- International Council on Archives, Provisional Section on University and Research Institutions (ICA/PSUV), Science Archives Subgroup meeting, September 1995 (Washington DC, USA)
- Australian Society of Archivists Conference, May 1996 (Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia)
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International Council on Archives, Provisional Section on University and Research Institutions (ICA/PSUV), Science Archives Subgroup in association with the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, Division of History of Science, Commission on Bibliography and Documentation meeting, 28-29 May 1996 (Liege, Belgium)
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Study Tour of Science Archives in Paris, London and the USA, June 1996
- Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, September 1996 (San Diego, California, USA)
- International Council on Archives Congress, September 1996 (Beijing, China)
- Other Conference Presentations
International Council on Archives, Provisional
Section on University and Research Institutions (ICA/PSUV), Science
Archives Subgroup meeting
September 1995 (Washington DC, USA)
Towards the middle of 1995, Gavan McCarthy was invited to speak
at the above meeting. This meeting also coincided with the Society
of American Archivists Annual Conference, and it was regarded
as a good opportunity to present some of ASAP's work to an international
audience and review firsthand the state of the archival profession
in the USA. The week long trip was packed full with meetings
and presentations and led to the
re-invigoration of the Science Archives Subgroup, the commencement
of planning for future meetings, and the establishment of an international
agenda of activities. It became clear that ASAP was in a position
to participate in the international arena and indeed, due to its
success in recent times in running large and complex projects
in the science and technology areas, could make a significant
contribution.
Australian Society of Archivists Conference
May 1996 (Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia)
L - R: Kerry Scott
(Australian Archives), Joanne Evans,
Michelle Novacco and Gavan McCarthy participating
in the Australian Society of Archivists Conference,
Alice Springs, May 1996
Seven ASAP Melbourne staff members attended the Australian Society
of Archivists (ASA) Conference 1996 in Alice Springs. The conference
presentations by Lisa Enright, Joanne Evans and Michelle Novacco
were a credit to themselves and to ASAP. The professionally presented
papers highlighted ASAP's cutting-edge performance and the success
of our methodology and tools (not to mention staff input and innovation)
in carrying out projects that by many would be considered impossible.
All ASAP staff participated actively in the conference and gained
much from the experience.
International Council on Archives, Provisional
Section on University and Research Institutions (ICA/PSUV), Science
Archives Subgroup in association with the International Union of the History and
Philosophy of Science, Division of History of Science,
Commission on Bibliography and Documentation meeting
28-29 May 1996 (Liege, Belgium)
L - R: Greg Moss,
Shauna Hicks, Bruce Smith
and Gavan McCarthy at the ICA Congress,
Beijing, China, September 1996
Immediately following the ASA conference in Alice Springs, Gavan
McCarthy travelled to Liege, Belgium, for the above meeting titled
'Archiving the Records of Contemporary Science'. In Liege, Gavan
met with Professor Rod Home, another co-organiser of this meeting,
and twenty other science archivists and historians from Australia,
USA and Europe, to focus on the particular challenges being posed
by the introduction of new technologies to scientific practice
and the impact these have on record creation and recordkeeping.
The primary outcome of the meeting was a report containing a
conference statement and a set of strategies to be implemented
by various attendees. We hope to further our understanding of
the issues, to devise tools and methods that will enable archivists
and historians to handle electronic records, and to communicate
with scientists our concerns about their indiscriminate use of
new technologies and the risks they run by not creating viable
and believable records.
Study Tour of Science Archives in Paris, London and the USA
June 1996
Utilising the fact that he was in Europe, Gavan McCarthy took
the opportunity to visit a number of science archivists, especially
those who would have liked to attend the Liege meeting but were
unable. The tour included visiting the archives of the Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique (French equivalent of the
CSIRO) and the Headquarters of the International Council on Archives
in Paris, France; Imperial College, the Natural History Museum,
the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in London, UK; the Bentley
Library, University of Michigan; the Charles Babbage Center for
Information Processing, University of Minnesota; Archives and
Museum Informatics in Pittsburg, and various sites at Stanford
University in the USA. The tour was extremely intense but enabled
the presentation of ASAP's activities and achievements in a variety
of settings and allowed for face-to-face debate and discussion
of the key issues facing archivists in the 1990s.
Society of American Archivists Annual Conference
September 1996 (San Diego, California, USA)
Following the presentation of the paper by Gavan McCarthy at the
Washington meeting in 1995, an invitation was issued to ASAP to
participate in the next Society of American Archivists Annual
Conference in a session focused on contemporary issues in the
power generation industry. Lisa Enright, Project Leader from
the Generation Victoria Round 2 project, presented a paper
on ASAP's work on the records of the dissaggregating power industry
in Victoria to a small but appreciative audience. Again, the
exposure of ASAP and its staff to the international scene has
done much to help us understand the significance of the research
and development we have undertaken in the last few years.
International Council on Archives Congress
September 1996 (Beijing, China)
L - R: George
Nichols, Clive Smith and Gavan McCarthy
enjoying dinner in Beijing, China, September 1996
The International Council on Archives Congress, which is held
every four years, is the major opportunity for the international
archival community to get together and establish a working agenda
for the future, and this applies to all levels of the organisation.
At this Congress, the Provisional Section on Universities and
Research Institutions was proclaimed as a full Section (ICA/SUV),
and the Science Archives Subgroup, a group too small to qualify
as a Section, was included as a subgroup. In order to facilitate
the links between the subgroup and the SUV a number of members
of the subgroup, including Gavan McCarthy, were invited on to
the SUV Steering Committee. The Congress provided an opportunity
for key science archivists to get together and propose a meeting
and conference program for the next few years, which includes
a major conference in Canberra around Easter 1998.
Other Conference Presentations
Tim Sherratt, 'Advertising your archives on the WWW', paper presented
to 'The Internet: what can it do for the archivist?' Workshop,
Australian Society of Archivists Annual Conference, Canberra,
July 1995.
Tim Sherratt, 'WWW meets HPS/STS: a DIY guide', paper presented
to the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and
Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) Annual Conference, Sydney,
July 1995.
Tim Sherratt, 'Ten Years On: ASAP launches the history of Australian
chemistry into cyberspace', paper presented to the Royal Australian
Chemical Institute (RACI) National Congress, Adelaide, August
1995.
Tim Sherratt, 'A World to Win: the WWW experience of a small
organisation with big dreams', paper presented to the Asia-Pacific
World Wide Web '95 Conference, Sydney, September 1995.
Tim Sherratt, 'The Bright Sparcs Project: combining directory
and publishing functions in a subject-specific resource', paper
presented at the Resource Discovery Workshop '96, Melbourne, March
1996.
Tim Sherratt, 'On the Beach: Australia's nuclear history', paper
presented to the French Worlds, Pacific Worlds Conference, Melbourne,
July 1996.
Tim Sherratt, 'Pathways to Memory: accessing archives on the WWW',
paper presented at AusWeb '96, Gold Coast, July 1996.
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