new coming professions, a
sustaining economical development and the creation of exchange networks for the Knowledge
Society.
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The SEK International Institution and its International Campus through their three Universities
(Segovia, Spain, Santiago, Chili and Quito, Ecuador) offer a suitable infrastructure for the
development of these working projects, teleducation and the development of new ways of
distance researching. In addition, SEK offers a satellite communications platform, which already
has a portal: http://www.sek.edu and new communication processes.
* The effectiveness of this subproject can be tested by exploring the extent to which students
prefer a) their own professors; b) foreign visiting professors or c) professors in virtual form?
From a professor’s viewpoint there is the question of what areas, aspects of communication are
not possible in these virtual environments? Are there cases where virtual communication should
be avoided, or others where it is particularly suited?
A fourth project and fifth subproject add Mediterranean, NAS and Russian examples.
In a sixth subproject, the Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information
Sciences (SIBSUTI) in conjunction with the Siberian Center of Mobile IST Technologies
(SIBMOBILIST) will explore the use of satellites for E-distance learning in remote areas. A first
stage will define and research a satellite E-Culture Net version of the DEED. A second part will
develop High-QoS Distributed Broadband Satellite Telecommunications for Remote and Mobile
E-Culture Net Applications (Research Matrices, Neuron-Like Broadband Wireless Environment,
figure 7). The focus is on remote Northern regions (Russian North, Greenland, Norway, Alaska
and the Canadian North). The project will research, develop and model a prospective architecture
and technologies for such high QoS satellite networks.
It is foreseen that this group will compare methods with the BELE and SEK Consortium
solutions re: satellites (cf. figures 7, 9) and also contribute to the research matrices.
The questions to be answered are:
What requirements to high-QoS multimedia satellite telecommunications for rural and remote ECulture Net applications?
Can the virtual environment be shared on-line for rural, remote and mobile user?
Can access to its environment be personal?
Can access to its environment be low-cost?
Can access to its environment be at any time, any place, and any quality?
What satellite telecommunications technology and architecture are needed to share these
environments?
* The effectiveness can be tested by asking how much more economical this method is than more
traditional radio and/or video conferencing methods familiar from the Canadian North (cf.
Athabasca University)?
Finally a seventh subproject building on other work will provide an Access Grid (CINECA).
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5.2. E-Learning User Group for PROKNOWnce
The second project to spread excellence entails an IP. The European Commission has proactively requested the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (Berlin) to do a study on e-learning (I-Knows) as
a preliminary step towards an IP called PROKNOWnce. This IP will provide a series of new
technologies for both personal and collaborative learning. It is foreseen that the E-Culture NoE
will provide users to test the products of this IP. E-Culture Net will work with Fraunhofer to
identify detailed needs and challenges for integration within PROKNOWnce and future IPs.
* The effectiveness can be measured by asking: How many users are implementing the software?
How can we determine that users are learning new things and not just browsing or web-surfing?
5.3 E-Training with French examples
The Sorbonne (Paris IV), organizes international training sessions in digital culture, integrates IT
into humanities subjects from 1st year to the doctoral level and is project manager of a national
network for training in computer and information skills, Reseaux.doc, recognized by the French
Ministry of education and Research as a campus numérique (cf. figure 4). The Sorbonne courses
involve 40 graduates at present. This will become one of the test sites to spread the excellence of
the DEED in particular and the E-Culture NoE in general.
* The effectiveness of this activity can be measured by asking how many students used how many
contents of the DEED in their courses? How many students preferred the use of the DEED to
traditional textbooks?
5.4 E-Learning Greek Examples (FHW)
FHW is one of the founding partners of E-Culture Net and participates in a number of e-learning
activities falling into the scope of the NoE’s activities to spread excellence. More specifically,
the project e-muse, a project that aims at the networking of specialised cultural and educational
institutions, specifically museums and schools, for the development of common learning
materials and services based on their contents and their research resources, in order to create and
implement a new e-learning environment that demonstrates the potential of the e-learning
solutions for specific user groups.
The project’s anticipated results include: a set of learning activities which are based on common
curricula, objectives, and resources among the participating countries, and are adapted to the
needs of school students whenever they act as museum visitors, linking digital with on-site
resources and thus creating a unique experience within a challenging learning environment;
software tools that facilitate these activities by exploiting state-of-the-art computer and
communication technologies, such as Java and the Internet. The technological infrastructure will
provide all the features to support the required kinds of interaction within a shared spatiotemporal terrain (interactive maps and 3D spaces along the temporal axis), navigational aids
(bound by the scientific knowledge of each historical period), “mind-tools” to visualize and
observe, manipulate information and reason with (e.g. database filtering and querying tools,
graphs, interactive timelines, etc), and the means to collaborate in real time with colleagues in
order to coordinate the task at hand (e.g. exchange findings with colleagues that “meet” at same
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place of the common terrain). Production of a model of best practice activities that can be
transferred and adapted to many other similar structures in Europe. Establishment of a direct,
solid link between museum and school in each participant country as well as among all the
participant countries, for the creation of a network that will have the potential to expand and
encompass other education providers in the future. (January 2003-June 2004).
5.5-Training in Restoration with IKONOS and E-Heritage
IKONOS64 is a consortium of partners in a Euro-Mediterranean regional project, which uses
satellites in e-learning at a distance. This consortium is also submitting the E-Heritage IP. The
consortium will test the DEED content of the E-Culture Net NoE in their e-training programmes.
* The effectiveness can be measured by asking: How many resources of the DEED are being
used in IKONOS? How is access to the DEED changing the way e-training and e-learning takes
place?
5.6a European Masters
During its phase as a thematic network, E-Culture net identified a series of basic principles for
European Masters and doctorates. With respect to Masters degrees three preliminary courses
have been developed by the Scuola Normale of Pisa at both Cortona and Volterra. The Scuola
Normale courses at Cortona and Volterra involve c.25 students.
In the first year of the NoE, ten individuals will further define and develop European Masters
degrees. These will include representatives from the Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de
l'Information65 group at the Sorbonne (Paris IV), whose work was mentioned above (5.4). The
group will also include a representative from the Northern European Historical Research
Network (NEHRN).
5.6b European Doctorates
At the doctoral level, this initiative is being led by the Università di Bologna, and La Sapienza
(Rome), which were pioneers in developing European Doctorates. La Sapienza in Rome, which
has developed a European Doctorate in Social Representations (figure 4 and Appendix 4), has
also been a pioneer in a network Marie Curie Training centres. Also part of this team is the
Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) mentioned above, the Northern European Historical
Research Network (NEHRN) which has been pioneering in the development of a Doctor
Communitatis Europeae (DCE).66 There is also contact with the nascent European University of
Culture, which is likely to have its seat in the buildings of the European Parliament in Strasbourg
(Appendix 3).
A representative from the European Univeristy will be part of the doctoral group. The E-Culture
NoE will work closely with this new university in defining the scope of doctorates in the domain
of digital culture. There is agreement in principle that this new university will become the future
home of E-Culture net. Given the presence of the Council of Europe on the same premises this
would be an ideal solution.
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* The effectiveness can be measured by asking: How many specific courses have been
designed/are active? How many students are taking the MA and doctorate courses? How is the
DEED affecting these courses? How many countries are represented in the teaching staff of the
MAs and PhDs?
In addition to the above six activities to spread excellence within the group and within Europe
there will be three further activities to address wider dissemination, namely, expansion to the
Newly accessed States, International dimensions and dissemination in the form of training,
conferences and courses.
5.7 Expand to NAS & Beyond
During the thematic network phase, E-Culture Net has identified a number of potential members
in the NAS. In the NoE the number of NAS members will be expanded. A small group will
explore how this can be expanded into a sub-network that can actively participate in the NoE’s
research activities.
* Effectiveness can be measured by asking: How many NAS and Mediterranean countries are
included? To what extent is the sharing reciprocal and two-way? How many key institutions in
those countries does the NoE include?
5.8 International Dimensions
The E-culture thematic network has identified a number of players on the international scene
who have interesting research. A small group will integrate the efforts of these international
players within the Noe. For instance, the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in conjunction
with the Asian Network of Excellence in Digital Silk Roads (ANEDSR), the National Science
Foundation’s Digital Silk Road Cultural Grid and UNESCO are working with e-Culture Net
(Appendix 6).
The Chinese Digital Culture Heritage Network: (CDCHN) is a partner. They note:
Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage requires an extremely high level of
know how, both in scientific and in practical skills. Thus our proposal aims at the
exchange of experience, modern educational international contacts with other experts
through the networkwork platform. Our hope to co-operate in the following aspects: Ecultural relics: manuscript, utensil, architecture, sites; E-historical city; E-museum; Eminority culture.”
The NII-ANEDSR-NSF-UNESCO-E-Culture Net links have led to project proposals with the
Getty Trust and the NSF. These partners might also define other projects, which are eligible for
joint funding from the EU’s international funds and/other bodies such as the NSF.
In the past year a number of the EVA conferences, notably EVA Beijing and EVA Moscow have
featured E-Culture Net (cf. below 5.12). The EVAN Consortium (EC project completed
successfully in December 2002) is actively progressing the work in 2003. It includes the Gifu
Prefectural Government, Harvard University and the Chinese and Russian members of the eCN
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Group. A proposal is being made for a Special Support Action proposal ‘using, strengthening
and extending’ the EVA conferences internationally to assist in EC project dissemination and
networking. This includes EVA India and EVA Latin America as well as continuing the EVAs
in China, Japan and Russia (NB 2,500 particpants at EVAs in 2002).
The eCultureNet partners in this Work Package include representatives from Canada (CHIN),
Japan (NII), Russia (Centre PIC), China (Tsinghua University), USA (RLG) and Germany
(UNESCO Programme). All have extensive contacts and relationships in the international scene
in leading non-European and international organisations such as NINCH (USA), and CIMI
Digital Content Forum (Canada), IFLA, ICOM and UNESCO.
This Work Package thus although a small one in effort terms, is crucial and thanks to synergy
with past and future EVAN work, will ensure that eCultureNet’s international profile is raised
even more and provide significant additional opportunities for international networking.
Also advantage will be taken of the three main annual European EVAs in Florence, London and
Berlin with strong international participation to promote eCultureNet and network
internationally.
The effectiveness can be measured by asking: How many international conferences are being
organised by this group? How many attendees at each conference? At how many international
conferences is the E-Culture NoE represented? To what extent do these international
connections provide the NoE with new relationships, content, research methods and conversely?
5.9. Training, Conferences, Summer Courses
In Spain there has been the important bi-annual CulturTec conference.67 For the past four years,
the Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University (AMSU) has been organising summer courses,
which bring together key individuals from the libraries, museums and archives.68 In 2001, this
course was sponsored by E-Culture Net. Such conferences and courses will be integrated into the
E-Culture NoE programme.
As part of their membership every researcher in the E-Culture NoE will be expected to attend an
annual conference that will bring together all members of the NoE. This conference will have
plenary sessions to integrate all the communities and sessions focusing on the five main sets of
activities (build, fill and update DEED plus joint activities and spreading excellence).
In addition to such an annual conference there will be periodic meetings of two or three modules
of the DEED to ensure that the teams develop the necessary rapport for real integration amongst
themselves. As a concrete example, module 4 (multilingual mapping of terminology) has a
section on historical, geographical and toponomical names. Module 10 focusses on Geographical
Information Systems (GIS). A joint session between these two groups will ensure that their work
is co-ordinated. To achieve integration, AMP proposes a joint programme of activities in which
the crucial integrating activities and an ambitious programme for the training of experts are
closely linked to jointly-executed research into the more technical and language-oriented
aspects“). The effectiveness of the workshops for experts should be measured (if it were possible)
by the creation of an “esprit de corps” among these researchers who are working in so different
disciplines that – normally – they would never meet. But this exactly is one of the most important
steps in direction of a European Research Era.
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B.4.4 MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES (STRUCTURE)
Describe each of these components, identify who will carry out each. Show the relevance and
contribution of each to the project’s organisation and management plans described in section
B.7 below.
The management of the NoE will eventually occur through nine groups: 1) Co-ordinator’s
Secretariat; 2) Distributed Secretariat; 3) EEIG; 4) Executive Board; 5) Management Board; 6)
Advisory Board and 7) National Representatives and in some cases 8) National Harmonising
Teams; 9) Subnetworks.
1. Secretariat
The NoE will have a co-ordinator with a small Secretariat to deal with daily administration. This
includes the functions of a Permanent General Manager; Administrative Secretary, Financial
Officer, Liaison Officers for the three objectives, (DEED, Networks, Research Matrices), ELearning, Programmer, Webmaster and Organiser of Meetings. The secretariat will monitor coorcination to ensure that is maximal, and will be responsible for task/progress reports to the
European Commission.
2. Distributed Secretariat
A distributed secretariat composed mainly of researchers who lead the Work Packages will coordinate the day-to-day research challenges. In the case of objective 1 there will be separate
individuals to co-ordinate DEED modules, and DEED Content. This group will also co-ordinate
plans for complementary research (at different levels) including STREPS and possibly IPS.
3. EEIG
For the administrative framework especially with respect to the European Union, the NoE is in
the process of establishing an European Economic Interest Group (EIIG) consisting of four
members (Scuola Normale Superiore, Universidad SEK de Segovia, Universität zu Köln and
Universität Wien).
4. Executive Board
An Executive Board consisting of a chairperson, the members of the EEIG, plus five other
founding members will meet periodically to deal with basic issues and problems. This core,
which is also concerned with the development of European Masters and Doctorates will have
academic institutions only.
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5. Management Board
More general issues will be dealt with by a Board of Management consisting of the Executive
Board, plus national representatives from the EU countries. This group will also be responsible
for administrative, technological, legal infrastructure.
6. Advisory Board
An advisory board consisting of members from related networks will meet annually to compare
notes and offer advice. This will also serve for concertation of actions. This will include
networks already members of the thematic network (e.g. SCRAN, NEHRN) plus MINERVA,
ERCIM/DELOS, ORION etc.
7. National Representatives
As a thematic network E-Culture Net effectively appointed a series of volunteers to be
interim representatives for their respective countries. In the NoE, members from each country
(15 soon to become 25) will elect from amongst themselves an individual to represent their
country first for a one-year period while the networks are forming and then for a three-year
period. Individuals can be elected a maximum of two terms.
The prime function of national representatives will be to develop networks in each country,
which reflect the cultural organisations, research institutions and industry concerned with digital
culture in their country. They will co-ordinate these members and assure that they share their
national, regional and local research using the DEED. The national representatives will also
represent members from their country on the management board. They will also develop
relationships with relevant governmental bodies (e.g. ministries of culture and education) and
national representatives of MINERVA in order to harmonise projects and policy.
8. National Harmonising Teams
As these networks evolve it may be desireable to work with national governments in developing
harmonising teams, which would ensure that solutions, and standards used in the DEED and new
developments identified by the research matrices are indeed used by all members of the NoE.
This would also help to ensure that digitisation policies established by MINERVA have practical
consequences (Figure 18).
9. Sub-Networks
From the outset there will be representatives from the Mediterranean, the NAS, Russia and
internationally. To avoid a monolithic structure that is too large to manage, these will
form further sub-networks to link others with the activities of the NoE, Countries such as Russia
will be linked through at least two levels both as founding members and through their own
network. One of the important goals of the sub-networks in the Mediterranean, NAS and Russia
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is not just for them to become more aware of Western Europe’s culture, but also for Western
Europe to become more aware of how European heritage has undergone fascinating
interpretations and transformations in countries to the South- and East. This awareness will
increase Europe’s sense of its identities and enrich awareness of a unity of diversities, which is
fundamental to the European tradition. A synoptic view of how these different parts of the
management structure is provided in Figure 19.
Network of Centres of Excellence
EEIG and Core Members
National Members
1 Full Time representative per country to integrate national with EU activities
National Harmonising Team
The national representative and a small team of 5-10 persons paid by national
governments could work with the MINERVA national representatives to produce
directives to assure that their country takes up the standards and solutions
developed at the European level or at least employs methods which are
compatible with these standards. Compliancy with such directives could
become a criterion for federal and EU funding.
National
Gov't Agencies
Networks
Organisations
Projects
European
Gov't Agencies
Networks
Organisations
Projects
International
Gov't Agencies
Networks
Organisations
Projects
Figure 18: Schematic chart of elements for the management of a NoE in Culture.
Those in bold indicate aspects already partly in place
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Network of Centres of Excellence
Central Sectretariat:
Dailiy administration
Distributed Secreteriat:
Special Tasks
(DEED, Networks, Research Matrices)
Members
Core EEIG:
Core administrative decisions
4
Executive Board:
Regular network decisions
9
Management Board:
Basic network descisions
Advisory Board:
Periodic advice
15+
14
National Networks:
Links to Specialized Networks
15+ representatives responsible for
networks of 10-25 members each
Artnouveau, MINERVA, DELOS,
ERCIM
Mediterranean Sub-Network:
FHW and representatives responsible
of network of 20-50 members
Newly Accessed States Sub-Network:
Vienna and representatives responsible
for network of 20-50 members. As
these Newly Accessed States (NAS)
become formal members of the EU
they will form their own National
networks
International Sub-Network:
EVAN+ representatives responsible for
links with international networks such
as NII, CHIN, NINCH
Figure 19: Basic structure NoE and its connections with network
in individual countries, sub-networks and specialised networks
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BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP
Research Institutions
The most immediate benefit for research institutions is to be linked directly with a number of
leading institutes concerned with E-Culture in Europe and throughout the world. Funding
received will depend on the number of researchers directly engaged in one of the three action
lines:
1) Build the DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) resource
2) Add content to the DEED through country level networks
3) Update the DEED through research matrices of the knowledge production life cycle.
It is planned that members of E-Culture Net will have priority access to broadband networks
such as GEANT and will play a direct part in the development of an European Grid for Culture.
Individual Researchers
Researchers who are now engaged in large-scale projects such as virtual reality reconstructions
of monuments, sites, cities or cultural routes which cannot be shown on the regular Internet will
be able to make their findings visible to other scholars and students. Members will thus have
access to many resources not available today. This will position members at the vanguard of new
developments.
Through the network, researchers will be in touch with others in their field, and thus better able
to participate in future research projects. In addition to having access to a range of content not
available elsewhere, individual researchers are likely to have access to a number of emerging
tools for content management, context creation and communication in an experimental
framework. This will have great advantages for both their research and teaching.
Memory Institutions
Museums, libraries and archives are scanning in images at high resolution for research purposes
which they are unable to share with colleagues elsewhere. Being connected via GEANT to other
members of e-Culture Net allows them to share their materials at new levels. At the same time
the assurance that members are trusted experts in an Intranet means that they are not faced with
the same problems of copyright protection needed on the Internet. In short, memory institutions
can experiment with new kinds of sharing in a trusted environment. The link with education and
research provides new access to future users.
Companies and SMES
Companies and SMEs are constantly developing new products, which too often are not tried on a
significant amount of users until they “hit” the market. The existence of a trusted group that
includes major content holders plus experts in the field of culture offers an ideal environment to
try out their new products. Companies benefit with new levels of feedback from informed users.
Content holders and researchers benefit through access to new tools for research and teaching.
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NGOs and Networks
Many specialized organisations and networks deal with specific aspects of the cultural domain.
Membership in E-Culture Net will ensure that these aspects are properly represented in the
knowledge life cycle and also provide access to a wider range of users within the cultural
community.
Membership: Background
The fundamental purpose of the Network of Excellence is to unite different communities within
digital culture through a common goal of sharing knowledge, resources, methods and critical
thought. The monies available are primarily to enable existing research to be shared. In some
cases they may stimulate researchers to work together in future projects. But the NoE is not
intended to replace or offer an alternative to existing research programmes at either the national
or the European level.
EXCELLENCE
In a narrow sense, excellence is about the best and is typically associated with special
recognition: e.g. a Nobel prize in some fields; a gold medal in Olympic sports or an Oscar in the
realm of cinema. In a larger sense excellence is about the best achievements, products, activities
and best practices. Inevitably this entails a range. The upper part of the range is obvious and so it
is easy to say what excellence includes. Those who have the first prize, the Nobel, the gold
medal or the Oscar are inevitably excellent. In the world of universities there is little doubt that
Bologna, the Sorbonne, Oxford or Harvard are excellent.
As in all domains, the lower part of the range is potentially problematic and so it is difficult to
say what excellence excludes. There are always borderline cases. Anyone can call themselves
excellent but that does not mean that everyone else recognizes them as excellent.
The network of centres of excellence for research and education in digital culture is not
concerned with excellence in the narrowest sense: i.e. it is not concerned with trying to say who
receives the first prize in their field, with their idea, their method or their product. Nor is it
concerned with determining the precise limits of the range of excellence: i.e. it is not concerned
with defining in absolute terms who should be included or excluded. In a continent as large and
complex as Europe, trying to make an exhaustive list of every excellent research institution,
cultural organisation, industry, individual, practice or product is almost certainly futile. There
will always be excellent persons who will inevitably choose not to join because they do not like
the idea of sharing, for lack of time, or for some other reason. The aim, rather, is to identify those
who are generally recognized as excellent in various domains of digital culture and to focus on
those who wish to share their methods, their resources in achieving a whole that is greater than
the sum of its parts.
Decisions for inclusion are typically at the level of membership. Core members need the
approval of all the core members. National members are typically accepted by a national
committee. Becoming a member typically entails three stages:
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1) Researcher at institution signs a letter of intent to acknowledge that they have read the goals of
the network and wishes to support them. They identify the number of researchers and other
resources they wish to make available to the network, and specify in which activities of the
network they will be active. This is sent to the country representative.
2) The country representative considers the proposal, is free to accept the applicant directly or may
choose to discuss the applicant with their national committee. If a positive result follows, the
applicant’s details are forwarded as a candidate member to the central secretariat.
3) The central secretariat forwards the offer to the appropriate group, which then decides how best
to integrate these new resources. Once accepted by this group the candidate becomes a regular
member. Thus the network of excellence is implicitly an open institution.
Sharing
One of the basic tenets of the E-Culture NoE is that members wish to share their research,
resources and methods in order to develop critical methods together. Potential members will
choose to contribute to one of the three objectives.
Objective 1: Potential members must identify to which of the 12 modules of the DEED they wish
to contribute and explain how their technology/solution/ offers something complementary to the
existing module.
Objective 2: Potential members must identify which research they wish to share, completing a
form which indicates the size of the resource, transmission speeds required etc. They must
develop a plan to show how and in what time frame the researchers from their institution will
make their resource compatible with the DEED modules.
Objective 3: Potential members will identify whether they will contribute to the research matrices
at the macro-level, in terms of disciplines or at the micro-level in terms of processes/activities.
They must show that their researchers have something to offer in addition to what the NoE offers
thus far.
LEGAL AGREEMENTS
All members are required to sign a basic legal agreement that they will normally use these
materials only for research purposes. In signing the agreement those with potential commercial
interests agree that they will first make legal arrangements with the rights holders of the
materials in question. The decision to exploit materials is entirely with the original owners of the
material and not the concern of E-Culture Net per se.
CRITERIA FOR MEMBERSHIP
Core membership
Membership in the core group is open to all who are accepted by the core group.
National Membership
The criteria for national membership are:
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Institution members
 The institution, usually a department of a university, museum or industry, must actively be
engaged in research concerning the European information society generally, with specific
attention to new technologies and culture.
 The institution offers M.A. and Ph.D. courses, or has close connections to other degree granting
institutions. (Professional, governmental and non-governmental institutions in the field of cultural
heritage, which offer apprenticeship or study programmes for students also qualify).
 The institution has a commitment to share information and technologies in the context of
education and e-learning.
 The institution has a clear proposal of how it fits into the network: e.g. research, training, content,
creativity,
 The institution is, or will in the near future be, connected to a high-speed network.
 (The institutes will start to disseminate subsets of their results along narrower available
bandwidths.)
Industry members
Industry members of E-culture Net should have the following characteristics:
 consistent commitment to the conduct of RTD in ICT over a number of years
 a record of developing innovative products, services and processes;
 substantial experience of ICT applications in the cultural economy
 preferably, previous experience in participating in European Research projects
Commercial partners can use the high quality digital materials available on the Intranet freely for
research but not for commercial purposes unless they make the appropriate agreements.
SME members
SMEs will have the same characteristics as industry members. In addition, they will have
conformity with the criteria in the EU definition of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, in terms of
number of employees, turnover, balance sheet value and independence.
For further information please contact the provisional national representatives (cf.2.1 above).
Members in Related European Networks
Any specialized network relating to the cultural sphere is welcome to apply. New networks must
demonstrate that they cover an activity of the research framework that is not yet covered by
existing members.
Members of Networks outside of Europe
Cultural networks outside of Europe are welcome to apply. Normally, an important criterion is
that the network is willing to share high quality materials on a reciprocal basis for purposes of
research and education.
Conflict Resolution
As the NoE evolves there will inevitably be new problems to which the administrative and
management teams can respond and adapt as they they arise. If a problem cannot be solved by
regular discussion, the individual or group will write a letter stating their problem to the
chairperson of the NoE. The chairperson will then discuss the matter with the members of the
executive. If no simple resolution, the matter will be put to a vote. In rare cases where the matter
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is deemed to have large scale consequences for the NoE the individual/group can explicitly
request that the matter be discussed and voted on by the entire board of management.
Removal from the Network
It is assumed that claims about methods and products are in good faith, and this assumption
holds until there is tangible proof to the contrary. In cases where members or others draw
attention to an absence of honesty, the institution or individual can be removed form the
network, just as persons who commit plagiarism or extreme acts can be expelled from university.
(Illegal acts are subject to the regular laws of the country in which they occur and do not further
concern the NoE as such).
If excellence is truly to bring a whole that is greater than its parts then every part must make
positive contributions. Decisions for removal are typically addressed at the level of national
membership. Difficult cases are referred to the board of management.
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B.5 DESCRIPTION OF THE CONSORTIUM AND THE EXCELLENCE OF THE PARTICIPANTS
(Recommended length –five pages)
Research which the participants are individually currently doing which is relevant to the topic of
the network or otherwise show their contributions to the Joint Programme of Activities
OBJECTIVE 1: BUILD A DEED (DISTRIBUTED EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC DYNAMIC) RESOURCE
1.1.Security
1.2.Legal
1.3 Storage
Université Catholique de Louvain Security (UCL, Louvain la Neuve)
UCL has been a partner in ASPIS (An Authentication and Protection Innovative
Software System for DVD and Internet)69 and active in PRIAM (Platform for Real
Time and Interactive Access to Mega Images),70 linked with the JPEG2000
activities re: open source C-code for compression and decompression of images.
DPTO de Communicacion Audiovisual, Documentacion & Storia de l’Arte
Valencia: Working group “E-Contents, cultural contents and legal aspects in the
Information Society,” has developed one of the first Masters degrees
re: Contents and legal Aspects 71 and organized an International Workshop
about Legal Aspects in Contents for the EC. 72
UNESCO, in conjunction with the C2RMF, major art galleries (e.g. Louvre,
National Gallery London, Uffizi) and the EU is leading an European wide initiative
for an EU-UNESCO Digital Centre of Memory of Culture (DCMC).
1.4 Multilingual Accès Multilingue et Patrimoine (AMP) 73 under the auspices of the French
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and later financed by the
French Ministry of brings together some of the leading institutions re: multilingual
mapping.
1.5 Semantic
SEMKOS (Semantic Web meets Knowledge Organization for Large-Scale
Information Integration)74 has an Consortium and is preparing an IP, which brings
together leading European partners in the field.
1.6. DACOs
The Universität zu Köln (UzK) has introduced the concept of Distributed
Autonomous Cultural Objects (DACOs), which has been used in the Digital
Manuscript Library Cologne,75 for a prototype of the DEER and elsewhere.
1.7 Interfaces InterMedia at the University of Oslo in conjunction with Nordic Interactive 76
(Copenhagen) is co-ordinating the efforts of various Interactive Institutes in
Sweden and who are particularly active with respect to new interface design.
1.8 Multimodal UCL (Louvain la Neuve) is leading the SIMILAR NoE on Multimodal Interfaces,
which brings together leading players in the field.
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1.9. Spatial Access The ORION thematic network has acquired the rights to the Canadian
NRC’s laser scanner which was one of the four projects linked with G7 pilot
project 5: Multimedia Access to World Cultural Heritage and is recognized as
being a leading group in this field.
1.10 Spatio-Temporal A Consortium led by Portsmouth University brings together leading
scholars in the field of GIS applied to historical cartography.Linked with efforts at
Leeds, Edinburgh (EDINA) and with the Swedissh National Archives this group
was linked with three EoIs in the field of historical xartography using Open GIS
standards.
1.11 Virtual Environments CINECA77 is one of the leading supercomputing centres active in
Cultural heritage applications. With RAI it has done pioneering work in the use of
archaeological reconstructions with blue rooms for television programmes
concerning Virtual reconsructions of Pompeii. With Bologan it had worked on the
NUME project.
1.12 Virtual Heritage Centres
CNR-ITABC is one of the leading Italian centres with respect to virtual heritage. It
hosts the international Virtual Heritage Net (VHN), plus the Italian Virtual
Heritage Net (VHN).78
OBJECTIVE 2: Add content to deed through networks in each country
2.1 Develop networks to share research
Throughout Europe there are many national sites, some governmental, some
commercial, that list museums, galleries, libraries and other cultural
organisations, and events. Complementary to this E-Culture Net is developing
new links between leading cultural organisations, research institutions and
industry based on surveys by experts in each country in order to share research
from national, regional local levels. Through its national representatives ECulture Net is in touch with ministries of culture in each country.
2.2. Share Research in DEED
2.3 Co-ordinate with national policies (MINERVA)
The NoE’s efforts will be helped by collaboration with the Ministerial Network for
Valorising Activities in Digitisation (MINERVA), 79 which is directing these efforts
at the governmental level.
OBJECTIVE 3: Update the DEED through research matrices
3.1 Co-operation with other Networks
One of the important tenets of E-Culture Net is that various specialised networks
should work together rather than pretending to replace each other. Inherent in
this approach is that the existing networks of proven excellence such as ERCIM,
DELOS etc. should work together.
3.2 Co-operate with members
3.3.Adapt CAT for knowledge discovery
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Netzspannung80 (Fraunhofer) is a leading German network for online use of
electronic arts. The tools in their CAT81 project represents one of the leading
knowledge discovery projects in Europe.
4. Jointly Executed Research Activties
4.1 Multidimensional Museums
Led by the Complutense, the largest university in Spain, this activity with six
subprojects brings together a number of the leading Spanish universities and
links their content pilots with other work in Europe..
4.2 Historical European Cities
The Commission International pour L’Histoire des Villes is the leading body for
the historical study of European Cities. In this context, the University of Bologna’s
NUME (Nuovo Museo Elettronico) is one of the leading projects in the field. The
links with leading experts in the United Kingdom, France and Spain, make this an
important contribution both from the viewpoint of technological solutions and
methodological subtlety.
4.3 Cultural Tourism
This activity with its seven subprojects brings together the most important
Spanish university research centres qua tourism linked with historical
understanding. The connection with two leading tourism networks based in
Belgium and Italy means that the economic dimensions of the field are also
represented.
4.4. Art slides and Text Databases UzK
The University of Cologne has been a pioneer in linking text and image
databases. They have developed digital library software for the DFG and Max
Planck Gesellschaft. They has produced a sllide library called PROMETHEUS. 82
The functionalities of this system will be adapted by the NoE.
4.5 Greek Culture
As the leader of the MEDINA portal for the Mediterranean the FHW brings
together the most significant projects in the cultural field especially in a Greek
context.
4.6 3-D and Archaeology
Led by Professor David Clarke, one of the leading figures in new archaeological
methods and by the ORION TN, this brings together many of the recognized
experts in the realm of 3-D reconstruction and reproduction especially with
respect to individual objects.
4.7 Virtual Environments and Virtual Heritage Centres
Led by the Italian supercomputing facility, CINECA, with close links to the
University of Bologna and the Italian National Research Council’s Institute
devoted specifically to cultural heritage (CNR-ITABC) these centres have been at
the frontiers of virtual and immersive reality applied to cultural heritage and used
for television (cf. the RAI link) and e-learning.
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5. ACTIVITIES TO SPREAD EXCELLENCE
5.1 Hypermedia E-Learning
Led by the National Association of Didactic Researchers (ANID 6) this brings
together a number of the leading Spanish educational efforts. For instance, the
BELE83 project, which involves a distributed multilingual Multimedia Digital
Library [BELE-300-A]' is being developed with DIGIBIS (MAPFRE), the most
important digital (Multimedia CD-ROM) Spanish publishing company. Through
TV UNAM, the project has important e-distance learning dimensions and direct
links with the US Internet II IPV6 experiments. The Universidad SEK de Segovia
is a leader in distance learning with South America. Inlcuded in this project is the
Siberian University of Telecommunications, which will link their latest
developments with those of Spain and South America.
Access to major content holders such as the National Library of Spain and
access to major collections such as the Centre Pompidou is an important
advantage.
5.2 E-Learning with PROKNOWnce
Fraunhofer (IUK, Berlin) was invited by the EU to do a preparatory study
(I-KNOWs) for a possible IP with respect to E-Learning applied to cultural
heritage and is thus recognised as a leader in the technological side of elearning.
5.3. French Examples
The Sorbonne (Paris IV), a recognised leader in e-learning in culture, heads the
National Reseaux.doc a network linked to Campus numériques.
5.4. Greek Examples Please see 4.5 above.
5.5 E-Training with IKONOS and E-Heritage
IKONOS is a EUROMED II project led by the Malta Centre for Restoration with
partners in five Mediterranean countries plus the UK 84 works closely with
UNESCO’s heritage training at the international level. Malta is the first
conservation centre internationally to have set up (1999) its own Conservation
