Don’t miss the next Mela Seminar: Envisioning 21st Century Museums!
A Public Symposium will take place on the 31st of May 2012 at the Post and Tele Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.
You can find more information about the event on our website, here.
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MeLa Research Field 3 (http://wp3.mela-project.eu/), composed by international institutions and led by the University of Glasgow, is organising an international conference on ’Migrating heritage: networks and collaborations across European museums, libraries and public cultural institutions’, 3-4 December 2012, to identify and explore innovative trans-national and trans-local partnerships, collaborations and policies between European museums, libraries & other public cultural institutions around the themes of European cultural and scientific heritage, migration and integration, and use of ICTs. [...] MeLa RF03 Brainstorming workshop on European heritage, migrations and new media: networks and collaborations across museums, libraries and public cultural institutions was held on 23 April 2012 at the University of Glasgow. During this successful and interactive event, MeLa Consortium members and invited guests from the Research Field 03 expert group discussed topics of collaboration across museums, libraries and public cultural institutions, migration and European cultural and scientific heritage. The workshop was kicked off by the local hosts Dr John Richards, Head of History of Art at the University of Glasgow and Perla Innocenti, Research Fellow and RF03 Leader, who provided an overview of MeLa and Rf03. [...] Perla Innocenti (University of Glasgow) further enriched RF03 fieldwork research with a visit to the Europeana headquarters in the The Hague in April 2012, and interviews with key staff members. Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe from European cultural and scientific institutions. It provides heritage institutions with the opportunity to reach out to more users, increase their web traffic, enhance their users’ experience and build new partnerships. It is a is a platform for knowledge exchange between librarians, curators, archivists and the creative industries. And it is a prestigious initiative endorsed by the European Commission as a means to stimulate creative economy and promote cultural tourism. Perla interviewed Annette Friberg (Head of Aggregation and projects), Els Jacob (Europeana Assistant Director) and Jan Molendijk (Technical and Operations Director, pictured below) about Europeana version 1 [...] MeLa Research Field 03 team is delighted to announce its brainstorming event, a workshop on 23 April 2012 reserved for MeLA consortium members and invited guests from the Research Field 03 expert group and other selected institutions. This event is an opportunity for us to network with scholars and experts across the topics of collaboration, cultural institutions, migration and European heritage, to take a look at questions outside our specific field of expertise and to develop our ideas further. The Research Field 03 expert group includes representatives from museums, libraries, foundations, associations and cultural policy. The event program is articulated in four sessions: Narratives for Europe: Katherine Watson (Director of European Cultural Foundation), Dr Sreten Ugricic (writer, philosopher, former Director of the National Library of Serbia) – followed by Q&A and discussion European cultural and scientific heritage: Dr Bernhard Serexhe (Chief Curator of ZKM Media Museum), Giulia Grechi (University of [...] Perla Innocenti (University of Glasgow) and Giulia Grechi (University of Naples) undertook a research fieldwork visit to the SUDLAB premises in Naples, Italy in March 2012. SUDLAB is a successful no-profit R&D center focusing on contemporary arts and ICT for cultural applications. The center offers both a physical exhibition space and an online platform for collaborations and patnerships in Italy and internationally. We interviewed Antonio Perna, director of SUDLAB, and discussed with him the opportunities and challenge offered by collaborations at local and international level across diverse communities of practice. One example was the collaborative project Mediterraneo – Musica – Migrazione described by SUDLAB in the RF03 online survey. We also talked about the implications and effects of funding sources upon unfunded collaborations. This visit gave us a useful insight into the world of no-profit cultural associations that are using ICTs to address topics of interest for the MeLa [...]
The RF03 University of Glasgow team, composed by Perla Innocenti and John Richards, successfully conducted the first RF03 pilot case study at the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris on 9-10 February 2012. Perla and John visited the various collections of the museums, met with several MNHN staff members and conducted in-depth interviews focusing on networks, collaboration models and European scientific cultural heritage. MNHN staff also filled in the MeLA RF03 online survey in relation to the BHLe: Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe collaborative project. Sarah Gamaire in pictured above with Perla, and Jean Patrick Le Duc and Andre-Damien Lemaitre are pictured below, with Perla). Through our interviews and visits we gained a really good insight on the wide range of ongoing activities and collaborations at MNHN, and the whole experience provided an excellent test for our research methodology.
[...] University of Glasgow attended Digital Strategies for Heritage 2011 (DISH), 6 – 9 December 2011 Rotterdam, The Netherlands. DISH is a bi-annual conference that unites digital strategies with international professionals in heritage. The four themes of DISH encompassed the four most important perspectives from which to view the digitisation of heritage: Business for Heritage; Co-creation and Crowdsourcing; Institutional change; Building a New Public Space. The themes ‘Co-creation and Crowdsourcing’ and ‘Building a new public space’ were of was particularly relevant to MeLA RF03. The papers in these sessions focused on how society is becoming ever more influential in the creation of institutional policy and the different products and services that institutions deliver. Issues on open source code, IPR, copyright laws and co-creation are assuming increasing importance. Some papers discussed transformations needed in policy development and the strategies and attitudes of institutions and consortia in order to put the user at [...] |
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