Bob Little Press and Public Relations - Giunti Labs presents a digital repository solution for museums,libraries and eGovernment at SUN PASIG,Malta,24th to 26th June


Media Centre Giunti Labs Master List PRESS INFORMATION ISSUED ON BEHALF OF: Bob Little Press & PR 23 Sherwood Avenue St Albans Herts AL4 9QJ UK 8th June 2009 Giunti Labs presents a digital repository solution for museums, libraries and eGovernment at SUN PASIG At the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting organised by Sun Microsystems in St Julian's, Malta, from 24th to 26th June, Giunti Labs - a leading online and mobile content management solution provider - presents the new HarvestRoad Hive 4 Digital Repository (DR) platform for digital content archiving and preservation initiatives of museums, libraries and eGovernment. Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs and co-chair of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), will open the event with a keynote addressing 'Building Digital Content Marketplaces for Europe's Knowledge Societies and Beyond'. He will present challenges and opportunities for cultural preservation and exploitation in today's Western 'Knowledge Societies' and highlight new digital content marketplace scenarios and case studies for the online sharing and distribution of educational and knowledge resources. These include the Maknaz DR initiative, federating all national universities in Saudi Arabia; the CalState Marketplace initiative networking the California School and University district stakeholders and its open and publishing content stakeholders, and Building Schools of the Future, a public sector initiative in the Birmingham district in the UK. The keynote will be followed by presentations from leading organisations including the British, Dutch, New Zealand, French and Slovak National Libraries; universities, as well as content and solutions providers such as the BBC. The event is expected to attract some 150 delegates from all over the world. On the evening of 24th June, Giunti Labs is also organising a 'Deep Dive Technology Workshop' on 'Using HarvestRoad Hive DR for Building Rich, Mobile, and Virtual World Repositories for Innovative Knowledge, Learning, and Information Dissemination Scenarios'. This presents the new content indexing, caching and web 2 classification and mobile delivery features present in Hive 4. It will also outline the open archive discovery and harvesting scenarios developed in leading EU R&D projects such as Sculpteur ( www.sculpteurweb.org ), where Giunti Labs interfaced its DR technology with leading EU museum archives such as the UK's National Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum; France's Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Museè de France and Museè de Cherbourg and Italy's Uffizi Gallery using Z39.50, Zing and SRW harvesting protocols and query by samples for 2D and 3D artefacts retrieval. These were used for building innovative 3D virtual worlds for distributing and reusing digital resources within knowledge dissemination and information sharing scenarios. Developed for Deepmatrix and VRML, the technology is now under porting on the Sun Wonderland Virtual Worlds and DarkStar collaboration platforms in the new IRMOS project ( www.irmosproject.eu ) - awarded to Giunti Labs, among others, by the EU - which will add service oriented architecture (SOA) along with virtual and mobile content delivery scenarios to this initiative. "Western societies need to re-invent their leadership to survive the global competition coming from emerging economies in the global labour marketplace and survive crises while strengthening their cultural stakeholders," commented Giunti Labs' Cardinali. "To address this issue requires an open and interoperable ecosystem bringing together open archives from Museums, Libraries and eGovernment initiatives; not single turnkey 'knowledge platforms'. "We need to develop an open and interoperable ecosystem bringing together open archives from museums, libraries and eGovernment initiatives to deliver new generation personal performance support and information access to our citizens, learners and trainees. This will help them develop new skills and competencies rapidly," he added. "Only by opening up our archives and unleashing the unmatched value of our heritage, can we survive increasing global competition," he stressed. "And we need to act first in order to survive!" Currently, Giunti Labs is integrating its HarvestRoad Hive DR and learn eXact mobile learning technologies with innovative delivery means offered by Sun's virtual worlds and collaboration platforms in order to deliver the content that users need, just in time, where they are and to the media they have - be it paper, web, iPhones, Blackberrys and so on. End About Giunti Labs Giunti is unique in the international publishing industry. In 1497, Giunti publishers and typographers in Florence, together with others in Venice, began modern book manufacturing. Over the years Giunti has built a 'historical catalogue' of huge dimensions, through a gradual process of 'fusion' of different publishers, but also through the creation of new brands, including Giunti Labs. Giunti Editore now includes 20 companies in the publishing sector. Giunti Labs, which has its global headquarters in Italy and offices in London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Lund (Sweden) and in Boston (US), provides a wide range of services, in response to any content, learning and knowledge management need, covering: Content production Research and development Technological solutions for content, learning & knowledge management Architectural and technological solutions for mobile & wireless Training and consulting Giunti Labs provides the learn eXact® suite, Europe's leading e-learning and mobile learning content management technology. This suite is interoperable with all major vendor-driven and open source LMS and VLE solutions in the market including Plateau, Oracle, SumTotal, Saba, WebCT, Blackboard, Sakai, LRN and Moodle. Moreover, Giunti Labs does not just adhere to the international standards relating to the LMS/LCMS world, it is one of the organisations that helps to determine and drive these standards: co-writing and developing them. Giunti Labs plays a key role in most of the international institutions for the definition of eLearning specifications (IEEE LTSC, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36, CEN/ISSS WSLT, AICC, IMS, ADL-SCORM and OKI). Further information from: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3489 399127 Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405

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