6 - 9 december 2011 WTC Rotterdam ​Digital Strategies for Heritage (DISH)

DISH is the bi-annual international conference on digital heritage and the strategies that heritage institutions can follow. Triggered by changes in society, heritage organisations face many challenges and need to make strategic decisions about their activities and services. The key motivators for the conference are inspiration, knowledge, skills and networking.

Natural Europe participated in the DISH conference and more specifically in the workshop: Digital Curation Training: Mind The Gap! presenting the experience coming from the Digital Curators Summer School 2011 on training curators from the field of digital cultural collections.

The workshop began with a panel discussion, with invited panelists addressing the issues involved in building the capacity needed for cultural institutions to meet the challenges of digital preservation through education and training for staff. Afterwards, attendees were divided into small groups to play The Game of the Digital Curation Lifecycle, an exercise that prompts players to put themselves into a digital project scenario in order to address issues that arise when institutions engage with digital curation.

The programme The full programme of DISH2011 is available online. An overview of all activities during the 2 conference days can be downloaded as a PDF schedule: programme DISH2011 (PDF).

For detailed information about the various sessions and speakers, please check the online schedule.

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