2009 IASA Conference in Athens, Greece

Towards a new kind of Archive?
The Digital Philosophy in Audiovisual Archives?

CALL FOR PAPERS

Submission Deadline: January 30th 2009

The Organising Committee of the IASA 2009 Annual Conference invites
presentation proposals for the 40th IASA Annual Conference, to be held
September 20-25, 2009, in Athens, Greece, hosted by the Hellenic National
Audiovisual Archive.

Presentation proposals are due January 30th, 2009, on the following themes:

• Archives, Libraries and Museums. Moment of Truth - Time to Converge?
• The disappearing Archive I: the loss of physical substance through digitisation
• The disappearing Archive II: aging and physical deterioration of analogue media
• The disappearing Archive III: obsolete carriers but no replay equipment
• Born to die? Selection policies in the 21st century
• Between archivists and users, taking advantage of the archive
• Digital preservation and audiovisual preservation: Is there a divide?
• 40 years of IASA
• The role of the National Audiovisual Archives
• Archiving the web and the new media audiovisual content
• Ethics of digital archives

Please find all conference information as well as the submission form on the conference website:

http://www.iasa2009.com