Popularize the information about Russian cultural heritage and its memory institutions, represent it world-wide by means of informational technologies;

To form such conditions that can provide developing and cooperating of cultural internet resources;

To unite and standardise the informational sources, to create communication tools for the professionals in the cultural sphere.

RCHN collaborates with lots of Russian memory institutions, especialy in the area of museums, and operates as an interactive cultural communication centre.

RCHN organises specialised museum workshops and seminars.

RCHN takes part in various Russian and international projects, it also cooperates with many commercial and non-profit organizations at the national and international levels.

This 18-months project launched in January 2002.

RCHN is a principal contractor. There were also 11 partners from 6 countries.

Cultivate-Russia is a network, infrastructure project directed to promulgation of collaboration Russian and European organizations. There were conducted several seminars and round tables, spread information on the whole territory or Russian Federation, produced electronic journals and mailings, functions information web-site, conducted international conference, produced Cds and set regional and international contacts.

News, announcements and articles on-line, about 500 topics per month altogether, are collected, adapted and distributed.

The regional network covers the whole Russian territory.

The partnership with most of the news agencies, mass media and web portals in the object of distributing the information;

More than 250 weekly issues of six electronic web magazines were produced since 1997. They have about 7000 subscribers.

Founded in March, 1997

Links to Russian and international museum organizations

Conference, seminars and other events announcements

Informational materials

Database and personal web pages of museum professionals

Electronic conference 'Cafe Museum' and the 'Museum board' for discussions

Open discussion list for professionals

employing a service-oriented approach, focusing on the right added value for the user, in contrast to the traditional content-oriented approach;

relying on a distributed open infrastructure, in order to reduce the cost of development and deployment of new services by maximising the re-use of existing results, and to reduce maintenance costs by eliminating the need for a centralised organisational and/or technical infrastructure;

seeing emerging semantics as an evolutionary process, derived from local interactions and agreements in order to overcome linguistic and ontological barriers and realise a shared knowledge space.

CALIMERA is the only project in the Community Memory Sector having been selected for funding during the first IST call. It will monitor technical developments and solutions already emerging from IST and national research and assess their potential as widely transferable technologies for use by local institutionss. It will co-ordinate and sensitise the stakeholders including professional networks, national and local authorities and industrial players. Building on FP5, namely on the PULMAN project, CALIMERA will increase sharing of best practice, mobilising and adding European value to IST-based national programmes, producing guidelines and benchmarking tools with a special focus on the needs of local archives and museums and addressing the needs of the end user by identifying a framework for focused research on usability/ease of use.

It gives you an opportunity to make one time specialized interective on-line tool, which will let your organization to open a web-site of your new event

The event web-site will be made of the ready-made, universal program module

The user may, without subcontracting professional advice and based only on his/her computer expertise, build the program adding or removing the software modules

The user can make as a custom pattern on of patterns made by server developers

User have an opportunity of the elementary design of his conference web-site

Every new event appearing on this web-site immediately gets an e-mail service