The National Archives

The National Archives

The National Archives

The National Archives

Panel Session "A"

The National Archives

Panel Session "A"

Panel Session "A"

Programme

Registration, 8.30 - 9.30

Welcome, 9.30 - 9.45

Session 1, 9.45 - 11.00

Panel A:

• 200 years of migration history on 1 web site.
• Elizabeth Lovell, The National Archives
• The National Archives, the State Papers and the World Wide Web.
• Helen Good, University of Hull
• Funding, availability and access: The National Archives.
• Mr Aidan Lawes, The National Archive

Panel B:

• Unlocking the RGS Archive.
• Dr Glen Segell, Institute of Security Policy
• Historians uses of archival sources in Canada and their preferences for digitisation.
• Barbara Craig, Wendy Duff and Joan Cherry, University of Toronto
• 'A Postgraduate-Castaway's Tale': How I Adapted to Digital Research Technologies and Methodologies.
• Howard Fuller, King's College London

Coffee 11.00 - 11.15

Session 2, 11.15 - 12.30

Panel A:

• Digital London: Creating a Searchable Web of Interlinked Sources on Eighteenth-Century London.
• Professor Robert Shoemaker and Jamie Maclaughlin, University of Sheffield
• Digitisation selection strategies - preserving and uncovering hidden histories.
• Ms Jaqueline Spence, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
• The end of (local) history?
• Ms Margaret Proctor, University of Liverpool

Panel B:

• Selection, Access and Use: Dundee Archives' Digitisation Projects.
• Ms Caroline Brown, Dundee University
• Opportunism: a strategic tool for unlocking the archives or an act of semblance?
• Ms Sian Everitt, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
• JSTOR: A Case Study in the Recent History of Scholarly Communications.
• Roger C. Schonfeld, Ithaka

12.30 - 2.00 Lunch (AHC-UK AGM 1.15 - 2.00)

Session 3, 2.00 - 3.15

Panel A:

• Building an Ontology for History: Lessons Learned.
• Richard Deswarte, University of East Anglia and Dr Jan Oosthoek, UNEW
• A 21st Century History Portal: The Semantic Web and Contextualising European History.
• Richard Deswarte, University of East Anglia and Dr Jan Oosthoek, UNEW
• The Role of Hypermedia History.
• Dr Isobel Falconer, Open University and Dr Ian Anderson, University of Glasgow

Panel B:

• Freedom Struggles in South Africa: The Digital Imaging Project of Southern Africa and the role of the historian.
• Dr Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town and Greg Simpson, University of Oxford
• Teaching History Online: The first Eight years.
• Dr John Nolan, UMUC-Europe
• Serving Old Wine in New Bottles: Evaluating MOAC II Content and Presentation for Research and Teaching.
• Associate Professor Anne Gilliland-Swetland, University of California, Los Angeles and Layna White, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Coffee 3.15 - 3.30

Session 4, 3.30 - 4.30

Panel A:

• The effectiveness of various retrieval strategies for digital archives in Ireland.
• Dr Andy White, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
• Re-exploring Alnwick: How digitisation of data can give new insight on methodology.
• Dr Elwin Koster, Groningen University

Summing Up, 4.30 - 5.00

Photographs (c) David Anderson 2004