2004 Electronic Records Research Symposium

In 2004, the symposium was held in the Pleasants Family Room at Wilson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ken Thibodeau, Director of the Electronic Records Archives Program at the National Archives and Records Administration, delivered the keynote address.

A number of other archival researchers (i.e., Wendy Duff, Philip Eppard, Beth Yakel, Helen Tibbo, Richard Pearce-Moses) presented research on a variety of topics.

The 2004-2005 fellowship recipients (i.e., Druscilla Simpson, Nancy Kunde, Rebecca Schulte, Helen Samuels) discussed their research ideas with symposium participants in the afternoon.

Agenda for the 2004 symposium.

Opening remarks
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Ken Thibodeau-- Does Our Present Have a Future?

Dr. Kenneth Thibodeau is Director of the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) Program Management Office at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). ERA is NARA's strategic initiative to build the archives of the future, a virtual archives capable of preserving all types of electronic records and delivering them over the Internet to future generations of users on future generations of technology. He has 29 years experience in archives and records management, and is an internationally recognized expert in electronic records. Dr. Thibodeau taught at the University of Notre Dame and was Chief of the Records Management Branch of the National Institutes of Health before coming to NARA in 1988. In 1996, he served as the Director of the Department of Defense (DoD) Records Management Task Force, which revised DoD's Records Management Instruction and developed the DoD Records Management Application Standard, 5015.2-STD. He studied at Fordham University in New York and the University of Strasbourg, France. He earned a Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania. A Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, he has published over 30 papers and spoken at more than 140 conferences around the world.

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Wendy Duff-- North American Research Agenda in an Academic Setting: A View of the Landscape

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Philip Eppard -- InterPARES 2

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Beth Yakel -- MARC and EAD: Making Archival Surrogates Usable and Accessible

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Helen Tibbo -- Researching the Researchers: Finding Out How University Employees Manage Their Digital Materials

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Richard Pearce-Moses -- An Arizona Model for Capturing and Describing Documents on the Web

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Druscilla Simpson -- Preservation of Electronic Records

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Nancy Kunde -- Information Ecology and the Information System Conversion Process: Developing Conversion Criteria to Meet Record Keeping Requirements

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Rebecca Schulte -- Testing Boundaries: An Exploration of University Digital Assets Created During the Research Process

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Helen Samuels -- New Approaches to Documenting Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

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Special thanks to ibiblio for providing technical support and guidance.

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

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