The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
The Russian Committee of the International Museum Council
The Committee for Culture and Art of the Ivanovo Region Administration
The Association for Documantation and New Information Technologies (ADIT)

The Second Annual Conference ADIT'98
Museums and Information Space:
Digiatlization and the Cultrual Heritage

Ivanovo
May 18-22, 1998


Conference Agenda
(draft 3 April 1998 )

   
  Location:
   Palace of Art (Puppet Theatre), 2 Pushkin Place
 
Sunday,   17 May Arrival and registration of participants
10 AM - 6 PM Palace of Art (Puppet Theatre)
 
Monday,   18 May International Museum Day
MUSEUM COMPUTER FESTIVAL
   
  Location:
   the Museum & Exhibition Center
  of the Ivanovo D.G. Burylin Museum
  of Local History, 29 Sovyetskaya St.
   E-mail: museum@museum.ivanovo.ru
 
10 AM - 10-30 AM Opening of the Festival
10-30 AM - 6-30 PM Speeches by participants from major museums, demonstarion of digitized publications.
7 PM - 8-30 PM Conference participants assemble
at the Palace of Art (Puppet Theatre), 2 Pushkin Place.
 
Tuesday,   19 May  
 
10 AM - 11-30 AM Opening speeches by members of the Organizing Committee.
Reports by group leaders of ADIT
 
12 PM - 1-30 PM First Plenary Session
Museums and Open Information Society
  Chairman: Alexandre Dremailov,
The State Museum-Preserve "The Moscow Kremlin"
E-mail: dream@kremlin.museum.ru
Reports:
Sergei Cherkalin,
Director of the Rybinsk Museum-Preserve of History, Architecture and Art
Regional Information Policy towards the Cultural Heritage in Russia , (30 min.)

Anna Kolupaieva,
Deputy Chief of Museum Department of the Ministry of Culture of Russia
The Government Program for Creating a Global Electronic Catalogue of Museum Exhibits of the Russian Federation, (30 min.)

Victor Montviloff,
Head of Sector at the Department of Information and Informatics of UNESCO (Paris)
UNESCO Policy towards Digitizing the World Cultural Heritage, (30 min.)
E-mail: v.montviloff@unesco.org

 
2-30 PM - 6 PM First Plenary Session (cont'd)
Reports:
Nikolai Yemelianov,
VNIISI
Museum Databases in Russia, (40 min.)

Olga Kissel
Head of Department at the State Russian Museum (St.Petrsburg)
Multimedia Electronic Editions on Museum Collections in Russia, (40 min.)
E-mail: olga_k@pop3.rcom.ru

Alexei Lebedev,
D.Sc., Art History, Major Researcher at the Laboratory for Museum Projecting, Russian Institute of Culturology of the Ministry of Culture of Russia and the Russian Academy of Sciences
Museum Sites in Internet. An analytical Review , (40 min.)
E-mail: avleb@radio-mus.net

Lev Nol
Ph.D., Head of Informatics Department at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Art
Museums and Computer Education, (40 min.)
E-mail: noll@gmii.museum.ru

 
Wednesday,   20 May  
 
10 AM - 1-30 PM Second Plenary Session
Museum Databases
  Chairman: Viktoria Chernenko,
State Vernadski Geological Museum
E-mail: victoria@sgm.ru
Reports will deal with various aspects of museum database creation - their structure, thesauruses, input technologies, software and hardware complexes, and the use of local networks
 
2-30 PM - 6-30 PM Third Plenary Session
Electronic Editions on Museums
  Chairman: Kirill Meerov,
State Historical Museum
E-mail: kam@centro.ru
Reports will concern various issues of multimedia museum produts: script writing, navigations, data representation, technologies for processing blocks of data (text, images, video, sound, vitrual panorams etc.), the quality of products and their use in popularizing art & science, commercial aspects
 
Thursday,   21 May  
 
  INTERNET DAY
   
  Location:
  Institute of Open Systems of the Ivanovo State
  University of Power Engineering,

  34 Rabfakovskaia St.
 
10 AM - 1 PM Fourth Plenary Session
 
  Chairman: Kirill Nasedkin,
The State Darwin Museum
E-mail: kirnas@museum.ru
Speeches on the experience of using Internet in museums. A videoconference between museums in Russia and abroad. We plan to make an Internet connection between the State Hermitage in St.Petersburg and the Louvre in Paris. Researchers from both museums will join an on-line discussion
 
2 PM Onwards Buses leaving
from the University of Power Engineering will
take us to the city of Ples to visit the Museum of Levitan and the Museum of Landscape Painting there
 
Friday,   22 May  
 
10 AM - 1-30 PM Fifth Plenary Session
Museum Informatics in Russian Regions
  Chairman: Nikolai Nikishin,
Ph.D, Geography, Laboratory for Museum Projecting, Russian Institute of Culturology of the Ministry of Culture of Russia and the Russian Academy of Sciences
E-mail: nan@online.ru
Speakers will discuss the issues of using computers in museums and creating an open information space in various regions of Russia
 
3 PM - 5 PM Sixth plenary session
Legal Matters and Museum Informatics
  Chairman: Kirill Poluektov,
State History Museum
E-mail: kam@centro.ru
Reports will concern legal issues in museum informatics: copyright and intellectual property, property rights on information in the open information space etc.
 
 

Closing Speeches

5-30 PM A Reception at the White Hall of
the Museum of Local History,
6/40 Baturina St.
 
      Every session will include between one and three main speeches 3- to 40 minutes long each, and short 10-minute reports. Report titles and speakers' names will shortly appear in Internet in WWW.MUSEUM.RU.

Dear Ladies and Gentelmen,
On any matters concerning the ADIT'98 conference,
please contact the ADIT Organizing Committee
at the Ivanovo Region Committee on Culture and Art:
Irina Stepanova
tel. (0932)41-5858, fax. (0932)30-1426
E-mail: ira@power.indi.ru



Please contact the ADIT Organizing Committee
if you wish to make a presentation of an
information program in the Demonstration Hall.
Presentations will be held in the breaks between sessions.


Conference Organizers:

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
The Russian Committee of the International Museum Council
The Committee for Culture and Art of the Ivanovo Region Administration
The Association for Documantation and New Information Technologies (ADIT)
The Ivanovo Burylin State Museum Association
The Ivanovo State University of Power Engineering


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