EVA 2009 Florence Conference, Workshops, Meetings, Training & Exhibition

Electronic Imaging R the Visual Arts

28 - 30 April 2009

Venue: Palazzo dei Congressi, Piazza Adua 1

PROGRAM

MAIN SPONSOR & SUPPORTER

Electronic Imaging R the Visual Arts

‘The Foremost European Electronic Imaging Events in the Visual Arts’

In Cooperation with MICHAEL AISBL, MINERVA – NET and ATHENA PROJECTS

Forum for Users, Suppliers & Researchers The key aim of this Event is to provide a forum for the user, supplier and scientific research communities to meet and exchange experiences, ideas and plans in the wide area of Culture & Technology. Participants receive up to date news on new EC and international arts computing & telecommunications initiatives as well as on Projects in the visual arts field, in archaeology and history. Working Groups and new Projects are promoted. Scientific and technical demonstrations are presented. Main Topics

Synergy with European & International Programmes

New Technology in Conservation & Education to Global Access

Integrated Digital Archives for Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Art

Management of Museums by using ICT Technology: Access, Guides, Documentation & Other Services

The Impact of Mobile Communications (UMTS) on Cultural Heritage and Modern Arts Area

Human - Computer Interaction for Cultural Heritage Applications

Case Studies of Leading Edge Applications: Galleries, Libraries, Education, Archaeological Sites, Museums & Historical Tours

Mediterranean Initiatives in Technology for Cultural Heritage

Culture and e-government

Activities and Programmes for e-learning

Applications of Digital Terrestrial Television

3D Developments and Applications in Archaeology & History Virtual Galleries

Cultural Tourism & Travel Applications

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

THE CULTURAL SECTOR: The Visual Arts Community including Museums, Libraries, Archaeological Sites, Educational Institutions, Commercial Galleries and Dealers, Auction Houses, Artists & Collectors THE HI-TECH INDUSTRY SECTOR: Multimedia Systems, Image Acquisition & Analysis, Data-bases, Display & Printing, ICT Industry, Telematics & Systems Manufacturing, On-line Information Services MEDIA & RELATED SECTORS: Publishing, Press, Film, Television, Photography, Printing, Advertising, Graphics Design, Consumer Media IMAGING SYSTEMS RESEARCHERS: Imaging Systems, 3-D Acquisition, Reconstruction & Representation, Information Sciences TOURISM & TRAVEL SECTOR: Tourism Agencies & Operators, Travel Agencies THE GOVERNMENT SECTOR: Ministries of Culture and other Institutions involved in Cultural Heritage, Ministries of Industry, Education, Research and Science, Regional Governments

SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS INCLUDE: EUROPEAN COMMISSION,The University THE ofUNIVERSITY Florence OF FLORENCE, The European CommissionREGIONE TOSCANA, DGIII, DGX & DGXIII Tuscany Hi-Tech Network,PROVINCIA TELECOM DI FIRENZE,ITALIA, C COMUNEonsorzio CIVITA, DI FIRENZE, ELSAG, LOGITRON, ACS, ALINARI,MINISTERO ICESP, PER and I BENI CASSA E LE DI ATTIVITA’ RISPARMIO CULTURALI, DI FIRENZE

SOPRINTENDENZA PER IL PATRIMONIO STORICO ARTISTICO ED ETNOANTROPOLOGICO E PER IL POLO MU SEALE DELLA CITTA’ DI FIRENZE, CENTRO PER LA COMUNICAZIONE E L'INTEGRAZIONE DEI MEDIA, DIPARTIMENTO DI ELETTRONICA E TELECOMUNICAZIONI, CONFINDUSTRIA FIRENZE, ISTITUTO SUPERIORE MARIO BOELLA,

MEDIATECA REGIONALE TOSCANA, GTTI, CNIT, FINMECCANICA, HITACHI LTD., TELECOM ITALIA, WIND TELECOMUNICAZIONI, GRUPPO ENGINEERING,

SIIT,

GRUPPO TARGETTI BRAIN TECHNOLOGY, INFOGROUP, TINNOVA, CENTRICA, ICESP, UNIVERSITA’ INTERNAZIONALE DELL’ARTE, COLLEZIONE GORI – FATTORIA DI CELLE, FONDAZIONE RINASCIMENTO DIGITALE, ENTE CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI FIRENZE,

