[Rebecca Taylor-Grant]

Hello everyone,
Please find below a call for papers which may be of interest to list members:
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Call for Papers: Second Workshop on Scientific Archives (Washington, D.C., 13 and 14 August 2018)
Date: 13 & 14 August 2018
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, D.C.
Organized by: Committee on the Contemporary Archives of Science and Technology (C-CAST) of the International Council on Archives/Section on University and Research Institution Archives (ICA/SUV)
Proposals are now being accepted for the Second Workshop on Scientific Archives. The aim of the workshop is to explore topics in the area of the contemporary archives of science and technology.
Possible themes for papers include (but are not limited to):
* Collaboration between scientists and archivists to best capture contemporary material
* Appraisal of science and technology archives
* Curating and making accessible science and technology archives to support both humanities research and scientific reuse
* Describing specialist collections from a non-scientific perspective
* Archives and scientific data management and usage
* Public outreach and communication: who are scientific archives for?
The First Workshop on Scientific Archives was hosted by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg (DE), 1-2 November 2016.
The organizing committee welcomes proposals from (but not limited to) archivists, historians, scientists, engineers, data specialists and curators. Papers are to be 20 minutes. Please submit a 400-word abstract using the following form: https://goo.gl/forms/4sCKjhlJQsWnU3rm1 by Thursday 29 March 2018.
Papers will be selected by the organizing committee by Friday 20 April 2018, at which point selected speakers will be notified. The full program will be published in early-May 2018.
A limited number of travel bursaries will be available for students, new professionals and international presenters. These will be distributed by the organizing committee. For more information, see: https://www.embl.de/aboutus/archive/working-with-scientific-archives/wor…. If you have any questions, please contact Melanie Mueller, ***@***.***, or Bethany Anderson, ***@***.***.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts and seeing you in D.C. in August!
Organizing Committee:
Bethany Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Anne-Flore Laloë, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Germany)
Melanie Mueller, American Institute of Physics (USA)
Jonathan Pledge, British Library (UK)
Ron Brashear, Science History Institute (USA)
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Discussion

[Gavan McCarthy]

Dear Rebecca, I attended a similar meeting in 1995, also in Washington and with support from the ICA and the AIP Center fro History of Physics. That pivotal event led to decades of strong collaborations until the inevitable ‘changing of the guard’. So great to see that another generation is running with this important issue. Most challenges are essentially the same except that they now seem to be playing out at much larger scales and perhaps with higher stakes. I hope it goes well and I am sorry I cannot make it. Best wishes . . . Gavan

[Gavan McCarthy]

Dear Rebecca, I attended a similar meeting in 1995, also in Washington and with support from the ICA and the AIP Center fro History of Physics. That pivotal event led to decades of strong collaborations until the inevitable ‘changing of the guard’. So great to see that another generation is running with this important issue. Most challenges are essentially the same except that they now seem to be playing out at much larger scales and perhaps with higher stakes. I hope it goes well and I am sorry I cannot make it. Best wishes . . . Gavan

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