The US-InterPARES Project (International Research on the Preservation of Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) will hold a symposium at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. on Friday, October 21, 2005. The symposium will feature papers and reports delivered by US-InterPARES 2 project researchers about ongoing research related to the creation and preservation of trustworthy electronic records.
Presenters:
Program
9 AM ~ 9:30 AM
Kenneth Hawkins and Philip Eppard
Introduction and Project Overview
9:30 AM ~ 10:30 AM
Fynnette Eaton
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
"ERA and the InterPARES Project"Kenneth Hawkins
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
"Digital Engineering Records Case Study Report"
10:30 AM ~ 11:00 AM -- Break
11:00 AM ~ 12:15 AM
Reagan Moore
San Diego Supercomputer Center
"Preservation Environments for GIS Systems"
William Underwood
Geogia Tech Research Institute
"Planetary Data System: A Case Study of a Space Science Data Archive"
12:15 PM ~ 1:45 PM -- Lunch
1:45 PM ~ 3:00 PM
Kevin Glick
Yale
"Implications of InterPARES Research for University Archives"
Lori Ann Lindberg
University Of California, Los Angeles
"MADRAS: Assessing Metadata Schema for their Recordkeeping Capabilities"
3:00 PM ~ 3:30 PM -- Break
3:30 PM ~ 4:45 PM
Terrence Maxwell
University at Albany, State University of New York
"A Conceptual Framework for Electronic Archives Policy Development"
Howard Besser
New York University
"Copyright Issues in the Preservation of Digital Archives"
4:45 PM ~ 5:00 PM
Philip Eppard
University at Albany, State University of New York
Closing Comments and Discussion
Symposium Location
National Archives and Records Administration, 700 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.
Admission is free.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following for their support of the project:
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
The National Science Foundation
The Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
We would also like to thank the National Archives and Records Administration for their assistance with this symposium.