CATCH-meeting op 11 juni in Amsterdam

28 april 2010

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT - CATCH MEETING

In collaboration with the project team of AGORA we would like to invite you to the CATCH Meeting to be held on Friday, 11 June 2010 in Amsterdam. This meeting starts at 12.00 and is open to any interested party. The location is the Amsterdam Historish Museum in Amsterdam http://en.ahm.nl/.

Please mark this date in your agenda!

Background AGORA http://agora.cs.vu.nl

Creating the historic fabric for and providing web-enabled access to objects in dynamic historical sequences The collections of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum jointly form an inexhaustible source of data about and objects from Dutch history. Yet the associated information about historic events is linked to these collections in many different ways. This makes it difficult to access knowledge about specific historical developments via these audio-visual and visual sources.
Based on several pilots that are related to current canonical debates, Agora is facilitating and investigating the digitally-mediated access that the Rijksmuseum and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision offer to sources from the past. This must ultimately lead to a web-based interactive space on the interpretation of historical sources for both heritage professionals and interested members of the public.
AGORA is a project of the Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

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There is no registration fee. More information on the programme and how to register will follow soon in the invitation. For more information please contact the CATCH secretariat.

Contact
CATCH secretariat

NWO - Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research – Division Physical Sciences
E-mail: catch@nwo.nl 
www.nwo.nl/catch