The J. Paul Getty Trust recently announced the development of a new vocabulary, the Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA). CONA will contain titles, current location, and other core information for cultural works.

Building on Europe’s rich heritage, the Europeana Thematic Network’s (http://www.europeana.eu/portal/) goal is to make European digital information resources easier to use in an online environment.

On June 2, Danielle Boily, manager of Portals Management and Design, had the honour of delivering the opening speech at the 2010 annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) (http://www.cais-acsi.ca/cfp2010.htm).

Are you a parent or teacher? Don’t forget that the Musées clés en main section of the Société des musées québécois website is always available. Use it to offer your children or students unique opportunities to learn more about the fascinating works, objects and specimens at Quebec museums.

In February 2010, the Ontario College of Art & Design’s Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) announced that it would lead a project to study and predict the future of digital media for the coming decade.