Digital data paid with public money means free data for the public, as they already paid for it! It’s hard convincing administrations, though #MuseumNext
— Alessandro Califano (@a_califano)
My presentation on post-disaster strategies in cultural heritage management can now be found here slideshare.net/califano/learn… #MuseumNext
— Alessandro Califano (@a_califano) May 15, 2013
Myself at Qala Hisor, near Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Beyond the mountains in the background lays Samarkand. Shot on 28 March 2013.
Just finished editing the audio file with a (virtual) roundtable conversation between Simona Caraceni, AVICOM member and president of ICOM Italy’s Thematic Committee on Audiovisuals and New Technologies for Museums, and myself, addressing digital archives’ best practices, challenges, and requirements.
Should be out by mid-June in both Italian and English…
Stop-over for dinner late at night between Shahr-e Sabz and Samarkand. Over 14 hours of travel put a toll on you… and another 5 hours and more to go to reach Tashkent from Dushanbe.
Shot on 4/5 April 2013.
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And, let me note, this happened in my lifetime.
…”that’s a computer?” “1K of RAM!”
See: “Virtual, digital, immaterial. Musings on documentation, conservation and contemporary art” on SlideShare…
(Source: symphocta)
Leaving Kabul (first picture), almost under a storm (second pic), sunset over Tajikistan (third pic), crossing the Amu Darya (last pic).
Lovely flight back to Dushanbe, today!
Pictures from my workshop - “Soundscape: An Approach for Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage” - at the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul, today (2 April 2013)
Kabul - At the American University of Afghanistan: the campus, the main building, and the library (a beautiful one, by the way!).
Pictures CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Alessandro Califano, Rome (IT) 2013, shot by me on 30 April 2013.
Particularly happy, today, about the fact that my presentation to the ROSCCA 2013 Conference will take place in the Stallman Room: “Free as in Freedom”… ;-)
I’ll be speaking about the 2009 and 2012 earthquakes in Italy and the unsatisfying approach to great risks management til now in a presentation running under the title: “Learning from Mistakes: A different Strategy for Cultural Crisis Management in Post-Disaster Areas”.
