Europeana Photography Seminar – Software for managing digital collections

Barcelona, 29 January 2014

Posted on: 16 January 2014

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Organized by CRDI – Centre de Recerca i Difusió de la Imatge (Ajuntament de Girona) and GenCat – Generalitat de Catalunya (Department de Cultura), a seminar in the framework of EuropeanaPhotography project has take place in Barcelona (29th January 2014), at the premises of Palau Moja, Carrer de la Portaferrissa, 1.

A one day event to explore the best ways to select software for managing a digital
collection, featuring professional speakers and the presentation of different experiences from the Europeana Photography partners.

Database systems have been crucial to transform the practice in managing digital collections. However, digital image represent a new challenge. Creation, management and use of digital assets has become core business for LAM (Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector.

In this seminar we have identified the main functionalities needed for managing an image collection and we have analyzed different systems. It has also took place the presentation of different experiences from Europeana Photography partners related to this subject.

Download the EuropeanaPhotography presentation by Antonella Fresa, EuropeanaPhotography Technical Coordinator (PDF, 3,6 Mb)

More information about the proceedings of the seminar will be available soon.

Download the program (PDF, 164 Kb)

 

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