and Restoration Project management Office (CRPMO) as part of an attempt to
introduce Project Based Management Science into the Conservation World.
5.6a European Masters
The Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) organised the first conference on
computers and culture (1977), has pioneered many projects and has created
some of the first postgraduate training courses in digital culture. The
Brandenburgische Technische Universitàt Cottbus has been a leader among
UNESCO’s training programmes.
5.6b. European Doctorates
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introduced one of the first European doctorates in the cultural field in 1995
(Dottorato di Ricerca in Storia e Informatica).86 The Sapienza in Rome organized
the first network of European doctorates and has organized a network of Marie
Curie Training sites. The Sorbonne has been a pioneer in postgraduate courses
in digital culture while NEHRN has developed a Doctor Communitatis Europeae
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5.7 NAS links
The University of Vienna has a long-standing tradition of links eastwards
especially towards the Mediterranean and NAS countries. Vienna, working with
Athens and Moscow has done an important survey of significant, potential
partners for the NoE phase.
5.8 International
The European Visual Arts Networking (EVAN) 87 has pioneered conferences on
digital culture in Europe, internationally in Japan, Russia, USA and more recently
China and Ukraine. There are plans to extend these to India and Latin America.
The E Culture NoE has established initial links with a number of the leading
cultural heritage networks around the world including the Russian Cultural
Heritage Network, the National Science Foundation’s American Culture Grid;
Asian Network of Excellence on Digital Silk Roads (Japan), Chinese Digital
Culture Heritage Network: (CDCHN), and the Canadian Heritage Information
Network (CHIN).
The necessary critical mass of expertise and resources to carry out the JPA
Collectively the NoE brings together researchers from all branches of culture and technology
who can address the complex challenges of creating a version of a Distributed European
Electronic Dynamic Resource that prepares the way for a full-blown DEED (cf. Figure 13).
For each of the core challenges the NoE has as a starting point a consortium, group, NoE or IP to
consolidate work in that area. In addition, for almost all of these challenges the NoE has a few
representatives from a) theMediterranean and b) the NAS and Russia to ensure that a wider range
of thinking is included on the subject in question.
This wide range of members of the NoE also brings together a critical mass of researchers who
will provide content, research resources, methods and critical thought as input for the DEED.
The NoE combines researchers from technology, digital content holders, and pioneers in elearning and e-distance learning. By starting from existing physical networks and linking efforts
in different countries, the NoE adds new critical mass to national networks by linking them
within a larger European and international context.
Finally through its links with other networks the NoE has access to leading experts with respect
to all the processes/activities of the knowledge production life cycle as reflected in the research
matrices. Together these three groups can achieve much more than any specialised networks of
the past. Indeed, especially the third part of the NoE introduces the idea of a network of
networks, which will lead other networks in ther field to work together more closely.
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B.5.1 NEW PARTICIPANTS
If there are as-yet-unidentified participants in the project, the expected competences, the role of
the potential partners and their integration into the network should be described. (Recommended
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The NoE has three goals to build, to fill and to update the DEED.
New participants with respect to 1 will be rare, will be identified by the leaders
of individual modules. Their competencies and role will be to add some functionality to the
module not offered by the present group. These new members will be chosen to join formally by
the board of management.
Build the DEED:
Numerous new participants are expected to use the DEED to share their research,
methods and critical thought. Typically they will be identified by the networks in each country or
apply to join via these networks. Their competences will lie in research, which they wish to share
and which they are committed to making available using the DEED modules. Their role will be
add the functionality of these modules to their research thus making it accessible multilingually
to members of the NoE.
Fill the DEED:
Research matrices will be used to gather information needed to keep the
DEED updated. Some of this information will be gathered from users in the NoE. Here again
new participants are possible. Such participants need to demonstrate that they have special
competences in their domain/process. Their role will be to keep information on that
domain/process up to date.
Update the DEED:
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(Recommended length –one page).
In terms of the network’s objectives why this/these participants have been included.
Level of importance of their contribution to the network.
The European Union presently consists of 15 states and will soon grow to 25. For at least the
past two millennia Europe has affected countries considerably beyond its narrow boundaries. For
instance, already in antiquity Greek colonies spread Greek culture to the coasts of Spain, Turkey,
and the Black sea. Form the 8th through the 15th centuries Arab culture had a profound impact on
Europe most notably in Sicily and Spain. The Eastern Orthodox Church brought profound links
with Russia. Through the rise of German law in the 13th century, there were profound links with
Poland, the Ukraine and a number of NAS. Through the Hanseatic League there were important
trade connections with all the countries joined by Northern seas. During its colonial and
imperialist phase (15th –20th c.) the impact of European culture spread throughout the world.
Most Europeans are unaware how far reaching this influence is: e.g. how Charlemagne’s deeds
are part of the processions in Kerala in Southern India.
The E-Culture NoE aims to share research in digital culture with a focus on European culture.
This requires that Mediterranean countries, the NAS, Russia and other countries, which have
been influenced by Europe’s culture, should share their resources and research.
As Europe expands to the NAS, the inclusion of their resources becomes ever more central to
understanding the bigger picture of the European phenomenon, for instance, how links with
France, made Poland the largest European country in the fifteenth century. Only by including
these countries can we understand the meaning of unity of diversities.
In a global environment, Europe’s unity of identities does not exist in isolation. It is influenced
and to a certain extent defined by its interactions with other major cultures of the world:
American, Chinese, Indian, Arabic/Islamic. In the past, one of Europe’s distinguishing
characteristics as a culture has been an openness in understanding other great cultures. Whereas
some countries built walls or developed isolationist policies to exclude other cultures, Europe
typically learned about others, even those who were not her friends. If Europe is to continue this
noble quest of understanding the otherness of different cultures, then the NoE must welcome
sharing with cultures from all over the world.
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Figure 20: Matrix of integration within the DEED. The integration of any resource can
be measured in terms of how many of the 12 basic modules it entails
The Joint Programme of Activities (JPA) is based around three basic activities that reflect the
fundamental objectives of the NoE:
1) to build a DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) Resource and thereby integrate different
research communities by giving them a common goal. The JPA divides this challenge into 12
components or modules each of which is led by a respected group in the European arena, some of them
recognized as the uncontested larders in their domain (e.g. CINECA, CNR-ITABC, ORION), others as
authors of their own Consortiums. The combination of these components is designed to achieve the
integration needed at two levels, first by integrating the technologists making the tool; second by
providing those who use the DEED tool with clear components whereby they can measure the extent to
which their research has been integrated (figure 23). The JRP provides the DEED with initial content
(activities 4.1-9)
2) to fill DEED through networks in individual countries. Here the JPA is designed to reach the degree of
integration needed because it creates a structure that overcomes the challenges of subsidiarity and thus
permits inclusion of national, regional and local resources that reflect the cultural diversity of Europe.
3) to update DEED through research matrices to achieve an overview of the entire knowledge production
life cycle. By working with both country level experts and those in specialised networks, the components
of this JPA will ensure an ongoing awareness of new solutions and standards in order to keep the DEED
updated.
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With respect to objective one the twelve small groups are designed to provide the necessary
integration of specific topics. Meetings between one or two groups at a time will assure
integration between topics. A virtual group, chosen from amongst members of all the groups will
ensure an integration of the entire DEED as a single, platform for sharing research. The amount
of integration can be measured using the questions outlined above and more generally by
examining how many resources are made available through the DEED/DEER using some/all of
the modules.
The choice of core groups on each topic which are then complemented by representatives from
both the Mediterranean and the NAS/Russia means that the solutions considered and adopted
reflect not only the needs of the founding countries, but integrate also the needs and views of an
evolving Europe.
With respect to objective two integration can be measured by asking how many of the country’s
leading institutions are included in the NoE and more significantly, how many resources they
contribute to the DEED/DEER?
With respect to objective three, integration can be measured by asking how many specialized
networks are now working together in order to produce surveys of solutions, standards and
products which none of them would have been able to produce in isolation.
The NoE is specifically concerned with technology-enhanced learning and access to cultural
heritage. The quest is to integrate existing, and new technologies (e.g. Proknownce qua learning
tools and SIMILAR qua multimodal interfaces) with enduring and new digital content and use
them in European Masters and Doctorates. Here one can measure integration by seeing to what
extent Masters and Doctoral Programmes specifically use content from the DEED in their
courses. Similarly at the level of training one can measure integration by asking how directly
training courses integrate content and resources from the DEED? In addition one can ask to what
extent the DEED is used by the leading content organizations (ICOM, IFLA, ICA)? Full
integration means that the new products are not only used but that they become integrated into
new products. Hence a further indicator is to ask: In how many new products does the DEED
content appear? In how many languages are the contents being accessed?
From the outset, a small subset of the NoE will have the connectivity be able to share at the level
of high-speed bandwidth using GEANT, TERENA and other backbones. Increasingly this
capacity will become available to more and more of the network. In this context further questions
of integration aris in asking how seamlessly one can move from regular connections to highspeed connections? How thoroughly are these high-speed networks becoming available
throughout the network?
As a European repository becomes increasingly accessible there will be decisions that need to be
made with respect to the rest of the world. Will all these materials be made freely accessible?
Hopefully one can develop rules for reciprocal sharing such that Europe can gain access to
materials from other cultures in exchange for its own digital resources. If so then one of the
further questions re: integration becomes to what extent are materials shared among different
NoE’s internationally?
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Commitment towards a deep and durable integration continuing beyond the period of
Community financial support (letters of commitment from the executive bodies of the
organisations may be annexed)
UNESCO
Over the past three years E-Culture Net has received letters of intent from different parts of
UNESCO, e.g. their information society group (Paris), their Cluster Office in Kazakstan, and
extended contacts with the cultural heritage training, their world heritage sites (mainly via
Virtual Heritage Net). Through E-Culture Net’s accord with the National Institute of
Informatics’ (NII’s) Asian Network of Centres of Excellence in Digital Silk Roads there have
been joint applications for projects under the auspices of UNESCO with the Getty Trust and the
National Science Foundation (NSF). These links confirm a commitment from the outset from
institutions and projects with a longer time-frame.
UNESCO has formally joined E-Culture Net and has indicated specifically that it wishes to
contribute to the DEED with respect to the following points :
1) Ways of legal agreements with governments on public access to E-culture in Central Asia
2) Telecommunication capabilities in Central Asia
3) Minimum infrastructure for E-culture content storage at UNESCO Digital Centre of
Memory of Culture
4) Human resources required for running DCMC
5) Local pre-training arrangements for successful E-culture training to be offered by EU
institutions
6) Technical obstacles and solutions to accessing E-culture content by Central Asia
7) Minimum network facilities and bandwidth required by Central Asia in access to Eculture content
8) Restrictions to access to E-culture content in countries of the Caucasus
9) Multilanguage obstacles to accessing E-culture in Eastern Europe
10) Virtual heritage content available in Central Asia.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
The European Parliament is committed to developing an European knowledge area (espace
Européen de connaissance) which is leading to the establishment of an European University of
Culture (EUC), with its seat on the premises of the European Parliament buildings in Strasbourg.
This EUC is due to become the home of E-Culture Net. This provides an important basis for a
long-term approach.
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1. Austria
2. Belgium
3. Denmark
4. Finland
5. France
6. Germany
7. Greece
8. Italy
9. Netherlands
10. Norway
11. Portugal
12. Russia
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- Belgium, Ministry of Culture, Flanders
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- Belgium, Ministry of Culture, Wallonia
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- Belgium, Ministry of Education, Culture,
Scientific Research & Monuments (German
Community)91
Kultur Ministeriet92
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Ministero per i beni e le attività Culturali97
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Kultur og Kirkedpartmentet99
Ministério da Cultura100
Centre PIC: Ministry of Culture of Russia101
Ministerio de Educacíon, Cultura y Deporte
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15. UK
Ministry of Culture 103
Department for Culture, Media and Sport104
Figure 22: List of member states, ministries of culture and their contacts with the NoE.
NATIONAL (GOVERNMENT) LEVEL
The Members of the E-Culture Net NoE are in touch with their respective ministries of culture
(or equivalent) in all the member states of the EU (figure 24). The evidence of the Lund
agreement, which has fostered MINERVA, shows that national governments are increasingly
interested in initiatives that create synergies between national activities and those at the
European level. Preliminary discussions suggest that governments in individual countries may
well be persuaded to support the future activities of the E-Culture NoE once its contributions
have been clearly demonstrated.
Institutional Level (Cultural Organisation, Research Institution, Industry)
Some institutions have indicated that they will pursue the ideals of E-Culture Net even without
funding. We are confident that given the interest from industry in e-content that means can be
found to ensure the sustainability of the network after the initial funding period.
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Figure 22: The global picture of the E-Culture Net with respect to international networks
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List of quantitative and qualitative performance indicators that could be applied during the
annual independent reviews regarding the progress towards integration.
The NoE has three objectives, to: 1) create a tool for integration (DEED); 2) share research using
that tool; 3) keep the tool updated using research matrices. Each of the integrating activities and
joint research actions are subject to performance indicators as reflected by the questions below:
OBJECTIVE 1: BUILD A DEED (DISTRIBUTED EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC DYNAMIC) RESOURCE
A general question to be asked with respect to all ten modules of WP1 is: How many of the
solutions prepared by these modules have been adopted by each of the joint research projects and
the activities to spread excellence? Another general question is: Is there evidence that the model
developed by the NoE is being adopted by those beyond the NoE?
1.1 Security
How does this module keep track of other developments in the field of security
other than those which are a specialty of UCL and EU projects such as ASPIS?
What provision is there for the adding of such new security aspects?
1.2
Legal Agreements
Are there legal agreements for each of the member states? Is there co-ordination
with MINERVA’s policy efforts in this regard?
1.3
Storage
Do UNESCO’s storage methods adequately reflect the needs of the NoE’s
members? How is integration with efforts towards digital deposit libraries
proceeding?
How can the needs of large storage facilities be co-ordinated with the storage
requirements of smaller museums and collections?
1.4
Multilingual Mapping of Terminology
What is the range of terms covered?
How easily can new terms be added to the repertoire?
How many languages are covered?
How do these solutions deal with topics outside the categories of the system as it
exists?
How much integration is there between the activities of 1.4 and 1.5?
1.5
Semantic Mapping
Does the semantic mapping entail only standard meanings?
How does the system deal with regional and local meanings?
How does the system deal with historical changes in meaning?
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1.6
Distributed Autonomous Cultural Objects
How many cultural objects are accessible via DACOs?
How easily can new resources be made accessible?
Can this be done by non-specialists?
Are there limits of scale in the application of DACOs?
How do DACOs deal with multilingual challenges?
What interoperability is possible between DACos and other solutions such as
DOIs?
1.7
Interfaces
Are there explicit rules/guidelines in the construction of interfaces for the DEED
and the NoE as a whole?
Do the interfaces accommodate persons with disabilities?
Can the interfaces be personalised?
What integration is there between the work on interfaces (1.7), multimodal
interfaces (1.8) and virtual environments in a broadband context (1.10)?
1.8
Multimodal Interfaces
How many senses are covered?
How does one determine which combinations of senses are most suited to given
tasks? See: 1.7.
1.9
Spatial Access (3D)
How easily and cost-effectively can cultural objects be rendered in 3D?
How do they compare with 2D approaches e.g. in Education
What interoperability is there between the ORION method and other 3-D
solutions (e.g. Web 3-D consortium, Adobe Atmosphere and 3D Consortium105)?
How does one connect treatment of 3-D objects with 3-D spaces in Geographical
Information Systems (GIS)?
1.10
Virtual Environments and Virtual Heritage Centres
Can virtual environments be shared on-line?
What amount of preparations are needed to share these environments?
How readily can these virtual environments be shared via television?
Can these virtual environments be used in classrooms? If so what are the
necessary technical parameters?
How many networked virtual heritage centres are there?
How many of these are operated within the NoE?
Are there provisions for groups outside the NoE to use these VHCs?
What is the minimum bandwidth with which virtual heritage centres can function?
Have these activities been integrated in the Joint research (4.1) and Hypermedia
e-learning (5.1)?
OBJECTIVE 2: ADD CONTENT TO DEED THROUGH NETWORKS IN EACH COUNTRY
2.1
Develop networks in each country for sharing internationally
Is there a national website?
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How does the NoE’s website integrate with other national initiatives?
Is there a national level conference?
Are these national websites fostering co-operation beyond the boundaries of their
country of origin? Is this primarily in terms of shared content?
How many resources are being shared both ways?
2.2
Share Research from national, regional, local levels
How many resources are on the DEED/DEER from country x?
How many of the DEED modules are being used?
Is there direct integration between these resources and the activities to spread?
excellence?
What links are there between alternative interpretations of the same facts, events
at different levels?
2.3
Co-ordinate with national projects, policies (MINERVA)
How many of the MINERVA policies are evidenced in projects of the NoE?
Is this number increasing?
OBJECTIVE 3: UPDATE THE DEED THROUGH RESEARCH MATRICES
3.1
Co-operation with other Networks
What quantitative proof is there of more co-operation between networks?
How comprehensive is the information in the research matrices?
How well is it being updated?
3.2
Adapt Netzspannung’s CAT tools (Fraunhofer)
Does the adapted project display the research matrices completely?
How many persons are using the new system?
What documented evidence is there that this is an improvement over past
systems?
4. Joint Research Programme
4.1
Multidimensional Museums
How are the various subprojects being integrated into something larger?
How do these museums go beyond the virtual and imaginary museums of the last
decades?
What aspects of these multidimensional museums are generally applicable and
which aspects require local adaptation?
4.2
Historical European Cities
How many cities are available in this way?
How thoroughly is there integration between historical versions of cities and
modern versions used in tourism?
To what extent do the different methods in various countries reflect fundamental
methodologies rather than simple matters of taste?
4.3
Cultural Tourism
What evidence is there that these activities are changing cultural tourism?
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Spain has bullfights, Italy has the Palio. To what extent do these country specific
events affect cultural tourism?
Can cultural tourism be used to heighten visitors’ awareness of cultural
diversity?
If so how?
Is this being demonstrated in the examples of the NoE?
4.4
Art and Text Databases linked in on-line slide libraries
How many slides are made available in this way?
How is this changing the teaching of art history, cultural history?
In how many languages are they accessible?
Is this leading to new forms of collaboration among professors and/or their
students?
4.5
Greek Culture
In what ways does use of the DEED/DEER modules increase access to Greek
materials, which are already online?
Are the Greek resources being integrated with other materials on the DEED?
4.6
3-D and Archaeology
How are the 3-D efforts (4.6) being integrated into multidimensional museums
(4.1) and virtual environments (4.6)?
How effective are they in improving public access to collections?
What are the educational advantages?
4.7
Virtual environments and Virtual Heritage Centres
How closely are virtual environments and virtual heritage centres being
integrated?
To what extent can subsets of the Broadband connections in this module be used
in lower bandwidth contexts?
5. Activities to Spread Excellence
5.1 Hypermedia E-Learning
How much integration is there between the sub-projects re: hypermedia elearning: e.g. Interactive video, foreign languages (BELE project) and foreign
languages?
Why are the e-distance learning methods in this project better than those in other
projects?
What measurable criteria prove this?
5.2 E-Learning with PROKNOWnce
How many users are implementing the software?
How can we determine that users are learning new things and not just browsing
or web-surfing? To what extent are/can the PROKNOWnce tools be integrated
into the Hypermedia e-learning examples?
5.3
French Examples
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To what extent are the French examples being integrated into other parts of the
network?
To what extent are examples from other parts of the NoE being used in the French
network centred at the Sorbonne?
5.4
Greek Examples
Cf. questions for 5.3
5.5
Restoration and Heritage (E-Training building on IKONOS)
How many resources of the DEED are being used in IKONOS?
Are there ways in which the effectiveness of this e-distance learning can be
measured?
5.6
European Masters and Doctorates
How many specific courses have been designed/are active?
How many students are taking the MA and doctorate courses?
What evidence is there of integration of methods from other universities in
Masters and doctoral courses?
What evidence is there of greater mobility of MA/doctoral students?
5.7.
Expand to NAS (Newly Accessed States) and Russia
How many NAS and Mediterranean countries are included?
To what extent is the sharing two way?
How many key institutions in those countries does the NoE include?
How much content from the DEED is being used by these members?
How much content from these members is being integrated into the
DEED/DEER?
5.8
International Dimensions
How many conferences are being organised by this group?
How many attendees at each conference?
At how many international conferences is the E-Culture NoE represented?
To what extent do these international connections provide the NoE with new
content, research methods and conversely?
5.9
Training, Conferences
How many of combinations of 1-2 groups in WP1 have met during the year?
What evidence is there of new synergies arising from these meetings?
How many persons from outside these groups attended the meetings as part of
their professional training?
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B.7 ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT (Recommended length – five pages)
How the network organisational structure and decision-making mechanisms is matched to the
complexity of the network and to the degree of integration required.
Country
Contractor
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1: Austria
Universität Wien
6. Expansion
Austrian Members
NAS Members
Via Centre PIC > Russian members
2: France
Laval Mayenne Technopole
1. DEED, 2. Networks
French Members
9. Management
Cultural Diversity Subnetwork
7. Dissemination (Team)
Via NII >Asian Network Excellence
Digital Silk Roads (DSR)
Via NSF > DSR Cultural Grid
3: Germany
Universität zu Köln
1.4 (DACOs)
German Members
Belgian Members
Netherlandish Members
Netzspannung Subnetwork
Artnouveau Subnetwork
4: Greece
Foundation of the Hellenic World
5. E-Learning (Med)
Greek Members
Mediterranean Members
5: Italy
Scuola Normale Superiore
5.7-8 (EU MA PhD)
Italian Members
6. Norway
University of Oslo
1.7 (INTERFACES)
Scandinavian Members (NO, DE,
SE)
ENCORE Subnetwork
7. Spain
Universidad SEK de Segovia
4. Broadband Pilots
SPANISH MEMBERS
Portuguese Members
Via ANID>Central and S. America
5. E-Learning
CHIME Sub Network
8.United Kingdom
UK Members
Research Matrices
ERPANET Subnetwork
ORION Subnetwork
3. Research Matrices
Via EVAN > International Members
7. International
Figure 23. Overview of contractors’ responsibilities qua members and Work Packages (WPs).
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Administrative Management
To operate the NoE there will be a clear separation of Administrative Management from
Scientific Management.
To operate the NoE efficiently there will be a series of levels of administration working at
different levels of granularity.
Level 1: Co-ordinator
The Co-ordinator of the project will have a Secretariat led by the Permanent General Manager
is responsible for everyday operation of the NoE. This group is responsible for co-ordinating the
WPs, organising conferences, dissemination, and ensuring that WPs, cost statements,
management reports, progress reports are delivered to the European Commission on time. In
addition, the secretariat will have liaison officers for each of the three objectives (build DEED,
contents for DEED through national networks and update DEED through research matrices) in
order to assure that these proceed smoothly.
Level 2: Contractors
To aid this process each of the contractors will be responsible for a Work Package or at least
some significant part thereof. These contractors will have responsibility for the deliverables,
which result from the work packages. Each of the contractors will also be responsible for
distributing the EU monies to members in their own country and to other members in nearby
countries, which do not yet have a sufficient number of members to merit a separate contractor.
As the network grows there will eventually be one contractor per member state. The present
contractors and their roles are summarized in figure 26.
Level 3: Activity Heads
To aid the contractors, each of the integrating activities7, activities of jointly executed research
and activities to spread excellence will be led by a member of the consortium who will lead a
group of typically 10-20 researchers. An overview of this list of members is provided at the
outset of this proposal (p.2) as is a list of their respective roles (p.3). Through this modular
approach all the individual groups remain small and manageable with clear tasks all contributing
their bit to the big picture.
To co-ordinate the WPs the secretariat will work with a distributed secretariat consisting of these
leaders of the WPs who will in turn integrate the results of these heads of activities. The heads of
WPs will ensure that all the modules/components of the WP are functioning in harmony. The
liaison officers will ensure that these WPs conform to their respective objectives. The General
Manager is responsible that together the WPS and objectives combine to reach the NoE’s goals.
Individual tasks are delegated to an Administrative Secretary, Financial Officer, Programmer,
Webmaster and Organiser of Meetings.
The distributed secretariat, will also co-ordinate plans for complementary research (at different
levels) including STREPS and possibly IPS. Essentially the role of the secretariat is to see that
An exception to this rule is the case of the user group for the PROKNOWNce IP (5.2) where Fraunhofer IUK has chosen not to
become a formal member and has chosen instead to write a LoI. In addition they are partly linked to the MoE through Faunhofer
IMK which is a formal member.
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the WPs are carried out efficiently by establishing an efficient administrative, technological, and
legal infrastructure.
The European Economic Interest Group (EEIG) serves as a formal, legal interface to the
European Commission. The role of this group is primarily to consider economic consequences
and potentials inherent in the NoE. While this group is legally entitled to act independently, its
role is primarily a strategic one for planning action. Any major suggestions are presented to the
management board for approval.
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
The Executive Board consisting of a chairperson, the EEIG, plus five other founding members
will meet periodically to deal with basic issues and problems. This core group has two main
concerns, policy, and the development of European Masters, Doctorates and training.
The Management Board consisting of the executive board plus representatives from each
country, addresses all larger issues facing the NoE. Its composition is to ensure that there is
representation from all the member states. As the EU grows in size the management board will
grow accordingly to reflect this increased diversity.
The Advisory Board with representatives from other networks has no formal control over the
NoE. It meets annually to compare notes concerning the NoEs activities and offer advice with
respect to new directions.
The National Representatives are developing networks in their home countries that reflect
cultural organisations, research institutions and industry concerned with digital culture in their
home country in order to share their national, regional and local research using the DEED. The
national representatives will co-ordinate efforts with other networks at the national, regional and
local levels, develop relationships with relevant governmental bodies (e.g. ministries of culture
and their equivalent) and national representatives of MINERVA in order to harmonise projects
and policy. These national representatives will ensure a distributed set of networks, which makes
the central operation more manageable.
As these national e-culture networks evolve it is desirable to develop National Harmonising
Teams to ensure that solutions, and standards used in the DEED and new developments
identified by the research matrices are indeed used by all members of the NoE. This would also
help to ensure that digitisation policies established by MINERVA have practical consequences
(cf. figure 21).
From the outset there will be representatives from the Mediterranean, the NAS, Russia and
internationally. To avoid a monolithic structure that is too large to manage, these will form
further sub-networks to link others with the activities of the NoE, Countries such as Russia will
be linked both as founding members and through the network in their home country. These subnetworks will make members more aware of Western Europe’s culture, and at the same time
make Western Europe more aware of how European heritage has undergone fascinating
interpretations and transformations in countries beyond its borders. This awareness will increase
Europe’s sense of its own identities and enrich our awareness of a unity of diversities, which is
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fundamental to the European tradition. A synoptic view of how these different parts of the
management structure is provided in figure 22.
How the management scheme will enable the project to achieve its goals.
The administrative management scheme assures that the specific deliverables can be tackled and
completed by small teams. The creation of three levels with co-ordinator, contractors and activity
heads means that the small groups can do their work which is then aggregated by the contractors
and integrated by the co-ordinator who produces the necessary reports to the European
Commission about completion of the individual elements. This structure deals with management
of each objective, management of WPs within that objective and management of the
modules/components within each WP.
The scientific management team will thus be liberated for the most part from the formalities of
forms and can concentrate on issues of policy and quality and some of the more basic decisions
concerning development of the field. An organigram (figure 26, cf. figure 22) summarizes these
relationships.
Function
Policy
Group Responsible
Executive Board
Advice
Advisory Board
Financial Adminsitrative Plans
EEIG
Basic Decisions
Board of Management
Daily Management (WP9
Secretariat
Figure 26. Organigram of decision structures in everyday administration of the NoE.
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Plan for the management of knowledge, of intellectual property and of other innovation-related
activities arising in the project
Module 2 of the DEED specifically addresses legal agreements. Led by a working group devoted
to these questions at the European level, this module will create basic agreements for all the
research shared within the DEED.
How the management structure will adapt for the addition of participants during the period of
Community funding
New participants among the core members are not planned at this stage. They would require the
approval of the all the core members and enjoy the same roles as the other core members.
As noted above (B5.1) most new participants will enter with respect to the three objectives. New
participants with respect to construction of the DEED (objective 1) will need to demonstrate that
they have something valuable to add re: the module to which they apply. Such new participants
will be rare and so there are no major adaptations of the management structure required.
New participants will be mainly with respect to using the DEED to share research (objective 2).
Members will be identified by or apply to the e-culture network within their country. Once
accepted as members they will play a role in the election of future country representatives
through which they will be represented on the board of management.
New participants with respect to research matrices will also be represented through the networks
in individual countries.
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B.8 JOINT PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES – FIRST 18 MONTHS
(recommended length, excluding the forms specified below, is up to 15 pages.
Workpackage
Name
To integrate:
WP 1
WP 2
WP 3
DEED
Networks for Content
Research Matrices
Multilingual access to research resources, methods
DEED with local, regional, national diversity
DEED with updates based on emerging solutions
WP 4
Content Pilots
DEED with cumulative examples
WP 5
E-Learning
DEED with E-Learning, E-Training
WP 6
Expansion
NAS, Mediterranean, Russia
WP 7
International
UNESCO and international networks
WP 8
Dissemination
Community, tourism, business
WP 9
Management
WP 1-8.
Figure 25: Survey of the workpackages for the E-Culture NoE.
B 8 A) JPA plan introduction – explaining the structure of this plan and the overall methodology
used to achieve the objectives in the first 18 months
The long-term objective is to make Europe’s culture available to all its citizens. As a thematic
network, E-Culture Net produced a study (Keene, UCL) showing that this is a practical goal
achievable by means of a Distribued European Electronic Resource (DEER) now called a DEED.
This study for a framework identified at least eight major components. While concluding that
this is entirely feasible in the future, it was shown that the challenge is so formidable that it
cannot be solved in a single IP within the present FP6 scale.
As an interim step, the NoE will create a preliminary DEED, which addresses aspects of four of
the eight future components. Creating this research infrastructure to share resources, research
methods and develop critical thought will be the NoE’s first objective to integrate the research
communities in digital culture.
As a Thematic Network (TN), E-Culture net has demonstrated the practicality of such a quest
through a demonstration with 1,480,000 pages combining manuscript and image materials from
three different sources using the concept of Distributed Autonomous Cultural Objects (DACOs).
The preliminary version can be achieved through nine workpacakges and will bring closer the
vision of a full-blown version of the DEED (cf. Figure 13). By way of introduction the basic role
of each workpackage will be summarized. Thereafter a detailed description will follow.
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How the plan will lead the participants to achieve the level of integration and objectives aimed
for by that time.
WP 1. Build the DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) Resource
The TN has identified ten initial elements needed for a basic DEED (Distributed European
Electronic Dynamic) Resource. Workpackage (WP) 1 will integrate these elements and produce
a working model of the DEED. Each of these elements or modules will be led by a small group,
which will adapt existing solutions from the community and combine them such that the whole is
greater than the parts. These groups will integrate research from a series of hitherto fragmented
groups in areas ranging from library science and linguistics, through GIS, HCI to HPC.
In WP1.1, UCL will make available a series of open-source tools for security including ASPIS
(An Authentication and Protection Innovative Software System for DVDROM and Internet).106
A small group from this laboratory will deploy integrate these existing solutions as a first module
for the DEED such that all users will have a basic level of security. The UCL group will update
this basic level of security as new solutions become available. If the SEMKOS EoI is successful
as an IP then their security solutions will be added to this package.
In WP1.2 the Universidad Politecnica di Valencia will draw up legal agreements for all the
partners reflecting the laws of various member states so that members can share research
materials without copyright problems and to ensure that these materials are used for research
only at this stage. Such agreements will enable major content holders such as the
C2RMF/Louvre to integrate their art and text databases (4.4) in the DEED.
In WP1.3, UNESCO will make integrate its storage solutions, which are being developed in the
context of their UNESCO-EU regional project (appendix 6) for the DEED.
In WP1.4, the AMP consortium will as a first concrete step begin with making available
resources on-line. Here the integration is in making these resoces available to all the members of
the NoE. At a next stage these authority lists can be used to increase access to other collections.
AMP will start with carefully chosen samples from several databases, ranging from
iconographical terms for art history image data bases (Iconclass – Royal Netherlands Academy
of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)107 to more specialised archaeological and ethnological library
databases (Frantiq – Brigitte Lequeux108 and Réseau Ethnologie – Isabelle Donze – Laboratoire
d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative)109 and to multilingual and multiscript historical
geography inthe MOM (Darmezin, Dalix, Saba-Drappeau, Belhaj). The owners of each
vocabulary will develop a means of exporting their material, ideally as XML. This will then be
converted to a more standardised representation.110
The AMP group is in touch with a number of the most important holders of standardized
vocabularies and inventories including the French Inventaire Général, Iconclass, and English
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Heritage Thesauri. Part of the WP will be to develop a plan how these important resources can be
made part of the DEED/DEER.
WP1.5 This module led by SEMKOS will focus on semantic aspects of shared vocabularies.
There will be integration between WP1.4 and WP1.5 through common seminars. The details of
this module will be further defined once the position of the SEMKOS IP bid becomes clear.
WP1.6 The Universität zu Köln (UzK) will integrate its Distributed Autonomous Cultural
Objects (DACOs) solution into the DEED. This module will permit members to provide access
to their own collections at the level of pages and individual pictures. A preliminary demo of this
principle is available online at:http://gilgamesch2.hki.uni-koeln.de/ECNet/. There will be
further integration through jointly executed research. Cf. WP 4.4.
WP1.7 The Intermedia Institute (Oslo) will integrate work on interfaces. Part of the integration
will be to link work on the basic interfaces for the DEED with the emerging solutions provided
