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 [fully booked] (abstract)
10:30-12:30 Session 1C: Workshop
10:30
Curating born-digital heritage in precarious times [fully booked] (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 1D: Workshop
10:30
Supporting Computational Research on Born-Digital Collections with the Archive Research Compute Hub (ARCH) [fully booked] (abstract)
10:30-12:30 Session 1E: Workshop
10:30
Whose bias? Demystifying human and machine interactions in Machine Learning [fully booked] (abstract)
10:30-12:30 Session 1F: Workshop
10:30
Danish video game history - collection, preservation and access (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 2A: Hybrid roundtable
Location: G37
14:00
Transmediating Immersive VR Worlds to Omeka 2D Collections (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 2B: Hybrid talks
Location: G35
14:00
Latin American Feminist Organizations in the Archived Web (abstract)
14:20
Modelling archived web data-objects as Semantic entities to support sustainable practice, effective versioning, and contextualisation: a conceptual framework (abstract)
14:40
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)
14:20
A bottom-up inquiry into the (in)vulnerabilities of personal digital heritage (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 2D: Talks
Location: Woburn Suite
14:00
What do we mean when we talk about access? Born digital collections and access for disabled researchers (abstract)
14:20
Rethinking Ethical Approaches to Acquisitions and Weeding for Born-Digital Archives (abstract)
15:30-15:50Coffee Break
15:50-16:50 Session 3A: Hybrid lightning talks
Location: G37
15:50
Using AI to help work with data at scale (abstract)
15:55
Preserving Digital Humanities Prototype Projects Using the Knowledge Commons (abstract)
16:00
The Timely Archiving of Translation Technologies: Transformation, Challenges and Trends (abstract)
16:05
Facilitating Access to Social Media Data in the Humanities: SOMAR’s Solutions and Collaborative Partnerships (abstract)
16:10
Creative Approaches to Publishing Born-Digital Photographs in Jstor (abstract)
15:50-16:50 Session 3B: Hybrid talks
Location: G35
15:50
Attempts for an Autonomous Archive of Instant Messaging: Popular Cultural Heritage Beyond Platformisation (abstract)
16:10
Web archiving after platformisation: reading archived social media along the grain (abstract)
15:50-16:50 Session 3C: Talks
Location: G11-12
15:50
Cultural Heritage Wastelands (abstract)
16:10
Absence in the online cultural landscape (abstract)
15:50-16:50 Session 3D: Talks
Location: Woburn Suite
15:50
Addressing the Born-Digital Processing Backlog with Generative AI Solutions (abstract)
16:10
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)
10:20
Affect, experience and authenticity: Questions in emulating immersive VR environments as born digital design heritage (abstract)
10:40
Yesterday Once More: A Reflection on the Digital Memory's Connectivity and Superficiality (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)
10:20
Playing snakes and ladders: preserving complex software-based artworks (abstract)
10:40
The Absolute Beginning: Getting started with approaches and workflows for collecting complex digital objects (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)
10:20
Enhanced Curation: Increasing the Research Value of Emerging Formats (abstract)
10:40
Deadly Data. Reverse engineering, reconstruction, and reenactment of historic data-processing systems (abstract)
10:00-11:30 Session 5D: Roundtable
Location: Beveridge Hall
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)
12:20
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)
12:20
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)
12:20
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

Posters and demos will run throughout this session alongside lunch (please ignore the listed timings)

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)
16:50
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)
16:50
Exploiting Playbour or Saving Games One Torrent at a Time: Ethics of (Re)Use of Amateur Catalogs and Dark Archives” (abstract)
17:10
(Re)playing Tamil Heritage in Venba: Posthuman Gaming and Embodied Memories in Videogames (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 9D: Roundtable
Location: Beveridge Hall
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)
10:05
Born Digital Remains: Creative Micro-computing in Australia, 1976-92” (abstract)
11:00
Digitising Electronic Publications for Folk Archives: A case study of teletext in the United Kingdom (abstract)
11:20
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)
10:05
Critical approaches to digitally preserving living community knowledge, a case study from the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme. (abstract)
11:00
Born-digital sport collections in China: status quo and concerns (abstract)
11:20
Heritage in time of emergency: digital born formats from crisis to cultural resilience via the MNEMONIC Atlas (abstract)
09:45-12:00 Session 10C: Talks
Location: G11-12
09:45
Turath Falastini: Exploring the Impact of Born-Digital Invocations of Palestinian Heritage on Instagram (abstract)
10:05
Archiving TikTok: Exploring the Challenges to the Preservation of Emerging Social Platforms (abstract)
10:25
Collecting and preserving algorithmic folklore (abstract)
09:45-12:00 Session 10D: Panel
Location: Woburn Suite
09:45
Born-Digital Collections, Archives, History and Memory of CD-ROMS (abstract)
12:00-13:00 Lunch

During the lunch hour, the University of London Press will be holding a drop-in session with the series editors of their new Digital Cultural Heritage book series:

Description: At the University of London Press we are passionate advocates for the humanities – a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner for researchers and institutions. We are pleased to announce the details of our new book series, Digital Cultural Heritage, with series editors Dr Eirini Goudarouli (The National Archives), Dr Anna-Maria Sichani (School of Advanced Study) and Professor Jane Winters (School of Advanced Study). This open access series of concise, short-form publications will be a forum for exploring the past, present and future of digital cultural heritage, both digitised and born-digital.

We are actively inviting new proposals for short-form books (20,000–30,000 words) that interrogate digital cultural heritage in any form, and focus on one or more of the series’ key themes: use, access, value(s) and ephemerality. More details can be found on the series webpage. There will also be the opportunity to meet the series editors who will be holding an informal drop-in session about the series at the UoL Press book stand at the conference during Friday lunchtime at 12–1pm.

Location: Macmillan Hall
13:00-14:30 Session 11A: Hybrid talks
Location: G37
13:00
Community-Driven Digital Heritage Projects at the Klezmer Institute (abstract)
13:20
Digital Deposit Decision-Making: The Future Audiences Decision Model (abstract)
13:40
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)
13:20
Distant Reading of Latin American Digital Literature Databases (abstract)
13:40
Genetic Criticism and The Born-Digital Manuscripts of Kalle Päätalo (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 11C: Talks
Location: G11-12
13:00
Inside and Outside the Storyworld: Double-Situatedness of the Reader/Player and Two-fold Memory Transmission in Electronic Literature (abstract)
13:20
On the born-digital turn in oral history: recharting and reimagining the cultural circuit? (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 11D: Roundtable
Location: Woburn Suite
13:00
Taking a global perspective: Who can actually discover and access born digital collections (abstract)
14:30-14:50Coffee Break
14:50-16:00 Session 12: Plenary Conversation

Closing reflections and future directions for Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory

Speakers: Susan Aasman (University of Groningen), JuEunhae Knox (University of Sheffield) and Rosario Rogel Salazar (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México)

Location: Beveridge Hall