welcome speech and introduction to the europeanalocal project
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Angele Giuliano, AcrossLimitsEuropeanaLocal National Meeting, Malta9, 11 September 2010TRANSCRIPT
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Programme
10.00 Open
11.00 Minister for Gozo expected to make visit to event
11.00 Introduction presentation by Angele Giuliano on Expo
11.15 A demonstration on how Expo works by Cedric Farrugia
11.45 Question and Answer
12.00 Refreshments
13.00 Break
16.00 Re-open
17.00 A demonstration on how Expo works by Cedric Farrugia
18.00 Close
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Expo and EuropeanaLocal
• Make Europe's rich and diverse cultural and scientific heritage easier and more interesting to use online
– for work, leisure and/or study– books, films, maps, photographs, music, etc
• Building a common European Digital Library• Two strands within Europeana:
– National: taken care of by museums & archives– Local: the (wo)man in the street
• Where is Malta (and where is Gozo) in this??
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Digital Cultural Objects
• A cultural object is a digital representation of a material or immaterial cultural heritage item consisting of data and metadata
• Example: A chair– Metadata: type of chair, materials, date– Data: image of chair
• Example: A song– Metadata: duration, genre, title, performer– Data: audio file of song
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AcrossLimits – A Profile
• AcrossLimits is a dynamic SME and creative e-Business, secure payment, Internet and Knowledge Management Solutions provider based in Malta.
• It was registered in 2001 as a Limited Liability Company however the team have been working as partnership since 1996.
• It has representation offices in Brussels (Belgium), Sicily (Italy), Zaragoza (Spain) and Athens (Greece).
• Our innovative solutions are the fruit of our own internal research combined with experience gathered in collaborative research with our European partners.
• Our clients therefore benefit directly from day 1 of our engagement by constantly having access to better, faster, more stable, easier to use and improved systems.
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AcrossLimits – A Profile
'To provide innovative and creative technology solutions to solve tomorrow's problems'
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Contact Us
Address:Gateway Centre, Kappillan
Mifsud Street, Hamrun HMR 1856 - MALTA
Tel:(+356) 21 224 900 / (+356) 27
224 900Fax:(+356) 23 331 210Website: www.acrosslimits.comEmail:[email protected]