through the SIMILAR NoE on multimodal interfaces (1.8) and the work on virtual environments
(1.10). It will also integrate the websites of the country level networks in the NoE. See WP 2.1.
WP1.8 The SIMILAR NoE (UCL BE) will integrate the results of their work into the DEED
such that the E-Culture Net members effectively become a user group for the new technological
work provided by this group. As noted above there will also be integration between modules 1.7,
1.8 and 1.10.
WP1.9 The ORION TN will integrate their work on 3-D spatial access to become a module of
the DEED. Mediterranean and NAS/Russian members will make these methods available in their
languages. There will be integration will the work on virtual environments. There will be further
integration through jointly executed research. Cf. below 4.1.
WP1.10 Portsmouth working with representatives from Leeds and Edinburgh (EDINA) will
explore how Open-GIS standards can be integrated into the prototype of the DEED.
WP1.11 As an independent project FHW and CINECA are working on a Flexible Virtual Reality
Exchange Platform (FleX-VR). How this can be integrated into the DEED will be examined.
WP1.12 Meanwhile, CNR-ITABC has developed plans for Virtual Heritage Centres. This
subsection will integrate the results of work from 1.11 and 1.12 into a broadband module for the
DEED, which can then be used in some of the jointly executed research and activities to spread
excellence (e.g. 5.1-2).
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WP1 Build DEED
NoE Phase 1 WP2 Networks for Sharing
NOE Phase 2
WP 3 Research matrices to
update
IP
Networks for sharing
Technology NoEs
Figure 27. Schematic view how E-Culture NoE will focus on results of WP2 in phase 2.
One of the main rationales for including the building of a preparatory tool within the framework
of an NoE is that the ensuing interaction with users will provide a bottom up, inductive set of
requirements for a more comprehensive solution. Phase one will thus result in prototype and
requirements for further development. In a second phase, it is proposed that the results of WP1
are integrated with preliminary results from possible IPS such as BRICKS, PROKNOWnce and
SEMKOS or their equivalents. Hence, at this stage the WP1 results will become integrated into
an IP and the NoE can focus more on the consequences of WP2.
WP 2. Fill the DEED through networks
If the NoE is to reach a critical mass of researchers, be multilingual and representative of the
complexity of Europe’s unity of diversities it must ultimately reflect culture in all the member
states and not just in a token few. Networks in each country make feasible the administration of a
large network, while at the same time answering concerns of subsidiarity by creatiing direct links
with national governments.
The TN has done preliminary work on the development of networks in individual countries.
Some countries are more advanced in this process than others. For instance, Spain already has its
own network and own website.
WP2.1 Led by LMT this will establish networks in different countries such that cultural
organisations, research institutions, and industry can share their research within the DEED
framework to represent national, regional and local diversity. The E-Culture Net TN has
identified representatives in most of the member states (figure 10). Part of the WP will be to
integrate the efforts of these representatives and to integrate their websites through the use of
interfaces developed in 1.7.
WP2.3 Working in co-ordination with MINERVA a small group will help integrate policies with
the existing and proposed projects in the NoE. In a first instance this will be achieved by making
the MINERVA results available through links to the NoE.
A significant risk, which is inherent in the quest for a European Union, is that European
countries vary enormously such that it is difficult to arrive at a coherent level throughout all the
member states. The establishment of networks in individual countries can serve as an example to
others. Since the NoE does not pretend to be exhaustive or all encompassing a contingency plan
will be to begin with a small group of convinced members, rather than aiming at
comprehensiveness from the outset.
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WP 3. Research Matrices
The standards and solutions required for such a multilingual, distributed resource at different
levels are constantly evolving and require a constantly updated database. WP 3 addresses this
challenge through research matrices both in terms of institutions and disciplines at the macro
level and level in terms of processes at the micro-level. The E-Culture Net TN has made a
preliminary list of categories to be filled and has developed elementary forms for updating new
standards and solutions: http://www.mmi.unimaas.nl/eculturenet/matrix.htm.
WP3.1 will integrate efforts from a) members of the NoE via networks in each country especially
from a number of specialised networks (e.g. ENCORE, ERPANET, C2RMF) and b) some other
networks which are specialised in technology (e.g. ERCIM, DELOS) in order to remain up to
date on developments in pertinent fields.
WP3.2 Fraunhofer IMK in its Communication and Technology (CAT) network has created a
visualisation tool for knowledge discovery and semantic maps (cf. figure 1). WP3.2 will
integrate this tool with the research matrices.
In a second phase of the project it is foreseen that this function of research matrices might be
transferred to one of the technological networks and that the role of the E-Culture NoE will be
“reduced” to providing input from the user side re: these solutions and standards. By then the
active role national members
WP 4. Content Pilots
The Thematic Network (TN) has identified criteria for (broadband) content pilots. They must
have transverse themes that can integrate a number of projects first at a national and
subsequently at a European level. The TN has chosen three such transverse themes for pilots in
WP4 to serve as first examples of jointly executed research: a) multidimensional museums; b)
historical cities; c) cultural tourism. WP4 will carry these out and make them available to
members of the NoE using the DEED modules. These broadband pilots will help researchers to
share their methods and develop critical thought in the field. While these pilots are largely
Spanish in origin to provide focus, themes have been chosen for their wider European relevance.
There is a small integrating team to ensure that these projects are not simply a collection of
random topics and lead to something more than the sum of the parts.
WP4.1 led by the Universidad Complutense focuses on multidimensional museums and brings
together work on olive oil machines, European sport, Spanish Museums, and Collaborative
Digital Art, plus an Italian example, a large scale map from the Vatican, and Russian examples
(to be determined) as content for the DEED. A small contribution on Digital Object Identifiers
will explore their relevance with respect to the DACO solution in WP1.6.
WP4.2 uses the example of historical European cities. Here the focus is on integrating existing
work such as the NUME project reconstructing the city of Bologna, Spanish cities by the
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Universidad SEK and the Universidad Alcala de Henares, (British) Georgian (Period) Cities
being developed by the Sorbonne, plus Russian examples from Pskov in Novgorod.
Parallel with this the Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH) is submitting an STREP, which
will focus on the methodological problems of comparative treatment of different historical cities,
including London, Bologna, and Dublin. If this bid is successful the results thereof will also be
integrated within this pilot.
WP4.3 focusses on cultural tourism and e-learning. Here the integration will be in two ways. On
the one hand there will be integration of a series of examples originating in Spain. These range
from an existing network on the history of Leon, work with avatars applied to the History of the
treaty of Westphalia, on the mediaeval landscapes of the Southern Sierras, gardens and cultural
landscapes, as well as ceramics and banquets. These pilot contents are of particular interest
because they reveal an emerging, distinctly European approach to tourism which is not just
interested in physical sites today but also in the context and history of how that site has evolved
to what it is today.
On the other hand these examples are being integrated with the interests and expertise of very
practical tourism agencies such as tourism-site.org (also the authors of the TICKET EoI).
WP4.4 builds on the work concerning DACOS (1.6), adapts a method of online slide
presentation and integrates this with the C2RMF/Louvre’s EROS database in order to make this
remarkable database of over 4 terabytes available to members of the NoE.
WP4.5 uses three existing examples of Greek culture from the Foundation of the Hellenic World
cited above, namely, HHellenic History on the Internet. Encyclopaedia of Greek Culture (EGC),
Olympics through Time and makes these available for the DEED/DEER.
WP 4.6 uses archaeological examples from the ORION network as content.
WP4.7 led by CINECA and CNR-ITABC builds on module 1.10 and integrates this within a
(GEANT) broadband context to include Collaborative Environments and Virtual Heritage
Centres. It is hoped that these results can in turn be integrated into the French (reseaux.doc, cf.
figure 5) and the Spanish (cf. figures 7-8) networks.
WP 5. E-Learning
Through its prime goal of establishing a DEED the entire NoE is focussed on new approaches to
e-learning with respect to research. WP 5 will co-ordinate several initiatives focussed
specifically on e-learning and e-training in the cultural sector: notably by integrating work on
hypermedia e-learning including mobile, broadband and satellite dimensions, serving as a user
group for PROKNOWnce, using the IKONOS platform to extend the reach of the NoE through
e-distance learning and training and developing European Masters and Doctorates.
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WP 5.1 focusses on Hypermedia E-learning by integrating work from three fronts: interactive
video, foreign languages using the BELE paradigm (figure 6) and work on a virtual campus.
These projects are of great importance because they combine the latest developments from the
Spanish educational community (ANID), multimedia publishers and high speed networks
including both GEANT and Ipv6 experiments in an Internet II context in Mexico and satellite
connections in South America. Through the Siberian Telecommunications University and the
Siberian Centre for Mobile IST, these satellite solutions will be integrated with Russian edistance learning efforts for remote areas.
Wp5.2 provides a user group to integrate the results of the PROKNOWnce IP with the prototype
version for the DEED/DEER.
WP5.3 uses some of the content provided by the joint research (4.1-7) and integrates this into
existing Masters and training within the Sorbonne and extending to their national network, which
is part of the campus numériques.
WP5.4 integrates Greek examples into the same.
WP5.5 integrates a subset of the content made accessible through 4.1-7 and 5.1-4 and makes it
available for the training network growing out of the IKONOS project of Malta Centre for
Restoration and their E-Heritage IP, if this bid is successful.
WP5.6 Building on work done by the E-Culture Net TN, this section focusses on integration of
work concerning European Masters and Doctorates. At the Masters level there are a number of
important courses in the cultural field including Scuola Normale, Politecnico di Milano,
Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Sorbonne, key Russian universities and the emerging
European University of Culture. WP5.6a will bring together one representative from each of
these institutions to compare notes and integrate approaches and standards while at the same time
maintaining the diversity characteristic of great institutions of learning. WP5.6b will effectively
do the same with a smaller group and slightly different partners notably the Universities of
Bologna, Kiel, Moscow, the Sapienza (Rome), SEK de Segovia, Sorbonne, representatives from
two networks NEHRN and ENCORE and once again the European University of Culture (EUC).
By September of 2004, when this becomes the home of the E-Culture Noël, the EUC will
effectively become the equivalent of a European clearinghouse to continue the process of
integration on this front.
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WP 6. Expansion
WP 6 will expand the reach of the NoE to include members from Newly Accessed States and
Russia, provide them with access to the DEED and have them share their research within DEED.
This step introduces further challenges for multilingual dimensions. Many researchers in these
countries work primarily in languages not accessible to the average European. An additional
condition of sharing via the DEED will thus become that they must make their research
accessible in their own language plus at least English or French.
WP6 begins with a small number of leading content holders, namely national libraries in the
Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovenia as well as the National Digital Repository in Estonia and the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. This WP will explore how their content can be integrated into
the evolving DEED/DEER. Phase 1 will result in suggestions for content pilots from these
members and plans for expanding this group. In phase 2 it is foreseen that this growing group
might evolve into a sub network with supported by the EUs funds for Eastern Europe.
WP 7 International
WP 7 will expand the reach of the NoE and its DEED to international networks. Again there will
a condition that research on the DEED is made available in at least English or French.
Led by EVAN (NMS) in its next version, this will integrate the efforts of various international
networks and conferences. International EVAs in China, Japan and Russia (as well as in India
and Latin America planned for 2004 if EC support is provided) will enable significant
opportunities for international networking, which will significantly assist in providing a more
global picture of the changing roles of Europe’s culture in the global arena. Over 1,000
participants are expected to participate in the international EVAs outside Europe in 2004. Other
international conferences are organised with the involvement of other eCN international group
members and thus the group has a sound overview of the international scene.
WP 8 Dissemination
The NoE already has a public website, which makes some of its results accessible to everyone on
the Internet.
At the international level, the EVAN conferences have played an important role in dissemination
of developments in digital culture and will serve to diseminate results of the NoE. In addition,
members of the NoE typically organise and attend leading international conferences and summer
schools in their field and can use these to further disseminate the NoE’s impact.
Also advantage will be taken of the three main annual European EVAs in Florence, London and
Berlin. Nearly 1000 participants are expected in 2004 from across Europe and internationally as
well as the host countries / language regions / neighbouring countries and increasing attention to
NAS countries (until now EVA Prague and Warsaw) reinforcing WP6.
At the national level countries such as Spain have a bi-annual Culturtec conference to bring
together the national level with some representatives of the NoE. WP 8 will co-ordinate these
efforts and extend them.
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With respect to additional training a request will be made for an accompanying measure whereby
two or at most three modules of the DEED can meet as small groups to integrate their insights
across domains. These groups should be open to a small number of persons from outside the
consortium members such that these meetings double in function as professional development
seminars for experts. The consolidation of work in the groups can thus go hand in hand with
dissemination of new insights beyond the group. A prerequisite here is that the groups remain
small such that all participants can interact personally. Such meetings thus perform a very
different function from the large annual conferences and international meetings, which bring
together all the players to reveal the big picture.
While the EU clearly recognizes the importance of training and rightly includes it as one of the
important criteria for selection of an NoE there is presently a dilemma that the amounts of money
presently available (i.e. theoretically 6,000-20,000 per researcher per annum if there were no
costs for administration of the network) is sufficient to support some research and minimal travel
but not enough to pay for intensive training courses of several days to a week. A challenge thus
remains of adjusting the funding schemes such that they are consonant with the ambitious aims
of the programme.
WP 9 Management
As noted earlier, in a more traditional approach the E-Culture NoE would have been three
separate NoEs, to develop: 1) a DEED; 2) networks in each country and 3) research matrices.
This would have led to precisely the fragmentation beyond which FP6 is intended to go.
Increasing the goals for integration thus increases the challenges of management of the NoE,
because the aims go far beyond the networking of a few experts in a specialised domain.
To meet these challenges requires a clear delineation of tasks. Objective 1, the DEED, is a
technical challenge of combining/adapting existing technologies in order to build an
infrastructure for sharing research. This is a finite task. Once in place this requires clear rules:
a) to enter resources, and research methods
b) to update contents of the DEED (covered by objective 2)
c) to update the technical side of the DEED: e.g. the latest security methods etc. (covered by
objective 3).
The “operationalisation” of a vision of a future full blown DEED (cf. figure 13) can thus be
started by focussing on a carefully defined limited subset of its components in the form of a
DEED with 10 specific modules. This will integrate the efforts of different research communities
on the technological side through the common goal of building the DEED together. The product
of these efforts will in turn integrate a much wider community of cultural organisations, research
institutions and industry who have resources, research methods and critical through which they
wish to share in a secure, multilingual intranet environment.
Objective 2, the creation of networks at the country level integrates further participants who can
use the DEED to make available their resources and research at national, regional and local
levels and thus reflect Europe’s diversity. The Programme of Jointly Executed Research adds
further broadband examples to the DEED. The activities to spread excellence assure that these
resources are integrated into new e-learning and e-training contexts.
Objective 3, the creation of research matrices ensures that the DEED remains updated.
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Implicit in all this a philosophy whereby the NoE provides a bottom up approach for the early
versions of the DEED by providing a large range of content examples from the whole of Europe.
There is a temptation to attempt a top down solution through an enormous Integrated Project (IP)
but in our view this would be premature because it would need to make too many assumptions
about a range of content and the complex needs of users of which it has no clear understanding.
Beginning with a bottom up approach, will essentially lead to difficult and sometimes seemingly
contradictory examples, which can ultimately serve as a list of requirements for a future
integration.
By linking the NoE to the major IPS in the cultural sector from the outset means that it can also
serve as a user group for the emerging solutions, at once validating their contributions and
making clear challenges that remain for a greater synthesis in the future. In phase two this
connection between the tool and the IPS can be intensified and the NoE can “narrow” its scope
to the networking dimensions.
Management of the network
The creation of an EEIG ensures that fundamental legal and economic responsibilities especially
the EU are properly met. A central secretariat will deal with everyday running of the NoE. The
structures of Executive Board, Management Board, and Advisory Board ensure a basic
separation of powers. The creation of networks at the country level offers a model for a
distributed network whereby individuals from all the member states can represent views from the
whole of the European Union.
Assessment of progress and results to this point
As outlined above (B6) each of the three objectives has clearly defined qualitative and
quantitative measures of success, which can be used both internally by the management of the
NoE and externally by reviewers from the EC to determine that the defined goals are being met.
Essentially this assessment of progress turns on how:
1) DEED functions as a tool
2) many resources DEED makes accessible
3) effectively DEED is updated.
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B 8 B) Work planning, showing the timing of the different WPs and their components (gantt chart
or similar).
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B 8 C) Graphical presentation of the components, showing their interdependencies (Pert diagram
or similar)
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B 8 D) Detailed activity description broken down into workpackages (18 months)
B 8 d) Detailed activity description broken down into workpackages:
Workpackage list (18 months)
Workpackage No8
Workpackage title
Lead contractor No9
Start
month
End
month
10
11
Deliverable No12
1
DEED
1) Laval
1
18
1-12
2
Networks
1) Laval
1
18
13
3
Res. Matrices
9) Fraunhofer?
1
18
14-15
4
Content Pilots
18) SEK
1
18
16
5
E-Learning
19/10) ANID
1
18
17
6
Expansion
2) UWIEN
1
18
18
7
International
24) NMS
1
18
19-20
8
Dissemination
1-24) Team
1
18
21
9
Management
1) Laval
1
18
22
9
TOTAL
22
Workpackage number: WP 1 – WP n.
Number of the contractor leading the work in this workpackage.
10 Relative start date for the work in the specific workpackages, month 0 marking the start of the project, and all other start dates
being relative to this start date.
11 Relative end date, month 0 marking the start of the project, and all ends dates being relative to this start date.
12 Deliverable number: Number for the deliverable(s)/result(s) mentioned in the workpackage: D1 - Dn.
8
9
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Deliverables/milestones list (18 months)
Deliverable/
Deliverable/milestone title
milestone no13
Delivery/
Achieve
date
Nature
Dissemination
level
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16
14
D1 (WP 1) Security
Module of DEED 6-
D
PU
D2 (WP 1) Legal Agreements “
“ 6-
D
PU
“
“ 6-
D
PU
D4 (WP 1) Multilingual Mapping
6-
D
PU
D5 (WP 1) Semantic Mapping
6-
D
PU
6-
D
PU
D7 (WP 1) Interfaces
6-
D
PU
D8 (WP 1) Multimodal Interfaces
6-
D
PU
D9 (WP 1) Spatial Access (3D)
6-
D
PU
D10(WP 1) Spatio-Temporal Access
6-
D
PU
D3 (WP 1) Storage
D6 (WP 1)
Distributed Autonomous Cultural Objects
Deliverables/milestones list (18 months)
Deliverable numbers in order of delivery dates: D1 – Dn
Month in which the deliverables will be available or milestone achieved. Month 0 marking the start of the project, and all dates
being relative to this start date.
15 Please indicate the nature of a deliverable using one of the following codes:
R = Report;
P = Prototype
D = Demonstrator
O = Other
If milestone, indicate with M
16 Please indicate the dissemination level for deliverables using one of the following codes:
PU = Public
PP = Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services).
RE = Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services).
CO = Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services).
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14
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Deliverable/
milestone
Deliverable/milestone title
no17
Delivery/
Achieve
date18
Nature
Dissemination
level
19
20
D11(WP 1) Virtual Environments
6-
P
PU
D12(WP 1) Virtual Heritage Centres
6-
P
PU
D13(WP 2) Networks in each country
6-
O
PU
D14(WP 3) Research Matrices
6-
P
PU
D15(WP 3) Research Matrices with CAT
6-
P
PU
D16(WP 4) Broadband Pilots
6-
D
PU
D17(WP 5) E-Learning, E-Training
6-
D
PU
D18(WP 6) NAS Members Connected
6-
O
PU
D19(WP 7) International Networks Connected
6-
O
PU
D20 (WP7) International Conference(s)
12-
R
PU
21
(WP 8)
Dissemination
6-
O
PU
22
(WP 9)
Management Reports
6-
R
PU
Deliverable numbers in order of delivery dates: D1 – Dn
Month in which the deliverables will be available or milestone achieved. Month 0 marking the start of the project, and all dates
being relative to this start date.
19 Please indicate the nature of a deliverable using one of the following codes:
R = Report;
P = Prototype
D = Demonstrator
O = Other
If milestone, indicate with M
20 Please indicate the dissemination level for deliverables using one of the following codes:
PU = Public
PP = Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services).
RE = Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services).
CO = Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services).
17
18
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Workpackage 1: description (18 months)
Workpackage number
Participant id
1
Start date or starting event:
Objectives
The objective is to create a DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) Resource to permit members
of the NoE to share their research in a secure, multilingual research infrastructure.
Description of work
Small groups will adapt existing research and contribute twelve modules for the DEED, namely,
1) Security; 2) Legal Agreements; 3) Storage; 4) Multilingual Mapping of Terminology; 5) Semantic Mapping;
6) Distributed Autonomous Cultural Objects; 7) Interfaces; 8) Multimodal Interfaces; 9) Spatial Access (3D);
10) Spatio-Temporal Access (GIS); 11) Virtual Environments; 12) Virtual Heritage Centres.
Deliverables 1-12
Each of these twelve modules will produce a deliverable, which cumulatively permit members of the NoE to
share their research in a secure multilingual DEED.
Milestones
+ Cumulative Working demonstrations in months 6, 10, 14, 18.
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Workpackage 2: description (18 months)
Workpackage number
Participant id
2
Start date or starting event:
Objectives
The objective is to extend the use of the DEED to include research from national, regional and local levels to
reflect diversity.
Description of work
Building on the preliminary work of the E-Culture thematic network, one representative of the NoE in each
country will develop a branch of the NoE in their country. These country members will include cultural
organisations, research institutions and industry wishing to share their resources. Members at the country
level will gain access to the DEED, and share their research, methods.
Deliverable 13
+ Networks in each country with individual websites linked to E-Culture NoE and to its DEED.
+ Content from these national partners conform to the DEED elements .
Milestones
Month 6: Websites at the level of each country with national (regional and local) members in place.
Month 12: First shared research in place
Month 18: Shared research conform to 10 elements of DEED
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Workpackage 3: description (18 months)
Workpackage number
Participant id
3
Start date or starting event:
Objectives
The objective is to create Research Matrices of the entire Knowledge Production Life Cycle in order to keep
the DEED up to date and recognize trends.
Description of work
- Receive preliminary input from co-operation with specialized networks (e.g. ERCIM, DELOS).
- Receive further input from all members of NoE via networks in each country re: projects, solutions for both
macro level of disciplines and micro level of processes/activities.
- Integrate this input and make it available via the knowledge discovery tools developed by Netzspannung’s
CAT tools (Fraunhofer).
Deliverables 14-15
+ Macro and micro level matrices of projects, solutions.
+ Semantic access to these matrices using Netzspannung’s tools.
Milestones
Month 6: Info from Specialised networks
Month 12: Info from members via networks in each country
Month 18: Information integrated into knowledge discovery tools and brought on line.
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Workpackage 4: description (18 months)
Workpackage number
Participant id
4
Start date or starting event:
Objectives
The objective is to develop a Broadband equivalent of the DEED, which integrates the functionalities of WP 1
into Virtual Environments and Virtual Heritage Centres using broadband pilots.
Description of work
CINECA and RAI will adapt their existing virtual environments to add the functionalities of the DEED, such
that resources from members of the NoE can also be accessed at (GEANT) broadband speeds.
CNR-ITABC will adapt these functionalities for Virtual Heritage Centres
Deliverable 16
+ Online resources from DEED available in Virtual Environment(s) and Virtual Heritage Centre(s)
Milestones
+ Cumulative Demonstrations in months 6, 10, 14, 18
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Workpackage 5: description (18 months)
Workpackage number
Participant id
5
Start date or starting event:
Objectives
The objective is to integrate the resources of the DEED into e-learning.
Description of work
- Include research methods and content made accessible through the DEED in European Masters and
Doctorates
- Extend use of DEED to existing training programmes (IKONOS)
- Extend use of DEED for E-Learning and E-Distance learning (ANID’s BELE project)
Deliverable 17
+ Concrete examples of DEED used for E-Learning, E-Training, and European Masters, Doctorates
Milestones
Month 12: Preliminary examples on each front
Month 18: Examples using all 10-12 modules of DEED
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Workpackage 6: description (18 months)
Workpackage number
Participant id
6
Start date or starting event:
Objectives
The objective is to extend the NoE and the DEED to Newly Accessed States (NAS), Mediterranean, and
Russia to permit members of the NoE to share their research in a secure, multilingual research
infrastructure.
Description of work
The E-Culture Thematic network has identified a number of potential members in NAS, Russia and the
Mediterranean. These will be integrated in the NoE and contribute to the DEED. Materials to be shared will
be available in original language and must be translated into at least English or French.
Deliverable 18
+ Expand NoE to include NAS, Russian, Mediterranean members.
+ Provide new Members with Access to DEED
+ Share research via DEED
Milestones
Month 6: Include new members and provide initial access to DEED
Month 12: Share research via DEED
Month 24: Share research with all 10 modules of DEED
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Workpackage 7: description (18 months)
Workpackage number
Participant id
7
Start date or starting event:
Objectives
The objective is extend the NoE and DEED to include international networks to permit members of the NoE
to share their research in a secure, multilingual research infrastructure.
Description of work
The E-Culture Thematic network has identified a number of potential members internationally. These will be
integrated in the NoE and contribute to the DEED. Materials to be shared will be available in original
language and must be translated into at least English or French.
Deliverables 19-20
+ Expand NoE to include international networks.
+ Provide new Members with Access to DEED
+ Share research via DEED
+ Annual international conference(s)
Milestones
Month 6: Include new members and provide initial access to DEED
Month 12: Share research via DEED; annual conference
Annual conference
- Month 24: Share research with all 10 modules of DEED
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Workpackage 8: description (18 months)
Workpackage number
Participant id
8
Start date or starting event:
Objectives
The objective is to disseminate the research produced by the Distributed Electronic Research Resource
(DEED) to a wider audience.
Description of work
The work entails an Annual International Conference to bring together all the participants. Summer courses
will focus on integrating themes. The work also entails workshops, which bring together different DEED
modules to ensure their integration. These may become linked with training seminars.
Deliverable 21
+ Annual Conference
+ Workshops to combine sets of modules (e.g. 4,5, 10).
Milestones
Month 12
Annual Conference
Months 7, 19
Summer Courses
Months 4, 8, 12 Workshops
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Workpackage 9: description (18 months)
Workpackage number
Participant id
9
Start date or starting event:
Objectives
The objective is to manage the project.
Description of work
A secretariat will handle daily operations. This will include one full time employee for each of the three central
objectives: DEED, networks in each country and research matrices. A core group will make regular
decisions. A management board (core group +1 representative for each member state) will make more basic
decisions: e.g. terms of membership (inclusion, exclusion). Financial issues will be dealt with separately. The
group responsible for DEED module 2 (legal agreements) will also serve as legal advisor to the NoE.
Deliverable 22
+ Regular management and progress reports to assure that the goals and timelines are being met.
Milestones
Brief management reports from leaders of each of the three objectives every 4 months.
Progress reports every 6 months
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B.9 OTHER ISSUES
If there are ethical issues associated with the activities of the network, show how they have been
taken into account - indicate which national and international regulations are applicable and
explain how they will be respected. Explore potential ethical aspects of the implementation of
network results. Include the Ethical issues form given below.21
Ethical issues form
A. Proposers are requested to fill in the following table
Does your proposed research raise sensitive ethical questions related to:
Human beings
Human biological samples
Personal data (whether identified by name or not)
Genetic information
Animals
YES
NO
X
X
X
X
X
Figure 28: Completed ethical issues form
While the E-Culture NoE raises no typical ethical questions such as those facing medicine or
especially genetic engineering, it potentially raises a whole range of ethical problems of a more
sublte nature. Any attempt to provide access to culture in its full range introduces challenges of
fair samples, which are faced at the national level by all museums and galleries, which attempt to
show what their country has created. No set of databases can hope to be comprehensive at the
outset. Some would argue that this will never be possible. So attention and care needs to be given
to assure that what is shown makes it clear that it is a sample and not the totality. There will be
challenges of how one communicates to users of the system some clues about how large the
absent dimensions might be.
Are there other EC-policy related issues, and are they taken into account?
Creating access to the rich unity of diversities of Europe’s cultural traditions and expressions will
help Europe to re-assess its own identity/identities. The whole question of cultural diversity as a
key to Europe’s future identities will be the subject of a specialised proposal for an NoE by the
Institut de France and by the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, St. Denis (Paris 8), which is also
leading the initiative for the new European University of Culture.
As Europe advances in the digitisation of its cultural heritage there will be increasing challenges
of finding a balance between the fixed artefacts of culture which are kept in museums and readily
21
See Annex 3 for more information on the ethics issues.
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amenable to digitisation and those dimensions which are not fixed, ranging from music and
dance to complex customs. Europe as a now sedentary culture is very different from the nomadic
traditions, which once played a much larger role in its own past. How do we learn rightly to
value and appreciate our achievements while at the same time learning that other traditions have
very different approaches to the most basic matters?
For instance, in Europe the fields of conservation and restoration pay enormous attention to
keeping intact an “original,” with the consequence that any “copy” has a negative connotation. In
Europe this idea has evolved and is very different today than it was in the Renaissance. In China
the relation of original to copy is very different. In Japan, there is often no real interest in the
original as such. Heritage sites are typically made of “transient” materials such as bamboo and
other wood, such that in some cases they need to be completely rebuilt every ten years. Whereas
the Western conservator keeps and pastes together as much of the original as possible, the
Japanese conservator teaches how to rebuild the original from scratch.
Such seemingly simple examples confirm that most of our assumptions even about conservation
are not as obvious as we might think. As a result our assumptions of what we need to train
others, what needs to be the substance of technology applied to e-learning in culture, even the
questions to be asked are more open to discussion than we might have suspected. The
assumption that training is something Europe will necessarily export all over the world without
attention to great cultural differences needs re-examination.
Consequently one of the deeper challenges of an E-Culture NoE is to go beyond a simple
positivistic digitisation euphoria. At a deep level the NoE must make us aware of differences at
all levels and to use these differences as bridges to understanding rather than as excuses for
rejection, aggression and war. If the study of difference cannot teach us tolerance then we are
doomed.
In all these efforts to digitise culture there are clearly many economic implications. Countries
which can sell their expressions, be they music, films, or plays make money. But even more
important than this are the social consequences. In societies where tolerance is lacking where
there is civil war and other forms of unrest, there is no economy to speak of. Thus the NoE for
culture must ultimately take us on a path not just towards more technological answers but also
towards a more humane society.
Modularity of the NoE
The E-Culture NoE has been designed in a modular fashion. This is achieved through its three
distinct objectives. Objective 1 is divided into basic (the minimal number to operate) and further
(including other siginificant players). This breakdown is provided in Appendix 8. Objective 2
(networks) foresees links with MINERVA. Objective 3 foresees links with ERCIM, DELOS and
other specialized networks.
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Describe how the network will engage with actors beyond the network to help spread awareness
and knowledge and to explore wider societal implications. If relevant set out synergies with
education at all levels.
(No recommended length – depends on the number of such other issues which the project
involves)
Through letters of intent (Appendix 2) the Network is aware of a number of other potential
interesting partners, which were not included at this stage following advice from the EC that the
size of the NoE should not be extremely large.
In addition E-Culture Net is aware of and in touch with other sectors. For instance, one of our
founding members, the Media Lab (Helsinki), concerned with the EC’s insistence on not being a
member of more than one NoE, chose to join the CACHE EoI which is proposing an NoE in the
realm of Communities of Ambient Culture and Heritage. Meanwhile, E-Culture Net has been
approached by the MYNet EoI (Mobile Youth: discovering new use scenarios for ubiquitous
communications. At a later stage these mobile and ambient dimensions could well be added as a
further module for the DEED-DEER. For the moment we have preferred to focus rather than aim
at a comprehensive approach.
Through partners such as AMP, E-Culture Net has access to many more key players in the realm
of bibliographical access such as the Bibliothèque de la France, the French Government’s
Inventaire, English Heritage and the Dutch NIWI’s ICONCLASS. Though partners such as the
University of Cologne we have access to the German Research Foundation and the Max Planck
with vast amounts of research content.
Many of our partners belong to different consortia and networks. For instance, one of the AMP
partners, the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme at Nanterre (Paris X) is working with the CNRS
(INIST) on a possible virtual campus for ethnologists. Similar ideas are in the air qua
archaeologists (cf. Frantiq). In future more of these connections between networks should be
developed to approach the idea of a network of networks.
In the State of the Art (Appendix 1) a survey is given to the standard international and European
organisations in the field: e.g. IFLA, ICOM, ICA. Indeed the thematic network on its website
lists more than 400 such organisations: http://www.mmi.unimaas.nl/eculturenet/networks.htm. ECulture Net has established contact with a number of these. In future one would wish to develop
these contacts more systematically.
Similarly we are aware of many developments in the realm of educational and e-learning
networks including the European School network, ELEN etc.22 Once the NoE is developed it will
be desirable to extend the use of the DEED to such networks.
22
These are summarized in a list by Pira International (UK) at http://inf2.pira.co.uk/factsheets/inform/et.html.
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B.10 GENDER ISSUES
B.10.1. Gender Action plan
Write an action plan indicating actions and activities that will be developed to promote gender
equality in all forms within your project. (Recommended length - one page: for further
explanation see Annex 4).
The project- will work from a principle of equal gender opportunity.
- will bear in mind and seek to redress the unequal gender ratio common to
research and development institutions, even though this may vary within the
project.
Historical and structural conditions have impacted on gender representation and participation in
research in Europe, and indeed they continue to do so. E-Culture Net will endeavour to address
contemporary and heritage related issues of gender and representation. It will do this specifically
by encouraging contractors and members to recommend female members for the activities of the
NoE. Where possible, research leadership in the project will actively include the perspectives
and direction of senior female researchers.
Each of the Workpackages will be required to consider issues of gender participation and provide
deliberate means to ensure the shaping of gender equality as far as is possible. Here, specific
workshops and seminars may be held to draw together women researchers and contributors from
across the various components of E-Culture Net.
Research meetings may be especially directed to questions, problems and potential relating to the
representation of gender in cultural heritage. Importantly these linkages and ongoing discussions
via the network, will further address existing and emerging problematics of gender within digital
technological discourses themselves.
The project website together with internal communication tools, will raise matters pertaining to
gender, for example, referring to content, in modes of representation, and voice in interpretation.
Through its design, its interface and selection of content, the project website will strive towards
gender sensitive representations. Members of the network, and by extension more general users,
will thus see examples of how gender may be nuanced in online media.
However, many works of cultural heritage have themselves been imaged, stored, coded,
circulated and interpreted without our contemporary concern with gender. The fetching of works
