Don't miss out on the early bird offer (deadline 30th September)
BAC Conference 2012
'Born This Way: Business Archives and the Digital Record'
Thursday 8th November 2012
This year's conference considers the challenges and opportunities which digital records present to business archivists, records managers and users. Speakers will look at born-digital and digitised records from a variety of perspectives including approaches to access, interpretation and education, enhancing the user-experience, regulation and compliance, and IT solutions. For the first time this year the conference will include a panel discussion where experts will debate the future implications for the management of digital records in the business archive environment. The conference will be held at The Baring Archive, 60 London Wall, London, EC2M 5TQ.
It will begin with registration at 9.30am (see detailed programme below), followed by the AGM at 10.00am. The conference will start at 10.40am and run until 5.00pm. Following the conference, a reception will take place at The Baring Archive for the presentation of the Wadsworth Prize for business history. It begins at 6pm and all conference delegates are invited to attend.
The deadline to take advantage of the early bird rate of £70 is 30 September. After this, the charge will be £80 for BAC and ABH members and £100 for non-members. A second or third delegate from the same member organisation will cost £60 each. We are pleased to also be able to offer a discounted student rate of £20.
A booking form and further information can be found on the BAC website at:
http://www.businessarchivescouncil.org.uk/activitiesobjectives/conference/
Any questions, please contact Katie Keys on 020 7332 3988 or Judith Wright on 0115 959 3472.
Conference programme
From 09.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.30 Business Archives Council A.G.M.
10.30 - 10.40 Comfort break
10.40 - 10.45 Welcome and introduction to the conference
Session 1 Digital Demystification
10.45 - 11.15 Discussion session: examining the issues - Rabbit in the headlights: archivist meets digital preservation
11.15 - 11.45 William Kilbride (Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition) - The Digital Preservation Decade: what we knew then; what we know now and what we wish we had realised earlier
11.45 - 12.00 Tea and coffee
Session 2 Sharing Knowledge: widening our professional outlook
12.00 - 12.30 David Hill (Manager Information and Records, Bank of England) - A records management perspective on born-digital records: RM at the Bank of England
12.30 - 13.00 Simon Rooks (Multi-Media Archivist, BBC) - A long and winding path: the journey towards multi-media archiving at the BBC
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
Session 3 Digital Delivery: two case studies
14.00 - 14.30 Vicky Stretch (Archivist, Network Rail) - New Access to Old Stuff; the value of the Network Rail Virtual Archive
14.30 - 15.00 Clara Harrow (Archivist, The Baring Archive) - Risks and Rewards: Using digitised sources to open up the world of finance past and present
15.00 - 15.30 Tea and Coffee
Session 4 Taking stock and moving forward
15.30 - 16.00 Oliver Morley (Chief Executive and Keeper, The National Archives) - The national perspective: challenges, opportunities and a vision for the future
16.00 - 17.00 Panel Discussion (chaired by Oliver Morley) - Our speakers debate the future implications for the management of digital records in the Business archive environment
From 18.00 Reception for the presentation of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History
Katie Keys
Archivist
London Metropolitan Archives
Culture, Heritage and Libraries Department
City of London
Tel: 020 7332 3988
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