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**Due to the original tight deadline, the Call for Proposals for the conference Digital Strategies for Heritage (DISH2009) will be extended until 15 June 2009. **

DIGITAL STRATEGIES FOR HERITAGE (DISH2009)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE,
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 8-10 DECEMBER 2009

What is DISH2009?
Digital Strategies for Heritage (DISH) is a new bi-annual international
conference on digital heritage and the opportunities it offers to cultural
organisations. Triggered by changes in society, heritage organisations
face many challenges and need to make strategic decisions about their
services. DISH2009 aims at sharing knowledge about and experiences with
digital strategies. What roles do cultural heritage institutions have in a
networked society? What is the impact of digitisation on these
organisations? Why are certain digital services more successful than
others? Which business models are suited to the cultural heritage sector?
Why would archives, museums and libraries co-operate? These are some of
the questions that will be addressed in keynotes, presentations, debates
and workshops.

Who benefits from DISH2009?
The conference will be for all staff of cultural heritage institutions
that are responsible for policy issues and/or management of digital
collections and services. The conference will enable participants to learn
more about strategic decisions on all aspects of digital heritage
services.

How can you contribute?
The Programme Committee seeks contributions from professionals in
archives, museums, libraries and other heritage institutions and from
researchers or innovators outside the heritage field. The contribution can
be a paper presentation (max. 25 minutes) or a workshop (either 2 hours or
half day).


The paper or workshop should address one of the following main conference
topics:
* Strategies for innovation:
Digital heritage in mash-ups
Enhanced interoperability
Access to cultural heritage through visualisation (3d, gaming etc.)
From secured playgrounds into the open web
Open everything (standards, source, ID etc.)
Services and tools: always in a beta stage?


* Strategies for collaboration
Opportunities for on line collaboration
The value of interdisciplinary co-operation (culture, science and
business)
The relevance of national and regional portals
User involvement
The role of the creative industries

* Strategies for the unwired future
Heritage on mobile devices
Culture on the map / Geoweb
Locative media
Interfacing for crossmedia


* Business strategies
New roles versus old roles
Understanding use patterns
Changing perspectives on collections
Hybrid business models
Achieving sustainability and permanent access
From crowd sourcing to crowd funding
Cost reduction through shared services
Restrictions and opportunities through IPR


* Management strategies
Creating favorable conditions for innovation
The impact of the digital front office on the back office
Managing your digital assets
Measuring your digital collections
Investing in staff competencies

If you would like to contribute to the conference, please submit a
proposal, which consists of an abstract (max. 400 words in English) and a
short bio, *before 15th June 2009*. We welcome any contributions that are
based on research or experience and that 'look beyond the hypes'. The
abstract should address how heritage institutions have responded or should
respond to changes triggered by ICT. Further instructions are available on
the online Conference Proposal Submission Form at www.dish2009.nl.

Who is organising DISH2009?
DISH2009 builds on a series of successful national conferences on digital
heritage in the Netherlands (2004-2008). The main organisers of the
conference are the Netherlands Institute for Heritage and the DEN
foundation. The Programme Committee consists of representatives from
Europeana, the Association of European Research Libraries LIBER, the
Flemish interface centre for cultural heritage FARO, Virtueel Platform
(Netherlands Sector Institute for e-culture) and the EU-project
PrestoPrime. A group of experts across the globe advices the Programme
Committee. See http://www.dish2009.nl <https://webmail.den.nl/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://webmail.den.nl/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.dish2009.nlfor>  for more information.

Questions?
Please contact:
Marco de Niet
Director
The DEN Foundation
P.O. Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlands
+31 70 3140 343
marco.deniet[at]den.nl



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