Europeana Plenary 2009 – presentations from Creation, Collaboration and Copyright
| Charles Leadbeater |
| is one of Europe's most creative thinkers on collaboration, innovation and information. Author of the book We Think and the recent essay The Art of With (can be downloaded from Charles Leadbeater's website), he sees the role of the web as an endless, lateral connection between people, knowledge and ideas. He highlights the new possibilities for us to create, share, combine and collate content in the web environment. Charles' principle With directly encapsulates the theme of Europeana plenary. More... |  Charles Leadbeater |
| Bernt Hugenholtz |
| is a renowned copyright expert, who has acted as a consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the European Commission, and several national governments. Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam (IViR). Bernt Hugenholtz is also a member of the Dutch Copyright Committee that advises the Minister of Justice of the Netherlands. More... |  Bernt Hugenholtz |
| Paul Keller |
| is senior copyright policy advisor at Kennisland (Knowledgeland), an Amsterdam based think tank. He is public project lead for Creative Commons in the Netherlands, coordinates the copyright related aspects of Images for the Future project and is one of the developers of the Europeana Licensing Framework. More... |  Paul Keller |
| Johan Oomer |
| is head of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision R&D Department and researcher at the VU University Amsterdam. He works mainly working on externally funded research projects that focus on providing access to digital heritage over networks. The R&D department is part of the Images for the Future project team, the largest digitisation project in Europe to date. In his PhD position at the VU University, he is working on the AGORA project, funded by NWO. Johan Oomen is member of the Webstroom expert group on the use of streaming media in higher education, funded by the SURF Foundation, and General Secretary of the international DIVERSE network. He is the author of the book Internet en het Nieuwe Leren: de toepassing van streaming media. |  Johan Oomer |
Open Images (Open Beelden) is a project that will make a large corpus of Dutch audiovisual heritage available under a Creative Commons licence in open source video formats. Open Images is jointly developed by Sound & Vision (Beeld en Geluid) and Kennisland as part of Images for the Future.
| Patrick Peiffer |
| is project manager for the Services électroniques at the National Library of Luxembourg, managing licences for the national consortium and specialising in copyright issues, currently for retro-digitisation of newspapers and digital legal deposit. He is member of the EU Member States Expert Group on Digitisation and within the Europeana Connect project, task leader for the Europeana Licensing Framework. |  Patrick Peiffer |
| Dr. Stuart Lee |
| is Director of Oxford University Computing Services, a member of the English Faculty at Oxford and Reader in E-learning and Digital Libraries. He has lectured on the poetry of the First World War, Medieval literature, and Electronic literature and published books on Digital Imaging and Building an Electronic Resource Collection.More... |  Dr. Stuart Lee |
