The Program
The conference program, which has now been finalised, offers a
range of informative and stimulating presentations from leading authorities on
issues associated with archiving Web resources for long-term access.
Proceedings include formal presentations and panel sessions. Audience
participation will be encouraged.
An Information Day is
being held on Friday 12 November 2004.
Social events include a welcome reception on Tuesday 9 November
and the conference dinner in the Great Hall of Australia's Parliament House on
Wednesday 10 November.
The program is also available in printer-friendly
RTF and PDF formats.
DAY 1 (Tuesday, 9 November 2004)
|
Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
Chair |
|
9.00 am |
Welcome
Official opening |
Jan Fullerton
Director General,
National Library of Australia
Helen Williams Department of
Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA) |
Jan
Fullerton
Director General,
National Library of Australia |
|
9.30 am |
Key address: Born Digital Born
Free? The Cultural Impact of the Web |
Professor Malcolm Gillies
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education),
Australian National University,
Canberra |
|
|
10.15 am |
Morning Tea |
|
Whats Happening on the
Web |
|
10.45 am |
Digital is Politics
Pursued with Other Means |
Dr Paolo Cherchi
Usai
Director,
National
Screen and Sound Archive |
Dr Evan Arthur
Innovation and Research Systems Group,
Department of Education, Science and
Technology |
|
11.15 am |
Use of the Web by Australian
scientists |
Dr Robin
Batterham
Chief
Scientist, Commonwealth of Australia |
|
|
11.45 am |
Maps: the impact of the
Internet |
Tim
Mackey
Website Manager, Geoscience
Australia |
|
|
12.15 pm |
Lunch |
|
1.45 pm |
Museums and the
Web |
Timothy
Hart
Director, Information, Multimedia & Technology,
Museum Victoria |
Kim Dalton
Chief Executive, Australian
Film Commission |
|
2.15 pm |
Contemporary culture and the
Web |
Dr Axel
Bruns
Creative Industries
Faculty, Queensland University of Technology |
|
|
2.45 pm |
The art of the network |
Dr Melinda
Rackham
Networked artist, curator and producer,
www.subtle.net/empyre |
|
|
3.15 pm |
Afternoon Tea |
|
Response by Cultural
Institutions |
|
3.45 pm |
Comment by Dr Alex Byrne, President-elect
2003-2005, President 2005-2007, International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA) and University Librarian,
University of Technology, Sydney |
|
4.00 pm |
An overview of the key issues
for cultural agencies |
James
Michalko
President and CEO, Research
Libraries Group (RLG) |
Dr Alex Byrne |
|
4.30 pm |
International Internet
Preservation Consortium (IIPC): objectives and work plan |
Caroline
Wiegandt
Deputy Managing Director, Bibliothèque nationale de France |
|
|
5.00 pm |
Discussion |
|
5.30 pm |
Welcome reception |
DAY 2 (Wednesday, 10 November 2004)
|
Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
Chair |
|
What to Collect and How to Do
It |
|
9.00 am |
Key address: The future of Web
resources: who decides what gets saved and how do they do it? |
Dr Abby
Smith
Director of Programs, Council
on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) |
Pam Gatenby
Assistant Director-General, Collection Management,
National Library of Australia |
|
9.35 am Panel session: approaches to harvesting Web
resources (15 minutes each) |
|
Michele
Kimpton
Director, Internet
Archive
Johan
Mannerheim
Royal Library,
National Library of Sweden
Ms. Margaret
Phillips
Manager of Digital Archiving,
National Library of Australia |
|
|
10.20 am |
Discussion |
|
10.30 am |
Morning Tea |
|
11.00 am Panel session: approaches to harvesting Web
resources continued (15 minutes each) |
|
Martha
Anderson
Project Manager, Office of Strategic Initiatives,
Library of Congress
Hanno E.
