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<b>From:</b> Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich@okfn.org><br>
<b>To:</b> communia-associates@lists.communia-association.org<br>
<b>Date:</b> Wednesday, 2 November 2011 14:28:55<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [communia-associates] Caught up in the Internet – New Ways of Accessing Cultural Heritage<br>
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<div><div><div><div>Hi all</div><div>here is a invitation to a conference November 17-18 in Berlin:</div><div>Caught up in the Internet – New Ways of Accessing Cultural Heritage</div><div><a href="http://ins-netz-gegangen.org">http://ins-netz-gegangen.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>Would be great to see some of you guys there!</div><div>BestDaniel</div><div><br></div><div> Caught up in the Internet – New Ways of Accessing Cultural Heritage</div><div>A conference organized by the Internet & Society Co:llaboratory, the</div><div>Deutsche Kinemathek, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and</div><div>Wikimedia Germany, November 17-18 in Berlin. The conference deals</div><div>with the consequences and implications of the information age for</div><div>libraries, archives, and museums. After a theoretical reflection on</div><div>the present-day conditions regulating access to knowledge, projects</div><div>and strategies of presenting our cultural heritage via the internet</div><div>will be introduced from a variety of different perspectives. In this</div><div>context, libraries, archives and museums represent traditional memory</div><div>organizations that brokers and producers of digital knowledge – e.g.</div><div>Google and Wikipedia – have equipped with novel innovative powers.</div><div>The conference focuses on the tasks and challenges linked to these</div><div>innovations, as well as on the advantages and disadvantages of</div><div>respective approaches. It will close by providing an outlook of how a</div><div>new type of Internet can be created – one that is initiated at</div><div>different venues, independently, yet equipped with a common vision,</div><div>and one that offers particularly promising opportunities for</div><div>preserving and sharing cultural heritage. The conference will start</div><div>with a brief analysis of the processes that have shaped the past 30</div><div>years. While the Internet’s democratic potential created corresponding</div><div>demands and stirred great enthusiasm, memory organizations were slow</div><div>in engaging in digitization. Why was this the case? Understanding</div><div>these historical developments is crucial for understanding both the</div><div>multitude of current initiatives like the Europeana, and the emergence</div><div>of new actors. The Internet, originally a hybrid product of science</div><div>and military strategy, developed dynamics that soon infiltrated the</div><div>realms of economy and culture. As globalization became manifest in the</div><div>Internet, and was at the same time shaped by it, the concept of a</div><div>knowledge-based society developed in parallel. The Internet’s promise</div><div>of bringing the radical opening and distribution of culture within</div><div>reach was created with enthusiasm by this emerging knowledge-based</div><div>society. However, due to unresolved legal controversies over rights,</div><div>insufficient financial resources, a lack of technological expertise</div><div>and inflexible mindsets, the practical realization of making cultural</div><div>heritage accessible through digitalized representations turned out to</div><div>be more difficult than expected. During a period of intermediate</div><div>consolidation, the cards were reshuffled and a new structure quickly</div><div>emerged that will be the focus of this conference: Memory</div><div>organizations have by now developed their own strategies of presenting</div><div>and interconnecting cultural heritage. In part, these strategies can</div><div>be understood as reactions to the activities of commercial</div><div>enterprises. At the same time, new collaborative and civil</div><div>society-based projects emerged that developed dynamics that remain</div><div>unparalleled by commercial actors. In today’s world, the Internet’s</div><div>relevance for our shared cultural heritage and other realms depends on</div><div>its open structure and is shaped by civil society, by companies that</div><div>pursue commercial aims, and by public institutions. Examples of these</div><div>three types of actors are Wikipedia, Google and the Europeana – in the</div><div>future also the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library).</div><div> Our goal is to develop a vision of the digital future of our cultural</div><div>heritage, and to identify new perspectives on how to proceed.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Daniel Dietrich</div><div>The Open Knowledge FoundationPromoting Open Knowledge in a Digital</div><div>Age<a href="http://www.okfn.org">www.okfn.org</a> - <a href="http://www.opendefinition.org">www.opendefinition.org</a></div><div><a href="http://www.ddie.metwitter.com/ddie+49">www.ddie.metwitter.com/ddie+49</a> 171 780 870 3</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Communia-associates mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Communia-associates@lists.communia-association.org">Communia-associates@lists.communia-association.org</a></div><div><a href="https://lists.communia-association.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/communia-associates">https://lists.communia-association.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/communia-associates</a></div></div></div></div>
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