Digital Heritage

We have referred to some of the hot topics and issues regarding the use of new media in museums and galleries. To add to that, here is a list of themes that three of the largest conferences in the subject have for their 2007 meetings:

Museum Computer Network
Building Content, Building Community:40 Years of Museum Information and Technology
November 7-10, 2007
Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza
Chicago, Illinois

- Opportunities for New Professionals
- Leadership, Sustainability, Accountability
- Building Content, Building Communities (Online Museums as Social Spaces)
- Superior Content, Superior Delivery
- Digital Readiness, Digital Accomplishments, Digital Accountability (DAMS, Best Practices, Preservation, Access)
- Museum Information Standards
- Digital Convergence: Archives, Libraries, and Museums
- Copyright Issues in the New Millennium

International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings (ICHIM)
October 24-26, 2007 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Heritage Information & Society
* Policy
* Law
* Economics and Funding
* Convergence of Institutions

Technologically Mediated Heritage
* Resources
* Public Programs
* Services
* Collaborations

Cultural Knowledge
* Acquisition
* Retrieval
* Preservation

Digital Heritage
* Digital Art
* Representations
* Delivery methods
* Evaluation

Organizational Policy
* Best Practices
* Impacts
* Innovations

Cultural Heritage Information Systems
* Research
* Prototypes and Models
* Innovative Design
* Applications
* Architectures
* Networks

Education and Infrastructures
* Cultural & Linguistic Diversity
* Educating Cultural Heritage Informatics Professionals

Museums and the Web 2007
April 11-14, 2007
San Fransisco, California

- Enhanced Galleries
- Web 2.0
- Users
- User Contributed Content
- Art Education
- Alternate Realities
- Tagging & Terms
- Redesign
- Open Architecture & Systems
- Cell Phone Tours
- Bookmarking
- Evaluation
- Content Management
- Small Museums