2016 Seminar and Symposium Presenters

The ACA at UBC is pleased to host eight experts, who will participate in the Seminar and give the following presentations at the Symposium:
·      Amelia Acker, University of Pittsburgh: Mobile Records, Social Media, and Recent Trends in Records Destruction
·      Greg Bak, University of Manitoba: Constructing Ephemerality: The Bitstream and the Cloud
·      Babak Hamidzadeh, University of Maryland: What Can and Should Be Preserved in Social Media Communications and How
·      Peter Meiszner and Houston White, UBC Public Affairs Office: Digital and Social Media at UBC Public Affairs
·      TBD, Library and Archives Canada: Web Archiving and the National Archival Collection: Capturing the Everyday Record
·      Erin O’Meara, Gates Archive: No More Waiting for Godot: Archival Practice in the Age of Social Media and Hosted Platforms
·      Kate Theimer, ArchivesNext.com: Gaps in the Past and Gaps in the Future: Archival Silences and Social Media

Reserve your place at the ACA@UBC Seminar and Symposium now! Early-bird registrants receive a reduced rate until January 15: professionals pay only $35 to attend all events; students pay $10 (this includes lunch at the Symposium). Professionals who sign up on January 16 or later pay $45, while students continue to pay $10.  Register online here.

Registration now open for the 2016 ACA@UBC Seminar & Symposium

The ACA@UBC is delighted to present its 8th Annual International Seminar and Symposium, Preserving Liquid Communication, taking place February 10-12, 2016 at UBC.

The Seminar and Symposium website is now live at http://acasymposium2016.sites.olt.ubc.ca – register now and save with early bird prices! We will be updating the website with full details shortly.

The event will address fast-growing issues around the preservation of informal communications in cloud environments generated through the use of social media. Archivists, records managers, and information professionals will explore the nature of social media output, the identification of what should be preserved, methods of preservation, provision of access and legal issues concerning intellectual rights, privacy, the right to be forgotten, and more.