Today is the first day of the highly anticipated 2007 Museums and the Web conference. I will be reporting from San Francisco on the topics and themes of the conference, and giving inside views on the love affair between cultural heritage institutions and the Internet.

Personally I am looking very much forward to hearing the keynote speaker Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive tomorrow, who will talk about universal access to human knowledge through vast digital collections of cultural heritage. Art & culture are online and on demand. Then I will have to choose between either participating in ‘Enhanced Galleries’, ‘Web 2.0′ or ‘Users’. The following sessions are ‘User Contributed Content’, ‘Art Education’ and ‘Alternate Realities’. And the final ones are ‘Tagging & Terms’, ‘Redesign’ and ‘Open Architecture & Systems’.

Who can resist that?