Rome: Public launch of the DC-NET project

Italy - organised by MiBAC-ICCU

17 February 2010 - Meetings

The public launch of the DC-NET project took place in Rome on the 17th of February 2010 at Santa Marta, Piazza del Collegio Romano.

Representatives of major stakeholders from all over Europe discussed about the DC-NET project, its ambitions and the expected results.

A representative of the European Commission presented the e-Infrastructures initiative.

PUBLIC LAUNCH OF THE DC-NET PROJECT

Rome, 17 February 2010

Venue: Santa Marta Conference Room - Piazza del Collegio Romano

Programme of the meeting

Opening - Welcome (9,30 - 9,50)

Antonia P. Recchia - Director General for Organization, General Affairs, Innovation, Budget and Personnel, MiBAC - Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities Maurizio Fallace - Director General for Libraries, Cultural Institutions and Copyright, MiBAC - Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities

Maria Uccellatore - Director of promotion, planning and coordination of European research of the Direction General for the internationalization of the research, MIUR - Ministry for Education, University and Research


Brief presentation of the project partners (9,50 - 10,30)

Belgium 

France

Greece

Hungary

Italy

Slovenia

Sweden

 

European Commission e-Infrastructure Programme (10,30 - 10,50)

Wim Jansen - DC-NET Project Officer, European Commission Representative

 

General presentation of the initiative: Scope, objectives, expected impact (10,50 - 11,10)

Rossella Caffo - DC-NET Project Manager, Director of Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of the Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information; Vice-President of the MICHAEL Culture Association; Member of the Member States Experts Group on Digital Libraries

 

Coffee Break

  
The DC-NET project (11,30 - 11,50)

Antonella Fresa - DC-NET Technical Coordinator

 

Digital Cultural heritage approaching e-Infrastructures and research (11,50 - 12,10)

Jean Moulin - Director of STIS, Belgium; Member of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI); Member of the Member States Experts Group on Digital Libraries 

 

New services: Ambitions, wishes, prioritization (12,10 - 12,30)

Borje Justrell - Director and Head of ICT Department at the National Archives of Sweden; Member of the Member States Experts Group on Digital Libraries

Sanja Halling - ICT Department at the National Archives of Sweden

 

Dynamics and governance of the network (12,30 - 12,50)

Christophe Dessaux - Chef du Département Recherche, Enseignement supérieur et Technologie, Ministry of Culture and Communication, France; President of the MICHAEL Culture Association; Member of the Member States Experts Group on Digital Libraries

 

Discussion

 

Lunch break

  
Vision for a digital cultural heritage e-Infrastructure (14,30 - 14,50) 

Rossella Caffo - DC-NET Project Manager, Director of Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of the Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information; Vice-President of the MICHAEL Culture Association; Member of the Member States Experts Group on Digital Libraries

 

The role of National Research and Education Networks in digital cultural content distribution (14,50 - 15,10)

Enzo Valente, Director of GARR Consortium

 

e-Infrastructure Reflection Group supporting the development of the pan-European e-Infrastructure (15,10 - 15,30)

Leif Laaksonen, Chair e-Infrastructure Reflection Group

 

Discussion

 

Closing speech (16,00)

Antonia P. Recchia - Director General for Organization, General Affairs, Innovation, Budget and Personnel, MiBAC - Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities 

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