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Cultivate Interactive Web Magazine - What Is
It?

• Cultivate Interactive is a new pan-European Web
  magazine which is funded under the Digital
  Heritage and Cultural Content (DIGICULT) area of
  the EC Information Society Technologies Programme
  (IST).

Cultivate Interactive Cultivate Interactive is
aimed at the European digital cultural heritage
community including IT staff, information
professionals, researchers, managers, policy
makers, libraries, museums, archives, galleries,
non-profit making organisations in Eastern Europe
and other non-EU countries. Articles will address
the challenges facing the project team and allow
the reader to
provide feedback or partake in discussions on
related issues. As well as aiming to provide a
forum for users to find out more about Digital
Heritage in Europe Cultivate Interactive also
acts as a test bed for UKOLN's research interests.
http//www.cultivate-int.org/
UKOLN is funded by Resource The Council for
Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the
Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by
project funding from the JISCs Electronic
Libraries Programme and the European Union.
UKOLN also receives support from the University
of Bath where it is based.
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Cultivate Interactive Web Magazine -
Information for Authors
Would you like to include Cultivate Interactive
as part of your projects dissemination strategy?
Do you work for a commercial company involved in
the cultural heritage area?
Should you write for it?

• Are you involved in a DIGICULT project?

Would you like to address issues relevant to the
European digital cultural heritage communities?
Anyone Else? Contributions arent limited to
project holders or partners. Although we
particularly welcome contributions from users of
the deliverables of DIGICULT projects we are also
keen for contributions on topics of interest to
the digital cultural heritage industry, including
conference announcements, reports on conferences
and other local, national and international
events. We are also interested in publishing a
profile of your organisation or institution,
reviewing your Web site or hearing your views on
cultural issues.
For further information Contact the editors at
ltcultivate-editor_at_ukoln.ac.ukgt
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Cultivate Interactive Web Magazine -
Information for Readers

• Who Should Read It?
• Cultivate Interactive is aimed at the European
  cultural heritage community including IT staff,
  information professionals, researchers, managers,
  policy makers, libraries, museums, archives,
  galleries, non-profit making organisations, etc.
• You should read Cultivate Interactive if you
• Are involved in a DIGICULT project
• Are a potential user of deliverables from
  DIGICULT projects
• Are interested in the use and development of
  multimedia applications in the European cultural
  heritage institutions

What Does It Contain? Feature Articles on
DIGICULT Projects and other digital cultural
heritage areas in the broader community e.g.
Intellectual Property issues, putting museums
online, SCRAN, e-texts etc. Regular Columns such
as the DIGICULT Column, National Nodes, At the
Event and Metadata. New Events on a local,
national and international level. A Misc. section
containing a competition and other miscellaneous
information.
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Cultivate Interactive Web Magazine -
Technology Issues

• Technical Architecture
• Cultivate Interactive makes use of ASP (Active
  Server Pages) to manage a set of SSIs
  (server-side includes) which pulls in
  navigational elements, article content, etc. ASP
  is also used to include metadata fragments and
  transform them into appropriate ltMETAgt tags.

http//www.cultivate-int.org/search/
Basic Searching Basic searching enables fielded
searches to be carried out on the article author,
title or abstract. XHTML Cultivate Interactive
is encoded using XHTML
Other Functionality and Areas of InterestIn the
future some of the areas we are hoping to look at
include creating and marketing a user discussion
forum, including and evaluating more
externally-hosted Web services and allowing
personalisation and membership. We will also be
looking at creating an author upload centre to
enable contributors to upload their articles,
graphics and metadata and integrating an author
database into the magazine.