International cultural heritage informatics

ICHIM'99, an international cultural heritage informatics meeting, will be held in Washington DC, USA, from 23 to 26 September 1999. The event is designed for museum educators, curators, exhibit designers, and directors as well as for hardware and software developers, commercial designers, and publishers of both stand-alone and networked hypermedia and interactive multimedia.

The meeting will explore a full range of interactive multimedia issues, covering technological, legal, economic, organisational and design concerns. These will be discussed from the perspective of museums and cultural heritage applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Impact of information technology on existing institutions;
- Authenticity and quality in cultural heritage information;
- Outreach and new modes of communication;
- Collaborations, partnerships and income production;
- The implications of converging technologies;
- Dissemination and access methods.

The event will also feature a museum project demonstration fair, a commercial exhibition and series of pre-conference workshops. The workshops will provide learning opportunities at levels ranging from introductory to advanced, in a range of formats including hands-on computer training, lectures, seminars and interactive group sessions.
For further information, please contact:

Archives and Museum Informatics
2008 Murray Avenue
Suite D
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
15217 USA
E-mail: info@archimuse.com
URL: http://www.archimuse.com/(opens in new window)