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1.
Final AC+erm Colloquium – Witness Seminar
Last
Thursday (5th March), we held the last in our series of project
colloquia as a Witness Seminar called Transforming Information &
Records Management through Research & Development. A group of 50
delegates and witnesses discussed and debated the links and synergies, actual
and desired, between research and practice in the field of Records and Information
Management.
The
event was structured around three sessions – two seminars led by panels
of expert ‘witnesses’, and a forum for general discussion.
Witnesses for the first seminar panel were drawn from the academic world, and
for the second, from the practitioner world; each panel was introduced by
chairs from the ‘opposite’ arena. After the witnesses delivered
their statements in each seminar, the discussion was opened to delegates. The
final session was devoted purely to discussion and thought about future
directions of research in recordkeeping.
The
constitution of the panels was as follows:
Seminar
1 – The transforming capacity of research & development: Academic
perspectives
Chair:
Adrian Cunningham
Witnesses:
Steve Bailey; Sue Childs; Elizabeth Lomas; Dr Alison Pickard
Seminar
2 – The transforming capacity of research & development: Practitioner
perspectives
Chair:
Catherine Hare
Witnesses:
Dr David Bowen; Chris Campbell; Maria Luisa Di Biagio; Paul Dodgson; John
McDonald; Andrew Snowden
Discussion
Chair
– Prof Michael Moss
We
are in the process of preparing the formal proceedings of the colloquium for
publication; in the meanwhile, we have now posted the speaker biographies and
Witness Statements to our website. Access to the document is via the following
link:
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/ceispdf/statements.pdf
The
audio files of the chairs’ and witnesses’ speeches will shortly be
added to the website, and we are also in the process of producing transcripts
of the discussions, which will be included in the published proceedings.
2.
Vignettes
We
have also put up the final versions of the various vignettes developed in the
course of the project on our website: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/themes/rmarea/erm/diss/vig_diss/
The
purpose of the vignettes is not only to provide ready-made tools for use
(though many of them can be treated in this manner), but also to suggest models
or templates for building tools whose content can be tailored to suit a given
context.
The
vignettes are of seven types: fridge magnets; phenomenological analyses; rich
pictures; Snakes and Ladders game; narrative story; videos; mind maps; and word
clouds. More detailed explanations of the tools, along with suggestions for
use, are included in the documents on the website.
Rachel Hardiman, BA (Hons), MSc
On behalf of the AC+erm Project Team
School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences
Northumbria University
Room 247
Pandon Building
Camden Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1XE
Tel: 0191 243 7650
AC+erm Project website: www.northumbria.ac.uk/acerm
AC+erm Project blog: http://www.acerm.blogspot.com/
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