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 [...]