1st Digmap Workshop

First DIGMAP Workshop
National Library of Portugal - Lisbon - Portugal
7 December 2007

Agenda

09:00 – Registration
09:30 – Opening
- Welcome / Inês Cordeiro (BNP - National Library of Portugal)
- The eContentplus Programme / Marcel Watelet (European Commission)
10:00 – The Context
- DIGMAP / José Borbinha (IST)
- TEL – The European Library / Theo van Veen (KB - National Library of the Netherlands)
- MinervaEC and MICHAEL: coordinating digitisation in Europe and deploying new services / Antonella Fresa
10:50 – Break
11:00 – Experiences and Perspectives
- Maps of the Maastricht/Aachen/Liege region / Jan Hartmann (University of Amsterdam)
- Experience of a feasability study with TEL / Renata Solar (Nathional Library of Eslovenia)
- ECAI – Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative / Ray Larson (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
12:00 – Lunch
14:00 – Gazetteers
- EuroGeoNames / Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu (Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy - BKG)
- Geonames / Marc Wick (geonames.org)
14:40 – Technology
- GIS Portal Toolkit / Rui Santos (ESRI Portugal)
- MSR MapCruncher for Virtual Earth / José Silva (Microsoft Portugal)
- Indexing documents by their geographic references / Angeles Saavedra Places, Miguel Luaces (Universidade da Coruña)
- Free Software for Old Maps Publishing / Klokan Petr Přidal (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
16:00 – ...open discussion...
16:20 – Break / Closing of the public sessions
16:40 – Strategic Discussion (private session, reserved to the participating projects)
18:20 - Closing