Partners & Guest Partners
Partners
Key to The MILE Project's work is the strength of its partnership, which assembles the expertise and experience of leading European figures in the picture library industry. MILE brings together skilled and experienced professionals within the following sectors:
- Content Providers (Picture Archives and Image Libraries);
- Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Lawyers and Copyright Specialists;
- Trade Associations;
- Information Technology (IT) Providers.
MILE's Partners are:
AISA-BCN (AIS)
Xavier Castell
Barcelona, Spain
www.photoasia.com
Aisa's photographic archive is one of the most prestigious in the world, holding more than 2 million images on different subjects. Their main interests are ontology analysis and improvement, semantic web, multilingual databases, as well as content management, transformation and distribution systems online.
ALINARI 24 ORE (ALI)
Andrea de Polo, Sam Minelli
Florence, Italy
www.alinari.com/default_en.asp
Fratelli Alinari's unique heritage makes it one of the largest international centres of photographic and iconographic documentation, with over 3.5 million vintage images from the 19th and 20th centuries from all over the world. Alinari has taken part in several EC projects including Aquarelle, SCHEMA, MINERVA and aceMedia, the main concern of which have been watermarking and IP rights, cultural heritage matters, content provider, security and user authentication, ecommerce solution, data compression and picture retrieval.
ARCHETYPON S.A. (ARC)
George Kordelis, Michael Pramateftakis
Athens, Greece
www.archetypon.gr/index.html
Archetypon operates in the Information and Communication Technology sectors, the high quality of services provided by the company being clearly reflected by the names of its international partners and clients such as Microsoft, IBM and the European Commission. Archetypon's objective and scope, as an established ICT company, is to share its invaluable experience on digital content management, participate in seminars on metadata search & retrieval and investigate search and on-line translation systems as well as to participate in IPR seminars to discuss the technological procedures of managing and protecting digital content.
THE BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY (BAL)
Bridgeman UK
Harriet Bridgeman, Hannah Armstrong, Paul King, Felicity Page
London, UK
Bridgeman Berlin
Annette Godefroid, Steffen Wedepohl
Berlin, Germany
www.bridgeman.co.uk
Established in 1972, The Bridgeman Art Library represents museums, art collections and artists throughout the world by providing a central source for fine art images, holding some 250,000 images from 8,000 locations and operating a copyright advisory service for artists, rights holders, image users and education. This ensures The Bridgeman Art Library's relevant experience in all of the areas addressed within the MILE project.
BAPLA (THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF PICTURE LIBRARIES AND AGENCIES) (BAP)
Simon Cliffe, Catherine Draycott, Susanne Kittlinger, Linda Royles, Sarah Saunders
London, UK
www.bapla.org
The British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA) is the UK trade association for picture libraries, and the largest organisation of its kind in the world. BAPLA is dedicated to fostering the picture library industry through promoting industry standards, providing information, representing and raising the profile of the picture library industry and representing its members interest through lobbying to other organisations.
BILDOMBUDSMANNEN AB (BIL)
Staffan Teste
Stockholm, Sweden
www.bildombudsmannen.se/english
Staffan Teste works as juridical advisor for BLF (Bildleverantrernas Frening), the second largest picture agency organisation in Europe after BAPLA; is a board member of CEPIC, the European picture agency organisation which counts 1,000 agencies from 17 countries as members; and also represents CEPIC within IPTC, working in IPTC to create new photo metadata standards. Today, as well as further ongoing juridical studies, Teste helps copyright owners with stolen pictures or similar issues within Swedish courts.
COLLECTIONS TRUST (COT)
Nick Poole, Naomi Korn, Gordon McKenna
London & Cambridge, UK
http://www.mda.org.uk/
The Collections Trust (formerly MDA) is the UK's lead organisation on documentation and information management for museums, providing advice, support and guidance to museum professionals to help them achieve national standards in the management of their collections. For the past 10 years it has been responsible for maintaining SPECTRUM, the UK Documentation Standard for museums which is recognised both nationally and internationally as the industry standard for museum documentation.
FOTOFINDER (FOT)
Agnes Folaji, Ali Paczensky, Frank Toelle
Berlin, Germany
www.fotofinder.com
Fotofinder is a digital picture platform presenting diverse photographers and agencies on the web. Founded in 1999 in Berlin by Ali Paczensky, today Fotofinder is the best known online picture source for small and medium agencies, libraries and individual photographers in Germany. Since summer 2006, Fotofinder has also been running a subsidiary in France.
