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Aleksandra Imogen Ivir


Department for Culture and Communication

Faculty of Organization and Informatics,
University of Zagreb

 
 

Education

Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Varaždin
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Zagreb
Albany High School, Albany, California

Skills

Operating Systems - DOS, Win3.1/95/NT/2000/XP, Unix
Windows Software - MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS FrontPage, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw, Macromedia FreeHand, Macromedia Dreamweaver, etc.
Internet Specific - Telnet, FTP, Gopher, Mozilla/MSIE, HTML coding
World Wide Web - Site design, implementation and administration
Interactive Multimedia Authoring and CD-ROM Development

Languages

Fluent in Croatian, German, English
Working Knowledge of French, Spanish
Some Understanding of Italian, Portuguese

Professional Experience

Culturelink Network, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia

  • Member of the Culturelink Review Editorial Board
  • Managing Editor of C-News, the Culturelink E-Newsletter
  • World Wide Web Resource Centre Project Manager (project development and implementation)
  • World Wide Web Editor and Administrator

Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa, UNESCO, Maputo, Mozambique

  • OCPA World Wide Web Project Manager (project development and implementation)
  • World Wide Web Editor and Administrator

World Wide Web Site Authoring and Production - project definition, site design, content development, editing, HTML, scripting and administration

Authoring and Production of Multimedia CD-ROMs

  • Europa na Internetu (Europe on the Internet) - Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, ISBN 953-6096-18-8
  • Culturelink Network - Status and Development, Databases on the Internet, Cultural Policy Database on the Culturelink WWW - PowerPoint Presentations and Documentation
  • Culturelink World Wide Web Resource Centre - Multimedia Presentation and Documentation
  • Culture of the Croatian Adriatic - Multimedia Photographic Journey, Croatian Quality Souvenir Competition / Croatian Tourist Board
  • Slavomir Drinković - My Way, Sculptor's Portfolio

Numerous Translations into English, German and Croatian; Language Editing; Some Interpreting Experience

Conferences

  • Virtual Culture and Its Impact on Cultural Tourism: Experiences from South-East Europe
  • Active participation at the 2nd Culture.mondo International Roundtable - Cultural Portals: A New Era of Cooperation
  • Participation at the Second World Culturelink Conference - Dynamics of Communication: New Ways and New Actors
  • Participation at the international conference Eurovisions - From Cultural Network to Politics
  • Member of the Web Festival Jury at the CARNet Users Conference CUC 2002
  • Participation at the conference Content Management and Portals
  • Active participation at the Stockholm Challenge Award Final Events World Cafe Forum and Best Practice Exhibition
  • Coorganization of and participation in the IMO International Course Redefining Cultural Identities: Southeastern Europe
  • Participation at the UNESCO/IMO International Seminar Ten Years After - The Media in Transition Lessons in Central and Eastern Europe: A New Strategy for Independent and Pluralistic Media in Croatia
  • Active participation at the International Meeting of the Council of Europe Public Access and Freedom of Expression in Cultural Institutions
  • Participation at the First World Culturelink Conference - Dynamics of Communication and Cultural Change: The Role of Networks
  • Regular participation at the conferences
    DORS, Croatian Open Systems Users' Forum
    HrOUG, Croatian Oracle User Group
    CASE, Methods and Tools for Information Systems Design

Presentations

  • eCroatia - Croatia on the Road to Information Society, INFO 2005 - 37th International Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media Fair - Culturelink WWW Resource Centre Project
  • 50th Anniversary Programme, Museum Documentation Centre - Cultural Networks and Portals in Croatia
  • Networker Markets, held within the framework of the international conference Eurovisions - From Cultural Network to Politics, Goethe Institut - Culturelink Network multimedia presentation
  • Application of Information and Communication Technology in the Field of Culture, Government of the Republic of Croatia - Culturelink WWW Information Services
  • European Diploma in Cultural Project Management Programme, Fondation Marcel Hicter - Culturelink Network on the Internet
  • 28. Fortbildungs- und Informationstagung der ABDOS: Transformation in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa und ihre Auswirkungen auf das Informations- und Dokumentationswesen - Culturelink Databases on the Internet
  • International Seminar Project Europe: Information, Documentation and Databases, Institute for International Relations / Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Culturelink Databases on the Internet
  • Expert Meeting on the Methodology of the Compendium Project, Cultural Policies Research and Development Unit (CPRDU) - Cultural Policy Database on the Culturelink WWW

Publications

Culturelink Review (Author)

  • OCPA WWW Resource Centre - Status and Development
  • Culturelink WWW Resource Centre - A Stockholm Challenge Award Finalist
  • Culturelink World Wide Web Resource Centre - New Dimensions of the Information Service
  • Culturelink World Wide Web Site - Advanced Usability
  • Culturelink World Wide Web Project - Status and Development
  • Some Thoughts on Computer-Mediated Communication

Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa (OCPA), OCPA WWW Resource Centre - Status and Development. Culturelink OCPA WWW Project, OCPA / Culturelink, Zagreb, ISSN 133269200 (Author)

ABDOS-Mitteilungen, Culturelink Databases on the Internet (Author)

Challenges and Opportunities for Media Diversity and Pluralism: Controlling Concentrations and Ensuring Transparency, Round Table Reader, IMO, Zagreb (Compilation, Layout and Production)

Croatian Oracle User Group Courier, Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Practice (Co-author)

InfoTrend, Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Practice (Co-author)

Matka, Croatian Mathematical Society, The Calculator of the Past - The Russian Abacus (Author)

Miro Gavran, Die Nacht der Götter (German Translation)

Miro Gavran, Der Patient des Doktor Freud, AGM/ZeKaeM, Zagreb, ISBN 953-174-016-X (German Translation)

The Novigrad Lapidarium Museum / Das Novigrader Lapidarium, Muzej - Museo Lapidarium, 2006 (English and German Translation)

Novigrad - Cittanova: A City Guide to History and Culture / Führer durch Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt, Turistička zajednica grada Novigrada, Novigrad, 2007 (English and German Translation)

Istria – Mini-Monograph / Istrien – Kurzmonographie, Trgo-Jež, Zagreb, 2006 (English and German Translation)

Vesna Girardi-Jurkić, Duhovna kultura antičke Istre / Die Geisteskultur im antiken Istrien, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 2005, ISBN 953-0-61433-0 (German Translation)

From Trade Exhibition to Fair, Zagrebački velesajam/Ars Media, Zagreb, ISBN 953-6215-08-X (English Translation)

Sports in Zagreb 1994-1996, Zagrebački športski savez/Ars Media, Zagreb, ISBN 953-6215-05-5 (English Translation)

Krieg in Kroatien, Muzejsko-galerijski centar, Zagreb (German Translation)

Kroatische Kulturwochen in Deutschland 2002, Croatian Ministry of Culture / Berliner Kulturveanstaltungs-GmbH, Zagreb / Berlin (Co-editing and German Translation)

Catalogues (Translations into English and German)

  • Robert Baća, Köpfe - Heads - Glave
  • Marina Baričević, More u djelima hrvatskih umjetnika
  • Mersad Berber, An Exhibition of the Artist
  • Jagor Bučan, Moja Afrika - My Africa
  • Bogdan Debenjak, Academic Painter
  • Josip Diminić, Retrospektive Auswahl 1970-1998
  • Vlado Duić, Zagreb above Zagreb
  • Zoran Džapo
  • Mirko Horvat
  • Pino Ivančić
  • Ivan Kožarić
  • Antun Motika, Donation: Selected Works / Stiftung: Eine Auswahl
  • Ivan Picelj, Površine - Superfici - Surfaces
  • Silvia Potočki
  • Branko Ružić, Uvod u donaciju
  • Munir Vejzović, Landscape of an Unreal Image
  • Šime Vidulin

Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARNet) and University Computing Centre (SRCE) Web sites (English Translation)

Egmont Strigl, Istrien entdecken, Trescher-Reihe Reisen, Trescher Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-89794-048-5 (Photography)

Andor Poll, Das neue Kroatien entdecken, Trescher-Reihe Reisen, Trescher Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-928409-58-1 (Photography)

Magazines Novi tednik, Zov (Photography)

Professional Memberships

IEEE Croatia Section Computer Chapter / HrOpen Forum - Expert Group on Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Practice

Honours

Culturelink WWW Resource Centre selected Croatian nominee for the e-culture category of the World Summit Award (WSA), recognizing best practice examples in e-content and creativity

Culturelink WWW Resource Centre received the Anthro.Net Best Practices Award for peer reviewed social science sites

Culturelink WWW Resource Centre included in Britannica's The Web's Best Sites directory

Culturelink WWW Resource Centre selected finalist in the Culture and Entertainment category of the Stockholm Challenge Award

Culturelink Web Site selected for inclusion in the meOme.de Portal, Europe's most extensive expert-network

Culturelink Web Site included in the Teachers@Work resource folder 1000 of the Best Internet Sites for Educators with highest marks

Culturelink Web Site chosen as a selection for the Scout Report for Social Sciences

Honourable Mention, 5th International Exhibition of Photographic Art - The Island and the Sea

Certificat d'honneur, National French Contest (Concours National de Français), Association Américaine des Professeurs de Français

Summer Jobs

Honeywell/Bull (IAESTE Exchange Programme), Madrid, Spain
Bayer AG, Dormagen, Germany

Volunteer Experience

Special Education Extended Year Summer School Program, Richmond Unified School District, California

Community Activities

Zagreb Youth Red Cross

Contact: IMO, Ul. Lj. F. Vukotinovića 2, P.O. Box 303, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia; tel.: +385-1-4877489; fax: +385-1-4828361; e-mail: ivir@irmo.hr; http://www.geocities.com/imogenation/