EVA / MINERVA 2011

The 8th Jerusalem Conference on the
Digitisation of Cultural Heritage

Registration is now open

November 14, 15 and 16
at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (map)

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EVA/Minerva 2011 PROGRAM

Download the presentations (list as Pdf)

Networking Sessions - download abstracts

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The annual, international event for professionals in cultural heritage and advanced technologies

Co-chair:  Dr. Susan Hazan - shazan@digital-heritage.org.il
Co-chair: Dov Winer - DovW@digital-heritage.org.il
Conference Producer: Millie Hazan - production@digital-heritage.org.il

The conference focuses on advanced technologies and the augmentation, preservation, access, and the dissemination of cultural heritage through education and training in information and communication technologies (ICT).

Join your friends and colleagues for three days at the annual conference, the place where cultural heritage in Europe and in Israel and technologies intersect.

This year we are hosting many projects that are developing Europeana, Europe’s flagship digital library, museum, archives and audio visual collections. Europeana is funded under the Commission's eContentplus programme. Europeana currently offers over 19 million objects objects and a rich variety of services including space temporal browsing; personalization; annotation and storytelling support; mobile access; eBooks on demand; and much more. Europeana stakeholders are represented through the members of the Europeana Foundation.

EVA/MINERVA 2011 will feature TAMAR the new program for rehabilitation and empowering of Israel cultural heritage (here for Hebrew description) announced by the government on 2010. This highly ambitious project, supported by 16 government ministries and 400 million NIS is set to create two paths: a historical path including archaeological sites from biblical Second Temple period and other periods in the history of Israel, and an Israel Experiential path connecting the main sites that mark the history of return of the people of his country.

Join your friends and colleagues from Israel and across Europe in one or more of the conference's four tracks Museums Libraries Archives and Biological Diversity IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR SPEAKERS VISITING JERUSALEM Invitation to present in the Professional Networking Sessions Participating projects and institutions include the following: The leading project actually building Europeana tools and services (TBC) Coordination of Standards and Technologies for the enrichment of Europeana Europeana Libraries Social History content aggregator including an upgrade of the Labour History portal and European women’s movements Documenting the contribution of Jews to the development of cities in Europe A digital body of high-quality reproductions of contemporary art objects eLibrary for Performance Arts Virtual Museum Transnational Network The National Archives of Sweden (TBC) Opening up the Natural History Heritage for Europeana: presentations (TBC) Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe Natural Europe: digital library of the Natural History and Science museums Wikipedia Israel Conference Networking Sessions The Professional Networking Sessions offer the perfect opportunity to showcase your project, bringing together colleagues that are interested in a specific topic in order to discuss project ideas, ongoing research activities and potential partnerships. The two EVA/MINERVA networking sessions tend to be less formal than the official conference workshops, and encourage active participation in an informal atmosphere. Invitation to present in the Professional Networking Sessions