2010 Conferences

As the dark nights draw in and the rain pours down, it's time to dream on and note the dates of the 2010 international conferences.

JTS (Digital challenges and digital opportunities)
Oslo 2 - 5 May
Details and call for papers here

FIAF Congress
Oslo 2 - 8 May
Information here
Bulletin (pdf) here FIAF & JTS

IASA & AMIA Conference
Philadelphia
Information here - watch this page (IASA)
Information here (AMIA)

Looking forward - museums 2010

Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage.

Catalunya Film Archive - job?

An invitation to tender for the (I think, job of) managing the Filmoteca de Catalunya.

I don't think I've ever seen a job advertised in this manner before.

Rhyfedd iawn, as we say around these parts.

No reply

Second Report on the Recommendations to
Member States on film heritage

Oh dear. It seems that only 10 member states have replied.

"Film heritage and the competitiveness of related industrial industries",
the Commission monitors and assesses the extent to which the measures
set out in this Recommendation are working effectively and whether there
is a need for further action.

http://ec.europa.eu/avpolicy/reg/cinema/report_2/index_en.htm

Be Grateful, very grateful

The best archive job opportunity ever?

Grateful Dead Archivist

Last screening?

The "lost" 1918 biopic "The Life Story of David Lloyd George" will be screened today (11/11/09) at the Cross Hands Cinema in the Gwendraeth Valley (south Wales), with Neil Brand performing.

This will be the last UK screening, sponsored by the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, for some considerable time.

Admission is free, and the screening begins at 7 p.m.

Rescuing a life

A tale of dogged reseach revives the lifestory of Mary Murillo, screenwriter from the silent era. A great post on Bioscope.

UK gov copyright strategy

The UK Intellectual Property Office has published
"Copyright the way ahead: a strategy for copyright in the digital age"

One interesting paragraph...
"Making non-commercial use less onerous for
consumers, for example by removing the need to
seek permission and make payment for personal
use of individual copyright works, would help
tackle the “mismatch of expectations” problem.
But fair compensation for rights holders would
be required."

A pdf is available here (54 pages)

Glam-orous new archive

Glamorgan Record Office moving to swish new premises in Leckwith, Cardiff

"Welsh Icons" blog post here

Launch of SOAS photo archive

SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies - UK) has made the photographic archive of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1909-1995) available over the web.

The digitisation scheme was financed by JISC.

All material on this site is freely available for non-commercial use
under Creative Commons. You need to contact SOAS if you need larger files
sizes or a commercial use licence.

Google sings

Google search moves to music...

From the google blog

Dish it up

DISH2009 international conference announced (digital strategies for heritage)

Lots of digital heritage topics covered, as well as workshops, training and debate.