Hello folks,

I am organising a FISH workshop, focussing on interoperability, to be held as part of the IFA conference in March (details below).

If any FISH subscribers would like to present short papers (30  minutes) relevant to the session, please could they contact me as soon as possible, and certainly by the end of January with details of their proposed presentation. A short abstract (50-100 words) and paper title would be fine,

I look forward to hearing from you,

Thanks

Ed


Session title "Together in Electric Dreams"


Organiser: Edmund Lee, English Heritage Data Standards Unit,
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Thursday 24 March from 14.00 - 16.30. As part of the IFA conference at Winchester, U.K.

Abstract: The workshop from the Forum on Information Standards in
Heritage (FISH) www.fish-forum.info <http://www.fish-forum.info/> will
be both practical and visionary. The workshop will address some of the
practicalities of the application of data standards to historic
environment information. Short papers will present case studies of what
goes wrong when standards are not applied, and what can be achieved if
shared standards are adopted by the community. Information about the
past is, or should be, a shared inspirational resource, and the workshop
also welcomes presentation on visions that are achievable if open,
shared and widely supported standards for information interchange are in
place.

The workshop will be followed by the public launch of the FISH
Interoperability Toolkit - a suite of protocols and software tools aimed
at improving communication of heritage sector data. See
www.heritage-standards.org <http://www.heritage-standards.org/> for
further information. 

See the IFA website  www.archaeologists.net for further details of the conference, including other sessions and registration.


Edmund Lee
Data Standards Supervisor
Data Standards Unit
English Heritage 
National Monuments Record Centre
Kemble Drive
Swindon
SN2 2GZ
United Kingdom
 
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