Policies & Practices in Access to Digital Archives

Dear colleagues, You are invited to the Summer school ADA 2014 "Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives: Openness, Trustworthiness and Cost-efficiency" in Split, Croatia. http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/ada2014/ The Summer school will be held from 30 June to 4 July 2014. The 3rd summer school on access to digital archives is co-organised by: - University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Information and Communication Sciences in partnership with - University of Split, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History. Confirmed lecturers include: Dr. Luciana Duranti, School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Dr. Gabrijela Gavran, Faculty of Law Library, University of Zagreb Dr. Gabriella Ivacs, Chief Archivist, Archives and Records Operations at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Dr. Marc Kosciejew, Department of Library Information and Archive Sciences, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta Mr. Carlo Meghini, Networked Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory, Institute of the National Research Council of Italy Dr. Oleksandr Pastukhov, Department of Information Policy and Governance, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta Dr. Hrvoje Stancic, Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb The distinguished lecturers of the ADA 2014 summer school will cover the following topics: - making, keeping and preserving records in an online environment - trust in digital records and trust in e-government services in the context of long-term preservation - cost and efficiency of digital workflows - open access in archives in the context of major documentation science developments - digital preservation related to linked open data - open access repositories. Courses are opened to Master and Ph.D. students, as well as all other professionals that show an active interest or engagement in archives in the current digital environments. During the ADA 2014 summer school there will be a round table discussion. PhD students will have the opportunity to make short presentations (duration 10-15 minutes) of their research ideas. The presentations will be followed by a group discussion. Official language of the ADA 2014 summer school is English. Participants of the ADA 2014 summer school have the opportunity to book their accommodation at special prices. Please feel free to share this information with your colleagues and students.

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