CLAROS Oxford Meeting

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Description

We request NSF funds to support a workshop to be held at Oxford University March 13- 15 2006. The purpose of the workshop is to build a vision of the next generation art history repositories given the experiences of a number of European and American experts in the Humanities and Computer Science, and to explore the potential for mutually beneficial collaboration between Europe and the United States. A primary expected outcome is a common basis for cooperation toward new, groundbreaking digital collections between and among representatives of leading European cultural heritage projects in art history and digital library specialists based in the U.S. This exploratory meeting will thus bring together subject specialists, museum curators, and computer scientists for what we expect will be mutually beneficial discussions. Over the next several years, many digital collections created in the late nineties will require substantial upgrades to take advantage of continuing improvements in both networks and software. Many institutions are already thinking about the future of their collections. Especially critical topics include federation - i.e. searches and collaborative maintenance across distributed collections - and the infrastructure needed for advanced visualization of high-resolution and three-dimensional multimedia resources in immersive environments. We will meet with specialists in art history for whom such advanced visualization will be increasingly important, but who are currently unprepared for such a future in terms of both data and technical infrastructure. We expect as a specific outcome of the meeting to formulate complementary funding proposals for new research and development in these areas; as a more general outcome, our meeting will contribute to a community-wide discussion about the future of museum and library digital collections.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date3/15/068/31/06

Funding

  • National Science Foundation: $25,000.00

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