The Joint National Conference of the ASA & the RMAA	Invitation Speakers Social Program Main Program General Information Accommodation Registraton Further Information Sponsorship & Exhibition 2 to 5 September 2001 Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart Tasmania, Australia

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MAIN PROGRAM

MONDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2001

TIME	SPEAKER/EVENT
9.00 – 9.30	Official Opening. His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, the Hon. Sir Guy Green, AC, KBE, CVO and National Presidents, Australian Society of Archivists and Records Management Association of Australia
9.30 – 9.40	Address - 50th Anniversary of the Archives Office of Tasmania Bob Sharman, Tasmania’s firs t State Archivist
9.40 - 10.00	A Celebration of the Centenary of Federation Tony Marshall, Senior Librarian (Heritage Collections) State Library of Tasmania and the Federation Singers
10.00 – 10.45   Abstract	Keynote address: Of Fragments, Fictions And Powers UPDATED Of Fragments, Fictions And Powers: Resisting Neat Theorising About 'The Record' Verne Harris, Director of the South African History Archive.
10.45 – 11.30	MORNING TEA
11.30 – 11.45	Presentation of Eddis Linton and Sharman Awards.
11.45 – 12.30	Recordkeeping, Privacy and Access This paper will focus on the inextricably connected nature of the relationship between the demands of best practice recordkeeping, privacy and Freedom of Information Tim Robinson and Judith Russell, Archives and Records Management Services, the University of Sydney
12.30 – 1.00	Delivering Digitally – new audiences, new media Harnessing current technologies and techniques to promote accessibility through electronic delivery of digitised records. Margaret Kenna, Director, Accessibility Development, National Archives of Australia
1.00 – 2.00	LUNCH
2.00 – 2.45	Online Access to Electronic Records This paper will review the development of interoperable metadata schema and analyse the potential of mark-up languages for enhancing access to electronic records. Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Information Studies, UCLA (Sponsored by the Monash University Enterprise Information Research Group, School of Information Management and Systems and the School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University.)
2.45 – 3.15	Mark-up language and Metadata – The Case for the Future Nothing is more certain than that we will not be able to stop somewhere in the future and redo things properly. Now is the time to think about future access and retrieval, and how we can do things now that will enable our work to remain relevant and usable. Lloyd Sokvitne, Manager (Information Systems Development), State Library of Tasmania
3.15 – 3.45	AFTERNOON TEA
3.45 – 4.30	Metadata: The convergence of theory and reality Metadata represents convergence between traditional recordkeeping practice and future ways and means of doing business. A major contention of this presentation will be that recordkeeping metadata should be seen as a tool that facilitates the convergence of business and recordkeeping requirements. Kate Cumming, Project Officer, Government Recordkeeping, State Records NSW
4.30 – 5.00	Identity, Trust and Privacy Balancing privacy with the need for trust and identity in electronic records is often overlooked in the privacy versus access debate. Livia Iacovino, Lecturer, Monash University
EVENING	Government House Reception Optional social functions Moorilla "Records in an Ancient World" Cornelian Bay Boat House
	Social Program for Monday

The organising committee gratefully acknowledges the support of the following in promotion of the conference: Major Sponsor : Solution 6 Group Hummingbird Zetta Florence Objective Corporation Ltd Infovision Technology Pty Ltd Archives Office of Tasmania National Archives of Australia State Records Authority of NSW