The US’ Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced that registration is now open for its WebWise Conference, which will take place February 29-March 2, 2012 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace in Baltimore, Maryland.
A signature initiative of IMLS, the WebWise Conference annually seeks to bring together representatives of museums, libraries, archives, systems science, education and other fields to explore the many opportunities made possible by digital technologies. George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM), partnering with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC), is helping to organise the conference.
WebWise 2012 will take up the theme of ‘Tradition and Innovation’, investigating how libraries and museums have used digital technologies to help scholars, students, educators and the general public understand history and the humanities. It will take note of the contributions that historical societies, public libraries and other small and local organisations make to humanities scholarship and education. Further, WebWise 2012 will illuminate the challenges these organisations have faced in doing digital work, highlight the often under-appreciated contributions they have made in this area, and bring them into more fruitful conversation with colleagues in larger organisations and in the arts and sciences.
Some of the topics to be covered by the conference include mobile technologies, crowdsourcing, data visualisations, use of digital technologies in preserving and providing greater access to oral history, and multi-institutional collaboratives. The pre-conference includes two half-day explorations of gaming and 21st century learners, and one full-day ‘unconference,’ also known as ‘Wise Camp.’
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