Conference of the working group “Documentation” of the German Museums Association, Berlin

Since 1994, the German Museums Association hosts twice a year one of the most important forums in Germany for the exchange of information on questions of conventional and computer-assisted museum documentation.
Representatives will be presenting news of ongoing projects and introducing new ones. A good oportunity to reach a wide and established museum community and to start up new cooperations.

Inés Matres member of the HamoSearch consortium, will speak about on the HarmoSearch mappping tool, on Tuesday, 16 October (ppt file, 2,4 mb).

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BÖTM Top Seminar at Lake Wörth Carinthia, Austria

The “Federal Association of Austrian tourism managers’ short BÖTM is the advocacy of the profession of the spa and tourism managers in Austria.
The central tasks of BÖTM are training and education for staff in tourism organizations, as well as training seminars, study tours and lectures.

As part of Top Seminar at Lake Wörth, Manfred Hackl – project coordinator of HamoSearch – will hold a keynote on “Meta Search and cost analysis”, on Thursday, 4. oktober 2012.

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France’s international travel and tourism trade fair Paris

IFTM Top Resa is France’s international travel and tourism trade fair. The industry’s leading event for networking, doing business, innovating and keeping abreast of market developments, the exhibition offers a 360° panorama of the travel industry, covering all sectors: leisure, business and events.

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I-SEMANTICS 2012 – 8th Int. Conference on Semantic Systems Graz, Austria

With more than 400 participants every year I-SEMANTICS is one of the largest conferences in Europe in the field of semantic systems and the Semantic Web. It is held concurrently with the I-KNOW Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies. The combination represents a unique approach bridging the gap between highly affiliated communities and complementary research fields.

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6th Consortium Meeting Cavalese, Italy

cavaleseThe 6th HarmoSearch consortium meeting took place in Cavalese, Italy and was organized by eCTRL Solutions


XFT Congress découverte XFT Hammamet, Tunisia

XFT language allows the tourism sector to interact and to communicate thanks to a common language. The objectives: Rationalize, simplify and increase the exchanges to get more and more rapidity, proximity, productivity.

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Hack4Europe! 2012 Berlin, Staatsbibliothek

Hack4Europe! is a series of hack days organised by the Europeana Foundation and its partners and provides an exciting environment to explore the potential of open cultural data for social and economic growth in Europe.

The idea: The Hack Day Hack4Europe! 2012 Berlin will bring together up to 30 developers from Germany and other European countries in a two day event. They will have access to the diverse and rich Europeana collections containing over 20 million records through the Europeana Search API (incl. a test key and technical documentation).


Coorparation: Trentino – Israel Trento Italy

Meeting in Trento with companies and institutions in the context of the coorperation between the province of Trentino and Isreal in the fields of economic and cultural developements.

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Federal Volunteer Conference Dortmund

Inés Matres – assistant of the project partner Foundation Prussian Cultural Heritage (SPK) – will hold a keynote on:

“Euromuse.net – The exhibition portal for Europe. Exhibitons and Musuems in the field of cultural tourism”. Euromuse.net will be presented focusing on the exhibition information transferability provided by Harmonise.

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CeBIT 2012 Hannover, Germany

CeBIT is the world’s largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. The key target groups are users from industry, the wholesale/retail sector, skilled trades, banks, the services sector, government agencies, science and all users passionate about technology. CeBIT offers an international platform for comparing notes on current industry trends, networking, and product presentations.

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