International Conferences
EUROPRIX Multimedia Award
The World Summit Award (WSA)
About Us
International Conferences
Digital Heritage, Israel is a Jerusalem-based, non for profit company that is best known for its annual international conferences on the digitisation of cultural heritage that have been held every year since 2004. The conferences convene in Jerusalem and host museum professionals, librarians, archivists, audio-visual developers, architects, lawyers, cultural policy makers, plastic and performing artists working in the digital realm.
The Directors of Digital Heritage, Israel believe that this offers our international speakers and visitors the perfect opportunity to visit Jerusalem and enjoy the timeless beauty of the Old/New City. In this way they may savor Israel’s rich cultural mosaic and its fabulous desert landscapes combined with an exciting two-day conference and find the ideal opportunity to get together in Jerusalem with the digital heritage community and discuss the critical issues in the areas where culture and technology intersect.
This is the annual opportunity for the community of professional who are responsible for the digitisations of cultural heritage in Israel to get together and share their own activites with those of their local and international colleagues.
EUROPRIX Multimedia Award
Held annually, the EUROPRIX Multimedia Award is open to all young content and multimedia creators and students, who are under the age of 30. The contest is a competition among creative producers and designers whose excellence in the use of multimedia technologies and tools to create digital contents for different new media channels is evaluated, show cased and celebrated. Especially encouraged are young professionals and students who have studied or are enrolled in institutions of learning and training in multimedia, located in one of the EU Member States, one of the EFTA states, Croatia, Israel and Turkey.
Digital Heritage is the official Europrix Israeli partner.
The World Summit Award (WSA)
The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global initiative for selecting and promoting the World’s best e-Contents. It involves representatives from numerous countries on each continent and sees the bridging of the digital divide and narrowing of the content gap as its overall goal.
The WSA places its emphasis on cultural diversity and identity, the creation of varied information content and the digitalization educational, scientific and cultural heritage.
The project is held in the framework of and in cooperation with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
According to the WSA 07 guidelines there are eight categories for the global contest.
Find the category for your project for a National Contest:
- e-Learning
- e-Culture
- e-Science
- e-Government
- e-Health
- e-Business
- e-Entertainment
- e-Inclusion
Digital Heritage is the offical World Summit Award partner
About us
Director
Dov Winer
Dov Winer is a psychologist (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) specialized in Online Education and Training (University of London). He is founder of the Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL). Dov Winer coordinated the dissemination of Internet use in Israel industry for the Ministry of Trade and Industry (1994/6).
He defined the program for the National Teacher's Colleges Network and trained its development team for Virtual Learning Environments (1996/8). He established in 1989 the MAKASH Institute for ICT Applications in Education, Culture and Science.
Since 1997 his work focus on European related initiatives, among them:
MAKASH is the NCP in Israel for the EUN – European Schoolnet, the consortium of the Europeans Ministry of Education for ICT, in whose steering committee he participates. MAKASH was part of: ETB – European Treasury Browser establishment of a comprehensive digital library of educational resources in Europe; VALNET (Schools of the Future); CELEBRATE for collaborative and interoperable Learning Objects in integrated learning environments. It is collaborating in the establishment of the LRE – Learning Resources Exchange the European digital library for learning resources.
He proposed the establishment of the Global Jewish Information Network in 1988 and later planned it (1992) following support from the Parliament and the Ministry of Communication. From 2001 to 2006 he managed the Initiative for Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures. This project established a comprehensive database of metadata for Jewish resources in the Web (expressed in RDF) and developed the Thesaurus for its annotation. At the end of 2004 he convened the Consultation on the Digitisation of Jewish Cultural Heritage in Europe.
MAKASH is presently partner in two EC backed projects dealing with cultural heritage content: it substituted the Jewish Agency as partner in MOSAICA, developing generic technologies for knowledge bases and intelligent presentation of cultural heritage. He coordinates WP1 – Content Selection, Aggregation and Access that deals with resources identification and selection and their semantic annotation. MAKASH is also partner in ATHENA - Access for Cultural Heritage Networks across Europe. This is a project supported by the European Commission to promote the European Digital Library.
He coordinates the MINERVA network in Israel for digitisation of cultural heritage, which is part of the broader European cluster of projects . MINERVA has been active, through its expert’s working groups, in promoting MICHAEL one of components of the envisaged European Digital Library.
As a channel for their joint initiatives he established with Dr. Susan Hazan, Digital Heritage UK, a non-profit institution committed to digital mapping of cultural heritage and its mobilization towards renewed expression. They both are co-chairs of the annual EVA/MINERVA Jerusalem International Conferences on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage; this is a rallying event for the EC backed initiatives applying advanced technologies to cultural heritage..
dov.winer@gmail.com
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Director
Dr. Susan Hazan
Dr. Susan Hazan is currently Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (since 1992), identifying, and implementing electronic architectures for the gallery, and outreach programs. Her Masters and PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London in Media and Communications focused on electronic architectures in the contemporary museum. Hazan has published numerous publications on new media in education, art, and museums and regularly presents at international conferences. In 2002-2003 was visiting lecturer at the Computing Department at Goldsmiths, University of London teaching Web Design and Critical E-Museology, with an emphasis on the correlation between cultural theory and contemporary practice and guest lecture in the Museology Department at Haifa University, Israel.
Professional affiliations include; EVA representative in Israel , World Summit Award (WSA) coordinator in Israel, founding partner in Digital Heritage, Israel (http://www.digital-heritage.org.il) and Co-Chair of the Annual Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage . Hazan sits on the Museums and the Web - Program Committee 2001-2007, and for the Virtual Systems and MultiMedia Conferences to Europe (VSMM2005/2006), served on the ISEA Interactive City Jury, InterSociety for Electronic Arts Symposium to be held in San Jose, California, USA in August 2006 and on the Curatoral Panel for Netartsorg - Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Japan.
susan.hazan@gmail.com
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Director of Development
Udi Landau
Udi Landau came to Digital Heritage from an impressive career as a media and content consultant, specializing in museums and tourism. As the Regional Manager of Antenna Audio Middle East, Landau focused on audio and multimedia guides, producing the content, supplying the players and operating on-site visitor services. His impressive client list included leading cultural institutions such as: Yad Vashem, Masada , Tel Aviv museum of Arts, Haifa National Science Mmuseum, Mini Israel, The Azriely Observatory, National Gallery- Athens, and a number of prominent tour operators in Israel and Europe. In addition, Landau has a background in T.V. production, web site developer and the advertising industry.
Landau's Bachelor of Arts is in Political Studies from Tel Aviv University with a professional background from Oryan, Kidum, Ort Karyera and the Open University.
udilan11@gmail.com
