Why attend the Cultural Track? Who will benefit?
There are many topics of concern to those working in cultural institutions,
trying to make the most of the presence of the Web. This track is designed
to create a context for dialogue between those who want to use the web
and those who design and develop it. Many questions are not easily answered,
but it is clear that until there is a good understanding between these
two groups, there cannot be much progress.
Providing an opportunity for the world's leading Web developers and
technicians to get together is a special feature of the 1998 WWW7 Conference.
We urge you to take advantage of this unique opportunity.
NOTE: the Cultural Track is part of the main WWW7 Conference
and participants can attend sessions within the track and/or in other tracks.
(For details see draft
program.)
Some of the questions around which we are planning our sessions include:
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How can Web technologies enhance gallery/library/museum education?
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How can curatorial and exhibition skills and values enhance offerings on
the Web?
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The virtual vs. the real: how do people relate to objects in cultural institutions
and online?
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Online museum/gallery/library audiences--what do we know about them?
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Interesting approaches to cultural education online
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Presenting material culture online: how can we create informative and respectful
presentations of culture?
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Culture clash: how can we bridge the differences between the more formal
culture of institutions and the informal culture of the Web?
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Dreaming: where should cultural institutions be heading on the Web and
what are the upcoming technologies that will be relevant?
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Everyman his own curator
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One exhibit, many points of view
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Sharing collections, sharing data, sharing interpretation, sharing experience
and with respect to metadata:
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where are we at with metadata?
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from data to metadata to interpretation ...
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what can we expect soon?
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how does a cultural institution convert its systems to give access to the
Web?
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What is Dublin Core? What are alternatives and what else is there?
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what else can we do with metadata?
The aim is to provide a context in which participants can collaboratively
tackle those hard issues which are often missed in conference sessions
where paper presenters talk 'past' each other, politely listening and moving
on. We hope the WWW7 session wrestles with issues of how Web technology
can further the goals of cultural institutional research and education
and what physical and digital collections and communication systems can
accomplish. This, we believe, will make the WWW7 Cultural track distinctive.
So what is on the draft
program so far? What is happening in the shoe
collection process? Who
is coming and who is sponsoring
the event?
Register your interest in this track to obtain more information: mailto:www7culture@www7.conf.au
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