Iván Rónai

Iván Rónai studied economics at the Budapest University of Economics and attended the Library School of Kent State University, Ohio, USA. In the early 1990s, he was the director of information services of the Hungarian Parliamentary Library. Under his direction the Library launched a new electronic information service providing references to and abstracts of articles published in Hungarian newspapers, weeklies and journals.
He is currently working for the Ministry of National Resources, Hungary, as deputy head of the Department of Public Collections. His most important responsibility is professional supervision of the Hungarian library system. In 1997, he implemented the Ministry’s first telematics development programme for museums, libraries and archives. He has been active in cultural digitisation strategies and programs.
He is the Hungarian member of the MSEG (Member States' Expert Group on digitisation and digital preservation).

The next steps of DC-net up to December 2011 and beyond  - Digitisation of Cultural Heritage and long term preservation - the role of e-Infrastructures: abstract

Digitisation of Cultural Heritage and long term preservation - the role of e-Infrastructures is the second of a series of international conferences taking place in the course of the DC-NET project and to be held in Budapest on 23-24. June 2011. The topics of the conference will be centred  around achievements and progress of the DC-NETproject with an emphasis on long term preservation of digital cultural heritage. A number of presentations will highlight the importance of e-Infrastructures in providing technical, informatics, computational and storage services by making public their research findings and good practices. Some lecturers will initiate debate on the policy, legal and technical questions of long term preservation among the audience (librarians, museum people, archivists, digitisation experts, e-Infrastructure service providers, publishers, legal experts). The framework of a memorandum of understanding between heritage institutions and e-Infrastructure providers may come out as a result.

The working language will be Hungarian and English, simultaneous translation will be provided. For those who stay over the weekend a free ticket will be distributed for the programs of the Night of the Museums on Saturday 25th June.

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