from diverse databases and for varied needs and goals will also need to be contextualised with
reference to current research, which acknowledges that gender is not only a significant but also
telling feature of cultural heritage.
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The integrated master’s and doctoral programmes connected via E-Culture Net will also provide
a scholastic and research centred platform and communicative arena for the discussion of gender
in digital/cultural heritage. A specific module on gender and digital cultural heritage may be
developed and may be highlighted on the project website.
B.10.2. Gender issues
If there are gender issues associated with the subject of the proposal, show how they have been
adequately taken into account. (Recommended length - one page).
Historically, gender has always played an important in culture. For instance in the Middle Ages
the Courtly love tradition focussed on women. Other societies have focussed on men. In recent
years the rise of cultural studies generally and gender studies in particular have brought into
focus political dimensions of such traditions. While the E-Culture NoE is not equipped to do its
own research into these matters, it will welcome members who can track important
developments on these fronts, which are ultimately even more important than the tracking of
everyday technological solutions.
E-Culture Net will link issues on gender and representation with other problematics of selection,
picturing and perceiving digital cultural artefacts and institutions. Gender will therefore be
related to questions of choice, institutional and editorial power as cultural and historical
formations, as well as the modes via which such power has been inscribed, culturally. The
project, however, will not champion essentialist notions of gender identity and mediation, but
rather, through collaborative inquiry, develop sets of questions and tangible research links about
cultural content which assists the network and its wider users in a richer understanding of gender
in cultural expression and exchange.
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APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1. PREVIOUS WORK AND STATE OF THE ART
Cultural Organsisations, Projects, Standards, Policy and Networks:
Introduction
To share digital culture multi-lingually requires considerable co-ordination through
organisations, projects, standards, policy and networks. This survey reviews what has been
achieved thus far in Europe. A final section considers briefly parallel activities elsewhere in the
world.
International Organizations based on Types of Collections and Media
In Europe, systematic treatment of cultural materials began with ecclesiastical collections in the
Middle Ages. From the Renaissance onwards, royal, princely, ducal and other private collections
played an increasing role. In the nineteenth century, Sir Anthony Panizzi’s vision, which led to
the British Museum inspired the rise of national libraries.
These national libraries, galleries, museums and archives soon took the lead in integrating efforts
in different countries. For instance, Sir Charles Eastlake, the first director of the National Gallery
of London (1855-1865) established an informal network concerning restoration with colleagues
in France, Germany, and Italy.
By the end of the nineteenth century national libraries, museums and archives emerged as the
major collections and places where systematic treatment thereof took place. In the course of the
twentieth century the efforts of these institutions became linked through a number of
international organizations, which typically dealt with a given type of organization, discipline,
collection type, and/or specific media (Figure 29).
1927
1936
1946
1948
1969
Libraries
Telecommunications
Museums
Archives
Sound/Audiovisual
1975
198x
199x
1999
Film Commissioners
Television
“
“, Media
New Media
IFLA
International Federation of Library Associations 111
ITU
International Telecommunication Union112
ICOM International Council of Museums113
ICA International Council on Archives 114
IASA International Association of Sound and Audiovisual
Archives115
AFCI Association of Film Commissioners International116
ITVA International Television Association now MCAI
MCAI Media Communications Association International 117
IKT
International Association of Curators of
Contemporary Art118
Figure 29: Key international organizations founded to address specific disciplines
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1931
Athens Charter119 (for the Restoration of Historic Monuments adopted at the First
International Congress of Architects and Technicians of Historic Monuments)
1946
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 120
ICOM (International Council of Museums)121
1949
Council of Europe122
1950
Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms123
1956
European Cultural Convention (Paris)124
ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and
Restoration of Cultural Property) 125
1964
Venice Charter126 (International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of
Monuments and Sites)
1965
ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)127
1972
UNESCO128 (Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural
Heritage)129
Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)130
1985
Granada Convention (which covers the architectural heritage)
1989
Culture Link,131 Network of Networks for Research and Co-operation in Cultural
Development
CIRCLE (Cultural Information and research Centres Liaison in Europe).132
1992
Valetta Convention (European Convention for the Protection of the Archaeological
Heritage (revised)).
1996
Heritage Information Network (HEREIN) 133 “instrument for implementing and monitoring
the European conventions on the architectural and archaeological heritage.”
2001
Lund Principles and Lund Action Plan: 134 European content in global networks
co-ordination mechanisms for digitisation programmes
2001
MINERVA (MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation) 135
2003
HEREIN database on cultural policies of European countries
2005
European University of Culture (Strasbourg)
Figure 30: Key dates in the development of cultural policy, related organizations, projects
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1922
1950
1977
1989
1992
1993
1994
1994
ARTE
ACE
1997
1999
1999
ETE
2001
2001
2002
Association Française d’Action Artistique (AFAA) 136
European Broadcasting Union137
European Museum Forum138
European Television and Film Forum139
European AudioVisual Observatory140
European Information Technology Observatory 141
European Commission on Preservation and Access
European Forum for the Arts and Heritage142
Association for European Television143
Association des Cinématiques Européennes144
EFP
European Film Promotion145
EMII
European Museum Information Institute146
ESW
Euro Screen Writers147
European Television Enterprises (ETE)148
NEMO
Network of European Museum Organizations 149
Euromuse
Network of European Art Museums150
ERPAnet
Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network 151
AFAA
EBU
EMF
ETFF
EAVO
EITO
ECPA
EFAH
Figure 31: Key European organizations founded to address specific media and disciplines
These international organizations, all based in Europe, contributed greatly to a better coordination in respective fields and to the establishment of basic standards. While excellent in
themselves, these organisations focussed on their own field with little attention to their relation
to other fields and media. Only in recent years has this begun to change. For instance, the audiovisual domain has founded the CCCAA (Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives
Associations) and more recently the Standing Council of European Audiovisual Archives
(SCENAA). Even these are limited to the audio-visual domain and do not address the whole
spectrum of media.
Policy
In the course of the twentieth century, basic developments in policy152 (figure 2) were closely
linked with the rise of new integrating institutions in the cultural domain. For instance, the
signing of the Athens Charter on restoration of Historic Monuments (1931) occurred in the same
year as the founding of the two separate insititutions which are now combined as the Centre de
Recherche et Restauration des Musées de France.153
Similarly, the signing of the European Cultural Convention (Paris, 1956) occurred in the same
year as the founding of ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and
Restoration of Cultural Property).154 The signing of the Venice Charter155 (International Charter
for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites, 1964) led to the founding of
ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)156 in the following year. The advent
of the UNESCO Convention (1972) led to the founding of the Canadian Heritage Information
Network (CHIN)157 in the same year. More recently, the Lund Principles and Lund Action Plan
proved an important stimulus to the MINERVA project (MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising
Activities in digitisation).
155
European Organisations
While organisations such as IFLA, ICOM, ICOMOS began at the international level they soon
developed branches at the European and other levels. For instance, ICOM has a branch for
Europe and for German speaking museums (Austria, Germany, Switzerland).
Independent organizations at the European level arose mainly in the second half of the 20th
century and especially in the 1990s (figure 3). Some of these have grown out of older
institutions. For instance the Museum Documentation Association has led the development of the
European Museum Information Institute (EMII), which has been working on a digital content
format (EMIIdcf). Since 2000, there has been a dramatic rise in networks for these collection
types/media at the European level (cf. figures 5-7).
A number of these projects have focused on new access methods, notably, AQUARELLE
(Sharing Cultural Heritage through Multimedia Telematics),158 Cultural Heritage Interchange
Ontology Standardization tools (CHIOS).159 These projects linking the efforts of French
researchers at INRIA with those at ICS-FORTH (Crete), introduced important questions of
problems of mapping between different authority files, ontologies and vocabularies.
Other projects in this direction are Metadata Engine project (META-E)160 and the Academic
Subject Gateway Service Europe (RENARDUS).161 These projects in turn have led to the recent
expression of interest by SEMKOS (Semantic Web meets Knowledge Organization for LargeScale Information Integration),162 which has links to E-Culture Net. They have also led to the
French Ministry of Culture’s important initiative, Accès Multilingue au Patrimoine (AMP),
which produced an Expression of Interest and has also joined forces with E-Culture Net.
As might be expected, the areas of new media and particularly born digital art have generated a
great deal of attention in the past decade. Much of the serious work has proceeded outside the
public eye in major institutions such as the Centre Pompidou and the Bibliothèque Nationale de
la France, which have the collection and preservation of such works as part of their mandate.
Conservation
CRISATEL
Preservation
3D-MURALE, AMICITIA, PAST, PRESTO, COLLATE,
Access Cultural Heritage (ARCHEOGUIDE, ARTISTE, BRAVA, COVAX, CYCLADES,
ECHO, ETB, LEAF, META-E, MIND, OPEN HERITAGE, REGNET,
RENAISSANCE, RENARDUS, TOURBOT and accompanying
measures such as SCHEMAS)163
Reference
Libraries Sector (ELISE I & II, LAURIN, MALVINE, ONE II & I, VAN
EYCK I & II)164
Reconstruction
ARCHEOGUIDE, PAST, 3D-MURALE
Terminology
SALT165
Multilingualism
CLEF
Meta-Data
Semantic Web,166 Cultural heritage (ARCHEOGUIDE,
ARTISTE, COVAX, ECHO, ELVIL2000, ETB, EULER, MALVINE,
META-E, RENARDUS, SCHEMAS, TOURBOT, VAKHUM, VERITY
Figure 32: Some of the key projects re: digital culture in the 5th Framework
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The EU has sponsored select projects such as Contemporary Culture Virtual Archives in XML
(COVAX)167 and the Open Collaborative Virtual Archives Project (CYCLADES, cf. figure 4).168
There are a number of institutes mainly at the national level: e.g., V2 Organisation, Institute for
the Unstable Media (Rotterdam)169; C3 (Budapest)170; ProContra (Moscow)171; Zentrum fur
Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM, Karlsruhe)172 and the Ars Electronica Centre (AEC,
Linz).173 Some of these organisations are further linked through a European Network for
CyberART (ENCART).174 One of the pioneers in this area has been the group at Sankt Augustin
(formerly GMD, now Fraunhofer), which created the MARS (Media Arts and Research
Studies)175 laboratory and more recently Netzspannung’s176 CAT network tools177 for knowledge
discovery through visualisation using Kohonen maps and semantic nets. It is foreseen that this
will be integrated into E-Culture Net’s research matrices.
The European Union has made a number of efforts towards integration in this area. In the late
1990s, Commissioner Oreja’ developed a vision of a film and television network.178 In 2001, the
EC made an open call for Technology Platforms for Cultural and Arts Creative Expressions
(CPA 15),179 which has led to the artnouveau180 thematic network devoted primarily to new art
and creativity using the digital media.
European Commission Projects
In its framework programmes the European Commission has made a considerable contribution to
a more systematic approach by strategically addressing a series of problems of method with
specific projects (figure 4). These projects have brought a number of useful, individual, practical
solutions. Notwithstanding some efforts of concertation, in many cases the solutions provided by
one project are not known or not accessible to members of another project. A theoretical
framework and a coherent understanding of the entire field has yet to be implemented. This is
one of the larger challenges of the e-Culture network.
Technology
Agent Cities,181 AgentLink,182 CaberNet,183
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IDOMENEUS, MONET, NEURONET,186 RENOIR187
Conservation
ENCORE188
Preservation and Access
ERPAnet189
Restoration
C2RMF190
Information Description
ISO TC 46,191
Terminology
ISO TC 37192, Infoterm193
Multilingualism
ELSNET194
Meta-Data
UKOLN195
Historical Research
NEHRN196
Integration
E-Culture Net
Figure 33: European thematic networks of excellence re: problems of digital culture
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European Thematic Networks
An important step forward has been the creation of networks to address each of the above
mentioned problems of method. In this respect, the European Commission has, in the past
decade, made a great contribution (figure 5). Most of these deal with individual problems in
general, rather than with their multi-lingual, multi-cultural and historical dimensions.
Some of these networks, such as ENCORE or NEHRN, are engaged in graduate teaching and
training. As the new knowledge economy evolves there will undoubtedly be thousands of new
specialized courses in Europe and elsewhere throughout the world. These networks have agreed
to work with E-Culture Net which is concerned with creating more general European Masters
and Doctorates and will refer students with more specialised interests to these organizations.
A second thrust of the European Union’s efforts have been networks following the traditional
disciplines and collection types covered by organisations (figure 8 cf. figure 3). Of these perhaps
the best known are ERCIM and the Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (DELOS),197
which has strong representation from the computer science community. The scope of these
networks varies greatly. For instance, the European Museums Network (EUROMUSE) has some
30 members. Some projects which are not officially called networks have the equivalent of a
networking function, such as the European Library (TEL),198 which is attempting co-ordination
among libraries. This challenge is also being addressed in non EU sponsored projects such as the
Gateway to European National Libraries (GABRIEL).199
In the past years there have been new networks with respect to new, unstable Media, especially
INCCA (International Network of Conservators of Contemporary Art),200 which has also led to a
recent Expression of Interest (Consortium).201 One of the challenges for thematic networks such
as E-Culture Net has been to create roadmaps for greater co-ordination between these networks.
European Image Projects and Networks
Physical networks in the cultural domain supported by the European Commission began in the
1990s. One of the first of these was RAMA202 (Remote Access to Museum Archives, 19921995). This led to the MENHIR (Multimedia European Network of High quality Image
Registration, 1997-1998)203 and Museums of Online (1997-), which launched Cultural Images
Brokerage Service204 in February 1998 and led subsequently to the Open Heritage205 Project
(2001).
Informatics, Mathematics
Libraries
Public Libraries
Archives
Museums
Cinema
Music
Creative arts
New, Unstable Media
ERCIM206
DELOS
PULMAN207
MALVINE208
EUROMUSE209
ECN (Europa Cinémas Network)210
Interactive MusicNetwork211
art nouveau
INCCA
Figure 34: European networks of excellence re collection types/media212
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RAMA (1992)
MOSAIC (1995-)
CIVITÀ (1995)
VASARI (1993-) Van Eyck (1993-1997)
MENHIR (1995)
CULTIVATE (2000-2003)
DIGICULT (1998-)
Museums Online (1997)
Van Eyck II (-1998-2002)
Open Heritage (2001)
REGNET
TRIS
Figure 35: Survey of key EU projects with respect to networks of cultural images
cf. Figure 32)
Parallel with these developments, VASARI (Visual Arts Systems for Archiving & Retrieval of
Images) was started in 1989 and continues in name to this day as the VASARI company. 213 In
1996, VASARI and the Videomuseum214 carried out the MAGNETS (Museum And Galleries
New Technology Study).215 WP 4 on Market and General Economic Issues contained an
Appendix A: Towards Open Multimedia Access to the World’s Cultural Heritage: Museums and
Galleries.216
VASARI also initiated the VAN EYCK (Visual Arts Network for the Exchange of Cultural
Knowledge) Project (1993-1997),217 which “developed the technical means for storing, selecting
and transmitting high quality images in digital form held in the collections of three art history
photographic libraries.” VAN EYCK II (1998-2002) developed an online database of over
70,000218 images, which was discontinued on 1 January 2003219 due to lack of enough
subscriptions to make the project economically self-sufficient. The problem of non-continuity of
access to European projects remains a challenge.
1989-1992
1990-1994
1996-1997
1997-1998
1997-1998
1997-1999
1999-2000
project partner VASARI (DGIII),
projectcoordinator NARCISSE (DGXIII),
project partner VISEUM (DGXIII),
project partner MENHIR (DGIII),
project partner COST (DGXII),
project partner ACOHIR (DGIII),
project coordinator CRISTAL (DGX)220
Figure 36: European Network projects with images sponsored by the C2RMF (Paris)
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A third and perhaps the most important thrust in the direction of image networks began with the
C2RMF, which was also a partner in the original VASARI project. In 1990, the C2RMF became
the project co-ordinator for NARCISSE, the Network of Art Research Computer Image SystemS
in Europe.221 This enabled a collection of 70,000 high resolution, scientific images to be
digitized which were managed by a multilingual database. 222 This led to their participation in
further projects including VISEUM, COST, ACOHIR and to their becoming co-ordinators of
CRISTAL223 (Conservation & Restoration Institutions for Scientific Terminology dedicated to
Art Learning Network):
to co-operatively create a new thesaurus for the access to interactive electronic documents,
which includes information concerning interventions done on works of art, during studies
undertaken in laboratories and restorations carried out by workshops. The multilingual
dictionaries, which CRISTAL inherited from NARCISSE thesaurus, have been co-operatively
elaborated through the web in order to be extended to the specialized vocabulary related to:
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paintings (of restorations and murals),
sculptures and polychromy,
graphic arts
ceramics and metal works.
As a result of these European projects (figure 8) two large multi-lingual electronic databases
have emerged with exchange compatibility and on line client/server navigator and viewer access
using Netscape and Java224. These databases include more than 4 terabytes of information, which
could potentially be made available to researchers throughout Europe. In 2001, C2RMF became
a founding partner of E-Culture Net. In the course of the year C2RMF met with UzK to discuss
the possibility of linking these databases via Digital Autonomous Cultural Objects (DACOs) to
new collaborative on line slide methods which are being developed in the PROMETHEUS
project. This collaboration, which builds on twelve years of EU projects, will be one of the
concrete starting points for the E-Culture NoE’s integrating activities.
Cultural Service Centres
The earliest networked projects had focused on technical problems of sharing images in online
environments. The idea of commercial organizations which could deal with museums and act as
service centres began as early as 1992 with Musée (Museums Universally Supporting Education
and Entertainment), 225 which in 2002 became linked with Museum Partners “to improve the
overall cost-effectiveness and efficiency of museum operations.” In Europe, Museums over
States in Virtual Culture (MOSAIC, conceived in 1995),226 introduced this idea of cultural
service centres as a means of making cultural products into a commercial reality, an idea also
explored by the commercial sector through the Associazione CIVITÀ.227 Although some
organisations became members of both MOSAIC and CIVITÀ, the two organizations remained
formally independent.
A founding member of MOSAIC went on to develop the Cultural Service Center, Austria
(Graz),228 which in turn became one of the technical members of the CULTIVATE229
programme (2000-2003). This claimed to “answer to the need for a newly structured network
supporting the co-operation of all memory institutions (archives, libraries and museums) under
the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme.”230
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CULTIVATE became linked with DIGICULT (Digital Heritage and Cultural Content, 1998-),
the “part of CORDIS which provides information on all Research and Technological
Development (RTD) activities of the European Union.231
Some of the founders of MOSAIC and CULTIVATE went on to develop REGNET (Cultural
Heritage in Regional networks).232 The Open Heritage and the REGNET projects have since
become clustered.
One of the founders of Open Heritage is also a key individual in the TRIS 233 (Trials Support:
supporting and facilitating the execution of IST TRIAL actions by encouraging standardisation,
synergy, technology transfer and exploitation)234 project and has informal links with the
PULMAN235 (Public Libraries Mobilising Advanced Network) Network of Excellence. Such
projects evidence a recent trend to report on the achievements of other projects.
Comprehensive Networks
Already in 1989, UNESCO in conjunction with the Council of Europe establsihed Culture
Link,236 ( a Network of Networks for Research and Co-operation in Cultural Development) and
CIRCLE (Cultural Information and research Centres Liaison in Europe).237 In 1990, CIMI
(Consortium for the Intechange of Museum Information)238 began to address some needs for
systematic sharing of materials from museums.
In 1995, the G7 held a Ministerial Conference and Exhibition on the Information Society
(Brussels, February 25-26).239 This led to eleven pilot projects of which number five was
Multimedia Access to World Cultural Heritage240 (later called Electronic Museums and
Galleries),241 which were first demonstrated at the G7 ISAD (Information Society and
Developing Countries Conference, Midrand, 13-15 May 1996).242 These G7 initiatives led to
projects intended to foster links between the EU and North America. One of these was the
VISEUM (Virtual Museum International). This was intended to become the first serious
demonstration of high bandwidth (ATM) connections with respect to cultural images mainly
from the Canadian Museum of Civilisation and the Louvre.243 Prohibitive cost of connections
prevented this from becoming a successful venture.
Partially in response to the G7, global initiative, and partly to counter the overenthusiastic
activities of Mr Bill Gates in the cultural sector, the European Commission launched a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Multimedia Access to Europe’s Cultural Heritage
(1996-1998 of DG XIII, X, XXII).244 The MOU had well over three hundred signatories. This
led in turn to the MEDICI (Multimedia for EDucation and employment through Integrated
Cultural Initiative) Framework, which was opened in Vienna in October 1998.
One of the results of the MOU was to set in motion the idea of a European Network of Centres of
Excellence, which began officially without funding, at the opening of the MEDICI Framework in
Vienna. Led by the Maastricht McLuhan Institute (MMI) a small number of European
universities (the Scuola Normale in Pisa, Bologna, Madrid, and subsequently Vienna, Cologne
and Oxford) laid the foundations for what became the E-Culture Net thematic network in June
2001.
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TC 36
TC 37
TC 42
TC 43
TC 46
TC 130
TC 171
TC 173
TC 211
TC 225
Cinematography
Terminology and other language resources
Photography
Acoustics
Information and documentation
Graphic technology
Document imaging applications
Technical systems and aids for disabled or handicapped persons
Geographic information/Geomatics
Market research
Figure 37: Relevant Technical committees in the ISO
Standards
Parallel with the trend towards integrating organizations and projects through policy and
networks has been a growing awareness of the need for standards and solutions used in common.
Standards in the formal sense are just over half a century old at the international level. The
International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)245 was founded in 1947. Among its 225
Technical Committees (TCs) eleven are relevant with respect to digital culture (Figure 9). Of
these, TC 37 and 46 have had some influence especially on the library world. In the cultural field
as a whole awareness of this work is often minimal.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s awareness of the need for standards was largely through the
professional bodies, i.e. IFLA looked after the library world, ICOM after the museum world. In
addition there were a few organisations such as the Réunion des Musées de France, the Museum
Documentation Association (MDA),246 the Institut für JTC 1 Information technology.
Museumskunde (Berlin) and the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), which looked
to larger frameworks.
The advent of computers changed this paradigm. In the digital mode, any medium can be
translated into any other medium: hence a printed book can potentially become a series of
images or appear in a film or conversely. In digital mode objects produced in one sense mode
can potentially be translated into any other sense mode: hence an oral recording can be printed
(in visual mode) or even printed in Braille (in tactile mode).
As a result the knowledge production life cycle now covers the entire spectrum of media and
production modes and is no longer limited to single professions (e.g. printing). The full
implications of this revolution are only beginning to become evident, and we still have no
organisations to deal fully with the challenge.
As noted earlier, one of the first important responses to these emerging challenges was the
founding of the CIMI (Computer Interchange of Museum Information) Consortium in 1990. In
1994, CIMI received a grant to support Cultural Heritage Information Online (CHIO). The
project aimed to “create a database of multimedia folk art and standards and formats for
representing information such as text, images, and publications.”247 This led to CHIO II and the
MIDIIS (Museum Initiative for Digital Information Interchange Standards) project.248
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In Europe, a directive on 13th September 1995 from the European Commission Directorate
General III Industry to CEN/CENELEC/ETSI in the field of Information Technology and
Telecommunications (reference number: SOGITS N 884) led to a project called "Standards for
Cultural Heritage Information On-line," CHIO, which started in early 1997.249 The North
American CHIO and the European CHIO were not formally connected. The EU CHIO led to
recommendations for standardization threads with respect to eleven areas (figure 10). In 1999,
these results became the starting point of standardising efforts of the EU’s OII (Open
Information Interchange) Standards and Specifications, which produced a Museum Information
Standards list250 as part of a much larger initiative to provide information on standards in a series
of areas (figure 38)251 This in turn became the basis of the EU’s Diffuse standards list.252
Independently of these high level efforts, in November 1995, DG XIII initiated an MOU for
access to Europe’s cultural heritage, which also had a committee to collect standards and resulted
in a publication. This led to the MEDICI framework, which also began a bottom up collection of
standards.
In 1998, when the Cultural Heritage activities of DG XIII were moved from Brussels to
Luxembourg the scope of the department first widened to include scientific and cultural heritage
and then focussed on preservation and intelligent heritage as is reflected in the department’s new
title: Preservation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage.253 Interest in standards is now
focussed on preservation and to benchmarking at the governmental level via MINERVA.
These problems have been compounded by the rise of so-called industry standards whereby large
companies impose de facto standards on the market. Here efforts such as the World Wide Web
(WWW) Consortium have played an intermediary role in bringing
industry partners together with a larger user community. Through its culture and society track
(initiated in 1998) the WWW has at least acknowledged the potential role of this dimension.
Even so, close coupling between needs of industry and the real needs of users remains a
challenge.
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Documentation Standards
Metadata Standards
Interoperability and System Interface Standards
Composite Data Structures
Object Oriented Business and Application Models
Thesauri and Multilingual Thesauri
Digitisation
IPR, Watermarks
Access Control, Conditional Access and Payment
Identification of Objects
Preservation of Digital Archives
Figure 38: Areas for standardisation in cultural heritage according to the CHIO project
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Electronic Commerce
Marketing
Contract negotiation
Logistics management
Payment
Administration
Sectorial Data Interchange
Product data
Scientific information
Geographic information
Medical informatics
Library information
Museum information
Archiving
Others
Digital television
Miscellaneous applications
Data Categorization
Metadata interchange
Classification
Searching
Directories
Data Coding for Interchange
Character sets
Documents
Multimedia/hypermedia
Audio
Video
Raster graphics
Vector graphics
Colour information
Communications
Electronic conferencing
Webcasting
Electronic mail and newsgroups
File transfer
Others
Application program interfaces
Electronic data interchange (EDI)
Electronic payment mechanisms
Information security
Figure 39: Survey of topics where the OII provided information about standards
In short, through the ISO, Europe leads the world with respect to standards of which a number
are relevant for digital culture. The efforts of DG III have led to a series of useful efforts via
CHIO, OII and Diffuse. The efforts of DG XIII have initiated other bottom up efforts. Integration
of these efforts will need to be the next step.
Most of these efforts have occurred with respect to traditional categories. As a result Europe
continues to tackle the problem of standards of the 21st century using organisations and
categories stemming largely from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Needed is a new
framework for the entire digital knowledge production life-cycle.
PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS
From the above emerge three fundamental challenges:
1) European organizations and especially the European Commission have made enormous
contributions by addressing effectively all the basic ingredients needed for integration. There
have been valuable standards, solutions, projects, on security, storage, multilingualism,
semantics, reconstructions, spatio-temporal access, interfaces, multimodal interfaces, virtual
environments and even preliminary work on virtual heritage centres. A next step is a coherent
framework whereby research resources, methods and critical thought can be shared in a secure,
multilingual and collaborative environment. We need a combination of isolated elements to
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Libraries
Museums
Archives
Books
Paintings
Manuscripts
Drawings
Letters
Sculpture
Protocols
Documents
Film
Television
Video
Broadcast
Media
Interactive
TV
Internet
Email
Performance
Art
Collaborative
Design
Unstable
Media
Kinetic Art
Performance
Media
Theatre
Dance
Music
Email
Performance
Art
Video
CSCW
CSCL
Figure 40: Potential Spectrum of Enduring Knowledge in Memory Institutions to be shared in
the Distributed European Electronic Dynamic resource (DEED)
provide a solution that allows us to share existing research and new e-content. The E-Culture Net
Thematic Network has outlined a vision of how this might be achieved (cf. WPs 1, 3, 6).
2) A number of the projects have produced valuable research contents in the form of image and
text databases, reconstructions of objects, sites and even cities. These resources range in size
from a few megabytes, through hundreds of gigabytes to a few terabytes. These resources are not
yet accessible to the research community for three basic reasons. They require a) a solution for
sharing (1 above); b) an administrative framework for integrating research from local, regional
and national levels and in some cases c) access to high-speed networks. The first two of these
challenges have been addressed in the E-Culture Net vision (WPs 1, 3). To address the third
challenge informal contacts with the EU’s GEANT and Grid initiatives have been made. To
operationalise these three solutions the creation of an EEIF is foreseen.
3) While it is easy to arrive at an interim, working solution for sharing, it is difficult to assure
that these standards and solutions remain up to date. This challenge is elusive partly because our
existing networks are organized in terms of disciplines/media types and problems of the analog
tradition. For instance, projects such as PRESTO-factory are exploring the production life cycle
of a single medium. Meanwhile, the digital mode calls for new cross-media and inter-media
solutions. We need new research matrices to keep our solutions up to date. Needed is a new
integration of the efforts of specialized networks and organizations in order to gain an
understanding of the entire knowledge production life-cycle involving all media.
The E-Culture Net Thematic network produced a first set of such research matrices at the
macro-level (in terms of organization) and the micro-level (in terms of processes) in order
to keep solutions up to date (WP3). This will give leadership to the integration of efforts of
specialised organisations and networks to understand the entire knowledge production life
cycle involving all media. In addition WP7 has produced an operational online database to
be used by the NoE. This database allows distributed information.
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Three Integrating Principles
To answer these challenges three integrating principles are suggested: 1) a Distributed European
Electronic Dynamic Resource (DEED); 2) Networks for Shared Content and 3) Research
Matrices to update standards, solutions and trends.
Distributed European Electronic Dynamic resource (DEED)
The new solution for sharing should not be a centralized server for several reasons. A first is
pragmatic: no single server is large enough to handle all the knowledge and information in the
field of digital culture. Another reason is strategic. A centralized system is too likely to be open
to attack. Having a distributed system is therefore important from a viewpoint of preservation.
Needed therefore in the long term is a Distributed European Electronic Dynamic Resource
(DEED). The E-Culture Thematic Network has identified at least eight components of such a
resource, including a Distributed Digital Legal Repository (or Digital Centre of Memory of
Culture, DCMC), a Virtual Reference Room; Personal and Collaborative Environments for ELearning and a Virtual Agora. The DEED would integrate a whole spectrum of enduring
knowledge (figure 12) with the new forms of collaborative and personal knowledge which are
becoming available through the Internet.
Rather than attempting to achieve something so complex in a single, gargantuan project, a
modular approach is almost certainly preferable. A preliminary Distributed Electronic European
Dynamic resource (DEED) will allow sharing existing resources and to understand better the
detailed challenges arising from a shared environment.
Networks for Shared Content
The existing networks typically unite organizations of a particular kind (e.g. museums, libraries)
or partners working on a specific problem (e.g. preservation). Networks such as CULTIVATE
are organized along national lines but are not focused on sharing content. Needed is a European
E-Culture Net, which has branches in each country to identify and integrate content at national,
regional and local levels. These branches must bring together cultural organizations, research
institutions and industry in a single network.
Research Matrices to update standards, solutions and trends
Any solution leading towards a DEED needs to be kept up to date. One way to do this is to have
the players in the network (cultural organizations, research institutions and industry) report on
their latest standards, solutions and trends. A second way is to have input from specialized
networks (e.g. DELOS) and integrate their input with the insights of those in policy (e.g.
MINERVA). In effect this means a new level of co-operation in the direction of a network of
networks.
In the longer term we may need a new category of ISO standards which bridges individual
media, disciplines and production modes to arrive at a new level of understanding with respect to
the full range of digital culture. These cross-media and cross-sectorial standards need to be
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linked with European policy and applied and used throughout the cultural field. This would
entail a new kind of network, which integrates cultural organisations, research institutions,
industry and has close links to government. Fortunately, a number of pieces are already in place.
The results of such a map of the knowledge production life cycle might later be integrated into a
future version of the CORDIS database.
Combining these three integrating principles in a single E-Culture NoE will lead to a new
integration of e-content, e-creativity with e-learning and new forms of e-entertainment and ework (figure 13). Instead of uni-lingual access this will provide multi-lingual, multi-cultural
access with historical dimensions. Instead of reflecting only today’s classifications, this approach
will eventually provide access to multiple classifications at different levels (local, regional,
national, international and global). Through such an approach we will have access to the unity of
diversities that is the secret of Europe’s past and a key to its future.
The Webster Dictionary reminds us that a deed is among other things an “action” and “a signed
and usually sealed instrument containing some legal transfer, bargain or contract.” A Distributed
European Electronic Dynamic resource (DEED) as a secure, multilingual solution for sharing
research and content is thus a fitting vision.
E-CULTURE RESEARCH NET
E-Content
E-Learning
E-New Content/
Creativity
E-Entertainment
Distributed European Electronic Dynamic resource
E-Work
E-Games
(DEED)
Figure 41: E-Culture Net integrates E-Content, E-Creativity, E-Learning and E-Work
Postscript: Elsewhere in the World
Work on the challenges of digital culture is underway all over the world. In 1972, the Canadian
Heritage Information Network (CHIN) was formed. Starting as a centralised clearing house,
CHIN evolved in the 1990s to become one of the first distributed networks linking image
databases in hundreds of museums throughout the country. CHIN remains one of the most
advanced examples of a cultural heritage network. It is particularly important because it includes
a physical network, has taken part in very high-speed experiments through CANARIE (Canadian
Advanced Network for Research Industry and Education), and is building bridges between
museum, library, and archive networks.
In the United States culture is not considered to be a matter of the federal government.
Consequently it is the only major country of the world without a Ministry of Culture.
Accordingly, it is often represented at the international level by one of its largest cultural
organizations: the Smithsonian Institution, and/or by the Getty Trust.
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In the early 1980s when the Getty Art History Information Program and the Getty Conservation
Institute were being formed they drew on a number of resources and personnel from both CHIN
and the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI).
In 1984, the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) in conjunction with the nascent Getty Trust
organised a second world conference on the use of computers and art history.254 The Getty also
established an Art History Information Program (AHIP), and at first promised to play a serious
role in the cultural field. In 1995, the Getty AHIP Imaging Initiative launched a Museum
Educational Site Licensing Project.255 The following year the Trust published the Getty Research
Agenda for Networked Cultural Heritage (1996). Soon after the Getty AHIP was renamed the
Getty Information Institute (GII). It participated in both the G7 and MOU activities, before being
closed in June 1999.
One of the founders of the Getty’s Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, subsequently
joined the founder of Archives and Museum Informatics,256 which helped to found AMICO (Art
Museum Image Consortium, 1997),257 established the Museums on the Web Conferences (1997)
and also organized the ICHIM (International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings, beginning
in 1991). The year 1997 also saw the founding of the Museum Computer Network Conferences
(MCN).258
In the United States, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and the National Initiative
for Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) have been two of the leading organisations. While
these are engaged in many interesting projects there is little evidence of a systematic approach to
link libraries, museums and archives. It is telling that NINCH commissioned a European
institute, HATII (Glasgow) to develop their system for them. The most impressive projects in the
direction of integration have come from the Research Libraries Group (RLG) with their Cultural
Materials project and the Ohio Computer Library Centre (OCLC) with their Dublin Core project.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has also had some projects linking with Europe and
Japan in this domain.
Japan became very active in the field of digital culture in the latter half of the 1990s. At the
national level the Japanese Digital Archives project introduced the idea of a digitisation as a
matter of government policy. In 2000, the National Institute of Informatics founded a new
Network of Centres of Excellence in Digital Silk Roads linking more than 70 institutions
