Overview

 

 

Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery

• Sydney, Australia:   1st - 5th February 2010

• London, UK:   19th - 23rd April 2010

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. For the Digital Futures Australasia this will be State Library New South Wales and a museum (tbc).

The Digital Futures leaders are:

• Simon Tanner - Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College London

• Tom Clareson - Director for New Initiatives, Lyrasis

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 will issue a certificate of achievement to each delegate.

 

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 Lyrasis, USA. Digital Futures Australasia is made possible by the co-operation of the Library at the University of Technology Sydney.