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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 11:21:46 +0200
From: Rachel Feuchtwang
Amsterdam, June 1999 RF/6983
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please excuse this if you have already received this information via another source.
As part of this year's Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University curriculum, we are pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Maastricht McLuhan Institute (MMI) and the Dutch Digital Heritage Association (DEN). The three-day seminar Digital Cultural Heritage takes place in Maastricht, The Netherlands, from 12 - 14 July 1999.
The seminar aims to initiate links across the cultural heritage sector by bringing together high level representatives from museums, galleries, national collections, archives, and libraries, both academic and commercial, from a range of international cultural institutions and organisations. The inevitable need for digitalisation of cultural legacies gives rise to crucial issues and implications. The seminar will explore those issues, not only from a technological standpoint, but also as an intellectual investigation; how multimedia is transforming learning, and knowledge management, even the very foundations of culture.
Our speakers represent an international perspective; Dr Kim Veltman, Scientific Director of the MMI (and co-producer of the seminar); Patricia Young from the Canadian Heritage Information Network (and current chair of CIDOC); Professor Kurt Hentschel, Head of Medien Campus Bayern, Munich; Pierre Coural, Head of Audio-Visual and Multimedia Productions at the Louvre Museum; Derek Law, Director of Information Strategy at Strathclyde University; Paul Miller from the UK Office for Library and Information Networking; all of whom contribute expert knowledge from within the fields of arts and cultural heritage.
I hope the enclosed information may be of interest to you. If you would like to pass it on to appropriate colleagues and associates I would be happy to supply you with additional hard copies. In addition there are a limited number of bursaries available to those who wish to apply from Central and Eastern Europe, Northern and Southern Africa, Indonesia and Surinam, and Arabic speaking countries.
Application information is included here, and we can offer a variety of accommodation options within a range of prices.
You may also be interested to know that participants may enjoy our complimentary cultural programme during the evenings of the seminar, which has been specially put together for participants of the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University.
If you would like further information I can be contacted at the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University on tel: +31 (0)20 620 0225, fax: +31 (0)20 624 9368 or email: rachel.feuchtwang@amsu.edu. General information and details of our other courses can also be found on our website; www.amsu.edu
I hope to see you in Maastricht later this year.
Yours faithfully,
Rachel Feuchtwang course co-ordinator
DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE 12 - 14 July 1999
Initiators Maastricht McLuhan Institute (MMI) Vereniging Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland (DEN) - Dutch Digital Heritage Association - Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU)
Introduction All over the world, the titles and contents of the great libraries, museums and art galleries are becoming available on-line. While interoperable, technological standards are emerging, problems of interoperable applications, tools, interfaces and usability remain.
The Maastricht McLuhan Institute was set up to study and develop methods for knowledge organisation and knowledge management in a digital, distributed, multimedia world. The aim of the MMI is to create comprehensive strategies for searching, structuring, using and presenting digital resources more coherently and efficiently; to integrate past knowledge and to produce ordered knowledge that leads to new understanding and insights.
The Dutch Digital Heritage Association was set up to improve the accessibility of cultural and scientific heritage in The Netherlands by means of unlocking the tools of digitalisation. Its aims are to contribute to the promotion of digitalization and professional development in the field of cultural and scientific heritage, and to encourage the use of digital instruments in this field.
Aim This three-day seminar focuses on cultural heritage as a test case for exploring the implications of digitalisation. How is multimedia transforming learning, our knowledge organisation and knowledge management, perhaps our definitions of culture itself?
The seminar will begin with a vision of what is possible and survey current projects nationally and internationally. The second and third days will turn to questions of cultural markets and new public/private partnerships. One of the primary purposes of this seminar is to create new links between museums, libraries and archives.
1. Cultural Heritage How should cultural and academic institutions approach digitalisation? Directors and policy makers in the public sector must now develop strategies and vision for the future of cultural heritage, to remain abreast with the accelerating rate of information and communication technology (ICT). The first day of the seminar will look at existing networks between academic and cultural bodies, research & development networks, comparing North American and European models. How do they function? What needs are they fulfilling?
2. Markets The public sector is under increasing pressure to compete in the global market-place while simultaneously protecting and promoting cultural legacies. What are the implications for libraries, galleries, museums etc when encouraged to behave as commercial enterprises? Who are the target 'consumers' for cultural heritage and are they the same for museums and galleries as for the commercial sector? Should the market be open not only to commerce but encourage a culture of experimentation and learning through trial & error? Day two of the seminar features representatives from academia and from the private ICT sector, working in partnership with government.
3. Public/Private Partnership Up until now there has been little strategic development into digital futures for museums, galleries, national cultural collections. Government subsidies at present provide scant opportunity for long-term investment. Thus the public sector must seek partnerships with the private sector, without 'selling out' to commerce? What happens when a commercial company offers to digitalise national treasures, creating global access to works of great historical and cultural significance? The implications for intellectual property are vast. For instance, at what price does the public sector grant full rights to the people's cultural heritage - and at what cost, fiscal and cultural? The final day of the seminar draws together discussions and profiles from the previous days where participants profile their own models and present the results to the seminar.
