Thursday 21 February 2008

National Library of Australia:

Theatre LG1

9:00am

CP4: Imagine a world without memories

Ms Margy Burn (Australia), Assistant Director-General, Australian Collections and Reader Services, National Library of Australia; Member, UNESCO Memory of the World Australian Committee, Chair's introduction.

National Library of Australia:

Grey Area

10:30am

Morning coffee

National Library of Australia:

Theatre LG1

11:00am

CW3: Preservation and access: socio-cultural and socio-technical aspects

Mr Adrian Cunningham (Australia), Director, Strategic Relations, National Archives of Australia. Chair's introduction.

Dr Sudha Golpalakrishnan (India), Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Preservation of Indian manuscripts.

Mr Jonas Palm (Sweden), Director, Director & Head of Department of Preservation, Riksarkivet/National Archives, Digitising as a preservation strategy.

Mr Kevin Bradley (Australia), Curator, Oral History and Folklore, National Library of Australia; President, Australasian Sound Recordings Association; Vice Chair, International Association of Sound and Audio-Visual Archives Technical Committee, Digital preservation: the need for open source software for small institutions.

Ms Cornel Platzer, Director Digital and Audiovisual Preservation, Operations and Preservation Branch, National Archives of Australia

Professor Allan Marett (Australia), Visiting Professor, Adjunct Professor, School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Charles Darwin University; School of Languages, Arts and Media, University of Sydney; Joint Vice
President, International Council for Traditional MusicThe National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance In Australia: using digital resources to support endangered traditions.

Dr Dietrich Schüller, Director, Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Challenges of preserving audio-visual material.

National Library of Australia:

Grey Area

1:00pm

Lunch

National Library of Australia:

Theatre LG1

2:00pm

CW4: Sustaining the proramme

Mr Ray Edmondson OAM (Australia), Director, Archive Associates Pty Ltd; Immediate Past President/ex officio Councillor, South East Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA); Chair, UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for the Asia-Pacific Region (MOWCAP); Deputy Chair, UNESCO Memory of the World Australian Committee, Chair's introduction.

Ms Alissandra Cummins, Director, Barbados Museum and Historical Society; Chair of the International Advisory Committee of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme; President, International Council of Museums (ICOM) Memory of the World: what are its greatest challenges?

Mr Richard Engelhardt (Thailand), UNESCO Regional Advisor for Culture for Asia and the Pacific & Ms Susanne Ornager (Thailand), UNESCO Adviser for Communication and Information in Asia, Progress report on of the development of a methodology for complementing the three UNESCO programmes - intangible, tangible and documentary heritage.

Professor Lothar Jordan (Germany), Director of Research and Collections, Kleist-Museum; President, International Committee for Literary Museums (ICLM); Chair, ICLM-MOW Working Group & Mr Erling Dahl jr (Norway), Director, Edvard Grieg Museum; Past-President, International Committee for Literary Museums; Member, ICLM-MOW Working Group How can the International Committee of Literary Museums (ICLM) help promote the Memory of the World Programme?

Ms Marsali Mackinnon (Australia), Government, media and cultural relations specialist (Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific Region, Memory of the World: how can it achieve greater recognition and status.

Old Parliament House

Kings Hall and Members' Dining Room

7:00pm - 10:00pm

CS5: Conference Dinner

CC2; Announcement of the items of world significance to be inscribed on the inaugural UNESCO Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Regional Register (MOWCAP) in 2008