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NINCH Information Exchange
The effective sharing of information, experiences
and resources is at the core of NINCH's mission and of its
core values. From the beginning, NINCH has been committed
to finding ways to best do this. Our current programs to facilitate
information exchange include the following:
NINCH-Announce
The NINCH announcement list ensures that subscribers
can track the key information and resources they need to do
their work by following technical, social and legal developments
across the community. To Subscribe, email the message "Subscribe
ninch-announce your name" to listproc@cni.org.
To search and browse past announcements, visit www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce.
Community
Calendar
See the NINCH Community Calendar for
conference announcements, calls for proposals and other events
germane to the networking of cultural heritage.
Copyright
Town Meetings
Digital copyright issues are among the hardest to tackle.
New technology enables both unlimited capacity to disseminate
and copy material (in ways that can violate the rights of
copyright holders) and unlimited capacity to prevent access
to works (which may violate the rights of readers, viewers
and listeners). Legal, constitutional, economic and social
forces are frequently in conflict and the balance seen in
traditional copyright law appears to be in jeopardy.
Since 1997, NINCH has organized three series
of Copyright Town Meetings across the nation that have informed
participants of the facts and recent developments in copyright
and enabled assembled experts and audiences to exchange opinion
and develop new solutions for the future. For information
on the next Copyright Town Meetings, for annual summary reports
or for detailed reports on these meetings see the Town
Meetings home page.
Best
Achievements: The Community Report
Following two separate
reviews of achievements in the field, NINCH has established
an annual review of the best examples
of current work in networking cultural heritage materials.
by inviting key individuals to contribute short statements.
These brief overviews include best examples, most promising
prospects and point to the most pressing challenges that lie
ahead.
The
NINCH Forum
For NINCH members
only, the NINCH Forum is the organization's annual meeting
for discussion of community-wide issues and NINCH's continuing
program. In 2000, the FORUM
was hosted by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the
Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia. In 2001,
we met at the Getty Trust.
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