The Unknown Bergman

In connection with Ingmar Bergman International
Theatre Festival in Stockholm,
Ingmar Bergman Foundation hosts a one-day-symposium
at Målarsalen, Dramaten on May 29, 2009.
"The Unknown Bergman" features leading Bergman scholars
from around the world and centres on less identified
aspects of Bergman's artistry.
The first holder of the Ingmar Bergman professorship,
Prof. Thomas Elsaesser lectures on "Ingmar Bergman in
the Museum? Thresholds, Limits, Conditions of
Possibility" and shows a compilation film specially made
for the occasion. Prof. Maaret Koskinen, acclaimed Bergman
scholar, provides new outlooks on The Silence in
a presentation entitled "Sex and the City: Embodied Visions
and the Eroticism of Language". Prof. Em. Rochelle Wright
gives a lecture on the "Jewish Figures in the
Films of Ingmar Bergman". Also the queer perspective in
Bergman's films and stagings will be approached.

Our ambition is to present some of the most prominent
scholars worldwide on Bergman territory and host exclusive
film screenings. In doing so we want to contribute to the
festival with both width and depth, says Ingrid Dahlberg,
CEO of Ingmar Bergman Foundation.
As a part of the symposium, The Swedish National Library
presents the ongoing digitization of the Ingmar Bergman
Foundation Archives. The Foundation's newly created film
Images from the Playground will also premiere. The film,
directed by Stig Björkman and supported by Martin Scorsese's
World Cinema Foundation, is based on Bergman's early
behind-the-screen films.

The symposium is arranged by Ingmar Bergman Foundation with
the support of Swedish Arts Council, The Royal Swedish Academy
of Letters, History and Antiquities and The Swedish Institute.

Read more at Ingmar Bergman Foundation's website
Ingmar Bergman Face to Face
www.ingmarbergman.se.
Read more about Ingmar Bergman International Theatre
Festival

Disability and Access to Moving Image and Sound

The BUFVC Learning on Screen Conference this year will take
place on 7th and 8th April 2009 at the Wellcome Trust.

Peter White MBE, the BBC's Disability Correspondent, will
open the Conference, the key theme of which is Disability
and Access to Moving Image and Sound. He will also be
presenting the Learning On Screen Awards being given out
on the evening of 7th April.

Confirmed presentations and speakers include:

Audio Description for the Blind and Partially Sighted
Joan Greening, Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
Technologies to Assist the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Guido Gybels, Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID)
Better use of technology gives benefits to all learners
Sal Cooke, Head of JISC TechDis Service
e-Inclusion Project - Us5
Owen Smith and Martin Wright, BBC and London
Metropolitan University - Gamelab London
Peter and Josephine: we just want to be together
Professor Wendy Couchman, Faculty of Health and Social Care -
London South Bank University
3-D Interactive Screen Experiments
Robert J. Lucas, PiCETL - The Open University
Synote
Dr Mike Wald, University of Southampton
What do we learn watching breaking news stories? An analysis
of 24 hour news in the UK
Dr. Stephen Cushion, Cardiff University
Legal Responsibilities - SENDA and other legislation
Martin Sloan, Technology Information & Outsourcing Group -
Brodies LLP
Inclusive use of Technology
Simon Ball, Senior Advisor, JISC TechDis Service
Dyslexia Matters
Speaker TBC
In higher and further education, institutions are required to make 
reasonable adjustments in the delivery of course content and
learning materials to avoid placing a disabled person at a
substantial disadvantage. Techniques including signing, sub-titling,
audio description, voice to text translation, Braille translators, online 
accessibility standards and auditing are a commonplace and have had 
beneficial effect. However, there is vagueness in the legislation 
which can cause justifiable concern for educational service-providers 
and there is more to be done to make reasonable adjustments.

This conference will offer an opportunity to learn more and to 
discuss solutions. The Learning on Screen Conference will offer an 
opportunity for academic service providers, web developers, 
broadcasters, educationists, advisors, publishers and representatives 
of disability groups to meet to see examples of best practise, to 
learn about new techniques and to discuss the challenge of reaching 
the standards of delivery required by legislation to meet the 
expectations of users.

Please visit the Learning on Screen 2009 site for contact details and 
booking information.

Book for the conference
Full programme
For more information contact:
learningonscreen [at] bufvc [dot] ac [dot] uk
                                                                                      
Tel: 020 7393 1500

The Wellcome Collection

SOIMA

SOIMA 2009: SAFEGUARDING SOUND
AND IMAGE COLLECTIONS

17 November-11 December, 2009 (four weeks)

Application deadline: 20 April, 2009

New Delhi, with study visits to other cities in India

ORGANIZERS
NRLC (National Research Laboratory for Conservation
of Cultural property, Lucknow in collaboration with other
national cultural institutions in India,

ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the
Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property)

Link to course details here.

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WHELF blog

The Welsh Higher Education Libraries Forum now has a blog

WHELF also has its own Flickr site

Daily Planet

Not Superman, sorry, but "Planets" again, this time
their newsletter.


Planets is happy to announce that the project’s sixth
 newsletter is now available!
Planetarium #6 contains an interesting spotlight on
the Planets Testbed, a controlled environment where
preservation tools can be tested and evaluated. This
issue also features articles about Planets beyond 2010
and the Planets all staff meeting. In addition you will
find a list of Planets publications and presentations
at events, including e.g. iPRES, ECDL2008, RCDL’08,
and both the award winning Plato and the SIARD tools
presentation are briefly described.
Planetarium #6 is available online.
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The newsletter is also available on the Planets web site

Sign up for Planets newsletters via the RSS feed 
For more information on the project, please contact:
info [at] planets-project[dot]eu
Planets - Preservation and Long-term Access through
Networked Services, is a four-year project co-funded by
the European Union under the Sixth
Framework Programme to address core digital preservation
challenges.

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Sustainibility of the Planet(s)

Planets Long-term Management of Information Survey

Organisations in Europe that create or hold digital content are invited to take part in a survey to test requirements of Planets’ products and services so that these can be packaged and delivered in a way best suited to meet institutions’ needs.

Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access through Distributed Networks) has issued a survey to each of 96 National Libraries and Archives in Europe plus intermediary institutions in EC member countries. The survey is open to any institution with an interest in retaining and accessing digital content.

Individuals or institutions who wish to take part can find out more and complete the survey. Results are collated automatically when the form is submitted. You cannot save an electronic copy but can print the completed form off for your records. The survey will be open until 23:59 on 16 March 2009.

The results will be published in the summer of 2009. They will inform the packaging and delivery of Planets tools and services to meet demand. They will also be used to help shape the framework that will ensure Planets outputs continue to provide benefits to their users after the project ends in May 2010.

Planets is a four-year project co-funded by the European Commission and 16 National Libraries, Archives, research and technology institutions in Europe. The project will establish a suite of tools and services to support and substantially automate the preservation process. The project’s outputs will be vital to ensuring institutions in Europe can preserve their digital information and access it in the long-term.

Copyfight

As if copyright in traditional archives wasn't complicated enough, moving to the digital domain makes matters worse.

I've now discovered (thanks Sara) "copyfight" on boingboing.net - and all of a sudden, "worse" sounds like a euphemism.

See, for example this article on certain audiobooks.

Well worth a browse.

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