[ANPPOM-L] digital lives research conference

[Carlos Palombini]

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DIGITAL LIVES RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2009

Monday 9 February to Wednesday 11 February 2009 at the British Library, London

A CONFERENCE ABOUT PERSONAL DIGITAL ARCHIVES (of particular interest
to archivists and curators)
Scientists, historians, writers and IT specialists will come together
to address the challenge of organising and preserving personal digital
archives at the first ever Digital Lives Research Conference, which
will be inaugurated by British Library Chief Executive Dame Lynne
Brindley.
The conference will address (i) how libraries and archives can help
all people whose lives are becoming increasingly digital -
particularly academics - to secure, preserve and organise their
personal archives of digital photographs, documents, correspondence
and multimedia, for themselves and their families; and (ii) the
possibility of establishing relationships with providers of online
services and social systems technologies.
Topics will range from digital curation and digital preservation to
the creation of personal digital archives and their use by historians,
biographers and scientists.
Highlights include:
(i) Keynote Lectures by biographers Georgina Ferry and Andrew Lycett,
psychologist Charles Fernyhough, historian Orlando Figes, and
archivist Dorothy Sheridan of the Mass Observation Archive
(ii) Invited Presentations by George Oates, member of founding team at
Flickr, Simone Brunozzi of Amazon Web Services and Ian Hughes of IBM
(iii) Keynote Presentations by computer scientists Mark Baker of
University of Reading, Peter Bentley of University College London,
Annamaria Carusi of University of Oxford, Jon Crowcroft of University
of Cambridge, Kieron O'Hara of University of Southampton and Dave
Taylor of Imperial College London.
(iv) A Writers in Conversation session on the creation of digital
archives, featuring Tony Benn, Dame Antonia Byatt and Wendy Cope, and
chaired by pioneering computer scientist Dame Wendy Hall
(v) Day 3 of the conference will involve the participation of visitors
and inhabitants of virtual world Second Life, with the conference
broadcast onto the Elucian Islands , the Second Life home of Nature
Publishing Group and Macmillan Publishers. There will be a keynote
lecture by Timo Hannay, Publishing Director at Nature.com
(vi) A presentation on 'Digital Life at the Extremes' by polar
explorer Ben Saunders
See: www.bl.uk/digital-lives/conference.html
<http://www.bl.uk/digital-lives/conference.html> for further details.
The first day of the conference will focus on the latest approaches to
curating digital objects and archives. The second day will look at the
development of such archives from the point of view of the creators
and researchers - writers, scientists and historians. The third day
will offer an overview of life online and digital archives as they are
developing at present. The conference is FREE to attend on the 9 and
11 of February, registration is required as space is limited. There is
a registration fee of £35 for 10 February, but WAIVERS ARE AVAILABLE.
Please register at the Digital Lives Research Conference 2009 website:
www.bl.uk/digital-lives/confreg.html
About The Digital Lives Research Project
The Digital Lives Research Project is led by the British Library and
is designed to provide a major pathfinding study of personal digital
archives, and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
(AHRC). The project team is drawn from University College London and
University of Bristol as well as the British Library itself.

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carlos palombini
<cpalombini em gmail.com>

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