RE: Symposium `Digitisation of European Cultural Heritage'

[Henry Grunder <hgrunder@xxxxxxxx>]

I thought that, when I unsubscribed to PADG, I would stop 
getting everyone's little personal messages, mistakenly 
sent to the list. I see that this has not happened. Like 
Marly's Ghost, it lives on.
Henry Grunder
The Library of Virginia

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From:	Christine Wiseman [SMTP:cwiseman@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Friday, June 04, 1999 08:23
To:	padg@xxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: Symposium `Digitisation of European Cultural 
Heritage'

 << File: RFC822 message headers.txt >>     Julie, you said 
we should try to attend all training on digital
     topics, this one just happens to be in Europe.  Ha 
Ha......


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     DIGITISATION OF EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE:
     PRODUCTS-PRINCIPLES-TECHNIQUES
     Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21-23 October 1999

Symposium organised by the Institute for Information 
Science
(formerly Computer and Humanities) of Utrecht University 
and the
Utrecht University Library.

During the last decade, successful digitisation projects 
from
various European countries have provided access to a wealth 
of
historical and cultural sources in electronic form. These
projects show a number of different approaches, some of 
which
represent well-known standard solutions, while others may 
be
innovative or obscure. To explore this variety is one aim 
of this
symposium. Nevertheless, the assumption is that these 
projects
have a number of underlying principles in common, which 
together
define a 'European' approach to digitisation that differs 
from
the 'Anglo-Saxon' approach practised in the United States, 
Canada
and Great Britain.

Methodological themes are investigated in a series of 
plenary
papers to be read by Jorgen van den Berg, Andrea Bozzi, 
Pedro
Gonzalez, Anne R. Kenney, Frank Klaproth, Adolf Knoll, 
Dominique
Maillet, Michael Pidd, Bas Savenije, and Abby Smith. A 
number of
projects will be discussed separately in small-group 
sessions with
opportunities for discussion and hands-on experience. Among 
these
projects are the ESAC Folksong Corpus, Thesaurus Musicarum
Italicarum, World of Peter Stuyvesant, Illuminated 
Manuscripts of
the Dutch Royal Library, and the Norwegian Digital Radio 
Archive.
Many other projects will be informally demonstrated.

The symposium will be held at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, The 
Netherlands. The participation fee is DFL 750 or 340 Euro;
coffee, tea, three lunches, reception and the Conference 
Dinner
are included in the fee. Accommodation can be reserved 
through
the Congress Bureau of Utrecht University.

The programme, registration form and further information 
can be
found at
http://candl.let.uu.nl
under the heading "events".

The symposium's web pages will be regularly updated. For 
further
information about the contents please contact Hans Mulder
(mailto:h.mulder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) or Frans Wiering
(mailto:f.wiering@xxxxxxxxx).
Practical questions should be directed to Muriel van Campen 
of
the Congress Bureau at mailto:mca@xxxxxxxxxx

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