Other Events

More than 700 game developers, publishers, film experts and media professionals are expected to attend the third German Games Days in Berlin. The heart of the Games Days is once again the Quo Vadis developers' conference organized by Aruba Studios, alongside the Convergence Forum and various other matchmaking events. For more information, please visit www.games-tage.de

Mr Andreas Lange from Computerspiele Museum, representing there also the KEEP consortium will hold a lecture at the event.
Exact date: 23.4.2009 11:30 am
Title:"Save Game. Bewahrungstrategien von Computerspielen am Beispiel des EU Forschungsprojektes KEEP"

Link to the event (available in German only)

Link to Quo Vadis Conference (in German)

A Czech EU Presidency Conference on the Perspectives emerging from R&D in Europe, Prague 11–13 May 2009

The Future of the Internet Conference aims to review the strategic orientations and trends governing the future societal and economic developments of on-line Internet and Mobile societies and to present interesting ideas and projects in this area.

http://www.fi-prague.eu/

The Enterprise Europe Network Berlin Brandenburg will organise an event linked to the European Year of Creativity and Innovation.

Mr Andreas Lange from Computerspiele Museum, representing there also the KEEP consortium will make a presentation at the event.

Event: Europäisches Jahr der Kreativität und Innovation. Sind Kreative europäisch – ist Europa kreativ? Kreativwirtschaft im Spannungsfeld von Innovationen und Unternehmenserfolg

Date: 13.5.2009 (4pm to 8pm)
Location: Berlin

Title of Mr Lange's lecture: "Die Bewahrung digitaler Güter - Das EU-Projekt KEEP"

Description of the event in german

You are invited to participate in the Planets Outreach and Training event, ‘Digital Preservation – the Planets way’ at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 22-24 June 2009. The event will consider the challenges of digital preservation and how the Planets tools and framework can assist national institutions with digital preservation. Registration is now open, and a full event programme and registration form is available on the Planets website at: http://www.planets-project.eu/events/copenhagen-2009/

Day 1 of the event explores the challenges of digital preservation and introduces the Planets tools and services. On Days 2 and 3 delegates will gain hands-on experience of working with Planets and a scenario (sample collection) to develop a preservation plan and preserve digital objects. The event will include plenty of opportunity for discussion, sharing ideas and best practice and to ask questions.

The event is aimed at CEOs, Heads of IT, Curation and Preservation, IT staff, digital librarians and archivists, curators, policy managers and other staff preparing to or involved in preserving digital content.

You can register for either Day 1 only at a cost of 80 EUR, or for all three days at a cost of 175 EUR.
Due to the nature of the event there is an upper capacity of 60 delegates on Day 1 and 40 delegates on Days 2 and 3.

Final closing date for all registrations is 11 June 2009. This event is the first in a series of Planets outreach and training events to be hosted at venues across Europe between June 2009 and May 2010. Planets (Preservation and Long-Term Access through Networked Services) is a four-year project co-funded by the European Union under Framework Programme 6 to address core digital preservation challenges. Planets is building practical tools and services to help ensure long-term access to our digital cultural and scientific assets.

The Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University kindly invites you to participate to the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, which will be held in the beautiful island of Corfu, Greece from September 27 to October 2, 2009.

http://www.ecdl2009.eu/

The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to host next year's International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2009) at Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco on October 5th and 6th, 2009.

iPRES 2009 will be the sixth in the series of annual international conferences that bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to explore the latest trends, innovations, and practices in preserving our scientific and cultural digital heritage.

http://www.cdlib.org/iPres/ipres2009.html

The main aim of the conference is to present the results of the ENRICH project and discuss the latest developments in the field of digital libraries with focus on the domain of manuscripts and early prints.

