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Digital
Futures Academy: from digitisation to delivery (First Announcement)
13th -
17th September 2004 at King's College London.
King's College London and
OCLC-PICA are pleased to announce that in
September 2004 the first Digital
Futures Academy will be held in London.
Led by experts of international
renown, the Digital Futures Academy will
focus on the creation, delivery and
preservation of digital resources from
cultural and memory institutions.
Lasting five days, the Academy 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.
The Academy will cover the following core
areas:
* Planning and
management
* Fund raising and
sustainability
* Copyright
* Key technical concepts
* Creating and delivering textual resources
* Visual and image based resource creation
and
delivery
* Metadata -
introduction and implementation
*
Implementing digital resources
*
Digital preservation
The Academy will aim for no more than 40 delegates
and every delegate will
have the opportunity to also spend one-to-one time
with an Academy leader to
discuss issues specific to them. The Academy will
issue a certificate of
achievement to each delegate.
The Academy
leaders are:
* Simon Tanner -
Director of King's Digital
Consultancy Services, King's College
London.
* Marilyn Deegan - Director
of Research Development,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's
College London.
* Tom Clareson -
Manager, Education & Planning,
Digital Collection &
Preservation Services Division, OCLC.
The Academy leaders have
over 40 years of experience in the digital realm
between them. Other experts
will be invited to speak in their areas of
expertise.
This is a
pre-registration notice to introduce the Academy in its inaugural
year and
invite interest prior to the registration commencing 1st June 2004.
Cost:
£750 (excluding VAT and accommodation)
Venue: King's College London
Dates:
13-17 September 2004
To register interest and to receive a full
curriculum and registration form,
please e-mail:
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The
Digital Futures Academy is a joint venture between King's College London
and
OCLC-PICA. It is run by King's Digital Consultancy Services and the
Centre
for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London.
