Upcoming events

IUI 2010: ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Valentina Asciutti — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:25:51 +0000

Start: 07/02/2010

End: 10/02/2010

IUI 2010 is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community
and serves as the principal international forum for reporting [read more...]

Digital Preservation - The Planets Way

Valentina Asciutti — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:09:08 +0000

Start: 09/02/2010 - 08:30

End: 11/02/2010 - 16:30

The British Computer Society, London, UK
http://www.planets-p.../events/london-2010/
Contact: trainingevents@planets-project.eu [read more...]

e-Science

Transliteracy Conference

Valentina Asciutti — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:14:23 +0000

Start: 09/02/2010 - 09:30

End: 09/02/2010 - 17:30

Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Leicester, UK
In association with the Institute of Creative Technologies & the NLab Small Business Network, De Montfort University
http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/transliteracy/conference2010... [read more...]

e-Science

Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of Sharing

Valentina Asciutti — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:13:29 +0000

Start: 09/02/2010 - 16:00

End: 09/02/2010 - 17:30

The period from the advent of the compact disc in 1982 to the first significant file-sharing system in 1999 saw the greatest period of profitability in the history of recorded music. The decade since 1999 has seen an equally radical collapse. What seems obvious in hindsight was largely ignored at the time. The very efficiency of digital reproduction and distribution promised or threatened to eliminate scarcity, and hence threaten the possibility of market exchange in informational goods. [read more...]

Music & Sound

DigitalWorld 2010

Lydia Horstman — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:42:51 +0000

Start: 10/02/2010

End: 15/02/2010

DigitalWorld 2010 is a federated event focusing on advanced topics concerning all digital aspects in our society. [read more...]

Lansdown Lecture - Prof. Jonathan Raper on Location-Based Media (Wed 10 Feb)

StephenBoydDavis — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:28:46 +0000

Start: 10/02/2010 - 16:40

A Lansdown Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University. [read more...]

Music, Literature, Illustration: Collaboration and networks in English manuscript culture, 1500 – 1700

Michael Gale — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:48:22 +0000

Start: 16/02/2010

End: 17/02/2010

Music & Sound

Project Management for Cultural Heritage Professionals

Valentina Asciutti — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:40:15 +0000

Start: 18/02/2010 - 09:40

Managing projects is now a core role for many cultural and heritage professionals but it can seem a daunting prospect. This one day course, delivered by established heritage professional, Elizabeth Oxborrow-Cowen, introduces delegates to the fundamental concepts and tools to enable them to start managing small projects effectively and confidently.

The day will cover:
· What is a project?

Defining when something is or is not a project.

· How to define success for your project [read more...]

The London Digital Humanities Group

CAA UK Chapter conference 2010

Valentina Asciutti — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:29:18 +0000

Start: 19/02/2010

End: 20/02/2010

Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts

ICDL (International Conference on Digital Libraries) 2010

Valentina Asciutti — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:40:56 +0000

Start: 23/02/2010

End: 26/02/2010

TERI invites your attention to ICDL 2010, the third conference in the Institute’s ICDL
(The International Conference on Digital Libraries) series. ICDL 2010 is proposed to be organized during 23-26 February 2010 in New Delhi. The theme of the conference is ‘Digital Libraries : Shaping the Information Paradigm’ and the focus is on the strengths and potential of digital libraries and their role in education, cultural, social and economic development.

Shaping the Information Paradigm
New Delhi * 23 – 26 February 2010 [read more...]

Digital Classicist

Drupal Camp Spain 2010

tonisan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:52:05 +0000

Start: 26/02/2010

End: 28/02/2010

Next 26th to 28th February we are celebrating Drupal Camp Spain 2010 in Barcelona.

So anyone concerned with this tool is invited.

