4/7/08

KDCS | Digital Futures: Information

KDCS Digital Futures: Information

Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery7th - 11th April 2008, London, UK.
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 and sustainability
Copyright
Key technical concepts
Creating and delivering textual resources
Visual and image based resource creation and delivery
Metadata - introduction and implementation
Implementing digital resources
Digital preservation
There will be visits to 2 institutions to see behind the scenes and received expert presentations at 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.

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