Conference: Cultural innovation and information retrieval

[Johanna Laakso]

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Budapest - Helsinki, May 8, 2001

Invitation

Dear Colleague,

You are kindly invited to attend the conference on

"Cultural innovation and information retrieval: The digitization and
automated content exploration of Finno-Ugric cultural heritage"

organized by the National Széchényi Library and the National Branch of the
Finno-Ugric World Congress in Budapest, Hungary on

September 14, 2001 (Friday),
from 10.00 to 16.30,
in the ceremonial hall of the National Széchényi Library.
Participation is free of charge.

The conference is seeking ways to save the cultural heritage of Finno-Ugric
peoples for the present and the future, in the framework of the emerging
information society. Its goal is to assess the degree of, and generate
further cooperation between researchers in the humanities and information
technology in this specific field. Invited lecturers from Hungary, Finland
and Estonia will focus on research and development results, with ample
opportunity to make comments and initiate discussion. The working language
of the conference will be Hungarian, with no English translation provided,
but English as a second working language in an academic meeting is taken for
granted. The abstracts of the papers will be published for the event in
Hungarian and English.

Programme:

Plenary session:

10.00 - 10.05    Welcoming address (István Monok, Director General, National
Széchényi Library)
10.05 - 10.20    Culture, Research and Development (Gábor Szabó, Deputy
State Secretary, Ministry of Education, Hungary)
10.20 - 10.35    Finno-Ugric Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century (Vilmos
Voigt, Department of Folklore, ELTE, Budapest)

The digitization of cultural heritage

Chair:         Péter Domokos (Department of Finno-Ugric Studies, ELTE,
Budapest)

10.35 - 10.55    Digitization: what, why and how? (Zsuzsa Tószegi, John von
Neumann Digital Library, Budapest)
10.55 - 11.15    Hungarian Studies and the Hungarian Electronic Library
(István Monok, National Széchényi Library)
11.15 - 11.35    FinELib: the Finnish electronic library (Kristiina
Hormia-Poutanen, University Library, University of Helsinki)
11.35 - 11.55    The National Audiovisual Archive (Gábor Magyar, Technical
University, Budapest)

12.00 - 13.00    Lunch break

Databases, automated classification and information retrieval

Chair:        Sándor Dominich (Department of Computer Science, University of
Veszprém)

13.00 - 13.20    Complex Morphological Database of Uralic Languages
(Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences)
13.20 - 13.40    Encyclopedia of Finno-Ugric Peoples (László Klima,
Department of Finno-Ugric Studies, ELTE, Budapest)
13.40 - 14.00    Content Exploration by Automated Classification (Sándor
Dominich, Department of Computer Science, University of Veszprém)
14.00 - 14.20    Content Mapping of Hungarian Belief Texts (Sándor Darányi,
Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, Helsinki))

14.20 ­ 14.40    Coffee break

14.40 ­ 15.00    Automated Classification in Ethnomusicology (Zoltán Juhász,
Institute of Materials Science - Institute of Musicology, Hungarian Academy
of Sciences)
15.00 - 15.20    Finnish Databases of Endangered Finno-Ugric Languages and
The Encyclopedia of Sami Culture (Ulla-Maija Kulonen, Department of
Finno-Ugric Studies, University of Helsinki)
15.20 - 15.40    Estonian Databases of Finno-Ugric Folklore (Mare Koiva,
Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu)
15.40 - 16.00    Finno-Ugric Cultural Heritage on the Internet (Andres
Heinapuu, Information Centre of Finno-Ugric Peoples, Tallinn)
16.00 - 16.20    The Ancient Poems of the Finnish People Digitising Project
(1998-2001) (Pasi Klemettinen, Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki)
16.20 ­ 16.30    Closing address


Please indicate your interest to: Ms. Barbara Kiss, Head, (National
Széchényi Library, International and Cultural Secretariat, phone: +36 1
22-43-743, fax: + 36 1 22-43-744, e-mail: barbara at oszk.hu, postal address:
1827 Budapest, Buda Royal Palace Wing F, Hungary

Registration deadline: June 8, 2001

With best regards from the Organizing Committee for the conference,

Márta Csepregi (Department of Finno-Ugric Studies, Loránd Eötvös University,
Budapest -
Department of Finno-Ugric Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki)
Vilmos Voigt (Department of Folklore, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest)
István Monok (National Széchényi Library, Budapest)
Sándor Darányi (Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, Helsinki)


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Registration form

I want to participate in the conference "Cultural innovation and information
retrieval: The digitization and automated content  exploration of
Finno-Ugric cultural heritage" at the National Széchényi Library, Budapest,
Hungary, on September 14, 2001.

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The registration from should be submitted no later than June 8, 2001 to the
following address:

Barbara Kiss
National Széchényi Library
H-1827 Budapest, Buda Royal Palace Wing F
Hungary

fax: + 36 1 22 43 744

e-mail: barbara at oszk.hu