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MultiMatch-Workshop at Online Educa 2007In the course of the workshop, teaching and learning with new tools for digital media will be explored and demonstrated, focusing on highly innovative approaches for searching, collecting, organizing, and using media for learning in a multilingual framework. The aim is to merge innovative learning techniques and cultural content through customised services and personalised e-learning spaces. In particular, a live demo of the MultiMatch project will be conducted during the workshop. MultiMatch is an EU-project for developing a multilingual search engine specifically designed for access, organisation, and personalised presentation of cultural heritage information. Workshop participants will be able to evaluate a working version of the system, and their feedback will be collected and used to enhance future development. After focused presentations concerning the needs of educational users, emerging tools/technologies and collaborative learning services will be presented. Discussions will then seek to align the needs of educational users with current (and future) technologies and services. Discussions and presentations on e-learning in the cultural heritage context include online advanced support for educational activities and building online multilingual and multimedia content retrieval. The workshop is sponsored by Alinari IDEA through the MultiMatch project Workshop leader:Prof. Dr. Frederik Truyen Coordinator ICT for Humanities and Social Sciences at Leuven University since 2006. Head of the Computer Dept. of The Faculty of Arts K.U.Leuven from 1989 till now. In charge of the Maerlant Center (MediaLab Institute for Cultural Studies). Professor at the Faculty of Arts in Information Science since 1997. The presenters will be: Antonella Fresa: advisor of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. Technical Coordinator of MICHAEL / MICHAEL Plus deployment project implementing the European portal of digital cultural collections; Technical Coordinator of MINERVA / MINERVA Plus / MINERVA-EC, network of European Ministries of Culture for the coordination of digitisation initiatives. Sam H. Minelli (minelli@alinari.it): senior project manager at Alinari photographic archives, contributing to the development of standards in the photographic domain (image, metadata, workflow). Moreover, he is involved in knowledge-based modelling for digital restoration and enhancement of images concerning archaeological and monumental heritage. Andrea de Polo (andrea@alinari.it): head of the Digital Imaging Department at Alinari photographic archives. M. Felisa Verdejo: Full Professor, Head of the Computer Systems and Languages Department, at the National Distance Learning University in Spain (UNED) where she leads two research groups: Natural Language and Information Retrieval Group- NLP&IR Group ( |
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The availability of cultural content in rich and diverse formats requires the use of modern technologies in ways that do justice to this content. In particular, users should be able to access content across media types (e.g. images, texts, video and audio) and language boundaries easily and intuitively. The workshop “Innovative Approaches for Searching and Using Cultural Heritage Information for Learning and Teaching” will address these needs. It is intended to converge all the stakeholders (educational end users, content providers, and technology/service providers) in order to share knowledge and experiences gained in developing, serving, and using cultural heritage resources.
