Cairo,18thApril 2009
Only three months after Med-Mem project start up, co-financed by the EU, a preliminary model of the Web site – which will be online in 2011 – was presented at the 16th Conference of COPEAM thanks to the involvement and the effectiveness of its partners.
Only three months after Med-Mem project start up, co-financed by the EU, a preliminary model of the Web site – which will be online in 2011 – was presented at the 16th Conference of COPEAM thanks to the involvement and the effectiveness of its partners.
The pages written for several months regarding the explanations of the many activities of this project have emerged, in an instant, clear, expressive and convincing, on a computer screen. Starting from a quarantine of documents available, it was possible to show the attendants how, in a few months, they would benefit from a guided exploration of the cultural heritage of the Euro-Mediterranean region through the audiovisual archives.
The site, currently under design and construction, will offer various modes of navigation:
– A classic search by keywords;
– An access map where documents will be classified by country;
– A chronological fresco on which some documents will be distributed by year;
– An access by collection that will allow to know the richness and the extent of the funds of each contributor;
– A thematic access which will group the videos according to the six themes identified by the project.1
Each audiovisual document will be presented together with a documentary notice. The shortest contributions that will contitute the “chronological Fresco”, will be presented together with notices of contextualization written by professionals and specialists in the heritage domain. Thematic files made by university lecturers and researchers, will enable a deepening on selections of videos dealing with incontrovertible Mediterranean issues. Since the past provides a better understanding of the present, everyday, a “video of the day” will be chosen so to highlight an important news. Finally, still in order to maintain a close relationship between our memory and our present interests, the Mem-Med site will propose a Mediterranean cultural agenda which will identify the various events around the heritage and culture in the region.
1.The six themes identified by the project are : 1) the cultural sites 2) habits, traditions, jobs and knowledge 3) landscapes and environment 4) the cultural and artistic expressions 5) History 6) Tourism