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SUMMARY:Making Cultural Heritage Mobile: Challenges and Possibilities: Ope
 n Lecture  - Jane Alexander (Cleaveland Museum of Art)
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CONTACT:Tamsin Astbury
DESCRIPTION:Open Lecture to Making Cultural Heritage Mobile Conference.\n\
 nA key-note lecture by Jane Alexander of the Cleveland Museum of Art at 5.
 30pm on Thursday 28 November at the Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre on the 
 Old Museums Site\, followed by a full day of panels and round-table discus
 sion on Friday 29 November taking place at CRASSH: SG1\, Alison Richard Bu
 ilding\, 7 West Road Cambridge\, CB3 9DT\n\nYou are welcome to attend the 
 open lecture without attending the conference. The open lecture will be fo
 llowed by a wine reception.\n\nThe lecture and conference are free to atte
 nd and open to all\, but spaces at the conference are limited so pre-regis
 tration is required. Please visit this webpage to book for the conference:
  \n\nhttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25206 \n\nThe growth of mobile int
 ernet access coupled with advances in technologies for aggregating and sea
 rching collections data has opened important debates about how mobile devi
 ces such as smartphones and tablets might be used to enrich the way we eng
 age with cultural information.\n\nMuseums\, galleries\, libraries and arch
 ives are among the key cultural institutions grappling with the legal and 
 technical challenges of balancing visitors’ changing expectations with c
 reators’ and publishers’ rights and their own well-established practic
 es in cultural information management\, following the adoption of digital 
 collections management systems.\n\nAt present\, the UK museum sector is ex
 periencing a digital Research and Development phase with numerous developm
 ent programmes underway exploring the role of smartphones and tablets insi
 de and outside cultural venues. Similarly projects supporting the aggregat
 ion of collections data at local\, national and European level have receiv
 ed significant funding in recent years.\n\nThe conference will bring toget
 her experts from the UK and the US engaged with the use of mobile devices 
 in their respective cultural sectors.\n\nFor more information please visit
 : \nhttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25206\n\nMobile Collections is a Re
 search Project based at CRASSH funded by the Arts and Humanities Research 
 Council (AHRC) with Creative Economy Knowledge Exchange funding. 
LOCATION:Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre\, Downing Site
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