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The Working Group on Databases and Portals for University Collections and the Working Group on Recent Heritage of Science organize workshops which will be held on Friday, 12 June 2015 between 9:30 and 13:15. 

You will have to register for the workshops. The workshops are parallel so you can only participate in one of them.

 1. WORKSHOP ON DATABASES AND PORTALS FOR UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS

 Universeum’s working group on databases and portals for university collections will have its first get together at the Universeum Meeting 2015, in Athens. The main objective is to create a network for sharing knowledge and experience. In this group, we would like to discuss and work on the following:

 - to produce a document with best practices and an accompanying contact list.

 - to look into the technical issues that come with building a portal, such as  “which infrastructure should we use?”, “what fields do we use to present objects to the public?”, “which standards do we need, and should we work towards using the same standards on an European level?” and “the pros and cons of a harvesting model”.

 - working together in presenting our collections on a European level: what are the possibilities?

 Please write to Esther Boeles <e.boeles[at]uva[dot]nl> or Delphine Issenmann <delphine.issenmann[at]unistra[dot]fr> to register for the Workshop on Databases and Portals

 

2. WORKSHOP ON THE PRESERVATION OF RECENT HERITAGE OF SCIENCE

Universeum’s Working Group for the Preservation of Recent Heritage of Science is concerned with the study, conservation and interpretation of the heritage of science, technology and medicine produced after WWII. At our fourth workshop in Athens we will:

- provide a complete checklist of what is needed to preserve recent heritage of science

- discuss the compilation of a bibliography of reference material

- discuss the documentation of objects that we cannot keep (such as nuclear reactors, satellites that go in space, leased instruments).

Please write to Roland.Wittje[at]psk.uni-regensburg[dot]de or Roland.Wittje[at]gmail[dot]com to register for the Workshop on Recent Heritage of Science.

See also http://universeum.it/working_groups.html for the Universeum working groups