Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery


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:

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, there will be visits to two Sydney based institutions. This will be the State Library New South Wales and the Powerhouse Museum

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:

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:


Digital Futures Australasia

Early bird registration (before 31st December 2009):  AU$ 2,150
Full registration (after 1st January 2010):  AU$ 2,450
Venue: University of Technology, Sydney
Dates: 1st - 5th February 2010

REGISTER HERE FOR AUSTRALASIA


Digital Futures London

Early bird registration (before 31st December 2009):  £820
Full registration (After 1st January 2010):  £880
Venue: King's College London
Dates: 19th -23rd April 2010

REGISTER HERE FOR LONDON


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

 

                  

Last Updated: Friday, October 9, 2009 11:50