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ICA-AtoM Project Mission Statement and Governance Model

peterVG — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:03:28 +0000

During the first week of May, the ICA-AtoM project held its first Steering Committee meeting at the Dutch Archiefschool in Amsterdam. In attendance were:

• David Leitch, (incoming) ICA Secretary-General
• Perrine Cannavagio, ICA Deputy Secretary-General
• George MacKenzie, Keeper of the Records of Scotland
• Abdullah El Reyes, Director, United Arab Emirates Center for Documentation & Research
• Fareed Hassan Al Marzouqi, Director of Support Services, United Arab Emirates Center for Documentation & Research
• David McGlennon, Director of Strategic Planning, United Arab Emirates Center for Documentation & Research
• Peter Bruce, Chief Technology Officer, Library and Archives of Canada
• Peter Horsman, Director of Research, Dutch Institute of Archival Education & Research (Archiefschool)
• Peter Van Garderen, Software Release Manager, ICA-AtoM Project (Artefactual Sytems)

We reviewed the ICA-AtoM feature roadmap for the 1.0 beta release due in July 2008 and the stable 1.2 release due in June 2009. We discussed the preparations for the ICA-AtoM sessions at the upcoming ICA Congress in Kuala Lumpur, including the preparation of a demo CD to be made available to all attendees. The Steering Committee also discussed copyright, license, trademarks and the project's governance structure. We prepared a draft organizational chart (see attached). This chart, along with the membership of the ICA-AtoM Steering Committee, will be finalized at the Steering Committee's next meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

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Oxford 2007 ICA Society of Archivists Seal Conservation Congress proceedings

Chris Woods — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:53:21 +0000

Published here are the unedited papers, lecture notes and PowerPoint presentations of the majority of contributions to the Seals Conservation Research Congress held at Merton College, Oxford, UK in 2007 courtesy of ICA and the Society of Archivists (UK) and organised by the Bodleian Library Conservation Dept.

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Request for Contributions - Conservation Treatment Survey

Chris Woods — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:31:49 +0000

A treatment survey template is attached with this posting. It has been drawn up by members of the international group of conservators who work on archival seals, and who collaborate under the aegis of the ICA (last meeting Oxford 2007) and by member Manuela Belli of Rome, who is completing a Masters thesis on seal conservation. The template is a simple table, published here in Microsoft Excel, into which conservators can input information about the methods they have used to conserve seals of all kinds. The table attached has a few worked examples inserted to assist.

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Halon Replacements survey paper

Chris Woods — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:53:32 +0000

Posted here is the text draft of a paper published by the UK Society of Archivists in autumn 2002 under the title Meeting the Montreal Protocol. It is posted for a member who requested such information but may also be of interest to others, perhaps especially archivists or librarians who have yet to meet the protocol's 2003 deadline to replace Halon fire suppression systems with approved alternatives.

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Responses to Torah Query

Chris Woods — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:46:56 +0000

Responses to Torah Query from Members

I have had a number of replies regarding storing a Torah.

From Linda Ramsay at the National Archives of Scotland, reference to conservator Anna Wise of the Wellcome Institute Library in London, who documented a project on Jewish manuscripts that had specific ethical considerations and sensitivity issues for approach. To find out more, try www.wellcome.ac.uk or Chantry Library www.lib.ox.ac.uk/ipc-chantry/

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Notes from Human Rights Archives Symposium at UConn available online

Valerie — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:42:06 +0000

Dear Colleagues,

Notes and materials from the symposium, “Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Transforming Ideas Into Practice,” hosted by the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut in March 2008, and co-sponsored by the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research at Columbia University Libraries and the Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network, are now available on the Dodd Center’s website. The direct link is below.

http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/outreach/human_righ...

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ICA-AtoM update (April 2008)

peterVG — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:00:28 +0000

I have just posted an article on my blog about a pilot project that will be testing the ICA-AtoM software for use in a provincial union list of archival descriptions here in British Columbia, Canada.

http://archivemati.ca/2008/04/26/ica-atom-goes-provincial/

The article also contains some more current information about the status of the ICA-AtoM software development.

As well, on May 6-7, the first meeting of the ICA-AtoM Steering Committee will take place at the Dutch Archiefschool in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Archive Storage Box for Torah Scroll

Chris Woods — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:59:45 +0000

Dear Colleagues

We have recently been donated a Torah. Could anybody advise me on an appropriate storage box and conditions for a Torah (consisting of wooden rollers, the scroll itself and a velvet mantle)?

Traditionally a scroll is stored standing upright; is this the preferred archival storage condition or should I aim for a horizontal storage?

Many thanks
Kornelia

Kornelia Cepok
Archivist
Archives & Special Collections
Roehampton University
Learning Resources Centre
Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5SZ

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Bangladesh Archives & Records Management

geraedts — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:38:42 +0000

The program BARM (= Bangladesh Archives & Records Management) is aiming at creating good conditions for development. The bottom line is: Archives and Records are tools for honest, effective
and democratic government and honest history writing, history teaching and journalism. In 1995 a cooperation between archivists and historians from Bangladesh and Netherlands, was initiated giving advise to the National Archives of Bangladesh (=NAB) on improvement of the Archives & Records Management.
Archives and Records are information sources. These information sources

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Newsletter on Archives and Human Rights N° 1

Jens Boel — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:42:27 +0000

Dear colleagues,

N° 1 of the "Newsletter on Archives and Human Rights" is now available at the following address: http://www.unesco.org/archives/hrgnews/

Best regards,

Jens Boel
Chief Archivist
UNESCO

27 March 2008

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