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EVA/MINERVA 2004
The First Annual Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage

For further information contact Dov Winer or Susan Hazan

Program

Monday - October 11, 2004

8:30 9:30 Get together and registration

10:00 - 11.00 – Opening Session


Chairman - Prof. Elhanan Adler
Deputy Director for Information Technology Jewish National and University Library 

Tali Rosenbaum
Director General, Ministry of Science and Technology

Violet Gilboa
Harvard College Library, Judaica Division, Harvard University

Dr. Tuvia Friling, The Israel National Archivar
Israel National Archives - Prime Minister’s Office

Itzhak Brenner, Director of the Rishon Le-Zion Museum
Chairman ICOM Israel – The International Council of Museums

Marcel Shaton
Director , ISERD – The Israel Office for the EU RTD Framework Program

Dominique Gonthier, Scientific Counsellor
Delegation of the European Commission to the State of Israel


11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee


11.30 - 13.00 - Plenary

Pier Giacomo Sola
MINERVA – Ministerial Network for Valorising Activities in Digitisation (Coordinator)
Coordinating Digitisation in Europe – Taking stock of the National Representatives Group for
Digitisation of Science and Cultural Heritage in Europe and MINERVA

Dov Winer
Director - The Jewish Agency Initiative for Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures
MINERVA Network in Israel (coordinator)
The end of the Internet? Some consequences for the Old/New Jewish People
 

Dr Adolfo Roitman
Curator of the dead Sea Scrolls and Head of the Shrine of the Book
Medium or Message? The Case of the Dead Sea Scrolls


13:00 14:30 Lunch Break


14:30 – 16.00 - MINERVA Israel Experts Working Groups Session I

 

WG3- Inventories, discovery of digitized content
Surveying digitization and multilingual content - Dr. Allison Kupietzky
WG4 Cataloguing, Metadata and Interoperability
Interoperable metadata - Ora Zehavi 
  
 
WG5 - User Needs and Quality Framework for Common Access Points
Universal Access - Susan Hazan

This session will focus on web accessibility - one of the ten Website Quality Principles recommended in the Parma Principles and outlined in the Handbook produced by the Minerva Quality Working Group. The workshop will showcase local developments in the field from different perspectives and will explore online accessibility as recommended by the Web Accessibility Initiative  (WAI)

WG6 - Identification of Good Practices and Competence Centers
Israeli Spectrum: Good Practices in Israel, 2004 - Orly Simon  

The afternoon session will present the most interesting and breakthrough digitization projects taking place in Israel in recent years.
 

16.00 – 16.40 – Poster Session in the Youth Wing Agorah Yard

 

16:40 18:00
- MINERVA Israel Experts Working Groups - Session II
 
WG4  Interoperability and service provision
Law, Culture, Technology and copyright issues - Amalia Keshet   


WG5- User Needs and Quality Framework for Common Access Points
What Clicks?   - Susan  Hazan
This sessions showcases a number of locally developed websites, the panel of local web developers will discuss the ten Website Quality Principles recommended in the Parma Declaration and outlined in the Handbook produced by the Minerva Quality Working Group: - transparent - effective - maintained - accessible - user-centered - responsive - multi-lingual - interoperable - managed – preserved.


WG6 - Identification of Good Practices and Competence Centers
Israeli Spectrum: Good Practices in Israel, 2004 - Orly Simon   
 
The afternoon session will present the most interesting and breakthrough digitization projects taking place in Israel in recent years.

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