Loes Peeperkorn from the Scen foundation kicked off the conference ‘Nu voor Later’ at the Reinwardt Academy.  She welcomed everybody and spoke about the conference’s goal; to increase attention for IT heritage or ‘new heritage’ in the Netherlands.  The Scen foundation, co-organizer of the conference, is a collaboration between collectors, cultural heritage institutions and companies.
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Felix Stalder has posted an interesting review of the recent Economies of the Commons Conference (organized by Knowledgeland in collaboration with the Balie, Images for the Future, p2p fusion and Creative Commons Netherlands) to the nettime mailing list.
His review highlights the increasingly difficult position that large archive projects (like Images for the Future) find […]

Knowledgeland, Sound & Vision, The Balie and other organizations host the conference ‘Economies of the Commons’ at debate-center The Balie in Amsterdam on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th of April . Leading experts and specialists from audiovisual archives (BBC, INA), libraries, frontrunners in open access and the music industry (Last.fm and Fabchannel), cultural producers, p2p- […]

And so PICNIC begins! Knowledgeland will report to you with live blogs. Today we will kick off with the session Creating More using Public Content, centred around the largest Dutch digitization project Images For the Future which started early July 2007.
Vincent Evers (PC-Zapper) hosts the session. He also live twitters the event to his network. […]