Conferences on Digital Heritage-related topics 26 May, 2008
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June 2008
Re-imagining the National Museum: Traditional Institutions in an era of technological change.
Workshop of Making National Museums (NaMu)
University of Leicester, 16-18 June 2008
UK Museums on the Web Conference 2008: Integrate, Federate, Aggregate. Making Collections Connect Online
University of Leicester, 19 June 2008
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July 2008
EVA London 2008. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
British Computer Society, London, 22-24 July 2008#
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September 2008
Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) 2008: ‘New Communities of Knowledge and Practice’
University of Cambridge, 14-17 September
Information Access to Cultural Heritage (IACH) workshop
Aarhus, Denmark, 18 September 2008
CIDOC 2008: The Digital Curation of Cultural Heritage. The annual conference of the International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums
Athens, 15-18 September 2008
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October 2008
Urban Screens Melbourne 08: Mobile Publics
Melbourne, 3-5 October 2008
Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia Dedicated to Digital Heritage
Limassol, Cyprus, 20-26 October 2008
Digital Heritage in the new knowledge environment: shared spaces & open paths to cultural content
Athens, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, (exact date not available yet) October 2008
Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 29 October 2008
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November 2008
Seeing…Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture. CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2008 Conference
London, 6 -7 November 2008
Museum Computer Network (MCN) 2008. Let’s do I.T. Right!
Washington D.C., 12-15 November, 2008
“Assembling Culture” Research Workshop, Melbourne 12 December, 2007
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Assembling Culture was a research workshop held here at the University of Melbourne on 10th and 11th December. The workshop was convened by Tony Bennett (Open University and CRESC) and Chris Healy (University of Melbourne) and brought together a dozen scholars from Australia and the UK who spent two days discussing the potential of Actor-Network and Assemblage Theory for the analysis of cultural production.
The richness of the workshop derived from the range of disciplinary perspectives represented (including sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology and museology) and the diverse subjects of the participants’ papers. These ranged from 19th century life assurance (Liz McFall) and craniology (Kay Anderson) to those ubiquitous contemporary commodities, bottled water (Gay Hawkins) and mobile media (Gerard Goggin). Sharon MacDonald discussed her recent work on the post-war history of the former Nazi rally grounds at Nuremburg. Both Evelyn Ruppert and Tim Rowse analysed the practices and uses of censuses in relation to indigenous people in Canada and Australasia respectively. Practices of assembling objects and also people were directly addressed in papers including my own work on the emergence of a public art culture in London in the early 19th century and Tony Bennett’s analysis of French museums of anthropology. Tony also introduced all of us to the wonderfully named Society of Mutual Autopsy in Paris whose members carried out autopsies on each others’ bodies when they died.
The diversity of subjects addressed in the workshop certainly demonstrated the flexibility of conceptualising culture as an assemblage, with a particular focus on the role of different forms of expertise in cultural practices. Inevitably, it also raised debates about the application and interpretation of Actor-Network Theory to these topics and, in particular, its political implications. For museology students interested in this exploring this theoretical approach, you could make a start with the work of Bruno Latour, John Law and Manuel DeLanda. The workshop was supported by Australian Cultural Researchers Network, the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change (CRESC), and the Ian Potter Foundation at the University of Melbourne. A special issue of a new CRESC journal, The Journal of Cultural Economy, based on the workshop is being planned.
‘Resolving the museum/computer disconnect’ 4 May, 2007
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Last Tuesday, we were delighted to welcome Dr. Ross Parry from the University of Leicester who run a session on ‘Resolving the museum/computer disconnect’. Ross drew on the main ideas of his forthcoming book (Recoding the Museum) that discusses the tensions between museums and digital media. Ross referred to a ‘historical incompatability’ between the concept of museums and computers and argued that new practices point to the emergence of a museum-computer compatability.
Ross’s session came as a conclusion to this year’s Digital Heritage course and gave us the opportunity to reflect on many of our previous discussions. Malcolm Chapman (Head of Collections Management, Manchester Museum), Julian Tomlin and Pauline Webb (Collections Manager, Museum of Science and Industry) joined us for this session and contributed to a very interesting discussion regarding the past, present and future of museum computing.
Mystery of the Great Pyramid solved? 2 April, 2007
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I know it is not directly related to museums… but it deals with digital heritage!
A French archaeologist has published the results of his 8-year research. He believes the pyramid from the inside.
He considered the Pyramid project as the first industrial construction project in history and he turned to Dassault Systèmes 3D technology to test his hypotheses and verify his theory. You can actually discover it online!
Hot Topics in Digital Heritage 2007 12 February, 2007
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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 InstitutionsTechnologically Mediated Heritage
* Resources
* Public Programs
* Services
* CollaborationsCultural Knowledge
* Acquisition
* Retrieval
* PreservationDigital Heritage
* Digital Art
* Representations
* Delivery methods
* EvaluationOrganizational Policy
* Best Practices
* Impacts
* InnovationsCultural Heritage Information Systems
* Research
* Prototypes and Models
* Innovative Design
* Applications
* Architectures
* NetworksEducation 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
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