For anyone in the SF Bay Area and beyond, SFMOMA is offering a free symposium about digital assets.
Please excuse cross-postings-- Marla Misunas Collections Information Manager Collections Information and Access San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 415-357-4186 (voice) Check out SFMOMA Collections Online www.sfmoma.org <http://www.sfmoma.org/> __________________________________ President, Museum Computer Network http://www.mcn.edu <http://www.mcn.edu/> ________________________________ Final Program Announcement Working Digital Assets This day-long symposium on Monday, September 24, 2007 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will explore the current state of managing, sharing, and preserving digital assets. Speakers: * Kurt D. Bollacker, The Long Now Foundation * Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies LLC * Patricia Cruse, California Digital Library * Gary Fong, Genesis Photo Agency * Hannah Frost, Stanford University Libraries * Sue Grinols, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco * Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive * Wendy Levy, Bay Area Video Coalition * Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information * Angelo Sacerdote, Bay Area Video Coalition * Howard Simkins, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning * John Slafsky, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati * Francine Snyder, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum * David Sturtevant, Harvard University Art Museums Join us in considering questions about digital assets such as: * Can we plan for 50 years and 5 years at the same time? * What makes a 'quality, useful, and/or trustworthy' asset? * What are the hot-button rights issues? * Where are the innovative, creative, and/or resourceful solutions? * How can we stay ahead of the technological curve(s)? Symposium schedule: * 8:30 Coffee * 9:20 Welcome * 9:30 Motivations and Strategies for managing, sharing, preserving * 10:30 Break * 10:45 The Thing Itself and Influences * 12:00 Lunch on your own * 1:30 Rights: exclusive, non-exclusive, underlying, etc. * 2:30 Break * 2:45 Tools and Independence / Dependence * 4:00 Refreshments No registration fee, but please RSVP to collections at sfmoma.org by September 21 (if you haven't done so already). Enter at SFMOMA's main entrance (151 Third Street). Directions, public transit and parking: http://www.sfmoma.org/visit/visitinfo_directions.html The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you
