Videorecordings online

Please check the conference website for the video recordings of talks and sessions, now available online.

Slides available at the conference website

All speakers’ slides from the conference are available at the conference website, at the page Programme: www.culturalheritageconference.se.

Video recordings coming up

To all of you who are waiting for the video recordings of the conference, they will be tidied up and published on the conference website within approximately a week.  Until then, please give us your thoughts and comments on the blog and on Twitter.

Social media and web 2.0

Interesting talks by Pelle Snickars and Geert Lovink this morning. Since Europeana relies so heavily on the member states’ websites and web presence, conferences like IAECH09 could be a great way of developing awareness of the importance of social media for cultural heritage institutions.

collaboration

During the afternoon session on collaboration, Magdalena Gram from the Swedish National Library was quite skeptical towards Europeana – not the least in terms of its lack of unifying standards. As many are aware of this remains one of the problems with Europeana; low-rez photographs or posters with unreadable messages is still a problem – even the site itself is very promising. It seems that the heritage sector ought to learn from other platforms on the web (Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTbe) where problems with, say, resolution or play-out (in terms of audiovisual material) is hardly ever experienced. Naturally, these sites have a different financial situation, but they neveretheless have set common standards not only for metadata but for the actual material itself.

Conference dinner

Conference dinner starts shortly. Discussions will continue during the evening, about Europeana, funding, copyright etc. Reviews from today will be posted here later this evening and tomorrow.

For all of you who aren’t attending the conference, please follow the live webcast on our conference website, starting 9.30 AM friday Oct. 16.

Conference has started

Great start for the conference backchannel. Discussions on Twitter with both participants and non-participants. Pictures being uploaded on the Flickr group. Now we’re welcoming discussions on Facebook and here on the blog.

Complete backchannel for the conference

Twitter This conference maintains an account on Twitter: www.twitter.com/iaech09. You are most welcome to follow us there and take part in the discussions. Be sure to mark all your contributions, or “tweets”, with the tag #IAECH09 in order to facilitate our collection and follow-up of your outgoing tweets.

 

Facebook The conference has its own Facebook page here.

 

Flickr Images from the conference will be continuously up-loaded onto Flickr in our group “IAECH09″. We welcome your additions to the page!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/iaech09

 

Blog http://iaech09.wordpress.com/ A number of bloggers have volunteered help in documenting and monitoring the conference, and we encourage any and all to actively participate in the discussions!
A report from the various Backchannels will be presented shortly on the conference website.

Conference dinner: Change of location

The conference dinner will be held at Grand Hotel, not at Akademiska Föreningen as previously stated.

Welcome to IAECH 2009

Visit our website at www.culturalheritageconference.se.