MICHAEL: Perspectives on cultural sector resource discovery
May 23rd 2008
London, UK
http://www.ukoln.ac....ts/michael-may-2008/
The MICHAEL project (Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe) began in 2004 as a partnership between France, Italy and the United Kingdom to create an inventory of the digital and online... [More]

Metadata DownUnder Open Forum - Metadata,Semantics and Interoperability in Practice
May 19th 2008 - May 22nd 2008
Sydney, Australia
http://www.metadataopenforum.org/
his Open Forum is the eleventh annual forum in a series of international conferences about topics related to metadata, registries, semantics, interoperability and related standards and information man... [More]

International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2008)
May 18th 2008 - May 21st 2008
Montreal, Canada
http://www.dgo2008.org/
The 9th annual dg.o international conference is a forum for presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary digital government research and practice and its applications in diverse domains. The confe... [More]

IST- Africa 2008
May 14th 2008 - May 16th 2008
Windhoek, Namibia
http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2008/
IST-Africa 2008 is the third in an Annual Conference Series which will bring together delegates from commercial, government & research organisations across Africa and from Europe, to bridge the Digita... [More]

E-books and E-content 2008
May 13th 2008
University College London , UK
http://ucl.ac.uk/slais/e-books/
E-books and e-content are becoming prevalent in all institutions - educational, cultural and commercial - through licensing, digitisation programmes, digital libraries and original content authoring. ... [More]

TAPE workshop on the curation and preservation of audiovisual collections
May 12th 2008 - May 16th 2008
University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/news/tape.html
This five-day workshop will provide an intensive grounding in the theory and practice of audiovisual archiving, enabling curators to develop strategies to safeguard their collections. The training wi... [More]

International seminar on Standards and exchange formats for interoperability among archival information systems
May 8th 2008 - May 9th 2008
IBC (Istituto per i beni artistici, culturali e naturali) of the Regione Emilia-Romagna, in collaboration with the State Archive of Bologna.
Bologna, Italy
http://www.ibc.regio...n/archiveseminar.htm
Archival world is marked by a so high degree of complexity and difference of traditions that since only a decade ago seemed to be impossible to build archival systems based on common standards and rul... [More]

1st Workshop on Advances in Accessing Deep Web (ADW 2008)
May 5th 2008 - May 7th 2008
Innsbruck, Austria
http://bis.kie.ae.po...wscfp.php?ws=adw2008
The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to domain dependant and independent Deep Web empirical studies, methodologies ... [More]

Digital Resources: Working with Formats Beyond Serials
May 5th 2008 - May 6th 2008
San Francisco, CA
http://www.niso.org/...2008/digresources08/
With the onset of the digital age, the information community has had to rethink its approach to content -- from creation to how to manage the sale and retention of that information, to questions of de... [More]