Category: Lectures and Conferences
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Text Comparison and Digital Creativity – Day II
Long overdue, here are my notes on the second day of the colloquium Text Comparison and Digital Creativity. The day started with key note speaker Bella Hass Weinberg who stressed the point that even in the digital era the creativity of text comparison still lies with the researcher. She states: much of the…
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Digitisation and the Trade Book
During last Thursday’s Round Table on ‘Digitisation and the Trade Book’, organized by the department of Book and Digital Media Studies at Leiden University, the focus was on the future role of ‘intermediaries’ (distributors, booksellers and librarians) in the age of the digital book. What kind of value will these ‘old players’ still add to…
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Text Comparison and Digital Creativity – Day I
Last Thursday and Friday the two day colloquium ‘Text comparison and digital creativity’ was held at the KNAW, as part of its 200th anniversary year. The symposium was a joint initiative from the Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS) and the Leiden based Turgama project. For more information on both organizers simply follow the links. One of…
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Frankfurt Book Fair (II): Ebook Platforms
As I mentioned in my previous post, at the Frankfurt Book Fair two weeks ago Ebooks were certainly the buzzword. Interestingly enough, whilst everyone is talking about Ebooks, there are as of yet few (if any) sustainable (let alone profit-making) publishing models for Ebooks. However, experiments are increasingly being conducted. This has led to the…
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Dodo or Dog Conference
Following the metaphor dodo or dog (an extinct bird versus man’s best friend), the future of the scholarly book in the digital age was examined at the Dodo or Dog conference last week. A handful of prominent Dutch and international speakers shared their thoughts on the development of the monograph in the HSS. One of…
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Frankfurt Book Fair (I): Free Ebooks, Copyright and Piracy
As I visited the Frankfurt Book Fair last week, Ebooks and Ebook services seemed to be omnipresent. From E-readers to E-publishing experiments and from POD and software services to E-braries, the publishing value chain finally seems to have lost its fear when it comes to the embracing of the Ebook. This has lead to the rise…
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Content is Context, Content is Conversation
Symposium Nederland Kennisland (02-10-08) http://klstudio.wik.is/ Kennisland (Knowledgeland http://www.kennisland.nl/) is an independent Dutch think thank with the overall goal to make Holland smarter. They try to achieve this goal by means of research, advice, projects and networks focused on four main themes: creative economy, open innovation, smart government and smart schools. I attended…