FONDAZIONE CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI PISTOIA E PESCIA

Co-Chairmen: Vito Cappellini - Faculty of Engineering, Florence University and James Hemsley – EVA Conferences International [email protected], [email protected]

EVA 2009 Florence Advisory Committee includes:

Cristina Acidini, Soprintendenza per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della Città di Firenze - MiBAC ~ Rossella Caffo, Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le Informazioni Bibliografiche - MiBAC ~ Antonia Ida Fontana, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze - MiBAC ~ Alberto Del Bimbo, Fondazione pe r la Ricerca e l’Innovazione ~ Paolo Galluzzi, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza ~ Andrea De Polo, ALINARI 24 ORE ~ Manami Wada, ManART

EVA Conferences Organiser: Monica Kaayk, [email protected]

EVA 2009 Florence Technical Organising Committee includes: Roberto Caldelli, Maurizio Lunghi, Fabrizio Paolucci, Riccardo Saldarelli Alessandro Nozzoli, Federica Drovandi, Silvia Faccioli, Patrizia Giacalone, Laura Mencherini, Donatella Milani

EVA Organisers: • Centro per la Comunicazione e l’Integrazione dei Media (MICC) – RAI Sede Regionale Toscana, Largo A. De Gasperi, 1 – 50136 Firenze, Italy Tel.: (+39) 055 4237401 – Fax: (+39) 055 4237400 E-mail: [email protected] • CENTRICA S.r.l., Via dei Benci 2, 50122 Firenze, Italy Tel. (+39) 055 2466802 – Fax (+39) 055 2009785 E-mail: [email protected] Web pages ~ http://lci.det.unifi.it/Events/Eva2009/eva2009.htm ~ http://www.evaflorence.it

For general information: Prof. Vito Cappellini & Secretariat Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni & MICC – Università di Firenze Via di S. Marta, 3 – 50139 Firenze, Italy Tel.: (+39) 055 4796279 – Fax: (+39) 055 461701 – E-mail: [email protected]

5 PROGRAM Palazzo dei Congressi, Piazza Adua 1

1 – TRAINING

Tuesday, 28 April

2 – CONFERENCE

Wednesday – Thursday , 29 – 30 April

3 – WORKSHOPS

Tuesday – Wednesday – Thursday, 28 – 29 – 30 April

4 – SPECIAL EVENTS

Tuesday, 28 April, Florence

Wednesday, 29 April, Florence

Thursday – Friday – Saturday, 30 April – 2 May, Montecatini Terme e Fattoria

di Celle, Pistoia

5 – TECHNICAL EXHIBITION

Tuesday, 28 April: 14,30 – 18,30

Wednesday, 29 April: 9,30 – 18,30

Thursday, 30April: 9,30 – 18,00

1 - TRAINING

Tuesday, 28 April

ROOM B

TUTORIAL 1 (Italian Language) 9,15-10,55 QUALITY IMPROVEMENT: ELECTRONIC RESTORATION AND COLOUR CONTROL (MIGLIORAMENTO DI QUALITA': RESTAURO ELETTRONICO E CONTROLLO DEL COLORE) - Ornella Casazza, Direttore del Museo degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti, Florence - Mauro Barni, Università di Siena - Andrea Del Mastio, Università di Firenze

10,55 Coffee Break

TUTORIAL 2 11,10-12,50 COPYRIGHT PROTECTION: DIGITAL MARKING - Alessandro Piva, Università di Firenze - Francesca Uccheddu, Università di Firenze - Marco Cappellini, CENTRICA, Florence - Lorenzo Nizzi Grifi Gargiolli, Teutas, Florence

12,50 Lunch

Experimental demonstrations are presented regarding the above topics, using multimedia systems and telematics networks.

