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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.
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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.
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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 [...]
The RF03 team moved forward in the ongoing research on networks and collaborations with a case study at the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 8-9 March 2012. Based in Luxembourg, the CVCE is an interdisciplinary research and documentation centre dedicated to the European integration process. Its mission is to create, share and valorise knowledge in an innovative digital environment.
Perla Innocenti (University of Glasgow) participated to the ASSETS project final workshop, a Europeana collaborative project described by CVCE in the RF03 online survey. This workshop provided a great overview of the ASSETS project achievements, and Europeana developments. Interesting discussions also focussed on the concept of European culture and European heritage, multimedia and copyright, and engagement with users. Perla then conducted in-depth interviews with Ghislain Sillaume and Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez in relation to networks, collaboration models, European culture and European integration.
ASSETS (Advanced Service Search and [...]
The paper “Bridging multicultural communities: developing the framework for a EU Transnational Museums and Libraries Network” by Perla Innocenti, John Richards, Sabine Wieber (University of Glasgow) has been successfully accepted at the Digital Humaties (DH) International Conference 2012.
The theme of the conference, which is taking place on 16 – 22 july 2012 at the University of Hamburg, Germany, focuses on ‘Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and method’, is also relevant for MeLA topics. Conference organisers specifically invited proposals on the potential and impact of digital methods and models in fostering multilingualism and multiculturalism, and on the challenges and potential presented to DH in terms of linguistic and cultural diversity. Our paper has been highly praised by the reviewers, and we are looking forward to disseminating MeLA and RF03 research !
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 [...]
The EU-funded project MeLA is developing multi-disciplinary resources for investigating major European public museums, supporting their collaboration with libraries and public cultural institutions, and helping them to address contemporary challenges of globalization, European integration, and new media.
In MeLA Research Field 03 (Network of Museums, Libraries and Public Cultural Institutions) we wish to find out experiences of collaborative projects between transnational museums, libraries and other cultural institutions, focusing on multiculturalism, migration and the use of new media. Our geographic focus at this stage is on transnational and/or national partnerships within Europe and/or at extra-European level.
An online survey is available at http://tinyurl.com/MeLAproject-survey . The results of this survey will contribute to our investigation on innovative coordination strategies between museums and other cultural institutions, which will be presented to the European Commission.
Some information about this survey: – The survey consists of 30 research questions and it will take about [...]
On 12th October 2-11 Perla Innocenti, University of Glasgow addressed some of the benefits and challenges of collaborations between museums and libraries in her presentation Bridging the gap: interdisciplinary reflections and potential collaborations for preserving computer-based artworks at the international JISC-funded symposium POCOS – Software Art, Glasgow, UK.
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.
The two-day symposium on Software Art provided a forum for participants to discuss these challenges, review and debate the latest developments in the field, witness real-life [...]
The IFLA Multicultural Communities: Guidelines for Library Services, 3rd edition is available online. These guidelines from the International Federation of Library Associations promote fairness and equity of access in library services to multicultural communities. They provide a basis for the planning of library services to all groups in the community; criteria against which existing multicultural services may be assessed; an equitable basis for the acquisition of materials and the provision of services; and they encourage understanding and engagement among the multicultural groups represented in all societies.
The IFLA Multicultural Communities refers to the IFLA Multicultural Library Manifesto, 2008 endorsed by UNESCO, which provided the following definition for Multiculturalism:
“Cultural Diversity” or “Multiculturalism” refers to the harmonious co-existence and interaction of different cultures, where “culture should be regarded as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition [...]
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