6th Communia Workshop: Memory Institutions and Public Domain (1-2/10/09, Barcelona, Spain)

Under the title Memory Institutions and the Public Domain, the 6th Communia Workshop took place on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 October 2009 at the University of Barcelona, Spain.

Presentations slides, abstracts, policy recommendations as well as for some speakers transcripts or papers are available from the the download section of this website and also by clicking directly on the presentations titles in the programme below. Policy recommendations and abstracts are also available in a single downloadable document.

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PROGRAMME

1st of October : Pre-workshop Events Sala Ramon y Cajal, Edifici Històric, Universitat de Barcelona

• 08:30: COMMUNIA 2010 Conference Meeting
• 10:30: Policy Ad-hoc Group Meeting
• 13:00: Lunch not provided
• 15:00: WG meetings S1, S2 and S3 Mathematic Rooms at Edifici Històric, Universitat de Barcelona
• 20:00: Dinner for Communia members at Carmelitas (an old monastery converted into a restaurant)

2nd of October Aula Magna, Edifici Històric, Universitat de Barcelona

• 08:30: Registration
• 09:00 - Welcome: Joan Manuel Tresserras
  Minister of Culture and the Media - Catalan Goverment
• Dídac Ramírez Sarrió
  Rector of the Universitat de Barcelona
• Lluis Torres Urgell
  Vicerector de Política Internacional of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• 9:30 Keynote speech: Ben White
  British Library - London, UK
  Accessing Digital Knowledge - Public Domain and Beyond from the Perspective of a Memory Institution.
• 10:15 Morning session 1: National heritage preservation: legal
  issues & implications
  
  Introduction and chair: Raquel Xalabarder

  Universitat Oberta de Catalunya - Barcelona, Spain
  

  • Milagros del Corral
    Director of Biblioteca Nacional de España – Madrid, Spain
    Digital libraries and copyright : towards balanced legal certainty in Europe.
  • Maja Bogataj
    Intellectual Property Institute, -Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Mandatory collective management for making available in Slovenian Copyright Act. A mistake or an opportunity?
  • Eugènia Serra
    General Coordinator. Library of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
    The Library of Catalonia and public domain
• 11:40 Coffee break
• 12:00 Morning session 2: Progressions from open access to the public domain: in museums, archives and film institutes
  
  Introduction and chair: Marteen Brinkerink Netherlands Institut for Sound and Vision – Hilversum – The Netherlands
  
  • Georg Eckes
    Deustches Filminstitute – Frankfurt, Germany
    EFG – The European Film Gateway - A Gateway to Film Heritage in Europe
  • Joan Boadas i Raset
    Servei de Gestió Documental, Arxius i Publicacions (SGDAP). Council of Girona - Girona, Spain
    From private to public: strategies and actions developed by SGDAP
  • Johan Oomen & Maarten Brinkerink
    Netherlands Institut for Sound and Vision – Hilversum – The Netherlands
    Images for the Future: Realising Maximum Accessibility to Audiovisual Heritage
  • Laurence Rassel
    Fundació Antoni Tàpies – Barcelona, Spain
    From an art history case to free software and free license archive
  • Rosa Mª Gregori i Roig & Ramon J. Pujades i Bataller
    Arxiu de la Corona d’Aragó – Barcelona, Spain
    The Archive of the Crown of Aragon. Experiences on the open on-line access to the archival fonds.
• 14:00 Lunch at the University of Barcelona gardens (provided)
• During lunchtime possibility of visit to:
  
  • University of Barcelona (UB), Library Reserve collections
    The second largest collection of works in Spain, the most valuable works in the collection are the manuscript codices.
  • UB, Paranimf - Assembly Hall
    The most important hall in the building where the University’s main ceremonies are held
• 15:30 session 3: Developing the public domain of the future



Introduction and chair: Alice Keefer Universitat de Barcelona -
Barcelona, Spain


• Victoria Reich
  Director LOCKSS Program - Stanford University - San
  Francisco, California
  Preserving the Public Domain.
• David Giaretta
  Co-ordinator CASPAR project - DCC/STFC Rutherford
  Appleton Laboratory, UK
  Future demands on memory institutions in the digital world.
• 16:30 closing session:
  
  • Anna Rovira
    Director of Library Services, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    - Barcelona, Spain
  • Adelaida Ferrer
    Director of CRAI, Universitat de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

The venue (Google Map) for the workshop has been the aula magna of the Universitat De Barcelona, located in Gran Vía Corts Catalanes 585, 08007 Barcelona