throughout Japan. This led to an international conference in 2001, and to the signing of a formal
agreement with UNESCO in March 2003.
There are other significant organisations and networks in Russia, Australia (cf. Australian
Culture and Recreation Portal)259, China and elsewhere. While all of these countries have
interesting solutions and many of them have quality content at the very highest level, almost
without exception they are concerned primarily with solutions limited to their own country. As a
result most are limited to uni-lingual solutions. Exceptions are Canada with its bilingual tradition
(English and French) and China, which is working closely with ISO/Unicode to address
challenges of its eight major dialects and its many languages. Notwithstanding colonialism and
imperialism in the past, Europe remains unique as the only one of the five continents, which has
sought to develop global solutions (figure 22) without imposing on others a single language or a
single way of doing things. Perhaps, this starting point from a unity of diversities makes the
European approach of interest everywhere in the world.
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APPENDIX 2A: LETTER OF SUPPORT FROM FRAUNHOFER IUK RE: PROKNOWNCE
Fraunhofer ICT-Group, Friedrichstr. 60, 10117 Berlin
Kim Veltman
Maastricht McLuhan Institute
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Business office
Friedrichstr. 60
10117 Berlin
Telefon
Telefax
Internet
+49 (0) 30 / 7261 566 0
+49 (0) 30 / 7261 566 19
www.iuk.fraunhofer.de
Dipl. Inform. Thomas Bendig
Research co-ordinator
E-Mail: bendig@iuk.fraunhofer.de
Berlin,
10. März 2016
Letter of intent to collaborate with e-culture-net,
We, pro-Knownce, hereby express our intent to provide the resulting infrastructure of our project
to the Network of Excellence “e-culture-net” for evaluation and use in the Network of
excellence. Concretely we intend to provide software technology and support for its application.
Thomas Bendig
Research Coordinator
Fraunhofer ICT-Group
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APPENDIX 2B LETTER OF SUPPORT FROM SIMILAR NOE
Benoit MICHEL
SIMILAR project Manager
University of Louvain-la-Neuve
UCL-TELE
Hello dear Mr. Veltman,
You will find annexed a short description of our network of excellence proposal. We are
gathering hundred top-level scientists in the field of multimodal interfaces and among our goals
are the definition and creation of useful new interaction tools between humans and machines and
between humans and datasets difficult to manage the classical way.
Of course, the immense digital data repositories that are envisioned in eCulture-net looks like a
perfect target for such developments. We put in our proposal several references to your network
and we will be happy to bend our research goals toward the directions you feel as the more
useful.
If both of our proposals are successful, what I hope, I think that a fruitful collaboration will be
built between our organizations.
Kind regards,
Benoit MICHEL.
The objective of SIMILAR is to strengthen European Research in the Human-Machine interface
field. Europe has excellent research labs in human-computer interaction, image, speech and other
communication channels but integration of those institutions is needed if Europe wants to
become the leader in the complex arena of multimodal interfaces.
SIMILAR will develop natural and adaptive multimodal interfaces that respond intelligently to
speech, language, vision, haptics and direct brain connections. This is exactly in line with the
thematic priority of the Commission in “IST – 2002 - 2.3.1.6 Multimodal interfaces”. SIMILAR
has identified three orthogonal directions in multimodality research and will federate research
entities working in those intersecting planes, integrating currently separate efforts in a common
drive towards better human interaction with other humans, machines and media spaces.
Such interaction is not yet clever enough to adapt autonomously to dynamically changing
contexts (e.g. like degradation of communication links or changes in perceptual capabilities of
disabled people). Machines should gain enough autonomy to be able to recognise user reaction
by natural unconstrained speech, emotional behaviour, gesture and other natural communication
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channels. SIMILAR will become, in a few years time, the largest integrated critical mass of
research effort ever deployed to address these problems.
SIMILAR will address the full range of challenges related to the interaction between humans and
various devices from portable computers to home appliances, cars and other machines. So, it
furthers the development of ambient intelligence and has therefore also the potential to
contribute to the research priority IST 1.2. (Research addressing societal challenges), IST 1.3
(Research addressing work and business challenges) as well as to more specific areas like IST2002 – 2.3.1.8 (Networked audiovisual systems and home platforms) and IST- 2002 – 2.3.2.7
(Applications and services for the mobile user and worker).
Proposal abstract
The long-term objective of SIMILAR is to merge European Research in the Human-Machine
Interface field into a single European Taskforce.
The immediate objectives are:
1) Integrate the traditionally separated research communities in visual interaction,
interactive speech, interactive haptics, learning, and human-computer interaction (HCI)
across Europe;
2) Integrate national and regional research communities in the above fields in a larger
community;
3) Promote standards, solutions and dissemination of knowledge in multimodal interaction;
4) Lead to the long-term establishment of a single ‘European virtual research centre in
multimodal interaction with strong industrial support.
To achieve these goals, SIMILAR will:
1. Create a large virtual multimodal area network and a set of common development
platforms and datasets;
This virtual multimodal private area network (V.P.N. :
A) will become a commercially available tool
B) may become the tool of choice for other networks linking scientific
researchers with collaborative tools and shared data repositories. A large
interest in this solution has already been shown by eCulture-net and Athena.
2. Start a common scientific research and learning programme at the European level,
including massive researchers exchanges;
3. Create a self-sustainable set of knowledge-spreading activities with publications,
conferences, workshops, an award and a European graduate school;
4. Create a solid, two-way technology transfer bridge between the research community in
multimodal interaction and related industry.
5. Keep openness toward third world countries and specifically Senegal for the time being.
6. Propose active and original solutions to the ‘women in science’ problem.
7. Create a foundation after 3 years of existence to ensure the network’s future.
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The scientific research programme will target a set of ‘Grand Challenges’ in the fields of
alternative natural modalities for the disabled and other people unable to use their usual
communication links (a surgeon or a plane pilot with both hands busy, mobile users, etc.), using
modalities like speech, gesture, haptics, emotional recognition and direct brain-computer
interaction. This research may also be seen as a major step in the direction of the ‘ubiquitous
disappearing computer’ or ambient intelligence, which is still a distant goal for mankind.
B.1 OBJECTIVES OF THE NETWORK
STRENGTHENING THE EXCELLENCE…
SIMILAR will realise an international and interdisciplinary fusion of effort to create a unique
European virtual research centre on multimodal interaction. This interdisciplinary effort in
research is mandatory to improve and develop the newly emergent component technologies that
are required to build multimodal systems such as spoken language interaction in augmented
reality spaces, integrated pen systems, gesture recognition within narrative scenarios or in
portable phones, or interfaces for disabled people with one or more missing interaction channels.
Time has come to start studying, in a broad and systematic approach, the implications of the
simultaneous use of multiple modalities, be it known ones such as 2D or 3D displays and
keyboard or new ones such as technology for recognising and synthesising lip movements and
emotional expressions, or to directly connect a human brain to a computer.
Many of the core partners in SIMILAR already have close relationships. They already work
together in a multitude of research projects, many of which sponsored by the EC under the FP5,
Esprit, COST and other labels. In countries like Belgium, Ireland, France, Germany and
Switzerland, many partners have established strong links by sharing national funding sources
(the Walloon region in Belgium, National government funding in Ireland and France),
geographical location (the two partners in Darmstadt, Germany – ZGDV and FHGIGD- are
located in the same street), or just by working together for years. The partners’ international
standing, research and teaching programmes in the field, the technologies they have developed
and posses, as well as their lists of publications prove their excellence in the field. The joint
program of activities will integrate the partner institutions mainly by promoting close
collaboration and massive researcher exchanges between partners and thus start to create a
similar culture within the network.
…AND SPREADING THE KNOWLEDGE…
The 19 SIMILAR core partners represent a critical mass of close to 100 researchers and around
200 counting all the partners associated to the project from the start. We expect other associated
partners to join the project and let the network continue to grow with time. With this amount of
excellent people working on the same goals, the visibility of the European research effort in
multimodal interaction will be worldwide. This will progressively create a “European knowledge
community” and evangelise the “similar culture” in all major research institutions.
To ensure that the next generation of researchers will continue in the same direction, we, as a
consortium will dedicate a great deal of effort to spread SIMILAR knowledge at student level.
Activities like PhD twinnings (dual complementary PhD proposal from two partners), a common
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course in MMI23, course book publications, the eNTERFACE summer school, the open days and
the ‘Loco Mummy’ contest will all work to attract students and young researchers toward our
research field.
…WITH PRACTICAL TOOLS!
The main tool to achieve integration will be SIMILARnet, a virtual private network
interconnecting all ‘European Multimodal Usability Test Rooms’ and all researchers. A large
part of SIMILARnet will be open to the public at large, giving every citizen access to the state of
the art in human-machine interfaces. SIMILARnet will start as a classical web portal and quickly
evolve in an interactive ‘web portal of the future’ with more and more multimodal collaborative
tools (many already under development today), most of them requiring only a modest investment
in hardware.
The new multimodal collaborative tools will be used by researchers to help them in their work
but will also be ‘showcases’ of the new technologies developed in the network –and sometimes
outside- accessible from everywhere in the world. SIMILARnet will also host the SIMILAR
newsletter, a free electronic bi-weekly newsletter about research in MMI.
Another tool of choice will be ‘SIMILARplatforms’, a way to share applications and interface
definitions – hardware and software – without constraining the user in rigid frames.
SIMILARplatforms will be used through SIMILARnet for interaction and usability tests between
remote locations all around Europe.
Of course, the integration activities described above will also work toward the dissemination
goals goals of SIMILAR, e.g. the summer school and the software contest! The launch of a new
‘Multimodality Journal’ and course books on multimodality will also help to spread the
knowledge produced.
MMI stands for multimodal interfaces. This is one of the most used HCI acronyms (HCI stands for Human-Computer
Interfaces).
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APPENDIX 3: PLANS FOR A NEW EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE.
Documents kindly provided by Professor Jacques Poulain (Université de Paris
8) and Founder of European Univeristy of Culture.
3a) Invitation for E-Culture Net to join European University of Culture.
3b) Espace européen de la connaissance
3c) Note re: the European University
3d) Subnetwork on Cultural Diversity as first joint research.
Professeur Jacques Poulain
Université de Paris 8
2, Rue de la Liberté
F- 93526 Saint-Denis Cedex 02
Paris le 10 Avril 2003-04-10
Professeur Kim H. VELTMAN
Coordinateur de E-culture Net
Universiteit Maastricht
Maastricht Mc Luhan Institute
http://www.mmi.unimaas.nl
Monsieur le Professeur et Cher Collègue,
C’est avec joie qu’à titre de promoteur de l’Université européenne de la Culture, dont la
création a été proposée en janvier 2002 par M. le Ministre Jack Lang aux autres ministres de
l’éducation de l ‘Union européenne et dont la création a été recommandée par le Parlement
européen le 5 septembre dernier, je vous invite à faire partie de cette Université européenne de la
culture. Le réseau E-Culture Net que vous promouvez pourra en effet servir de base de données
et d’analyse de la dynamique des cultures pour assurer une diffusion et une médiatisation critique
des savoirs et des analyses élaborées en son sein. Il s’avère à ce titre constituer une base
informatique incontournable pour qui veut faire participer à la créativité théorique en acte tous
les citoyens de l’Union européenne et du reste du monde.
Espérant pouvoir être un jour en mesure de vous y accueillir, je vous prie d’agréer,
Monsieur le Professeur et Cher Collègue, l’expression de toute ma considération et de mon
amical et profond respect,
Professer Jacques Poulain
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3b) Espace européen de la connaissance 24
14 /PE 319.322
FR
Espace européen de la connaissance
Résolution du Parlement européen sur les universités et l'enseignement supérieur
dans l'espace européen de la connaissance (2001/2174(INI))
Le Parlement européen,
1. déclare que la réalisation d'un espace européen de l'enseignement supérieur implique
un soutien accru de la part de l'Union aux universités et estime que le respect de la
subsidiarité est parfaitement compatible avec ce soutien;
2. affirme que l'Union doit davantage investir dans l'éducation, dans la mesure où la
connaissance est la clé de la compétitivité et du développement économique et social
européen;
3. demande à la Commission d'accorder une plus large place aux universités dans ses
programmes et ses actions et souhaite que celles-ci jouent un plus grand rôle dans le
processus de mise en oeuvre de l'acquis communautaire;
27. demande à la Commission et aux États membres de soutenir la création d'une
université européenne de la culture consacrée aux disciplines artistiques, littéraires,
philosophiques et aux sciences de la communication afin de contribuer à l'élaboration
d'un espace européen de recherche pour ces disciplines et de répondre à l'exigence d'un
dialogue interculturel avec les autres régions du monde;
27. demande à la Commission et aux États membres de soutenir la création d'une
université européenne de la culture consacrée aux disciplines artistiques, littéraires,
philosophiques et aux sciences de la communication afin de contribuer à
l'élaboration d'un espace européen derecherche pour ces disciplines et de répondre
à l'exigence d'un dialogue interculturel avec les autres régions du monde;
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Professeur Jacques Poulain
Documents kindly provided by Professor Jacques Poulain (Université de Paris 8).
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3c) Note re: the European University
NOTE concernant la proposition de création d’une UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE
DE LA CULTURE regroupant la Philosophie, les Arts, la Littérature et les Cultures
de la communication et habilitée à délivrer des doctorats européens
Alors que l’organisation économique et politique de l’Europe se précise, son
développement culturel a dû affronter, dès les années 70, des crises de rationalité, de
légitimation et de motivation. Leur traitement a contraint la philosophie, les arts, la
littérature et les sciences humaines de la communication à opérer un effort
transdisciplinaire d’analyse sans précédent et à effacer leurs frontières de tradition et de
langue pour converger dans la découverte et l’exploitation de la dynamique de la
communication inhérente aux arts, à la littérature mais aussi à l’exercice du jugement
critique, qu’il soit quotidien, scientifique, artistique, littéraire ou plus spécifiquement
philosophique.
L’objectif de cette Université Européenne de la Culture est d’intensifier, de
valoriser et de rendre permanent cet effort d’analyse en promouvant l’espace d’une
élaboration intellectuelle de la culture directement liée aux disciplines de la création
artistique et littéraire et philosophique et en diffusant ses résultats de façon à assurer
aux centaines de millions de citoyens européens l’intelligence de leurs conditions
d’invention culturelle d’eux-mêmes dans tout l’espace social Elle aura ainsi à valider
les valeurs collectives et individuelles émergeant de ces analyses et les nouveaux modes
de citoyenneté qui leur sont associés.
On y rassemblera donc les quatre disciplines qui assurent à l’homme européen une
reconnaissance de lui-même dans cette invention de nouvelles formes de vie : la
philosophie, représentant l’instance critique à l’œuvre comme discipline universitaire,
mais aussi comme exercice universel de la faculté de juger, les arts et l’esthétique
présentant les divers modes d’inventivité créative des mondes de vie et les modes
d’harmonisation des individus et des groupes à ces mondes, la littérature, où l’écriture
opère comme un modèle d’identification des individus à ce qu’ils pensent d’eux-mêmes,
et enfin, les cultures de la communication, développant les diverses façons dont les
sciences humaines transforment la communication en mode de régulation de la culture
des individus et des groupes.
Les différentes fonctions de cette université dérivent de l’urgence qu’il y a pour
l’Europe à humaniser le futur et à civiliser notre civilisation en construisant l’espace
européen de la culture sur les résultats de cette analyse transdisciplinaire menée par ces
disciplines depuis 30 ans :
1) valoriser l’enseignement et la recherche universitaires européens dans ces disciplines
en délivrant des doctorats européens, œuvrer en permanence comme un organe
européen d’incitation, d’expertise et d’accueil travaillant à l’articulation des
programmes doctoraux dans ces disciplines et mettre à la disposition du public le plus
large possible un centre de ressource intellectuelles situé à la pointe de la recherche
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en le faisant participer à un véritable dialogue interdisciplinaire par le biais d'une
diffusion médiatique de ses séminaires, en s'appuyant sur un pool européen de
maisons d'éditions, de médias et sur un dialogue internet;
2) de participer ainsi à la transformation de l'Union européenne en Union culturelle,
en lui donnant les moyens universitaires de surmonter ses crises culturelles et ses
propres incompréhensions, mais aussi de répondre aux attentes de dialogue et
d'élaboration culturels qu'élèvent à son égard les autres régions du monde en
affirmant les valeurs de savoir dans le respect desquelles s'est construite l'Europe et
qui contribuent à son rayonnement spécifique. Elle aura donc également vocation à
fédérer les Instituts d'études européennes de différents pays européens autour des
résultats de ces recherches.
PROPOSITION de création d'une Université Européenne de la Culture
regroupant la Philosophie, les Arts, la Littérature et les Cultures de la
Communication et habilitée à délivrer des doctorats européens
Proposition présentée par Jacques Poulain, Directeur du Département de philosophie de
l'Université de Paris 8 et professeur titulaire de la Chaire UNESCO de Philosophie de la
Culture et des Institutions (à vocation européenne) et par Heinz Wismann, Directeur
d'études à l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
1. Objectif et fonctions d’une Université Européenne de la culture
La déclaration de Sorbonne du 25 mai 1998 soulignait l’urgence “de construire
un Espace européen ouvert de l’Enseignement supérieur” et d’accomplir “les efforts
vigoureux nécessaires pour abolir les barrières et développer un cadre d’enseignement
attractif” et lisible internationalement comme tel. La déclaration de Bologne du 19 juin
1999 invitait à développer “une Europe des connaissances plus complète et
ambitieuse”, apte à constituer “le facteur irremplaçable du développement social et
humain” qu’elle est appelée à être. La Commission de la Culture et de l'Éducation du
Parlement Européen n'hésitait pas “à inviter, le 5 février 2001, la Commission
Européenne et les États-membres à soutenir la création d'un Centre européen de
philosophie et des sciences du langage sur le modèle de l'Institut universitaire européen
de Florence” (Rapporteur : Geneviève Fraisse; PE 197.122, p.21) arguant du fait que les
sciences humaines doivent y être introduites comme disciplines de plein exercice dans la
construction de l’espace européen de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche.Ces
déclarations et la détermination dont ont su faire preuve l’Association européenne des
universités à Salamanque, les 29 et 30 mars 2001, le Bureau d’Information des
étudiants Européens à Göteborg, les 24 et 25 mars 2001 et la rencontre européenne de
Prague, les 18 et 19 mai 2001 , répondaient à une urgence de plus en plus criante, celle,
disait M. Schwartzenberg, “d’humaniser le futur et de civiliser notre civilisation”, en
donnant à la formation culturelle des citoyens européens autant d’attention qu’on a su en
donner à la formation de l’Union Européenne.
Alors que l'organisation économique et politique de l'Europe se précise, son
développement culturel a dû affronter dès les années 70 des crises de rationalité, de
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légitimation et de motivation. Leur traitement a contraint la philosophie, les arts, la
littérature et les sciences humaines de la communication à opérer, au sein d’une
discussion internationale, un effort transdisciplinaire d'analyse sans précédent et à effacer
leurs frontières de tradition et de langue pour converger dans la découverte de la
dynamique de la communication inhérente aux arts, à la littérature mais aussi à l'exercice
du jugement critique, qu'il soit quotidien, scientifique, artistique, littéraire ou plus
spécifiquement philosophique.
Cette même dynamique de communication était mobilisée par les écrivains et les
artistes pour intégrer les mutations de mentalité dérivées des mutations scientifiques et
techniques, mais également pour faire face aux dérégulations de l’espace civil dues aux
luttes concurentielles des entreprises, à leurs délocalisations et à une mondialisation
effrénée, pour surmonter les frictions et les affrontements entre les diverses cultures de
l’Europe accompagnant l’intensification des flux d’immigration et les rechutes collectives
dans des archaïsmes nationalistes après la dissolution de l’empire soviétique, pour
tempérer la tribunalisation des acteurs sociaux et la dépolitisation des citoyens. Comme
l’après-guerre des années 40 avait suscité une prise en charge culturelle de l’Europe par
ses intellectuels, la dissémination diffuse, dans les années 80 et 90, de ces diverses
neutralisations culturelles des institutions européennes a provoqué des innovations
créatrices dans les arts et la littérature européenne aussi bien que dans leurs analyses
universitaires.
La discussion internationale qui y a présidé, a eu lieu en Europe dans des sites tels
que l'École de Korcula, puis le Centre international d'études universitaires de Dubrovnik
dès les années 60, le Centre international d'études sémiotiques d'Urbino dès les années
70, le Collège International de Philosophie à Paris, le Conseil Supérieur des Recherches
Scientifiques de Madrid et les Universités d'été espagnoles, le Collège de la Science de
Berlin, l'Institut d'anthropologie historique de l'Université Libre de Berlin, l'Ecole des
hautes Études pour les Arts appliqués de Vienne, l'École des Hautes Études de la
construction des formes et le Centre d'études des média de Karlsruhe, etc. dès les années
80, puis dans les différents réseaux nationaux et régionaux des Chaires UNESCO dès les
années 90.
Les résultats de ces innovations créatrices et de leur transformation en formes de
vie au sein de cette discussion internationale sont restés cependant trop confinés aux
milieux intellectuels et artistiques qui les ont produits. Leur prise en compte médiatique
n’a pas encore réellement eu lieu et ils n’ont pu opérer les transformations culturelles
profondes appropriéesà notre situation présente. Leurs efforts pour inverser la défiance
mutuelle des différentes cultures européennes en motif de coopération et de renforcement
mutuel ne leur ont pas encore permis de réaliser leur enjeu principal : la
transformation de l’Union européenne en Union des cultures, en Union Culturelle.
La réalisation de cette union est pourtant la seule base d’un espace public européen,
d’un espace où l'union politique et économique de l'Europe puisse advenir et se renforcer
dans l’opinion publique européenne elle-même. Car le respect de la diversité de ces
cultures ne doit pas y demeurer un vain mot, il doit pouvoir identifier les
complémentarités culturelles et les mettre au service de la réalisation de cette Union
politique et économique dans la conscience des centaines de millions de citoyens
européens qu’il rassemble. Cette proposition de création de l'Université européenne de
la Culture, vise à intensifier l’effort de ces disciplines universitaires et des arts et à
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réaliser cet enjeu en forgeant, grâce à elle, dans l’espace européen de l’enseignement
supérieur, une intelligence de la culture qui accompagne les innovations scientifiques,
techniques, industrielles aussi bien qu’artistiques et qui puisse être transmise à ces
centaines de millions de citoyens européens en s’appuyant sur une anthropologie de la
communication aussi assurée de ses résultats que le sont les sciences dites exactes.
L'objectif de cette Université Européenne de la Culture est ainsi de promouvoir
l’espace d’une élaboration intellectuelle directement liée aux disciplines de la création
artistique et littéraire, de la critique philosophique et d’une diffusion des connaissances et des moyens permettant d'assurer à chacun l'intelligence des conditions
d’invention culturelle, dans tout l’espace social, bref de permettre à chacun de
transformer ses modes de communication en formes de vie.
Elle est donc appelée à valider des jugements individuels et collectifs portés sur
l'objectivité de modes de vie humaine appropriés au présent de façon aussi ferme et
assurée que le sont les jugements portés par les scientifiques des sciences exactes. On y
rassemblera dans 4 départements les disciplines qui assurent à l'homme contemporain
une reconnaissance culturelle de lui-même dans cette invention communicationnelle qu'il
tente de l'humanité: l'un, de philosophie, représentant l'instance critique à l'œuvre comme
discipline universitaire mais aussi comme exercice universel de la faculté de juger, un
autre, d'arts et d'esthétique, présentant les divers modes d'inventivité créatrice des
modes de vie et d'harmonisation réfléchie des individus et des groupes dans les œuvres,
un troisième, de littérature, présentant l'écriture comme mode paradigmatique de
transfert de la créativité artistique dans l'identification de l'homme à ce qu'il pense de luimême, un quatrième, de cultures de la communication développant les diverses façons
dont les sciences humaines de la communication peuvent transformer la communication
en mode créateur de vie et en mode régulateur de la culture des individus et des groupes.
Comme la communication entre scientifiques demeure un paradigme de dialogue
d'expérimentation du monde parfaitement applicable dans cet horizon d'expérimentation
sociale de l'homme qu'est devenue la culture, il semble opportun d'adjoindre à ces quatre
départements un Centre de recherches de philosophie et d'histoire des sciences. Il
pourrait s'y intégrer à la façon dont le Centre Robert Schuman s’intègre à l'Institut
Européen de Florence.
Les différentes fonctions de cette université dérivent aisément des urgences
définies par les divers partenaires engagés dans la construction de l’espace européen de
l’enseignement supérieur et de la nécessité de mobiliser les efforts sans précédent
accomplis par ces 4 disciplines depuis 30 ans :
1. Valoriser l'enseignement universitaire européen et les recherches dans les
disciplines concernées en délivrant des doctorats européens dans ces disciplines, et
ce, dans une institution publique européenne appropriée à cet effet parce que sa
compétence serait à la fois assurée, reconnue et contrôlée, dans une étroite collaboration
avec les réseaux européens des écoles doctorales ou programmes doctoraux, assurée par
la participation de leurs enseignants grâce à un système de décharge à mi-temps. Cette
université offrirait ainsi aux enseignants et aux étudiants une mobilité à la fois réelle
et sélective : liée aux thèmes de recherche choisis et aux bourses affectables par les
différents États contractants à ces recherches, mais qui leur permettrait également
d’y valider les thèses rédigées en co-tutelle dans deux universités appartenent aux
États-membres.
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2. œuvrer en permanence comme un organe européen d’incitation, d'expertise et
d’accueil, travaillant à l'articulation des divers réseaux nationaux d'écoles
doctorales ou de programmes doctoraux centrés sur les disciplines concernées;
3. mettre à la disposition du plus large public possible un centre de ressources
intellectuelles situées à la pointe de la recherche en le faisant participer à un
véritable dialogue interdisciplinaire par le biais d’une diffusion de ses séminaires et
manifestations dans des médias appropriés, en s’appuyant sur un pool européen de
maisons d’édition et en menant par internet un dialogue systématique avec son
public ;
4. développer une analyse des conditions historiques d’une Union Culturelle
Européenne, en articulant les recherches contemporaines et leurs résultats à l'histoire
culturelle : scientifique, artistique, philosophique et politique de l'Europe et aux résultats
présentés par les différents “Instituts d’études européennes” dispersés dans l’Europe et
dans le monde, ouvrant ainsi l’espace européen à une réflexion pleinement internationale
dans le domaine de l’intelligence de la création et des singularités culturelles. Elle
s'appuiera à cet effet en particulier sur un Institut de recherches étudiant la
réappropriation de l'héritage antique dans les cultures nationales européennes et
visant à assurer la transmission, dans les différents systèmes d'éducation secondaire de
l'Union Européenne, d'un tronc commun de références à cet héritage antique. C’est ainsi
qu’elle compte participer à la transformation de l’Union européenne en Union
culturelle en lui donnant les moyens universitaires de surmonter ses crises culturelles et
ses propres incompréhensions, mais aussi de répondre aux attentes de dialogue et
d’élaboration culturels qu’expriment à son égard les autres régions du monde, en
affirmant les valeurs de savoir dans le respect desquelles s’est construite l’Europe et qui
contribuent à son rayonnement spécifique. Elle aura donc vocation à fédérer les Instituts
d’études européennes des différents pays européens autour des résultats de ces
recherches.
II Choix des disciplines impliquées et organisation de ces disciplines en
quatre départements
Ce choix nous paraît devoir être fait en fonction du rôle de l'université en général
par rapport à la création des œuvres aussi bien que pour la formation culturelle des
personnes.
L'Université européenne de la culture se manifeste à la fois comme université et
comme université de la culture, dans le contexte d’une confrontation avec toutes les
formes de l’invention culturelle, où la tentative de construire une humanité européenne
"en déployant toutes les possibilités latentes de sa raison", selon la formule de Husserl,
s'opère de fait dans un horizon plus vaste : celui où l'on veut faire surgir toutes les
possibilités pensables de vie humaine.
Les théories et les philosophies de la communication des trente dernières années
ont mis en lumière le rôle primordial de la faculté de juger dans l'auto-régulation du
consensus. Située dans ce contexte général de communication, l'université se manifeste
comme l'instance qui doit faire valoir et valider ce qui a une force régulatrice pour toute
communication : le partage de vérité qui s'y produit. L'université se révèle être ainsi bien
plus qu'une institution : l'institution du savoir, car elle n'est cette institution du savoir qu'à
condition de retenir comme savoir opérant ce qu'elle parvient à faire valider comme
forme de vie objective. L'enjeu contemporain de l'universalisation de l'université est en
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effet de trier et de renforcer les systèmes juridiques, moraux et politiques en validant les
formes de vie qui s'y inventent, de façon à ancrer dans le savoir qu'elle transmette les
jugements qu'elle valide. Et elle ne se valide elle-même comme forme de vie, qu'en se
validant comme la seule institution qui n'institue que ce qui constitue essentiellement
l'être humain comme être de communication : sa faculté de juger de l'objectivité de ses
mode de désirs et d'action, de façon aussi assurée qu'il juge de la vérité de ses vérités
scientifiques.
On peut dériver le choix des disciplines représentées et de leurs départements
respectifs à partir de cette mutation de l'université comme université de la culture, comme
université appelée à valider des jugements individuels et collectifs portés sur l'objectivité
de modes de vie de façon aussi ferme et assurée que le sont les jugements portés par les
scientifiques des sciences exactes car ces derniers, eux aussi, valident mutuellement la
vérité de leurs hypothèses confirmées. On y rassemblera donc les 4 départements
académiques qui assurent à l'homme contemporain une reconnaissance de lui-même dans
cette invention totale et illimitée qu'il tente de lui-même : l'un, de philosophie,
représentant l'instance critique à l'œuvre comme discipline universitaire mais aussi
comme exercice universel de la faculté de juger, un autre, d'art et d'esthétique, présentant
les divers modes d'inventivité créative des modes de vie et d'harmonisation réfléchie des
individus et des groupes dans les œuvres, un troisième, de littérature, présentant l'écriture
comme mode paradigmatique de transfert de la créativité artistique dans l'expérimentation
de l'identification de l'homme à ce qu'il pense de lui-même, un quatrième, de cultures de
la communication développant les diverses façons dont les sciences humaines de la
communication peuvent transformer la communication en mode créateur et régulateur de
la culture des individus et des groupes.
Ce choix de disciplines est directement lié à la création artistique et littéraire, à la
production des œuvres et à la créativité propre à la communication contemporaine, qu’il
s’agit bien de mettre au centre de la réflexion, mais il s’accompagne, pour chacune
d’elles, de l’intégration d’une réflexion historique développée depuis ces disciplines ellesmêmes, avec le souci de situer le rôle de la conscience historique dans la définition des
formes culturelles, et de formuler les effets et les fonctions de la réflexion historienne
appliqués à l'Europe. Ces quatre départements poursuivront leur effort d'analyse
transdisciplinaire en interaction avec un Institut de recherches sur la réappropriation
de l'héritage antique dans les cultures nationales européennes. Loin de prétendre à la
fiction d'une science universelle de l'héritage antique, la réflexion s'y donnera comme
objet les pratiques savantes d'appropriation de l'antiquité pour identifier les conditions
nationales et historiques qui ont inspiré et entouré ces pratiques. Elle y visera à assurer
ainsi une reconnaissance interculturelle des cultures nationales européennes les unes par
les autres sur la base de leurs spécificités et de leurs dynamiques respectives et en vue de
les aider à s'enrichir mutuellement. Ces spécificités nationales, tout comme les différentes
spécificités confessionnelles et historiques qui les accompagnaient, constituent les
ressorts cachés des diverses tentatives d'appropriation de l'antiquité ainsi que des diverses
façons dont ces pratiques savantes ont auto-légitimé ces tentatives d'appropriation. Ces
tentatives d'appropriation ont donné lieu aux diverses "renaissances" qui sont advenues
dans les diverses cultures européennes. L'explicitation de ces ressorts cachés et la
reconnaissance de leur validité encore actuelle conditionnent la possibilité d'extraire de
ces cultures et de rendre disponibles ces noyaux culturels de créativité critique que visent
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à faire renaître ces quatres disciplines culturelles. L'objectif de cet institut sera donc
également un objectif pédagogique : l'objet de ces recherches y est d'identifier, à travers
ces différentes cultures, le tronc commun de références antiques auquel elles
s'articulent et qu'il s'agit de pouvoir identifier et transmettre comme tel à tous dans chacun
des systèmes européens d'éducation secondaire comme matrice de culture commune
rendant possible le dialogue entre les différentes cultures européennes tout en rendant
accessible à chacun la dynamique de la culture qui lui est propre.
III . Principes relatifs à la création et à l'organisation administrative de
l'Université européenne de la culture
Comme l'Institut Universitaire Européen de Florence, l'Université
Européenne de la Culture est créée comme personnalité juridique par une convention
signée entre les quinze États de l'Union européenne, appelés à cette occasion États
contractants, puis elle est appelée à être élargie aux États rejoignant par la suite l'Union
Européenne.
L'Université européenne de la culture est placée sous la triple autorité du Conseil
d'administration, du Président de l'Université et du Conseil scientifique. Elle est organisée
en départements qui constituent les unités de base de la recherche et de l'enseignement et
au sein desquels sont regroupés des séminaires. Dès sa création, l'Université européenne
de la culture comporte quatre départements respectivement consacrés aux disciplines
suivantes : philosophie, arts et esthétique, littérature, culture de la communication
Le Conseil d'Administration est composé des représentants des États parties à la
convention portant création de l'Université, qui en assurent la présidence à tour de rôle. Il
se réunit deux fois par an. Le Conseil d'Administration est responsable de l'orientation
générale de l'Université et fixe les règles de son fonctionnement. Il approuve le budget et
nomme le président et le secrétaire général. Pour l'assister dans la préparation de ses
délibérations, il institue un conseil de recherche, un comité budgétaire et un comité des
bourses. Il peut également, après avis du Conseil scientifique, modifier la répartition de
l'Université dans ses quatre départements ou créer de nouveaux départements.
Le Président dirige l'Université Européenne de la Culture. Il assure l'exécution des
actes et des décisions prises en application de la convention.
Le Conseil scientifique possède une compétence générale en matière
d'enseignement et de recherche. Il fixe les règles d'organisation de la vie scientifique de
l'Université. Il désigne les membres du corps enseignant et prononce l'admission des
chercheurs. Il donne son avis sur toute transformation de la répartition entre départements
ou sur la création de nouveaux départements. Le Conseil scientifique est présidé par le
Président de l'Université. Il est composé de tous les professeurs, des représentants des
chargés et attachés de recherche et des chercheurs.
Le corps enseignant de l'Université comprend quarante postes de professeurs à
temps plein (10 par département) et douze postes de professeurs invités (soit à temps
partiel, soit pour une durée de six mois, soit pour un an), chargés de l'enseignement et de
la recherche. Les quarante professeurs formant le noyau des quatre départements sont
engagés par contrat d'une durée de quatre années, qui peut être renouvelé pour quatre
autres années. Pour prévenir tout risque d’isolement et ménager un cycle de
communication permanente avec les universités nationales européennes, il serait bon de
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prévoir de remplir 6 ou 7 des 10 postes de professeur prévus par département par 12 ou
14 demi-décharges d'enseignement de professeurs ou maîtres de conférences enseignant
dans les unversités nationales et qui enseigneraient à mi-temps à l’Université Européenne
de la Culture pour une durée de 4 ans. La réduction du temps global d’enseignement et de
direction de la recherche à mi-temps rendrait par ailleurs attrayant ce statut comme il le
fait à l’Institut universitaire de France. Cette disposition assurerait la circulation de
communication souhaitée entre les universités nationales et l’Université européenne de la
culture et diminuerait par ailleurs les charges financières des États contractants.
L'Université accueille également, pour des périodes de 6 ou de 12 mois, des
professeurs visiteurs dont l'enseignement et la recherche sont destinées à combler des
lacunes dans les disciplines impliquées dans le développement de l'Université et à
faciliter l'interaction entre les « Instituts européens », qu'ils soient situés en Europe ou en
dehors.
Les projets de recherche des jeunes chercheurs (100 chercheurs par département,
issus des divers États contractants, mais également des autres pays du monde, niveau
3ème cycle) entrepris à l'Université font l'objet d'une évaluation par un Conseil de
recherche, qui se réunit deux fois par an sous la présidence du Président de l'Université.
En dehors des membres de droit (qui appartiennent aux divers organes de l'Université), ce
Conseil de recherche est composé de professeurs et de personnalités extérieures à
l'Université (nommées pour un mandat de six ans, non renouvelable) et de représentants
du Conseil d'administration (nommés pour un mandat de quatre ans, renouvelable une
fois). Il peut se réunir en sections spécialisées. Il détermine les moyens à consacrer à
chaque projet de recherche et en évalue la progression et les résultats.
Le président dirige l'Université. Il procède ou veille à l'exécution des actes et
décisions pris en application de la convention et prend les décisions administratives qui
ne relèvent pas de la compétence des autres organes de l'Université. Il est chargé de
l'administration de l'Université. Il assure la représentation juridique de celle-ci. Il établit
le projet de budget annuel et le projet de prévisions financières triennales et les présente
au Conseil d'administration après consultation du Conseil scientifique. Il nomme les chefs
de département et les membres du corps enseignant, désignés par le Conseil Scientifique.
Il nomme les membres du personnel administratif de l'Université. Le président est choisi
par le Conseil d'administration, sur une liste de trois noms proposés par le Conseil
scientifique. Il est nommé pour trois ans. Son mandat peut être renouvelé une fois.
Le Conseil scientifique possède une compétence générale en matière de recherche
et d'enseignement, sans préjudice des compétences des autres organes de l'Université. Il
est présidé par le Président. Sont membres du Conseil scientifique : le président de
l'Université, le secrétaire général de l'Université qui participe aux travaux sans droit de
vote, les chefs de département, tout ou partie des professeurs attachés à l'Université, des
représentants des autres membres du corps enseignant, des représentants des chercheurs.
Le Conseil scientifique élabore les programmes d'études et de recherches, participe à
l'élaboration du projet de budget annuel ainsi que du projet de prévisions financières
triennales, prend les dispositions d'exécution en matière de recherche et d'enseignement
