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Going Digital
Evolutionary and Revolutionary Aspects of Digitization

Program – Nobel Symposium, 147

Photographs >>

Video streams of the different sesions (except session 4) are available by the links 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
11.00 Break
11.15 NICOLAS BARKER (The Book Collector), Google, Gutenberg and Earlier Revolutions in Communication. abstract

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
14.15 Break
14.30 PETER SUBER (Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School), Open Access for Digitization Projects. abstract
15.15 Coffee/Tea/Fruit
15.45 SIMON TANNER (King's College), Collaboration for our Digital Futures. abstract

18.00 Boat trip and dinner on board m/s Riddarfjärden

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
11.00 Break
11.15 KEVIN GUTHRIE (Ithaka Foundation), Opportunity and Challenge: Sustaining Platforms for Knowledge Dissemination in the Digital Age. abstract

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
16.15 Coffee/Tea/Fruit
16.45 MAGDALENA GRAM (National Library of Sweden), Digitalisation in Practice: An ALM Perspective. abstract

19.00 Dinner at restaurant Stadshuskällaren

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
09.45 Coffee/Tea/Fruit
10.15 LAURENT ROMARY (INRIA-Gemo & Humboldt University), Stabilizing Knowledge Through Standards: A Perspective for the Humanities. abstract
11.00 Break
11.15 ANKE LÜDELING (Humboldt University), Evaluating Conflicting Annotation. abstract

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
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
15.15 Coffee/Tea/Fruit
15.45 EMMA ROTHSCHILD (University of Cambridge & Harvard University), The Future of History. abstract
16.30 Break

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

19.00 Dinner at restaurant Gyldene Freden in Gamla Stan