NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON THE USE OF STANDARDS
IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE ACCESS SYSTEMS FOR ARCHIVES
Parliament House Theatre, Canberra
Friday 31 October 2003

PROGRAM

9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
Ross Gibbs, Director-General, National Archives of Australia

9.40 Approaches to Online Archival Data Sharing in the UK
Dick Sargent, UK National Archives: Historical Manuscripts Commission

10.10 Encoded Archival Context and the European Union’s LEAF Project
Per-Gunnar Ottosson, National Archives of Sweden

10.40 Morning tea

11.00 Recent Developments with Encoded Archival Description
Michael Fox, Minnesota Historical Society

11.30 Approaches to Online Archival Access in Italy
Stefano Vitali, State Archives of Florence, Italy

12.00 Describing Archives in Context: A Guide to Australian Practice
Adrian Cunningham, Convenor, ASA Committee on Descriptive Standards

12.30 Lunch

1.30 Opening remarks by the Chair
Professor Sue McKemmish, Monash University

1.40 Tabularium: a Case Study in Developing Standards-Compliant Archival Software
David Roberts

2.10 HDMS and the OHRM: Case Studies in Developing Standards-Compliant Archival Software
Joanne Evans, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre

2.40 National Library of Australia Initiatives using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
Tony Boston, National Library of Australia

3.10 Afternoon tea

3.30 Because That’s the Sort of Thing That Users Do: Rules for Successful Online Access Systems
Derina McLaughlin, National Archives of Australia

4.00 Development of an Australian National Online Archival Network
Phillip Dermody, Distant Communication Technologies

4.30 Close