Place: National Library of Spain, Madrid

Topics of the conference:

• Manuscriptorium platform and ENRICH results: system, tools, features, requirements and possible ways of cooperation
• Digital content development: tools and techniques
• Standardization of data and metadata
• Cooperation with international initiatives: TEL and Europeana
• Case studies of the libraries cooperating with Manuscriptorium
• Digitization best practices

Detailed programme: http://enrich.manuscriptorium.com/index.php?q=conference-program

Museums, libraries and archives are the institutional linchpin of the digital transmission of the cultural heritage. In service, research and management they meet the challenge of modern information society by using information and communication technologies. The 16th Berlin EVA conference offers a discussion forum of new media applications.

Mr Lange from Computerspiele Museum will present project KEEP on EVA Berlin. His lecture has the following title: "KEEP - EU-Projekt zur Nutzung der Emulation im Rahmen der Langzeitarchivierung".

More information: http://www.gfai.de/pinboard/eva/e_index.html

Digital Preservation - The Planets Way: Third Planets Outreach & Training Event

Planets will host a three-day outreach and training event at the Swiss Federal Archives, Bern, on 17-19 November 2009. The event will explore the need to preserve digital content, the action that needs to be taken and the Planets approach to addressing these issues.

The first day of the event will focus on the challenges of digital preservation and introduce the Planets tools and services. On days 2 and 3 delegates will gain hands-on experience of working with Planets and a scenario (sample collection) to develop a preservation plan and preserve digital objects. The event will include plenty of opportunity for discussion, asking questions and sharing ideas and best practice.

Location: Swiss Federal Archives, Bern, Switzerland

More information: http://www.planets-project.eu/events/bern-2009/

This conference aims to explore, analyze, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communities and cultural contents on the web from an international perspective, and bring together academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners, providing a forum for the discussion and dissemination of the selected themes.

Organisation: Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale
Location: Florence (Italy) hosted by Teatro della Pergola

More information: http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/cont_E.phtml

Conference programme: http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2009-programme.phtml

The theme of ICDL 2010 is ‘Digital Libraries: Shaping the Information Paradigm’ and the conference will focus on the strengths and potential of digital libraries and their role in education, cultural, social and economic development. The conference aims to bring together a galaxy of experts, researchers, academics, and scholar students and provide an international platform to address issues relevant to digital libraries.

The conference is expected to attract participation from information scientists and professionals from a wide range of disciplines, including those involved in DL research and practice, from all over the world.

The 3rd ICDL, (International Conference on Digital Libraries) will be held on 23-26 February, 2010 at India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India.

About the programme: http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl/programme.php

The 8th European Archives Conference will take place in Geneva from 28 - 30 April, 2010. Designed to define the current and future challenges of the profession, the conference is being organised by the European Regional Branch (EURBICA) and the Section on Professional Associations (SPA) of the International Council on Archives (ICA) as well as by the Swiss Federal Archives. The International Scientific Committee, responsible for the programme of the conference, decided to choose digital archiving as the general theme for this 8th edition. They wished to innovate by focusing on the function of archives – the archiving – and no longer on the institution. The conference programme will therefore be structured around the challenges and opportunities represented by digital archiving today.

More infromation: http://www.ica.org/en/2010/04/28/8th-european-conference-digital-archiving-geneva-2010

The National Archives, University College London and the University of Liverpool are jointly organising the fifth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA5 )’ which will take place from 1 July to 3 July 2010 at The National Archives and University College London. The theme of the conference is ‘Records, archives and technology: interdependence over time.

Link to the event

Software Sustainability Institute organizes the workshop for software developers on 7 July 2010 in London. The developers can contribute to good practice on how to make software more durable and longer-lived. The workshop is divided among several activities, representing a mix of information, discussion and summarizing designed to produce developer-led good practice in software preservation and sustainability. By building on attendees’ experiences and views Software Sustainability Institute aims to offer effective guidance that helps others in their work.

Link to the event: http://www.software.ac.uk/SustainingSoftware.html

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. The main aims are to promote high standards of provision and delivery of library and information services; encourage widespread understanding of the value of good library & information services; represent the interests of our members throughout the world. The 76th year was held in Gothenburg, Sweden and was focused on "Open access to knowledge - promoting sustainable progress".

