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Virtual Policy Dialogue on Documentary Heritage at Risk: Policy Gaps in Digital Preservation – 27 October 2020
27 October 2020
Programme
The UNESCO Policy Dialogue on Digital Preservation was held onlineon Tuesday, 27 October 2020 in two sessions Session 1: 8:00–10:00 CET (UTC+1) and Session 2: 17:00–19:00 CET (UTC+1)
Session 1 8:00-10:00 CET (UTC+1)
Host: MsLai Tee Phang, Chair, Preservation Sub-Committee of the UNESCO MoW International Advisory Committee
8:00-8:10 VPD Introduction MsLai Tee Phang 8:10-8:15 Welcome remarks Mr Xing Qu, UNESCO Deputy Director General
8:15-8:30 Keynote: Preservation policy landscape Mr David Fricker, President, International Council on Archives
Topic ACultural Identity at Risk
Moderator: Ms Shubha Chaudhuri, Director of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology India
8:30-8:40 Missions Connect: Virtual Reality and Aboriginal heritage Ms Reena Tiwari, Professor of Built Environment, Curtin University, Australia
8:40-8:50 Dialogue contributors: Ms Te Paea Paringatai, University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand Mr Abdullah Al Hinai, Arab Federation for Libraries and Information
8:50-9:00
Questions from the audience
9:00-9:05
Break
Topic BSustainability
Moderator: Mr Robert Buckley, Technical Adviser at the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates
9:05-9:15 Sustainable, together! Mr Jeffrey van der Hoeven, National Library of the Netherlands
9:15-9:25 International partnerships at the British Library – Sustainable models for preserving cultural heritage Ms Marcie Hopkins, British Library, United Kingdom
9:25-9:40 Dialogue contributors: Mr Gabriel Bunmi Alegbeleye, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Ms Laila Hussein Moustafa, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America Team ANRI:Mr Adhie Gesit Pambudi, Mr Dhani Sugiharto and Mr Prasetyo Utomo, National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia
9:40-9:50 Questions from the audience
9:50-10:00 VPD Session 1 concluding remarks Ms Lai Tee Phang
Session 2 17:00-19:00 CET (UTC+1)
Host: Ms Natasa Milic-Frayling, Preservation Sub-Committee of the UNESCO MoW International Advisory Committee
17:00-17:10 Welcome and summary of VPD Session 1 MsNatasa Milic-Frayling
Topic CTechnology
Moderator: Mr Kevin Bradley, Assistant Director General, National Library of Australia
17:10-17:20 KAdKA Project: Grassroot digitalization effort Mr Günther Cyranek and Mr Felix Gross, Archive Digitalization, Cyranek ICT4D, Germany
17:20-17:30 The Magnetic Tape Alert Project: Safeguarding the documents proper of cultural and linguistic diversity Mr Dietrich Schüller, Preservation Sub-Committee of the UNESCO MoW International Advisory Committee
17:30-17:45 Dialogue contributors: Ms Yolia Tortolero Cervantes, Independent Consultant, Mexico Ms Amanda Harris, Director of the PARADISEC Sydney Unit, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Australia Mr Frédéric Maire, President of FIAF, Director of the Cinémathèque Suisse, Switzerland
17:45-17:55 Questions from the audience
17:55-18:00
Break
Topic D: Legal Frameworks
Moderator: Ms Ingrid Parent, University Librarian Emerita, The University of British Columbia, Canada
18:00-18:10 Copying for good: A digital preservation perspective Mr Eric Chin, General Counsel, National Library Board, Singapore
18:10-18:20 Dialogue contributors: Ms Maria Soledad Abarca, Head of the Photographic and Audiovisual Collections National Library of Chile Mr Maximiliaan Scriwanek, Director of National Archives, Curaçao
18:20-18:30
Questions from the audience
Locknote: Preservation policy challenges
Moderator: Mr Adam Farquhar, Partner at Digital Lifecycle Management, United Kingdom
18:30-18:55 Ms Helen Vincent, Chair, IFLA Cultural Heritage Programme Advisory Committee, Member of the IFLA Governing Board Mr David Fricker, President, International Council on Archives Mr Fackson Banda, Chief, Documentary Heritage Unit (MoW), UNESCO
18:55-19:00 VPD Concluding remarks Ms Natasa Milic-Frayling