Fiesole
2012
2012
Fiesole 2012
April
13-14,
2012
The European University Institute (EUI)
Fiesole, Florence
Theme: Advancing Global Scholarship in STM and the Humanities
Global communication networks facilitate knowledge sharing in all aspects of scholarship. This global reach expands our horizons and brings with it serious challenges:
- How do we build and preserve collections of international resources and deliver them to scholars wherever they may be?
- How do we resolve rights and royalty issues across borders?
- How do we build cyber-infrastructures that balances the needs of the scientific community with those of the humanities?
- How do we insure that advances in technology benefit all the world's people?
In the digital age, sharing of our resources is even more critical to the mission of research libraries. We must provide access to growing born–digital international resources and at the same time provide stewardship for the wealth of indigenous knowledge in all the world's country and regions. This retreat will provide an opportunity to explore these issues and share our collective wisdom.
Programme
Thursday, April 12
Villa la Fonte, San Domenico di Fiesole
Conference
09:00 -
12:30
Optional Preconference Session: Information Discovery : Examining Enabling Technologies and New Tools
The Internet, the Web, and the global information network provide the world's innovators with an unparalleled laboratory in which to create services and tools for scholars that could not be imagined 50 years ago or even at the end of the 20th Century. In this session, we will look at some of these emerging technologies and how they are being put to work by researchers and scholars.
Break at 14:30 (Sponsor, The Charleston Company)
12:30 -
13:00
Registration
16:45 -
17:30
19:00 -
22:00
Opening Dinner
Piazza del Carmine, Florence
Sponsor, SAGE
Friday, April 13
Villa la Fonte, San Domenico di Fiesole
Conference
08:30 -
09:00
Registration
10:00 -
12:30
12:30 -
13:30
Lunch
(Sponsors, Elsevier and The Charleston Company)
14:15 -
17:15
Managing Collections at Web Scale
What are the factors that influence how large voluntary library cooperatives can be selfsustaining? Without an effective organizational structure, including financial and social requirements and clear long-term goals, whatever people want to accomplish for access and preservation of collections may fall apart. This session will explore several organizational models that are being used today to ensure that web scale projects survive.
Break at 3:30 p.m. (Sponsor, ProQuest)
17:30 -
19:00
Reception
Visit to Roman Amphitheater and Etruscan Museum in Fiesole. Cocktail in the archeological site!
Sponsor, Casalini Libri
19:00 -
22:00
Dinner on your own
Saturday, April 14
Villa la Fonte, San Domenico di Fiesole
Conference
09:45 -
12:30
The Future for Scholars, Libraries and Collections
This session will look at our future directions: What are we doing to broaden digital access to non–text materials – particularly in the digital humanities? How are scholars and researchers responding? What’s the future for librarians in the world of global digital scholarship?
Break at 11:00 (Sponsor, Wiley–Blackwell)
12:30 -
13:00
Closing Session
13:30 -
14:30
Light Lunch
Pensione Bencistà, all participants are invited
Sponsor, Casalini Libri, Sponsor Bus Transportation, Springer
14:30 -
22:30
Optional Event
Guided Tour of Siena and its Cathedral
Located 50 km from Florence. Cost is 85 euro per person and includes transportation, guide, museum entrance and dinner. The magnificent complex of the Cathedral of Siena, its Duomo, is home to numerous masterpieces representative of the development of Italian Art by the likes of Michelangelo, Donatello, Bernini and Pinturicchio. The Duomo itself constitutes one of the most illustrious examples of Romanesque-Gothic cathedrals in Italy; its inlade marble mosaic floor is "the most beautiful ... largest and most magnificent ... that ever was made" in the words of Giorgio Vasari. Adjoining the cathedral is the sixteenth century jewel, the Piccolomini Library, with its stunning frescoes and collection of illuminated manuscripts. The recently discovered and fully restored "crypt" features a colorful cycle of paintings executed by a series of artists active in Siena during the second half of the XIII century. The visit will also include a tour of the Duomo museum featuring the ultimate masterpiece of Sienese painter Duccio di Buoninsegna, the Maestà (1308–11). From the museum, visitors climb to the terrace of the incomplete facade, which was to be part of a 14th century plan to enlarge the Duomo, for the most spectacular view onto the town of Siena. The guided tour of the Duomo complex will be followed by a leisurely walk through the town of Siena and dinner at a local trattoria.
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Contacts
For further information about the Retreat Series please contact Katina Strauch, Rebecca Lenzini or Michele Casalini.
For further information about the Retreat Series please contact Katina Strauch, Rebecca Lenzini or Michele Casalini.
Proceedings
Listed in order of program schedule