qui ne relèvent pas de la compétence des autres organes de l'Université; siégeant en
formation restreinte, réservée aux seuls enseignants dont la qualité est au moins égale à
celle des personnes concernées, il désigne les chefs de département, les professeurs et les
autres enseignants appelés à faire partie du corps enseignant de l'Université. Il détermine
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les conditions dans lesquelles sont attribués les doctorats européens correspondant aux
différentes disciplines enseignées dans les quatre départements de l'Université.
IV Validation des études: délivrance d'un doctorat européen de
Philosophie, d'Arts et d'esthétique, de Littérature et de Culture de la
Communication
L'Université est habilitée à décerner dans les disciplines faisant l'objet de ses
études et recherches, un doctorat de l'Université européenne de la culture aux chercheurs
qui ont accompli au moins deux années d'études dans l'Université et présenté un travail de
recherche présentant des résultats significatifs pour le développement de leur discipline.
Les chercheurs de l'Université sont les étudiants ou chercheurs titulaires de titres
universitaires nationaux justifiant de leur aptitude à entreprendre ou poursuivre des
recherches doctorales (maîtrise ou diplôme d’études approfondies) dans le cadre des
disciplines propres aux quatre départements. L'Université est ouverte aux ressortissants
des pays contractants. Des ressortissants d'autres États peuvent être admis dans les limites
et les conditions prises dans des dispositions réglementaires spécifiques. L'admission à
l'Université est prononcée par un jury d'admission sur la base des règles fixées dans la
convention et par les dispositions réglementaires arrêtées par le Conseil d'administration.
Il apparaît également que cette Université constituerait aussi un cadre adéquat
d'accueil pour de jeunes chercheurs ayant déjà accompli 1 ou 2 années de recherches
dans une École doctorale ou un programme doctoral, et pour lesquels il pourrait être
intéressant de faire une part de leur formation dans cette université européenne de la
culture, par des procédures d’échanges à déterminer. Outre les doctorats européens que
cette université se verrait habilitée à décerner dans les disciplines qui y sont représentées
et qui sont destinées à œuvrer en interaction constante les unes avec les autres, on peut
envisager que cette Université européenne de la culture serait également habilitée à
valider comme diplômes européens de l'Université Européenne de la Culture les thèses de
co-tutelle déjà validées comme telles par les Écoles doctorales d'origine si le caractère
significatif des résultats obtenus dans cette recherche le justifie et si les docteurs
concernés en font la demande, appuyés par leurs directeurs de recherche, auprès de
l'Université européenne de la culture. Car ces thèses de co-tutelle n'offriront de débouché
européen réel que si elles permettent à leurs détenteurs de postuler des emplois
d'enseignant, de chercheur ou d'enseignant-chercheur dans n'importe quel pays européen,
ce qui ne va pas encore de soi pour ceux qui ne sont détenteurs que des thèses de cotutelle. Un séjour post-doctoral dans l'Université européenne de la culture pourrait
également leur être offert par les États de l'Union européenne, s'il paraît aux
enseignants-chercheurs de l'Université européenne de la culture, après lecture de leur
thèse, que ce séjour pourrait permettre de transformer ou de compléter celle-ci de façon
à ce qu'elle puisse être validée par un diplôme de doctorat européen délivré par
l'Université européenne de la culture.
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3d) Subnetwork on Cultural Diversity as first joint research.
L’expérimentation de la diversité culturelle dans la mondialisation/
Cultural diversity as an experimentation in the horizon of
globalization
Responsable : Jacques Poulain, Université de Paris 8
Acronyme : DCM (Diversité culturelle et mondialisation)
Loin d’être cantonnée à un multiculturalisme vide et à une cohabitation
statique de cultures figées, dans le cadre d’une mondialisation purement
économico-politique, la diversité culturelle se soumet elle-même à une
expérimentation.
Les
cultures
y
éprouvent
leur
propre
force
d’universalisation, elles cherchent à se transmettre à d’autres cultures et
éprouvent réciproquement la force d’universalisation et de transmissibilité de
ces autres cultures. C’est cette expérimentation d’elles-mêmes et des autres
cultures qui définit la mondialisation des cultures et permet de la constraster
avec la mondialisation économique et politique, soumise à la loi du marché,
et par là, à la pure et simple concurrence. C’est ainsi qu’elles se préservent,
qu’elles se donnent un contenu et qu’elles cherchent à s’accomplir
totalement.
Loin de se présumer chargées d’a priori intangibles et sacrés, les diverses
cultures expérimentent leur capacité à demeurer formes de vie en parvenant
à faire reconnaître, par leurs membres aussi bien que par les partenaires
issus d’autres cultures, l’objectivité des conditions de vie qu’elles assument
et qu’elles tentent de faire respecter comme conditions nécessaires de vie.
L’objectif de ce sous-réseau de E-culture Net est d’analyser les formes de
créativité scientifique et artistique, les instances de jugement critique, les
modes de gouvernance et d’appartenance de citoyenneté, les rapports de
droits et les dispositifs pédagogiques qui président à cette intégration
mutuelle effective des cultures. Seront exploitées à cet effet les données
dynamiques culturelles rassemblées par E-culture net.
Parce que l’expérimentation culturelle se développe de façon aussi créative
que l’innovation scientifique, technique ou artistique, on analysera les
conditions qui permettent aux cultures de développer leur créativité et leur
autonomie propre, mais on déterminera également les conditions qui
permettent de les forger, de les assumer et de les valider de façon aussi
critique et ferme qu’on peut le faire dans les sciences. A l’instar de l’exercice
philosophique du jugement, elles ne développent leur faculté de jugement
critique qu’en s’appuyant sur elles-mêmes et sur la conscience de leurs
résultats, mais elles ne se valident elles-mêmes comme formes de vie
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nécessaires qu’en mettant leurs porteurs en harmonie avec les mondes
concrets qu’elles rendent accessibles, à la façon des arts. On analysera donc
les facteurs d‘expérimentation et d’intégration des cultures dans leurs
dimensions scientifiques, technologiques, artistiques, philosophiques,
politiques et pédagogiques de façon à déceler comment cette
expérimentation d’elles-mêmes et des autres cultures ne se développe
réellement qu’en se pliant à l’épreuve d’elles-mêmes et au partage du
jugement critique de vérité et d’objectivité qui s’y impose comme seule et
unique instance de validation.
Cette
équipe
s’appuiera
plus
particulièrement
sur
le
Site
http://www.mondialisations.org ouvert par le GERM, Groupe d’études et de
recherches sur les mondialisations et localisé au Pavillon Janvier du Parc de
la Villette à Paris. Les participants de cette équipe ont publié en janvier 2002
le Dictionnaire critique de la mondialisation et en avril 2003, le
Rapport UNESCO sur la diversité culturelle.
Liste des participants et de leurs tâches
Responsable de l’équipe
Jacques Poulain Professeur, Département de Philosophie, Université de
Paris 8
Identifier la dynamique philosophique et critique de développement des
cultures à l’âge de la mondialisation et sa diversification
Chercheurs
Christoph Wulf Professeur, Institut des sciences de l’éducation, Université
libre de Berlin
Analyser la présence d’un dialogue interculturel dans l’éducation comme
expérimentation de la transmission du vrai
Martine Prétceille Professeur,Département des sciences de l’éducation,
Université de Paris 8
Déceler la présence d’une éthique contraignante du dialogue dans
l’éducation et le dialogue interculturel
Garbis Kortian Professeur, Université de Vienne (Autriche), Ecole des
Hautes études en Arts appliqués
Analyser les ressemblances et les différences entre la dynamique
d’autonomisation des arts par leur créativité et la créativité des cultures
François Delaporte Professeur, Université Jules Verne de Picardie
Comparer la dynamique épistémique des sciences et la dynamique de
validation mutuelle des cultures
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Reyès Maté Professeur, CSIC, Centre de la recherche scientifique, Madrid
Faire reconnaître les fondements objectifs de la diversité des cultures dans
leur diversité même
Patrice Vermeren Professeur, Département de Philosophie, Université de
Paris 8
Gouvernance et citoyenneté ne repose que sur la base culturelle du partage
du jugement politique
Stéphane Douailler Professeur, Département de Philosophie, Université de
Paris 8
Opinion publique et droit n’agissent comme facteurs d’intégration des
différentes cultures les unes aux autres qu’en parvenant à faire reconnaître
leur objectivité
Charles Alunni Docteur, Chargé de mission auprès de l’École normale
supérieure d’Ulm, Paris
Établir que le dialogue des sciences pratiqué dans la créativité des diverses
sciences fonctionne sur le modèle de l’expérimentation interculturelle, selon
les paradigmes de la tradition, de la transmission et de la traduction
Catherine Paoletti Docteur, Chargé de mission auprès de l’École normale
supérieure d’Ulm de la médiatisation des savoirs, Paris
Analyser les problèmes de la médiatisation des savoirs sur le modèle du
dialogue expérimental des cultures
Étudiants doctoraux
Marianne Kriegel Doctorante de Martine Prétceille
Analyse des processus de pédagogie interculturelle
François de Bernard Doctorant de Jacques Poulain
Analyse des différentes mondialisations en cours
interculturel
dans
le
dialogue
Natalia Nikolaeva Doctorante de Jacques Poulain
Analyse des rapports entre la culture des hommes et la culture des femmes.
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APPENDIX 4. EXPRESSION OF INTEREST RE: SO.RE.CO. E.EXCELLENCE.NET
Social Representations & Communication European Excellence Network
A. NEED AND RELEVANCE:
A network of excellence is the logical next step, as well as synergetic and complementary
to the permanent activities of the Euro PhD on Social Representations and Communication.
These include related “Innovative activities” funded by Italian Ministry of Scientific Research
within the Internationalisation program, currently running long-term contracts (2000-2004)
funded by EC-Research (the Marie Curie Multi-partner Training Site and the High Level
Conference) and its most recent project E.L.V.I.R.T.I.S.S., for the implementation of the ELibrary and Videoconference Research Training Infrastructure on Social Sciences The
development of all these programs was based on a wider scientific community needs analysis,
experience acquired in over ten years of running the formally recognised European doctorate
programme and on an innovative training system for both teaching staff and fellows. These
training systems integrate virtual (O.D.L.) and physical mobility, including yearly international
summer schools, seminars and courses and internships that include work at "home" institutions
and two network universities abroad. This system aims to develop fellows’ research projects in a
stimulating international environment open to multi-disciplinary and multi-methodological
approaches.
A network of excellence , co-ordinated by the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ which
already has longstanding expertise in the management of a large research and training network,
would aim to further enlarge the international role of community research. This has been
successfully demonstrated already by the European programs co-ordinated by the University of
Rome “La Sapienza” already functioning in a consolidated European network of 13 prestigious
University research-centres in 8 European countries. These are sponsored by prestigious
governmental foundations such as the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris), and are open to
scientific co-operation with other trans-disciplinary European networks specialised in O.D.L.
such as EuroPACE or are linked on regular basis to other Partner Universities including
institutions in East European affiliate countries and are part of a larger network involving
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mobility of staff and young research trainees on Socrates Institutional Contracts. The main centre
for scientific co-ordination, administrative management and dissemination activities is co-located
at the new and rapidly expanding Research Centre and Multimedia Lab of Euro PhD Centre in
Rome.
Such a network will further expand the possibilities of the centre's already extensive
international scope which, with the ongoing development of the E.L.V.I.R.T.I.S.S. program, will
allow, for example, for the cycle of related yearly events such as Euro Summer Schools
(approved under H.L.S.C. by DG XII for 2002-2004) and the integration of on-site training via
videoconferencing not only within the Euro PhD network, including Marie Curie Multi-Partner
Organisation sites, but also with other similarly equipped research centres in and outside Europe
(the Canadian research centre CIRADE in Montreal and many others in the US, Latin America,
Eastern Europe as well as in the Mediterranean region, for example, Tunisia). These are already
linked as members of the International Association on Social Representation which includes
hundreds of full members, affiliate Institutions and research centres. It will allow simultaneous
interactions with leading European experts and the scientific community around the world,
including experts outside academia, operating in political institutions (the Rome and Paris city
governments), organisations and commercial enterprises (France Telecom, Cisco Systems, etc.)
who are crucial policy makers in societal issues and in technological innovation, including
implications for research in the social sciences. The openness of scientific dialogue to people
and places where decisions relevant to the EU social policies are taken will add an applied social
value to the research carried out by young and senior researchers, in most cases in co-operation
with cross-national research teams.
The area of this proposed network of excellence is social representations and communication, a specialised
field of social psychology. The theory of social representations is one of the most important 20th century theories of
social construction of knowledge and is open to multidisciplinary and multi-methodological approaches (both
experimental and field work). The study of social representations, originally specifically European, is now a
multilingual, world-wide enterprise with a substantial body of literature involving leading scholars from both social
psychology and the social sciences including sociology, anthropology, education, economics, linguistics, semiotics,
and communication and media studies. Research on "what" people know and "how" as it relates to the social groups
to which they belong and to the media is focussed on the social construction and representation of a particular object
(e.g. politics, economics, new technologies, environment, health and illness, etc.). This research is highly relevant to
EU programmes with strong societal impact, such as in the priority thematic area of citizens and government in a
knowledge based society (in particular, 1.1.7.i "Knowledge based society and social cohesion”). It would also
contribute to "E-learning" found in the priority 1.1.2.i "Applied IST research addressing major societal and
economic challenges", especially in the area of "e-Learning". The core of the European Ph.D. on Social
Representations and Communications program is in societal topics of great importance to the European Union,
including such issues as quality of life, integration, the informational society and its social networks. Some of the
topics on which our network has focused large comparative joint programmes of research include:
 National and supranational identities in European citizens in the perspective of enlargement
(University of Rome, Stirling, E.H.E.S.S., Paris, Geneva, Basque Country, Budapest, Pecs,
UK, Vienna, Helsinki)
 Integration of minority groups (University of Valencia, San Sebastian, Geneva, Rome, Pecs,
Stirling), E.H.E.S.S., Paris)
 Knowledge society and social thinking systems (E.H.E.S.S., Paris, Paris 8, I.S.C.T.E. Lisbon,
University of Geneva, Stirling)
 Social impact of information technology in organisations (University of Rome, Helsinki,
Paris, L.S.E, London, University of Vienna, Berlin, EuroPACE network, France Telecom,
Cisco Systems)
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 Changing representations and attitudes towards new technology (L.S.E, London, University
of Berlin, Linz, Rome)
 E-learning and social representations about the changing educational system (University of
Cambridge, L.S.E, London, E.H.E.S.S., Paris, Lisbon, EuroPACE network, Cisco Systems)
 Science in the Media. (Lisbon, E.H.E.S.S., Paris; Berlin; L.S.E, London, Paris 8; Stirling)
 Persuasive effects of advertising through traditional channels and via internet (University of
Rome, E.H.E.S.S., Paris, Aix-Marseille)
 Public attitudes towards bio-genetic foods (L.S.E, London, University of Linz, Basque
Country, Helsinki)
 Social representations of health/illness, attitudes and socio-economic factors related to
disease and public health (University of Aix-Marseille, Paris 8, E.H.E.S.S., Paris, Lisbon,
Basque Country)
 Community-level indicators for evaluating community health development projects (L.S.E,
London, E.H.E.S.S., Paris , University of Aix-Marseille, Basque Country, CIRADE)
 Eating risk attitude and food-related diseases (University of Helsinki, Rome, University of
Aix-Marseille, E.H.E.S.S., Paris)
 Social representations of the environment and life-styles (Paris 8, University of Rome,
University of Aix-Marseille, Lisbon)
 Public perception on the management of the natural environment (University of Berlin,
Helsinki, CIRADE, Rome, Lisbon)
 Impact in the media of the social representations of the urban and natural environment
(L.S.E., London, Paris 8, Rome, Valencia, Berlin)
 Psychology of tourism and cultural heritage (University of Rome, E.H.E.S.S., Paris, Vienna,
Lisbon, Berlin)
 Social representations of the judicial system and applied psychology (University of Geneva,
Rome, Stirling, Vienna)
 Human rights, racism and xenophobia (University of Geneva, E.H.E.S.S., Paris, Rome,
Helsinki)
 Structural changes in family, gender studies in a multicultural society (I.S.C.T.E. Lisbon,
University of Cambridge, Basque Country, L.S.E, London, E.H.E.S.S., Paris , University)
 Construction of social knowledge in children about societal issues: economics, politics
(University of Rome, Cambridge, Vienna, Lisbon, CIRADE)
 Social representations ‘of ‘ and ‘in’ organisational contexts and work psychology (I.S.C.T.E.
Lisbon, University of Aix-Marseille, Vienna, Berlin)
 S.R. of unemployment and new forms of work (University of Aix-Marseille, Berlin,
Helsinki, I.S.C.T.E. Lisbon, Rome)
 Social representations of the EURO and economic psychology ((I.S.C:T.E. Lisbon,
University of Rome, University of Aix-Marseille, Vienna)
B. EXCELLENCE:
An established joint enterprise of 13 prestigious European universities located in 8 European countries and
including 8 recognised "centres of excellence" in the forefront of research in social representations and
communication studies (see chart below), the Euro Ph.D. Centre is well-known for its Europe-wide and global
networking in the Social Sciences. It has been a Marie Curie Training Site Multi-partner since 2000. It was selected
by DGXXII as one of Europe's "best practices" and has been an approved and consolidated ERASMUS network
since 1992. It was also selected by Italian Ministry for Scientific Research for the programme “Innovative actions
for developing European PhD on S.R. & C.” within the Internationalisation programme. The Euro Ph.D. new
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Research Centre in Rome also is hosting the development of "E.L.V.I.R.T.I.S.S." (E-Library and Video-Conference
Research Training Infrastructure on Social Science), a state-of the-art multi-media laboratory that, in addition to the
capacity for long-distance teaching and academic exchanges, provides a downloadable comprehensive library on.
LIST OF ACADEMIC PARTICIPANTS
in the EUROPEAN PhD on SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS AND COMMUNICATION
(since 1993)
COUNTRY
TOWN
INSTITUTION
FACULTY / DEPARTMENT
Italy
Rome
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Faculty of Psychology 2
(Scientific Co-ordinator)
(Social, Organisational and Educational)
Austria
Wien
University of Wien
Department of Psychology
Austria
Linz
University of Linz
Department of Social and Economic Psychology
Finland
Helsinki
University of Helsinki
Department of Social Psychology
France
Paris
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale (LEPSMSH)
France
Paris
Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales
Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale (L.P.S.)
France
Paris
Université PARIS VIII
UFR 7 :Psychologie, Pratiques Cliniques et Sociales
(PPCS)
France
Aix-Marseille
Université de Provence,
Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale
Portugal
Lisbon
Institutio Superior de ciencias
do Trabalho e da Empresa,
Department of Social Psychology
Spain
San Sebastian
University of the Basque Country
Department of Social Psychology and Methodology
of Behavioural Sciences
Spain
Valencia
University of Valencia
Department of Psycobiology and Social Psychology
Switzerland
Geneva
Université de Geneva
Faculty of Psychology and Educ. Sciences
U.K.
Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Faculty of Social and Political Science
U.K.
London
London School of Economics
And Political Science
Department of Social Psychology
social representations that will enable experts from around the globe to pool knowledge gained in socialpsychological disciplines
Jointly executed research programmes and concerted scientific activities in the above mentioned and related
areas are carried out by established international research teams working together in a long-term perspective and
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integrate training activities and supervision of young researchers by senior experts. A series of face-to-face, virtual
and computer mediated activities (like video-chat, moderated forum discussion, video-conferences, distant tutoring
and co-tutoring, implementation and development of an e-library in the specialised field of S.R. & C., the on-line cooperative research project aimed at the meta-analysis of the whole specialised literature, etc.) have been running on a
regular basis for more than a decade. The co-ordination and planning of the numerous research teams and thematic
sub-groups reinforces a strong link between research activities and training by developing researchers in the
making. By expanding these activities for the benefit of researchers outside the European PhD network, the
programme has created and developed a powerful dissemination system based on traditional face-to-face scientific
events staged in an international environment. Led by European scientists, these activities have established and
reinforced a wide scientific community both in and outside Europe's borders via Internet.
The scientific programme, the list of the participants from all around the world and the renowned teaching
staff engaged in the yearly International Summer School on S.R. & C. (available on the European PhD dedicated
web site at http://www.europhd.net ) together with the bi-annual International Conferences on S.R. (regularly
organised since 1992 alternatively in Europe, Latin America and North America) may give an idea of the worldwide scientific interest in co-operation for the development of this trans-disciplinary research field.
Beside this stable core of research centres engaged at the Institutional level in co-ordinated
activities related to scientific co-operation on the development of joint research programmes,
training activities, implementation, diffusion and sharing of technical infrastructure, the
European PhD network is linked to scientific activities promoted world-wide by members of the
International Association on Social Representation. In addition, for specific activities, like staff
mobility and exchanges of young research trainees, it is linked to a larger network of partner
universities, including institutions in Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean region, the United
States and Latin America under the auspices of Socrates Institutional Contracts. For telematic
application and diffusion activity it cooperates with other trans-disciplinary European networks
specialised in O.D.L. like EuroPACE , which includes 45 academic institutions and industrial
enterprises in the field of communications.
Scale of critical mass and infrastructures:
In each of the thirteen institutions a group is comprised of a minimum of 5 to 20
researchers and professors specialised in the field. These experts administer co-operative
scientific activities related to the proposed network of excellence. assisted by post-doctoral and
doctoral candidate researchers, either enrolled in national or the European doctoral programme.
In the start-up phase, the size of the proposed network of excellence would be limited to 50
researchers, but – given the potential of the scientific community already in the network - it
might quickly be extended to a much larger number of researchers depending on the ability of
the programme to allocate resources for financial and administrative management for the
proposed centre of excellence.
Each Institution of the proposed network has its own infrastructure (personnel, research
staff and fully-equipped laboratories). In addition the centre for scientific co-ordination,
administrative management and dissemination activities wi;; be co-located at the new and rapidly
expanding Research Centre and Multimedia Lab of Euro PhD Centre in Rome. For joint
scientific activities, like the International Summer Schools or International conferences where a
large number of researchers participate, the European PhD on Social Representations has made
permanent agreement, where the Mayor and the Rector of the University of Rome have agreed
to dedicate a large area of the magnificent Colonna Castle in Genazzano (45 km from Rome) to
the program. In co-operation with SONY, it is equipped for video-conferences and has ideal
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residential facilities in a peaceful rural setting. (See slides of the site from the 8th International
Summer School High Level Conference 2002-04 at http://www.europhd.net )
C. INTEGRATION AND STRUCTURING EFFECT:
The theory of Social Representations was born in Europe in the early sixties and for 20 years was developed
nearly exclusively by European researchers. It then spread around the world. One benefit to be derived from the
creation of a network of excellence would be to re-establish the world-wide intellectual leadership of European
Social Psychology. It would contribute to making this rich European knowledge base, strongly linked to social
policy-making processes (immigration and minority groups, quality of life, health, environment, information
technology) visible and systematically accessible both for specialised circles of social scientists and others outside
academia.
Another complementary benefit would be to augment and enhance the already growing
"internationalisation" of higher education institutes and research centres engaged in this area of research and a
mechanism to pool the knowledge of academics and experts from the private sector and political institutions, thereby
increasing the added value of comparative studies in social sciences in areas of importance for EU citizens.
The S.R. & C. "Virtual Scientific Campus" Online Data base, accessible at hhtp://www.europhd.net,
provides a picture of the global scientific community through a list of members' addresses organized by country,
pertinent contact information for members at all levels of expertise, (i.e., senior researchers, research trainees and
experts from in and outside academia), areas of scientific interest and institutional affiliation. An outline of the
activities led by the European PhD program in co-operation with the wider international scientific community is
found on the following page.
A network of excellence would greatly improve contacts among current and potential members of this
“scientific virtual campus”, in diverse social science disciplines around the globe, including less-favoured Regions.
It's creation would provide a centre for the promotion of shared scientific events using a networking approach
(video-conferences and moderated thematic forum), and by facilitating direct individual contacts both among
scientists and their research by linking the data base contact list with the complete bibliographic inventory and Elibrary. Structure and integration in governing the proposed network will be guaranteed by well-tested management
skills demonstrated in ten years of coordination of large European programmes articulated in the management
structure of a Core Executive Committee (COE) and an Extensive Scientific Board, which also includes experts
from outside the network. Due to the expanding level of complexity, the proposed network of excellence will also
actively engage a number of independent external experts in the COE (currently limited to scientists from outside
the network). These will include policy makers representative of governmental and international political
organisations and industries dedicated to communications and technological innovation as well as an expert to
conduct an independent financial audit.
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PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED SIMILAR PROPOSALS OR SIGNED CONTRACTS
Programme Name
T.M.R. programme Summer Schools on Social
Representations and Communication
Contract No
ERBFMMACT960165
Programme Name
T.M.R. programme Grants: Euro PhD fellow
Andrew Smith – 12 months at L.S.E., U.K.
Contract No
ERB4001GT963929
Programme Name
HCM Programme prof. A.S. de Rosa
Contract No
ERBCHBGT920169
invited as senior fellow at S.P.E.R.I.(Social
Psychology European Institute) – Surrey
University – Guilford,U.K. Jan.-march.1994
Programme Name
Research network approved under
Programme: Children’s beliefs about EU
HCM
Contract No
CE CHRX-CT94-0687
Programme Name
Young research fellows (dr . M. Torregrossa and
S. Olivares) appointed by the Research Network
approved under HCM Programme: « Children’s
beliefs and feelings about their own and other
national groups in Europe »
Contract No
CE CHRX-CT94-0687
Programme Name
EU DG XXII - Education and Culture, Advanced
Curriculum Development”(CDA) “European PhD
on Social Representations and Communication”
Contract No
IC 29415 - IC 1 - 96-97-98
- ERASMUS - EPS1
Programme Name
EU DG XXII - Education and Culture – Advanced
Curriculum Development- Diffusion” (CDA-D)
“European PhD on Social Representations and
Communication”.
EU DG XXII - Education and Culture, Intensive
Programme (IP) International Summer School of
the “European PhD on Social Representations
and Communication”
High Level Scientific Conference - International
Summer School on Social Representations and
Communication related to the European Ph.D.
Italian Ministry for Higher Education and Scientific
Research (MIUR) - "Internationalisation of the
University System" (Art 7 - D.M. 21.06.99) :
"Innovative measures for the development of the
European Ph.D. on Social Representations and
Communication"
French-Italian University, Vinci programme :
Doctoral School of the European Ph. D. on SR &
C.
Contract No
IC 29415 - IC 1 - 99 ERASMUS - EPS1
Contract No
IC 29415 - IC 1 - 96-97-98
-99 ERASMUS - EPS1
Contract No
HPCF-2001-00210
Contract No
contract no. 1100268279
Contract No
Vinci 2002- n° 24– IT–ch. II
Expression
of
interest
6th
Framework
Programme :
Social
Representations
&
Communication European Excellence Network
Contract No
Programme Name
Programme Name
Programme Name
Programme Name
Programme Name
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Marie Curie
University of Rome 'La Sapienza' - IT *
ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES, PARIS
- FR*
Multipartner
University of Helsinki - SF
University of Marseille-Aix - FR*
Euro
I.S.C.T.E., Lisbon - PT
PhD on SR
University of San Sebastian - ES
&
C
London School of Economics - UK
network
University of Cambridge - UK
Training Site
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UNIVERSITY OF PARIS VIII - FR*
UNIVERSITY OF WIEN - AT
University of Linz - AT
University of Valencia - ES
University of Geneva - CH
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MAISON DES SCIENCES DE L'HOMME, PARIS - FR*
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Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Sociologie (LAMES) - FR
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Bilateral agreements
1.1.1.1.1
EuroPACE
trans-European network of 60 member organisations
(45 of them universities) with a common interest
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1.1.1.2.1.2 Equipe
sémiotique
cognitive
University of Hildesheim - DE
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above indicated with *
Alice Salomon Fachhocheschule, Berlin - DE
et
noveaux
médias
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+
University of Hamburg- DE
o
Université
de Bretagne occidentale-FR
University of Stirling - UK
n
1.1.1.2 Université
René
Instituto Politecnico di Lisboa - PT
a
Descartes, Paris V-FR
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid - ES
r
Université
de Picardie Jules Verne-FR
ELTE, Budapest - HU
d
Università
di Bologna - IT
University of Pécs - HU
o
“Vinci” partners
within the Franco-Italian University
Université de Rennes -FR
Linköping University - SE
Universitatea "AL.I.CUZA “ - RO
University of Surrey – U.K.
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Université de Lausanne – CH
Ben Gurion University - Israel
Université de Tunis - Tunisia
APPENDIX 5
REGIONAL PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR INITIATING COOPERATION WITH EU
PROJECT TITLE: EU-UNESCO DIGITAL CENTRE OF MEMORY OF CULTURE (DCMC)
Project site:
Paris, UNESCO-HQS
Executing agency:
UNESCO
Estimated start and end dates:
2003 - 2012
Regional co-operating agency:
EU
Public digital cultural content holders
Other EU cultural bodies
Brief description:
The project is intended to establish a European operational digital service centre of
culture (DCMC) at UNESCO in collaboration with EU partner institutions, which have
been preserving an enormous volume of cultural images. The Centre aims to centralize
the preservation of cultural digital images both existing and emerging in EU under the
responsibility of UNESCO as part of E-CULTURE NET, to provide the public audiences
with wide access to the digital images collected at the Centre and to promote the
improved use of the cultural digital images in education and in related research activities
across the world.
1. The Challenge
An extensive amount of digital images of cultural memory has been reserved across the
EU cultural bodies with the goal of effectively presenting real objects through the
Internet. Such cultural bodies include a series of institutions such a the Louvre Museum
in Paris, National Gallery in London and Achieve Centre in Berlin, which have high-level
influence to other institutions in EU.
There have been several challenges to EU cultural bodies in providing access to their
digital images to the audiences across the continent.
Provision of services for the public by individual cultural institutions has caused a
series of uncertainty in service quality and volumes, leading to seeking an international
body which is independent on any authorities as well as willing to and capable to
undertaking reservation and services on cultural memory.
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No adequate guidelines and regulations on maintaining digital images causing a
lot of unnecessary duplications and low ration in cost/performance of digital image
systems.
The Solution
A digital centre of memory of culture should be set up in UNESCO under the
main auspices of cultural institutions and EU in agreement with UNESCO.
Funds should be provided by the cultural institutions and EU, which will
commission to UNESCO the reservation of the digital images and the provision of
services for the public audiences.
A long term financing schemes should be set up and agreed between the cultural
institutions and UNESCO.
Objectives
To centralise maintenance of EU cultural data in a permanent state by eventually
merging all data that have been kept by individual bodies in the European cultural
communities, which will lead to dramatically minimising costs of maintenance and
dissemination of cultural data.
To improve reservation of cultural data by undertaking back up, inserting new
data, and managing by a unique body in an effective way to improve the memorising of
cultural data;
To provide effective access to data of European cultural memory to users at low
cost for education and scientific research purposes by establishing a unique set of
regulations on disseminating cultural data to end users.
Activities
Build a set of servers in UNESCO’s premises with memory size of at least 20 T
and electronic/ICT facilities dedicated to archiving cultural data commissioned by
European organizations;
Provide at least 3 staff (1 ICT specialist, 1 metadata specialist and 1 technician)
responsible for designing, running and maintaining cultural data;
Set up a high-speed Internet connectivity ranging from 10 to 100 MB/s.
Expected results
-
DCMC equipped with 10 T disk size set up
24 hour-service with non-stop operation
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-
Trained service personals
Provisional budget breakdown for 2003
-
some servers:
(one or two machines)
Remuneration of staff:
$180,000 (60,000 per staff member)
Back up systems:
$30,000
100 M Internet connectivity: $ ???
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ANNEX I
Expected financing agencies and long-term funding package:
EU:
Membership:
EURO 10,000,000/10 yrs
EURO 300,000/10 yrs
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TOTAL
EURO 10,900,000/10 yrs
(EURO 1,090,000/year)
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APPENDIX 6. UNESCO, NII AND NSF SILK ROADS
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PARTNERS
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LETTER OF INTENT TO JOIN A EUROPEAN NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE FOR
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN DIGITAL CULTURE IN THE 6TH FP
We, the Digital Silk Roads Project team of UNESCO,
___________________________________________________________________,
hereby express our intent to pursue the European Commission’s vision of E-Culture Net,
a Network of Excellence for Research and Education in Digital Culture. We support the initial
outline of research challenges, which are listed on the initial website at
www.mmi.unimaas.nl/eculturenet.
Concretely, we are particularly interested one or more of the basic goals below:
1) to work towards the creation of a Distributed European Electronic Dynamic (DEED)
Resource in one of the following contexts:
Security
Legal Agreements
Storage
Multilingual Mapping of Terminology
Semantic Mapping
Distributed Autonomous Cultural Objects
Interfaces
Multimodal Interfaces
Spatial Access (3D)
Spatio-Temporal Access
Intelligent Heritage in Virtual Environments
Virtual Heritage Centres
2) to share research/resources using the DEED (please indicate topics, amount)
(1) Survey of restrictions to access to E-culture content in NIS countries
(2) Survey of telecommunication capabilities in NIS countries for E-culture network
(3) Survey of possible legal agreements with NIS governments on public access to E-culture
(4) Minimum infrastructure and human resources required for setting up the envisaged
UNESCO Digital Centre of Memory of Culture and its management
(5) Local pre-training for support to EU training of NIS fellows in E-culture content
(6) Local pre-training for support to EU training of NIS fellows in E-culture networking
(7) Economical solutions to improving NIS audience access to E-culture content
(8) Minimum ICT facilities and bandwidth required for access to E-culture content
(9) Multilanguage-related obstacles to accessing E-culture in NIS countries
(10) Virtual heritage content available in NIS countries
Total Euro 200,000
3) to co-operate in further defining these research issues and in developing research matrices,
which duly reflect the various cultural, historical and multi-lingual dimensions of Europe.
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4) to create European Masters and Doctorates in digital culture. This will include
exchanges of faculty and students between our institution and the other founding
members.
Our institute plans to devote ___ researchers to the network, whose names, gender and
involvement is specified in the appendix to this letter of intent.
We understand that the funds made available from the EC will be proportionate to our
own input.
Signed this__10 April_2003, in Paris, France_Yong-Nam KIM___________________
Appendix:
Detailed Specification of the Intended Involvement in E-Culture Net.
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APPENDIX: DETAILED SPECIFICATION OF THE INTENDED INVOLVEMENT IN E-CULTURE NET.
Collecting this information is a mandatory requirement of the EC for any bit for the 6FP 25.
Organization name: Digital Silk Roads Project Team, Information Society Division,
CI Sector (CI/INF), UNESCO
[Please take notice of the footnotes!]
Title26
Dr
Dr
Mr
Mr
Prof
Prof
Dr
Dr
Mr
Dr
Name27
Gender28
Yong-Nam Kim
Tofig Babayev
Jean-Claude Dauphin
Davide Storti
Yuriy Zharkikh
Amir Kataev
Batyr Karriyev
Vladimir Grebnev
Sergey Karpov
Yong-Sok O
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Research
Experience29
15 years
30 years
10 years
7 years
15 years
10 years
20 years
10 years
10 years
15 years
E-Culture Net Topics30
Research
DEED Masters /
Matrices
Doctorates
%
%
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100%
100%
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Signed this 10 April 2003, in Paris
Yong-Nam KIM __________________________________________________________
Senior Programme Specialist, Information Society Division, CI Sector (CI/INF),
UNESCO
“The calculation of the numbers of researchers will be based on the following:
- a 'researcher' means research staff with at least four years of research experience or with a doctoral degree;
- a 'researcher' must be either an employee of one of the partners in the consortium or working under its direct management
authority; and
- the researchers counted will be those constituting the research capacities of the participants within the framework of the
network at the time of the deadline of the relevant call for proposals.” (European Commission, 2002)
26 Doctoral degree or higher
27 First names, prefix, last name
28 Male (M) or Female (F)
29 Research Experience in full years.
30 Please indicate to what extend (full-time equivalent) you are prepared to commit the researcher to E-Culture Net research. The
sum must not exceed 100%.
25
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College of Engineering
and
Computer Science
William I. Grosky
Chair, Department of Computer and Information Science
4901 Evergreen Road
Dearborn, Michigan 48128
(313) 583-6424
(313) 593-4256 (Fax)
wgrosky@ umich.edu
April 7, 2003
LETTER OF COLLABORATION WITH THE EUROPEAN NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE FOR
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN DIGITAL CULTURE IN THE 6TH FP
We, Digital Silk Roads Cultural Grid Project / University of Michigan-Dearborn, Wayne
State University,
hereby express our intent to pursue the European Commission’s vision of E-Culture Net,
a Network of Excellence for Research and Education in Digital Culture. We support the initial
outline of research challenges, which are listed on the initial website at
www.mmi.unimaas.nl/eculturenet.
Concretely, we are particularly interested one or more of the basic goals below:
5) To cooperate with the Distributed European Electronic Resource (DEER) in one of
the following research topics:


