Budapest: Linked Heritage Public Launch
Hungary
22 June 2011 - Linked Heritage events
The aim of the conference is to inform cultural institutions in Europe about the Linked Heritage initiative, supported by the European Commission in the frame of the CIP – ICT Policy Support Programme.
Linked Heritage is a new Best Practice Network to support the aggregation and enrichment of content to Europeana, the flagship initiative of the European Commission for the EU public digital library.
Videos of all presentations are available online
Programme
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Registration |
| Welcome and keynotes | |
| Chair: | István Moldován, Head of Department of Digital Collection, National Széchényi Library |
| 10:00 | Welcome by the Director General of the National Széchényi Library: Dr. Andrea Sajó |
| 10:15 | Welcome by the representative of the Hungarian Ministry of National Resources, Lajos Lovas Head of Department of Digital Archives, Ministry of National Resources |
| Session I - Overview of the Digital Content activities in Europe | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | 'EU policies for digital cultural heritage' (Szymon Lewandowski, DG Information Society and Media of the EC) - (PDF, 532kb) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | 'Europeana- connecting society through culture' (Harry Verwayen, Europeana Business Development Director ) - (PDF, 19480kb) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Key note speech from Athena/Linked Heritage/DC-NET Coordinator (Rossella Caffo, Project Manager) (PDF, 2152kb) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Questions and answers |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Session II - The Linked Heritage project | |
| Chair: | Börje Justrell, The National Archives (Riksarkivet), Sweden (RA) |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | A technical overview of the Linked Heritage Objectives (Antonella Fresa, Technical Coordinator) - (PDF, 542kb) |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Linking cultural heritage information (Gordon McKenna, Collections Trust, UK) - (PDF, 2370kb) |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Multilingualism and multilingual terminologies (Roxanne Wyns, KMKG, Belgium) - (PDF, 162kb) |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | The Publich Private Partnership in Linked Heritage (Graham Bell, Michael Hopwood, EDItEUR) - (PDF, 1940kb) |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Training and dissemination: a priority for Linked Heritage (dr. Antonella Zane, University of Pauda) (PDF, 576kb) |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| Session III - Round Table (This round table can give the floor for quick position speeches to representatives of some of the Linked Heritage institions about their view on the role that the project can play in the general domain of the Digital Content) | |
| Chair: | Antonella Fresa, Technical Coordinator |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Round Table (Participants: Mr. Harry Verwayen, Rosella Caffo, Iván Rónai , Börje Justrell, Christophe Dessaux, Szymon Lewandowski) |
| 17:30 | Closing cocktail |
