Round Table
CALL for SHORT PAPERS
Chairs: Anita EICHINGER, Vienna City Library | Christoph SONNLECHNER, Vienna City Archives, Vienna, Austria
Description of the round table: In the last 20 years archives, libraries and museums have begun to digitize cultural heritage in order to preserve, but also to provide access to a wider range of users by the use of digital technologies. Every institution has its own “digital library/archive/museum” in which objects are presented in a more or less attractive way for users. What is very often missing is a user-friendly presentation as well as cooperations in order to reach a “smart” integration of the information systems (only to mention lack of responsive designs, lack of “single points of access” etc.). Moreover, cultural heritage institutions not only need to improve access for users, but also they need to strengthen cross fertilization between them and technological industries. There is need for common data exchange formats as well as for building up digitization strategies.
In this session we will focus on best practice projects in building up digital collections as well as enlarging and improving the visibility and accessibility of cultural heritage collections. Sustainable access to cultural heritage to a wider range of users through digital technologies can be labeled as “smart culture”. Therefore also papers are welcome which address (controversial) aspects on “smart city – smart culture”.
Target group: Archivists, librarians, curators of museums, employees of cultural Administrations
Specifics: We invite papers with aspects on (but not limited to):
- Best practice in building digital collections
- Best practice in presentation of digital objects
- Cooperations between archives, libraries and museums in digitization projects/digital Portals
- Best practice in how to deal with different metadata-formats in museums, archives, libraries
- Smart City – smart culture Projects
Submit your abstract via online form!