Presentations - Thursday 27 September

Day 1: 26 September 2012 - Day 2: 27 September 2012 - Day 3: 28 September 2012

• Mass digitization, library lending, internet archives
  by Brewster Kahle, Founder, Digital Librarian, Internet Archives, United States
• Preserving the value of digital and digitized information
  by Vinton Cerf, Google
• Beyond paper to authentically digital documents
  by Jeanne Sheldon, Microsoft

National Strategies as the Foundation of Togetherness

• National planning as a key for successful implementation of digitization strategies
  By A. Vilks, Director, National Library of Latvia
• Preserving the memories of a nation: The Singapore Memory Project
  By I. Chew, H. Jailan, National Library Board, Singapore
• Digital preservation policy of the Chamber of Deputies: Methodology for its development
  By E. Bodê, Chamber of Deputies, Brazil

Web 2.0 Products as Documentary Heritage: Can we access and preserve them?

• Unprotected memory: User-generated content and the unintentional digital archive
  By J. Schlesser, American University, United States
• Context in a Web 2.0 environment
  By H. Ryckman, Co-operators Group, Ontario, Canada
• Social media, records, and cultural heritage: Revealing tensions and informing design
  By L. Nathan, E. Shaffer, University of British Columbia, Canada

The Role of Culture in Digitization and Digital Preservation

• Preservation cultures: Developing a framework for a culturally sensitive digital preservation agenda
  By F. Foscarini, G.Oliver, J. Ilerbaig, and K. Krumrei, University of Toronto, Canada
• Political, cultural and professional challenges for digitization and preservation of government information in Papua New Guinea: An overview
  By T. Kaiku, University of Papua New Guinea; V. Puipui, Papua New Guinea National Archives and Public Records Services
• Current situation, problems and prospect of digital preservation of the documentary heritage in China
  By X. Wang, Y. Nie, Wuhan University, China

Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Answer or Inspiration?

• Digital archiving systems confronted with the OAIS reference model
  By S. Cavaglieri, Swiss National Sound Archives
• A model for managing digital pictures of the National Archives of Iran - Based on the Open Archival Information System Reference Model
  By S. R. Sharifabadi, M. Tajdaran, Z. R. Jambari, Alzahra University, Iran
• The digital memory of UNESCO. Records of international organizations: A unique context, very special challenges
  By J. Boel, A. Cowling, C. Michotte, A. Torrance, UNESCO Archives

Collaboration in Digital Preservation or Lack thereof: What Works

• Digital preservation in Europe: Strategic plans, research outputs and future implementations - the weak role of the archival institutions
  By M. Guercio, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
• Models for national collaboration
  By R. Källman, The National Archives of Sweden
• Collaboration and digital collections
  By V. Reich, Stanford University Libraries, United States
• Implementing UNESCO guidelines for the preservation of digital heritage
  By S. Knight, National Library of New Zealand, Ex Libris

The Economics of Preserving Digital Information (SI)

• The economics of long-term digital storage
  By D. S. H. Rosenthal, Stanford University Libraries, United States
• Framework for modeling the cost of preserving digital information
  By U. Boegvad Kejser, The Royal Library, Denmark; A. B. Nielsen, A. Thirifays, The Danish National Archives
• Economically easy method to digitize oversized documents with special reference to Ola leaf manuscripts in Sri Lanka
  By U. P. Cabral, National Library of Sri Lanka
• Preserving our heritage: An independent advantage
  By P. Liebetrau, Consultant, South Africa

Is a new legal framework required for digital preservation or will policy do?

• Building a legal framework to facilitate long-term preservation of digital heritage
  By A. Sheppard, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Development of policies and requirements for ingesting and preserving digital records into a preservation system: Where to start
  By A. Barnard, Consultant, Mexico
• Where light in darkness lies: Preservation, access and sensemaking strategies for the modern digital archive
  By J. R. Baron, National Archives and Records Administration, United States; S. Attfield, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
• Strengthening the regulatory framework in a digital environment: A review of archives legislation
  By E. Goh, University of British Columbia, Canada

Digital Curation: Convergence of Challenges, Institutions and Knowledge (SI)

• Digital curation: The challenge driving convergence across memory institutions
  By S. Higgins, Aberwstwyth University, United Kingdom
• Digital curation: Building en environment for success
  By J. Esposito, Penn State University, United States
• Institutional celebrations: Catalytic events conducive to implementing digital preservation project meeting diverging stakeholder interests
  By P. Forget, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
• The convergence of cultural heritage: Practical experiments and lessons learned
  By J. Bastian, R. Harvey, Simmons College, United States

Digitization and digital preservation experiences in a developing country perspective

• The preservation and conservation of heritage in the Caribbean: What challenges does digitization pose?
  By E. Watson, University of the West Indies, Barbados
• Safeguarding the digital demographic heritage of Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo
  By R. Marcoux, L. Richard, M. K. Konaté, Observatoire démographique et statistique de l'espace francophone, Laval University, Canada
• Partnership in paradise: The importance of collaboration for handling traditional cultural expression material in the Pacific Islands
  By B. Oswald, Island Culture Archival Support, United States
• Digital preservation and indigenous cultural heritage: The Mukurtu CMS Platform
  By K. Christen, Washington State University, United States; J. Anderson, University of Massachusetts, United States; M. Ashley, University of California at Berkeley, United States

Ensuring that it won't happen again

• Financial records and their discontents: Safeguarding the records of our financial systems
  By V. Lemieux, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Preserving e-mail: An American case study
  By M. Groover, University of British Columbia, Canada
• The perfect archival storm: The transfer of electronic records from the G. W. Bush White House to the National Archives of the United States
  By K. Thibodeau, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States

Trusting Records

• The ethical and legal issues of historical mental health records as cultural heritage
  By L. Dong, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
• From paper original to digital copy: Authenticity as a legal and organizational challenge
  By M. Demoulin, University of Namur; S. Soyez, State Archives, Belgium
• Evidence based common vision and e-infrastructure for digital preservation
  By D. Giaretta, Alliance for Permanent Access

Web Archiving as Part of Building the Documentary Heritage of our Time

• Chinese web archiving and statistical analysis on Chinese web archives
  By H. Liu, Remnin University, China
• Implications of the web semantization on the development of digital heritage
  By G. Navarro, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Argentina
• Preserving the web archive for future generations - Practical experiments with emulatino and migration technologies
  By M. Holden, National Audiovisual Institute, France

Technology as the mediator of heritage and its relations with people

• The turtle at the bottom: Reflections on access and preservation for information artifacts
  By I. King, The University of Washington, United States
• Personal informatics: Digital archives for everyone and possible implications
  By J. L. John, The British Library, United Kingdom
• Challenges to capture the hybrid heritage: When activities take place in both digital and non-digital environments
  By E. Borglund, Mid-Sweden University

Limited Resources or Expertise: Case Studies in addressing the issue

• Preserving the collective memory in Burundi in the digital era: the Supreme Court case study (SI)
  By J. B. Ntungirimana, Court of Auditors of Burundi
• Kuwait National Museum's digital database
  By F. Al-Sabah, Kuwait National Museum
• The challenges of manuscript preservation in the digital age
  By W. Torborg, T. Vann, Saint John's University, United States