Coordinator: Vito Cappellini, University of Florence Tel.: +39 055 4796279, +39 055 4237401 ~ Fax: +39 055 461701, +39 055 4237400 E-mail: [email protected]

2 - CONFERENCE

Wednesday 29 April

ROOM A

Chairmen: Vito Cappellini, Florence University ∼ James Hemsley, EVA Conferences International

9,00 Welcome: Guido Chelazzi, Pro-Rettore alla Ricerca Scientifica e al Trasferimento Tecnologico,, Università degli Studi di Firenze (Florence University)

Claudio Martini, Presidente Regione Toscana (Tuscany Region)

Matteo Renzi, Presidente Provincia di Firenze (Florence Province)

Giuseppe Matulli, Vice-Sindaco Comune di Firenze (Florence Municipality)

Cristina Acidini, Soprintendente per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della Città di Firenze

Giovanni Gentile, Presidente Confindustria Firenze

Letizia Paradiso, Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze

10,45 Coffee Break

11,00 SESSION 1 – STRATEGIC ISSUES Chairman: Bernard Smith, European Commission (retired)

“CulturaItalia and the Italian Contribution to Rossella Caffo Europeana” Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le Informazioni Bibliografiche, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Roma, Italy

“Italian Digital Doctoral Thesis: Harvesting, Antonia Ida Fontana1, Raffaele Messuti2 Preservation and Access” 1Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Firenze, Italy 2Progetto Magazzini Digitali, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Firenze, Italy

“Excellence Digital Archive for Polo Vito Cappellini1, Takayuki Morioka2, Maria Museale Fiorentino” Sframeli3, Marco Cappellini4 1MICC, University of Florence, Italy 2DIS Project, Hitachi Ltd., Yokohama, Japan 3Ufficio Ricerche, Polo Museale Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy 4Centrica s.r.l., Firenze, Italy

13,00 Lunch

ROOM A

14,30 SESSION 2 – EC PROJECTS AND RELATED NETWORKS & INITIATIVES Chairman: Claude Poliart, Principal Administrator, DG Infso E3, Cultural Heritage and Technology – Enhanced Learning, European Commission

“Interface Research” Bernard Smith European Commission (retired)

“The IMAGINATION Project” Aline Lauvergeon1, Rosanna de Longis2, Gábor Nagypál3, Andreas Walter4 1Photo 12, Paris, France 2BSMC, Roma, Italy 3Disy Informationssysteme, Karlsruhe, Germany 4FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany

“Smartmuseum: a Cultural Heritage Marco Berni1, Nima Dokoohaki2, Elena Knowledge Exchange Platform Based Fani1, Eero Hyvönen3, Tomi Kauppinen3, on Ontology-Oriented, Context-Aware Mihhail Matskin2, Eetu Mäkelä3, Tuukka and Profiling Systems” Ruotsalo3 1Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence, Italy 2KTH ECS, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 3SeCo, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

15,45 Coffee Break

ROOM A

16,00 SESSION 3 – VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS AND MUSEUMS Chairmen: Giovanna Damiani, Soprintendenza per il Patrimonio Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della Città di Firenze, Italy and James Hemsley, EVA Conferences International

“Digitizing Cultural Heritage: the Digital Library Emiliano Degl’Innocenti1, of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana” Sabina Magrini2 1SISMEL – Dipartimento di Studi Storici e Geografici, Università di Firenze, Italy 2Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Firenze, Italy

“The Reconstruction of Monumental Irene Buonazia, Maria Emilia Masci Environments and Collections in Rome Laboratorio LARTTE, Scuola Normale from XVI to XIX Centuries through Superiore di Pisa, Italy Historical Guidebooks”

“Leo Tolstoy Information Project – Alexey Lebedev, Strategy of Information Reformatting of Natalia Kopelyanskaya the Literary Museum” Russian Institute for Cultural Studies, Moscow, Russia

9 “Researches, Protection, Reconstruction Murat Sdykov, Aida Sdykova, Vladimir and Visualization of the Archaeological Golubtsov, Rustam Singatulin Complexes of the Volgo-Ural Region Public Foundation for Science and Education (Information Technologies of the Project «Akjol», Pedagogical Institute of the Saratov State University, Uralsk, Republic Kazakhstan, “Virtual Ukek”)” Saratov, Russian Federation

“Economic Aspects of Digitisation Romana Křižová and Sharing of Cultural Heritage Cross Czech a.s., Praha, Czech Republic Repositories in Connection to National Strategies”

Thursday 30 April

ROOM A

9,00 THE VII FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME PLAN OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Presentation by: Claude Poliart, Principal Administrator, DG Infso E3, Cultural Heritage and Technology – Enhanced Learning, European Commission

9,40 Coffee Break

9,55 SESSION 4 – DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATIONS & RESTORATION Chairman: Bernd Breuckmann, Breuckmann GmbH, Germany

