Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery
- Sydney, Australia: 2nd - 6th February 2009
- London, UK: 27th April - 1st May 2009
King's College London is pleased to announce the Digital
Futures 5-day training event.
Led by experts of international renown, Digital Futures
focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation
of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions.
Lasting five days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other
practitioners from the library, museum, heritage and cultural
sectors looking to understand the strategic and management
issues of 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
There will be visits to 2 institutions to see behind the scenes and receive expert presentations. For the London Digital Futures this will be the National Gallery and the National Archives.
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
- Tom Clareson - Director for New Initiatives, PALINET
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.
What past delegates say about Digital Futures:
- "Excellent - I would recommend DF to anyone anticipating a digitization program"
- "I was very pleased. The team was exceptionally knowledgeable, friendly and personable."
- "Excellent, informative and enjoyable. Thank you."
- "Thanks, it has been an invaluable experience."
- "A really useful course and great fun too!"
Digital Futures London
Cost: £840 (VAT not charged, excludes accommodation)
Venue: King's College London
Dates: 27th April - 1st May 2009
REGISTER HERE FOR LONDON
Digital Futures Australasia
Cost: Early bird registration: AU$ 2,250
Full registration: AU$ 2,500
(VAT not charged, excludes accommodation)
Venue: University of Technology, Sydney
Dates: 2nd - 6th February 2009
REGISTER HERE FOR AUSTRALASIA
To register interest please e-mail: kdcs@kcl.ac.uk
The Digital Futures is run by King's Digital Consultancy Services and the Centre
for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London working in co-operation with PALINET, USA. Digital Futures Australasia is made possible by the co-operation of the Library at the University of Technology Sydney.
