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ALPSP/FST Seminar
Preserving the Knowledge-Base of Science
17 March 2004 Chair: John Marsden, Director, Linnĉan Society
Linnĉan Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London WIJ 0BF
This afternoon seminar will describe how we currently preserve the archives of science, focusing on the collections of national libraries and other great repositories in the UK, and then move on to describe the challenges of the future: the trend towards retro-digitisation of print, new developments in the archiving of electronic material, and the particular problems of archiving huge amounts of data. Are we taking the right steps towards creating secure electronic archiving systems that will preserve the 'knowledge-base of science', in the same way that print (and to a certain extent microfilm) has done in the past? What is the role of the learned society? What is the role of the publisher? Does the move towards Open Access publishing models present an opportunity or a challenge to the permanent preservation of knowledge?
This seminar will be of interest to technical, editorial and management staff from learned societies and scholarly publishers, who are concerned about the preservation of the archives of their own discipline and who want to understand their future role in achieving this. Librarians and research scientists will also find the afternoon of value.
Programme
1.45 Registration and coffee/tea
2.00 Introduction from the chair John Marsden
2.15 How we do it now: the British Library and the Research Libraries Network
Caroline Pung, British Library
2.35 Discussion
2.40 Future challenges
Neil Beagrie, Digital Preservation Coalition
3.00 Case studies
Retrodigitization
Ray Clark, Royal Photographic Society
Preservation of born-digital publications
(Speaker to be confirmed)
Preservation of data/e-science/human genome
Graham Cameron, EBI
4.00 Discussion
4.10 Tea/coffee
4.45 New solutions? The impact of new publishing model
5.05 Discussion and summing up by chair
5.30 Wine reception, refreshments and tour of archives
Fees excluding VAT
ALPSP/FST members: £85.00; Academic: £100.00; SFEP freelance members: £135.00
Non-members: £170.00
To register online: http://www.alpsp.org/events/s170304.htm
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