Name: SE - UNESCO Memory of the World
Start: 2013-10-28T14:00:00+0100
End: 2013-10-28T18:00:00+0100

SE - UNESCO Memory of the World

50 - Sarah Kaddu
Metadata Handling and Management challenges: experiences of the World Digital Library, Uganda, National Library of Uganda

55 - Valentina Vassallo, Eleni Athanasiou, Sorin Hermon and Ioannis Eliades
Publishing Cultural Heritage content for Digital Libraries: the case of the collections of the Byzantine Museum and Art Gallery of the Archbishop Makarios III Foundation

319 Badreldin Elhagmusa and Marilyn Deegan
Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Sudan through Digitisation: The Sudanese Digital Library

147 - Claude Zurcher
notrehistoire.ch : a social network and a participatory platform for audiovisual archives

379 - Pnina Shor
The Preservation and Digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Moderators

Jānis Kārkliņš

Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO

Before assuming duties of the Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information of UNESCO in July 2010, Mr Jānis Kārkliņš served as Latvian Ambassador to France, Andorra, Monaco and UNESCO, as well as the Permanent Representative of Latvia to the United Nations in Geneva... Read More →

Speakers

Marilyn Deegan

King's College London

Professor of Digital Humanities at King's College London and the former editor of LLC: the Journal of Digital Humanities. She has 25 years' experience in digital humanities and is also a medievalist. Her recent publications include Text Editing, Print and the Digital World (edited... Read More →

Pnina Shor

Curator & Head of Dead Sea Scrolls Projects, Israel Antiquities Authority

In May 2010 the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) established a unit dedicated solely to the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) – their curatorship, conservation, exhibition and first and foremost their digitization. Pnina Shor was nominated the head of this unit. Until then, for the last... Read More →