BDCAM25: BORN-DIGITAL COLLECTIONS, ARCHIVES AND MEMORY
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, April 2nd Thursday, April 3rd Friday, April 4th

Wednesday, April 2nd

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10:30-12:00 Session 1A: Workshop
10:30
“How to…?": Training resources for (preserving, curating, accessing and analysing) born-digital archives and collections (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 1B: Workshop
10:30
[Workshop cancelled due to circumstances beyond the organisers' control] Born-digital community archives’ challenges on accessibility, reuse, and preservation: Mnemonic and UMAM D&R share their experiences ) (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 1C: Workshop
10:30
Curating born-digital heritage in precarious times (abstract)
10:30-12:30 Session 1D: Workshop
10:30
Supporting Computational Research on Born-Digital Collections with the Archive Research Compute Hub (ARCH) (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 2B: Hybrid talks
Location: G35
14:00
Latin American Feminist Organizations in the Archived Web (abstract)
14:30
Modelling archived web data-objects as Semantic entities to support sustainable practice, effective versioning, and contextualisation: a conceptual framework (abstract)
15:00
Empowering Scholars to Study Web Archives: Search & Discovery in SolrWayback (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 2C: Talks
Location: G11-12
14:00
The Millennial Archive: Born Digital, Made Digital, and Digital by Necessity (abstract)
14:30
Lost in Translation: Reflections on the Vectorisation of Cultural Audiovisual Archive (abstract)
15:00
The Absolute Beginning: Getting started with approaches and workflows for collecting complex digital objects (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 2D: Talks
Location: G16
14:00
What do we mean when we talk about access? Born digital collections and access for disabled researchers (abstract)
14:30
A bottom-up inquiry into the (in)vulnerabilities of personal digital heritage
15:00
Rethinking Ethical Approaches to Acquisitions and Weeding for Born-Digital Archives (abstract)
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Session 3A: Hybrid lightning talks
Location: G37
16:00
Using AI to help work with data at scale (abstract)
16:05
Preserving Digital Humanities Prototype Projects Using the Knowledge Commons (abstract)
16:10
The Timely Archiving of Translation Technologies: Transformation, Challenges and Trends (abstract)
16:15
Facilitating Access to Social Media Data in the Humanities: SOMAR’s Solutions and Collaborative Partnerships (abstract)
16:00-17:00 Session 3B: Hybrid talks
Location: G35
16:00
Attempts for an Autonomous Archive of Instant Messaging: Popular Cultural Heritage Beyond Platformisation (abstract)
16:30
Web archiving after platformisation: reading archived social media along the grain (abstract)
16:00-17:00 Session 3C: Talks
Location: G11-12
16:00
Cultural Heritage Wastelands (abstract)
16:30
Absence in the online cultural landscape (abstract)
16:00-17:00 Session 3D: Talks
Location: G16
16:00
Addressing the Born-Digital Processing Backlog with Generative AI Solutions (abstract)
16:30
Addressing the Challenge of Indexing Vast Digital Multimedia Archives: The Role of AI (abstract)
17:00-18:30 Session 4: Keynote Lecture
Location: Beveridge Hall
17:00
Keynote Lecture by the Digital Curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (abstract)
Thursday, April 3rd

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10:00-11:30 Session 5A: Hybrid talks
Location: G37
10:00
A Digital History of 9/11: Expanding the Historiography of the September 11th Attacks through Born-Digital Records (abstract)
10:30
Affect, experience and authenticity: Questions in emulating immersive VR environments as born digital design heritage (abstract)
10:00-11:30 Session 5B: Hybrid talks
Location: G35
10:00
Care, Communities, and their Discontents: Collecting and Conservation Challenges for Mobile Apps (abstract)
10:30