Lecher
Head Librarian,
Institute of Chinese Studies, Leiden University
Nancy
Y. McGovern
Digital Preservation Officer and Associate Director,
Research, Cornell University
Library |
Ann-Marie Schwirtlich
Chief Executive Officer and State Librarian,
State Library of Victoria
|
|
11.50 am |
International Internet
Preservation Consortium (IIPC) work program to develop Web collecting
tools |
Julien
Masanès
Conservator and IIPC Coordinator,
Bibliothèque nationale de
France |
|
|
12.15 pm |
Discussion |
|
12.30 pm |
Lunch |
|
Access |
|
1.30 pm |
Resource Discovery and Archived
Resources: Approaches and Issues |
Tom
Delsey
Consultant (Formerly of the National Library of
Canada) |
Derek Whitehead
Director, Information Resources,
Swinburne University of Technology,
Melbourne |
|
2.00 pm |
Library and Archives Canada: Digital
and Metadata Initiatives |
Dr Ian E.
Wilson
Librarian and Archivist of Canada, Library and Archives
Canada |
|
|
2.30 pm |
Preservation metadata initiatives:
status and direction |
Dr Brian
Lavoie
Senior Research Scientist, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) |
|
|
3.00 pm |
Afternoon Tea |
|
Managing Web
Resources |
|
3.45 pm |
Introduction |
Colin Webb
Director, Preservation Services,
National Library of Australia |
Colin Webb
Director, Preservation Services,
National Library of Australia |
|
4.00 pm |
The role of file format
registries in digital preservation |
Stephen
Abrams
Digital Library Program Manager,
Harvard University |
|
|
4.30 pm |
Assessing the Durability of
Formats in a Digital Preservation Environment: the INFORM Methodology
|
Andreas
Stanescu
Software Architect,
Online Computer
Library Center (OCLC) Digital Archive |
|
|
5.00 pm |
Discussion |
|
7.00 for 7.30 pm |
Conference Dinner (Great Hall, Parliament
House) |
DAY 3 - (Thursday, 11 November 2004)
|
Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
Chair |
|
Collaborations: Architectures and
Business Models |
|
9.00 am |
Establishing
trustworthy repositories: organizational models, roles, and
imperatives |
Robin
Dale
Program Officer for Member Initiatives,
Research Libraries Group (RLG) |
Madeleine McPherson
University Librarian,
University of Southern
Queensland |
|
9.30 am |
The National Digital Information
Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP): future directions and
relevance to other countries |
Beth
Dulabahn Senior Advisor for Integration Management,
Library of Congress |
|
|
10.00 am |
Preserving the outputs of
research |
Dr Warwick
Cathro
Assistant Director General, Innovation, National Library of Australia |
|
|
10.30 am |
Morning Tea |
|
11.00 am |
Permanent access: the e-Depot at
the Koninklijke Bibliotheek |
Hans
Jansen
Head, Research and Development Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the
Netherlands |
Ross Gibbs
Director-General, National
Archives of Australia |
|
11.30 am |
Managing government
electronic records through the whole life cycle |
Adrian
Cunningham
Director, Recordkeeping Standards and Policy,
National Archives of Australia |
|
|
12.00 pm |
Building the UK Government Web
Archive |
Adrian
Brown
Digital Preservation Services Manager,
UK National Archives |
|
|
12.30 pm |
Lunch |
|
2.00 pm |
Die Deutsche Bibliothek:
cooperative efforts on the European and national level |
Hans
Liegmann
Project Manager, NESTOR, Die
Deutsche Bibliothek |
Craddock Morton
Director, National Museum
of Australia |
|
2.30 pm |
The British Library: Web Archiving
Challenges and Initiatives |
John
Tuck
Head of British Collections, The
British Library |
|
|
3.00 pm |
National Library of New Zealand
Web archiving strategy |
Penny
Carnaby
CEO, National Library
of New Zealand |
|
|
3.30 pm |
Afternoon Tea |
|
Research Programs |
|
4.00 pm |
Digital Library Federation (DLF)
research priorities |
David
Seaman
Executive Director, Digital
Library Federation |
John Shipp
University Librarian, Fisher Library,
The University of Sydney |
|
4.30 pm |
The PANIC Project - A Scalable,
Collaborative Approach to Preservation Based on Semantic Web Services
|
Dr Jane
Hunter
Senior Research Fellow, Distributed Systems Technology Centre
(DSTC) |
|
|
5.00 pm |
Closing address |
Jan
Fullerton
Director-General, National
Library of Australia |
|
|
5.15 pm |
Close |
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