“Elemental Composition Imaging with Ion Pamela Bonanni, Silvia Calusi, Lorenzo Beam Techniques in Applications to Cultural Giuntini, Novella Grassi, Pier Andrea Heritage” Mandò, Mirko Massi, Alessandro Migliori, LABEC, Sezione INFN di Firenze e Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Firenze

“Novel Methodologies for high Quality Andrea De Polo, Sam Minelli, Francesca Photografic Investigation” Tavanti Alinari 24 ORE, Firenze, Italy

“Multimedia Forensics: Technologies for Roberto Caldelli1, Vito Cappellini2, Irene Imagery Investigation” Amerini1, Francesco Picchioni1 1Centro per la Comunicazione e l’Integrazione dei Media (MICC), University of Florence, Italy 2Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET), University of Florence, Italy

11.10 SESSION 5 – 3D TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS Chairman: David Arnold, Faculty of Management and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

“3D – COFORM: Tools and Expertise David Arnold for 3D Collection Formation” Faculty of Management and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

“Multi Source 3D for Documentation: D. Pitzalis1,2, P. Cignoni3, M. Paysant4, M. The Case of the Cylinder Seal of IBNI- Menu2, M. Joly2 SHARRUM” 1The Cyprus Institute – STARC, Nicosia, Cyprus 2C2RMF – UMR171, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France 3ISTI – CNR, Pisa, Italy 4Artist

“Scanning the Laocoon in the Vatican Bernd Breuckmann1, Laurent Wurmser1, Museum” David Koller2, Bernard Frischer2, Chad Keller2 1Breuckmann GmbH, Meersburg, Germany 2IATH, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.

“Virtual Domestic Environments and Francesca Delli Ponti1, Antonella Historical Narration: a Methodological Guidazzoli1, Maria Chiara Liguori2 Hypothesis” 1CINECA, Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy 2MUVI Project, Bologna, Italy

“Panoramic Video Capturing for Digital Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Archiving of Historic Landscape Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

13,15 Lunch

ROOM A

14,45 SESSION 6 – ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION CONTENT Chairman: James Hemsley, EVA Conferences International, U.K.

“Virtus Loci Project” Saverio Pialli Hyperborea S.r.l. – Redazione “Virtus Loci”, Navacchio, Cascina (PI), Italy

“Thematic Web Collections in European Triantafillia Kourtoumi History: a Case Study in Gender and Hellenic Open University and General State Archives of Migration” Greece, Greece

“An Ontological SW Architecture G. Bucci1, , M. Rufino2, V. Sandrucci1, Supporting Annotation and Retrieval of E. Vicario1 Digital Resources” 1Dip. Sistemi ed Informatica, Università di Firenze,Italy 2Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Firenze, Italy

16, 00 Coffee Break

“Image Indexing and Retrieval Based Maria Luszczkiewicz, Bogdan Smolka on Mixture Modeling of Spatial Color Department of Automatic Control, Silesian Distribution for Artwork Collections” University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

“Natural Interaction at Work” Thomas M. Alisi, Gianpaolo D’Amico, Alberto Del Bimbo, Andrea Ferracani, Lea Landucci, Nicola Torpei MICC – University of Florence, Italy

“Georeferencing of Cultural Heritage Agata Lo Tauro and the Risk Chart” Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca, Italy

“Museums and Near Field Giuliano Benelli, Communication – Turning a Mobile Alessandro Pozzebon Phone into an Interactive Tourist Guide” Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Italy

“People Counting and Identification for Giovanni B. Garibotto Security Access Control” Recognition Technology Consultant, Elsag Datamat Spa, Genova, Italy

3 - WORKSHOPS

Tuesday, 28 April

ROOM A

WORKSHOP 1 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION 9,15 – 13,00 Chairman: Ugo Di Tullio, Mediateca Regionale Toscana, Italy

The general aspects of international collaboration in Cultural Heritage are presented. The impact of new technologies in the field is considered, outlining the more suitable ones for cooperative plans. The importance of Virtual Heritage for better cooperation among the Nations in the World is considered. Projects currently developed in different parts of the World are presented. Collaborative activities in Mediterranean Area are in particular described. European Commission programmes and initiatives are presented.

