Shaping Access! More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage
Digitisation offers a huge opportunity to considerably simplify access to cultural heritage and, in doing so, to make a significant contribution to the knowledge-based society of the future. The conference series “Shaping Access! – More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage” contributes to the discourse on the opportunities, obstacles, challenges and changes related to digitisation which libraries, archives and museums face and their relation to other institutions, initiatives and commercial enterprises.
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek has co-organised the conference since 2013. The director of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Frank Frischmuth, says: “It’s important for us to take part in and also co-organise the ‘Shaping Access’ conference, because we want to follow and help shape the discussion on the participation of cultural and scientific institutions in the digital world”.
Shaping access! 2017
For the seventh time now, international experts from cultural institutions, science, society, and politics will gather at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library) in Frankfurt am Main on 19 & 20 October 2017 in order to discuss where the opportunities and limits of cooperation lie when it comes to making cultural heritage accessible in the digital world.
And so also this year, the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek will not only be the co-organizer but also the co-creator of this conference: on the 2nd conference day, in the topic block “Aggregators and platforms – structures of cooperation”, we will be presenting our virtual exhibitions and will be pleased to present one or the other innovation related to this topic. In the following topic block "Cross-country and interdisciplinary cooperation", Frank Frischmuth will be presenting the national perspective of cooperation by holding the lecture „DDB – more than a portal“.
When?
Thursday, 19 October 2017 & Friday, 20 October 2017
Where?
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Adickesallee 1
60322 Frankfurt am Main
Entrance free
Already on the eve of the conference, on 18 October 2017, there will be a kick-off event in the Museum Judengasse Frankfurt and on 19 October 2017, there will be a final event in the "Deutsches Filminstitut" (German Film Institute).
Further information: www.zugang-gestalten.de
Registrations for the conference are now possible at: www.zugang-gestalten.de/registrierung
The conference program: http://www.zugang-gestalten.de/programm-2017/
News entries:
Shaping access! 2016
The digitization of cultural heritage has made great progress in recent years. However, given the rapid technological development of electronic media, the project orientation of cultural promotion and the volatility of digital communication, questions of sustainability are becoming increasingly important.The related aspects will be discussed on the 6th international conference on the 17th and 18th of November 2016.
Event Location:
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart
Invalidenstr. 50-51
10557 Berlin
Registration for Shaping access (free of charge)
News Entries:
02.12.2016: A short look back at „Shaping Access! More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage“ 2016
03.11.2016: Save the Date: Shaping Access! More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage 2016
Shaping access! 2015
What role does metadata play in an interconnected world? What will be the concept behind exhibitions in the future? How will the legal requirements evolve? What are the strategies for future access to cultural heritage? These questions form the theme of the international conference series “Shaping Access! More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage” which will take place for the fifth time on the 5th and 6th of November in the rooms of the Altonaer Museum and is facilitated by this year’s host, the Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg.
In the run-up to this year’s conference, the “Hamburger Note” is going to be presented in Berlin: notable representatives of German cultural institutions and legal experts who are concerned with preserving cultural assets have gathered together for this declaration. The request and goal is to simplify the extensive rights clearance procedures for heritage institutions like archives, libraries and museums in the future and to therefore make digital accessibility to cultural assets more widely possible than it has been so far.
News entries
02.11.2015: Wenn Kultureinrichtungen und Entwickler zusammenfinden: Coding da Vinci – Der Workshop bei „Zugang gestalten!“
22.10.2015: Metadata: Making Cultural Heritage Accessible and Visible - An Interview
13.10.2015: The “Hamburger Note” for the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
08.10.2015: The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek at “Shaping Access! More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage” 2015
Shaping Access! 2014
Analysing the status of numerous digitisation projects for cultural heritage will take the centre stage at the fourth conference of “Shaping Access! More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage” on the 13th and 14th November 2014 in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. Where do we stand today, what has been successful, where do the problems lie, which endeavours have failed? An interim analysis will investigate which digitisation projects have been and are present on a national and international level and how they have shaped access to cultural heritage. The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek has co-organised the conference for the second time and has invited people to explore the subject “Knowledge – Language – Digital” in cooperation with the Goethe Institut’s “Projekt Deutsch 3.0”.
The Conference in five minutes
Hier wird das Video angezeigt.
“Shaping Access!” – More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage, conference on 13th and 14th November 2014, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Editing, cutting: Marc Thümmler, camera: Manuel Kinzer, music: Daniel Schellongowski, conference leader: Paul Klimpel
The video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/137821646
Press release
News entries
24.11.2014: On multilingualism, metadata and Aztecs in Arabic – The “Shaping Access!” conference (including videos exploring “Knowledge – Language – Digital”)
27.10.2015: “The world is where language is”: The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek at “Shaping Access!”
Shaping access! 2013
Why shape access? The third conference focuses on recalling the image cultural institutions have of themselves and the expectations directed at them. To what extent does access to cultural heritage involve recognised public efforts? The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek took part in the international conference “Shaping Access! – More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage” for the first time in 2013, which took place on 28th and 29th November in Berlin’s Jüdisches Museum.
„Shaping access!“ 2013 – The Conference in 13 Minutes
An abridged version of the conference 'Shaping Access! More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage' on 28th and 29th November 2013. Editing: Marc Thümmler, camera: Manuel Kinzer, music: Daniel Schellongowski, production: filmgestalten.de/
The video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/143262782
The first thematic trailer from the “Culture and Knowledge Online” series was also created on the occasion of the conference and is dedicated to the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek as an organiser of specialist conferences focusing on the digitisation of and participation in cultural heritage within a digital world. The first series of “Culture and Knowledge Online – 01 Digitisation Discourse” presents stances on digitisation discourse and short statements about the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.
“Culture and Knowledge Online – 01 Digitisation Discourse” (in German)
Culture and Knowledge Online – 01: Digitisation Discourse, with statements by: Frank Frischmuth, director of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Lizzy Jongma, data manager at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Börries von Notz, managing director of the Stiftung Jüdisches Museum Berlin, on the board of the Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg since 1st February 2014, Ranga Yogeshwar, science journalist and author, Dr. Paul Klimpel, conference leader and head of culture at iRights.Lab, and Dr. Volker Rodekamp, president of the Deutscher Museumsbund and director of the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig
The video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/87270438
News Entries
26.02.2014: “Culture and Knowledge online” series: Launch of Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek’s series of themed films
12.11.2013: Shaping Access! – More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage
To the documentation of the 2013 conference on the “Shaping Access!” webpage (photos, videos and media reviews)
To Press & Media