SynergiaXX-seminaari Turussa 7-8.11.2007

Jaakko ja Petri ovat edustamassa digitaalista kulttuuria tällä viikolla SynergiaXX-seminaarissa, joka on turkulaisten IT-opiskelijoiden vuosittain järjestämä tapahtuma. Petri kertoo torstaina nousevalle nuorelle polvelle, millainen oli “multimediahakkerismin” ja demoscenen historia ja Jaakko vetää perjantaina digipelien analogisointityöpajan. Luvassa tiukkoja tilanteita, kilpailuja ja demoja.

Hinc2 continues

Here are some photos from Wednesday morning session:

Panel on IT museums and related projects in the Nordic countries

History of Nordic Computing 2 conference, Turku, Finland
Panel: Tue 21th August, 2007, 16:00-17:00, ICT Building, Turku Universities, Joukahaisenkatu 3-5
Chair: Jaakko Suominen
Panelists: Kimmo Antila, Peter Blom, Ola Nordal and Outi Penninkangas
Some links related to the participants:

• Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland (http://www.tampere.fi/english/vapriikki/index.html)
• Media Museum Rupriikki, Tampere, Finland (http://www.tampere.fi/mediamuseo/english.htm)
• ITCeum, Linköping, Sweden (http://www.itceum.se/)
• Datamuseum, Trondheim, Norway (http://idi.ntnu.no/datamuseum/)
• Pelikonepeijoonit, The Arctic Computer and Console Museum (http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net/)

Other Links: Please suggest as comments!

Topics:

• Introduction of the panel (Jaakko Suominen, 4 minutes)
• Introduction of the panelists and their projects / institutions (panelists,5-7 minutes each)
• Questions of collecting, preserving and exhibiting, relation between, hardware, software and other materials (12 minutes)
• Questions and comments from the audience (5 minutes)
• Questions of funding: how to finance projects, how to institutionalize them, the best and the worst practices (12 minutes)
• Questions and comments from the audience (5 minutes)
• Conclusion (2 minutes)

Some notions from the panel discussion:

Motto: Digital heritage is cultural heritage! (Outi Penninkangas)

Comments from the audience:

Other museum-related projects:

• Sweden: collecting oral history in a research project
• Iceland: Dataprosessing SIG, collecting of oral history
• Denmark: Large cellar in Copenhagen, full of machines
• Other?

About preserving and exhibiting software and other aspects:

• Allthough there is no old software, it is quite easy to demontstrate ideas of algorithms
• One could also use emulators for presenting software

On financing the projects:

• John I.: Are the national IT societies active in IT history and museum projects in Nordic countries (they should be)?
• In Iceland for instance, it isn’t easy to get national money for museum project, but EU level or Nordic level would be interesting in this aspect <– Peter: ITCeum co-operates with Nordic Union (???)

Other:

• Are there some “interface problems” with more traditional technical museums?

Comments from the panelists:

• Peter: Getting (national) institutional status for the museums take a long time
• Peter: Private partners (companies) of ITCeum are interested in national level
• Ola: When the collections are well documented, they are more valuable (and probably harder to destroy)
• Kimmo: One do not need much money for making collections or exhibitions

Nota Bene verkossa

Anna Sivulan kirjoittama viittausopas NOTA BENE on nyt saatavilla verkossa pdf -muodossa! nih!

Porissa tulvi

Sunnuntaina 12.8.2007 Porissa satoi ja tulvi (ks. kuvat). Laitoksemme tiloihinkin tuli hieman vettä, pettäneistä ilmastointilaitteista. Atk-luokan koneet onneksi säästyivät.

Kännykkäkameraotoksia tulvivasta Porista (kuvat Jaakko Suominen):

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Tähän blogiin rakentuvat kesän aikana Turun yliopiston digitaalisen kulttuurin oppiaineen uudet vuorovaikutteiset (hih!) sivut. Nyt olemme rakennuksen alla eli under construction.