Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology/CIDOC/Digital Futures/School for Scanning
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:24:41 -0400
Message-Id: <v0401172db4a3fc1a23ac@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:24:41 -0400 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology/CIDOC/Digital Futures/School for Scanning
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
June 19, 2000
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS
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1. Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology & Communication, July 12-15: Perth.
2. CIDOC/ICOM:"Collaboration:Content:Convergence: Sharing heritage
knowledge for the new millennium," August 22-26, 2000: Ottawa.
3. Digital Futures 2000: The Royal Photographic Society Imaging
Science Group Annual Conference, September 11-13, 2000: Harrow, UK.
4. School for Scanning Workshop: "Issues of Preservation and Access
for Paper-Based Collections," September 18-20: Seattle.
Remember to check the NINCH Community Calendar for further listings:
http://www.ninch.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html
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CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION:
Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences in the Global Village
July 12-15 2000: Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac00/index.html
>"Communication-mediated communication networks, such as the Internet
>and the World Wide Web, promise to realise the utopian vision of an
>electronic global village. But efforts to diffuse CMC technologies
>globally, especially in Asia and among indigenous peoples in Africa,
>Australia and the United States, have demonstrated that CMC
>technologies are neither culturally neutral nor communicatively
>transparent. Rather, diverse cultural attitudes towards technology
>and communication - those embedded in current CMC technologies, and
>those shaping the beliefs and behaviours of potential users - often
>collide.
>
>"This biennial conference series aims to provide an international
>forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research
>on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use
>of information and communication technologies. The conference series
>brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse
>perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they
>highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of
>the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme.
>The first conference in the series was held in London in 1998 (see
>http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/)."
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CIDOC/ICOM
"Collaboration:Content:Convergence:
Sharing heritage knowledge for the new millennium"
August 22-26, 2000: Ottawa, Canada
http://www.chin.gc.ca/Resources/Cidoc/English/index.html
This year's meeting of the International Committee for Documentation
(CIDOC) of the International Council of Museums will be held from
August 22 to 26 in Ottawa, the picturesque capital of Canada. Hosted
by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), the conference
will include a full spectrum of workshops, meetings, study tours,
stimulating presentations and lively social events.
Our theme this year is "Collaboration - Content - Convergence:
Sharing heritage knowledge for the new millennium". Underlying the
theme is the relationship between the vast reservoir of heritage
knowledge held within our institutions and our heritage audiences,
both specialized and general, whose needs we are trying to meet. Our
goal will be to explore how documentation is influencing and being
influenced by the rapid growth of new technologies and the
corresponding development of audience expectations. We will attempt
to understand the challenges that face us, and to define a future
direction for the sharing of heritage knowledge based on
collaboration, the creation of content, and the convergence of
disciplines.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
* Ann E. Borda, United Kingdom
"Connecting Britain's Computing Heritage: The National Computing
Collections Listing Project."
* Rosa Botterill and Christine Brown, United Kingdom
"The European Museum's Information Institute (EMII): What's in a Survey?"
* Martin Brooks, Canada
"Broadband, Peer Learning, and Telementoring"
* Joseph Busch, United States
"Helping people find content...preparing content to be found:
Enabling the semantic Web"
* Claude Camirand, Canada
"Convergence of Activities or Convergence of Thought?"
* Erin Branwen Coffin, Canada
"CREATION: The Virtual Art Gallery"
* Tom Delsey, Canada
"Re-situating the library catalogue in a networked context"
* Martin Doerr, Greece
"Metadata and the CIDOC CRM - a Solution for Semantic Interoperability"
* Eleanor E. Fink, United States
"Does Culture Count?"
* Katy Gillette, Australia
"Allied and Alliancing: Getting to a National Museum of Australia"
* Junko Iwabuchi, Japan
"Current developments and experiments on various tools of imaging in
Japan: How is the audience's reaction so far?"
