The Fifteenth Annual ADIT Conference was held outside the Russian Federation for the first time. Given the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus's focus on the integration of information technology into the country's cultural institutions, Minsk was chosen as the venue for ADIT-2011.

With the participation of leading Belarusian museums, the ADIT-2011 International Conference was held from May 11 to 14, 2011, in the capital of Belarus. Participants were treated to a series of one-hour lectures for beginners, "Ask the Experts." The conference topic, "Cultural Heritage and Information Technology in the Post-Soviet Space," generated widespread interest among both Russian and Belarusian specialists and was actively discussed in the plenary and breakout sessions. Participants were given the opportunity to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Palace and Park Ensemble of the 16th–18th Centuries in Nesvizh.

Discussion Topics

1. Cultural Heritage and Information Technology in the Post-Soviet Space (coordinators: A.A. Artamonov, A.V. Lebedev)
2. Global Trends in Integrating Information Technology into Cultural Heritage Update Practices (Coordinator: O.V. Sinitsyna).
3. Implementation of the Project for the Formation of the State Catalog of the Museum collections of the Russian Federation (Coordinator: A.V. Dremaylov).
4. Museums, Archives, and Libraries: Opportunities for Resource Integration (Coordinator: S.A. Kostanyan).
5. Automated Information Systems for Museum Management and Development (Coordinator: I.M. Muzalevskaya).
6. ICT and Museum Research (Coordinator: L.Ya. Nol)
7. Modern Information Display Tools (Coordinator: V.V. Chernenko).
8. Multimedia Exhibits in Museums (Coordinator: N.V. Tolstaya)
9. Children in the Museum. ICT Potential (Coordinator: N.L. Selivanov).
10. Museum Technologies and Equipment (Coordinators: L.V. Morozkina, K.A. Meerov)
11. KAMIS Club (Coordinators: E.L. Koshcheyeva, Yu.M. Loshak)

Lecture Topics at the ADIT School

1. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Museum Activities: A Historical Overview
2. ICT in Museum Records, Collection, and Restoration Work
3. ICT in Museum Display and Exhibition Work
4. Using Modern Internet Capabilities for Museum Promotion
5. Digital Information Preservation
6. Information Management.

See also (in Russian)

• Information Letter
• Papers
• Participants