Security
Legal Agreements

**Storage**




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



Multilingual Mapping of Terminology
**Semantic Mapping**
Distributed Autonomous Cultural Objects
**Interfaces**
**Multimodal Interfaces**
**Spatial Access (3D)**
**Spatio-Temporal Access**
**Intelligent Heritage in Virtual Environments**
Virtual Heritage Centres
6) to share research/resources using the DEER (please indicate topics, amount)
Digital Silk Road Cultural Grid
to devote 13 researchers to cooperation with the network, whose names, gender and involvement
is specified in the appendix to this letter of collaboration.
Signed this March 28, 2003, in Computer and Information Science Department,
University of Michigan-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, Michigan 48128 USA
209
APPENDIX:
DETAILED PI LIST OF THE INTENDED COOPERATION WITH E-CULTURE NET.
Leader Organization name: University of Michigan-Dearborn
[Please take notice of the footnotes!]
32
Title PI Name
Institution
Gender
31
33
Research
Experience
34
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
William I. Grosky University of Michigan-Dearborn
Qiang Zhu
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Venkat Gudivada
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Nilesh Patel
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Yuqing Song
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Jinhua Guo University of Michigan-Dearborn
Mohsen Madi
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Farshad Fotouhi
Wayne State University
Monica Brockmeyer
Wayne State University
Ming Dong
Wayne State University
Shiyong Lu
Wayne State University
Peter Stanchev
Kettering University
Olivia Frost University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Caverlee Cary University of California-Berkeley
Aitao Chen University of California-Berkeley
Howard C. Foster University of California-Berkeley
John Radke University of California-Berkeley
Rong Zhao
SUNY at Stony Brook
David M. Mark
SUNY at Buffalo
Aidong Zhang
SUNY at Buffalo
Narushige Shiode
SUNY at Buffalo
Dru Gladney
University of Hawaii at Manoa
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
F
M
M
M
F
F
M
M
M
M
M
F
M
M
32
11
13
10
4
4
5
18
6
5
5
31
29
9
5
10
20
2
26
9
1
16
Signed this March 28, 2003, in Computer and Information Science Department,
University of Michigan-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, Michigan 48128 USA
William I. Grosky
Professor and Chair
Doctoral degree or higher
First names, prefix, last name
33 Male (M) or Female (F)
34 Research Experience in full years.
31
32
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APPENDIX 7. PROPOSAL FOR AN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND POLICY IN THE
FIELDS OF ARTS, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES (IMP) MADE BY
FOUNDATION OF TH HELLENIC WORLD (TONIA ZERVAKIS)
The IMP will be founded to promote teaching and scholarship in the domain of
Management and Policy concerning performing and visual arts and the heritage sector.
The link between the European University’s Departments and the Institute’s fields is
considered to be symbiotic, in the sense that the Institute will complement the academic
character of the University by providing opportunities for researchers and professionals
to acquire competences and practical skills in the related fields. Furthermore, the Institute
will promote research in the field of management and policies aiming at the creation of a
European think-tank.
THE INSTITUTE’S PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES
Seminars: The Institute shall organize (2)35 intensive teaching programmes each year,
preferably during the summer months. The issues to be presented will focus on the
following issues:
1. The International and European Dimension of Cultural Governance and Cooperation (covering international organisations and the EU, international and
European legal system for the protection of cultural heritage (CH) and the
exchanges in the domain of the arts and CH, as well as the policies and the
funding opportunities at international and European level)
2. Comparative Public Policies in the field of Cultural Heritage and the Arts (this
thematic unit shall entail the presentation and analysis (from a historical and
functional perspective) of European states’ official policies, especially of
government support to culture,
3. Management of Museums and Galleries (developing knowledge and skills
concerning the operation of cultural sector’s organisations, emphasising on the
impact of globalisation and the difference between the commercial and the notfor-profit sectors)
4. Management of the Arts (visual and performing arts) (developing knowledge and
understanding of the operation and management of present-day creative sector
organisations. This thematic unit will examine the characteristics of creative
organisations and the key concepts and skills that are relevant to their
management, with a particular emphasis on strategic decision-making and
planning).
5. Marketing and Communication strategies in the field of the arts and cultural
heritage (complementary in nature, this unit deals with questions of funders,
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The number is indicative
211
commercial sponsors, partners and other stakeholders. All of these, just as much
as arts and cultural marketers themselves, are interested in and concerned about
the types of people who make up arts audiences and their responses. Additionally,
arts and cultural managers are placing increasing emphasis on the generation of
income from their participants, while also paying attention to questions of social
inclusion and to reaching a wide range of attendees.
6. IT applications in the field of arts and cultural heritage (digital art, virtual
museums etc). This unit aims at the familiarisation with key IT concepts and
applications. It aims at the promotion of the use of IT technologies (even in small
scale projects and organisations).
These shall be designed to provide high-level courses for students and professionals and
shall be given by leading authorities in the respective fields, both from the world of
practice and academia.
Virtual courses: The IMP shall organize (2-3)36 virtual courses on the above-mentioned
issues, addressing to students of European Universities and professionals. The selection
process for the participants will have the form of a European concours (competition) and
it will take place twice a year. The virtual courses will provide the opportunity to the
participants to share their experiences (either academic or professional) without leaving
their academic and professional environment. Moreover, IMP through these virtual
courses will have the opportunity to co-ordinate a large-scale research programme
through the participation of researchers and professionals from different countries.
Publications: IMP’s publications programme encompasses its principal publications,
originating in the summer programmes outlined above, which are published annually.
Moreover, the research projects conducted within the framework of the virtual courses
will be published twice a year (in the form of Working Paper Series). IMP could also be
the home for a European Journal of Management and Policy in the field of Arts and
Culture, in order to provide a forum for debate on both the theoretical issues as well as
for up-to-date analysis of topical issues.
IMP ADMINISTRATION
IMP will be an integral part of the European University of Culture, and will be linked to
the Department for the Communication of Cultures both through its directors, and
through the exchange of ideas and advice on the annual summer courses. Lecturers at the
Institute sessions and virtual courses shall be regularly drawn from the Department.
36
The number is indicative.
212
APPENDIX 8. SURVEY OF NETWORK
8a) Synoptic Overview of Workpackages
8b) Survey by Section
8c) Full List by Activity and Gender
8d) Full List of Members by Country
8e) Further Russian Candidates which could form basis of a Russian Sub-network
8a) Synoptic Overview of Workpackages
No.
WP 1
WP 2
WP 3
WP 4
WP 5
WP 6
WP 7
WP 8
Total
Task
Build DEED
Networks to fill DEED
Research Matrices to Update DEED
Broadband Pilots
Joint Research Programme
E-Learning
Activities to Spread Excellence
Expand to NAS & Beyond
International Dimensions
Training, Conferences
Basic
191
60
38
136
110
14
20
6
57537
Further
241
PhD St.
35
53
153
128
4
8
24
18
664
83
46
6
99
8b) Survey by Section
WP 1
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
1.10
1.11
1.12
Total
DEED
Integrating activity 1: Build DEED
Security
Legal Arrangements
Storage
Multilingual Mapping
Semantic Mapping
DACOS
Interfaces
Multimodal Interfaces
Spatial Access
Spatio-Temporal Access
Virtual Environments
Virtual Heritage Centres
WP 2
2.1
2.2
2.3
Total
Networks
Integrating activity 2: Fill DEED
Country Networks
Share Research in DEED
Harmonise projects with MINERVA
WP 3
3.1
Research Matrices
Integrating activity 3: Update DEED
Co-ordination with Specialised Networks
Further
6
5
17
32
16
10
20
22
17
13
20
19
191
Fur
11
39
24
25
25
21
19
27
23
241
1
4
8
9
4
3
3
3
35
8
4
6
53
Further
Fur
Further
Fur
38
16
16
60
30
These numbers represent the individuals involved in all the activities and include some individuals who are active in integration
on more than one front. This explains why these numbers are slightly higher than those obtained from the A3 sheets. The basic
number reflects a minimal configuration of the network. The further number includes other candidates for the respective sections.
37
213
3.2
Total
Knowledge Discovery
WP 4
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8l
Total
Broadband Pilots
Joint Research Programme
Multidimensional Museums
Historical European Cities
Cultural Tourism
Art and Text Databases
Greek Culture
3-D Reconstructions
Virtual Environments
Cultural Diversity
WP 5
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6a
5.6b
5.7
5.8
5.9
Total
Activities to Spread Excellence
Hypermedia E-Learning
Proknownce User group
French Examples
Greek Examples
Restoration and Heritage
European Masters
European Doctorates
Expand to NAS and Beyond
International
Training
Total
8
38
26
39
38
14
2
8
6
10
136
52
6
20
3
10
8
11
14
20
6
150
571
Further
28
46
16
19
1
7
7
1
157
2
3
3
24
Further
61
2
Fur
16
3
3
46
Fur
15
15
13
1
6
162
24
650
83
99
214
8c. Full List by Activity
WP 1
1.1
DEED
Task
Security
Med
NAS
Integrating activity 1: Build DEED
Institution
Université Catholique de Louvain
TUBITAK
Prog. Sys. Russ Acad of Sc.
Subtotal
Total
1.2
Legal Arrangements Universidad Politecnica di Valencia
Med
FHW
NAS
Inst of State and law Ru. Acad. of Sc.
Further
Studio Galdieri & Crea
ICAV
Dedatos
Subtotal
Total
Total
Further
1.3
Storage
Med
NAS
UNESCO-EU DCMC
Stream UK Media Services
University of Minho
NTUA
Art INFO
Prog. Sys. Inst. Russ. Acad. Sc.
Subtotal
Total
1.4
Subtotal
Total
Total
Male
3
1
1
5
6
Further
PhD St.
1
3
1
1
1
1
1
2
5
11
3
10
2
1
2
1
16
17
Multilingual Mapping MAE, MSH Nanterre
MOM. MSH Lyon
Richard Light Consultants
LMT
IRISA
UdeC-La Mancha
Oxford RTS
Condillac, LISTIC Lab, Savoie
Med
IDEC SA, Piraeus
ILSP
NCSR Demokritos
NAS/Russia
UWien
ADIT
Association of Regional Library Consortia
National Library of Russia
St Petersburg State University
Further
IDEC SA, Piraeus
Cultura Digital
Female
1
4
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
1
1
2
1
1
2
2
2
1
1
2
1
4
2
20
32
39
1
1
1
12
1
1
1
215
1.5
Semantic Mapping
Med
NAS/Russia
Lund University
LMT
Oxford RTS
LMT
LUISS
IRISA TEXMEX
ITI-CERTH
ICS-FORTH
IDEC SA, Piraeus
State Hist. Museum, ADIT
St. Petersburg St. Univ. Propp
Subtotal
Total
1.6
DACOs
Subtotal
Total
Total
Further
1.7
Interfaces
Med
NAS/Russia
Further
Further
UzK
LMT
Centre Pompidou
Stream Media Services
LUISS
IDEC SA, Piraeus
Prog. Sys. Inst. Russ. Acad. Sc.
Sistemas do futuro
Cultura Digital
Universidad Aberta (Lisbon
Intermedia, University of Oslo
Interactive Insititute Stockholm
Medialab Madrid
ZKM Karlsruhe
CHIME
ZGDV
LMT
VICOMTECH
ITI-CERTH
RCHN
ZGDV
Associaçao CCG/ZGDV
University of Minho
2
1
1
1
2
2
2
1
12
16
Med
NAS/Russia
Further
Subtotal
Total
Total
2
1
1
1
2
1
4
2
1
1
4
4
7
1
1
1
1
2
1
2
1
7
10
24
3
2
9
3
8
8
2
1
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
3
1
1
1
15
20
25
5
2
9
9
9
216
1.8
Subtotal
Total
Total
1.9
Subtotal
Total
Total
Multimodal Interfaces UCL+SIMILAR NoE
CHIME
LUISS
ZKM Karlsruhe
CHIME
ZGDV
LMT
VICOMTECH
University of Minho
Associaçao CCG/ZGDV
Condillac, LISTIC Lab, Savoie
Med
NCSR Demokritos
METU
Intro Solutions
NAS/Russia
ZAO Prosoft-M
Further
METU
Further
Spatial Access (3-D) National Museums of Scotland
Univ. Politecnico di Madrid
Alicante Provincial Museum Arch.
Università di Firenze
LMT
ZGDV
LMT
University of Minho
Condillac, LISTIC Lab, Savoie
Associaçao CCG/ZGDV
Med
FHW
NCSR
METU
Gamma Tech
Athens Technology Centre
NAS/Russia
ADIT, Kunskamera
Further
Gfai, Berlin
Neanderthal Museum
Dion Archaelogical Museum
University of Minho
Universidad Politecnico di Madrid
Further
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
3
1
1
3
16
22
25
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
6
4
4
8
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
12
17
21
5
3
3
4
217
1.10
Spatio-Temporal Access University of Portsmouth
Leeds University
Edinburgh University (EDINA)
European University Institute
National Archives of Sweden
University of Minho
Associaçao CCG/ZGDV
Med
FHW
Gamma Tech
NAS/ Russia
State Univ.Higher Sch. of Ec.
Subtotal
Total
Total
Virtual Environments CINECA
Commune di Bologna
RAI
Università di Bologna
LMT
Media Lab Madrid
University of Minho
Sussex University
Duesto University
University of Minho
V2
Med
FHW
ITI-CERTH
NCSR Demokritos
NAS/ Russia
NGO TIME, SPb.
Further
NTUA
Univeristà di Padova
Associaçao CCG/ZGDV
University of Minho
Further
1
1
1
2
13
19
Subtotal
Total
1.11
2
2
2
1
2
1
2
1
1
1
3
2
2
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
16
20
27
1
1
1
1
2
4
3
3
3
6
218
1.12
Subtotal
Total
Total
WP 2
2.1
Virtual Heritage Centres CNR-ITABC
Wiegand Foundation, Padua
Plancton Art Studio
LUISS
UCL
British School at Rome
LMT
Sussex University
V2
SCRAN
Med
FHW
Gamma Tech
NAS/ Russia
ISIE, State Univ H. Sch. of Ec.
Prog.Sys.Inst. Russian Acad. Sc
State Russian Museum
International
UCLA
UC Berkeley
Further
Scuola Normale Superiore
Associaçao CCG/ZGDV
Sistemas do Futuro
Further
Networks
Country Networks
1.Austria
2. Belgium
3. Cyprus
4. Denmark
5. Finland
6. France
7. Germany
8. Greece
9. Italy
10. Luxembourg
11. Netherlands
12. Norway
13. Poland
14. Portugal
15. Russia
16. Spain
17. Sweden
18. UK
2
1
1
1
2
2
1
1
2
2
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
14
21
27
2
1
1
1
7
3
3
Integrating activity 2: Fill DEED
Sc and Cultural Federal Services (SSTC)
Gamma Tech
To be determined
To be determined
Laval Mayenne Technopole
Universität zu Cologne
FHW, Athens
Scuola Normale Superiore
To be determined
NIWI
University of Oslo
ICMSS Oslo
Universidade do Porto
Centre PIC: Ministry of Culture of Russia
Universidad SEK, Segovia
Interactive Institute Stockholm
To be determined
2.2.
Share Research in DEED
2.3
Subtotal
Total
Harmonise projects with MINERVA
to be determined
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
8
8
8
37
60
8
23
219
WP 3
No.
3.1
Research Matrices Integrating activity 3:Update DEED
Task/ Institution
Co-ordination with Specialised Networks
Technology
ERCIM
CWI (WWW)
Content Creators Artnouveau
Netzspannung (CAT)
ZGDV
V2
Content Holders
DELOS
MUSICNET
ENCORE
ERPANET
Context Creators SCRAN
C2RMF
PULMAN
Applications
Tourism-site.org
Implications
NEHRN
FHW
MINERVA
LUISS
CHIN
IASA
SCEANAA
Med
FHW
Turkish Multimedia Forum
NAS/Russia
Prog.Sys.Inst. Russian Acad. Sc.
Subtotal
Total
3.2
2
2
2
1
1
Female
PhD St.
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
27
30
1
3
Knowledge Discovery
Med
NAS/Russia
Subtotal
Total
Male
Fraunhofer IMK
NCSR Demokritos
ADIT, State Russian Museum
3
1
1
5
8
3
3
220
W4
4.1
Subtotal
Total
Total
4.2
Subtotal
Total
Broadband Pilots
Joint Research Programme
Task/ Institution
Multidimensional Museums
Integration
Universidad Complutense
Universidad SEK
Universidad Jaume 1 de Castellon
CINECA
Olive Oil Museums
Universidad de Jaen
European Sport
Universidad las Palmas
Spanish Museums
e-Cultura Net S.A.
Collaborative Digital Art Universidad A Coruna
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Museo interna. de Electrografia
Universidad de Zaragoza
Vatican Map
CINECA
Med
Universidad de Malaga
NAS/Russia
ADIT
Further
Universidad Complutense da Madrid
LUISS
Patr.Cult.Ayunt.San Sebastián
Universidad A Coruna
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Further
Historical European Cities Università di Bologna
IULM
Università di Lecce
Scuola Normale Superiore
Universidad SEK
Unversidad Alcalà de Henares
Ayuntamiento de Granollers
Sorbonne (Paris IV)
NAS/Russia
Altsoft, Pskov, Novgorod
Male
Female
1
1
1
1
PhD St.
1
1
3
1
1
1
2
2
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
2
19
26
28
1
2
6
5
5
2
1
32
39
7
1
10
1
1
16
2
1
4
1
1
1
2
2
7
7
7
221
4.3
Cultural Tourism and E-Learning
Integration
Tourism Site org. (TICKET)
LUISS
Politecnica di Valencia
Hist. of Leon SaeculaNet Universidad SEK
Treaty of Westphalia
Univ. Politecnica di Valencia
Med. Landscape in Sierra Universidad de Seville
Ceramics
Museo Nacional de Ceramica
Banquets
Media Lab Madrid
Gardens, Cult. Landscapes Universidad SEK
Universidad da Valladolid
Universidad Complutense
Web Portal
CINECA
Med
(www.hellas-vacations.com)
NAS/Russia
Moscow school of Soc. and Ec. Sci.
Further
e-tour (Rovereto)
Austrian Computer Company
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Subtotal
Total
Total
Further
4.4
Art and text Databases
Med
NAS/Russia
Further
Subtotal
Total
Total
4.5
Subtotal
Total
Universität zu Köln
Scuola Normale Superiore
IDI-CERTH
IDEC-SA
Electronic Archives
ISIE State Univ H School of Ec.
State Tretyakov Gallery
Scuola Normale Superiore
Further
Greek Culture and E-Learning FHW
NCSR Demokritos
1
1
3
4
4
1
3
1
2
1
1
2
4
4
1
1
6
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
3
21
38
46
2
2
1
2
17
7
7
7
1
2
1
2
1
6
14
16
1
2
2
8
2
1
1
3
1
1
2
1
1
222
4.6
3-D Reconstructions and Archaeology Czech Tech. Univ.
NAS
National Museum, Gdansk
Technical University of Silesia
Vilnius University, Dep’t Arch
Institute for Archaeology
Int’l Res.Training Centre, Kiev
Further
Czech Tech Univ
Vilnius University, Dep’t of Arch
Technical University of Silesia
LUISS
Subtotal
Total
Total
Further
4.7
Virtual Environments
CINECA.
CNR/ITABC
Université de Paris IV
Cultural Diversity
Université de Paris 8
Freie Universitàt Berlin
Univ. Jules Verne de Picardie
École normale supérieure d’Ulm
Universität Wien
CSIC, Madrid
Subtotal
Total
5.1
A
B
C
2
1
1
1
1
2
2
4
1
3
1
2
2
3
1
1
2
3
6
3
1
1
1
6
10
Hypermedia E-Learning
On-Line Audiovisual Teaching Univ.Jaume I de Castellón
Broadband Foreign Language Teaching (BELE) ANID
DIGIBIS
Tech. Ac.Serv. UNAM
Fundacion Hern. De Larramendi
TUBITAK-Bilten
Galilleo Net
JC Consultants
VICOMTECH
Sonic Software
Universidad SEK de Segovia
UDICo
Nexusware
Virtual Campus
Universidad SEK de Segovia
Med
FHW
IDEC SA, Piraeus
1
1
5
8
19
Subtotal
Total
4.8
1
2
3
3
3
3
1
3
1
1
1
4
3
3
11
5
1
1
1
4
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
2
1
3
1
2
223
NAS/Russia
D
Access Grid Node
Further
Subtotal
Total
Total
Further
5.2
Proknownce user Group
Fundacion Hern. De Larramendi
St Petersburg State Univ.
SIBSUTI
SibMobiIST
CINECA
Via Knowledge
VICOMTECH
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón
5.3c
1
1
Fraunhofer IUK
Fraunhofer IMK
Computer &info skills
Université de Paris 4
Multimedia Authoring
Université de Paris 4
NAS Russian Connection St-Petersburg State Univ.
Moscow St.Univ.of Culture
Moscow sch. Soc.and Ec.Sc
International Training
Université de Paris 4
NAS Russian Connection ADIT.
ADIT-Premium.
Subtotal
Total
5.4
Subtotal
Total
Greek Examples
FHW
5.5
Subtotal
Total
Restoration and Heritage Malta Centre for Restoration
1
1
1
1
1
2
38
52
55
Subtotal
Total
5.3a
5.3b
1
1
3
2
14
2
2
1
2
3
6
5
1
3
2
1
2
11
2
1
1
4
2
11
20
9
2
2
3
1
1
8
8
10
2
2
15
15
224
5.6a
European Masters
Scuola Normale Superiore
Politecnico di Milano
University of Aberdeen
Uniiversité de Paris IV
Brand. Tech U Cottbus
European University of Culture
Univ. Complutense da Madrid
NAS/Russian Connection St-Petersburg State Univ
Moscow State Univ. Cult.and Arts
ADIT
Subtotal
Total
5.6b
Subtotal
Total
Total
5.7
Subtotal
Total
Università di Bologna
Università di Roma, La Sapienza
Universität Kiel260 (NEHRN rep.)
Politecnico di Milano261
Scuola Normale Superiore
Universidad SEK de Segovia
European University of Culture
Université Paris 4 La Sorbonne
NAS Russian Connection Moscow Sch.of Soc.and Ec.Sc.
Centre PIC
Further
Politecnico di Milano.
Universität Kiel
2
1
1
3
1
1
1
1
2
2
8
15
European Doctorates
Further
Expand to NAS and Beyond Universität Wien
ICMSSS, Torun
National Library, Czech Rep.
National Library of Latvia
Univ. Library, Kosice
Central Libr. Bulg. Acad. of Sc.
Univ. of Zagreb, Dep’t of Info.Sc.
National and Univ. Library
Nat. Dig.Repository Proj. Tallinn
Med
FHW
NAS/Russia
Centre PIC
1
7
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
6
11
13
5
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
9
14
1
5
225
5.8
International Nat.Museums of Scotland (EVAN)
Brand. Tech. Univ.Cottbus
Can.Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
Chin. Digital Culture Heritage Network (CDCHN)
Asian Network of Excellence on Digital Silk
Roads
Russian Cultural Heritage Network
Nat. Sc.Foundation: American Culture Grid
Val de Seine
Subtotal
Total
5.9
Subtotal
Total
Training
Culturtec
AMSU
National Museums of Scotland
AMP
Sapienza
1
3
1
1
1
2
1
4
2
3
12
20
1
8
4
2
6
6
1
1
1
1
2
6
1
4
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APPENDIX 8D) FULL LIST OF MEMBERS BY COUNTRY38
The list of key participants is provided above on page 4. These participants are largely
heads of consortia, networks and other groups, which have their own bilateral agreements with a
number of other partners. All together this combination of partners results in the full list of the
NoE provided below.
EUROPE
Austria
Research Institution

Universität Wien39
Belgium
Research Institution

Science and Cultural Federal Services (SSTC)

Université Catholique de Louvain
Industry

Tourism-site Network
Gerhard Budin
Country Rep.
Pascale van Dinter
Benoit Macq
Country Rep.
SIMILAR noe
Louis Noël Netter
Denmark
Finland
France
Research Institution

Laval Mayenne Technopole

Université Paris IV, Sorbonne

Université de Savoie, Condillac Group, LISTIC Lab

Ecole Architecture Val de Seine (EVCAU)

Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH)

Lyon
MOM

Nanterre MAE (Paris 10

Saint Denis
(Paris 8)
Cultural Organisation

Centre Georges Pompidou
Industry

IRISA, Project TEXMEX

JC Consultants
Guy Le Bras
Country Rep.
Marie-Madeleine Martinet
Christophe Roche
André Del
Bernard Geyer
Pierre Rouillard
Jacques Poulain
Christine van Assche
Berti Laure
Jean-Claude Marot
38
The precise relationship of these institutions to the integrating activities and the WPs is
outlined above in Appendix 7.
39
Bold indicates a contractor.
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Germany
Research Institution

Universität zu Köln

Universität Kiel

Brandenburgische Tech. Uni. Cottbus UNESCO

Fraunhofer Inst. f. Medienkommunikation (IMK)

Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM)

ZGDV (Art nouveau Network)
Manfred Thaller Country Rep.
Thomas Riis
M.T Albert
Monika Fleischmann
Adolf Mathias
Michael Schnaider
Greece
Research Institution

Athens Technology Centre
Apostolos Bisbilis

Foundation for Res.and Tech.Hellas (ICS-FORTH) Panos Constantopoulos

Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI-CERTH) Michael-Gerasimos Strintzis

Institute for Language and Speech Processing
Olga Yannoutsou

National Centre for Scientific Research, Demokritos Stavros Perantonis

National Technical University, Athens (NTUA)
Nicholas Mitroui
Cultural Organisation

Foundation of the Hellenic World
Giorgios Giannoulis
Country Rep.

Industry

IDEC SA, Pireaus
Eleni Fatourou
Ireland
Industry

Via Knowledge
Haydn Shaughnessy
Italy
Research Institution

Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Benedetto Benedetti
Country Rep.

Università di Bologna
Francesca Bocchi

Universita di Firenze (Florence Centre of Excellence)Roberto Caldelli
(ORION)

Universita di Lecce
Hubert Houben

Universita IULM di Milano
Rosa Smurra

Università di Padova
Giovanni Zanzotto

Università di Roma: La Sapienza
Annamaria Silvana de Rosa

LUISS (University Luis Guido Carli, Rome)
Oleg Missikoff

Politecnico di Milano
Marco Gaiani

CINECA
Antonella Guidazzoli

CNR-ITABC
Maurizio Forte

Galileo Net, Rome
Matteo Bartocci
Cultural Organisation

Wiegand Foundation
Paolo Segala
 Commune di Bologna
Industry

E-Tour srl
Giovanna Dorigati

Plancton Art Studio
Mauro Annunciato
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Netherlands
Research Institution

KNAW- NIWI

CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatie)

V2
Peter Doorn
Linda Hardman
Anna Nigten
Norway
Research Institution

University of Oslo, Intermedia
Andrew Morrison
Country Rep.
Portugal
Research Institution

Universidade Aberta
Ana Paula Avelar

Universidade do Lisboa
Luis Nuno Espinha da Silveira

Universidade do Minho
Paulo da Silva Dias

Universidade do Porto, Facultad de Letras
Mario Brito
Country Rep.

Associaçao CCG – Centro de Computacao Grafica Aderito Fernandes Marcos
Industry

Associaçao Cultura e Tecnología (Cultura Digital) Alexander Matos

Sistemas do Futuro
Fernando Cabral
Spain
Research Institution

Universidad SEK, Segovia

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Universidad Alcalá de Henares

Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, CHIME262

Universidad A Coruna

Universidad Deusto

Universidad de Jaén

Universidad de Malaga

Universidad de Sevilla

Universidad Zaragoza

Universidad Jaume I de Castillon

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Asoc. Nac. Investigadores en Didattica (ANID)

Universidad Politecnica de Valencia

Universidad Politicnica de Madrid

Media Lab, Madrid (Conde Duque Cult. Cent.)
Arturo Colorado
Country Rep.
Isidro Moreno Sanchez
Asensio Mikel
José Morila Critz
Antonio Legorburo Serra
Luis Hernandez Ibañez
Aurkene Alzua
Jose Ignacio Rojas Sola
Bernardo Diaz Nosty
Magdalena Valor Piechotta
Diego Gutierrez Perez
Jose Javier Marzala Felici
Gloria Munilla Cabrillana
Diego Antona Archilla
Nuria Lloret Romero
Luis Salgado
Ramon Guardans
Cultural Organisation

Ayto de Alcala - Taller Escuela de Arqueologia

Ayto de Granollers

Alicante Provincial Museum of Archaeology

Fondacion Hernando Larramendi

Museo Nacional de Ceramica y Artes Suntuarias

Patronato Cultural de Ayuntamiento de Donostia
Sebastian Rascon Marques
Vanesa Freixa Riba
Elena Crenier (ORION)
Xavier Agenjo
Pilar Espona
Antton Apitarte Lizaso
Industry

DIGIBIS, Madrid

E-Cultura S.A.

VICOMTech, San Sebastián
Lourdes Hern. de Larramendi Martinez
Felix Lozano Corbacho
Maria Teresa Linaza Saldana
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Sweden
Research Institution

Interactive Institute Stockholm

Lund University
Cultural Organisation

Riksarkivet
Halina Gottlieb
Anders Ardö
Country Rep.
Goran Kristiansson
Switzerland
Research Institution

International Association of Sound and Archives (IASA) Kurt Deggeller

United Kingdom
Research Institution

Edinburgh University (EDINA)

Glasgow University

Leeds University

Oxford University (RTS)

University of Aberdeen (NEHRN)

University of Portsmouth

University of Sussex (VLSI)

Cultural Organisation

National Museums of Scotland

Scottish Cult. Res. Access Network (SCRAN)
Industry

Stream UK Media Services Ltd.
James Reid
Seamus Ross
Ian Turton
Lou Burnard
Allan I MacInnis
Humphrey Southall
Katerina Mania
Neil Shaw
(ORION)
Sandy Buchanan
Duncan Burbidge
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NAS (NEWLY ACCESSED STATES): MEDITERRANEAN
Cyprus
Industry
Gamma Tech
Croatia
Research Institution

Univeristy of Zagreb, Dept of Info Sc.
Alexandra Horvath
Jordan
Research Institution

Royal Scientific Society
Ahmad Altarawneh str.
Malta Research Institution

Malta Centre for Restoration IKONOS
Joseph Cannataci
Turkey
Research Institution

TUBITAK-BILTEN

Middle East Technical University (METU)

Industry

Info Solutions
Tolga Túfekçi
Volkan Atalay
Tamer Oztin
NAS (NEWLY ACCESSED STATES): EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA
Czech Republic
Research Institution

Czech Technical University
Vasek Hlavac
(ORION)
Lithuania Research Institution

Vilnius University, Dep.. of Archaeology
Justina Poskiene
(ORION)
Maria Sliwinska
Bogdan Smolka
(ORION)
(ORION)
Jadwiga Charzynska
(ORION)
Poland
Research Institution

ICMSS

Technical University of Silesia
Cultural Organisation

National Museum, Gdansk
UKRAINE
Research Institution

International Research Training Centre, UNESCO Vyachslav Matsello
(ORION)
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Russia Research Institution

Ministry of Culture, Centre PIC
Nadezhda Brakker
Country Rep.

