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ESARBICA-XX Conference Windhoek June 2009
| Location: | Namibia |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2008-11-18 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-09-10 |
| Announcement ID: |
163912 |
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The 20th Bi-Annual East and Southern Africa Regiona Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA) General Conference on "Documentary Heritage Management in the Digital Age: Beauty and the Beast" will be hosted by the National Archives of Namibia on 21-26 June 2009. This call for papers requests abstracts to be submitted by 18 November 2008, while the full paper is expected by 8 March 2009.
=== Themes ===
The forthcoming ESARBICA Conference seeks to highlight some of the challenges faced by archives, libraries, museums, historical societies and other repositories in the ESARBICA region in dealing with digital information which was ushered in by the advent of information and communication technologies and the knowledge economy. We need to develop specific techniques and policies to preserve and make accessible the wealth of information that is being generated electronically (digitally). Contributions are invited that address issues related to the digital documentary heritage. Themes that may be addressed are wide and open, but an advanced academic level of discourse is required. Inter alia the following broad themes will be addressed at the conference:
• Guidelines to safeguard the digital information
• Standards that support key preservation services, such as metadata and persistent identifier schemes
• Challenges to digitizing the African heritage
• Software and hardware for safeguarding digital information (new technologies and digital preservation)
• Intellectual property(cyberspace and copyrights of digital information)
• Digital archives legislation
• Ethical issues
• Lessons learnt from digitization projects, especially in Africa
• Legal deposit in the digital age
• Website preservation
• Accessibility of digital material that is saved in libraries, archives and museums
• Identification of incentives for institutions to undertake preservation
• Cooperative collecting agreements with libraries, archives, and other collecting institutions in the public and private sectors
• Preservation infrastructure
• Communication and outreach
Submission Procedure
Submissions should include the speaker's name(s), affiliation, address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers, a short one-paragraph biographical note, the title of the paper, and an abstract of 400 to 500 words. Each abstract will be double-blind reviewed. Papers accepted will be published in the conference proceedings provided authors present their work at the conference.
Important Information:
Abstracts submission: 18 November 2008
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 18 December 2008
Submission of full paper: 8 March 2009
Notification of acceptance of full paper: 5 May 2009
Conference: 21-26 June 2009
Accommodation, travelling and subsistence are the responsibility of the paper presenters.
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Prof. Patrick Ngulube
University of South Africa
Dept. of Information Science
PO Box 392, UNISA 0003
UNISA
South Africa
Email: ngulup@unisa.ac.za
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