Symposium: The Born-Digital Challenge in Private Archives: Research Perspectives and Archival Practices

We are happy to welcome you to a two-day symposium that brings together researchers of literature and digital humanities with archivists to discuss and develop archival practices of born-digital material!

Today’s literature and other cultural content are increasingly created digitally which means that the archive sources of the future will, for the most part, be born-digital documents. However, the archival conventions and research practices of born-digital material, such as digitally created manuscripts, emails or photos, are still in a nascent state in many countries. The way born-digital material is acquired, preserved, and made accessible has a crucial impact on its researchability. In addition to the technical requirements, especially the application of digital forensic tools and methods in archiving and research of born-digital material raise important legal and ethical questions. To address these issues, the archival research network ARNE (University of Helsinki) is organizing an international two-day symposium together with the archives of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS) and the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS).  

DAY 1:

Wednesday 4.10,  9.15am–5.30pm  at the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS), Ritarikatu 5, Helsinki.
You can participate onsite or online by joining a Zoom meeting. All presentations are held in English. 

Register here for participation in the symposium on Wednesday 4.10 no later than Thursday 28.9.
Note! You need to register separately for day 2 of the symposium further down on this page.

Symposium program Wednesday 4.10

9.15–9.30          Opening words, Kristina Linnovaara, The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
9.30–10.30       Inside Born-Digital Literary Archives: Methodological and Ethical  Issues, Emmanuela Carbé, University of Siena
10.30–11.00    Coffee/tea
11.00–12.00    E-mails as Digital Cultural Heritage Objects: An Archival Practice from Hungary, Gábor Palkó , Eötvös Loránd  University, Budapest                                                
12.00–13.30    Lunch (at own expense)
13.30–14.30    Born Digital Archives at the British Library: Capture, Description, Access,  Callum McKean, British Library 
14.30–15.00   Coffee/tea
15.00–16.00  Born-digital Archives: Historical Digital Materiality and its Challenges, Thorsten Ries , The University of Texas, Austin (Remote presentation)                           
16.00–17.30  Reception

Register here for participation in the symposium on day 1 no later than Thursday 28.9.

DAY 2:

Thursday 5.10, 9.00am–4.30pm  at the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), Hallituskatu 1, Helsinki.
Participation onsite only. The presentations are held in Finnish and Swedish, the panel discussion will be held in English.

Register here for participation in the symposium on Thursday 5.10 no later than Thursday 28.9.
Note! You need to register separately for day 1of the symposium higher up on this page. 
 

Symposium program Thursday 5.10

9.00–9.15         Tervetulosanat, Outi Hupaniittu, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura

9.15–10.15       Sessio 1 – Luovuttajan ja tutkijan näkökulma 

Kalle Päätalon syntysähköisiä käsikirjoituksia tutkimassa, Veijo Pulkkinen Helsingin yliopisto

Rikospaikkana kirjailijan arkisto – Arkistonmuodostajan ja luovuttajan näkökulma syntysähköisiin aineistoihin, Markus Nummi

10.15–10.30    Kahvi/tee

10.30–12.15    Sessio 2 – Missä ollaan nyt 

Born-digital material i SLS arkiv: filer, minnen och moln, Maria Miinalainen, Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland

SKS:n syntysähköiset aineistot: nykytilanne, haasteet ja ratkaisut, Teemu Hirvonen, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura

Digitaalisten yksityisarkistojen vastaanotto Kansallisarkistossa,  Iiris Mahjneh, Kansallisarkisto 

Kasettilamerit – Vanhojen kaivelua, Tapani Joelsson ja Tommi Lempinen

12.15–13.45    Lounas (omakustanteinen)

13.45–15.15    Sessio 3 – Miten tästä eteenpäin 

Kansalaisen digijälki – mitä jäljelle jää?, Miia Kosonen, Xamk, Digitalia

Digitaalisen aineiston hallinta pitkäaikaissäilyttämisen näkökulmasta, Johan Kylander, CSC – Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus 

Kommenttipuheenvuoro, Sami Niinimäki, Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö

15.15–15.30   Kahvi/tee

15.30–16.30  Panel discussion (englanniksi)

Register here for participation in the symposium on day 2 no later than Thursday 28.9.

For more information please contact Katri Kivilaakso,  katri.kivilaakso@finlit.fi , the Finnish Literature Society, SKS