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[Javier Ruiz]

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> From: Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>
> To: communia-associates at lists.communia-association.org
> Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2011 14:28:55
> Subject: [communia-associates] Caught up in the Internet – New Ways of Accessing Cultural Heritage
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> Hi all
> here is a invitation to a conference November 17-18 in Berlin:
> Caught up in the Internet – New Ways of Accessing Cultural Heritage
> http://ins-netz-gegangen.org
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> Would be great to see some of you guys there!
> BestDaniel
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>  Caught up in the Internet – New Ways of Accessing Cultural Heritage
> A conference organized by the Internet & Society Co:llaboratory, the
> Deutsche Kinemathek, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and
> Wikimedia Germany, November 17-18 in Berlin.  The conference deals
> with the consequences and implications of the information age for
> libraries, archives, and museums. After a theoretical reflection on
> the present-day conditions regulating access to knowledge, projects
> and strategies of presenting our cultural heritage via the internet
> will be introduced from a variety of different perspectives. In this
> context, libraries, archives and museums represent traditional memory
> organizations that brokers and producers of digital knowledge – e.g.
> Google and Wikipedia – have equipped with novel innovative powers.
> The conference focuses on the tasks and challenges linked to these
> innovations, as well as on the advantages and disadvantages of
> respective approaches. It will close by providing an outlook of how a
> new type of Internet can be created – one that is initiated at
> different venues, independently, yet equipped with a common vision,
> and one that offers particularly promising opportunities for
> preserving and sharing cultural heritage.  The conference will start
> with a brief analysis of the processes that have shaped the past 30
> years. While the Internet’s democratic potential created corresponding
> demands and stirred great enthusiasm, memory organizations were slow
> in engaging in digitization. Why was this the case? Understanding
> these historical developments is crucial for understanding both the
> multitude of current initiatives like the Europeana, and the emergence
> of new actors.  The Internet, originally a hybrid product of science
> and military strategy, developed dynamics that soon infiltrated the
> realms of economy and culture. As globalization became manifest in the
> Internet, and was at the same time shaped by it, the concept of a
> knowledge-based society developed in parallel. The Internet’s promise
> of bringing the radical opening and distribution of culture within
> reach was created with enthusiasm by this emerging knowledge-based
> society. However, due to unresolved legal controversies over rights,
> insufficient financial resources, a lack of technological expertise
> and inflexible mindsets, the practical realization of making cultural
> heritage accessible through digitalized representations turned out to
> be more difficult than expected.  During a period of intermediate
> consolidation, the cards were reshuffled and a new structure quickly
> emerged that will be the focus of this conference: Memory
> organizations have by now developed their own strategies of presenting
> and interconnecting cultural heritage. In part, these strategies can
> be understood as reactions to the activities of commercial
> enterprises. At the same time, new collaborative and civil
> society-based projects emerged that developed dynamics that remain
> unparalleled by commercial actors.  In today’s world, the Internet’s
> relevance for our shared cultural heritage and other realms depends on
> its open structure and is shaped by civil society, by companies that
> pursue commercial aims, and by public institutions. Examples of these
> three types of actors are Wikipedia, Google and the Europeana – in the
> future also the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library).
>  Our goal is to develop a vision of the digital future of our cultural
> heritage, and to identify new perspectives on how to proceed.
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> Daniel Dietrich
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