More info at:
http://www.drupalcamp.es

Organizing team:
http://groups.drupal.org/drupalcamp-spain

Free seminar on practice, the PhD and new forms of doctorate (2 March, London)

StephenBoydDavis — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:19:16 +0000

Start: 02/03/2010 - 10:00

ESRC seminar series on New Forms of Doctorate
I am very pleased to announce the latest seminar in the ESRC series New Forms of Doctorate. Previous seminars in the series have been highly praised and very popular, so please book your place early.

Stephen Boyd Davis
Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Art and Design Research Institute
Middlesex University

Website
http://newdoctorates.blogspot.com/

Venue
London Knowledge Lab
23-29 Emerald Street
London WC1N 3QS

Date and time
2 March 2010 [read more...]

International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC)

Valentina Asciutti — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:27:18 +0000

Start: 07/03/2010

End: 12/03/2010

The International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) 2010 will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei from 7-12 March 2010.

ISGC 2010 will focus on data driven e-Science, highlighting use cases
and successful applications. Developments to establish sustainable
infrastructures and the long-term support of e-Science communities will
be an underlying theme.

With the continuous support and enthusiasm of all delegates from
Taiwan and overseas, ISGC has become one of the foremost international
grid forums in Asia-Pacific. It aims to enhance the awareness of grid [read more...]

e-Science

An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the Social Web

Valentina Asciutti — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:21:49 +0000

Start: 08/03/2010 - 10:00

End: 08/03/2010 - 16:00

Web 2.0 and the Social Web are terms which are now being used widely. But what do these terms mean? And what, if anything, can Web 2.0 and the Social Web offer to museums, libraries and archives, especially small organisations with limited budgets and technical expertise?

This workshop will attempt to answer these questions. As well as demystifying the terms and the technologies, the workshop will also address the challenges which institutions may face in seeking to make use of Web 2.0 to support the needs of their users. [read more...]

Social Software in the Digital Humanities

Managing Digital Media Collections

Valentina Asciutti — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:04:29 +0000

Start: 08/03/2010 - 10:00

End: 08/03/2010 - 16:30

Aim

Now that many important materials are in a digital form, building an accessible online media collection which successfully delivers images, sounds, video and other media is a goal of many institutions.

Until recently, expensive Digital Asset Management systems where the most viable option, but now open source server applications such as Dspace, Omeka and Drupal hold the promise of truly interoperable and standards-based collection management. [read more...]

Currents of Change: National Council on Public History Conference 2009

Sarah Middle — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:51:07 +0000

Start: 10/03/2010

End: 14/03/2010

A joint meeting with the American Society for Environmental History at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower [read more...]

SXSW Interactive

Sarah Middle — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:02:44 +0000

Start: 12/03/2010

End: 16/03/2010

The SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. [read more...]

An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the Social Web

Valentina Asciutti — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:13:14 +0000

Start: 17/03/2010 - 10:00

End: 17/03/2010 - 16:00

Learning Objectives [read more...]

Social Software in the Digital Humanities

Collaborations in conserving time-based art

Valentina Asciutti — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:26:57 +0000

Start: 17/03/2010 - 19:00

End: 19/03/2010 - 17:00

A Colloquium co-sponsored by The Hirshhorn Museum and the Lunder Conservation Center, Smithsonian Institution.

• Registration: free

It’s widely understood that the special challenges of conserving film, video, computer-based, and interactive art demand collaborative efforts—shared responsibility among a wide array of disciplines. Over the past decade, best practices and shared principles about the care of this art have been developed…emulation, migration, variability. But how do these practices actually work in the real world? [read more...]

EUROCLIO 17th Annual Professional Training and Development Conference

Euroclio — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:34:18 +0000

Start: 22/03/2010

End: 28/03/2010

The 17th EUROCLIO Annual International Professional Development Conference “A Bridge Too Far? Teaching Common European History, Themes, Perspectives and Levels” will take place on March 22-28 2010 in the vicinity of Nijmegen, a rich in historical heritage city, in the Eastern part of the Netherlands. [read more...]