CfP: Second Workshop on Scientific Archives
Date:
13 & 14 August 2018
Venue:
Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, D.C.
Organized
by: Committee on the Contemporary Archives of Science and
Technology (C-CAST) of the International Council on
Archives/Section on University and Research Institution Archives
(ICA/SUV)
Proposals
are now being accepted for the Second Workshop on Scientific
Archives, organized by Committee on the Contemporary Archives of
Science and Technology (C-CAST) of the ICA/SUV. The aim of the
workshop is to explore topics in the area of the contemporary
archives of science and technology.
Possible
themes for papers include (but are not limited to):
- Collaboration
between scientists and archivists to best capture contemporary
material
- Appraisal
of science and technology archives
- Curating
and making accessible science and technology archives to support
both humanities research and scientific reuse
- Describing
specialist collections from a non-scientific perspective
- Archives
and scientific data management and usage
- Public
outreach and communication: who are scientific archives for?
The
First Workshop on Scientific Archives was hosted by the European
Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg (DE), 1-2
November 2016. More information available here: www.embl.org/archive/
The
organizing committee welcomes proposals from archivists,
historians, scientists, engineers, data specialists and
curators.
Papers
are to be 20 minutes. Please submit a 400-word abstract using
the following form: https://goo.gl/forms/
Papers
will be selected by the organizing committee by Friday 20 April
2018, at which point selected speakers will be notified. The
full program will be published in early-May 2018.
A
limited number of travel bursaries will be available for
international presenters. These will be distributed by the
organizing committee.
C-CAST
looks forward to receiving your abstracts and seeing you in
August in D.C.!
On
behalf of the C-CAST:
Bethany Anderson, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Anne-Flore Laloë, European
Molecular Biology Laboratory (Germany)
Melanie Mueller, American Institute of Physics (USA)
Jonathan Pledge, British Library (UK)
Ron Brashear, Science History Institute (USA)