[Hum-DIS] Archives and Recordkeeping Roundtable

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   Cassie Findlay <findlay.cassie at gmail.com> Sep 19 04:27PM +1000

   Colleagues



   We would like to invite you to a major professional workshop,
   co-presented
   by the Australian Society of Archivists and the Recordkeeping
   Roundtable, *Reinventing
   Archival Methods*.


   The digital deluge is upon us: On 13 July 2012, the *Sydney Morning
   Herald*reported that globally, the amount of data created, collected,
   and shared
   in 2009 was 800,000 petabytes. By 2020 this figure will be 35 zettabytes
   (one zettabyte is equivalent to 260,000,000,000 DVDs). The world is
   getting
   more complex. With rapidly evolving business systems, cloud environments,
   expanding application and software development and information profusion,
   we are in an environment where a stable archival heritage will be
   difficult
   to create, let alone sustain. The evidence suggests that our professional
   methods are not coping with the scale and complexity of contemporary
   recordkeeping challenges, and they are failing us at a time of critical
   risk. We need to do something about it and we need to do it now.

   This is not the first call to reinvent our professional practices. In
   1986
   David Bearman first argued that our core methods of appraisal,
   description,
   preservation and access were fundamentally unable to cope with the
   volumes
   of information that archivists were required to process. He called on the
   profession to completely reinvent its core methods. While much has been
   done in the intervening 25 years, as a profession our methods are still
   ill-equipped to deal with the volume, fragility and complexity of
   contemporary archival records.

   In November in Sydney, leading thinkers and practitioners Professor Sue
   McKemmish, Barbara Reed, Chris Hurley, Dr Tim Sherratt, David Roberts,
   Cassie Findlay and Dr Kate Cumming, along with journalist and ABC Radio
   presenter on RN's 'Future Tense', Antony Funnell, will lead a discussion
   on
   the current state of our professional practice and the external forces
   shaping the future that we need to understand, while Dr Richard Lehane,
   Dr
   Joanne Evans and others will present case studies on current initiatives
   designed to reinvent our professional practice and methods. Other
   presenters to be announced.

   In this two day workshop, we will explore how we can fundamentally
   reassess
   our methods and determine what can be done to create a stable archival
   record of the 21st century.

   Workshop details

   *When:* 9:30 - 4:00pm, 29 and 30 November 2012

   *Where: *Australian Technology Park, Redfern

   *Cost: *$300 ASA/RIMPA/ALIA members, $375 non-members (lunches, morning
   and
   afternoon teas will be provided)
   Registration

   You can register for Reinventing Archival Methods* *online at
   https://www.archivists.org.au/events/f/Event/16/ Registrations will be
   limited to 50 participants so please do not delay!

   If you have any enquiries about the event, please email
   events at archivists.org.au

   Full program details for the event and finalised speakers will be
   available
   via recordkeepingroundtable.org and www.archivists.org.au

   Follow the workshop or contribute to its discussions on Twitter via
   #archmethods

   We encourage all participants to read David Bearman’s landmark essay,
   *Archival
   Methods*, accessible via
   http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/archival_methods/
   Regards

   Cassie Findlay
   Australian Society of Archivists
   Recordkeeping Roundtable



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