Programme Systems Inst: Russian Acad. of Sc.
Evgeny Patarakin

Moscow State University of Culture and Arts
Olga Shlykova

Moscow School of Soc. and Econ. Sciences
Sergey Zuev

Saint Petersburg State Univ. Interdisciplinary Cent. Nikolay Borisov

Saint Petersburg State Univ. Dep. of Phonetics
Tatyana Sherstinova

Saint Petersburg State Univ. Dep of Computational Linguistics Grigorij Martyanenko

Saint Petersburg State Univ. Propp’s Centre
Svetlana Adonieva

Siberian State Univ. of Telecom. and Info.Sc.
Alexander Markhasin

Siberian Centre of Mobile IST
Alexander Markhasin

State Unversity Higher School of Economics
Leonid Gokhberg
Cultural Organisation

UNESCO Information for All Programme
Evgeny Kuzmin

Russian Cultural Heritage Network
Kirill Nasedkin

ADIT
Alexander Dremailov

ADIT-PREMIUM
Nikolay Selivanov

Association of Regional Library Consortia
Alexander Plemnek

State Russian Museum
Olga Kissel

National Library of Russia
Olga Kulish

State Tretyakov Gallery
Nadezhda Brakker
Industry

Altsoft Spb, Pskov, Novgorod
Tatyana Mersadykova

ARTINFO
Yuri Plastinin

TIME (Tech. Innov. for Modern. Ed.)
Dimitry Rubashkin

ZAO ProSoft-M
Galina Vaslenko
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INTERNATIONAL
UNESCO Digital Silk Roads
Canada
Research Institution

CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network)
Pat Young
China Research Institution

Tsinghua University (Beijing)
Ling Chen

Chinese Digital Culture Heritage Network (CDCHN)
Japan
Research Institution

National Institute for Informatics (NII)

Asian Network of Excellence Digital Silk Roads
United States
Research Institution

NSF Digital Silk Roads Cultural Grid Project

University of California, Berkeley (VHN)

(UCLA) University of California, Los Angeles
Kinjii Ono
William Grosky
Alonzo Addison
Bernard Frischer
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Appendix 8e: Further Russian Candidates which could form basis of a Russian Sub-network
Those in blue are already members of the E-Culture NoE. There are an additional 38 male and 40 female
members who could potentially form a Russian subnetwork of the E-Culture NoE.
Research Institutions
Program Systems Institute of Russian Academy of Science
Evgeny D.Patarakin
M Dr.
Larisa L. Travina
F Dr.
Evgenia R. Lozhkina
F Dr.
Valery P. Rubenko
M
Boris V. Yakubov
M
Galina V. Guzilova
F
Iris A. Belisheva
F
All registered: 20% matrix; 60% DEER; 20% masters
Moscow State University of Culture and Arts
Kiseleva Tatiana Grigorieva
F Prof. Dr.
Bolochagina Valentina Vasilieva
F
Sliadneva Natalia Andrianovna
F
Kapterev Andrey Ignorevic
M
Samarina Natalia Gurievna
F
Mezenseva Olga Petrovna
F
Katz Gottfried
M Dr.
Kondrashevski Gleb
M
Katz Gottfried
M Dr.
Shlykova Olga Vladimirovna
F
All for masters
Moscow School of Social and Economic Sc.-Faculty of Culture Management
Alexey V. Lebedev
M Prof. Dr.
Sergey E. Zuev
M Dr.
Alexander A. Artamonov
M MA
Irina M Muzalevskaya
F
All for masters
Inst. for St. of Info. Economy (State University Higher School of Economics - HSE)
Leonid Gokhberg
M Dr.
(Matrix and Masters)
Alexander Sokolov
M Dr.
(Matrix and DEER)
Irina Gaslikova
F Dr.
Anna Pikalova
F
Irina Bazileva
F
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St. Petersburg State University Dept. of Comput.Ling., Philol.Faculty
Grigorij Martynenko
M
(Matrices and DEER)
Alexander Grebennikov
M D.S.
(Matrices and DEER)
Anna Medvedeva
F Dr.
(Matrices and DEER)
St. Petersburg State University Dept. of Phonetics, Philological Faculty
Lija Bondarko
F D.S
(Matrix and Masters)
Pavel Skrelin
M
(Deer)
Tatiana Sherstinova
F Dr
(Matrix and DEER)
Svetlana Tananajko
F Dr
(Matrix and DEER)
Olga Bolotova
F Dr
(DEER and Masters)
St. Petersburg State University Interdiscipl.Cent.for Advanced Prof.Ed.
Nikolay Borisov
M Dr.
(Matrix, DEER and Masters)
Victor Kapustin
M Dr.
(Matrix, DEER and Masters)
Andrew Chugunov
M Dr.
(DEER)
Vladimir Pankratov
M Dr
(Matrix and DEER)
Paul Tscherbakov
M Dr
(Matrix)
Valentina Zakharkina
F Dr
(DEER)
Elena Feofanova
F Dr
(DEER)
Vitaly Khodobakhshov
M Dr
(Matrix)
Elena Kapustina
F Dr
(Matrix and DEER)
St. Petersburg State University The Propp's Centre
Adonjeva Svetlana Borisovna
F Dr
(All)
Gerasimova Natalia Michajlovna F Dr
(All)
Kadikina Olga Aleksejevna
F Dr
(All)
Veselova Inna Sergeevna
F Dr
(All)
Ponomareva Marina Valerjevne
F
(Matrix and DEER)
Rogova Natalia Igorevna
F
(Matrix and DEER)
Kuchumova Anna Andreevna
F
(Matrix and DEER)
Cultural Organisations
Russian Cultural Heritage Network
Kirill Nasedkin
Anna Mikhailovskaya
Dmitry Olshansky
Olga Puchnina
Vladimir Tsvetkov
Roman Savin
Tatiana Koloshina
Maria Smaznova
Jana Malkova
Jaroslav Konoplya
Tatiana Sokolova
Darya Deryuzhinskaya
Elena Krasnova
Svetlana Konuhova
Alexandra Vasina
M Director
F
M
F
M
M
F
F
F
M
F
F
F
F
F
UNESCO Information for All Programme
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Eugeny Kuzmin
Irina Bogdanovskaya
Alexey Demidov
M
F
M
Dr.
Dr.
Dr
(All)
(Matrix and DEER)
(All)
Centre PIC Ministry of Culture
Nadezhda Brakker
Leonid Kujbyshev
Dr. Alexander Chernych
Natalia Mikhailova
Nina Chernetskaya
F
M
M
F
F
Dr.
(Matrix and DEER)
(DEER and Masters)
(Matrix and Masters)
(DEER)
(DEER)
National Library of Russia
Vladimir R Firsov
Elena D. Zabko
Natalia F. Verbina
M
F
F
Dr
Dr
Dr
The State Tretyakov Gallery
Galina Borisovna Andreeva
Tatyana Vladimirovna Yudenkova
Sofya Olegovna Petrikova-Agafonova
Natalia Vladimirovna Tolstaya
Elena Vitalijevna Zaytseva
F
F
F
F
F
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Association of Regional Library Consortia
Yakov Shraiberg
Felix S. Voroisky
Alexander I. Plemnek
Vladimir L. Baranov
Natalia V. Sokolova
Victor A. Glykhov
Nicolay E. Kalenov
Alexander V. Fronkin
Mikhail V. Goncharov
Oleg L. Zhizhimov
Nikolay A Mazov
Sergei R. Bazhenov
M
M
M
M
F
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
Prof.Dr.
Dr.
Dr
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Prof. Dr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr
Dr
Dr.
RU
(All)
(All)
(All)
(All)
(All)
RU
ADIT (Automation Directions in Museums and Information Technologies)
Victoria V. Chernenko
Alexander S. Dricker
Kirill A. Meerov
Tatyana Bogozomova
Alexander V Dremailov
Alexey V Lebedev
Lev Y Noll
F
M
M
F
F
F
F
Dr.
Dr.
Mr.
Dr
Mr
Dr
Dr
Culture Heritage in Digital Technologies ADIT-PREMIUM
Nikolay Selivanov
M
Tatyana Selivanova
F Dr
Viktor Kostin
M
Marina Pavlova
F
Natalia Kniazeva
F
Marija Taresevich
F
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Industry (Companies)
Altsoft
Tatyana E. Mersadykova
Petr A Grinfeld
Leonid V. Petrov
Filipp S. Gorbachev
Yuriy M. Loshak
Elena L. Kosheeva
Mark L. Starets
Boris S. Raikhel
AlexanderZabotin
F
M
M
M
M
F
M
M
M
Art Info
Yuri Plastinin
Rodion Alukhanov
M
M
Dr.
TIME - Technological Innovations for Modern Education
Dmitry D. Rubashkin
M Dr.
Irina N. Kondratieva
F Dr.
Alexey V. Sigalov
M Dr
Marina M. Matushkina
F Dr.
Alexander V. Kobak
M Dr.
Larisa G. Melikhova
F Dr.
ZAO ProSoft-M JSC
Vadim Chebanov
Viktor Tumarkin
Galina Vasilenko
(Matrix and DEER)
(Matrix)
(Matrix and DEER)
(Matrix and DEER)
(Matrix and DEER)
(Matrix and DEER)
M
M
F
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Acknowledgements
First, I am deeply grateful to Alexander Bielowski whose dedication in hunting down/up
the required letters of intent, A2 and A3 forms went far beyond the call of duty and made
this a feasible project. His enthusiastic, generous and reliable sorting out of details, his
patience with being in touch with everyone, in addressing everything from the minutiae to
the very big picture has been vital for the development of the e-Culture NoE.
Next, I am grateful to Ankie Bosch who patiently ordered all the documentation for the A
part of the application and retyped all the A2 forms in order that they could be made
available in electronic form. In the background Hannie Spronck has dealt with EU
administrative details for which we are all grateful.
A week before the FP6 submission Andrew Morrison very generously offered to provide
“some formatting” which provided the application with a much more coherent look and
feel. To him also my warm thanks.
Ultimately, a network is only possible if many individuals thinking about, thinking with
and sharing their ideas as to how the network can and should evolve. Here dozens of you
have made a difference, offering words of advice, encouragement, caution at just right
moment.
From a framework viewpoint, thanks go to Suzanne Keene for convincing us that the
DEER is a practical goal. From an interface viewpoint the patient work of Lily Diaz and
her student, Mikka have transformed our initial website into something dashing. From a
technological standpoint, Manfred Thaller’s Digital Autonomous Cultural Objects
(DACOs) offer a software expression of Europe’s concern with cultural diversity.
Here special thanks go also to Frederic Andres who has been most active in linking ECulture Net with the international scene through UNESCO, the Japanese and American
Silk Roads projects; James Hemsley for adding the rest of the continents to our view,
Nadia Brakker for demonstrating conceretely how much Russia has to offer, Giorgios
Giannoulis and Zonia Tervaki for bringing the Mediterranean into focus Arturo Colorado
for showing how much one can achieve in integrating the efforts of a large country.
Maastricht 18 April 2003
Kim H Veltman
Notes
1
Giorgio Ruffolo, The Unity of Diversities. Cultural Co-operation in the European Union, ed.
Parliamentary Group of the PSE European Parliament, Florence: Angelo Pontecorboli, 2001.
2
Initially the example of the JISC’s Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) inspired
the idea of a Distributed European Electronic Resource (DEER). While preliminary study by
Suzanne Keene (UCL) confirmed that the DEER was a practical goal, it also suggested that it
would require a number of years to achieve. A first response was to distinguish between a short
term Distributed Electronic Research Resource (DERR) and a long term DEER. In March 2003,
one of the members, Frederic Andres, aptly noted that the DEER had a very static connotation,
which was at variance with the dynamic approach that was foreseen through components such as
collaborative environments and virtual agoras. As a result the DEER was renamed the DEED
(Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) Resource.
The simple purpose of the NoE is to build a DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic)
resource, fill this DEED and keep the DEED updated.
The Webster Dictionary reminds us that a deed is among other things an “action”
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and “a signed and usually sealed instrument containing some legal transfer, bargain or contract.”
A DEED (Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) resource as a secure, multilingual solution
for sharing research and content is thus a fitting vision which can in the long-term lead to a
DEER (Distributed European Electronic Resource).
3
Accès Multilingue au Patrimoine
4
.Semantic Web meets Knowledge Organization for Large-Scale Information Integration
5
SIMILARnet (please see Appendix 2b).
6
As an NoE these groups will primarily work together in creating a single distributed electronic
resource with which to share their resources. In parallel, some groups will develop STREPS to
address further research dimensions and other challenges. For instance, the idea of Virtual
Heritage Centres has broadband requirements, which will be addressed by a separate proposal
with respect to (GEANT) infrastructure funds and possibly a further proposal qua funds for grids
infrastructures.
7
http://www.rediris.es/novedades/20030109.en.html;
cf.http://212.166.67.36/descargas/jazztel_pta.ppt
8
http://www.cudi.edu.mx/noticias/junio/250602_ipv6.htm
9
View of: La Cappella della Croce vista dallo sbocco della via S. Vitale (in primo piano) su
piazza di Porta Ravegnana. Cf. http://www.storiaeinformatica.it/nume/italiano/gall10.html
10
http://www.storiaeinformatica.it/nume/italiano/nrealta.html
11
http://www.imk.fraunhofer.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=&id=1350
Working group “E-Contents, cultural contents and legal aspects in the Information Society.”
The aims of the working group are based on the priority lines detected within the European
Union:
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“European resources regarding culture and scientific knowledge are considered a unique public
good representing the alive, collective memory of our various societies, and act as a solid
foundation for the development of our digital content industry in a sustainable knowledge
society”.
The members of the working group introduced in this document have worked on such topics
prior to their getting together as a group, and have undertaken, in their respective specialist
fields, projects within the subject matter. Based on the initiative proposed by the European Union
and after a careful analysis of the conservation needs of our heritage, the creation of a
multidisciplinary group focused on content development in different formats while respecting
copyright issues was suggested. With this in mind, the activities carried out by the group
members have been focused on:
1. Promoting accessible and sustainable heritage. Cultural heritage represents a unique and
valuable asset. Digitalisation of resources is of paramount importance in order to make
them more accessible to citizens and preserve our collective cultural heritage.
2. Working as a discussion group for cultural diversity, education and content industry.
3. Spreading rich and varied resources through digital preservation projects.
4. Avoiding fragmentation of approaches. So far, digitalisation activities, despite being
common practice, have greatly differed due to a lack of consistency of approaches.
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5. As for digital contents and selection criteria of contents to be digitalised, there is a risk of
using resources, efforts and investments to repeat the same thing more than once.
6. Promoting the use of technical standards agreed within Europe in order to achieve further
convergence between geographically disperse funding sources.
7. Defending digitalisation that takes into account copyright issues.
ACADEMIC FRAMEWORK OF THE WORKING TEAM
Beside the academic activity of each group member within university degree programmes, since
2001 they have taught at the University Postgraduate course in Legal advice for Information
Technology companies. The course was an introduction to the master’s degree starting in
September with the aim to train specialists in digital contents development. The master course is
split in two specialist postgraduate certificates, one of them focused on content development and
the other centered on the legal aspects of such contents and their jurisprudence. The aim of this
master course is to train professionals in fields less linked to information technologies, such as
lawyers, historians, linguists, fine arts graduates, as well as to give a different view to people
who have a technical profile, such as computer and telecommunications engineers and
documentalists.
The masters course has been organised by our team in the Department of Audiovisual
Communication, Documentation and History of Art, with the collaboration of the Higher
Technical School of Industrial Engineering and the Valencia Bar Association.
MAIN PROJECTS
What follows is a list of the most important projects on cultural heritage in which the group
members have taken part in the last few years. IT projects not linked to cultural heritage, as well
as cultural heritage projects not developed within the IT framework have not been included in
the list.
PROJECT TITLE
Galerred, Development of an information
system of contemporary art for the Association
of Contemporary Art Galleries of Valencia
FUNDING SOURCE
IMPIVA. Instituto de la Pequeña y
Mediana
Empresa
Valenciana
(Valencia Institute for SMEs)
Galerred II, Development of an e-commerce Conselleria de Industria y Comercio,
system for contemporary art galleries
Generalitat Valenciana (Industry and
Trade Department of the Valencia
Autonomous Government)
Development of an incunabula digital library Conselleria de Cultura, Educación y
with
access
to
original
documents, Ciencia,
Generalitat
Valenciana
transcriptions and translations
(Culture, Education and Sciences
Department
of
the
Valencia
Autonomous Government)
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Development of a manuscripts digital library Conselleria de Cultura, Educación y
with
access
to
original
documents, Ciencia,
Generalitat
Valenciana
transcriptions and translations
(Culture, Education and Sciences
Department
of
the
Valencia
Autonomous Government)
Internet broadcast system of professionals and Valencia Polytechnic University
their works for Art Association of Valencia
(Arte de la Comunidad Valenciana, DAACV)
Analysis of sources, documents and works of Project for Scientific Research and
Valencia paintings. Databases of bibliographic Technology Development Generalitat
references and documents. Pere Nicolau
Valenciana, within the Valencia
Science and Technology Programme
[95/9510].
Directorate General for University
Programmes and Research
Analysis of document languages in order to Project for Scientific Research and
create a thesaurus for the Document Database Technology Development Generalitat
of the Pere Nicolau project
Valenciana, within the Valencia
Science and Technology Programme
[95/9510].
Directorate General for University
Programmes and Research
Asset inventory of the Polytechnic University
Vice-rectorate of Culture
of Valencia
Promotion of research. Church assets in
Conselleria
de
Cultura,
Orihuela town (1739-1790)
Educación y Ciencia, Generalitat
Valenciana (Culture, Education and
Sciences Department of the Valencia
Autonomous Government)
TEAM MEMBERS
The working group is a multidisciplinary team, and its members are:
DEPARTMENT OF AUDIOVISUAL COMMUNICATION, DOCUMENTATION AND
HISTORY OF ART
Joan Aliaga Morell. Dept. Director (History of Art)
Nuria Lloret Romero. Dept. Deputy Director (Documentation)
Adolfo Muñoz Martinez. Dept. (Audiovisual Comunication)
Fernando Canet Centellas. (Audiovisual Comunication)
Luisa Tolosa Robledo. Dept. Secretary (Documentation)
Fernanda Peset Mancebo. Technical School teacher (Documentation)
Jose Luis Clemente Marco. Vice-dean, Faculty of Fine Arts (History of Art)
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Margarita Cabrera Méndez. PhD Student (Audiovisual Communication)
DEPARTMENT OF SCULPTURE
Moisés Mañas Carbonell. Teacher, Multimedia tools used in digital art
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS
Luis Guijarro Coloma. Secretary, Higher Technical School of Telecommunications
Engineering. (Information Society)
Some of the members have taken part in European projects (IMPACT, ADAPT, IST, Regiolink).
Nuria Lloret Romero is EU external assessor for programmes IST, E-Contents and Safety and
Filtering networks.
Luis Guijarro Coloma is EU external assessor for programme IST and collaborates with the EU
Joan Monet programme for the Information Society.
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R i c h a r d L i g h t – Education: degree in maths and theoretical physics. Professional
experience: worked briefly as an Information Scientist, then spent 14 years at the Museum
Documentation Association, working primarily on museum documentation standards and
software. Developed a specialist interest in SGML/XML. Freelance since 1991.
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L e o n a r d D . W i l l PhD, MCLIP, MBCS, CPhys, Ceng.– Education and research in
physics. Became interested in scientific information services and qualified as a librarian. Head of
Library and Information Services at the Science Museum, London: introduced computerised
object documentation system and was responsible for the library, pictorial and archives
collections. Independent consultant in information management since January 1994. Maintain
WWW sites for CIDOC and ICOM UK. Cf. http://www.willpowerinfo.co.uk/
15
http://www.metu.edu.tr/
16
Thus far two countries have independent websites for their own networks (Spain, Portugal).
Representatives for networks in each country have been found.
As a thematic network, E-Culture Net, has begun developing networks in each country linked
within a larger European NoE. This may seem a paradoxical way to foster international cooperation. In the past, this approach was often linked with narrow nationalism and even today
when run exclusively by national governments, such networks are likely to focus only on
activities within the boundaries of that country.
However, when such networks are linked to a larger European vision they become a powerful
means of maintaining links with national dimensions while at the same time ensuring that local
and regional dimensions are linked with a European scale. Solutions and standards developed
throughout Europe can be made available to all members of the union, thus avoiding many reinventions of the wheel.
By demonstrating that such networks are more effective when linked in a larger network,
national governments can in future be persuaded to pay for their part therein. From an
administrative viewpoint, such networks introduce an efficient context for a distributed
approach. Moreover, since most countries are defined by a single language this offers an efficient
way to address multi-lingual dimensions.
17
http://www.tourism-site.org/
18
Tourism Industry Consortium for Knowledge Exchange and Information Targeting.cf.
http://consortium.cordis.lu/dsp_details.cfm?ID=26997
19
http://www.ciberaula.net/ets/
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http://www.cervantesvirtual.com
http://reseauxdoc.u-paris10.fr/
22
cf. http://www.europhd.psi.uniroma1.it:8080/main/main.htm
23
http://www.histosem.uni-kiel.de/Lehrstuehle/land/Personen/riis.html
24
http://www.mediadigitali.polimi.it/ddd/ddd_001/autori/a_gaiani.htm
25
http://www.mediadigitali.polimi.it/ddd/ddd_001/autori/a_gaiani.htm
26
http://www.mediadigitali.polimi.it/ddd/ddd_001/autori/a_gaiani.htm
27
http://www.mediadigitali.polimi.it/ddd/ddd_001/autori/a_gaiani.htm
28
Guide for proposers, p. 6.
29
http://www.inst.at/kulturen/unesco.htm
30
http://www.ikonosheritage.org
31
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2002/c_032/c_03220020205en00020002.pdf
32
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2002/c_032/c_03220020205en00010001.pdf
33
Another exception is the German Max Planck Gesellschaft, which has made an important
commitment to making e-preprints from their many research institutes freely accessible. Their
ECHO Consortium proposes to make many scientific resources available. But these are solutions
almost exclusively in the scientific field.
34
http://ahds.ac.uk/
35
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=about
36
http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Activities/
37
http://www.rediris.es/red/
38
This is necessary if Europe’s awareness of its evolving cultural boundaries is also to lead to
new reflection of its role with respect to other great cultures around the world.
39
http://linux.infoterm.org/iso-e/i-iso.htm
40
Initially the example of the JISC’s Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) inspired
the idea of a Distributed European Electronic Resource (DEER). While preliminary study by
Suzanne Keene (UCL) confirmed that the DEER was a practical goal, it also suggested that it
would require a number of years to achieve. A first response was to distinguish between a short
term Distributed Electronic Research Resource (DERR) and a long term DEER. In March 2003,
one of the members, Frederic Andres, aptly noted that the DEER had a very static connotation,
which was at variance with the dynamic approach that was foreseen through components such as
collaborative environments and virtual agoras. As a result the DEER was renamed the DEED
(Distributed European Electronic Dynamic) Resource.
41
http://www.iti.gr/db.php/en/projects/ASPIS.html
42
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/archiving_legal.pdf
43
http://w3.univ-paris1.fr/pages/liste.cfm?RUBRIQUE=4061&lg=1
cf. http://droit-internet-2000.univ-paris1.fr/di2000_01.htm
44
Law and Information Technology Research Unit.
See: http://www.um.edu.mt/pressreleases/2000/litru.html
45
http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/ejn/
46
[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/mrt/numerisation/fr/f_01.htm].
47
[http://www.iconclass.nl/]
48
[http://frantiq.mom.fr/FRANTIQ/index.html]
49
[http://web.mae.u-paris10.fr/recherche/beinforma.htm]
50
[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/mrt/numerisation/fr/f_01.htm].
20
21
243
51
[http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/index.html].
[http://www.topicmaps.org].
53
http://eoi.cordis.lu/dsp_details.cfm?ID=33577
54
http://www.lub.lu.se/SEMKOS/
55
www.tele.ucl.ac.be/SIMILAR
56
http://consortium.cordis.lu/dsp_details.cfm?ID=32604
57
http://www.mmi.unimaas.nl/eculturenet/Internal/contributions/1/WP1CNRITABC.pdf
user name: eculturenet
password kickoff2
58
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-990866.html
59
http://www.icono14.net/ims/
60
http://www.storiaeinformatica.it/nume/italiano/ntitolo.html
61
http://www.tourism-site.org/
62
Tourism Industry Consortium for Knowledge Exchange and Information Targeting.
Cf. http://consortium.cordis.lu/dsp_details.cfm?ID=26997
63
http://gilgamesch2.hki.uni-koeln.de/Prometheus/press_01.htm
64
www.ikonosheritage.org
65
http://www.cati.paris4.sorbonne.fr/
66
http://nehrn.hum.sdu.dk/Doctoral/Com.htm
67
http://www.ucm.es/info/cavp2/culturtec2002/
68
http://www.amsu.edu/courses/media/media12003.htm
69
http://uranus.ee.auth.gr/ipl/projects/aspis.htm
70
www.openjpeg.org
71
http://www.calsi.net
72
http://www.calsi.org/eng/
73
http://www.culture.fr/culture/mrt/numerisation/fr/f_01.htm
74
http://www.lub.lu.se/SEMKOS/
75
http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de/
76
http://www.nordic-interactive.org/
77
http://www.cineca.it/
78
http://www.mediadigitali.polimi.it/VH_network/
79
http://www.minervaeurope.org/
80
http://netzspannung.org/start/flash/
81
http://netzspannung.org/research/collaborative/?lang=en
82
http://www.gmd.de/PT-NMB/Bereich_Hochschulen/lfd.Projekte/08NM072.htm
52
83
http://kalysis.com/content/modules.php?op=modload&name=EasyContent&file=index&menu=1
402&page_id=41
84
http://www.education.gov.mt/ministry/doc/pr_pdf2/ikonos.pdf
85
http://www.unige.ch/cre/activities/Bologna%20Forum/Bologne1999/bologna%20declaration.ht
m
Cf. http://www.unige.ch/cre/activities/Bologna%20Forum/Bologna_welcome.htm
86
http://www.storiaeinformatica.it/newdef/italiano/ndefault.html
87
http://www.vasari.co.uk/evan.htm
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88
http://www.bmbwk.gv.at/start.asp
http://www.wvc.vlaanderen.be/
90 http://belgium.fgov.be
91 http://www.dglive.be/chapter02/ministerium/2-4-2-2.html
92
http://www.kum.dk/
93
http://www.minedu.fi/minedu/ministry/index.html
94
http://www.culture.fr/.
95
http://www.bmbf.de/
96
http://www.culture.gr/
97
http://www.beniculturali.it/
98
http://www2.minocw.nl/indexocw.jsp
99
http://odin.dep.no/kkd/
100
http://www.min-cultura.pt/
101
http://www.cpic.ru/about_e.htm
102
http://www.mec.es/#
103
http://kultur.regeringen.se/inenglish/
104
http://www.culture.gov.uk/index_noflash.html
105
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-990866.html
106
http://www.iti.gr/db.php/en/projects/ASPIS.html
107
[http://www.iconclass.nl/]
108
[http://frantiq.mom.fr/FRANTIQ/index.html]
109
[http://web.mae.u-paris10.fr/recherche/beinforma.htm]
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[These projects have been described in AMP Newsletter Nr.2:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/mrt/numerisation/fr/f_01.htm]
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http://www.ifla.org/
112
http://www.itu.int/aboutitu/overview/history.html This was formerly the (ITU) International
Telegraph Union founded in 1865. Another example of an early organisation is the ASIFA
(Association Internationale du film d’Animation, founded in 1901).
See: http://www.ifla.org/III/index.htm
113
http://icom.museum/organization.html
114
http://www.ica.org/static.php?ptextid=histoire&plangue=eng
115
http://www.iasa-web.org/iasa0001.htm
116
http://www.afci.org/index2.asp
117
http://www.itva.org
118
http://www.iktsite.org/
119
http://www.icomos.org/athens_charter.html
120
http://www.unesco.org/general/eng/about/what.shtml
121
http://icom.museum/organization.html
122
http://www.coe.int/t/e/social_cohesion/socsp/general_information/02_Mission_Statement/introduction.asp
123
http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/WhatYouWant.asp?NT=005
124
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/DeclareList.asp?NT=018
125
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/about/whats.htm
126
http://www.international.icomos.org/e_venice.htm
127
http://www.icomos.org/
89
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128
http://whc.unesco.org/nwhc/pages/doc/main.htm
www.unesco.org/whc/world_he.htm
130
http://www.chin.gc.ca/
131
http://www.culturelink.org/
132
http://www.circle-network.org/
133
http://www.european-heritage.net/sdx/herein/national_heritage/introduction.xsp
134
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/lund_principles.htm
135
http://www.minervaeurope.org/
136
http://212.180.100.48/index.php
137
http://www.ebu.ch/union/union.php
138
http://stars.coe.fr/museum/emf_e.htm
139
http://www.eim.de/TVForum.htm
140
http://www.obs.coe.int/
141
http://www.eito.com/previous.html
142
http://www.efah.org/
143
http://lessites.service-public.fr/cgi-bin/annusite/annusite.fcgi/nat6?lang=uk&orga=203
144
http://www.ace1.nl/
145
http://www.efp-online.com/
146
http://www.emii.org/
147
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/5698/
148
http://www.etve.com/
149
http://www.ne-mo.org/
150
http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de:8080/euromuse/home/index.jsp
151
http://www.erpanet.org/
152
A more detailed list of such cultural policy documents is found at:
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/resources/charters.html#1904
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http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/projects/cristal-french/c2rmf.html
154
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/about/whats.htm
155
http://www.international.icomos.org/e_venice.htm
156
http://www.icomos.org/
157
http://www.chin.gc.ca/
158
http://www.infoloom.com/gcaconfs/WEB/barcelona97/toche55.HTM
http://www.eu-esis.org/Presentation/Michard/Michard.htm
http://www.inria.fr/rapportsactivite/Ra-Dev98/mediaculture/AD98126.html
159
http://www.ics.forth.gr/proj/isst/Projects/chios.html
160
http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/
161
http://www.renardus.org/
162
http://www.lub.lu.se/SEMKOS/
163
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/en/projects.html. Note that many of those projects which
are listed under access to cultural heritage return below in the thematic heading of Meta-Data.
164
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/en/activity/tap.html#Information%20Engineering
165
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/projects/99-10951.htm
166
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/iaf/iii41obj.htm
167
http://www.covax.org/
168
http://www.ercim.org/cyclades/
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169
http://www.v2.nl/index.php
http://www.c3.hu/
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http://www.nettime.org/nettime-nl.w3archive/200004/msg00033.html
172
http://www.zkm.de
173
http://www.aec.at/
174
http://www.encart.net/
175
http://www.imk.fraunhofer.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=&id=1007
176
http://netzspannung.org/start/flash/
177
http://awake.imk.fraunhofer.de/
178
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg10/avpolicy/index_en.html
179
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/cpt/2002cpa15.htm
180
http://pi.ijs.si/ProjectIntelligence.Exe?Cm=Project&Project=ARTNOUVEAU
181
http://www.agentcities.net/top.jsp
182
http://www.agentlink.org/
183
http://www.newcastle.research.ec.org/cabernet/
184
http://www.ced.tuc.gr/Research/IDOMENEUS.htm
185
http://monet.aber.ac.uk/
186
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/neuronet/
187
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~gespan/projects/renoir/proposal/proposal.html. Cf.
http://www.erudit.de/erudit/index.htm which is no longer active.
188
http://www.kulturnet.dk/homes/ks/encore/
189
http://www.erpanet.org/
190
http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/projects/cristal-french/c2rmf.html
191
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/
170
ERUDIT
192
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/stdsdevelopment/tclist/TechnicalCommitteeDetailPage.TechnicalCom
mitteeDetail?TC=37
193
http://linux.infoterm.org/infoterm-e/i-infoterm.htm
194
http://www.elsnet.org/
195
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
196
http://nehrn.hum.sdu.dk/
197
http://www.ercim.org/delos/
198
http://www.europeanlibrary.org/
199
http://portico.bl.uk/gabriel/
200
http://www.incca.org/
201
http://consortium.cordis.lu/dsp_details.cfm?ID=33118
202
http://media.it.kth.se/SONAH/ANALYSYS/race/pl7/present/rama.htm#Information
203
http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/mm-syn2.htm#24378. This led to the creation of a non-profit
company MUSEE, Inc. (Museums and Universities Supporting Educational Enrichment, Inc.)
and the more commercial Museums On Line (http://www.museum-online.com/, no longer
active).
cf. http://www.cordis.lu/ist/98vienna/xmenhir.htm
204
http://www.iihe.ac.be/scimitar/J0499/e-publishing.html
205
http://www.openheritage.com/intro.html
206
http://www.ercim.org/
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207
http://www.pulmanweb.org/
http://www.onb.ac.at/koop-litera/leaf/intro/malvine_leaf_flyer.pdf
209
http://www.euromuse.net/
210
http://www.europa-cinemas.com/home.html
cf. http://europa.eu.int/comm/avpolicy/media/cineday_en.html
211
http://www.multimediamusicnetwork.org/
212
cf other non EC networks such as ENCIP European Network for Communication and
Information Perspectives212 cf. http://www.encip.org/static/encip/set_mission.lasso
213
http://www.vasari.co.uk/vasari.htm
214
http://www.videomuseum.fr/magnt/magntc.htm
215
http://www.vasari.co.uk/magnets/wp4/index.html#contents
216
http://www.vasari.co.uk/magnets/wp4/app-a.html
217
http://www.cordis.lu/libraries/en/projects/vaneyck.html
218
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/exhibit/ex_175000638.html
219
http://www.vaneyck.org/
220
http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/projects/cristal-french/c2rmf.html
221
http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/projects/cristal-french/narcisse.html
222
http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/projects/cristal-french/narcisse.html
223
http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/projects/projects_individual.jsp?ProjectID=5
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The multilingual painting database contains:
15,000 museological work files, scientific and technical photo-archive files on 160,000
photographic and radiographic films made till 1931, 65.000 ultra-high defnition digitized images
(6,000x8,000 pixels) are archived on 600 CD-ROMS and the contents of 4,000 reports which are
partly published on html pages.
225
http://www.musee-online.org/about.asp.
226
http://mosaic.infobyte.it/. There were considerable delays in the formal beginning of this
project due to personal judgements such that it did not begin formally until February 1998.
227
http://www.associazionecivita.it/
228
This individual was originally a member of Joanneum Research which has also produced the
IMDAS (Integrated Museum Documentation and Administration System). Cf.
http://iis.joanneum.ac.at/iis/Default.asp
229
http://www.be.cultivate-Europe.org/geninfoe.htm
230
http://www.be.cultivate-Europe.org/paneure.htm
231
http://www.be.cultivate-Europe.org/geninfoe.htm
232
http://inf2.pira.co.uk/factsheets/inform/digicult/regnet.html
233
http://www.trisweb.org/tris/trisportalpro/tris/tris_project_staff.asp
234
http://www.trisweb.org/tris/trisportalpro/tris/tris_project_sum.asp
235
http://www.pulmanweb.org/
236
http://www.culturelink.org/
237
http://www.circle-network.org/
238
http://www.cimi.org/history.html
239
http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/intcoop/g8/i_g8conference.html
cf. http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/intl/g7/g7facts.txt
Further G 7 documents: http://www.tnm.go.jp/bnca/doc/Refer.en.html
240
http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/topics/i_MM.html
208
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http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/intcoop/g8/i_g8pp_matrix.html
http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/docs/services/newsletter/96/june/ISPOJUNE04.html
http://www.yusei.go.jp/mpt_eng/Releases/International/news7-6-1.html
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http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~konijn/viseum.html
http://www.cordis.lu/infowin/acts/rus/projects/ac238.htm
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http://www.medicif.org/Dig_library/Old_MEDICI_docs/Moudocs/moutext.htm
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http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/aboutiso/introduction/whatisISO.html
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http://www.mda.org.uk/
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http://www.cni.org/tfms/1994b.fall/perkins.html
http://www.cni.org/pub/CIMI/chiolink.html
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http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/special/metadata/overview.htm
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http://www.portia.dk/musea/finalreport/2.htm#2
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http://www.diffuse.org/oii/en/museums.html#CHIO
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http://www.diffuse.org/oii/en/oiistand.html#oiistand
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http://www.diffuse.org/museums.html
The Diffuse project has been set up to provide neutral reporting on developments relating to
standards and specifications in support of Key Action II (New Methods of Work and Electronic
Commerce) and Key Action III (Multimedia Content and Tools) of the European Commission’s
Information Society Technologies (IST) programme. The project outputs are primarily targeted
at potential and actual IST participants.
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http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/whoswho.htm
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In 1977 the Scuola Normale had independently organsied a: First international Conference on
automatic processing of art history data and documents. Programme and abstracts of all
conference transactions, pp. XXIII-55.Conference transactions I, I-XX, pp. 402.; Conference
transactions II, XXI-XL, pp. 366. cf. http://www.sns.it/Lettere/centro.htm
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http://library.wustl.edu/~listmgr/imagelib/Jan1995/0008.html
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http://www.archimuse.com/
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http://www.amico.org/join/members.html
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http://www.mcn.edu/MCN98/index.html. Also important among the early pioneers was the
MIP (Museum Informatics Project, University of California, Berkeley)
Cf. http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/mip/index.html
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http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/
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http://www.histosem.uni-kiel.de/Lehrstuehle/land/Personen/riis.html
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http://www.mediadigitali.polimi.it/ddd/ddd_001/autori/a_gaiani.htm
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http://www.uclm.es/gcynt/chime/inicio.asp?lengua=en&accion=con
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