A study day at the British Museum
Saturday 4 September, 09.55–16.30
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Free, booking advised
As well as revolutionising modern work and social life, digital technology is also transforming cultural heritage management. The power to store, organise and distribute vast quantities of complex data makes it possible to do things that only 20 years ago were dreams.
This study day brings together a selection of projects that embrace the potential of the digital world to broaden and enrich access to the world’s shared cultural heritage.
| 09.55 | Welcome Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum |
| 10.00–10.30 | The British Museum collection online Julia Stribblehill, British Museum |
| 10.30–11.00 | The international Dunhuang project Sam van Schaik, British Library |
| 11.00–11.30 | Tea break |
| 11.30–12.00 | Vindolanda tablets online Alan Bowman, University of Oxford |
| 12:00-12:30 | Integrating digital papyrology Gabriel Bodard, King’s College, London |
| 12.30–13.30 | Lunch break |
| 13.30–14.00 | The Ashurbanipal library project Jon Taylor, British Museum |
| 14.00–14.30 | The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus Steve Tinney, University of Pennsylvania |
| 14.30–15.00 | Persistent digital archives in cuneiform research and cultural heritage management Robert K Englund, UCLA |
| 15.00–15.30 | Tea break |
| 15.30–16.00 | The Syrian Digital Library of Cuneiform Bertrand Lafont, CNRS, Paris |
| 16.00–16.30 | Cooperation among research institutes and museums: the digital edge Jürgen Renn, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin |