The National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI) will host the Southeast Asia Regional Branch of International Council on Archives (SARBICA) International Seminar on 23 – 25 November 2021.
The theme for this year is “Safeguarding the Archives: Memory, Pandemic, and Technology”. The objective of the event is to discuss the effort in safeguarding the archives by the archival organizations and communities from three different perspectives: the role of archives as documentary heritage, the response to the pandemic, and the utilization of technology by digital transformation on archives.
The SARBICA International Seminar will be a 3-day seminar to be held via Zoom webinar:
(1) Webinar Day 1: Archives, Memory and World Documentary Heritage (23 November 2021, 8:30 – 12:30)
Webinar Day 1 will discuss the relationship between archives, documentary heritage, and culture, which are fundamental in nominating the archives in the UNESCO’s Memory of the World (MOW) international register.
| Speakers | Topics |
|---|---|
| Keynote Speech | |
| Misako Ito, Adviser and Chief Communication and Information at UNESCO Bangkok | The Genesis and Recent Development of Memory of the World Programme UNESCO |
| Panelists | |
| Prof. Dr. Charles Jeurgens, Professor of Archival Studies at University of Amsterdam | Archives, Documentary Heritage, and Culture |
| Prof. Anthony Reid, National Australian University | Shared History and Documentary Heritage in Southeast Asia |
| Secretary General, ASEAN | ASEAN Archives as World Documentary Heritage |
| Mukhlis PaEni, Indonesian National MOW Committee | Southeast Asian Archives as Memory of the World |
Moderator| Multi Siswati / Eli Ruliawati, |
ANRI |
(2) Webinar Day 2: Archives and Pandemic Response (24 November 2021, 13:00 – 16:00)
Webinar Day 2 will discuss how the archival institutions document and preserve the information regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, and the roles and responses of these archival institutions for the preservation and management of their audiovisual archives during the pandemic situation.
SEAPAVAA’s President, Karen Chan, will be presenting at this webinar at 14:05 – 15:05 (Indonesia Time, GMT+7) with the topic, “Preservation and Access on Audiovisual Archives in the midst of Pandemic”.
| Speakers | Topics |
|---|---|
| Keynote Speech | |
| Ridwan Kamil, Governor of West Java | Pandemic Archives in the Knowledge Society: Towards the Establishment of Pandemic COVID-19 Archives Study Center |
| Panelists | |
| Wang Shaozhong, Deputy Director General of National Archives Administration of China | Documenting Pandemic Response in China |
| Victorino M. Manalo, Executive Director of National Archives of the Philippines | ASEAN Pandemic Response Archives Initiative |
| Karen Chan, President of SEAPAVAA | Preservation and Access on Audiovisual Archives in the midst of Pandemic |
| Deputy for Archival Capacity Development, ANRI | Documenting a Variety of Government Activities in Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Indonesia |
| Moderators | Desi Pratiwi ANRI |
(3) Webinar Day 3: Digital Transformation for Records and Archives Management (25 November 2021, 13:00 – 16:15)
Webinar Day 3 will discuss the digital transformation in the records and archives fields that have been carried out through various methods, one of which is through artificial intelligence.
| Speakers | Topics |
|---|---|
| Keynote Speech | |
| Dr. Anthea Seles, Secretary General of ICA | Artificial Intelligence and Archives |
| Panelists | |
| Yudhi Giri Sucayo, M.Kom, Ph. D., Universitas Indonesia | E-Government in Indonesia: Transformation for the Digital Age |
| Justin Simpson, Managing Director of Artefactural Systems | ICA Atom as Open Source Software Application and Archivematica as Free and Open Source Digital Preservation System |
| Digital Records Innovation Division, National Archives of Korea | Technology on Record and Archives Management in Republic of Korea |
| National Archives of Australia | Digitization and Preservation of the National Archives’ at-Risk Collection |
| Moderator | M. Imam Mulyantoro / M. Rustam, ANRI |
To register at the 2021 SARBICA International Seminar, kindly click this link: https://linktr.ee/SARBICA2021
If you have any questions or concerns, kindly contact the SARBICA team at sarbica2021@gmail.com.
For more information on the 2021 SARBICA International Seminar, please see the attached Terms of Reference.