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1. Archives 2.0 - Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future (Call for Papers)
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:22:13 -0000
From: Goodman Paul <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Archives 2.0 - Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future (Call for Papers)
Dear Colleagues
May I please draw your attention to the following? Thank you.
Paul Goodman
Head of Collections, Projects
National Media Museum
Pictureville, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 1NQ
Direct tel: 01274 203378
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Call for Papers
Archives 2.0 - Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future
National Media Museum, Bradford
25 & 26 November 2014
The National Media Museum in Bradford is hosting a two-day conference on the challenges and opportunities around the acquisition and management of archives by cultural institutions.
Such archives may be still, moving or mixed-format; analogue or digital or both; they may be from a company, private, practitioner, virtual, community-based or regional; complete or partial; contained or continually developing.
This is a Call for Papers asking for perspectives on the strategic issues, opportunities and challenges presented by organisations which actively acquire and curate bodies of work. The conference seeks to examine emergent digital technologies and their impact on archival practice and acquisition.
Contributions which evidence new approaches and/or creative and innovative ways of thinking which challenge conventional understanding are particularly welcome.
Four sessions will consider different types of archives encompassing perspectives from:
* Practitioners & Photographers
* Curators and Institutions
* Mixed Media & Technology Environment
* Commercial & Galleries World
Suggested themes and questions include:
1. The Archive
* What is considered to be `the asset'?
* What constitutes an archive and what challenges do
these present to collecting institutions?
* At what point is it useful or helpful to call a
`collection' an `archive'?
* What is the difference between them, if any?
* What is the rationale for acquiring archives?
2. Mixed Curatorship
* Curatorial perspectives and models of mixed
curatorship
* Does it need to be comprehensive or
representative?
* What are the challenges around the acquisition of
analogue/digital/mixed archives?
3. Ownership, Role and the Value of Attendant Data
* What is the impact of removing an archive from its
locale?
* To what extent is it valuable for a practitioner
to continue to be involved with their archive?
4. The Challenges of Copyright
* What is the role of commercial galleries and
organisations?
* The challenges of acquiring multi-media or mixed
format collections.
* What are the copyright issues around the
acquisition of digital archives, and how can these be addressed?
5. The Future of the Archive: The Role of New Technologies
* What are the positive and negative impacts of `new
technologies'?
* Digitisation against retention of the original
* Preservation and dissemination
* Public access, engagement and creative
exploitation
For further information, please contact
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TIMETABLE
Deadline for abstracts [c.250 words for a 20 minute paper]
9 May 2014
Acceptance of abstracts
30 June 2014
Deadline for texts submission (web)
30 September 2014
National Media Museum explores the science, technology and art of the still and moving image and its impact on our lives.
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