Speakers include: - Ugo Di Tullio, Mediateca Regionale Toscana, Florence, Italy - Pier Luigi Emiliani, Istituto di Fisica Applicata “Nello Carrara” – C.N.R., Florence, Italy - Paola Romagnani, Centro di Eccellenza DENOTHE, University of Florence, Italy - Nick Tyson, The Regency Town House, Hove, UK, MM4ALL Project Coordinator - Paolo Del Bianco, Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco, Florence, Italy - Carlo U. Quinterio Brentano, D.G.A. Member, Film Producer, Italy - Paolo Manzelli, (RE) EGO-CreaNet, University of Florence, Italy - Saverio Pialli, Hyperborea S.r.l., Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico, Navacchio, Italy

13,00 Lunch

ROOM C

WORKSHOP 2 IMAGINATION PROJECT 10,00 – 13,00 Chairman: Antonella Fresa, Technical Advisor BSMC, Roma, Italy, [email protected]

Program

The IMAGINATION Project and its semantic background Gabor Nagypal Disy Informationssysteme, Karlsruhe, Germany, [email protected]

13 The ImageNotion application Andreas Walter FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany, [email protected]

The content used in the Project and the benefits for the users Aline Lauvergeon Photo12, Paris, France, [email protected] Rosanna De Longis BSMC, Roma, Italy, [email protected] Francesco Gandolfi ([email protected]) - Elisa Debernardi ([email protected] ) - Elisa Salvati ([email protected]) BSMC, Users group representatives

MultiMatch Project Pasquale Savino CNR, Pisa, Italy, [email protected]

Discussion

Introduction

The main objective of IMAGINATION is to bring digital cultural and scientific resources closer to their users. Our aim is to enable image-based navigation for such resources. Users can receive meaningful contextual information about images and image parts, which makes images easier to understand. Moreover, IMAGINATION allows users to navigate to other relevant images and texts in the knowledge repository just by clicking on interesting image parts.

The major instrument to provide context-sensitive relevant information is the use of semantic metadata. They are created by combining the results of automated processes, such as object and face detection, face identification and text mining.

Gabor Nagypal will give a presentation about the semantic background used in IMAGINATION, especially about developed methodologies for the collaborative development of required ontologies and how semantic technologies may be used for image search in professional image archives and cultural heritage

Andreas Walter will give a presentation about the so called ImageNotion application, which was developed during the IMAGINATION Project. This Web based application integrates the possibilities for managing images and integrating and combining processes for automated image annotation. The image annotation is based on semantic technologies. ImageNotion allows for semantic search for image searchers, validation of the results for image annotators and also the possibility for manually adding new image annotation and semantic elements.

Aline Lauvergeon and Rosanna de Longis will give presentations about contents used in the IMAGINATION Project. Aline Lauvergeon from the focus of professional image archives and the benefits of the results of the IMAGINATION. Rosanna de Longis presents the benefits for contents used in cultural heritage setups, e.g. as used in the Biblioteca di Storia Moderna Contemporanea

14 BSMC in Roma. Representatives of the user groups who carried out the evaluation of the Project results will provide some views about their experience.

Finally, Pasquale Savino as invited speaker will give a presentation about the MULTIMATCH Project.

ROOM A

WORKSHOP 3 in cooperation with Tuscany Region (Italian Language) 14,30-18,00 NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR SME (NUOVE OPPORTUNITA' PER LE PICCOLE E MEDIE IMPRESE) Chairman: Gianni Fabri, Fondazione Torino Wireless, Turin

Opening: Simone Sorbi, Politiche Regionali dell’Innovazione e della Ricerca, Dipartimento allo Sviluppo Economico, Regione Toscana Francesco Chirichigno, Presidente Fondazione Italiana Nuove Comunicazioni, Rome

Technological requirements in the Cultural Heritage field are outlined and opportunities for Italian SME’s working in the field, using new technologies, are presented. Regional and national applied research Programs in Italy are described. Activities by National Organizations and Firms working in the area of Telecommunications, Informatics, Optoelectronics, Environment and Infomobility are presented. Funding by European Commission is considered, with particular reference to multimedia and telematics for Cultural Heritage, Environment and Education (e-learning). Initiatives regarding the “know-how” transfer from Research Organizations to the Industrial Sector are described. Several Organizations and Companies present their activities and experiences.

