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--- ARSC CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANTS ---
Application Deadline: December 10, 2010
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is now accepting
applications for ARSC Conference Travel Grants to be awarded in 2011.
The grants are designed to:
-encourage ARSC members to attend their first ARSC conference
-each out to college students and professionals in the early stages of
their careers
-promote mentoring and professional development opportunities
-advance scholarly research and publication
-support ARSC members who desire to participate more actively in the
association.
Grant recipients are awarded:
-complimentary registration for the entire ARSC Annual Conference
-gratis registration for the Pre-Conference Workshop, and
-reimbursement up to US$750 to defray the expenses of transportation and
lodging (upon approval of valid receipts, to be submitted after the
conference).
At the time of application, the applicant must be a member of ARSC in good
standing, planning to attend his or her first ARSC conference.
The applicant must also be one of the following:
-a college or university student aspiring to work with sound recordings
-a recent graduate seeking a professional position involving sound
recordings
-a professional within the first five years of his or her career, who
has demonstrated a dedication to sound recordings
-a researcher or discographer showing compelling prospects for the
publication or dissemination of his or her scholarly work.
Applicants who demonstrate an interest in serving on an ARSC committee,
publishing their work in the ARSC Journal, or presenting at an ARSC
conference will be given particular consideration.
Each applicant must submit:
-a letter of application describing the applicant's background and
current activities, clearly indicating why the applicant merits
consideration for an ARSC Conference Travel Grant
-a proposed budget for travel costs
-an itemization of any non-ARSC funds that the applicant may receive
toward ARSC conference attendance, such as institutional support, etc.
-a brief resume or curriculum vitae, and
-two letters of support, sent separately.
Further info and how to apply.
International Symposium at UCLA on November 12-14, 2010
Reimagining the Archive: Remapping and Remixing Traditional Models
in the Digital Era. Bringing together top media and information industry
professionals,archivists, and media/archival scholars, the event will
explore what it means to archive in the digital future. Broadly organized
around the themes of *transition*,*navigation*, and *curation*, the
event will consider the consequences of digital technologies for all
aspects of media and archival scholarship, cultural production,
and cultural heritage.
Please find further information on the website:
From the conference website...
Europeana Open Culture 2010 conference will focus
on how museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual
collections can create public value by making digital,
cultural and scientific information openly available.
Europeana invites cultural institutions, information
professionals, application developers and technology
researchers to explore the risks and rewards of
openness - of code, data and content - and work together
towards Open Culture.
The Europeana conference is a free annual event which
highlights current challenges for our sector and looks for
practical solutions for the future. It connects the main actors
in cultural and scientific heritage in order to build networks
and establish future collaborations.
Location: Casa del Cinema. Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1,
Rome, Italy.
One of the most interesting current developments at NSSAW is the off-air capture and integration project. The NSSAW, being part of the National Library of Wales, is a Designated Archive, allowed to record programmes off-air, and over the decades has built up a substantial access collection of TV and radio. During the last couple of years it has switched off-air recording from analogue to digital.
The Library now has a vacancy for a software developer to complete the integration of the digital capture service with the main library information management systems, including the implementation of a novel access mechanism for our users.
Details of the post, closing date 2 August, can be found on the NLW website
Europeana White Paper No. 1: Knowledge = Information in Context
Europeana's first White Paper looks at the key role linked data
will play in Europeana's development and in helping Europe's
citizens make connections between existing knowledge to achieve
new cultural and scientific developments. Without linked data,
Europeana could be seen as a simple collection of digital objects.
With linked data, the potential is far greater,
as the author of the white paper, Prof. Stefan Gradmann, explains.
Via CEG
European Standards on interoperability of film databases - EN 15907
The European standard EN 15907 "Film identification -
Enhancing interoperability of metadata" was approved
according to the CEN (European Committee for Standardization)
procedures on 11 May 2010. 16 CEN Members voted in
favour and 13 abstained. No member voted against this
European standard.
The next step is the implementation of this European standard
as a national standard by national standardization bodies.
Via CEG
Marcus du Sautoy to present Learning on Screen 2010
Professor Marcus du Sautoy OBE will be at this year's BUFVC Learning
on Screen Conference, taking place on the 27th and 28th April 2010 at
The Open University in Milton Keynes, and will present the Learning
On Screen Awards ceremony, taking place on the evening of the 27th.
Marcus du Sautoy is the author of 'The Music of Primes' and
presented the BBC Four series The Story of Maths. He is Professor of
Mathematics and Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public
Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. For further
details, please visit: http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/dusautoy/
Learning on Screen will explore the challenges facing staff and
students in the increasingly important area of distance learning,
with particular focus on copyright and legal considerations and new
technical developments.
To read the full programme and for booking details, please visit:
http://bufvc.ac.uk/learningonscreen
In a separate session the EBU will put forward its ideas on copyright modernization and will then open the discussions to the floor for an interactive panel debate."
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