Opening Doors: web-portals and the historic environment
17th June, 2003, The British Museum.
A one day conference jointly hosted by the Historic Environment
Information Resources Network (HEIRNET) and the British Museum.
'Opening Doors' brought together senior managers and policy makers
who are using the World Wide Web to provide access to information about the
historic environment. Everyone is talking about portals and this conference
explored initiatives by heritage agencies, museums, universities and
professional bodies to provide integrated access to their own and related
content to serve the needs of their users. Portals promise the capability
to allow links to be created between institutions and to build customised
web spaces, reflecting the interests and preferences of users. They can present
a seamless interface to resources held by institutions operating across the
cultural heritage sector, allowing for diversity in the underlying systems
and services. They aspire to add value to information for users by giving
it context and bringing together diverse media from disparate sources.
Portals promise much but how can the sector make the most of their deployment?
The emphasis of the day was on developing
an overview and considering ways of serving user communities now and in the future.
Programme
'Open Sesame? The challenges and opportunities of meeting users' needs
on-line.' (PDF file, 2893 Kb)
Elizabeth Hallam Smith, Director of Public Services,
The National Archives: Public Record Office
'Portal proliferation: good, bad, or just confused?' (Powerpoint)
(PDF file, 3641 Kb)
Paul Miller, UKOLN, Interoperability Focus
'A Fistful of Portals - creating cultural content together' (HTML)
David Dawson, Re:source
'HEIRPORT: an experimental portal for the historic environment' (Powerpoint)
or (PDF, 4482 Kb),
Julian Richards, Archaeology Data Service
'Mediating content for new audiences',
Diana Murray, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
'What are we publishing this data for? The Portable Antiquities website' (PDF, 667kb)
Roger Bland and Daniel Pett,
Portable Antiquities Scheme
'Portals in a Welsh context'
Hilary Malaws,
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
'The mda portal: its aims, users and content' (PDF, 1537kb)
Alex Dawson, mda
'Transforming web content by focusing on the user', (PDF, 1478kb)9
Heather Norman Soderlind,
Head of Public and Corporate Marketing,
British Library
'Inclusion in the information age: fundamental issues for the Cybrarian project' (PDF, 45kb),
Kevin Carey,
HumanITy
and Chairman of the Stakeholder Group for
Cybrarian
'Who's that at the door? Finding out who's out there and what they want',
(PDF file, 100kb)
Alice Grant, Alice Grant Consulting
'The Future is Coming, and it's User-shaped!', (Powerpoint) or
(PDF file, 5837 Kb)
Mike Pringle, English Heritage
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