* Suzanne Keene, United Kingdom
"Museum collections: the future space"
* Tracy London, Canada
"The "Virtuous Museum" : an Exploration of Technology and Cultural Rights"
* David L. McCallum, Canada
"LESS SEARCHING = MORE LEARNING: SchoolNet's Learning Metadata Project"
* Nancy Morgan, United States
"Using GEM Metadata to Access Internet Education Resources"
* Virgil Stephan Nitulescu, Romania
"Cultural Heritage Legislation: an Attempt to Reconstruct Communication"
* Lev Noll, Russia
"Internet and Museums: Skilled Staff is Essential!"
* Ogunsola Kayode Oluremi, Nigeria
"New Museums Roles and the Artist in Nigeria"
* Eric Paquet, Canada
"Virtual access and access through the content of heritage collections"
* Barbara Rottenberg, Canada
"After the Gold Rush"
* Jane Sledge, United States
"Visions of the Future "
* Francoise Simard, Canada
"Computerization and network distribution of text and image
information on Québec museum collections : the role of the Réseau
Info-Muse of the Société des musées québécois and of its numerous
partners"
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Digital Futures 2000:
The Royal Photographic Society Imaging Science Group Annual Conference:
September 11-13, 2000: University of Westminster, Harrow,
UK
http://leonardo.itrg.wmin.ac.uk/DF2000/
Digital Futures 2000 is one of the first conferences in Britain that
truly unites image science with the needs of imaging, archiving and
conservation using digital technologies. Although there is much
research into the behavior of digital systems by image scientists
this is not always conveyed to users in a format that directly
relates to its usage in these fields. This is a unique opportunity
for archivists, curators and creators of images to communicate their
needs to the field of image science and for image scientists to
relate their understanding of the medium to the imaging and archival
communities. This cross fertilization will provide a forum for
debate that is both stimulating and informative. The advantages of
combining both art and science issues are rarely exploited and
therefore the full potential of this exciting and novel area is
often never reached.
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SCHOOL FOR SCANNING:
Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections
Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center
September 18-20, 2000: Seattle, WA
http://www.nedcc.org/sfsinfo.htm
Early-Bird Registration Deadline: August 4, 2000
The conference is funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is cosponsored by
the University of Washington Libraries and the National Park Service.
What is the School for Scanning?
This conference provides a rationale for the use of digital
technology by managers of paper-based collections in cultural
institutions. Specifically, it equips participants to discern the
applicability of digital technology in their given circumstances and
prepares them to make critical decisions regarding management of
digital projects. Although technical issues will be addressed, this
is not a technician training program. Conference content will
include:
* Managing Digital Assets
* Content Selection for Digitization
* Text and Image Scanning
* Quality Control and Costs
* Current Research Projects
* Copyright, Fair Use, and Other Legal Issues Surrounding Digital Technology
* The Essentials of Metadata
* Digital Preservation: Theory and Reality
* Digital Products and Process
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Administrators within cultural institutions, as well as librarians,
archivists, curators, and other cultural or natural resource
managers dealing with paper-based collections, including photographs,
will find the School for Scanning conference highly relevant and
worthwhile. Since the complexion of this conference evolves with the
technology, it would be beneficial to attend even if you have
participated in a previous School for Scanning. An audience of 200
or more attendees is expected.
WHO ARE THE FACULTY?
Martha Anderson, Library of Congress; Howard Besser, UCLA; Steve
Chapman, Harvard University; Paul Conway, Yale University Library;
Steve Dalton, NEDCC; Franziska Frey, Image Permanence Institute;
Janet Gertz, Columbia University; Anne Gilliland-Swetland, UCLA;
Peter Hirtle, Cornell University; Melissa Smith Levine, Library of
Congress; Steve Puglia, National Archives and Records
Administration; Abby Smith, Council on Library and Information
Resources; Roy Tennant, University of California at Berkeley; Diane
Vogt-O'Connor, National Park Service, and Donald J. Waters, Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.
WHAT DOES THE CONFERENCE COST?
The cost of the conference is $295 for early bird registration
postmarked on or before August 4, 2000, and $365 for late
registration, deadline August 25, 2000. Participants will be
responsible for all their travel, meals, and lodging costs. A
complimentary continental breakfast will be provided each morning at
the conference site. For information about special hotel and airline
fares, see the Registration Information section below. Registration
applications will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.
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