Saving the web: the promise of a Belgian web archive, 18 October 2019, KBR, Royal Library of Belgium

GhentCDH is delighted to invite you to the colloquium ‘Saving the Web: the Promise of a Belgian web archive’ on Friday 18 October 2019 at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium.

During the colloquium, the results of the PROMISE (PReserving Online Multiple Information: towards a Belgian StratEgy) research project will be presented. The research project financed by BELSPO through its BRAIN-BE programme aims to develop a collaborative federal strategy for the preservation of the Belgian web.

Further details, including the programme and registration are available on the event website.

Keynote speaker: Prof. Dr Niels Brügger (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Practical information:
Where: KBR, Royal Library of Belgium, Boulevard de l’Empereur 2, 1000 Brussels – Auditorium Lippens
When: Friday 18 October 2019
Language: simultaneous translation into French, Dutch and English is provided
Free entrance. Please register here

PROMISE Project partners:
KBR
State Archives of Belgium
• Ghent University (Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities; Research Group for Media, Innovation and Communication Technologies)
• Namur University (Research Centre in Information, Law and Society)
• University college Bruxelles-Brabant (Unité de Recherche et de Formation en Sciences de l’Information et de la Documentation).

The colloquium is organised with support of Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS).

We look forward to welcoming you!