Programme for The Future of the Archive Conference

The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

Old College, The University of Edinburgh
March 20th - 23rd 2002

PROGRAMME

[To view abstracts of papers, click on the name of the speaker]

	Wednesday, 20 March
4 p.m.	Registration
6 p.m. Playfair Library	The Shepherd & Wedderburn Lecture Professor James Boyle (Professor of Law, Duke University): The Opposite of Property Chair: John Frow
8 p.m. Talbot Rice Gallery	Reception

	Thursday, 21 March
9 a.m. Playfair Library	SESSION 1: Professor Bruce Royan (Chief Executive, SCRAN): Virtual Enlightenment, or Digital Dark Age? A view from the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network" Chair: John MacColl
10.15 a.m. Raeburn Room	Coffee
10.45 a.m. Moot Court Room	SESSION 2A: Eleanor Brown (National Archives of Canada): Web Access to the Original Archival Records - Challenging the Old Information Order? Nicola Mastidoro (IntraText Digital Library): The IntraText Project: lexical hypertextualization as a new model of access to digital textual resources J. Michael Stitt (University of Nevada, Las Vegas): The World Literature Hypermedia Project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
10.45 a.m. Lorimer Room	SESSION 2B: Maureen Burns (Australian Key Centre for Cultural & Media Policy): ABC Online as an Environment of Public Memory John Troyer (University of Minnesota): Archiving the Corpse: Embalming Technologies of the Past and Present
12.30 p.m. Talbot Rice Gallery	Lunch
1.45 p.m. Moot Court Room	SESSION 3A - Chair: Richard Ovenden Orit Halpern (Harvard University): Archives and Race: Technologies of Difference Gary Hall (Middlesex University): The Politics and Ethics of Electronic Archiving Eduardo Urbina (Texas A&M University): Critical editing in the digital age: Informatics and Humanities Research
1.45 p.m. Lorimer Room	SESSION 3B - Chair: Bill Bell Craig Sinclair (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Curating the World Wide Web Joseph Tennis (University of Washington): A new sense of motion: framing the idea of the archive in the new information order
3.30 p.m. Raeburn Room	Tea
4.00 p.m. Playfair Library	SESSION 4: Richard Paterson (Head of Knowledge, British Film Institute): The Value of the Past, the Relevance to the Present; Gaetano Stucchi (European Broadcasting Union): The Audiovisual Heritage; Giorgio Dimino (RAI - Research and Technological Innovation Centre): The Multimedia Catalogue: making the RAI audiovisual heritage accessible to the general public
5.15 p.m.	Conclusion
6.30 p.m. Raeburn Room	Buffet Supper
8 p.m. Playfair Library	SESSION 5: Thomas Hickerson (Associate Librarian, Cornell University): Sociotechnical Change and the Transformation of Research Libraries and the Academic Information Environment Chair: Richard Ovenden
9.30 p.m.	Conclusion

	Friday, 22 March
9 a.m. Playfair Library	SESSION 6: Clive Field (Director of Scholarship and Collections, British Library) The British Library, Digital Scholarship and the National Archive
10.15 a.m. Raeburn Room	Coffee
10.45 a.m. Moot Court Room	SESSION 7A: Katherine Harris (CUNY Graduate Center): Fantasies of Containment: Digitally Archiving a Nineteenth Century British Literary Annual (the Forget-Me-Not) as a Textual Moment Robert Morris (University of Edinburgh): Back to Future: Methods, historical knowledge and practice and the implications of electronic data Ellis Weinberger (Cambridge University Library): Security in a digital repository
10.45 a.m. Lorimer Room	SESSION 7B: John MacColl (University of Edinburgh): Free Access to Research Publications? The Potential of the Open Archives Initiative Philip Leith (Queen's University of Belfast): Legal, Cultural and Technical Obstacles to the use of Court-Based Information Paul Frosh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Picturing the Digital Info-Pixel: Photographic Archives and the Visual Content Industry
12.30 p.m. Talbot Rice Gallery	Lunch
1.45 p.m. Playfair Library	SESSION 8: Matthew Evans (Faber and Resource) and Josie Dixon (Palgrave): Scholarly Publishing Online: Technologies and Markets, Partnerships and Communities Chair: Bill Bell
3.15 p.m. Raeburn Room	Tea
3.45 p.m. Playfair Library	SESSION 9: Round Table Discussion: Drivers of Change in Scholarly Communication Paul Ayris (Chair, Consortium of University Research Libraries' Task Force on Scholarly Communications) Michael Mabe (Director of Academic Relations, Elsevier Science) Manfredi La Manna (University of St. Andrews) Stevan Harnad (University of Southampton) Frederick Friend (University College London; SPARC) Michael Ashburner (University of Cambridge; Public Library of Science) Chair: Ian Mowat
6 p.m.	Conclusion
7.30 p.m.	Conference Dinner - George Heriot's School (optional)

	Saturday, 23rd March
9 a.m. Playfair Library	SESSION 10: Steve Bailey (Electronic Records Manager, Joint Information Systems Committee): Back to Basics: Reassessing archival priorities for the new information order Michal Kobialka (University of Minnesota): Can there be such a thing as a postmodern archive? Zachar Laskewicz (University of Ghent): Wondrous Textual Machines: new forms of textuality in a changing world
10.30 a.m. Raeburn Room	Coffee
11 a.m. Playfair Library	Closing Session: Paul Mosher (Director of Libraries, University of Pennsylvania): The Perils of Pauline on the Internet. The Future of Knowledge in the Digital Age: Memory, Metaphor, Marketing Chair: John Frow
12.15 p.m. Talbot Rice Gallery	Buffet Lunch

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