Playing snakes and ladders: preserving complex software-based artworks (abstract)
10:00-11:30 Session 5C: Talks
Location: G11-12
10:00
The NEXT: A Memory Institution for Born-Digital Art, Literature, and Games (abstract)
10:30
Enhanced Curation: Increasing the Research Value of Emerging Formats (abstract)
11:00
Deadly Data. Reverse engineering, reconstruction, and reenactment of historic data-processing systems (abstract)
10:00-11:30 Session 5D: Roundtable
Location: G16
10:00
Web archives and their contemporary socio-technical contexts: new challenges and perspectives (abstract)
11:30-12:00Coffee Break
12:00-13:00 Session 6A: Hybrid lightning talks
Location: G37
12:00
Entering the matrix of Mike Leggett’s CD-ROM archive (abstract)
12:05
India’s Born-Digital Film Heritage: Challenges and Prospects of Preservation and Access (abstract)
12:10
‘Everything everywhere all at once? Communicating decisions around access to born-digital archives’ (abstract)
12:15
Adapting Arrangement and Descriptive Methods for Born-digital Records (abstract)
12:20
UK Web Archive Collections as Data (abstract)
12:00-13:00 Session 6B: Hybrid talks
Location: G35
12:00
Born-Digital Diplomacy? Towards De-institutionalisation of Live Heritage (abstract)
12:30
Crafting a Best Practice Digital Workflow Amidst Conflict: Hands-On Solutions and Reflections on Ethics and Data Security (abstract)
12:00-13:00 Session 6C: Talks
Location: G11-12
12:00
The curatorial and conceptual trouble with born-digital “community” archives: Towards a xenofeminist remedy? (abstract)
12:30
Preserving the born-digital world: How many formats are out there? (abstract)
12:00-13:00 Session 6D: Talks
Location: G16
12:00
Metadata versus content: The circulation of themes in born-digital fanfiction (abstract)
12:30
Cities in Fiction: On building the first public database of South Asian literary landscapes (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 7: Lunch and poster/demos
Location: Beveridge Hall
13:00
Shaping British Digital Art: the Global Network of the Computer Arts Society, 1968-1985 (abstract)
13:02
PARA SEMPRE: Preserving the Digital Memory of Contemporary Portuguese Art on the Web (abstract)
13:04
From Inbox to Archive: A Digital Repository Journey (abstract)
13:06
The challenges of archiving experimental and practice-based scholarly works (abstract)
13:08
Waqiat-e-Dilli (The Chronicles of a City) (abstract)
13:10
‘Milkmaid's pitcher’ – Born-Digital Multimodal Art Project (abstract)
13:12
Embracing the Digital Shift: Designing an Experiential Internship in Digital Archives (abstract)
13:14
Mapping for Understanding: the ALDiNa Project (abstract)
13:16
BelgicaWeb (abstract)
13:18
Closing the preservation loop (abstract)
13:20
Datasheets for Web Archives Tool Kit Demo (abstract)
13:22
Data Analysis and Network Visualisation as Tools for Curating Hybrid Correspondence Archives (abstract)
13:24
LLMs-Powered Automatic Meta-Tagging Framework for Academic Seminar Posters (abstract)
13:26
Archiving emails at the National Library of Norway: a case study of the early correspondence between Jon Fosse and Kai Johnsen (abstract)
13:28
Blog to Bytes: Exploring the UK Web Archive’s Blog Posts Through Text Analysis (abstract)
13:30
Report on the Scholarly Use of Web Archives Across Ireland: The Past, Present & Future(s) (abstract)
13:32
Preserving Literary Heritage on Floppy Disks: the Case of Franco Fortini (abstract)
13:34
Mapping the Interface: Recursive Journaling and Digital Cartography (abstract)
13:36
Between Archiving and Commercial Practices: How YouTubers Preserve Folk Performative Worlds in West Bengal (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 8: Plenary Roundtable
Location: Beveridge Hall
14:30
Environmentally sustainable infrastructure for computationally intensive work in digital cultural heritage: the cases of born-digital archives and AI-based systems (abstract)
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Session 9A: Hybrid panel
Location: G37
16:30
