Dear all,
Apologies for any cross-posting.
I would like to draw your attention to the Collections Trust's annual conference, OpenCulture 2012. Taking place on the 26th and 27th June at the Kia Oval, London it is the culture community’s only event dedicated to collections management. For more information, please visit www.collectionslink.org.uk/openculture2012. The event comprises a two-day conference and associated exhibition, and delegates rated last year’s inaugural event 80% Good to Excellent.
Sessions which you may be particularly interested in include:
26th June – Opening Up Our Cultural Heritage – Steve Crossan (Google Cultural Institute), Bill Thompson, (BBC) & Alan Payne, (Deep Visuals, formerly of Kodak European Research)
Digital, social and mobile technologies have unmatched potential to articulate a new role for libraries, museums, and archives. Three leading figures in the field will explore key issues including: What role does openness play in delivering new kinds of cultural value? Can new ways of using cultural content create immersive experiences for audiences? How best can digital culture be brought to an audience of billions?
26th June – Digital Provenance – Roger Layton (Roger Layton Associates)
Let us envision the situation of the future digital curator having millions of unprovenanced digital objects, being digital objects for which there is insufficient contextual metadata to determine the nature of the object and the range of treatments and history of these objects. This paper explores the challenges and possible solutions for digital provenance and makes recommendations on actions that can be taken today to minimise the future incidence of unprovenanced digital objects. This requires taking into account unknown future technologies for digital reproductions and the technologies for presentation of such digital objects to a base of users.
27th June - Sustaining Digital: Why Bother? – Jeremy Ottevanger (The Imperial War Museum)
You build something digital, and then try to sustain it, right? But what does that actually mean? Rather than attempting to tell you practically how to sustain digital products, Jeremy Ottevanger will step back to examine how we know when to sustain them, and how we reach decision on committing resources.
The full programme can be found at http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/programme. Prices start from £220 for a single day or you can attend the trade fair for free. To book for OpenCulture 2012, please visit http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/book-now
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch on the contact details below.
Best Wishes,
Hayley
Hayley Russell
Events Manager
020 7942 6081
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