Budapest: II DC-NET Conference

Hungary

23-24 June 2011 - Conferences

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 heritage institutions

Draft programme

Day 1

First part
Welcome speaches

  • keynote speaker 1 on Technology and Infrastructure Needs of Cultural Heritage
  • keynote speaker 2 on The Broad Approach to eInfrastructure

Second part

  • Three presentations on the issue of long term preservation of cultural  heritage.
    1. The problems and on possible solutions
    2. the SPAR project of the BNF
    3. SIARD (Software Independent Archiving of Relational Databases), the project of the Swiss Federal Archives
  • Information on DC-Net achievements - Work Packages leaders'  reports and participant countries experiences

Day 2

Morning session

Case studies of how certain memory institutions can meet their eInfrastructures needs offered by the National Research and Education Network - Hungarnet (NIIFI)

Afternoon session

Legal Aspects of long term preservation
Public Cloud Computing - complementary resource to existing IT resources
Panel discussion: Framework of a MoU between Memory Institutions and e-infrastructures

Venue
National Széchényi Library