THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
RUSSIAN COMMITTEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONCIL OF MUSEUMS
THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND TOURISM AT THE ADMINISTRATION
OF THE YAROSLAVL REGION
ASSOCIATION ON DOCUMENTATION AND
NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (ADIT)

ADIT'99 Third Annual Conference
"Museums and networking:
multimedia and the cultural heritage"
Yaroslavl, May 17-21, 1999
A G E N D A
(draft)

   
  The conference shall be held at the address:
   Puppet Theatre, 23 Svobody St.

 

Sunday,   May 16
Arrival and registration of participants
Sightseeing

 

Monday,   May 17
Museum Computer Festival
   The Festival shall take place at the address:
   Nekrasov State Science Library,
   29 Sverdlova St.
  E-mail: postmast@rlib.yar.ru
The Festival is a joint effort with the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation). The festival will be attended by competition winners in "Culture" and "Internet" programs on presenting museum projects on the Web.

 

Tuesday,   May 18 International Museum Day
Opening of the Conference.
Speeches by Chairman of ADIT'99 Organizing Committee,
ADIT President and Organizing Committee Members

 

First plenary session:
Russian Heritage Network: Aims, Objects, Instruments.
Session Chairman: Alexander Dremailov,
The Moscow Kremlin State Museum-Preserve
E-mail: dream@kremlin.museum.ru
Reports by representatives of the Russian Ministry of Culture, Russian ICOM, ADIT

 

Second plenary session:

International Contacts. Programs by UNESCO and European Council Commission

Session Chairman: Lev Noll,
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art
E-mail: noll@gmii.museum.ru

Reports on ADIT contacts with the EC Commission, UNESCO and ICOM on various aspects of using museum information technology to include museums in the open information space.

 

Wednesday,   May 19
Third plenary session:
Databases. Documentation. Standards
Session Chairman: Viktoria Chernenko,
Vernadsky State Geological Museum
E-mail: victoria@sgm.ru
Reports on various aspects of museum database creation: database structure, thesauruses, data input and correction, output document formats, creating catalogues.

 

Fourth plenary session:
Image Processing Technologies. Digital Image Catalogues.
Session chairman: Kirill Meerov,
State Historical Museum
E-mail: kam@centro.ru
Reports on preparing digital images, using standards, creating digital image catalogues.
 
Thursday,   May 20
Fifth plenary session:
Multimedia Educational Programs
Session chairman: Olga Kissel,
State Russian Museum
E-mail: olga_k@pop3.rcom.ru

Reports on multimedia museum publications: scenarios, navigation, data presentation, information processing technologies (text, images, video, sound, virtual panoramas etc.), product quality, using multimedia products to popularise the museum heritage, commercial aspects.

 

 

Friday,   May 21
Sixth plenary session:
   
   The session will be held
  in the Conference Hall of the Administration of the Yaroslavl Region, 3 Sovyetskaya Pl.
Round Table on the Policy of Russia's Regions in the Field of Digitalizing Culture. A Video Conference on the Internet
Session Chairman: Nikolai Nikishin,
PhD, Geography, Laboratory of Museum Projects at the Russian Institute of Culturology, Russian Ministry of Culture and Academy of Sciences
E-mail: nan@online.ru

 

 

Seventh plenary session:
Session chairman: Kirill Nasedkin,
State Darwin Museum
E-mail: kirnas@museum.ru
Internet Day

Reports on the experience of using the Internet in museums.

 

Summing-up of the Conference.
Elections of ADIT Organising Committee

 


Dear Colleagues,
Please address any questions concerning ADIT'99
to Irina Andreeva,
ADIT regional representative in Yaroslavl:
tel. (0852) 32-98-18, fax (0852) 30-43-46,
E-mail: ia@museum.yar.ru


Please submit applications for presentation
of information software in the demonstration hall
to the ADIT Organising Committee.
Presentations will be held
in breaks between plenary sessions.

Organisers of the conference:
The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Russian Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM)
The Department of Culture and Tourism at Administration of the Yaroslavl Region
Association on Documentation and new Information Technologies (ADIT)
The Yaroslavl Museum of Art
The Yaroslavl Museum-Reserve of History and Architecture
The Yaroslavl Demidov State University


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