>> Annual NINCH Forum
FORUM 2001
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California
December 6-8, 2001
Featuring Lawrence Grossman, speaking on "The Digital Promise Project"
and Douglas Greenberg, President & CEO,
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation,
speaking on "Henry's Harmonica:
Memory, History, and Technology in a Genocidal World."
I am delighted to
invite you to the second NINCH FORUM, to be held Thursday
December 6 to Saturday December 8 at The Getty Center in Los Angeles.
We feel fortunate
to be able to hold our meeting at the Getty Center. The J. Paul
Getty Trust (as the Getty Information Institute) was one of the
three original founders of NINCH, alongside the American Council
of Learned Societies and the Coalition for Networked Information.
Together they published the 1994 document Humanities and Arts on the
Information Highways: A Profile.
The J. Paul Getty
Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution
devoted to the visual arts that features the J. Paul Getty
Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation
Institute, and the Getty Grant Program. The J. Paul Getty Trust
and Getty programs are based at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
The J. Paul Getty
Museum at the Getty Center features European paintings, drawings,
illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, decorative arts, and American
and European photographs; changing exhibitions; and a wide range
of programs for visitors of every age to enjoy including gallery
talks, lectures, film screenings, concerts, and family
activities, many offered in both English and Spanish. For more
information, please see <http://www.getty.edu/about/>
Based on the
success of our first FORUM in 2000, hosted by the University of
Virginia, Forum 2001 is an opportunity for us to discuss NINCH's
current programs, to hear from each other about works-in-progress
across the community, and to forge a stronger coalition for the
future - all in the inspired setting of the Getty Center. We are
planning an exciting agenda that will include walking tours of
the Getty's extraordinary assets, a reception overlooking the
foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, and a demonstration of
digital resources at the Getty.
Our keynote
speakers are:
- Lawrence
Grossman, former President of PBS and co-author
of “A Digital Gift to the Nation.” He will
discuss The Digital Promise proposal to create
an $18 billion Digital Opportunity Investment Trust that
would fulfill the broad educational promise of the
Internet and other digital technologies.
- Douglas
Greenberg, President and CEO of the
Survivors of the
Shoah Visual History Foundation. Dr. Greenberg's
talk is entitled: "Henry's Harmonica: Memory,
History, and Technology in a Genocidal World."
The meeting will
commence on Thursday afternoon with registration and a reception
at The
Luxe Summit Hotel Bel Air. Please make your hotel reservations
directly with the hotel as soon as possible (see hotel and travel
information below). Please also note the
beginnings of a list of "After Hours" selected cultural events
and performances taking place in LA throughout the weekend. If
you need further information on the meeting, please contact Amy
Masciola (amy@ninch.org) or me (david@ninch.org).
Program-related
issues to be especially featured include:
- Digital
Copyright: The continuing success of the Copyright Town
Meetings series (about to enter their 4th series)
and a conference planned for next March on producing a
Cultural Action Agenda for I.P. issues
- Infrastructure
Issues: Focusing on the results of the successful four-day Building Blocks
Workshops in 2000 and in preparation for a 2002
Computer Science & Humanities Initiative conference
hosted by Rice University, we will focus on
infrastructure issues: what do we need to fulfil the
digital promise that computer and information science and
technology makes to the arts and humanities
New this year will be a 3-hour
workshop with discussion roundtables focusing on current and
proposed program areas. What's new, what's needed and how can
NINCH help? Subjects of focus will include:
- International
Collaboration
- The
NINCH International Database of Digital Humanities
Projects
- The
NINCH Guide to Good Practice:
- New
Economic Models: the CLIR-NINCH Conference and Beyond
-
Digital Preservation
- New
NINCH Member services
I know your
schedules are perennially crowded, but please give serious
consideration to attending this important meeting and advancing
our common agendas through NINCH.
David Green
NINCH Executive
Director
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