[cma-l] FW: Pararchive Community Showcase and Conference/Deadline Fast Approaching - 01 November 2014

[Richard Berry]

Dear Colleagues,

It is now only ten days to 1st November 2014 - the deadline for submitting abstracts for the Pararchive Conference and Community Showcase. Registration is free. You will be able to book your free ticket to this two-day event from Sunday 2nd November 2014 via the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting-communities-storytelling-and-the-digital-archive-conference-tickets-13845421027
Details of travel, accommodation, event programme and directions to the conference venue will follow soon on the Pararchive website (www.pararchive.com<http://www.pararchive.com>).
Please send this on to any community groups, activists and campaigners, researchers, creative professionals, cultural institutions and policymakers interested in developing and promoting research, education, collaborative working practices, community agendas and affinities, policy and activism around the notion of an open-access digital space.

Please address any enquiries to pararchiveleeds at gmail.com<mailto:pararchiveleeds at gmail.com>

Many thanks, Daniel Mutibwa - on behalf of the Pararchive Project Team
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Connecting Communities: Storytelling and the Digital Archive

Deadline in 10 Days/CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Date: Friday 27th – Saturday 28th March 2015
Venue: Stage at Leeds, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

This AHRC-funded conference and community showcase marks the climax of an eighteen-month multidisciplinary research project entitled Pararchive: Open Access Community Storytelling and the Digital Archive (www.pararchive.com<http://www.pararchive.com>). The project seeks to build new interactive environments that explore issues of ownership, public and institutional relationships and provide tools for collaborative community research and creative expression using digital heritage resources. It was motivated by recognition that communities are encountering real barriers to organising and connecting to resources and each other. In the field of heritage it is often difficult to access archival materials from public cultural institutions owing to bureaucratic, commercial and geographical barriers, something that impedes community research and connectivity. It is often difficult to establish relationships between communities and institutions that could and should be mutually enriching.

We have been asking how best to approach these problems and deal with issues such as copyright,  collaborative working, impact and building an open source digital environment to facilitate connectivity and build a set of lasting legacies. We now want to widen our conversation by bringing together community groups, activists and campaigners, researchers, creative professionals, cultural institutions and policymakers interested in developing and promoting research, education, collaborative working practices, policy and activism around the notion of an open access digital resource.
To celebrate the launch of Pararchive and our community partners’ research projects we invite conference contributions around the following suggested themes:

Creativity and innovation
Co-curation models
Co-design and co-production methodologies and experiences
Collaborative practices and community-based participatory research
Copyright in participatory projects
Conservation of artefacts and collections in the digital age
Data ownership and open data
Digital literacy
Digital storytelling
Digitisation of individual and community memory
Emerging business models
Evaluation and measurement of impact in co-produced research
Future notions of digital archives and libraries
Geographical linking
Inclusion/Exclusion
Memory in the arts/digital art preservation
Museum and media archives
Partnership models between communities and institutions
Principles of digital data recording and cataloguing
Research ethics and research data management
(Self)-Representation, identity and privacy in digital public spaces

We are also interested in hearing about related screening materials, project outcomes and community creative practice.

We welcome contributions from all sectors of the community, both inside and outside of academia.

Important dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 1st 2014
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: November 24th 2014
Deadline for registration: Main registration for the conference is free. You can book your free ticket via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting-communities-storytelling-and-the-digital-archive-conference-tickets-13845421027.
Details of travel, accommodation, event programme and directions to the conference venue will follow shortly on the Pararchive website (www.pararchive.com<http://www.pararchive.com>).

Proposals to a maximum of 300 words should be sent to:

pararchiveleeds at gmail.com<mailto:pararchiveleeds at gmail.com>

Please address any enquiries to the same email address.

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