'Data sans frontières: web portals and the historic environment', 25 May 2007, British Museum
Organised by the Historic Environment Information Resources Network (Heirnet) and supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and the British Museum, this one-day conference takes a comprehensive look at portal technologies and Web 2.0 approaches to the dissemination and integration of historic environment data. Speakers from national organisations, national and local government and academia will explore options for co-operation at national and international level and create a vision for a way forward for joined-up UK historic environment information provision.
Online registration and payment facilities are available on the Heirnet web page. It is also possible to pay by cheque or cash on the day, but please reserve your place in advance by email.
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A related conference to the importance and study on Cultural Digitisation and web portals:
Knowledge by Networking. The Digitisation of Cultural Heritage in Germany and Europe
International Conference within the framework of the EU Council Presidency 2007
Berlin, 21 and 22 June 2007
This event is hosted by the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage (SPK), in cooperation with the MICHAEL partner organisations
(www.michael-culture.org). Conference supporters include EUBAM (the European portal for museums, libraries and archives); the German Research Foundation
(DFG); adlib Information Systems GmbH; zetcom AG; MuseumPlus; and Robotron.
We warmly invite you to participate in this international conference, to be held in Berlin, on 21 and 22 June 2007. In four sessions, conference participants will discuss digital access to culture, science and scholarship
in Germany and Europe. The conference will examine diverse initiatives in the fields of digitisation and digital networking, addressing a series of
underlying questions.
The first session will present German digitisation initiatives. Among these initiatives is www.kulturerbe-digital.de, a platform that will bundle
information about digitisation among cultural organisations in Germany. This first session will also consider fundamental questions essential to the
generation of new knowledge through networking.
The second session will address questions of particular relevance to those engaged in creating networks, drawing upon examples from many European nations. Among the issues to explore are the use and reuse of object data
standards and software, national versus European digitisation projects, synergy effects and the integration of smaller, or less well known, collections in larger digital networking initiatives.
The third session will introduce pan-European digitisation projects,
focusing specifically on the examples of MICHAEL-culture.org and the European Digital Library. We will consider the opportunities presented by these initiatives to raise the visibility of digital sources.
In our fourth session we will turn our attention to the natural sciences, where the exchange of research results and sources in international collaborative ventures is established practice. The networking experiences
of scholars in the natural sciences shall encourage and provide impetus to digitisation initiatives in the worlds of culture and scholarship. This
discussion will serve as the springboard to our concluding podium discussion of future strategies regarding the digitisation of cultural possessions.
Please know you must register in advance to attend. To register, visit:
www.knowbynet.de Your participation is free of charge. Travel and accommodation are your responsibility. Special rates for conference participants have been arranged with select partner hotels. You will receive a list of these conference hotels once we have received your formal
registration. As the number of discounted rooms is limited, we encourage you to book well in advance.
Conference languages are English and German. All presentations will be simultaneously translated.
This conference will take place in the Otto Braun Hall of the State Library in Berlin. The address for the State Library in Berlin is: Potsdamer Str. 35, D-10785 Berlin.
Contact:
Prof. Monika Hagedorn-Saupe
Institute for Museum Research
In der Halde 1
14195 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)30 830 1460 ,
Fax: +49 (0)30 830 1504
e-mail: m.hagedorn@smb.spk-berlin.de
Further information: www.knowbynet.de
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