Digi Breakfast on Digital Cultural Heritage

How to make the collections held by libraries, archives, and museums available online, and how this is a win-win for culture and research

May 19, 2015, at 8:00-9:30 o'clock
Location: Open Innovation House (OIH), Otaniementie 19, Espoo

In the Digi Breakfasts, Aalto university's key digi themes are discussed within the Aalto community and with outside stakeholders. The events are open for everyone.

Digitalization of the cultural heritage of humanity is one of the pressing issues in the Information Society. As the keepers of the nation’s heritage, heritage institutions such as archives, libraries and museums are implicated not only in the safeguarding of the patrimony that tells history of the people, but also in how that history is narrated. In our contemporary world that mission has been rendered into a task that translates to more that being repositories of artefacts. Nowadays museums for example, are expected to provide a wide array of services, from the ubiquitous guided tours, to more challenging activities including sessions in which visually challenged patrons can handle 3D forms, such as sculptures, to activities in which young audiences might learn about ‘sonification’ techniques to render accessible visual works of art, to workshops where immigrants and first-generation citizens search to find a way to reflect themselves into the fabric of the nation. During this session we will hear from experts who are involved in this important work.

Today's event is also part of Aalto Festival http://www.aaltofestival.fi/2015/en/

Please see the event web page for more information and how to register: http://www.aalto.fi/en/research/platforms/digi/cultural_heritage/