The Working Group on Databases and Portals for University
Collections and the Working Group on Recent Heritage of Science
organise workshops at the Universeum Network Meeting in Athens,
11-13 June 2015. The workshops will be held on Friday, 12 June
2015 between 9:30 and 13:15. You will have to register for the
workshop. The workshops are parallel so you can only participate
in one of them.
WORKSHOP ON DATABASES AND PORTALS FOR UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS
Universeum’s working group on databases and portals for
university collections will have its first get together at the
Universeum Meeting 2015, in Athens. The main objective is to
create a network for sharing knowledge and experience. We would
like to discuss and work on three things in this group:
- We would like to produce a document with best practices and an accompanying contact list.
- To look into the technical issues that come with building a
portal, such as “which infrastructure should we use?”, “What
fields do we use to present objects to the public?”, “which
standards do we need, and should we work towards using the same
standards on an European level?” and “the pros and cons of a
harvesting model”.
- Working together in presenting our collections on a European level: what are the possibilities?
WORKSHOP ON THE PRESERVATION OF RECENT HERITAGE OF SCIENCE
Universeum’s Working Group for the Preservation of Recent
Heritage of Science is concerned with the study, conservation and
interpretation of the heritage of science, technology and
medicine produced after WWII. At our fourth workshop in Athens we
will discuss:
- to provide a complete checklist of what is needed to preserve recent heritage of science
- the compilation of a bibliography of reference material
- the documentation of objects that we cannot keep (such as
nuclear reactors, satellites that go in space, leased
instruments).
See also http://universeum.it/working_groups.html for the Universeum working groups
The deadline for registration for Universeum 2015 is May 29. There is no conference fee. To register, please go here:
Best wishes, Roland
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Roland Wittje
History of Science Unit
University of Regensburg
D-93040 Regensburg
Germany
