Research Field 03 - Network of Museums, Libraries and Public Cultural Institutions

Workshop ‘Ricomincio da Tre! La rete dei servizi culturali’, Venice, 15 April 2013 - 16 April 2013

Perla Innocenti (University of Glasgow) participated as delegate to a workshop dedicated to museums, archives and libraries networks entitled Ricomincio da Tre! La rete dei servizi culturali, organized by the Veneto Region and held at the Fondazione Scientifica Querini Stampalia Onlus in Venice, Italy on 15 April 2013. The goal of this event was to create an opportunity for dialogue on the management of the main places of storage and transmission of knowledge: museums, archives and libraries. During the workshop, challenges common to all three communities were explored in detail: minimum quality requirements, public and private management, shared services for economic, personnel development, safeguard and communication of cultural heritage, empowerment and user involvement of local communities, financial resources. At the end of the debate a public hearing of the Culture Committee of the Regional Council of Veneto offered an unprecedented opportunity for encounter between those who deliver public cultural [...] Read more

4th Leonardo Satellite Symposium in Copenhagen: CfP Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks - 21 February 2013

The NetSci2013 conference will take place on June 3-7, 2013 at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. Running parallel to the main conference, several satellite events have been organised in the same days.

The 4th Leonardo Satellite Symposium aims to bring together pioneer work in the overlap of arts, humanities, network research, data science, and information design. It will leverage interaction between those areas by means of keynotes, a number of contributions, and a high-profile panel discussion. The conference organisers are looking for a diversity of research contributions revolving around networks in culture, networks in art, networks in the humanities, art about networks, and research in network visualization. Focussing on these five pillars that have crystallized out of our previous meetings, the 2013 symposium strives to make further impact in the arts, humanities, and natural sciences.

The symposium provides a unique opportunity to mingle with leading researchers in complex network science, potentially sparking fruitful collaborations. As in previous years, [...] Read more