Strategic Programme on Preservation and
Conservation (PAC)
Theme: "Fragile!
Careful Handling Required: Manuscript housing, conservation and metadata
documentation for access"
The
IFLA Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC)
invites interested professionals to submit proposals for the open session
to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 24-30 August 2018.
In
2017 a workshop organised by IFLA on the subject of developing metadata
standards for palm leaf manuscripts highlighted the importance of taking a more
holistic approach to these rare, and often fragile works. You can read the
report of this event on the IFLA website.
This
programme will build upon that workshop by delving into these issues, notably
preservation and storage as well as metadata for documentation and access. We
welcome papers that offer both practical and theoretical insights into these
questions, both as concerns manuscripts generally, and palm leaf manuscripts in
particular.
The
two hour programme will consist of one hour on learning more about descriptive
metadata for all types of manuscripts and a second on provide best practices in
storage and conservation of artefacts both for digital capture and safe storage
after digital capture or until such time as digital capture can be accomplished
We
seek pragmatic use-cases and examples to enable a discussion on best practice
and exchange on this topic.
Proposals
for papers should be no more than one page in length. If selected,
speakers should submit a full paper of 5-10 pages, and will have 15-20 minutes
to present their results including 10 minutes for a question and answer period
during the conference session. A total of 5 papers will be selected.
Submissions
Proposals should be sent by 6 March 2018 to:
Tanja Clausen
Email: tanja.clausen@ifla.org
Proposals should
include the following information:
- Name, title, and institution of speaker(s)
- Title of proposed presentation
- Address and email address of speaker(s)
- Brief biographical statement about each speaker including information about the qualifications of the speaker to address the proposed topic
- One or two paragraph discussion of the main points of the paper including an outline of the takeaways a conference attendee will obtain by having the topic presented at the conference
- Language of presentation (please not the session will have no simultaneous interpretation)
- Contact information for response to the proposal
Important dates
All proposals must be received
by 6
March 2018.
The
contact person for each proposal will be informed by 18 April
2018 whether their proposal has been accepted or not.
The
authors will be required to submit the full paper for inclusion in the programme
by 22
May 2018.
It must be written in one the official languages of IFLA.
Please note
Authors are required to permit
non-exclusive publication of papers chosen for this session on the IFLA website
and digital library. All papers that are presented at WLIC 2018 will be made
available online via the IFLA Library under
the Creative Commons Attribution
4.0 license.
Authors
of accepted papers must complete the IFLA Authors’ Permission Form.
At
least one of the paper’s authors must be present to deliver a summary
of the paper during the program in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Papers that are
accepted but not presented in person at the conference will not be made
available on the official conference website nor will they be considered for
nomination as a best paper of the conference.
Abstracts
should only be submitted with the understanding that the expenses of attending
the conference will be the responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of
accepted papers.
All
expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation
etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support
can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation letter can
be issued to authors.
Congress Participation Grants
List of opportunities for support is
available on our Conference Participation
Grants webpage.
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