International Digitisation Conference - Access, Use, Re-use: Unlocking the Potential of Online Digital Cultural Content
Dublin Castle, 17th June 2013
Lord Puttnam, Digital Champion for Ireland
Lord Puttnam, Digital Champion for Ireland
Lord Puttnam, Digital Champion for Ireland
Professor Jonathan Drori, CBE, Culture and Technology Strategist
Professor Jonathan Drori, CBE, Culture and Technology Strategist
Professor Jonathan Drori, CBE, Culture and Technology Strategist
Digital technology has fundamentally reshaped the way in which people of every age connect with society.
Lord Puttnam, Digital Champion for Ireland and renowned film producer, addressed a large international audience in Dublin Castle yesterday which included representatives from key European cultural institutions in all 27 EU Member States, the creative industries and all the main cultural institutions in Ireland, North and South. The international conference Access, Use, Re-use: Unlocking the potential of online digital cultural content discussed how even greater quantities of cultural collections can be opened up for 24/7 easy access to images, videos, audios and animations.
15 Golden Rules of moving from the Digital Dream to Cultural Reality were presented by Professor Jonathan Drori, specialist in digital and outreach strategy and former Head of Commissioning for BBC Online . In the development of new digitised resources, key requirements for the creation of successful services include: curiosity and experimentation, ongoing quality control, reliable evidence on which to base new developments and regular up-skilling.
While gaming is widely acknowledged as a leisure pursuit continually growing in popularity, conference delegates recognised that gaming in the future will expand to become a key pedagogical device and considered the opportunities gaming offers for skills’ development.
‘This is not the world of tomorrow, it’s not the coming digital era – these possibilities already exist in the here and now [...] We need to explore these possibilities in a way that’s far more than just ‘permitting’ various forms of passive consumption, but rather by seeing it as a massive catalyst for the encouragement of a whole new world of creative collaboration and learning.’ Lord Puttnam encouraged his audience with this passionate plea for innovative thinking.
The conference was opened by the Minister for State, Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Mr. Fergus O’Dowd, T.D. and was hosted by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and Libraries Development, Local Government Management Agency with support from the Linked Heritage Best Practice Network Project.
For more information on the digitisation conference, please contact Libraries Development, LGMA at librariesdevelopment@lgma.ie or phone 01 6332200.
l-r: Mr. Javier Hernández-Ros, Head of Unit - Creativity, Directorate G, Media and Data, Directorate General CONNECT, European Commission; Ms. Annette Kelly, Head of Libraries Development, LGMA; Mr. Michael Malone, Kildare County Manager; Ms. Geraldine Tallon, Secretary General, Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government; Mr. Fergus O'Dowd, T.D., Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government; Mr. Barry Quinlan, Principal Officer, Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government; Mr. Paul McSweeney, Chief Executive Officer, Local Government Management Agency.
l-r Ms. Annette Kelly, Head of Libraries Development, LGMA; Lord Puttnam, Digital Ambassador for Ireland; Ms. Margaret Hayes, Dublin City Librarian
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