External Events

Screening the Future Conference 2012: Play, Pause and Press Forward

Los Angeles, 21 - 23 May 2012

The Conference Screening the Future serves the global community of stakeholders who keep audiovisual content alive.

"CHANGES" Libraries in the digital age

Zadar, 18 - 22 June 2012

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) is a biennial international conference that focuses on the challenging and rapidly transforming nature of libraries and information systems and services. In recognition of today’s continually evolving online and mediated technological environment, “CHANGES” is this year’s theme.

Preservation of Software Art Symposium

Glasgow , 11 - 12 October 2011

Software art is an active and growing genre of artistic development that has attracted significant interest from both the art world and cultural institutions. Software artworks have been commissioned and displayed in major museums across the globe, therefore emphasising on the need to curate, manage and preserve such material. Preservation of software-based art presents challenges in many fronts, including complex interdependencies between objects; time-based and interactive properties; and diversity in the technologies and practices used for development.

PrestoCentre Training Course 2011

Bry sur Marne Cedex, Paris, 12 - 16 September 2011

PrestoCentre organises as part of its professional Development Training Series a course in "Long-Term Audiovisual Digital Preservation: Strategy, Planning & Tools". Participants in the course include large audiovisual archives, service providers and technology providers.

EDULEARN 11

08028 Barcelona, 4 - 6 July 2011

This annual event brings together professionals in the field of Education and Technology. It is an excellent opportunity to share your experiences and projects with educators and professionals from all parts of the world. The deadline for abstract submission is 31st of March 2011.

VISUALIZAR'11: Understanding infrastructures

Madrid, 14 - 15 June 2011

Medialab-Prado’s Visualizar program is a research and education platform devoted to exploring the culture of Big Data and its impact today in science, society and the arts. Since its first edition in 2007 the program has gathered more than one hundred participants from all over the world who have developed projects explaining stories about phenomena like pollution levels and traffic flows within big cities, the use of social networks in political campaigns or the financing of cultural institutions.

DigCCurr Professional Institute 2011-2012

Chapell Hill, NC, 15 - 20 May 2011

The Institute consists of one five-day session in May 2011 and a two-day follow-up session and a day-long symposium in January 2012. Each day of the summer session will include lectures, discussion and hands-on "lab" components. A course pack and a private, online discussion space will be provided to supplement learning and application of the material. An opening reception dinner on Sunday, break time snacks and coffee, and a dinner on Thursday will also be included.

Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress

15 - 16 April 2011

Free online webcast The Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress brings together research and industry leaders, policy and IT experts, patient advocates, foundations and governments to work on programs and platforms that will create a disruptive transition in data sharing and public engagement. Sage Bionetworks and Fora.tv are offering a free live webcast of the Congress platform sessions allowing anyone to attend the virtual conference on line.

Timescapes Secondary Analysis Workshop

Leeds, 1 April 2011

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Regional workshops on freedom of information and HE researchers

22 March - 12 April 2011

Freedom of information legislation (the UK and Scottish Freedom of Information Acts, and the Environmental Information Regulations) is highly relevant to researchers in Higher Education: as creators of information and/or data, they need to comply with the requirements of the law with regards to allowing access to their research outputs; and as users, they might make use of FoI as a means of obtaining information and/or data.