Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery 7th – 11th April 2008, London, UK.
Including visits to the National Gallery and The National Archives

King’s College London is pleased to announce the Digital Futures 5-day training event for 2008

Led by experts of international renown, Digital Futures focuses on the development, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting five days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management issues of developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery.

Digital Futures will cover the following core areas:
> Planning and management
> Fund raising and sustainability
> Copyright and IPR
> Visual and image based resource development and delivery
> Metadata – introduction and implementation
> Implementing digital resources
> Digital preservation

There will be visits to 2 institutions to see behind the scenes and received expert presentations at the National Gallery and the National Archives. The agenda is here. Digital Futures aims for no more than 25-30 delegates and every delegate will have the opportunity to also spend one-to-one time with a Digital Futures leader to discuss issues specific to them. Digital Futures will issue a certificate of achievement to each delegate.

The Digital Futures leaders are:
> Simon Tanner – Director of King’s Digital Consultancy Services, King’s College London
> Tom Clareson – Program Director for New Initiatives, PALINET.
> Other experts will be invited to speak in their areas of expertise.

The Digital Futures is run by King’s Digital Consultancy Services and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London working in co-operation with PALINET, USA.