Event: UNESCO conference – Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation
Website: http://bit.ly/zw052P
Date/time: Wednesday, Sept. 26 – Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
Location: Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, 1088 Burrard Street,
[EDITORS: UBC experts are available to speak on pressing issues such as preventing “digital amnesia” in the wake of a country’s natural disaster or technological failure; ensuring digital continuity through better legal and social frameworks; and the post-WikiLeaks debate about “hactivism,” trust, security and transparency.]
UBC Library and UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) are recognized global leaders in digital preservation, community access programs, and the management and preservation of born-digital documentary materials.
Convening more than 120 speakers and 700 delegates from five continents, the conference will foster vital exchange among sectors as diverse as academia, heritage institutions, the IT industry, business organizations and government.
Delegates will address topics that include: protecting intellectual property in the digital age; maximizing the unprecedented potential of digital technologies to preserve and share scientific and cultural works; enhancing digital creation and preservation, especially with “born-digital” records, documents, data and archives.
UBC conference participants include:
Allan Bell, UBC Library, Director of Digital Initiatives
Tel: 604 827.830 | Cell:
Email: allan.bell@ubc.ca
• digital preservation community-based digitization projects
• copyright, open access, Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
Jessica Bushey, doctoral student, UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS)
Email: jbushey@interchange.ubc.ca
• creating and preserving digital photography and “born digital” images
Prof. Luciana Duranti, chair, Archival Studies, UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS)
Tel: 604.822.2587 | Cell: 778.887.0435
Email: luciana.duranti@ubc.ca
• digital preservation
• digital records forensics (accuracy, reliability and authenticity of digital records/archives)
• the application of traditional diplomatic and archival concepts to contemporary records
Prof. Caroline Haythornthwaite, SLAIS Director
Tel: 604.827.4790 | Cell: 217.714.1161 (not available Wed. Sept. 26)
Email: c.haythorn@ubc.ca
• how the Internet and computer media transform the way we work, study and collaborate
• crowd sourcing; online communities; distance education; constructing knowledge online
Asst. Prof. Victoria Lemieux, SLAIS
Tel: 604.822.9199 | Cell: 604.889.8148
Email: v.lemieux@ubc.ca
• the economics of preserving digital information
• risk management vis a vis financial records and information systems
Asst. Prof. Lisa Nathan, SLAIS
Tel: 604.822.1574
Email: lisa.nathan@ubc.ca
• information ethics and information policy
• drawing upon ethical considerations in the design of information systems for use over the longer-term
• human-computer interaction
University Librarian Ingrid Parent, UBC Library
Tel: 604.827.3486
Email: ingrid.parent@ubc.ca
• global librarianship, indigenous knowledge, convergence
• first Canadian to serve as (current) president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
• established UBC Library’s Digitization Centre; spearheading UBC’s digitization agenda
• bilingual in English and French
Corinne Rogers, doctoral student, SLAIS
Cell: 604.929.0243
Email: corinne.rogers@gmail.com
• mediating human heritage through technology
Elizabeth Shaffer, doctoral student, SLAIS
Cell: 604.783.9644
Email: elisabeth.shaffer@gmail.com
• privacy, intellectual property and legal implications in relation to social media/social networks;
• information policy