Below is a listing of the major heritage informatics conferences. For announcements of upcoming specific conferences (and, in time, an archive of specific conferences) go to the Conference news page.

:: Conferences ::

• Museums and the Web
  "Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture and heritage on-line."
• ICHIM (International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums)
  "ICHIM explores policy, legal, social, economic, technological, organizational and design concerns of digital culture and heritage, that are discussed from the perspective of cultural policy makers, institutions and cultural participants. [It addresses] all aspects of cultural informatics for cultural policy makers, museum directors, managers, curators, exhibit designers, and educators as well as for multimedia hardware and software developers, commercial designers, and publishers, and for those creating public access services to disseminate culture and engage citizens in their heritage."
• UK Museums on the Web (UKMW)
  Organised by the Museums Computer Group.
  » http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk/meetings.shtml
• Intelligent Access to Digital Heritage
  "The theme of this year’s conference will be related to semantic web technologies and access gateways to digital heritage held in different domains. One session will be dedicated to introducing new EU-funded research projects (REWERSE, DRIVER, MICHEL+).
  The conference will discuss semantic web in general, the technology solutions it requires and offers, and how these can be implemented in the cultural heritage domain, especially for improved access to cultural content.
  The conference is targeted at memory institutions and specialists working with digital cultural heritage."
  » http://conference2007.kul.ee/eng/
• International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
  "Creativity, Cultural Diversity, Intangible Heritage and Sustainable Development". Looks like this will turn out to be an exceptionally interesting and innovate annual conference. Themes include: representing social and cultural intangibles; the ‘ethnographic’ and the ‘anthropological’--framing first peoples and other ‘traditions’; technologies in the museum; authenticity, decontextualisation and recontextualisation of objects-on-show; the digitisation of everything: from collection objects to media representations; museums in and for the knowledge society--preserving heritage ‘born digital’; new media and new literacies--changing the balance of creative agency in the era of wiki, blogs, podcasts."
  » http://z08.cgpublisher.com/themes.html
  » http://z09.cgpublisher.com/themes.html
• EVA Conferences
  "EVA Conferences (Electronic Information, the Visual Arts & Beyond) act as a cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary, local & global set of events for people interested in new technologies in the cultural sector."
• PICNIC
  "PICNIC is Amsterdam’s leading annual international event, highlighting creativity and innovation, particularly in media, entertainment and technology. PICNIC brings together and disseminates the ideas and knowledge of the world's best creators and innovators. ... PICNIC focuses on bringing together inspiring, creative and innovative individuals. The PICNIC audience includes creatives, artists, scientists, designers, entrepreneurs, thinkers, lawyers, format developers, agencies, cross media content production creatives, advertisers, programmers, investor, writers, filmmakers, journalists, and technology-and service-providers from around the world."
  » http://www.picnicnetwork.org
  See also:
  » http://www.mediamatic.net
• The Take Away Museum
• The Future of Heritage: Changing Visions, Attitudes, and Contexts in the 21st Century
  The 3rd Annual Ename International Colloquium, 21-24 March 2007, though not specifically an e-heritage conference, includes a number of papers addressing issues in heritage and technology. Other papers, setting the context, are also worth reading.
• The Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management ("DAM") Symposium
  "Launched in 2001, the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management ('DAM') Symposium serves as the industry event for DAM project leaders. ...
  Digital Asset Management is a set of business strategies and technologies concerned with the storage, protection, retrieval and re-use of digital files. Digital assets are a higher class of content, distinguished by the quality of information ('metadata') describing the asset, which is critical to maximising the re-use and financial value of intellectual property. DAM was initially used by the media and entertainment industry for the management of video and print assets, but in the past five years has been widely adopted by advertising and corporate marketing departments, who use DAM to manage brand materials and collateral, and government sectors.
  Media Asset Management ('MAM'), is considered by many to be synonymous with DAM, but carries connotations of usage primarily in the management of rich media assets.
  The scope of many DAM projects, and of the DAM Symposium, has extended beyond the basic storage, search and retrieval capabilities of DAM to consider the integration of DAM and metadata into ingest-create-manage-distribute workflows and digital media strategies."
  » http://www.damusers.com