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Info2000 Programme - (1994-1998)

INFO2000 aimed at stimulating the emerging multimedia content industry to recognise and exploit new business opportunities. The central theme was the development of a European information content industry capable of competing on a global scale, and able to satisfy the needs of Europe's enterprises and citizens for information content, leading, on the one hand, to economic growth, competitiveness and employment, and, on the other hand, to individual, professional, social, and cultural development.

Some of the projects under INFO2000 relevant to the Cultural Heritage area are:

1968

A World Revolution (IT)

Objectives: the project aims to present a multimedia archive of the cultural, social and economic upheaval of a year which, the authors would argue, had an enduring effect on European attitudes.

ACTUAL

Découverte de la presse écrite (BE)

Objectives: to better understand the written press in the practique

AGORA

Ancient Greece: daily life, philosOphy and RituAls (GR)

Objectives: to address the issue of informing and educating young people on daily life in ancient Greece. In order to engage the user the series is focused on different scenarios.

ANGS

Animation New Generation Services (E)

Objectives: to specify an European's Cultural Heritage 3D character database, to specify an on-line and off-line 3D character access and acquisition service (service 1), to specify an on-line and off-line live 3D character animation service (service 2) based on new motion capture technologies,

ArtGlass

Les objects d'Art en verre: plate-forme d'information et de commerce "on-line" (BE)

Objective: to develop a multimedia database on the European glass heritage.

ARNO

ART NOUVEAU in Brussels and Vienna at the turn of the century (BE)

Objectives: to present the Golden Age of Art Nouveau or Jugendstil throughout different approaches showing the common inspiration amongst the architects and artists of that time.

ARTIS

Art Restoration and Techniques (IT)

Objectives: to produce an important reference work on painting techniques and art restoration skills. Multimedia, multilingual tools allow the authors to provide a deep experience of the creation, ageing and sensitive conservation of European artworks.

ARTLINKS

A Survey of the Links Between the Different Arts and Their Trends in an European Perspective (BE)

Objectives: to present European Cultural History in a structured multimedia and interactive way, starting from prehistoric art to the most recent modern streams in the arts.

ARTWEB

ARTWEB the World's Finest Art Collection (UK)

Objectives: The objective of the Art Web project is to provide a single point of access over the Internet to a unique database of art images for multimedia developers and technologies and image databases developed through the Image-In project (DGXIII IMPACT). The individual museums that contribute to the central database will be entitled to the service of public access web site design with links to the central site of the picture libraries and its copyright database.

BAMBI

Broadcasting and Multimedia Bridge to the Internet (UK)

Objectives: to produce a pilot training/educational programme to professional and non professional audiences on a specified topic which will include Internet access.

BIMILLEN

Bimillenary of Christ (IT)

Objectives: to fully exploit and make available to the public all over the world a lesser known aspect of Europe's Cultural Heritage.

CAMP

Concentration camps - a Nazi heritage in Europe (DE)

Objectives: to provide results of scientific research of the concentration camp history as a prototype for multimedia presentation on CD-ROM and on Internet. The objective of this presentation is to show historical documents, documents of oral history of survivors and scientific text in an integrated multimedia prototype.

CDNET

Updating CDs over a Network (IT)

Objectives: CD-NET is a museum and Cultural Heritage project which aims to enhance the static nature of CD-ROM technology and resources with dynamic updating of materials via communications network.

CHAIN

Cultural Heritage and Arts Information Network (NO)

Objectives: to develop a multimedia information service and infrastructure for interlinking cultural directories into an integrated trans-European network for the economic exploitation of the European Cultural Heritage.

CHAMP: (DE)

Objectives: The objective of CHAMP is to catalyse High quality European Multimedia. Content in the field of Cultural Heritage. CHAMP will link for the first time video, 'virtual' computer reconstructions and archaeological data in an integrated database that will enhance

(a) scientific understanding of archaeological sites and
(b) presentation of Cultural Heritage sites to a wider audience and
(c) the development of new forms of long-term documentation in the context of new media and the 'virtual museum'.

CHAMPOLLION

Cultural Heritage and Multilingual Programme of Long-Standing Legacy in Open Networks (NL)

Objective: to build a database of digital images and descriptions of 1,500 objects from the museum collections, including everyday items as well as famous works of art and hieroglyphic texts.

CITEAUX

Valorisation of the Cistercian manuscript of the municipal library of Dijon (FR)

Objective: to bringing the manuscripts to a wider audience, via multimedia technology.

CRUSADER (FR)

Objectives: to create a fictional quest based on real-life characters and facts.

DA

Multimedia Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Century Architecture (FR)

Objectives: the Multimedia Dictionary of XXth Century Architecture will be the first database of its kind available on the Net and on CD-ROM/.The project aims to produce a highly interactive on-line WWW service supported by CD-ROM. Users will be able to circulate interactively and connect on-line to data using 3D, video and animation of plans.

