Digital repositories DPC podcasts

Repositories Support Project.

The series opens with four podcasts, including one
on digital preservation:


Are repositories doing enough for preservation?
Speakers at the DPC workshop on Tackling the
Preservation Challenge tell us about practical
tools and services to help repositories.
Featuring contributions by Frances Boyle,
Neil Beagrie, Barbara Sierman, Chris Awre,
David Tarrant, Chris Yates, Rory McLeod, Adrian
Brown, Kevin Ashley and Matthew Woollard.

The podcasts are available to download to an MP3
player or stream directly.

To keep up to date with RSP podcasts, you can
subscribe to a project feed or via iTunes.

Knock on the digital door

March 24th, 2009: Over 800 education and research
professionals at JISC’s annual conference in Edinburgh
will discuss how opening up resources, adopting a greener
approach to IT and how small changes can have a large
impact in making teaching, learning and research accessible
to all.
In his first speaking opportunity as JISC Chair,
Professor Sir Tim O’Shea, will be putting forward his vision
of how JISC can help colleges and universities achieve their
missions, achieve value for money and support their research
base.
Opening digital doors and giving accessibility to teaching and
learning materials is one aspect JISC will be showcasing. One
of its funded-services the British Universities Film and Video
Council (BUFVC) will be launching BoB – Box of Broadcast.
Similar to the BBC’s iPlayer, it will make broadcast and video
content available indefinitely to thousands of students and
researchers for the first time.
It allows users to record forthcoming programmes or missed
programmes in the last week. However, unlike iPlayer, these
programmes do not expire and are available indefinitely,
making it invaluable for lecturers and students requiring
constant access.
The conference’s opening keynote speech will be delivered
by Professor Lizbeth Goodman, Chair of Creative Technology
Innovation at the University of East London, where she also
directs the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute and the MAGIC
Multimedia and Games Innovation Centre and Gamelab.

The closing keynote speech will be delivered by Ewan McIntosh,
Scotland and Ireland Digital Commissioner for 4iP, Channel 4’s
Innovation for the Public Fund which helps people understand
how emerging technologies such as social media, mobile ubiquitous
computers and gaming can help them learn better, work better
and live better.

For those delegates not able to attend the conference in person, it will be
live streamed and session blogs will be posted throughout the day.

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EU Culture Programme: Call for proposal in the field of transnational mobility of artist and cultural professionals

This call for proposals supports, on an experimental
basis, the mobility of artists and cultural professionals.
Its aim is to explore new ways of funding mobility at
EU level, with a view to promoting cultural diversity,
reducing imbalances (regional and ingoing / outgoing) and
fostering intercultural dialogue. The results will help
to test how EU level funding can provide added value in
supporting transnational mobility, and consequently contribute
to the preparation of the Culture Programme for the next
programming period beyond 2013, as well as provide input to
policy development.  In this context, "artists and cultural
professionals" refers to artists of all disciplines,
practitioners, cultural institution managers, producers,
promoters, researchers, journalists, operators, intermediaries
in the cultural sector.
Priority will be given to projects with a strong European
dimension, which adopt a developmental approach to mobility
and which open access to new target groups and geographical areas.
Deadline for applications:  15 May 2009.
The activities to be co-financed must start before 1 December 2009,
and last less than 2 years.
The total budget earmarked for co-financing these projects amounts
to 1.500.000 EUR.
The size of the grants will range between 50 000 and 250 000 EUR.
This call for tenders is relevant for film heritage institutions,
as most of its staff can be included in the category of "cultural
professionals".
All information on how to apply is available here

(Info from CEG)
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The future of intellectual property Creativity and innovation in the digital era

Conference:
The future of intellectual property Creativity and innovation in the digital era
23-24 April, 2009, Committee of the Regions, Brussels
The era of digital networks has given rise to new problems
in the area of intellectual property. They include the question of how best to deal
with the massive numbers of downloads of film, music and software via peer-to-peer
file sharing, as well as copyright issues arising out of the digitalisation of entire
libraries. The conference “The future of intellectual property“, which is organised
by Goethe-Institut Brüssel, will address a range of issues that are raised by this
exciting policy area. Above all: How can the concept of intellectual property be
adapted to the realities of the digital era, and at the same time not become
outdated and inefficient?
Conference languages: English, German, French. Registration deadline: April 16th,
2009. The number of available places is limited.

For further information

(Info from CEG)

Sound vote delayed

News from Soundcopyright . eu

Amid intense lobbying in the European Parliament
next Monday's vote on the proposal to extend the
term of copyright has been struck off in a shock
move. Following a meeting of the presidents of
the political groups in the European Parliament
on Tuesday, and with controversy and a lack of
consensus surrounding the proposal, MEPs have
delayed voting till the end of April - just before
this summer's European elections. A trialogue
discussion between the European Commission,
Council and Parliament, set for the end of March,
will now attempt to broker a deal to see if the
directive will be allowed to pass.



MEPs are waking up to the reality that the
proposal to extend copyright term doesn't do what
it says. It's a terrible and unworkable instrument
that will do nothing but bring copyright into
disrepute in the eyes of consumers. If you're
concerned about the need for a fair and balanced
copyright framework you must contact your MEPs now
(1). Make your voice heard!
In other news this week Professor Martin Kretschmer,
Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property
Policy & Management Bournmemouth, and Horace Trubridge,
Assistant General Secretary of the British Musicians'
Union, have been debating the copyright term extension
proposal
(2). Additionally copyright creators in the Association
for Fair Audiovisual Copyright in Europe have launched
a petition against the proposal
(3). But right now the most important thing is to contact
your MEPs
(4) and tell them why copyright term extension is a bad idea
(5)! Use our web banners (6) and spread the word.

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iPlayer on Air

The BBC has unveiled iPlayer desktop based on Abobe Air. The (beta) system AIR 1.5 makes use of the Flash Media Rights Management Server (FMRMS) to DRM-protect content which is downloaded to the user’s desktop.

Museums and the web conference

Museums and the web conference


April 15 - 18 Indianapolis.

Looks to be an amazing conference!

And best of all, for all of us who can only dream of attending, the papers are already coming online.

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