THERE ARE ONLY TWO PLACES REMAING:
5-day training event on creation, delivery and preservation of digital
resources
Digital Futures: from digitisation to delivery 26th 30th September 2005
in London, UK.
See www.kcl.ac.uk/kdcs/digifutures.htm for more information and
registration form.
King’s College London and OCLC-PICA are pleased to announce that in
September 2005 the second Digital Futures training event will be held in
London.
Led by experts of international renown, Digital Futures will focus on the
creation, 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 include visits with the National Gallery and the
National Archives, Kew to view their respective digital activities.
Digital Futures 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
See www.kcl.ac.uk/kdcs/digifutures.htm for more information and
registration form.
Digital Futures aims for no more than 30 delegates and every delegate will
have the opportunity to also spend one-on-one time with a Digital Futures
leader to discuss issues specific to them. Digital Futures will issue a
certificate of achievement to each delegate.
Digital Futures leaders are Simon Tanner, Marilyn Deegan and Tom Clareson.
The Digital Futures leaders have over 40 years of experience in the
digital realm between them. Other experts are invited to speak in their
areas of expertise.
Cost: £750 (excluding VAT and accommodation)
Venue: King’s College London
Dates: 26-30 September 2005
See www.kcl.ac.uk/kdcs/digifutures.htm for more information and
registration form.
To give a feel for the type of people who came to last years Digital
Futures here is a short list of some (not all) of the job titles and
institutions:
Head of Information Technology Department Director of Archives and
Information Management E-Services Development Manager Manager Digital
Projects Project Manager/Research & Development Division Systems Manager
(Library & Archives) Image Manager Deputy Head of Technical Services
Academic Services Manager Senior Photographic Officer Archivist
Acquisition and Preservation Manager
East of England Museums, Libraries & Archives Council National Library of
Scotland National Museum of Ethnology Netherlands Institute for War
Documentation National Library of the Netherlands (KB) Ingressus B.V.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
UK Film Council
Templeman Library - University of Kent
National Museums + Galleries of Wales
The Wellcome Library
Genealogical Society of Utah
Library of the Federal Parliament, Belgium The British Library University
of Tromsoe, Norway Thomson Gale Jewish National and University Library,
Israel
To register interest, find more information and to receive a registration
form, please contact Gillian McLeod at OCLC-PICA. Email:
[log in to unmask] Phone: 0121 456 7743
For information on the curriculum contact Simon Tanner at King’s College
London.
Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: 07793 403542
See www.kcl.ac.uk/kdcs/digifutures.htm for more information
Digital Futures 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.
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