Intelligent Access to Digital Heritage

9.30-10.30

Registration

10.30-11.00

Welcome and introduction

11.00-11.30

From NL through TEL to the EDL: The National Library of Estonia and the European Digital Libraries Initiative.

Toomas Schvak, National Library of Estonia

11.30- 13.00

Session I: Metadata and vocabularies

Vocabulary evolution and management for the digital cultural heritage sector

Emma Tonkin, UKOLN

Linking CIDOC CRM and FRBR

Patrick Le Boeuf, Conservateur, DCO/Département des arts du spectacle Bibliothèque nationale de France

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-16.00

Session II: Finnish Culture on the Semantic Web - Results and Demonstration of the FinnONTO Project 2003-2007

Building a National Semantic Web Infrastructure in Finland

Eero Hyvönen, Professor at the Helsinki University of Technology, University of Helsinki, and HIIT, Laboratory of Media Technology, Semantic Computing Research Group

FinnONTO Ontologies and ONKI Ontogy Library Services
Kim Viljanen, Researcher, TKK and UH, Semantic Computing Research Group

MuseumFinland -- Finnish Museums on the Semantic Web
Eetu Mäkelä, Researher, TKK and UH, Semantic Computing Research Group

CultureSampo -- Finnish Culture on the Semantic Web
Tuukka Ruotsalo, Researher, UH and TKK, Semantic Computing Research Group

16.00-16.30

Coffee

16.30-17.15

Keynote

Bringing innovation and order to the table: HUMlab, QVIZ and a Virtual Worlds Timeline

Patrik Svensson, HUMlab, Umeå University

17.15-17.30

Close of the day

10.00-12.30

Session III: European projects

On the Idea of an Open Museum in the Virtual World: the Case of Estonia.

Mariann Raisma, Assistant director in development, Estonian History Museum

MICHAEL+
Anton Pärn, Ministry of Culture Republic of Estonia

The local dimension in the European Digital Library: from MINERVA and CALIMERA to MICHAEL
Kate Fernie (MLA, UK)

Intelligent Information and Knowledge Infrastructures

Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Research Center

12.30-13.30

Lunch

13.30-15.30

Session IV: Semantic Web and Museum Projects

Tumbling walls and building bridges

Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI Amsterdam

Building a Gateway to Early European Cultural Heritage Resources in Australia

Toby Burrows, Digital Services Director, ARC Network for Early European Research, University of Western Australia

Work of the UK Museums Semantic Web Thinktank

Jon Pratty, Editor, The 24 Hour Museum, UK

15.30-16.00

Close of the conference