At the start of the DISH 2011 conference the organizers tweeted some interesting figures:

 

Museums: 21% ,

Archives: 15%

Business: 15%

Libraries 13%

Heritage Institutions:12%

Universities./education: 11%

Monument heritage 5%

AV: 3%

 

This was the mix of backgrounds from which the, over 450, participants at the DISH bi-annual conference came from. The Digital Strategies for Heritage 2011 conference took place in Rotterdam from the 7^th to the 8^th of December. It is one of the few forums where such a broads spectrum of institutions can come together to discuss and share their common interest and activities in digital heritage.

The programme consisted of some interesting a varied keynotes for starting with Katherine Watson for ECF speaking on the digital shift and its affect in the heritage sector and closing with a though provoking talk relating to digital strategy from the Smithsonian’s Michael Edson.

Interspersed between these keynotes were parallel sessions on business for heritage, co-creating and crowd sourcing, institutional change, and building a new public space.

LIBER and the European Library took the opportunity to jointly present the Europeana Librariesproject under the building a new public space theme in a session titled ‘Collaborating within and across sectors’. This session focused on the centrality of partnership and collaboration to create and sustain information and research infrastructures. The Europeana Libraries project is a particularly good example of this, as the partnership formed through the project between research and national libraries will enable the creation of a solid and trustworthy resource for humanities and social science researchers.

 

Access our DISH presentationon Slideshare.