PLUS COALITION UK (PLS)
Jeff Sedlik, Nancy Wolff
Los Angeles, USA / London, UK
http://www.useplus.com
The Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to creating standard image usage rights terms and definitions. Organized by respected associations, leading companies, standards bodies, scholars and industry experts, the PLUS Coalition exists for the benefit of all communities involved in creating, distributing, using and preserving images. Spanning more than thirty countries, these diverse stakeholders have collaborated to develop PLUS, a system of standards that makes it easier to communicate, understand and manage image rights in all countries. The PLUS Coalition exists at the crossroads between technlogy, commerce, the arts, preservation and education.
STIFTUNG PREUSSISCHER KULTURBESITZ (SPK)
Monika Hagedorn-Saupe, Axel Ermert
Berlin, Germany
www.hv.spk-berlin.de/english/index.php
SPK is one of the world's major cultural organisations. comprising 16 of Berlin's state museums. SPK also houses Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, a picture archive established in 1966, which today owns about 12 million images.
SYSTEM SIMULATION LTD (SSL)
Graham Howard, Mike Stapleton
London, UK
www.ssl.co.uk
System Simulation is a 23 person software engineering company based in London's Covent Garden and is one of the longest established software companies; clients include The British Museum, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Hulton Archive and Getty Images. SSL maintains a strong Research & Development orientation and has collaborated on a range of EU framework 4 & 5 programme projects which enable them to keep their software at the leading edge and to provide consultancy services to clients on future opportunities and knowledge management strategies.
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (TCD)
Niamh Brennan, Frank Boland, Anil Kokoram. Garret McMahon
Dublin, Ireland
www.tcd.ie
Trinity College Dublin's department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering is, under Professor Boland, working in the research field of future generation communication systems networks. This research focuses particularly on signal processing, with principle strands being still and video image processing, Bayesian signal and system identification, and adaptive signal procession, amongst other fields. Specific projects include watermarking and the compression of still images.
WARDYNSKI & PARTNERS (WAR)
Janusz Kolczynski, Ewelina Sliwinska, Ewa Ciechaniewicz-Gillabert
Warsaw, Poland
www.wardynski.com.pl
Wardynski & Partners is one of Poland's largest independent law firms and provides legal services in many legal areas, such as intellectual property, internet law, and media and EU law. Janusz Kolczynski is a legal adviser for Wardynski's Intellectual Property and Media Practice and is a member of the National Council of Legal Advisers in Warsaw. Ewelina Sliwinska works in the Copyrights and Media Law Department and is part of Wardynski & Partners Intellectual Property team.
Guest Partners
MILE's Guest Partners form a group of international experts in the fields of
MILE's Guest Partners are;
5 RAYMOND BUILDINGS
Christina Michalos
London, UK
www.5rb.com
ARROW PROJECT
Luis Manuel Ferrao
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
www.arrow-net.eu
CACAO PROJECT
Frederique Segond
Lyons, France
www.cacaoproject.eu
COPYRIGHT BOARD OF CANADA
Mario Bouchard
Ontario, Canada
www.cb-cda.gc.ca
CASED PROJECT
Dennis Heinson, Dr. Huajian Liu, Daniel Paehler
Germany
http://www.cased.de/
DIBAM, UNIVERSIDAD DI CHILE
Lina Vega Nagel
Santiago, Chile
www.dibam.cl
EUROPEANA
Dr. Elisabeth Niggemann, Jill Cousins, Dr. Robina Clayphan
The Hague, The Netherlands
www.europeana.eu
MULTIMATCH PROJECT
Dr. Gareth Clayton, Sam Minelli
Dublin, Ireland / Florence, Italy
www.multimatch.org
policybandwidth
Jonathan Band
Washington DC, USA
www.policybandwidth.com
SILVER Project
Dr. Richard Butterworth, Stella Dextre Clarke, Brian Kavanagh, Pandora Mather-Lees
London, UK
http://87.246.126.36/
SWISS NATIONAL LIBRARY
Genevieve Clavell-Merrin
Bern, Switzerland
www.nb.admin.ch/slb/
THE COPYRIGHT REGISTRY
Randy Taylor
New York, USA
www.c-registry.us
THE GETTY INSTITUTE
Murtha Baca
Los Angeles, USA
www.archimuse.com
THE ISRAEL MUSEUM / MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK
Amalyah Keshet
Jerusalem, Israel
http://musematic.net
THE IMAGE BUSINESS
Angela Murphy
London, UK
www.angelamurphy.co.uk
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Tim Padfield
London, UK
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Tom Morgan
London, UK
www.npg.org.uk
THE PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION
Hugh Jones
London, UK
www.publishers.org.uk
THE WATCH FILE
Dr. David Sutton
Reading, UK and Texas, USA
http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/uk.cfm
UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL
Elaine Menard
Montreal, Canada
www.umontreal.ca
