‘Practical Approaches to Electronic Records: the Academy and
Beyond’

Friday, May 21, 2010

University of Dundee

The Centre for Archive and Information Studies at the University of
Dundee is pleased to announce a one-day seminar ‘Practical Approaches
to Electronic Records: The Academy and Beyond’  to be held on May
21st, 2010.  To date, tools for identifying, preserving, and providing
access to electronic records have been difficult to implement,
particularly in archives or manuscript libraries that do not have access
to an extensive computing infrastructure. This seminar seeks to generate
discussion and action regarding down-to-earth approaches that any
archives—whatever its size or budget—can immediately take to address
this problem.  

The speakers are at the forefront of current research aiming to
facilitate the preservation and access of ‘born digital’ materials. 
Each will present a thought-provoking assessment of a specific topic or
project related to electronic records management.  The day’s program
will also include facilitated discussions regarding specific steps that
your archive—whatever its focus—can use to implement a programme for
‘born digital’ materials.  

This seminar is being held in conjunction with a meeting of the Section
Bureau of the International Council on Archives, Section on University
and Research Institution Archives.  As such, attendees will be provided
ample opportunity to discuss and compare work that they have done, or
wish to do, with ‘born-digital’ materials, among a diverse group of
participants.

Cost:	£65.00 standard, £35.00 students.  Includes lunch and coffee.

To register please complete the form at
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cais/erm/. 


 
Programme

9:30	Registration and coffee

10:00	Introduction: Patricia Whatley, Director, CAIS

Session 1:  Programme Assessment and Planning 

Chair, Dr Chris Prom, University of Dundee

10:10	Dr Ian Anderson, Senior Lecturer in New Technologies for the
Humanities, HATII, University of Glasgow
           ‘The Archivist is Dead, Long Live the Archivist!’

10.45	Malcolm Todd, Digital Archives Advice Manager, The National
Archives, London
                ‘Horses for Courses: Scaling our Solutions to Support
Implementation, Cost Effectiveness, and Trust’

11:20		Coffee	

11:40	Dr William Kilbride, Executive Director, Digital Preservation
Coalition
	‘Digital Preservation: Things I wish I knew before I started
(and which you might want to know before you do)’

12:15		Remarks and Discussion

12:45	 	Lunch

Session 2: 	Implementation Tools and Techniques

Chair: Dr Karen Anderson, Mid-Sweden University

13:45 	Dr Viv Cothey, E-Preservation Archivist, Gloucestershire
Archives ‘Implementing Digital Curation in Local Authority
Archives’

14:15	Peter Cliff, Oxford University Bodleian Library
‘BEAM: Developing and Implementing Tools to Manage Hybrid
Archives’

14:45	Dr Susanne Belovari, Archivist for Reference and Collections,
Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives, Boston  
‘Digital Preservation   the Planets Way: can it work for smaller
archives?’
 
15:15		Tea

15:30	Dr Chris Prom, Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, University of
Dundee
‘Building an Electronic Archives Programme on a Shoestring’

16:00	Professor William Maher, Round up remarks and discussion, 
University Archivist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

16:30	Dr Chris Prom, Conclusions




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