Counting the goats

I was clearing out my old bookmarks, when I revisited this, the earliest animation, some 5,000 years old from the Burnt City in Iran.

Read the background here

Digital Access to Cultural Heritage

Digital access to Cultural Heritage - EU Conference

May 26, Prague

The conference wishes to give a larger overview on digitalization
policy in Europe, work already done and to be achieved not
only in data production area, but especially in provision of
online access provided to users in Europe and worldwide.
In a more specific detail, the conference is focused on case
studies from several selected European national libraries able
to provide a good example of programmes and projects, that
have reached certain stability and positive results, which are
good to follow. Together with presentation of big projects, such
as the French Gallica or Hispanic Digital Library, selected
activities from Austria, Lithuania, Sweden, and the Czech Republic
will be presented as well.

The conference is organized by the Ministry of Culture of
the Czech Republic as a contribution to the discussion about
digitalization of cultural materials, their presentation online,
and storage of produced digital data. It is held as the part of
the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Marshall Plan animations

Interesting piece on the BBC website about films
made to promote the Marshall Plan. FIlms screened at the Barbican.

Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century

The one-stop blog spot for your Nineteenth Century Mustache needs!

It takes all sorts..., but have a look at this eccentric blog, to see what you can do with photo archives. Someone must have been bored.



But wears a bit thin after a few posts, methinks. However, it's fine in small doses.

Cyfrwng Conference programme

The final programme for the Cyfrwng Conference
is at last available!

The conference will be held at BBC Wales in Cardiff,
on 7-8 of this month.

Pay twice, or thrice, or...

Warner Bros breaks rank.

Hollywood DCI "file included deal" broken?

Planets registration

Invitation to Planets Outreach and Training event,
22-24 June 2009

You are invited to participate in the Planets Outreach
and Training event, 'Digital Preservation - the Planets way'
at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark,
on 22-24 June 2009.
The event will consider the challenges of digital
preservation and how the Planets tools and framework
can assist national institutions with digital preservation.

Registration is now open, and a full event programme and
registration form is available on the Planets website

Day 1 of the event explores the challenges of digital
preservation and introduces the Planets tools and services.
On Days 2 and 3 delegates will gain hands-on experience of
working with Planets and a scenario (sample collection) to
develop a preservation plan and preserve digital objects.
The event will include plenty of opportunity for discussion,
sharing ideas and best practice and to ask questions.

The event is aimed at CEOs, Heads of IT, Curation and
Preservation, IT staff, digital librarians and archivists,
curators, policy managers and other staff
preparing to or involved in preserving digital content.

You can register for either Day 1 only at a cost of 80 EUR,
or for all three days at a cost of 175 EUR.

Due to the nature of the event there is an upper capacity of 60
delegates on Day 1 and 40 delegates on Days 2 and 3.

Final closing date for all registrations is 11 June 2009.

This event is the first in a series of outreach and training events
to be hosted at venues across Europe between
June 2009 and May 2010.

Planets (Preservation and Long-Term Access through Networked
Services) is a four-year project co-funded by the European Union
under Framework Programme 6 to address core digital preservation
challenges. Planets is building practical tools and services to help
ensure long-term access to our digital cultural and scientific assets.

For more information about Planets, please visit the Planets site.