News and events
ISKO-UK Conference on Knowledge Organisation (London, 11-12 Sept 2017)
June 19, 2017 Authors: Digital Standards Unit
"Knowledge Organisation: what's the story?" Classification, Indexing, Taxonomies and Ontologies - current state and direction of travel. Who: ISKO - International Society for Knowledge Organization When: 11-12 September 2017 Where: Canada Water Library and Cultural Space, London 'One of the highlights of the conference will be the second day's "False Narratives" session, aiming to develop a KO…
International UDC Seminar (London, 14-15 Sept 2017)
June 12, 2017 Authors: Digital Standards Unit
The International UDC Seminar 2017 "Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End Users" will take place in London on 14-15 September 2017 at the Wellcome Collection. This is the sixth in a series of International UDC Seminars devoted to advances in documentary classification research and their application in a networked environment. This conference revisits faceted analytical theory as…
FISH-HEIRNET: next meeting 9 June 2017
May 23, 2017 Authors: Digital Standards Unit
FISH members attending the next FISH-HEIRNET Spring Meeting This will take place at Historic England's main office in Waterhouse Square, London, on Friday 9 June 2017. Time: 11.00 – 16:00. (Working Lunch provided at 13:00). Topics will include BIM4Heritage, how heritage terminologies map to BIM, updates on OASIS, the Thesaurus of Cultural Heritage, HIAS (including HERALD), and reports from FISH…
IRMS Conference 2017 (21-23 May, Glasgow)
May 15, 2017 Authors: Digital Standards Unit
The next Information & Records Management Society (IRMS) Conference 2017 will take place on 21-23 May, at the Hilton in Glasgow, Scotland. The conference focuses on records management and record-keeping for the commercial business sector rather than the heritage arena but is still relevant in certain areas. For more information about the program, click here for a conference summary or the full…
Policy-UK Forum: A New Framework for UK Data Protection (London, 18 May 2017)
May 05, 2017 Authors: Digital Standards Unit
Date: Thursday, 18th May 2017 (08:30 - 13.00) Location: 1 Birdcage Walk, Westminster, London, SW1H 9JJ Speakers Christopher Docksey, Director, European Data Protection Supervisor Rob Luke, Deputy Commissioner (Policy), Information Commissioner's Office Jo Blazey, Privacy Officer & Counsel, Vodafone; Chris Combemale, Chief Executive, Direct Marketing Association; Philip James, Partner, Sheridans…
Building Cultural Heritage Knowledge, British Museum (27-28 July 2017)
April 07, 2017 Authors: Digital Standards Unit
A symposium on Building Cultural Heritage Knowledge will take place at the British Museum on 27-28th July 2017. A workshop on building semantic databases will also be held on the 29th (tba). Location: British Museum, BP Lecture Theatre, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG The conference seeks to highlight the challenges for sustainable knowledge building between cultural heritage institutions…
UK Digital Strategy (1 March 2017)
March 07, 2017 Authors: Digital Standards Unit
The Secretary of State for Culture Media & Sport has launched the Government’s UK Digital Strategy. The Strategy commits to ‘undertake a major enhancement and rationalisation of heritage records nationally and locally’ as well as considering how the planning system can be made both more efficient and give the public greater involvement through better use of data and digital tools. Click here to…
FISH Thesauri updated – Version 20 (February 2017)
March 07, 2017 Authors: Digital Standards Unit
We have now updated the FISH Thesauri (version 20). Click here to view the latest versions. Candidate terms (terminology suggestions) are submitted to FISH all year round. Terms are processed and usually added to the FISH thesauri and authority files as and when they come in. Once a year the main thesauri are updated and uploaded to this website, where you can browse for a specific term, and…
The US National Park Service and spatial data transfer standards
February 14, 2017 Authors: Digital Standards Unit
In 2010 the US National Park Service (NPS) approved cultural resource spatial data transfer standards to help document the lineage of their cultural resource spatial data, used in geographic information system (GIS) applications throughout the NPS and for the public. The standards also help integrate the numerous cultural resource databases maintained by the NPS for cultural resource management…
3D Digital Documentation Summit, New Orleans (18-20 April)
February 14, 2017 Authors: Digital Standards Unit
The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) will partner with Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, Heritage Documentation Programs (NPS) and APTI Technical Committee for Documentation to host a three day summit on 3D digital documentation for cultural heritage. Date: April 18 - 20, 2017 Location: Old US Mint Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Cost of the symposium: $29…
Arches CIPA 2017 Workshop, Ottawa (27 August)
February 14, 2017 Authors: Digital Standards Unit
For anyone interested in attending the next International CIPA Symposium in Ottawa (see earlier post), there will be an Arches Workshop on 27 August, the day before the Symposium starts (28 August). Workshop registration: Arches Heritage Inventory and Management Platform Version 4.0 Workshop CIPA 2017: Invitation and Registration Arches Project
Arches™ 2-Day Workshop, Liverpool (29-30 March)
February 13, 2017 Authors: Digital Standards Unit
Introduction to Arches v4 and the new Arches Designer Location: Liverpool John Moores University Attend for one day or two. Free workshop. Day One (Wednesday, March 29): What is Arches? An overview of Arches, including creation/management of data, search and reporting functionality, and geospatial layers Controlled vocabularies; manage satellite/aerial imagery; import and export capabilities Plans…
