The Estonian Ministry of Culture is organising an international conference “Intelligent Access to Digital Heritage” in Tallinn, on October 18-19, 2007. This is a follow-up to previous conferences held on digitisation and digital preservation of cultural heritage materials (see: “Management of Digital Collections – Opportunities for MAL Collaboration” and “Managing Heritage Collections II: Continuity and Change”). These conferences have been supported by the Minerva project.

The theme of this year’s conference will be related to semantic web technologies and access gateways to digital heritage held in different domains. One session will be dedicated to introducing new EU-funded research projects (REWERSE, MICHEL+).

The conference will discuss semantic web in general, the technology solutions it requires and offers, and how these can be implemented in the cultural heritage domain, especially for improved access to cultural content.

The conference is targeted at memory institutions and specialists working with digital cultural heritage.

The conference will be held over two days at the National Library of Estonia in Tallinn. Working language of the conference is English, with translation between English and Estonian provided. Participation at the conference is free of charge, but you are kindly asked to register at this address: conference@kul.ee.

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