The 2000 Conference of the American Association for History and Computing Joining the Association for History and Computing. The conference aims to provide a forum for the discussion of any aspects of the use of Information and Computer Technology in History, such as the World Wide Web. In particular, it will focus on the creation and use of digital representations of historical resources and the effects of computer-based technologies on historical scholarship and on teaching history. The conference programme contains plenary sessions with invited keynote speakers, panel discussions and parallel sessions with academic, reviewed papers.
Grants are available for students.
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. The symposium will be held at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, The Netherlands.