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Welcome to the Events page, used to flag up forthcoming events, conferences and seminars that are relevant to Collections Management.
Digital Futures Academy
Digital Futures Academy: Sydney, Australia.
1st - 5th February 2010
Digital Futures Academy - from digitization to delivery: London,UK
19th - 23rd April 2010
Book early as places are limited and early bird discounts are available!
http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/
Led by international experts, Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting 5 days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage, media and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management issues involved in developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery.
Digital Futures will cover the following core areas:
- Planning and management
- Fund raising
- Understanding the audience
- Metadata - introduction and implementation
- Copyright and intellectual property
- Sustainability
- Financial issues
- Visual and image based resource creation and delivery
- Implementing digital resources
- Digital preservation
Sydney highlights:
There will be visits to the State Library, NSW and the Powerhouse Museum to see behind the scenes and receive expert presentations.
London highlights:
The visits will be tot he National Gallery and The National Archives to see behind the scenes and gain expert advice and presentations.
Digital Futures aims for no more than 25-30 delegates and every delegate will have the opportunity to also spend one-to-one time with a Digital Futures leader to discuss issues specific to them. Digital Futures will issue a certificate of achievement to each delegate.
The Digital Futures leaders are:
Simon Tanner - Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College London
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/
Tom Clareson - Director for New Initiatives, Lyrasis
http://www.lyrasis.org/
The leaders have over 30 years of experience in the digital realm between them. Other experts will be invited to speak in their areas of expertise.
Collections Trust & Museums Galleries Scotland Partnership Event
Date: Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Time: 10.30am – 3.30pm
Venue: The Engine Shed, Edinburgh
Come and celebrate our partnership and hear about what our two organisations are achieving together! Come and meet the people who are working on your behalf to help you make the most of digital opportunities and resources.
The event is free. It is aimed at all sector practitioners working with collections and digital content, whether beginner, expert or with a broad general interest, and from all types of museums and galleries in Scotland.
The event aims to:
- Showcase the wealth and range of the on-line resources and services we both offer, including an introduction to the improvements to Collections Link
- Explore the challenges and opportunities of digital access at the present time
- Provide ideas and ways to use ICT more creatively so you can work more effectively and enhance your services.
Places are limited to 50, so please book early by contacting Karolina Sil-Dec, on 0131 550 4111 or karolinasd@museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk Preference may be given to Museums Galleries Scotland members if oversubscribed.
Connecting Collections: Successful partnership working across the heritage sector
Date: 5th March 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Venue: BT Auditorium, London
BT Connected Earth and the Collections Trust are holding a free one-day event on Friday 5th March 2010 to celebrate successful collaborative partnerships across museums, libraries, archives and beyond.
The day will showcase partnerships that have supported innovative approaches to Collections Management, and have found exciting ways of making collections accessible to new audiences.
Through breakout sessions and a panel discussion, the event will also highlight how these partnerships can inspire future projects.
Lunch and refreshments will be included, and there will be plenty of opportunity to network with colleagues and discuss current issues.
Full details of the programme, and a booking form, are available at: http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/press-centre/004991.html
To Work or Not to Work - The Operation of Transport Heritage
National Railway Museum, York
Wednesday 17th March 2010
A special seminar organised by the Association of British Transport & Engineering Museums & Special Subject Network for Inland Transport
The sight and sound of a working vehicle or locomotive is a delight to the public and enthusiast alike and is more interesting than a machine sitting as a static object in a museum or heritage attraction. The operation of working vehicles does bring a whole new set of problems and issues and this seminar aims to provide a forum to debate the question of whether “to work or not to work”?
The seminar will feature a range of speakers from across the spectrum; these include Chris Knapp, (Conservation Manager, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Marta Leskard, (Conservation Manager, Science Museum), Mike Stripe (Vintage Sports Car Club) and Richard Gibbon, (former Head of Engineering at the National Railway Museum). The speakers will offer practical and theoretical insights into the thorny issue of operating heritage transport.
There will also be the opportunity for delegates to debate the issue in an open discussion at the end of the meeting.
For further information and a booking form, please contact Tim Bryan ABTEM Secretary tbryan9@heritage-motor-centre.co.uk
From the Margins to the Core
Sackler Centre, V&A, London
24th - 26th March 2010
Join this international conference exploring the shifting roles and increasing significance of diversity and equality in contemporary museum and heritage policy and practice.
Key questions to be discussed include:
- How far have we embedded diversity into core business?
- The interconnections between different diversity strands
- The Museum's role in promoting social justice
- Key drivers for change
Guest Speakers include award winning author and Guardian journalist Gary Younge and conceptual artist Fred Wilson.
Wednesday 24 March, 09.30–19.30, (includes a performance and drinks reception)
Thursday 25 & Friday 26 March, 09.00–17.30 (optional social dinner £30 on Thursday)
£180 for three days, £120 for two days, £60 for one day, full fee
£144 for three days, £96 for two days, £48 for one day, concessions
£51 for three days, £34 for two days, £17 for one day, students
Download the programme (PDF).
Bookings open from 7 December 2009
Call +44 (0)20 7942 2211 or book online at www.vam.ac.uk/conferences
Conservation in Focus 2010 (CF10) Conference
Cardiff
24th-26th March 2010
The Institute of Conservation (Icon) is the lead voice for the conservation of cultural heritage in the UK. Icon's first ever conference will be held in Cardiff, Wales's vibrant capital city, to consider the broad theme of UK Conservation - past, present and future.
The conference aims to:
- Advance and share knowledge about conservation issues in and beyond Icon's members
- To have an enjoyable conference where people have time to talk and network
- To leave Icon stronger as an organisation
Programme
The first full day of the conference will comprise of a one day plenary session for those attending the conference and will focus on the two themes - 'evidence based decision making in conservation' and 'a sustainable future for UK conservation'.
The second day will provide the opportunity for the Icon groups to host specialist half day seminars.
A full programme can be found here:
http://www.icon.org.uk/images/stories/cf10_programme.pdf
Events
Delegates will be able to enjoy events at some of Cardiff's most prestigious venues. The conference will open with a welcome reception at the National Museum of Wales on the evening of Wednesday 24 March and an evening reception will be held on Thursday 25 March at Cardiff Castle where delegates will have the opportunity to have guided tours of the recently conserved interiors. On the afternoon of Wednesday 24 March delegates may also take advantage of an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the newly constructed Glamorgan Record Office in Cardiff before it opens to the public. Alternatively there will be a PACR clinic for PACR candidates at the National Museum of Wales.
Join our Facebook group - CF10 are you going? - for more information about the conference, events and Cardiff, to find out who's going to be there and to nose behind the scenes.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?v=wall&ref=ts&gid=77317902593
Venue Cardiff University
Date Start March 24th 2010
Date End March 26th 2010
Further Information http://www.icon.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1068&Itemid=119
How To Book http://www.icon.org.uk/images/stories/cf10_bookingform.pdf
Fees
Speakers £120
Early Bird Icon member £150
Icon member - standard £180
Early Bird Student member £100
Student member – standard £120
Non member £250
The 'early-bird' booking rate will apply if fees are paid before 15 January 2010
If you are organising an event and would like to submit details for inclusion here, please email us.
