Tuesday, July 11, 2006

C21st curation 2006 public lectures -podcasts and presentations now available

This was posted to the DIGITAL-PRESERVATION discussion list.



Following the highly successful inaugural series of C21st Curation public lectures last year, SLAIS organised a second series of public lectures by eight leading speakers, open to students, professionals and general public during April and May 2006. Podcasts and presentations from the series are now available online (www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/).

The four evening sessions each attracted an audience of professional librarians, archivists, records managers, museum curators, publishers, and students. Each session provoked lively discussion and debate. Details of the key themes and speakers are given below.

Scholarly Communications

Astrid Wissenburg, Director of Communications at the Economic and Social Research Council
The presentation for this lecture is available on the SLAIS Web site (www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/).

David Brown, Head of Scholarly Communications at The British Library
The presentation for this lecture is available on the SLAIS Web site (www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/).

Digital Resources in the Humanities

Professor Susan Hockey, UCL
The podcast and presentation for this lecture are available on the SLAIS Web site (www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/).

Suzanne Keene, UCL
The presentation for this lecture is available on the SLAIS Web site (www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/).

Service Delivery in National Institutions

Natalie Ceeney
, Chief Executive of The National Archives
The podcast and presentation for this lecture are available on the SLAIS Web site (www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/).

Jemima Rellie, Head of Digital Programmes at the Tate
The podcast and presentation for this lecture are available on the SLAIS Web site (www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/).

Curation and Access for Scientific Data

Neil Beagrie, The British Library and JISC
The podcast and presentation for this lecture are available on the SLAIS Web site (www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/).

Prof. Michael Wadsworth, Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL
The podcast and presentation for this lecture are available on the SLAIS Web site (www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/).

Feedback from those attending the lecture series has been overwhelmingly positive. We are extremely grateful to all the speakers who gave their time to make the second series of public lectures so enjoyable and stimulating intellectually and professionally for the audience. We hope making podcasts and presentations from the lectures available online this year will be welcomed by those who were unable to attend some of the lectures and the many individuals from overseas who asked if this would be possible. We would welcome further feedback from those who attended or download the lectures and any suggestions on topics for future public lecture series.

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