On the occasion of the International Archives Month and the 75th anniversary of the International Council on Archives (ICA), the Symposium on Scientific Archives is intended to be an opportunity to bring archivists and record managers working with scientific collections together to share challenges, experience, opportunities and build a community of practice.
Please submit your abstracts for talks at the event (maximum 20 minutes for both presentation and questions) on the following topics:
- Advocacy for the archive and archive processes within the organizations
- Archival policy frameworks with a focus on digital archiving
- Classification of records and levels of access
- Digital preservation strategies and approaches
- Digitization strategies
- Discoverability of archives
- Acquisition and transfer of records to historical archives
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 6 June 2023. Registration to participate in the symposium is open until 21 June 2023.
The agenda will be finalized and circulated mid-June.
Organisers:
- CERN Archive
- EMBL Archive
- EUROfusion Consortium
- GSK's heritage archives
- Wellcome Sanger Institute Archive
