2009 IASA Conference in Athens, Greece

Towards a new kind of Archive? The Digital Philosophy in Audiovisual Archives?

CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission Deadline: January 30th 2009
The Organising Committee of the IASA 2009 Annual Conference invites presentation proposals for the 40th IASA Annual Conference, to be held September 20-25, 2009, in Athens, Greece, hosted by the Hellenic National Audiovisual Archive.

Presentation proposals are due January 30th, 2009, on the following themes:

  • Archives, Libraries and Museums. Moment of Truth – Time to Converge?
  • The disappearing Archive I: the loss of physical substance through digitisation
  • The disappearing Archive II: aging and physical deterioration of analogue media
  • The disappearing Archive III: obsolete carriers but no replay equipment
  • Born to die? Selection policies in the 21st century
  • Between archivists and users, taking advantage of the archive
  • Digital preservation and audiovisual preservation: Is there a divide?
  • 40 years of IASA
  • The role of the National Audiovisual Archives
  • Archiving the web and the new media audiovisual content
  • Ethics of digital archives

Please find all conference information as well as the submission form on the conference website: http://www.iasa2009.com