Interactive Graveyard Information Management Tool

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Interactive Graveyard Information Management
Tool Virtual Memoriam Database
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e-MEM is an EC e-Content funded defination phase
project. The project started on March 1 and ends
December 31. 2004.
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Project members
Foundation of Research Technology, Hellas
(FORTH)Lab. for Geoph.Satellite Remote Sensing
Nikiforou Foka 13074100 Rethymno,
CreteGreecewww.forth.gr/index.htmlDepartment
of Cultural Heritage Protection (DCHP)Snipiskiu
str. 3LT-2600 VilniusLithuaniawww.heritage.lt

• Teikn a lofti ltd. (TEIKN)
• Skipagata 12600 AkureyriIcelandwww.teikn.is/en
  g/index_e.html
• Comune di Bologna (COBO)
• Dep New Institutions to Communicate the City
  Via Oberdan 2440126 BolognaItaly
  www.comune.bologna.it

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Project Management and members role
Project management
Management Board Project planning, Finance and
Co-ordination Administrative, Financial and
Technical Co-ordination (CEO) - TEIKN, Content,
Technical and Dissemination advisor - COBO
Members role
TEIKN Administrative and Technical
Co-ordination, IT and Content Developer,
Dissemination. Iceland
DCHP Research, Content provider
and Dissemination. Lithuania
FORTH Geo and Archaeological Research, Content
Provider and Dissemination. Greece
COBO Content and technical advisor. Content
provider and Dissemination. Italy
Sub-contractor psychological and marketing
consultancy
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• Project Description
• Key underlying trends/issues
• Increased mobility within and between EES
  countries
• Growing need for inter-European access to
  graveyard information
• Rising demand for co-operation and exchange of
  best practices among graveyard operators
• Increased demand for e-business

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• Project Description
• Key project parameters
• Create the foundation for a tool that enables
  ubiquitous exchange of graveyard and related
  information over the www
• Set a standard template, bringing together the
  different policies standards of registering,
  and offering info on, the deceased in Europe
• Define best practices for portraying information
  on cultural monuments
• Define business possibilities for such a tool
• Prepare a pilot portal for upto 4 EU graveyards

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Potential Benefit to Graveyards

• Inter-graveyard communication tool for EES
  graveyards
• Public communication regarding information such
  as
• Location of graveyard
• Grave / deceased individual location
• Culture / Art / Monuments
• History
• Fulfill EU directives - increased eGovernment at
  all levels
• Reduces manpower requirements
• Security in storing data

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Potential Benefit to the Public

• Access to central, interactive communication and
  information gateway about graveyards and
  deceased individuals in the EES
• Possibility of managing, publishing and viewing
  multi-media information about the deceased and
  their family memories, rememberance, obituaries
• Possibility to order graves
• Possibility to order services (e.q. flowers) and
  maintainance for graves

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• For further information on the project,
• please contact
• Halldór Jóhannsson
• Skipagata 12, 600 Akureyri, Iceland
• Tel [phone]
• halldor_at_teikn.is
• Or visit
• www.e-mem.org