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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 57| June 2002


‘Sights and Sounds in Scholarly Communication’

National Scholarly Communications Forum,
to be held at the National Library of Australia, 3 – 4 October 2002

The next National Scholarly Communications Forum Round Table examines the intellectual, legal, and functional challenges and opportunities that non-written forms of text present to scholars, to content providers and managers in our cultural institutions, to the cultural industry, to artists and to lawyers.

  • How, for instance, are the histories of music, film, visual arts and dance to be presented to future generations?
  • What kinds of paradigm shifts will future technologies enable in scholarly fields such as history, which have traditionally been more focused on text-based or numerical sources?
  • How will online integrated access to a greater range of non-text sources change our research thinking, processes and methodologies?
  • What new opportunities do such technologies afford publishers, scholars, and creative artists?
  • What technical, legal, and access challenges confront us in delivering and using image-based and aural formats?
  • How will rapidly changing approaches to non-text based documentation and information retrieval and delivery enhance access to resources across domains and sectors?

‘Sights and Sounds in Scholarly Communication’ will address such issues through four vigorous sessions on Thursday, 3 October, at the National Library of Australia. On Friday, 4 October, participants can register for workshops focusing on such national projects as PictureAustralia and MusicAustralia and case studies involving aural and visual formats in research projects. This will enable participants to gain behind-the-scenes exposure to processes and standards related to delivering or using visual and aural sources. The workshops will assist participants to confront and understand the issues, skills and knowledge needed to use and create such media in their own research projects or to contribute to the efficient development of national infrastructure and services.

More information is available at www.humanities.org.au/NSCF/current.htm
—Robyn Holmes

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