More information : http://www.ifla.org/en/ifla76

Our project partner CSM presented KEEP at the Eurocon 2010 in Manchester, UK on 3-5 September, 2010. Eurocon is an annual event for classic gaming fans or emulation community from around Europe which has been running since 1999.

More information: http://www.eurocon.info

The European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) is the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field. ECDL 2010, the 14th conference in this series, will be organised by the University of Glasgow.

Link to the event: http://www.ecdl2010.org/

7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects was hosted in Vienna in September 19-24, 2010 and brought together researchers and practitioners from around the world to explore the latest trends, innovations, and practices in preserving our digital heritage.

Find more information: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/ipres2010/

World Computer Congress (WCC) 2010 of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a world-class event for IT professionals, innovators, researchers and consumers who want to share, learn and experience with global experts and peers. The congress combines content from commercial, industry, association and research sectors offering an opportunity to showcase and discover innovative ideas. The content will range from the latest international research to leading commercial and industry-focused insights and thought pieces, of interest to a wide audience.

More information: http://www.wcc2010.com/ ; http://www.ifip.org/

ICT 2010 conference was held in September 27-29 in Brussels, where various themes were discussed and debated by leading figures from community of researchers, business, investors, academia and high level policy makers in the field of digital innovation and information and communication technologies. The key themes for the 2010 conference were: a, Powering our sustainable future: the potential of digital solutions to promote sustainable growth in a low carbon economy; b, The human face of the digital age: the continuing constructive role of ICT in the daily life of citizens and the importance of public participation in the innovation process.

More information: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2010/index_en.htm

The third edition of the NEM Summit (Networked & Electronic Media) took place on 13-15 October, 2010 in Barcelona and allowed a fruitful exchange of information and networking, particularly in the perspective of the Future Internet ppp and NEM Calls recently launched by the European Commission. The event also included a new dimension – Art and Science – addressed through the NEM art contest, a sandpit workshop and a specific area of the exhibition devoted to collaboration between artists and scientists.

Link to the event: http://nem-summit.eu/past-events/2010-nem-summit/

The Open Planets Foundation (OPF) invites digital preservation practitioners, users and developers who are interested in becoming a part of the OPF open source community, to join us to discuss your requirements, present and future, from the OPF products and services. This is an opportunity to become part of the OPF community of digital preservation specialists and benefit from shared knowledge and experience. Date and Venue: 15 - 17 November 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

More information about OPF: http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/

Digital curation involves maintaining, preserving and adding value to digital research data throughout its lifecycle. The active management of research data reduces threats to their long-term research value and mitigates the risk of digital obsolescence. Digital curation enhances the long-term value of existing data by making it available for further high quality research.
The conference, held on 6-8 December 2010 in Chicago, USA, was dedicated to the theme of "Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade".

Find more: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference

1st International QEMU Users Forum is held in conjunction with DATE 2011 conference on March 18th, 2011, in Alpexpo, Grenoble, France. QEMU as Open Source Software received wide acceptance by multiple research groups. The Workshop addresses all aspects QEMU for CPU and device emulation. It will provide QEMU users from industry and academia with a discussion forum to exchange ideas and to join forces.

More Information: http://adt.cs.upb.de/quf

Date 2011 (Design, Automation, & Testing in Europe) is the European Event for Electronic System Design & Test; held from 14 to 18 March 2011.
The 14th DATE conference and exhibition brings together designers and design automation users, researchers and vendors, as well as specialists in the hardware and software design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. It puts strong emphasis on ICs/SoCs, reconfigurable hardware and embedded systems, including embedded software.

More information: http://www.date-conference.com/

The second workshop for game developers is planned to be organized along with Italian Videogame Developers conference (IVDC) http://www.ivdconf.com/ on 1 December 2011 in Rome.

The IVDC is the first and only National Congress of the Italian game developers, official annual summit of the IVD (Italian Videogame Developers), dedicated to the Italian and international game developing, which will be a point of meeting and exchange of knowledge, tools and techniques among the most important professionals in the field of independent game development and other aspects of the game industry. The KEEP major findings and results will be discussed there with the game developer community.