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Archiving Web Resources - Issues for cultural heritage organisations International Conference
 National Library of Australia, Canberra 9 - 11 November 2004

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

What’s 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

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