Programme

 

Programme DC-NET Conference

e-Infrastructures for Cultural Heritage

29 October 2010

Royal Library of Belgium

 

Programme (updated 28/10/2010)

 

 

8:30 – 9:00Registration and coffee
9:00 – 9:05Welcome by the Director General of the Royal Library of Belgium: Patrick Lefèvre.
Chair: Patrick Lefèvre
9:05 – 9:20Welcome by the Belgian Authorities (Minister Sabine Laruelle, federal Minister for SMEs, Self-Employed, Agriculture and Science Policy, represented by Wim De Vos)
9.20 – 9.40

Digital agenda for Europe: Supporting research and innovation with e-Infrastructures

Mario Campolargo, Director "Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures", DG Information Society and Media of the EC

9:40 – 10:10

The views of the European e-Infrastructure Forum (networks, grids, HPC, supercomputing)

Bob Jones, EEF Chairman, CERN, CH

10:10 – 10:30Coffee break
The ERANET DC-NET project (Digital Cultural Heritage-Network): Objectives and first initiatives
10:30 – 11:15

  • The ERANET DC-NET project (Digital Cultural Heritage-Network): Objectives and first initiatives by Rossella Caffo DC-NET Project Coordinator, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, IT

  • Cultural Heritage approaches e-Infrastructures, by Jean Moulin, BELSPO/STIS, BE

11:15 – 11:30Questions/discussion
Cultural heritage and the Humanities within the ESFRI European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures
11:30 – 12:15

The e-Infrastructure landscape for SSH and the projects "Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities" (DARIAH) and "Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure" (CLARIN)

Jane Ohlmeyer, Centre for War Studies, Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin IE; member of the ESFRI Thematic Working Group SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities)

12:15 – 12:30Questions/discussion
12:30 – 13:30Lunch
Chair: Börje Justrell, Director at National Archives of Sweden
13:30 – 14:00

The Belgian e-infrastructures (BELNET, BEGrid, VSC, CECI)

Rosette Vandenbroucke, BELNET/BEgrid and VUB, BE

How Cultural and Scientific Heritage use e-Infrastructures: Research and new (visionary) developments
14:00 – 14:30

New developments in digital repository infrastructure
Inge Van Nieuwerburgh, University Library Ghent, BE, partner of the project DRIVER2

14:30 – 14:45Questions/discussion
14:45 – 15:15Coffee
15:15 – 15:35

A virtual research environment for the humanities (e-Science methods in arts and humanities)
Heike Neuroth, leader of the project TextGrid, State and University Library Göttingen, DE

15:35 – 15:55

Advanced use of computer modelling, simulation and visualisation
Luc Van Gool, KULeuven, BE, partner of the projects EPOCH and 3D-COFORM

15:55 – 16:15

Opening and Enhancing the Use of the Archives of European Cultural Heritage Institutions
Ina Vanden Berghe, KIK-IRPA, BE, partner of the CHARISMA project

The next steps of DC-NET up to December 2011 and beyond
16:15 – 16:30
  • Identifying new e-Infrastructure service priorities for the cultural heritage and building a Joint Activities Plan
    Christophe Dessaux, Ministry of Culture and Communication, FR
  • Introduction of the next DC-NET conference under the Hungarian Presidency (June 2011)
    Iván Rónai, Ministry of Culture, HU
16.30 – 17:00Questions/discussion
17:00 – 18:00Drink


News from the DC-NET project


Barcelona: workshop "Digital Cultural Heritage e-Infrastructure. New opportunities for the Cultural Heritage" 14 June, 2011

 

Budapest: II DC-NET Conference on 23-24 June, 2011

Technology and infrastructure needs of cultural heritage with special emphasis on long term preservation.eInfrastructures can play a role in technology intensive tasks and services of heritag...

 

Pisa: MediaEval 2011 workshop on 1-2 September, 2011

 

Palermo: AI*IA Workshop for cultural heritage on 15 September, 2011

 

Amsterdam: CLEF2011 on 19-22 September, 2011

 

More info on http://www.dc-net.org