Participant Profile Cultural heritage management, decision makers in policy, strategic planning & development.
Capacity 45 participants
Location The seminar will be held at the Maastricht McLuhan Institute, Grote Gracht 82, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Language English
Fee 1500 NLG including daily lunches & refreshments, and admission to the cultural evening programme of the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University.
Application & Registration Applicants should return the completed application form not later than 15 June 1999, to the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University, PO Box 53066, 1007 RB Amsterdam, The Netherlands (fax +31 20 624 9368).
Participants are expected to register on Sunday 11 July, from 2 - 5pm at Maastricht McLuhan Institute, Grote Gracht 82, Maastricht. At 5pm welcome drinks will be served to all participants and speakers.
PROGRAMME
Sunday July 11
2pm- 5pm Registration of participants; MMI, Grote Gracht 82, Maastricht
5pm-6pm Welcome drinks for all participants and speakers
Monday July 12 - Cultural Heritage
9.30am Opening speech
10am Keynote: Kim Veltman, MMI, Visions for an integrated approach of digitalisation
11am workshops: network models - US/European Patricia Young, Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) Paul Miller, UK Office for Library & Information Networking (UKOLN)
12.30pm lunch
2pm Forum discussion: (Im)possibilities and realities concerning network building Patricia Young and Paul Miller
3.30pm tea/coffee
4pm Discussion and summary of the day by the moderator
Tuesday July 13 - Markets
9.30am Keynote: Patricia Young
10.30am Keynote: Professor Dr. Kurt Hentschel, Head of Medien Campus Bayern, Munich
11.30am tea/coffee
12.00pm Discussion
1pm lunch
2pm workshops: academic institutions/private sector enterprise Derek Law, Director of Information Strategy, University of Strathclyde Pierre Coural, Head of Audio-Visual & Multimedia Productions, Louvre Museum
4pm Summary of the day by the moderator
Wednesday July 14 - Public/Private Partnership
9.30am Forum discussion: The public sector versus the private sector Derek Law and Pierre Coural
12pm Working lunch
2.30pm Presentation (by participants) of the working lunch results
4pm Final summary by the moderator Farewell drinks
Dr. Kim H. Veltman is Scientific Director of the Maastricht McLuhan Institute and co-ordinator of a new European Network of Centres of Excellence in Digital Cultural Heritage. He has worked as a consultant in new media to the CEO of Bell Media Linx (1996-1998), and done research on new media and standards for Northern Telecom (1995-1998). From 1990-1996 he was Director of the Perspective Unit in the McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto. He has a doctorate in the history and philosophy of science (Warburg Institute, London) and has spent twenty years as a post-doctoral fellow with support from the Canada Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities research Council of Canada, the Wellcome Trust, the Volkswagen, Alexander von Humboldt, Thyssen and Gerda Henkel Foundations, and the Getty Trust. His research is focussed on the history of perspective, Leonardo da Vinci and developments in new media. He has published extensively and taught at the universities of Toronto, Gvttingen, Siena, Rome I and II, and Carleton.
Derek Law is Director of Information Strategy and Librarian at Strathclyde University. He has been closely associated with the development of nationally networked resources for higher education in the UK, where he is a member of the government's Library & Information Commission. He has worked on a number of research projects in the digital libraries area and was (briefly) the first Director of the Arts & Humanities Data Service in the UK
Paul Miller is Interoperability Focus at the United Kingdom Office for Library & Information Networking (UKOLN). Previously Collections Manager at the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) of the Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS), Paul is closely involved in a number of international initiatives intended to enable truly interoperable solutions to evolve, both within the cultural heritage sphere and beyond. These initiatives include the Dublin Core, Z39.50 and others, and encompass efforts both to build interoperable solutions within a single domain such as museums, and to add a layer of more generic systems capable of allowing users to search across domain-specific resources without always needing to gain knowledge of underlying domain-specific complexities.
Patricia Young recently rejoined the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), an agency of the Canadian Federal Government mandated to compile national inventories of Canadian museum collections and to broker access to cultural heritage information, as Manager of Professional Programs in January 1999. Pat is responsible for the on-line professional resources, including the national inventory of Canadian collections called Artefacts Canada, bibliographic databases for the Conservation Information Network and museology, the Heritage Forum, documentation standards, and training. From 1990-1996 Pat held positions as Chief of Business Development and Chief of Documentation Research with CHIN. From 1996-1998, Pat was Head of the Vocabulary Program with the Getty Information Institute where she was responsible for the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), and the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN; key resources for accessing cultural heritage information on artistic personalities, places and concepts. Pat began her museums career in 1975 with Parks Canada, where she held curatorial and management positions. She is also an active member of the International Committee for Documentation of ICOM and is the current Chair.
Please note: more speakers to be confirmed
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