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Perla Innocenti, University of Glasgow, attended the Glasgow Refugee Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) conference on “Engaging research”, co-convened by Prof. Rebecca Kay, on 2nd March 2012.
The University of Glasgow’s Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network aims to bring together researchers and practitioners, NGOs and policy makers working with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland. As the title suggests, the conference brought together researchers and organisations to jointly develop ideas for research projects that would benefit both parties, through:
Short presentations from a range of academic partners showcasing their projects and focusing on process design/methods/challenges/lessons. Parallel Discussion Sessions to bring together organisations and potential researchers around central research questions with a view to trying to develop viable research projects.
The University of Glasgow academic community has a wide range of expertise in relation to refugees, asylum and migration. The City of Glasgow is host to the largest [...]
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 !
The RF03 University of Glasgow team, composed by Perla Innocenti and Sabine Wieber, successfully conducted the second RF03 pilot case study at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) on 16-17 February 2012. Perla and Sabina visited the museum collections and Study Center, met with MACBA, CCCB and Fundació Antoni Tàpies staff members and conducted in-depth interviews focusing on networks, collaboration models and European cultural heritage. Mela Davila (MACBA) is pictured above; below there are Sabine Wieber and Pamela Sepulveda (MACBA); Perla and Núria Solé (Fundació Antoni Tàpies ). MACBA staff also filled in the MeLA RF03 online survey in relation to the SLIC collaborative project. Through our interviews and visits we gained a really good insight on the wide range of ongoing activities and collaborations at MACBA, and the whole experience provided a further excellent test for our research methodology.
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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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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