[open-heritage] Getting started with new Working Group on Open Data in Cultural Heritage

[David FLANDERS]

David F Flanders from the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee, I oversees programmes of technical development work for UK Higher and Further Education Institutions.  Currently, I oversee portfolios of work in open access repositories (#jiscDEPO), open linkeddata (#jiscEXPO) and geospatial (#jiscSPACE #jiscTIME) innovation areas.  Citizen2Student collaboration within these activities as part of the Universities remit is my particular soapbox at the moment. 

In my free time I build 3D printers (#pifp #reprap), and am particularly interested in repatriation of cultural heritage objects (i.e. re-printing Egyptology objects) as well as reproducing scientific instrumentation (both historical and modern, e.g. obsessed with Hooke's work at the moment and effort to hack a homemade electron microscope).  I hope to push forward a volunteer effort to bring 3D printers into Africa to support new methods of economy and learning in the developing world. /dff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-heritage-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-heritage-
> bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Stefano Costa
> Sent: 22 June 2010 21:44
> To: open-heritage at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: Re: [open-heritage] Getting started with new Working Group on
> Open Data in Cultural Heritage
> 
> Il giorno mar, 22/06/2010 alle 19.07 +0200, Jonathan Gray ha scritto:
> >
> > This is a new list for discussion of open data (and open content?) in
> > the cultural heritage sector. At the moment I've started this list
> > with only a handful of people and so it would be great if everyone
> > could give a sentence (!) or two briefly introducing themselves and
> > giving a sense of the main things they are interested in.
> 
> I am Stefano Costa, coordinator of the Working Group on Open Data in
> Archaeology at the Open Knowledge Foundation. I am a PhD student in
> archaeology at the University of Siena.
> 
> My interests with this working group (out of the specific domain of
> archaeology) are in user-generated heritage content, dissemination of
> digital material from museums and archives, and in general a wider
> outreach for cultural heritage among the public. There is an increasing
> gap between specialist studies and public heritage - an open approach
> (following well-known practices, at least well-known for people here)
> may help in filling the gap.
> 
> Ciao,
> Stefano
> 
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> Stefano Costa
> 
> Coordinator, Working Group on Open Data in Archaeology
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