CIDOC Conferences

The International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC) organises an annual conference which typically incorporates:

Plenary sessions with papers and reports on documentation issues and initiatives
Workshops and tutorials on specific issues
Working Group sessions during which members of the Groups pursue their projects
Annual General Meeting of CIDOC
Visits to museums to learn about their documentation practices

The 2011 conference - Knowledge management and museums

In 2011 CIDOC will meet in Sibiu, Romania, 4-9 September.

More info will come here and in the Conference web

The 2012 conference

In 2012 CIDOC will meet in Helsinki, Finland, 10-14 June.

Previous conferences

2010, Shanghai, China Museums in intercultural dialogue - New Practices in Knowledge Sharing and Information Integration
2009, Santiago, Chile Documentation in the XXI Century: connecting cultural heritage information
2008, Athens, Greece The Digital Curation of Cultural Heritage
2007, Vienna, Austria, (Managing the global diversity of cultural information) part of the ICOM Triennial General Conference
2006, Gothenburg, Sweden (Wider perspective - broader base).
2005, Zagreb, Croatia (Documentation and users)
2004, Seoul, Korea (Museums and intangable heritage), part of the ICOM Triennial General Conference
2003, St. Petersburg, Russia (Electronic potential of a museum: stimuli and restrictions, achievements and problems)
2002, Porto Alegre, Brazil (Preserving cultures: documenting non-material heritage)
2001, Barcelona, Spain (Managing change. Museums facing economic & social challenges), part of the ICOM Triennial General Conference
2000, Ottawa, Canada (Collaboration, context, convergence. Sharing heritage for the new millenium), a joint meeting with the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
1999, London, U.K. (Development and delivery of information resources diverse audiences), a joint meeting with the MDA
1998, Melbourne, Australia (Documenting and communicating cultural and natural diversity), part of the ICOM Triennial General Conference, with the theme Museums and cultural diversity)
1997, Nuremberg, Germany (Quality and documentation)
1996, Nairobi, Kenya (Museum documentation in and out of Africa)
1995, Stavanger, Norway, part of the ICOM Triennial General Conference.
1994, Washington DC, USA (Automating museums in the Americas and beyond)
1993, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1992, Quebec City, Canada
1991, Copenhagen, Denmark