Speakers include: - Enrico Bocci, Presidente Terziario Innovativo, Confindustria Firenze - Vincenzo Bonelli, TINNOVA, Florence - Francesco Butini, FINMECCANICA - Fabio Serzanti and Stefano Cinquini, TELECOM ITALIA - Massimo Angelini, WIND TELECOMUNICAZIONI - Stefano Ferraro, BRAIN TECHNOLOGY

ROOM B

WORKSHOP 4 ATHENA PROJECT AND EUROPEANA 15,00 – 18,00 Organizer: Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBAC), Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information (ICCU)

Objects The Workshop aims at presenting the action lines of the new European Project ATHENA, started in November 2008 and contributing to the creation of Europeana, the European Digital Library. ATHENA will develop the MINERVA results in the field of the harmonization of standards and guidelines, building upon the experience developed with MICHAEL and CulturaItalia in the field of the implementation, and carrying on in the direction of the interoperability, the semantic Web and the quality services for the final user.

15 On this basis, ATHENA will harmonize at European level terminology, cataloguing and descriptive standards for the digital resources produced by museums and other cultural Institutions, with the aim of contributing effectively to the process of construction of Europeana. Thanks to ATHENA the presence of the heritage data bases in Europeana will be enhanced, expecially those of the museums. ATHENA is coordinated by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, managed by the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information (ICCU) in collaboration with the Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation (ICCD). The consortium is formed by Ministries, Universities , Museums, and by other cultural agencies of 22 countries.

Programme:

Chairman: Rossella CAFFO, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali

Rossella CAFFO (Director of ICCU), Athena and Europeana

Marzia PICCININNO (MiBAC), National strategies to join Europeana

Giuliana DE FRANCESCO (ICCU), ATHENA activity for the integration of the data into Europena

Guntram GESER (Salzburg Research), STERNA - Natural and cultural history resources for Europeana

Elena PLANCES, Marzia MIELE, Flavia FERRANTE (ICCD), The integration of the ICCD resources in the cross domain aggregators.

Wednesday, 29 April

ROOM B

WORKSHOP 5 MONASTERIUM.Net - European Charters Online 14,30 – 17,00 Chairmen: Benedetto BENEDETTI, Scuola Normale di Pisa, Manfred THALLER, University of Koeln

Program

Stefano VITALI (Archivio di Stato di Firenze): Introduction

Thomas AIGNER (ICARUS - International Center For Archival Research, President,Vienna): From MONASTERIUM to ICARUS – On the Way to an European Network of Archives

Manfred THALLER (University of Koeln): Collaboratories at work: a recent paradigm of the Digital Humanities and its meaning for digital chartularies

Daniel JELLER (ICARUS-International Center For Archival Research, Director of Digitazion,Vienna): Experiencing the past: Digitization technologies in the Monasterium Project

Antonella AMBROSIO (Università Federico II-Napoli): I primi passi di Monasterium in Italia. Gli archivi digitali del Mezzogiorno: alcuni risultati e sviluppi per il futuro

Stella MONTANARI (Scuola Normale of Pisa): Current Project in Assisi and future involvement of Archivio Salviati at the SNS Library in Pisa

Anna BENVENUTI (Università di Firenze) - Emanuele DEGLI INNOCENTI (SISMEL): Atlante digitale degli Istituti ecclesiastici in Toscana

A debate open to all participants on topics focusing on themes of the Workshop is foreseen and welcome . Everyone interested to take part with an intervention can contact the Chairmen and other Speakers and can be previously registered. [email protected] , [email protected] www.monasterium.net www.icar-us.e

Abstract Monasterium.net and ICARUS – An attempt for international content collection and Know-How exchange in the archivistic sector

In the year 2002 the Austrian province of Lower Austria was the starting point for the Project Monasterium.net, that holds at present app. 120.000 medieval and early modern charters, contributed by more than 60 partners in eleven countries (AT, DE, CH, CZ, SK, HU, SI, HR, IT, PL, SRB). These charters are provided with digital pictures and corresponding metadata on the Internet (www.monasterium.net) free of charge and the database is by far the biggest virtual collection of its kind.

These documents which are the basic source for the Central European history are now available to a broad public audience at any time without the limitations of place of storage, poor accessibility and conservatory restrictions. Due to this unique collection historic research is now enabled to find answers to completely new questions regarding former existing medieval Europe-wide networks, whose exitence is clearly mirrored by the content of the digitized stocks.

