In the second week of November, several members of the DM2E project were present at the annual EVA/MINERVA digital heritage conference in Israel. During this two day conference a couple of presentations and a hands-on workshop was given.
During the plenary session on the Tuesday, Dov Winer, scientific leader of Judaica Europeana and content provider to DM2E, presented the importance of digitised heritage heritage for research in the digital humanities.
On Wednesday morning, Sam Leon of the [Open Knowledge Foundation](http://www.okfn.org) gave a high level overview of the activities in DM2E.
In the afternoon, the Open Knowledge Foundation organised an [OpenGLAM](http://www.openglam.org) workshop together with several partners like Wikimedia Israel and Creative Commons Israel. Around 30 participants from cultural heritage institutions in Israel attended the workshop where legal issues around open cultural data were discussed. A more detailed report can be found on the [OpenGLAM blog](https://openglam.org/2012/11/21/openglam-workshop-in-jerusalem/).
We have had very positive feedback from the participants and a lot of interest in contributing to the project was established. The idea of cultural material being used for scholarly research is very appealing and complies to the mission statement of almost every cultural institution.
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