Accessing Culture: the New Digital Ecology
Wednesday 2 December - 11.00-13.30, Austria Center Vienna, Hall H on the Blue Level
A workshop at IST 98

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Europe's acquired cultural wealth is held in and accessed through the key cultural institutions of libraries, museums and archives. These are rich resources for citizens, for scholarship, and for the creation of new content. Digital libraries and their technologies are creating new opportunities and challenges for unlocking and adding value to these resources. This workshop will focus on enabling technologies for providing and managing digital content, on infrastructures for developing new forms of access for the citizen, and on the alliances needed to exploit these resources fully and creatively. The overall goal is to encourage partnerships between cultural organisations and with industrial and private-sector actors.

• Chair: Manfred Kaufmann,Vienna Museum of Ethnology (A)
• Erich Neuhold, Director, GMD-IPSI (Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute) (D) - Keynote speech: The digital ecology—enabling digital libraries and virtual museums
• Alain Michard, INRIA (F) - The bright future of "lightweight" editors
• Johannes Hofman, Programmabureau Digitale Duurzaamheid (NL) - Challenges for digital preservation
• Kurt Bandat and Chris Stary, Department of Business Information Systems, University of Linz (A) - Virtual museums of information technologies
• David Kay, Strategic Development Director, Fretwell-Downing Informatics (UK) - Networking cultural services to the citizens: interoperability, metadata, new services
• Marco Bergometti, Marketing Director, Giunti Multimedia (I) - Adding value to content and to services: exploitation and alliances
• Walter Koch, (A) - ONE-2

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