Memories, Communities, Technologies - Planning Workshops

Planning Meeting, Melbourne, 11 October 2005

Participants

Three groups were represented at the planning meeting:

  • Academics
  • Professionals/Practitioners
    • Including librarians, archivists and records managers, technologists, public historians, community networkers
  • Community Members
    • Representatives of “communities of memory”
    • People engaged with issues of identity and empowerment in memories, communities and technologies

Themes

  • The formation and transformation of memories, communities and technologies
    • with reference to issues of identity, power, governance, empowerment, community production of knowledge, cultural memory texts, communities of records, research dialectic with eEvidence
  • eResearch issues and frameworks
    • ethics, privacy, and FOI
    • frameworks, protocols, and designs
    • empowerment of communities in and through engagement in research processes
  • eResearch sources
    • storage, preservation, metadata and accessibility
    • digital repositories, digitisation, managing huge datasets, archiving websites
    • archival systems of the future – multiple views of parallel recordkeeping universes
    • authenticity and quality issues, multiple access and research pathways
  • eResearch tools
    • strategies and tools for cross-domain searching across multiple large datasets
    •  tools for manipulation of data, including scholarly annotation.

The pivotal theme was the formation and transformation of memories, communities and technologies as the focus of collaborative eResearch.  The eResearch themes were explored and scoped in relation to how they can enable innovative multi-disciplinary research at the nexus of memories, communities and technologies, and empower the stakeholders – in the academy, industry/profession, community.

The presenters in each of the sessions led the development and scoping of the theme under discussion. Selected participants made an initial response to the presentation from the three perspectives - community, academic/research, or industry/professional.

By the end of the day, themes for further exploration at the Memories, Communities, Technologies Search Conference in Prato, 4-6 October 2006, were scoped, key issues emerged and a list of likely speakers and invited participants for Prato was identified. The final session involved a roundtable discussion, and agreement, on the key themes and issues that should be taken forward to the Prato conference.

Program

9:00 – 9:30           Framework setting – Prof Eric Ketelaar, Monash University and University of Amsterdam

9:30 – 9:45          Morning tea

9:45 – 11:30          Formation/Transformation of memories, communities, technologies

        • Presentations
          • Profs Harold Short (Kings College London), Don Schauder (Monash), Graeme Davison (Monash)
        • Responses
          • Prof Paula Hamilton (UTS)
          • Liza Dale-Hallett (Melbourne Museum)
          • Prof Marcia Langton (University of Melbourne)
        • Discussion
        • Wrap-up – emerging themes 5 mins
          • Prof Eric Ketelaar

Chair: Prof Marian Quartly (Monash)

11:30 – 12:30          eResearch issues and frameworks

        • Presentation
          • Prof Sue McKemmish (Monash) on behalf of Prof Anne Gilliland-Swetland (UCLA)
        • Responses
          • Vicki Court (RHSV)
          • Shannon Faulkhead (Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash)
          • Rachel U’Ren (Monash and Public Record Office Victoria)
        • Discussion
        • Wrap-up – emerging themes
          • Prof Eric Ketelaar

Chair: Anne-Marie Schwirtlich (State Library Victoria)

12:30 – 1:15          Lunch

1:15 – 2:15          E-Research sources

        • Presentation
          • Dr Richard Marciano (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
        • Responses
          • Marie-Louise Ayres (National Library of Australia)
          • Prof Harold Short
        • Discussion
        • Wrap-up
          • Eric Ketelaar

Chair: Kathryn Dan (Monash University Archives)

2:15 – 2:30          Break

2:30 – 3:30          E-Research tools

        • Presentation
          • Dr Andrew Treloar (Monash Information Technology Services)
        • Responses
          • Gavan McCarthy (Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, University of Melbourne)
          • Graeme Johanson (Monash)
          • Jane Hunter (University of Queensland)
        • Discussion
        • Wrap-up – emerging themes
          • Prof Eric Ketelaar

Chair: Justine Heazlewood (Public Record Office Victoria)

3:30 – 5:00           Formation/Transformation revisited: agree on key themes and issues for Prato and action items

        • Facilitator: Prof Eric Ketelaar

Planning Meeting, Wellington, 4 October 2005

The purpose of the meeting was to focus on the research agenda for Indigenous communities in relation to archives and records. An important component was the exchange of information about research and projects being undertaken by participants which enabled participants to identify points of connection between the various projects, and to explore how to develop those connections further.

Participants at the meeting included academic researchers, representatives from information professions (libraries, archives and records), and community representatives.

Program 4 October 2005

9:30 – 9:45          Welcome

9:45 – 10:30          Introduction, setting the agenda

10:30 – 11:00          Morning tea

11:00 – 12:30          Exchange of information

        • Current research and projects
        • What are the points of connection between projects?

12:30 – 1:30          Lunch

1:30 – 2:30          eResearch issues for indigenous communities

        • ethics, privacy, and FOI
        • frameworks, protocols, and designs
        • empowerment of communities in and through engagement in research processes

2:30 – 2:45          Break

2:45 – 3:45          Identification of emerging opportunities

        • Areas of potential collaboration
        • Future research possibilities
        • Possible funding sources