[ecrea] Pararchive Community Showcase and Conference

It is now only ten days to 1st November 2014 - the deadline for 
submitting abstracts for the Pararchive Conference and Community 
Showcase. Registration is free. You will be able to book your free 
ticket to this two-day event from Sunday 2nd November 2014 via the 
following link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting-communities-storytelling-and-the-digital-archive-conference-tickets-13845421027

Details of travel, accommodation, event programme and directions to the 
conference venue will follow soon on the Pararchive website 
(www.pararchive.com).

Please send this on to any community groups, activists and campaigners, 
researchers, creative professionals, cultural institutions and 
policymakers interested in developing and promoting research, education, 
collaborative working practices, community agendas and affinities, 
policy and activism around the notion of an open-access digital space.



Please address any enquiries to (pararchiveleeds /at/ gmail.com)



Many thanks, Daniel Mutibwa - on behalf of the Pararchive Project Team


Connecting Communities: Storytelling and the Digital Archive



Deadline in 10 Days/CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS



Date: Friday 27th – Saturday 28th March 2015

Venue: Stage@Leeds, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK



This AHRC-funded conference and community showcase marks the climax of 
an eighteen-month multidisciplinary research project entitled 
Pararchive: Open Access Community Storytelling and the Digital Archive 
(www.pararchive.com). The project seeks to build new interactive 
environments that explore issues of ownership, public and institutional 
relationships and provide tools for collaborative community research and 
creative expression using digital heritage resources. It was motivated 
by recognition that communities are encountering real barriers to 
organising and connecting to resources and each other. In the field of 
heritage it is often difficult to access archival materials from public 
cultural institutions owing to bureaucratic, commercial and geographical 
barriers, something that impedes community research and connectivity. It 
is often difficult to establish relationships between communities and 
institutions that could and should be mutually enriching.



We have been asking how best to approach these problems and deal with 
issues such as copyright,  collaborative working, impact and building an 
open source digital environment to facilitate connectivity and build a 
set of lasting legacies. We now want to widen our conversation by 
bringing together community groups, activists and campaigners, 
researchers, creative professionals, cultural institutions and 
policymakers interested in developing and promoting research, education, 
collaborative working practices, policy and activism around the notion 
of an open access digital resource.

To celebrate the launch of Pararchive and our community partners’ 
research projects we invite conference contributions around the 
following suggested themes:



Creativity and innovation

Co-curation models

Co-design and co-production methodologies and experiences

Collaborative practices and community-based participatory research

Copyright in participatory projects

Conservation of artefacts and collections in the digital age

Data ownership and open data

Digital literacy

Digital storytelling

Digitisation of individual and community memory

Emerging business models

Evaluation and measurement of impact in co-produced research

Future notions of digital archives and libraries

Geographical linking

Inclusion/Exclusion

Memory in the arts/digital art preservation

Museum and media archives

Partnership models between communities and institutions

Principles of digital data recording and cataloguing

Research ethics and research data management

(Self)-Representation, identity and privacy in digital public spaces



We are also interested in hearing about related screening materials, 
project outcomes and community creative practice.



We welcome contributions from all sectors of the community, both inside 
and outside of academia.



Important dates:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 1st 2014

Notification of acceptance of abstracts: November 24th 2014

Deadline for registration: Main registration for the conference is free. 
You can book your free ticket via this link: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting-communities-storytelling-and-the-digital-archive-conference-tickets-13845421027.

Details of travel, accommodation, event programme and directions to the 
conference venue will follow shortly on the Pararchive website 
(www.pararchive.com).



Proposals to a maximum of 300 words should be sent to:



(pararchiveleeds /at/ gmail.com)



Please address any enquiries to the same email address.



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