The enterprise to build up a virtual archive through the years resulted an international network of cooperating partners, that consists of archives of all sizes, research institutions or universities. During regular half-year meetings the international exchange of experience and knowledge became an important aspect of collaboration due to the shared common history of the participating countries and simillar goals of the archives. In order to keep this network of partners firm and stabile the ICARUS (International Centre for Archival Research) association was found in 2007.

Monasterium is much more, than only an ordinary database. Beside the classical functions of querry and viewing, the user is enabled to make his active contribution by using the collaborative tool EditMOM in order to enlarge or emend the already existing amount of metadata. This tool offers completely new possibilities in the field of education and teaching at schools and universities.

The Workshop on one hand will provide a detailed insight into the internal work-flow of the Project Monasterium, covering the process of digitization of the original sources and the development and preparation of metadata. On the other hand another topic will be the introduction of the technical background of the system and the exemplary practical collaborative work on single charters.

Thursday, 30 April ROOM B WORKSHOP 6 ENRICH PROJECT 9,30 – 13,00 Chairmen: Jakub Heller, Cross Czech a.s., Prague, Czech Republic, Roberto Caldelli, Centro per la Comunicazione e l’Integrazione dei Media, Florence, Italy

Introduction ENRICH is a Project funded under eContent+ programme. Main aim of the Project is to create seamless access to distributed information about manuscripts and rare old printed books in Europe on the Manuscriptorium platform. Manuscriptorium is the digital library that - at the beginning of ENRICH - contained data of 47 partners from the Czech Republic and abroad. It is the largest digital library of manuscripts in Europe offering access to more than one million digitized pages and a lot of descriptive data. ENRICH will enhance the Manuscriptorium content through connecting additional digital libraries and taking aboard those who do not have them. To achieve this goal, many existing technologies will be optimized and new ones developed. ENRICH started on 1 December 2007 and it will last until 30 November 2009. During this time, it should add to Manuscriptorium more than five million digitized pages from direct ENRICH partner institutions and hundreds of thousands of additional pages from other associated partners.

ROOM B WORKSHOP 7 USER-CENTERED DESIGN FOR MUSEUM WEBSITES AND 14,30 – 18,00 TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Description

Museums apply websites and technological applications to serve a heterogeneous audience. In order to meet the needs of different target groups, they can apply personas. Personas are archetypical user representations based either on experience (ad-hoc personas) or on quantitative and/or qualitative data (data-based personas). Personas help to creatively explore a design space of opportunities, constraints, innovations, and trade-offs while maintaining a constant user-centered focus. When developing interactive applications for both traditional and virtual museums, having an appropriate orientation towards and understanding of visitor needs is critical for success.

The concept of personas can help translate abstract data from visitor studies into concepts that can be easily applied in information design. Personas allow information designers to identify user needs and goals, creating requirements suitable for use in the information design process. They also are a powerful medium to enable stakeholders to participate in that design process. In this way, the personas method can help designers of all types of applications to develop usable and more user- oriented products.

This active, hands-on Workshop will provide the participants with the results from the study “La trasmissione culturale attraverso applicazioni tecnologiche” by Elena Bonini; an introduction to the personas method; examples of personas suitable for use in museums; a personas creation experience based on visitor study data.

Agenda 18

Introduction Data from the study “Survey on Archeovirtual Visitors“ User-Centred Design The Personas Method Putting Personas into Practice Discussion Conclusion

References

Bonini, Elena (2007): La trasmissione culturale attraverso applicazioni tecnologiche: risultati di un sistema di valutazione. In: Cappellini V., Di Tullio U.: Nuove Tecnologie sulle vie dell’arte. Firenze: Appunti, Contini.

Cooper, A. (1999): The Inmates are Running the Asylum. Why High-tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. Indianapolis, IN: Sams.

Pruitt, J., Adlin, T (2006): The Persona Lifecycle. Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design. (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Information about the Workshop Organizers and the Workshop Host:

Elena Bonini, Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy (Workshop Organizer) Elena Bonini took her PhD in Technology and Management of Cultural Heritage at the Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy. Her research focuses on 3D collaborative systems for the communication of cultural heritage. For the Italian Archaeological Exhibition she undertook a large-scale study on visitor expectations in using technological systems in exhibitions and on the Web.

