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'Practical Approaches to Electronic Records: the Academy and Beyond'
Friday 21st May 2010, Baxter Conference Suite, 1st Floor, Tower Building,
University of Dundee
The Centre for Archive and Information Studies at the University of Dundee was pleased to host a one-day seminar 'Practical Approaches to Electronic Records: The Academy and Beyond' 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 sought 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 were at the forefront of current research aiming to facilitate the preservation and access of 'born digital' materials. Each presented a thought-provoking assessment of a specific topic or project related to electronic records management. The day's program also included facilitated discussions regarding specific steps that your archive — whatever its focus — can use to implement a programme for 'born digital' materials.
This seminar was 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 were 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.
The presentations are available as Adobe pdfs here:
Susanne Belovari 'Digital Preservation the Planets Way - Can it work for smaller archives?
Peter Cliff 'Developing and Implementing Tools to Manage Hybrid Archives'
Viv Cothey 'Implementing Digital Curation in a Local Authority Archive'
William Kilbride 'Digital Preservation: what I wish someone had told me before I started'
Chris Prom 'Building an Electronic Archives Programme on a Shoestring'
Malcolm Todd 'Scaling our Solutions to Support Implementation, Cost Effectiveness, and Trust'
Click here for the Seminar Programme