Unpacking the Digital Shoebox Symposium – 17 February 2012 – UBC, Vancouver

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Location: Frederick Wood Theatre, University of British Columbia, 8:15am – 4 pm, Friday, 17 February 2012.

The Association of Canadian Archivists Student Chapters’ 4th annual International Student Symposium “Unpacking the Digital Shoebox: The Future of Personal Archives”.

Speakers and their topics:

  • Elizabeth Yakel – “Other People’s Data: Disciplinary Traditions and Data Reuse”
  • Babak Hamidzadeh – “An Iterative & Evolutionary Framework for Digital Repository Development”
  • Philip Bantin – “An Evolving Partnership: Managing the Digital Output of Academic Faculty”
  • Catherine Hobbs – “Centring Ideas of Personal Digital Context on Behaviour and Mindset”
  • Patricia Franks – “Virtual Time Capsule: Sharing Our Lives and Times with Future Generations”
  • Jeannette Bastian – “Putting the Archivist in Community Archives”
  • Randall Jimerson – “To Transcend Myself: Narcissism and the Digital Attic”
  • Erik Borglund – “Personal Record Repositories, within the Police, a Hidden Knowledge Reservoir: A Talk about How Police Officers Keep Personal Records for Future Use”

Attendance is open to all information enthusiasts, students, and faculty.

For more information, check out the website:
http://www.slais.ubc.ca/people/students/student-groups/aca/symposium2012/index.html

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