Dr. Werner Schweibenz, MusIS - Museum Information System, University of Constance, Germany (Workshop Organizer) Werner Schweibenz studied German linguistics and information science at the University of Saarland and the University of Missouri-Columbia focusing on information design and museum informatics. He has published various articles on usability, accessibility, and virtual museums. His PhD thesis dealt with the transformation process of the traditional museum to the virtual museum on the Internet.

Dr. Brigitte Reineke, Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (Workshop Host) Brigitte Reineke studied art history and Italian philology at the Freie Universität of Berlin. After the PhD thesis which focused on Venetian painting of the sixteenth century, she worked as a research assistant at the States Museums of Berlin and as a researcher at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut. She is head of the central documentation of the German Historical Museum in Berlin.

19 4 - SPECIAL EVENTS

1. Tuesday, 28 April 19,30

RECEPTION BY CONFINDUSTRIA FIRENZE (INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION OF FLORENCE PROVINCE) Via Valfonda, 9

Welcome: Giovanni Gentile, Presidente, Confindustria Firenze (Industrial Association of Florence Province)

2. Wednesday, 29 April 18,30

RECEPTION BY COMUNE DI FIRENZE (MUNICIPALITY OF FLORENCE) IN PALAZZO VECCHIO - SALONE DE’ DUGENTO

Chairman: Vito Cappellini, University of Florence

Welcome: Giuseppe Matulli, Vice - Sindaco, Comune di Firenze

Speakers: Cristina Acidini, Soprintendente per il Patrimonio Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della Città di Firenze Conte Paolo Marzotto, Presidente ARPAI - Associazione per il Restauro del Patrimonio Artistico Italiano Letizia Paradiso, Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze

CONCERT: by Soprano Konomi Susaki, Japan

3. Thursday 30 April – Saturday 2 May

European Workshop on CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY

(Invited Participants)

Montecatini Terme and Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia

Sponsored by FONDAZIONE CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI PISTOIA E PESCIA

20 5 - TECHNICAL EXHIBITION

A Technical Exhibition is organized in parallel to the Events of EVA 2009 FLORENCE.

The Exhibition will be open in the following days:

Tuesday, 28 April: 14,30 – 18,30

Wednesday, 29 April: 9,30 -18,30

Thursday, 30 April: 9,30-18,00.

For information:

CENTRICA S.r.l.

Via dei Benci 2, 50122 Firenze, Italy Tel. (+39) 055 2466802 – Fax (+39) 055 2009785 E-mail: [email protected] Web page ~ http://www.evaflorence.it

21 Electronic Imaging R the Visual Arts

EVA 2009 Florence

Conference, Workshops, Meetings, Training & Exhibition 28-30 April 2009

REGISTRATION

Dr/Mr/Mrs/Ms:…………………………Surname:……………………………………………………………….. First Name:………………………………………Job Title:………………………………………………………. Organization:……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Address:………………………………………………………………………………………………….………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Post Code:………………………………………..Country:………………………………………………………... Tel.:……………………………………………….Fax:……………………………………………………………. Email:………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Principal Activity of your Organisation (tick one only) Commercial ρ Government ρ Academic/Library/Museum ρ Signature:……………………………………………..…………Date:……….…………………………………… Please use tick boxes Morning Afternoon Tuesday 28: ρ Tutorial 1 ρ Workshop 3 Miglioramento di Qualità Nuove Opportunità per le Piccole Medie Imprese ρ Tutorial 2 Copyright Protection ρ Workshop 4 ATHENA Project and ρ Workshop 1 Europeana International Cooperation ρ Reception by Confindustria ρ Workshop 2 Firenze IMAGINATION Project (late afternoon)

Wednesday 29: ρ Opening & ρ Conference Sessions Conference Sessions ρ Workshop 5 Monasterium.net and ICARUS

ρ Reception in Palazzo Vecchio with Concert (late afternoon)

Thursday 30: ρ Conference Sessions ρ Conference Sessions

ρ Workshop 6 ρ Workshop 7 ENRICH Project User-centered Design for Museum Websites

The participation to all the Events is free. This registration Form is to be sent by mail or fax to: Prof. Vito Cappellini & Secretariat E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (+39) 055-461701