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| Digital Heritage Projects | |
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Ask
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Ask About Ireland is an initiative of An Chomhairle Leabharlanna, funded by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government through the Information Society Fund and The Heritage Council. It provides access to ìnew information, rare images and documents from Irish public libraries, museums and archivesî. Co-ordinating
Digitisation in Europe: Ireland, National Profile for Digitisation Best
Practice Guidelines for Digitisation Projects in Ireland |
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Cultivate
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Cultivate Interactive is a Web magazine which was funded under the European Commission's DigiCULT programme. The magazine has reached the end of its programme and has currently ceased activity. However back issues will continue to be available Not
only Shamrocks: Digitising Local Studies Material in Ireland
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Calimera:
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The project will monitor and select technical developments and solutions emerging from IST, national research and industry suitable for applications responding to the needs of local cultural institutions Calimera
Country Reports, including one on Ireland, may be found at: |
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Documents
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| Documents of Ireland is an online database of text, images, maps, sounds and video. The Information Age has seen much emphasis on the technical properties and potential of hardware and software and rather less stress on the content to be provided by the new technologies. At the same time, there is a danger that the evidence of Irelandís past may be lost, if ways cannot be found of using the new technologies to preserve and disseminate it. The objective of the project, Documents of Ireland—from Original to Digital is to provide a comprehensive integrated approach to the digitisation and dissemination, using new technologies, of primary text, image and other sources. | |
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DigiCULT
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Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is an IST Support Measure (IST-2001-34898) to establish a regular technology watch for cultural and scientific heritage over the period of 30 months (03/2002-08/2004). DigiCULT draws on the results of the strategic study Technological Landscapes for Tomorrow's Cultural EconomyóDigiCULT <digicult.salzburgresearch.at/>, that was initiated by the European Commission, DG Information Society (Unit D2: Cultural Heritage Applications) in 2000 and completed in 2001. This study covers several areas of interest, (national policies & initiatives, organisational change, exploitation, and ICT) and formulates a series of recommendations. In particular, it provides a roadmap of how cultural heritage technologies will or could develop in the near future (until 2006). Building on the knowledge and expertise of over 50 cultural heritage experts, DigiCULT will discuss and analyse current and future trends in several technology domains, that have been identified as key areas during the DigiCULT study. DigiCULT will also function as a stimulus for future R&D in/for the cultural heritage sector. In order to encourage early take up of new issues, the results and recommendations of DigiCULT will be actively disseminated and distributed to the relevant target groups throughout Europe. The DigiCULT products will include: Technology Watch Reports, Thematic Issues and Newsletters. An
introduction to digitisation of cultural heritage material in the
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Humanities
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The Humanities Institute of Ireland was established at University College Dublin in 2002 under the Higher Education Authority's Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions, to provide a new environment for research in the Humanities. HII is developing and implementing a series of interdisciplinary research programmes under the theme, Identity, Memory and Meaning in the Twenty-First Century. The programme will be supported by the development of an innovative Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive. |
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Minerva |
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Minerva is a network of EU member states' ministries to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities carried out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content for creating an agreed European common platform, recommendations and guidelines about digitisation, metadata, long-term accessibility and preservation. MINERVA
National Report: Ireland |
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