Forwarded from NINCH Executive Director David Green:
NINCH MEMBERS BULLETIN
February 24, 2003
COPYRIGHT EDUCATION: TOWN MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS
NINCH GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE: PDF AVAILABLE
NINCH SYMPOSIUM ON DIGITIZATION COST MODELS: NYC APRIL 8
INITIAL REPORT AND WEB SITE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE & HUMANITIES CONFERENCE
Copyright Town Meetings <http://www.ninch.org/copyright>
NINCH's copyright education activities continue unabated across the country this Spring. After a packed house for our meeting on Digital Publishing at the College Art Association Conference in New York this past Saturday, February 22, <http://www,ninch.org/copyright/2003/nyc.html> we have two more meetings lined up.
One will be hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Art on Sat. April 12, co-sponsored by the new Case Western Center for Law, Technology and the Arts and by Americans for the Arts. This day-long meeting will focus on copyright questions that artists face online, with panels on the practical work issues of Copyright, Contracts and Work-For-Hire; on the access and control issues raised by recent legislation, the Public Domain and the First Amendment; and on a range of issues raised by a broad sweep of artists' experiences with copyright law: how does it help and how does it hurt artists working in a digital age. Speakers to date include June Besek, Maureen O'Rourke, Siva Vaidhyanathan and Jonathan Tasini.
Then May 15, NINCH, in close collaboration with the Canadian Heritage Information Network, presents a daylong workshop on the creation of IP policy for museums at the annual conference of the American Association of Museums in Portland, Oregon. This will take off from a similar meeting presented last fall in Toronto at the Museum Computer Network conference and will coincide with the publication of a book on the subject of museum IP policy by Diane Zorich, co-published by NINCH and CHIN and distributed in the U.S. by AAM. Speakers include Rina Pantalony, Rachelle Browne, Maria Pallante, and Diane Zorich.
Copyright in A Digital World-a Practical Workshop
<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/workshop.html>
NINCH is delighted to be collaborating with OCLC and the Colorado Digitization Project in mounting a series of four day-long practical workshops for cultural heritage professionals. Topics include: "Copyright Basics in a Digital Age," "Institutional and Policy Issues," "Intellectual Property Audits," "Institutional Risk Management," and "Rights and Permissions." Speakers for the series are: Rachelle Browne, Smithsonian Institution; Lolly Gasaway, University of North Carolina; Georgia Harper, University of Texas; Maria Pallante, Pallante-Hyun, LLC; and Linda Tadic, ARTstor. A different keynote speaker will be featured at each of the four meetings scheduled for 2003.
The meetings scheduled as pre- or post-conference workshops will take place at the IMLS Webwise meeting this Wednesday February 26 in Washington, D.C., with Peter Jaszi as the keynote; at ALA, Toronto (June 20) with Rina Pantalony; at the Society of American Archivists (August 19) and the American Association of State and Local Historians (September 17). Workshops are free. The Washington workshop filled its spaces within days; details for registration for the Toronto meeting will be announced shortly.
NINCH GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE: PDF AVAILABLE <http://www.ninch.org/guide.pdf>
With many strong, positive comments sent in on the NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation & Management of Cultural Heritage Materials, available since November online, there have been even more requests for an easily printable PDF version. We are pleased to announce that such a PDF is now available from the NINCH web site. The text of the Guide and the appendices are included. The background bibliography and the interview reports are available separately online. For the 242-page PDF version, go to http://www.ninch.org/guide.pdf
NINCH SYMPOSIUM ON DIGITIZATION COST MODELS: NYC APRIL 8
In collaboration with one of NINCH's new Corporate Council members, Innodata, NINCH is organizing a free one-day symposium in New York on the costing and pricing issues of digitizing cultural heritage. The meeting is co-sponsored by New York University and has been designed as the first in a possible series of meetings to be based on issues raised in the NINCH Guide as well as to further develop and fine-tune the information given there. This meeting will specifically reference the NINCH Guide's sections on cost models and workflow - see the Guide's chapter on "Project Planning" (http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/II/). .
Shortly to be announced, the all-day meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 8, at the New York Public Library. Donald Waters, of the Andrew W, Mellon Foundation, is featured as the keynote speaker, followed by panels examining the issues and current practices in pricing digitization. Panels will include case studies of determining true production costs; the issues of moving from projects to sustainable programs; determining the costs of digital preservation; and then how to charge (or not) a client-base. Confirmed speakers include Don Waters, Maria Bonn (MOA4; Michigan), Stephen Chapman (Harvard), Tom Moritz (American Museum of Natural History), Steve Puglia (NARA), Jane Sledge (Smithsonian), Christie Stephenson (Michigan), Dan Pence (SIG) and Eli Willner (Innodata).
Stay tuned for registration details.
INITIAL REPORT AND WEB SITE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE & HUMANITIES CONFERENCE http://www.carnegie.rice.edu/
A web site has now opened to accompany the conference, "Transforming Disciplines: Computer Science and the Humanities," organized collaboratively by NINCH, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the National Academies, and Princeton and Rice Universities. While a full accounting of the meeting will be forthcoming, the site features an excellent "trip report" from Michael Lesk along with presentations by several speakers and links to relevant web projects. The committee behind this conference will shortly be meeting to consider the next steps for the Computer Science and Humanities Initiative. For background, see <http://www.ninch.org/programs/science/>.
David Green
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