University of Helsinki
Featuring the Digital Future – seminar on mass digitization, scholar collaboration, and managing the content of digital collections, Helsinki, Finland, 20th November, 2008
Organizer: The International Relations Group of the Finnish Research Library Association http://www.protsv.fi/stks/index.htm ; http://www.protsv.fi/stks/ajank.htm
Venue: House of the Learned Societies, Lecture Hall 104, ground floor
Street address: Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki
http://www.tsv.fi/tieteidentalo/
Purpose
The purpose of the Seminar is to give insights into the role of libraries in creating the digital future, enhancing access to knowledge by making printed collections available and easily accessible on the web, and to explore and discuss the role the library users as creators of digital contents.
Target Group: Librarians, information specialists, students of information studies, scholars, researchers
Registration fees:
Members of the Association 95 € + vat 22%
Non-members of the Association 150 € + vat 22%
Registration form: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/12306/lomake.html
For further information:
Eva Costiander-Huldén
Päivi Pekkarinen
Programme – as of 24th October 2008
09.00-09.30 Registration
09.30-09.40 Welcome
Päivi Pekkarinen
Chair – International Relations Group
Finnish Research Library Assciation
09.40-11.30 European Projects and Models of Mass Digitization
The Oxford-Google digitization partnership project
Michael Popham
Head, Oxford Digital Library
The role of interoperable standards for digital cooperation of
memory institutions. Letonica
Anita Goldberga
The National Library of Latvia
http://www.lnb.lv/en/digital-library
Discussion
11.30-13.00 Lunch break
13.00-15.00 Library Users Empowering the Content of Digital Libraries
Chair: Eva Costiander-Huldén, Åbo Academy Library
The Power of the user- how users can cooperate with us to improve digital library services
Patrick Danowski – Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/
Discussion
Collaborating with scholars / researchers –
The Academia Aboensis dissertations (1640-1827) project
Sirkka Havu
The National Library of Finland
http://www.nationallibrary.fi/index.html
The main themes in the dissertations at the Academia Aboensis
Anto Leikola – Professor Emeritus, University of Helsinki
Commentary: on the concepts and vocabulary of academic
learning
Rainer Knapas – National Library of Finland
Discussion
15.00-15-30 Coffee
15.30-16.30 Concluding Panel with the invited foreign and Finnish speakers
Moderator: Teodora-Oker-Blom, Viikki Science Library
http://www.tiedekirjasto.helsinki.fi/english/