Going Digital
Evolutionary and Revolutionary Aspects of Digitization

Program – Nobel Symposium, 147

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Video streams of the different sesions (except session 4) are available by the links below:

NEW! The Conference proceedings are now available a pdf download, or as individual pdf:s below.

Wednesday 24 June, Linnaeus Hall, KVA

08.00 Registering
08.45 Welcome by Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Professor GUNNAR ÖQUIST and Professor TORE FRÄNGSMYR, Uppsala University; Introduction by National Librarian GUNNAR SAHLIN, National Library of Sweden.

1 – The pre-digital world: How did one manage? chair: Gunnar Sahlin Video (incl. Welcome) >>
09.00 ROBERT DARNTON (Harvard University), A Literary Tour de France, 1778. abstract
09.45 Coffee/Tea/Fruit
10.15 ADRIAN VAN DER WEEL (Leiden University), Explorations in the Libroverse. abstract • Book chapter
11.00 Break
11.15 NICOLAS BARKER (The Book Collector), Google, Gutenberg and Earlier Revolutions in Communication. abstract • Book chapter

12.00–13.30 Lunch at the Club Villa

2 – Digitization: Why, How and For Whom? chair: Gunnar Sahlin Video >>
13.30 LISBET RAUSING (Imperial College), Do Libraries Dream of Electric Sheep? abstract • Book chapter
14.15 Break
14.30 PETER SUBER (Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School), Open Access for Digitization Projects. abstract • Book chapter
15.15 Coffee/Tea/Fruit
15.45 SIMON TANNER (King's College), Collaboration for our Digital Futures. abstract

Thursday 25 June, Morning session – Linnaeus Hall, KVA and Afternoon session – National Library.

3 – Applications 1: Adding value for everyone chair: Emma Rothschild Video >>
09.00 DANIEL CLANCY (Google Books), Google Book Search: What do you do with Millions of Books and Lessons in Mass Digitization. abstract pending
09.45 Coffee/Tea/Fruit
10.15 ALAIN GIFFARD (French Ministry of Culture), Digital Reading and Industrial Readings. abstract • Book chapter
11.00 Break
11.15 KEVIN GUTHRIE (Ithaka Foundation), Opportunity and Challenge: Sustaining Platforms for Knowledge Dissemination in the Digital Age. abstract • Book chapter

12.00–13.30 Lunch at the Club Villa

13.30 Transfer to National Library

14.00 Visit to National Library of Sweden

4 – Information structure, infrastructure and metadata chair: Karl Grandin
15.30 TERJE HILLESUND (University of Stavanger), Digital Humanities: Why Worry about Reading? abstract • Book chapter
16.15 Coffee/Tea/Fruit
16.45 MAGDALENA GRAM (National Library of Sweden), Digitalisation in Practice: An ALM Perspective. abstract • Book chapter

Friday 26 June, Linnaeus Hall, KVA

5 – Applications 2: Adding value for research Chair: Lisbet Rausing Video >>
09.00 MARTIN BOSSENBROEK (KB, The Hague), Circulation of Knowledge: Reconstructing the 17th-Century Dutch Republic of Letters. abstract • Book chapter
09.45 Coffee/Tea/Fruit
10.15 LAURENT ROMARY (INRIA-Gemo & Humboldt University), Stabilizing Knowledge Through Standards: A Perspective for the Humanities. abstract • Book chapter
11.00 Break
11.15 ANKE LÜDELING (Humboldt University), Evaluating Conflicting Annotation. abstract • Book chapter

12.00–13.30 Lunch buffet at the Club Villa

6 –When everything is digitized…
The future of libraries, archives and museums, and analogue chair: Robert Darnton Video >>
13.30 GREGORY CRANE (Tufts University), The Public Sphere in an Electronic Age. abstract • Book chapter
14.15 Break
14.30 MARCO BERETTA (University of Bologna & Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence), Digital History of Science: Integrating Texts with Artefacts. abstract • Book chapter
15.15 Coffee/Tea/Fruit
15.45 EMMA ROTHSCHILD (University of Cambridge & Harvard University), The Future of History. abstract • Book chapter
16.30 Break

16.45 Final discussion: PIETRO CORSI (Oxford University), Introduction and discussion.