International Conference on Records and Archives

Power of Collective Memories and Evidence

Programme : Day 1, 17 July 2008

 
 

 

 

 

 

 


Time

Programme – Day 1

Speakers

8:15 am

Registration

 

 

9:00 am

 

Welcome Remarks

 

Mr Pitt Kuan Wah

Director, National Archives of Singapore

 

9:20 am

 

Opening Address

 

Renewal of Agreement on Archival

Co-operation Between National Archives of Singapore & State Archives Administration of China

 

Mr Yang Dongquan

Director-General

State Archives Administration of China

9:50 am

Tea Break

 

 

10:20 am

 

Oral History: The Interaction Between Memory and Text

 

 

Mr Kwa Chong Guan        

Chairman

National Archives Board

 

11:00 am

 

Restarting the Oral History Programme in Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia

 

 

Dr Djoko Utomo

Director-General

Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia

 

11:45 am

 

Q & A

 

Moderator: Mr Pitt Kuan Wah

Director
National Archives of Singapore

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

 

Preserving Evidence, Constructing History: How Government Archives Sustain the Memory of the Nation

 

 

Dr Jeannette Bastian

Associate Professor

Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Simmons College, Boston, USA

 

2:00 pm

 

Establishing an Accountability Framework: Macro-appraisal in the Canadian Federal Government Context

 

Ms Catherine Bailey

Archivist

Library and Archives Canada

 

2:30 pm

 

The Tidal Wave of Records: Records Management and Accountability at the World Bank Group

 

Ms April Miller

Archivist

World Bank Group Archives

 

3:00 pm

 

Q & A

 

Moderator: Ms Elaine Goh

Assistant Director

National Archives of Singapore

3:30 pm

Tea Break

 

 

4:00 pm

 

From Emails and Instant Messages to Records: Capturing Digital Records as Evidence

 

Mr Stephen Lim

Chief Executive Officer

SQLView Pte Ltd, Singapore

 

4:30 pm

 

Enterprise Document Management System - Transformation and innovation

 

 

 

Hady Ang Hock Leng

Deputy Director

Land Transport Authority

 

5:00 pm

 

Q & A

 

Moderator: Mrs Kwek Kim Gek

Deputy Director

National Archives of Singapore

5:30 pm

End of Day One

 

 


 

International Conference on Records and Archives

Power of Collective Memories and Evidence

Programme : Day 2, 18 July 2008

 
 

 

 

 

 

 


Time

Programme – Day 2

Speakers

 

9:00 am

 

Total Archives in Canada: The Changing Role of Government in the Preservation of Canada’s Documentary Heritage

 

Dr Laura Millar

Consultant, Archives and Information Management Canada

 

 

9:30 am

 

Preservation of Public and Private Memories: Philosophical Implications of AV Digitisation

 

 

Mr Ray Edmondson

Director

Archive Associate Pty Ltd

Australia

10:00 am

Tea Break

 

 

10:30 am

 

Building Bridges: Developing Software for Dealing with Ink-Bleed in Manuscript Records

 

Dr Michael S. Brown

Assistant Professor

National University of Singapore

 

11:00 am

 

Q & A

 

 

Moderator: Ms Irene Lim

Deputy Director

National Archives of Singapore

 

11:30 am

 

Depart to Memories at Old Ford Factory, 351 Upper Bukit Timah Road, Singapore(588192)

 

Transport provided

 

12:15 pm

 

Official Opening of Archives Repositories at Memories at Old Ford Factory

 

12:45 pm

Lunch

 

 

2:00 pm

 

Learning Journey of Archives Repositories and Exhibition Gallery

 

4:00 pm

End of Programme

 

Transport provided to NAS.