Archivists, librarians, and museum professionals are among the many groups that are increasingly involved in creating digital resources to improve access and understanding to their collections. Skills in understanding the principles and best practice in the digitisation of primary textual and image resources have broad value. Participants in the course will examine the advantages of developing digital collections of heritage materials, as well as investigate issues involved in creating, curating, and managing access to such collections. The lectures will be supplemented by seminars and practical exercises. The focus will be on working with primary source material not otherwise available in digital form.
Places are limited on the course, so please register early to confirm a place.
While interoperable, technological standards are emerging, problems of interoperable applications, tools, interfaces and usability remain. The seminar provides an opportunity to gain exposure to the most recent developments in cultural heritage science and to interact with other professionals who share similar concerns. The conference will be limited to a maximum of fifty persons, with speakers and discussions in the morning and small workshops with a maximum of fifteen in the afternoons. A general foundation will be laid in the opening session by the Scientific Director of the MMI, Kim Veltman. This will be followed by treatment of finding aids and analysis tools, as they are used or projected for archives and other memory institutions.