Workshop 5MICT - IBBT - Ghent University Cultural heritage institutions have started implementing new media technologies for the presentation and distribution of cultural content. These interactive technologies enable heritage institutions to reach a wider audience and should lower thresholds for access and participation amongst individual users. However, many heritage institutions are still reluctant to explore the opportunities offered by new media technologies, partly because of the vagueness or lack of concrete guidelines and strategies.
This workshop aims to provide concrete guidelines and tools to encourage public access and participation to cultural heritage by means of new media technologies. In the first part of the half-day workshop, a series of studies are briefly presented that showcase how (digital) cultural heritage in Flanders is disclosed through new media technologies, more specifically by means of mobile, online or television-based channels. The presentations, summarizing recent digitization projects within the Flemish cultural heritage sector will be interactive and open for discussion.
The second part of the workshop introduces the ICOMOS Charter for the Interpretation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage Sites (known across the world as the "Ename Charter") which has been officially ratified by the 16th General Assembly of ICOMOS. After a comprehensive and general overview of this Charter, which describes seven cardinal principles upon which interpretation and presentation should be based (in whatever form or medium, deemed appropriate in specific circumstances), several cases of international heritage projects applying this Charter will be presented and discussed.
In the final part of the workshop, workshop participants will be divided in small groups. These groups will brainstorm and discuss about how the ICOMOS Charter can be used to present and interpret heritage material through new media technologies, by elaborating on concrete case studies. At the end, this should result in interactivity and debate, ultimately leading to a better understanding of the development of innovative, digital strategies for cultural heritage institutions.
Program 11.00h – 11.20h: Laurence Hauttekeete: Introduction / Heritage2.0 project
11.20h – 11.40h: Willem Derde: Information about the ICOMOS Ename Charter for the interpretation of cultural heritage sites
11.40h – 12.05h: Daniël Pletinckx: Case study approach on the ICOMOS Ename Charter
12.05h – 12.20h: Peter Mechant: Introduction to the group discussions – presentation case ‘Kemmelberg’
11.20h – 11.50h: Group discussions 11.50h – 12.00h: public, the floor is yours! More information
ICOMOS Ename Charter: www.enamecharter.org
Knowhow book: http://www.enamecenter.org/en/e-publications
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Speakers  Laurence Hauttekeete received her Ph.D in Communication Sciences from Ghent University, Belgium, in 2004. In her Ph.D she looks at tabloidisation tendencies in the Flemish press, the development of a measurement model. Her research interests include the printed and audio-visual media, media economics, new media and qualitative and quantitative research methods. She joined MICT (media and ICT) in 2005 as a senior researcher. Most of the projects she works upon are situated in a few domains: ‘digitisation’, ‘culture and media’, ‘technology and youngsters/education’, and ‘ICT and government authorities’.
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Peter Mechant holds a M.A. in Communication Sciences. Peter studied several scripting and programming languages during and after his university studies at Gent University, Belgium. Until June 2005 Peter was an ICT project coordinator at an e-business company. Since he joined the Media and ICT (MICT) research group at Gent University, Peter has mainly worked on IBBT research projects. His projects focus on how social media en Web 2.0 services can benefit different domains such as e-culture, heritage, digital literacy and group collaboration. In addition Peter works on a Phd thesis centered around the question how and why people use Web 2.0 and social media. In his Phd research Peter pays special attention to the interaction processes between Web 2.0 users an digital documents and to interaction between Web 2.0 users and Web 2.0 websites and services.
