PREFORMA @ CIDOC 2014 Conference

Dresden, 06-11 September 2014

Posted on: 17 January 2014

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CIDOC is the International Committee for Documentation of ICOM. It is dedicated to the documentation of museum collections. The committee gathers curators, librarians and information specialists interested in documentation, registration, collections management and computerisation.

The annual conference of CIDOC will take place this year from 6th – 11th of September 2014 in Dresden, Germany.

The 2014 edition of the conference has the title “Access and Understanding – Networking in the Digital Era” and among the themes a special session is dedicated to Long Term Preservation of Digital Data.

The PREFORMA project will be presented by Dr. Stefan Rohde-Enslin from the Institute for Museum Research, State Museums in Berlin (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation).

 

For more information vistit this article or the Conference website.

 

 

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