** Apologies for cross postings **

Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery
7th - 11th April 2008, London, UK.
Including visits to the National Gallery and The National Archives

King's College London is pleased to announce the 
Digital Futures 5-day training event for 2008.
http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/

Led by experts of international renown, Digital 
Futures focuses on the development, delivery and 
preservation of digital resources from cultural 
and memory institutions. Lasting five days, 
Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other 
practitioners from the library, museum, heritage 
and cultural sectors looking to understand the 
strategic and management issues of developing 
digital resources from digitisation to delivery.

Digital Futures will cover the following core areas:
- Planning and management
- Fund raising and sustainability
- Copyright and IPR
- Visual and image based resource development and delivery
- Metadata - introduction and implementation
- Implementing digital resources
- Digital preservation

There will be visits to 2 institutions to see 
behind the scenes and received expert 
presentations at the National Gallery and the National Archives.

The agenda is here:
http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/digiprog.htm

Digital Futures aims for no more than 25-30 
delegates and every delegate will have the 
opportunity to also spend one-to-one time with a 
Digital Futures leader to discuss issues specific to them.

Digital Futures will issue a certificate of achievement to each delegate.

The Digital Futures leaders are:
Simon Tanner - Director of King's Digital 
Consultancy Services, King's College London
Tom Clareson - Program Director for New Initiatives, PALINET.
Other experts will be invited to speak in their areas of expertise.

What past delegates say about Digital Futures:
- "Excellent - I would recommend DF to anyone 
anticipating a digitization program"
- "I was very pleased. The team was exceptionally 
knowledgeable, friendly and personable."
- "Excellent, informative and enjoyable. Thank you."
- "Thanks, it has been an invaluable experience."
- "A really useful course and great fun too!"

Cost: £770 (VAT not charged, excludes accommodation)
Venue: King's College London, London
Dates: 7th - 11th April 2008

To register, go here:
http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/digireg.htm

The Digital Futures is run by King's Digital 
Consultancy Services and the Centre for Computing 
in the Humanities, King's College London working 
in co-operation with PALINET, USA.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Simon Tanner
Director,  King's Digital Consultancy Services
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane, 2nd Floor, London WC2B 5RL
tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1678 or +44 (0)7887 691716
email: [log in to unmask]	
www.digitalconsultancy.net

Digital Futures: 5 day training event for 2008
See: http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/