Digital Collection Contexts: Intellectual and Organizational Functions at Scale Full-day workshop at iConference
Germany
4 March 2014 - Events
Digital Collection Contexts: Intellectual and Organizational Functions at Scale
Full-day workshop at iConference
Berlin, Germany March 4, 2014
Registration is now open for a full-day workshop that examines conceptual and practical aspects of collections and the context they provide in the digital environment, especially in large-scale cultural heritage aggregations. Collections will be considered in relation to the information needs of scholars, roles of cultural institutions, and international interoperability. The workshop aims to:
• Broaden the conversation across an international community
• Further the research and development agenda for digital aggregations
• Relate conceptual advances to implementation goals
• Identify realistic approaches for collection representation, contextualization, and interoperability at scale
Sessions will be led by European and North American experts from iSchools and projects developing large-scale digital cultural heritage collections.
• Morning session: Conceptual Foundations of Digital Collections
• Carole L. Palmer and Karen Wickett (CIRSS, University of Illinois)
• Hur-li Lee (School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• Martin Doerr (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas)
• Carlo Meghini (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche).
• Afternoon session: Practical Implications for Digital Collections
• Antoine Isaac (Europeana Foundation)
• Emily Gore and Amy Rudersdorf (Digital Public Library of America)
• Sheila Anderson (Centre for e-Research, King’s College London)
• Shenghui Wang (OCLC Research)
• Mark Stevenson and Paul Clough (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield)
For a complete program and additional information about the workshop, please visit
http://bit.ly/collectionsworkshop2014
Early bird registration deadline is Sunday, December 15, 2013. Workshops are included in the cost of conference registration. For more details, please see
