Workshops 

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MONDAY 20 AUGUST 2012 FULL DAY  - Workshops taking place from 0900 to 1600
WORKSHOPS   PRICE PER PERSON $80 

Expect the Unexpected: Disaster Preparedness—Designed for Archival Institutions

THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL
Case Studies - Ian Jempson (CEO), Maritime Museum & Annabel Lloyd, Brisbane City Council Archives
 
A workshop presented by experienced professionals, where recent case studies and disaster preparedness will be discussed including how to go about writing a disaster plan or reviewing an existing plan and being prepared with supplies and equipment on hand.
 
Presenter: Christine Ianna
Venue: QLD Maritime Museum, Brisbane
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Keeping Archives: Appraisal—the Australian way

THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL

 

This workshop is geared to the professional archivist and is at medium to advanced level. This workshop aims to extend our professional thinking about appraisal, rather than applying a methodology.  It includes exploration of issues such as:

§         Traditional and newer functional approaches to appraisal

§         What is appraisal and how should it be approached in the digital world

§         How does ‘big data’ affect our appraisal strategies

§         How do we know if we’re successful: what are appropriate and achievable benchmarks

§         Appraisal and the web?  What are our boundaries of responsibility?
 
Presenter: Kerry Gordon
Venue: 80 George Street, Brisbane
 
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Keeping Archives: Approaches to Arrangement and Description

THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL

This workshop is geared to the professional archivist and is at medium to advanced level. Geared to rethinking archival processes for the digital world. It:

§         Explores the basis and purposes of A&D and finding aids to identify what is enduring and what is a paper based methodology which does not need to continue in a digital world

§         Identifies where the process traditionally takes place and what options exist for a digital world, exploring archival descriptive standards & more integrated recordkeeping metadata standards

§         Explores issues such as, identifying current thinking for digital records:

§         What is an archival system in the digital world

§         What is a series in the digital world

§         What is an item in the digital world

§         What is a finding aid in the digital world

§         Looks to what may be the future:

§         Semantic web enabled archival systems

§         Is distributed custody a realistic prospect and how would/could our systems cope

§         Explores a vision of a connected web of archival resources
 
Presenters: Barbara Reed
Venue: 80 George Street, Brisbane
 
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Keeping Archives: Digital
 Recordkeeping
 (best practise) 
 
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL

This one-day session is geared to medium and larger organizations and outlines best practice professional approaches to digital recordkeeping. The workshop:

§         Provides principles for managing digital records

§         Discusses some of the differences between managing paper and managing electronic records (concepts of originality, duplication, location, sheer size of the information challenge, physicality); where digital records are being created/kept; the role of recordkeeping metadata; issues around preserving digital records

§         Features a case study using the DIRKS (Developing and Implementing Recordkeeping Systems) methodology. 
 
Presenters: Jackie Bettington
Venue: 80 George Street, Brisbane
 
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Recordkeeping for good Governance Toolkit  
This workshop will introduce the Recordkeeping for Good Governance Toolkit to our ICA colleagues, with specific focus on showing how the guidelines work and how they can be adapted and relevant for your country.
 
Good governance requires good records management, so that public officials can account for their decisions and activities with reference to accurate, reliable and accessible information.

 

Good governance is also one of the key priorities for Pacific Island governments. However in most Pacific countries, the legacy of no tools, guidance, or training on recordkeeping and information management in the post-colonial era has resulted in an underlying problem of weak or non-existent frameworks that do not support the needs of governments or communities.

 

Nevertheless, recordkeeping is beginning to improve across the Pacific. In 2005, 13 countries of the Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (PARBICA) adopted a declaration on recordkeeping for good governance. One result of this declaration is that representatives from many Pacific countries worked together to develop a suite of web-based and printed tools which form the Recordkeeping for Good Governance Toolkit. The toolkit provides practical advice on getting leaders to listen, as well as guidance and practical tools on creating, maintaining, and disposing of government information, including specific guidance on managing digital information. It was developed by Pacific representatives in a way that can be easily adapted to meet specific jurisdictional requirements.

 


 
Presenters: Susan Skudder and Mark Crookston
Venue: 80 George Street, Brisbane
 
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MONDAY 20 AUGUST 2012 HALF DAY (MORNING) - Workshops taking place from 0900 to 1230
WORKSHOPS  PRICE PER PERSON $50 
Implementing AtoM (basis)
 
In English
 
 
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.
 
Delegates are required to provide their own laptop for this workshop
 
Presenters: Maggie Shapley ANU and Kelly Stewart, Education Advisor, Archives Association of British Columbia
Venue: Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre
 
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Implementing AtoM (basis)

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.
 
Preserving Sound Recordings using
Digital Reformatting
 
Provided by the International Association of Sound Archives.
 
Presenters: Kevin Bradley, Curator, Oral History and Folklore, Director, Sound Preservation, National Library of Australia and Jacqueline Van Arb, President IASA and Director, Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound
Venue: Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre
 
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Engaging Communities
 
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL
This workshop will explore how archives engage with their communities, and especially remote users, to foster support of and participation in the archival endeavour; the strategies and means to open up conversations with and between users of archives
 
Presenters: Paul Dalgleish, John Petersen & Kirsten Thorpe
Venue: Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre
 
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MONDAY 20 AUGUST 2012 HALF DAY (AFTERNOON) - Workshop taking place from 1330 to 1700
WORKSHOPS  PRICE PER PERSON $50 
 
Demystifying the Standards Landscape
This workshop will help delegates make sense of the growing array of international standards for recordkeeping, many of which have their origins in Australia and New Zealand with a particular focus on ISO 15489 the international records management standard. The workshop will cover the conceptual underpinnings of the different standards, their interrelationships and interdependencies, implementation issues and future directions.
 
Presenters: Judith Ellis & Trish O'Kane
Venue: Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre
 
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Keeping
Archives: Digital
Recordkeeping
on a limited
Budget
 
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL
This half-day practically oriented session is geared to organizations with limited or no budget allocated for digital recordkeeping. It aims to provide:

§         Practical strategies to allow implementation of very basic recordkeeping in budget strapped conditions 

§         Broad principles (at an overview level) for managing digital records; scanning and imaging; creating dedicated network storage for archival digital records, establishing format standards

§         Outlines cheap and cheerful recordkeeping software options; where to get guidance and how to start communicating with IT staff.

 
Presenters: Cassie Findlay
Venue: Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre
 
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Universal
Declaration on Archives
 
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL
In this workshop participants will first be guided in an examination of the UDA exploring its purpose as a statement of the relevance and importance of archives to the general public, the connections between archives and good governance, basic human rights and entitlements, cultural and community identity, history and heritage, and as a statement on the role of archivists as skilled professionals underpinning access to and care of these records. Participants will then be assisted to identify strategies they could develop to promote the Declaration at a national, institutional and local community level. 
 
Presenters: Kim Eberhard & Colleen McEwen
Venue: Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre
 
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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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