Workshops 

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FRIDAY 24 AUGUST 2012 FULL DAY - Workshops taking place from 0900 to 1600
WORKSHOPS   PRICE PER PERSON $80 
Keeping Archives: Archival Digitisation (advanced)
 
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL

This full-day session is at an advanced level and is geared to professional archivists. It explores the complexity and challenges of this developing field and extends the basic process knowledge of the introductory course.

Based around professional issues raised by digitisation, this workshop allows participants to think about and explore issues such as:
Digitisation on demand: what does it mean for archives and their users?
What commercial arrangements for digitisation exist, what are the experiences and how widely are they applicable?
Quality control and crowd sourcing—some amazingly successful projects and what can we learn
User expectations and user interfaces
What are/should be the boundaries of archival control when records are digitised?

Presenters: To be advised
Venue: 80 George Street, Brisbane
 
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Australasian approaches
to Digital Preservation - Australasian Digital Recordkeeping
Initiative
(ADRI)

An overview of the Australasian experience, approaches, tools and innovations in digital preservation. It will feature speakers from a variety of government archival institutions in Australia and New Zealand.

Presenters: Simon Froude SRSA, Cassie Findlay SRNSW, Andrew Waugh PROV Alison Fleming AN and Christine Haar SRSA
Venue: 80 George Street, Brisbane
 
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Preservation: practical approaches across film, video and sound formats
Provided by the National Film and Sound Archive, this practical seminar provides access to preservation experts on audiovisual preservation for collection works.
 
Presenters: Mick Newnham, Senior Researcher, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia & Rod Butler – Senior Manager, Preservation and Technical Services, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Venue: 80 George Street, Brisbane
 
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Archives, Web 2.0 and beyond

THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL
Interactive workshop looking at the Australian experience of using Web 2.0 tools to improve access to and enrichment of archival holdings and for enhanced interaction with researchers, records creators and other stakeholders.  The workshop will have a strong focus on identifying and exploiting future opportunities for liberating archival collections and engaging with our clientele
 
Presenters: Brad Headland, Tom Voirol, Rose Holley and Geoff Mason
Venue: 80 George Street, Brisbane
 
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FRIDAY 24 AUGUST 2012 HALF DAY (MORNING) - Workshops taking place from 0900 to 1230 (except Japanese paper conservation 0930 to 1200)
WORKSHOPS  PRICE PER PERSON $50 

Keeping Archives: Archival Digitisation (medium)
 
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL
This half-day session is geared at a moderate level and establishes a firm foundation in the principles and practices of archival digitisation. Using published digitisation guidance as a basis, this workshop uses a reasonably complex case study which steers participants through consideration of:
Rationale for digitisation
Planning for digitisation
Thinking through some records issues
Doing the digitisation
 
Presenters: Pauline Joseph
Venue: NAA, Cannon Hill
 
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Implementing AtoM (advanced) in French
  
CANCELLED
   
Workshop focusing on the practicalities of using AtoM to automate the management of archival programs and to provide online access to archival holdings. AtoM is an open source archival collection management software application developed and maintained by the ICA with the support of UNESCO.
Japanese Paper conservation (repeat workshop running in the afternoon) 
Three professional conservators from the National Archives of Japan will guide participants through a hands-on workshop, learning three basic conservation methods.
Tsukuroi: Fill in the worm damaged holes with Japanese paper
Urauchi: Glue a sheet of Japanese paper to the entire back of the damaged material
Toji: Japanese bookbinding by stitching 
 
Timings: 0930-1200 
Presenters: Mr. Itaru Aritomo, National Archives of Japan, Ms. Ikuko Nakajima, National Archives of Japan and Prof. Katsuhiko Masuda, Showa Women's University
Venue: QSA
 
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Implementing ICA -
Req- Module 2 (Electronic Document and Records Management Systems) 
 
SPACES STILL AVAILABLE
A workshop on implementing the ICA's Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Electronic Office Environments. Focusing on module 2 of ICA-Req, the Requirements for Electronic Document and Records Management Systems (EDRMS).
 
Presenters: Margaret Crocket UK, Adrian Cunningham QSA
Venue: Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre
 
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UNESCO Memory of the World Program

This workshop will inform participants about the MOW program and explain how – and why—to nominate outstanding documentary heritage for inscription on the national, regional or international registers.

The workshop will cover the benefits of inscription, the selection criteria, the practicalities of preparing the nomination document, the governing rules and the assessment process. Participants will be able to discuss ideas for nominations from their own countries and institutions, as well as examples and case studies of successful nominations, and will receive copies of the new “MOW Companion” to help guide them in the nomination process.  
 
Presenters: Roslyn Russell (Chair MOW International Advisory Committee), Ray Edmondson (Chair MOW Regional Committee for Asia Pacific)
Venue: Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre 
 
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FRIDAY 24
AUGUST 2012
HALF DAY (AFTERNOON) - Workshops taking place from 1330 to 1700 (except Japanese paper conservation 1330 to 1600)
WORKSHOPS  PRICE PER PERSON $50 
Implementing ICA-
Req- Module 3 (electronic document and records management systems)
 
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL
A workshop on implementing the ICA's Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Electronic Office Environments, focusing on module 3 of ICA-Req, Functional requirements and guidelines for records in business systems.
 
Presenters: Margaret Crockett UK, Adrian Cunningham QSA
Venue: Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre
 
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Describing Archives
in context-
an introduction
 to the Australia 'series' system
 
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL
Would you like to know more about the Australian series system, how it works and how it can be adapted to describe archives in many different institutional contexts? Or does the series system need demystifying for you? Come to this workshop and find out.
 
Presenters: Sigrid McCausland
Venue: Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre
 
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Implementing AtoM (advanced) in English
This workshop equips delegates to use the full functionality of the AtoM, an open source archival collection management software application developed and maintained by the ICA with the support of UNESCO.
 
Delegates are required to provide their own laptops for this workshop
 
Presenters: To be confirmed
Venue: QSA
 
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Japanese Paper conservation (repeat workshop running in the afternoon)
Three professional conservators from the National Archives of Japan will guide participants through a hands-on workshop, learning three basic conservation methods.
Tsukuroi: Fill in the worm damaged holes with Japanese paper
Urauchi: Glue a sheet of Japanese paper to the entire back of the damaged material
Toji: Japanese bookbinding by stitching 
 
Timings: 1330-1600
Presenters: Mr. Itaru Aritomo, National Archives of Japan, Ms. Ikuko Nakajima, National Archives of Japan and Prof. Katsuhiko Masuda, Showa Women's Universit
Venue: QSA
 
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* Please note you must register to the congress in order to attend the workshops

* Please note workshops may be cancelled if minimum required numbers are not reached 

 

 


Take advantage of simultaneous interpretation of keynote & plenary sessions & some parallel presentations. Sessions will be available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese 

Program matrix available

Poster presentation schedule available

Governance and business meeting schedule available 
 
 
 
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