Proposed Programme
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
12.30 Registration and buffet lunch
The Great Hall, Sutherland Building, Northumbria University
14.00 Welcome address
14.10 Introductions by Professor Julie McLeod, Professor in Records Management, Northumbria University
14.20 Session 1: The digital context and the nature of the record
This session will focus on the new paradigm which the move to the digital has brought about. A paradoxical world in which there is potentially more information, but in which the issues of sensitivity and access may result in less material being released, while difficulties of selection may leave holes in the record and technological issues may mean less will survive.
Chair: Professor Julie Mcleod, Northumbria University
Speakers:
Professor Michael Moss, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Information Science, Northumbria University, Tim Gollins, National Records of Scotland, Professor Jeremy Frey, Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Southampton and Dr David Thomas, Northumbria University.
15.30 Refreshments
16.00 Session 1 continued
Professor Andrew Hoskins, Interdisciplinary Research Professor in College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow
Discussion with delegates and speakers
17.00 – 18.30 Evening reception
The Great Hall, Sutherland Building, Northumbria University
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Wednesday, 25 November 2015
8.30 Refreshments
The Great Hall, Sutherland Building, Northumbria University
9.00 Session 2: The legal perspective
This session will focus on how data protection and Freedom of Information legislation have impacted on access to information in the digital age and the continuing tension between openness and privacy, transparency and the right to be forgotten
Chair: Dr David Thomas, Northumbria University
Speakers
Dr David Erdos, University Lecturer in Law and the Open Society, University of Cambridge, David Willcox, TNA and Agnes Jonker, Senior Lecturer in Archives, Archiefschool, University of Amsterdam
10.30 Refreshments
11.00 Session 3: Current Issues
Chair: Professor Michael Moss, Northumbria University
25 minutes each
Sir Alex Allan, Former Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Justice and Cabinet Office – digital records in the UK government
Arthur Lucas, Former Principal, King’s College London; member of Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Archives and Pubic records since 2006 – Closing historic documents: lay scrutiny of closure requests
The speakers will talk from their own experience about current issues.
12.45 Lunch
13.30 Session 4: Trust and Consent
Professor Mary Daly, President of the Royal Irish Academy Digital archives in relation to some recent Irish commissions and inquiries – including the various Banking Inquiries,
14.30 Session 5: What must be done
The final discussion will look to the future. It will consider potential ways of moving forward, actions required, partnerships and collaborations as well as new challenges. It will draw on the discussion and debate witnessed during the conference as well as providing new views.
Chair: Professor Julie Mcleod
15.30 – Conference close
Closing remarks and thanks by Professor Julie McLeod
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