Sixth Conference – Digital and Traditional Manuscripts: Challenges of a Great Migration

Organized by: LIBER’s Manuscript Librarians Group and CERL Manuscripts Working Group

Speaker(s): Chris Prom,Elizabeth Williamson,Erland Kolding Nielsen,Frédéric Lemmers,Gerhard Müller,Hanno Wijsman,Henrik Dupont,Henrik Smith-Sivertsen,Ivan Boserup,Jean-Paul Fourmentraux,Jonathan Cates,Jutta Weber,Karen Skovgaard-Petersen,Lukasz Kozak,Matthieu Bonicel,Ramona Fritschi,Timo Schleier,Wolfgang-Valentin Ikas

Programme

– 10:00-12:00: Internal Meeting of the Manuscript Librarians Expert Group
– 12:00-13:00: Registration
– 13:00: Opening of the Conference (Director Erland Kolding Nielsen (RL); Jutta Weber (Expert Group)

Challenge 1: Preserving Born Digital Material

– 13:30: Chris Prom (Univ. of Illinois, US): Acquiring and Preserving Digital Archives.
– 14:00: Ivan Boserup (RL, Cph): MyArchive, A Simple Solution for Preserving Born Digital Personal Archives.
– 14:30: Jean-Paul Fourmentraux (EHESS and Univ. de Lille 3): Net Art. Preserving Digital, Interactive Art.
– 15:00: Henrik Smith-Sivertsen (RL, Cph): Problems of Web-archiving of a Digital Social Event.
– 15:30: Coffee

Challenge 2: Creating New Digital Contents with New Technology: Interoperability, Crowdsourcing, Digital Editing

– 16:00: Matthieu Bonicel (BnF, Paris): The Biblissima Project, Middle Ages and Renaissance.
– 16:30: Henrik Dupont (RL, Cph): Crowdsourcing: Denmark Seen From the Air – Before Google.
– 17:00: Karen Skovgaard-Petersen (Danish Soc. for Lang. & Litt. – DSL): Digital Editing: The Born Digital Critical and Commented Edition of the Collected Works of Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754).
– 17.30: Exhibitions; Reception for all Participants

Challenge 3: Reuniting Digitally Dispersed Items, Archives, and Collections

– 9:30: Ramona Fritschi (Univ. of Fribourg): Fragmentarium. A Project of an International Research Environment for Medieval Manuscript Fragments
– 10:00: Jutta Weber (SBB, Berlin): The Humboldt Papers.
– 10:30: Elizabeth Williamson (Cultures of Knowledge, Oxford): Networking the Republic of Letters,1550-1750.
– 11:00: Coffee
– 11:30: Frédéric Lemmers (RL, Brussels): Europeana Collections 1914-1918. A Retrospective Critical View.
– 12:00: Wolfgang Ikas (BSB, Munich): Europeana Regia. Problems of Reconstructing Dispersed Libraries.
– 12.30: Lunch at own costs (RL Café or Restaurant nearby)

Challenge 4: Promoting Digital Discovery: Reports on Selected National and International Resources: Databases, Networks, Services, and Portals

– 14:00: Jonathan Cates (The National Archives, London): Portals to Archives of the UK.
– 14:30: Hanno Wijsman (IRHT, Paris): Bibale, a database on manuscript provenance, and other digital services of the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes
– 15:00: Coffee
– 15:30: Gerhard Müller (SBB, Berlin): The New Kalliope Database (Letters in German language libraries).
– 16:00: Ivan Boserup (RL, Cph): The CERL Portal (Manuscripts and Rare Books).
– 16:30: Exhibitions; Guided Tour of the Library
– 19:00: On invitation only: Conference Dinner in The Black Diamond Restaurant

Challenge 5: Making Use of Advanced Technical Opportunities

– 10:00: Lukasz Kozak (NL, Warsaw): Medieval Manuscripts on the Web: Memes or Discarded Images?
– 10:30: Timo Schleier (UL, Göttingen): EROMM Web Search: Collecting Digitized Material on the Web. International Collaboration; Looking Ahead
– 11:00: Jutta Weber (SBB, Berlin): The CERL Manuscript Librarians Expert Group.
– 11.15 CERL Representative: CERL Services; Workshops of the LIBER Forum for Digital Cultural Heritage
– 11:30: All participants: Feed-Back, Ideas for Projects, Workshops, Conferences, etc.
– 12:00: Jutta Weber: Good-bye! / Au revoir ! / Auf Wiedesehen!

EVENT INFORMATION

Det Kongelige Bibliotek - Royal Library

  • Location: Copenhagen - Denmark
  • Event date: October 9-11, 2014

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