[Sigia-l] Symposium: Archives online - unique National Archives and ERPANET event

[Monica Greenan]

*Apologies for cross posting*

International Symposium
ARCHIVES ONLINE - moving archives into the digital era
April 17th, 2003
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag


E-initiatives launched by governmental bodies are creating new problems not
only in terms of providing online services, but also for the management and
preservation of these digital records. The Nationaal Archief van Nederland
and ERPANET are pleased to announce a unique international symposium that
will address the management and the provision of online access to
governmental and archival digital records. Speakers will present an overview
of recent developments at both a national and an international level.

The programme is attached below. Registration is free until April 4th while
places are still available.


_Focus_
Archives are catching up with the digital era. On the one hand government
administrations rapidly adopt IT in their day-to-day business and even try
to introduce e-government and digital service delivery. This has a crucial
impact on information and records management. On the other hand the public -
citizens, researchers, the private sector - have their own experiences with
using IT. Based on these expectations, they have increasing expectations of
government, archives and other information suppliers in providing on line
information services.

Archival institutions are in a way caught in the middle. They have to be
aware of this changing environment and adapt themselves so that they can
provide the services people expect them to deliver.


_Venue_
The symposium will take place in the Aula of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek,
the Dutch National Library, at Prins Willem Alexanderhof 5. The venue is
conveniently located nearby the central train station of Den Haag, and just
opposite the Nationaal Archief.


_Registration_
Registration is possible before April 4th or as long as places are
available, either online via the ERPANET website (www.erpanet.org), or by
contacting Miranda van Balen by e-mail miranda.van.balen at nationaalarchief.nl
or by phone +31.70.331.5404


_Programme_

09.30-10.00    Registration of participants
10.00-10.05    Welcome, Dr. Maarten van Boven (National Archivist of the
Netherlands)
10.05-10.15    Opening and introduction by the chair Jaap Kloosterman
(Director International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
10.15-11.00    Mutliple disciplines / multiple meaning: is archival science
a little bit of everything or a coherent body of knowledge? Professor
Margaret Hedstrom (School of Information, University of Michigan)
11.00-11.30     Coffee break
11.30-12.30    Overview of developments within the Dutch government,
Marjanne Sint (secretary-general of the Ministry of Housing, Spatial
Planning and Environment)
               Into the New World: archives and government in Scotland and
the United Kingdom, George MacKenzie (Keeper of the Records of Scotland,
Head of the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh)
12.30-13.30    Lunch
13.30-14.30    Revival of Records Management within local Authorities, Nils
Borgesius, (Senior Management Consultant, Municipality of Utrecht)
               Strategies for longterm preservation. Results and experiences
in the Testbed project, Jacqueline Slats (Programme Manager Testbed Project,
Nationaal Archief, The Hague)
14.30-15.00    Tea break
15.00-15.45    Future developments, Professor Eric Ketelaar (Department of
Archives and Information Studies, University of Amsterdam)
15.45-16.00    Conclusions
16.00-17.30    Reception at the Nationaal Archief


____________________________________________
Monica Greenan
ERPANET British Editor
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House,
11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 3549
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.erpanet.org

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