5-day training event on creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources Digital Futures: from digitisation to delivery: First Announcement 26th - 30th September 2005 in London, UK. King's College London and OCLC-PICA are pleased to announce that in September 2005 the second Digital Futures training event will be held in London. Led by experts of international renown, Digital Futures will focus on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting five days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management issues of developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery. Digital Futures will include visits with the National Gallery and another major cultural organisation (to be confirmed) to view their respective digital activities. Digital Futures will cover the following core areas: * Planning and management * Fund raising and sustainability * Copyright * Key technical concepts * Creating and delivering textual resources * Visual and image based resource creation and delivery * Metadata - introduction and implementation * Implementing digital resources * Digital preservation Digital Futures aims for no more than 30 delegates and every delegate will have the opportunity to also spend one-on-one time with an Digital Futures leader to discuss issues specific to them. Digital Futures will issue a certificate of achievement to each delegate. Digital Futures leaders are Simon Tanner, Marilyn Deegan and Tom Clareson: * Simon Tanner is Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services * Marilyn Deegan is Director of Research Development for the Centre for Computing in the Humanities * Tom Clareson is Manager, Education & Planning, Digital Collection & Preservation Services Division, OCLC Inc. The Digital Futures leaders have over 40 years of experience in the digital realm between them. Other experts are invited to speak in their areas of expertise. This is a pre-registration notice to introduce Digital Futures and invite interest prior to the registration commencing 1st April 2005. Cost: £750 (excluding VAT and accommodation) Venue: King's College London Dates: 26-30 September 2005 To register interest, find more information and to receive a registration form, please contact Gillian McLeod at OCLC-PICA. Email: g.mcleod@xxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: 0121 456 7743 For information on the curriculum contact Simon Tanner at King's College London. Email: s.tanner@xxxxxxxxx Phone: 07793 403542 See www.kcl.ac.uk/kdcs/digifutures.htm for more information Digital Futures is a joint venture between King's College London and OCLC-PICA. It is run by King's Digital Consultancy Services and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. -- ******************************************************************* Yvonne Carignan Preservation Production Group Leader McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Email: carignan@xxxxxxx Voice: 301 405-9343 FAX: 301 314-9971 -- ******************************************************************* Yvonne Carignan Preservation Production Group Leader McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Email: carignan@xxxxxxx Voice: 301 405-9343 FAX: 301 314-9971 |