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Royal Thames Yacht Club, 60 Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7LF, UK
Friday 3rd October 2008, 9.30am - 5.30pm

The MILE Project continued its work on improving metadata search and retrieval with "Speaking in Tongues", a seminar dedicated to examining multilingual thesauri for data retrieval.

MILE's intention is to try to bridge the gaps between commercial and cultural heritage users of digital images, and this seminar brought together a rostrum of international speakers from museums, educational and research establishments, as well as commercial technology providers and picture agencies.

Click here for the post-event press release.

Click here for the seminar agenda and speaker biographies.

For speakers' presentations. click on the highlighted names below.

Speakers included:

• Harriet Bridgeman, Chairman, The Bridgeman Art Library
• Dr. Richard Butterworth, Project SILVER, "MILE Discussion Forum: Options for a multilingual search interface" (PPT. 6,420KB)
• Philip Carlisle, English Heritage / European Heritage Network Thesaurus Team, "One man’s fish is another man’s poisson: A cautionary tale of multilingual development" (PPT. 259KB)
• Glen Carruthers, Account Manager, Datasafe / BABYLON UK distributor
• Stella Dextre Clarke, Project SILVER, "Standards for multilingual thesauri" (PPT. 797KB)
• Dr. Annette Godefroid, Bridgeman Berlin, "Speaking in Tongues" (PPT. 2,243KB)
• Elaine Ménard, Université de Montréal, "Image Representation and Retrieval in a Multilingual World" (PPT. 2,133KB)
• Professor Lina Nagel Vega, DIBAM, "The Spanish-Language Version of the AAT: Tesauro de Arte & Arquitectura: History, Implementation, and Dissemination" (PPT. 3,933KB)
• Karsten Risseeuw, Account Manager, KURSIV
• Dr. Chris Town, Imense, "Metadata beyond text: annotating and finding images by visual content" ({PPT. 9,464KB)