DeafHist

A Journey Through the Deaf European World (SE)

Objectives: to give information and knowledge of deaf people's culture and history in a new way, through interactive multimedia-based system and on Internet.

ECMA

European Cities Multimedia Atlas (E)

Objectives: to offer an on-line multimedia server platform that will provide a rigorous and up-to-date instrument for understanding the evolution, the problems and strategies of the cities of Europe today, with special development of information about projects and interventions in public space.

EFT

European FolkTales in the Information Age: from text to multimedia technology (E)

Objectives: to transfer to digital format one part of the European Cultural Heritage, relating to folktales.

EUAN

The European Archives Network (UK)

Objectives: to open up access to archives across the European Union to allow citizens to use Internet, to get information about the contents of the national archives of another European Union country, without geographical, language and cultural barriers.

EVA

The European Visual Archive (BE)

Objectives: to provide both researchers and multimedia companies with enhanced access to archive photograph collections. By working to current international standards of description, and by setting standard measures for archival quality of digital images, the integrated collections will be made available in different languages.

FOUNTAIN

Fountains Abbey (UK)

Objectives: to provide acces to the cultural and heritage information resource of The National Trust's Fountains Abbey Cistercian monasteries.

GREATCOM

Great Composers (FR)

Objectives: Great Composers is a CD-ROM which can be linked (via a modem) to a dedicated site on the World-wide Web. The CD-ROM is an enduring encyclopaedia of knowledge about the European composers and their music, while the web-site can provide the user with up-to-date news about concerts, festivals and events, and interactive facilities such as ticket-booking and a forum to discuss and listen to music.

JEWNET

Jewish Studies Resources European Public Collections (AT)

Objectives: to develop and produce a CD-ROM that offers basic information on the history and culture of the Jews of Europe to historians and laymen and that facilities access to the source material on European-Jewish history and culture.

KFE

War and Peace in Europe (DE)

LBDH

Les Brulures de l'Histoire - Flashpoints of History (FR)

Objectives: to create a CD ROM line on twenty century European history.

MADAME

Methods for Access to Data and Metadata in Europe (UK)

Objectives: to evaluate the current strengths and limitations in the provision of metadata services by the partners of the project, to compare in a systematic way the institutional and legal frameworks of each participating country with respect to public sector data policies and data infrastructures so as to contextualise the experiences of the service providers and to identify and evaluate the data needs of key users in the private, public, and academic sectors in relation to data availability, documentation, usability and value, among others.

MAEMH

Multimedia Access to European Musical Heritage (BE)

Objectives: The aim of this project is the economical exploitation of European Cultural Heritage in the field of Opera, using on-line and off-line multimedia technologies.

MULTIMED

The Multimedia Codices of Leonardo da Vinci (IT)

Objectives: to exploit the long dated experience of Giunti Publishing Group in the reproduction, duplication and critics of Leonardo da Vinci works, the Codices in particular.

NAVEGAR

The Great Shipping Discoveries O Tempo Português (FR)

Objectives: Between 1418 and 1543 Portuguese sailors voyaged to new lands: from Brazil to Africa and from India to Japan. They built fortresses, trading-posts and religious buildings and exchanged foodstuffs, technical knowledge and ideas. They drew the outlines of our continents and perfected their navigational instruments. Their adventures are an important chapter of history; O Tempo Português celebrates their achievements in multimedia on CD-ROM.

PALIO

Multimedia repository of Popular and historicAL competitIOns and folk-feasts in Europe (IT)

Objectives: to collect the information related with the popular and historical competitions that take and have taken place in Europe to provide a repository of images, landscapes, videoclips, musical evidences, etc., integrated with cultural information, touristic notices and commercial promotional services.

PMC

Palaces and Gardens of Europe. Baroque and Classicism (FR)

Objectives: Imagine visiting the baroque and classical palaces of Europe and experiencing contemporary life. Look in the kitchens, walk in the gardens and hear the music of the day. PALACES AND GARDENS OF EUROPE sets out a virtual tour on CD-ROM.

SEE-ME

Story of European Emigration - A Multimedia Experience (IE)

Objectives: to create SEE-ME, a world class, multimedia product designed to creatively use some of the existing wealth of European cultural content. SEE-ME will act as a flagship product, demonstrating the European Emigration in an exciting and engaging way.

SOPHIA

European Culture: An History of Ideas (FR)

Objectives: to develop co-operatively a multi-linguistic interactive multimedia application and database on European culture to be distributed through off-line and on-line delivery channels. The application is targeting a large public audience: households, education institutions, universities, libraries, museums.

SOURCE VIVE (FR)

Objectives: to create a collection of multimedia programmes which each takes a single historical document as the starting point to unravel the history and culture of its period.