Conveners
Session 1: Welcome and Scientific Archive Development
- Maria Papanikolaou (EMBL)
- Salome Rohr (CERN)
Session 1: Digitalisation of Scientific Archives
- Jill Moretto (GSK)
- Tilda Watson (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Sorbonne University's archives and records service was created in 2018 following the fusion of the two previous archives services and missions of Sorbonne University's predecessor universities. Since 2019, it has been attached to the university's library department, and its missions have continued to evolve both in the context of the massive digitization of the institution's processes and in...
Archivists tend to come from a humanities background, meaning it can be difficult to understand scientific terminology and processes. This presentation discusses the approaches taken to interrogate the papers of one of GSK's most important scientists in order to appropriately catalogue and organise them, to make them available.
As a result of this project the GSK Heritage team gained valuable...
Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, was a student and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. In 1960 is mother gave some of her collection of his personal papers to the College; associated documents written by him continue to accrue to the Turing Papers held at King’s. When a pilot study for digitising an entire archival collection was mooted in 1999, the organisers asked...
Personal archives traditionally feature manuscripts, which have been (or are in the process of being) replaced by computer generated media. The Stephen Hawking Archive exemplifies this shift to post-script, or at least to new scripts. This paper reflects on my experience of accessioning the Stephen Hawking Archive, interacting with multiple stakeholders who attributed significance to the...
With the continuous rise of Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) as one of the most important standards for creating meaningful AIPs, it is time to take a look at its extended capabilities. While OCFL has so far been used primarily as an extended Bagit to create archive containers with checksums, the structured application of OCFL extensions allows the addition of technical and semantic metadata...
