Programme summary

Key Working Issue: North America Europe co-operative relationships

Tuesday 24th July

TUTORIALS / WORKSHOPS / ROUNDTABLE

Digital Imaging & Metadata
DIGICULT Roundtable (by Invitation only)

Wednesday 25th July

WORKSHOPS

Contemporary Art Documentation
Building a Project Plan: a Hands-on Workshop
SCRAN – Past & Future

Thursday 26th July

CONFERENCE

Co-Chairs: Jim Devine, Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow & Bruce Royan, SCRAN

Tools for Networking Cultural Heritage: The NINCH Guide to Good Practice
David Green, The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), USA

Mapping the Technological Landscapes for Tomorrow's Cultural Economy: The EU's DIGICULT Project
Sandy Buchanan, Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN), Scotland

The European Public Sector Information Network: PSI Net
Mary Rowlatt, Essex County Council & Robert Davies, MDR Partners, London

The Dutch Culturenet as a Gateway to the Dutch Cultural Heritage on the Internet
Marcel Ras, Dutch Digital Heritage Association The Netherlands

The Nordic Project:n2art

New Directions: 'From Archives to Aura'

Archives & The Role of New Technologies
Patrick Cadell, International Council of Archives, Scotland

The Place is the Brain
Leonard Steinbach, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA

The Virtual Aura - Is There Space For Enchantment in a Technological World?
Susan Hazan, The Israel Museum, Israel

Leading Edge Case Studies

Virtual Heritage from Glasgow & Lanark
Gareth Ennis, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Playing to Strengths: New Media At the Cleveland Museum of Art
Holly Witchey, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA

COMPASS: The British Museum's Collections Multimedia Public Access System
Matthew Cock, The British Museum, London

The Harvard Judaica Imaging Project
Violet Gilboa, Harvard University, USA

Education

Multimedia - Transforming Learning and Teaching in the Arts
Seamus Ross, Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, Scotland

Virtual Reality Applications for the Didactics of Daily Life History
Maria Chiara Liguori, Department of Historical Disciplines of the Bologna University, Italy

Film & Performing Arts (Session 1)

Performing Arts in the Digital Age: Preserving the Moment?
Catherine Owen, Performing Arts Data Service, University of Glasgow

To Speak its Pride - John Grierson and the Films of Scotland Committee
Janet McBain, Scottish Screen Archive, Scotland

Friday 27th July

Advanced Technology including New European Projects

Co-Chairs: James Hemsley, National Museums of Scotland & VASARI; Ray Welland, University of Glasgow

Film & Performing Arts (Session 2)

New Media Art & the Contemporary Museum Environment
Malcolm Ferris, Center for Research in Electronic Art & Communication, University of Hertfordshire

Shot-Level Indexing of Moving Images: N. American Research Results & European Perspectives
James M. Turner, University of Montreal, Canada

Innovative Pilot Technology Applications

SHADE: Smithsonian - Hunterian Digitisation Experiments
Carl C Hansen, Center for Scientific Imaging & Photography, Smithsonian Institution, USA

New Hardware - New Multimedia: Experiments Across Europe
Neil Shaw, The Multimedia Team, National Museums of Scotland, Scotland

Granular Collections Access: Extending the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) with Making Of America II (MOAII) Objects
Guenter Waibel, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, USA

New Approaches & Tools for Copyright Management
Claude Rollin, SACD, Paris, France

Towards Cultural Multimedia & E-Commerce - the European - Japanese TRADEX project
Vito Cappellini, University of Florence, Italy

Advanced Technology Developments

The Impact of HAPTIC 'Touching' Technology on Cultural Applications
Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow, Scotland

3D Acquisition & Modelling of Deformable, Non-rigid Objects Under Movement Using Spectral Coded Lighting
Lothar Paul & Gerd Stanke, GFaI, Berlin, Germany

Pandora: A Box Full of Data Within A JPEG2000 Image File
Greg Colyer, Elysium, UK

From the EC's Fifth Framework Programme (1998 - 2002)
Towards the 6th (2003 - 2006) - The Florence Agenda
The European Commission, Luxembourg

Saturday 28th July

WORKSHOPS

Cultural and Educational Games Workshop

Business Opportunities & Winning Financial Support & the Sixth Framework Programme