Beyond the Web: Usenet as an archive of digital discourse (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 9B: Hybrid talks
Location: G35
16:30
Born-digital, stored physical: considering carriers in a hybrid personal archive (abstract)
17:00
Creative Approaches to Publishing Born-Digital Photographs in Jstor (abstract)
17:30
Challenges and Good Practices in Creating Guidelines for Long-Term Sustainability of Digital Humanities Projects (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 9C: Talks
Location: G11-12
16:30
Preserving Situated Practices - Tracing 1980ies home brew video game programming practices (abstract)
17:00
Exploiting Playbour or Saving Games One Torrent at a Time: Ethics of (Re)Use of Amateur Catalogs and Dark Archives” (abstract)
17:30
(Re)playing Tamil Heritage in Venba: Posthuman Gaming and Embodied Memories in Videogames (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 9D: Roundtable
Location: G16
16:30
Expanding Computational Research of Born-Digital Collections (abstract)
Friday, April 4th

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09:45-12:00 Session 10A: Hybrid talks
Location: G37
09:45
Was There a Disk Magazine in Your Future? (abstract)
10:15
Born Digital Remains: Creative Micro-computing in Australia, 1976-92” (abstract)
10:45
Digitising Electronic Publications for Folk Archives: A case study of teletext in the United Kingdom (abstract)
11:15
Web Contracts and/as Digital-born data (abstract)
09:45-12:00 Session 10B: Hybrid talks
Location: G35
09:45
Digitally Preserving the Asylum Archive in the Digital Repository of Ireland: a record of Ireland’s Direct Provision System (abstract)
10:15
Critical approaches to digitally preserving living community knowledge, a case study from the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme. (abstract)
10:45
Collecting and preserving algorithmic folklore (abstract)
11:15
Born-digital sport collections in China: status quo and concerns (abstract)
09:45-12:00 Session 10C: Talks
Location: G11-12
09:45
Heritage in time of emergency: digital born formats from crisis to cultural resilience via the MNEMONIC Atlas (abstract)
10:15
Turath Falastini: Exploring the Impact of Born-Digital Invocations of Palestinian Heritage on Instagram (abstract)
10:45
Archiving TikTok: Exploring the Challenges to the Preservation of Emerging Social Platforms (abstract)
11:15
The Electronic Literature Organization's Born-Digital Preservation Efforts: A History and Exploration (abstract)
09:45-12:00 Session 10D: Panel
Location: G16
09:45
Born-Digital Collections, Archives, History and Memory of CD-ROMS (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 11A: Hybrid talks
Location: G37
13:00
Community-Driven Digital Heritage Projects at the Klezmer Institute (abstract)
13:30
Digital Deposit Decision-Making: The Future Audiences Decision Model (abstract)
14:00
Creating Useable Pasts in Refugee History through Living Archive Methodologies in Support for the Inclusion of Refugee Voices: Born Digital Archives and the Documenting Chile Archive, A Case Study. (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 11B: Hybrid talks
Location: G35
13:00
Digitally Inheriting the 1947 Partition: Digital Archives, Postmemory and Contemporary Partition Literature (abstract)
13:30
Distant Reading of Latin American Digital Literature Databases (abstract)
14:00
Genetic Criticism and The Born-Digital Manuscripts of Kalle Päätalo (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 11C: Roundtable
Location: G11-12
13:00
Taking a global perspective: Who can actually discover and access born digital collections (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 11D: Talks
Location: G16
13:00
Inside and Outside the Storyworld: Double-Situatedness of the Reader/Player and Two-fold Memory Transmission in Electronic Literature (abstract)
13:30
On the born-digital turn in oral history: recharting and reimagining the cultural circuit? (abstract)
14:00
Yesterday Once More: A Reflection on the Digital Memory's Connectivity and Superficiality (abstract)
14:30-14:50Coffee Break