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// from 08 to 10 November 2007 / Centre for architectural records of the XXth century, Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine and Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris / Francegau:di Architectural records
Architecture and born digital archives: long-term preservation and use of architects’ digital archives
A conference about "Architecture and born digital archives" is planned in Paris from 8 to 10 November 2007. It will present the international state of the art about long-term preservation and historical use of digital archives produced by architects.
1. Electronic data management in architectural firms
2. Preservation and access to digital archives
3. Dissemination and use of digital archives by researchers
The objective of the conference is to bring together archivists, architects, researchers in architecture or history of architecture as well as researchers in computer science and IT practitioners and to encourage discussion on the preservation of digital architectural archives, on their use and their enhancement.
The conference will be organised around a series of presentations of real-life cases that are integrated into a particular action of the Gau:di European Programme, the Architectural Archives action. Since 2002, this action has brought together a group of European Institutions managing architectural archives and resulted in 2004 in the creation of the website www.architecturearchives.net.
Since 2005,each institution in the group has been working on a case study with an architecture agency or on an architect's archives (the firms Snøhetta, Mario Botta, Alfonso Mercurio, Cesare Valle, Franken Architekten and the archives Giancarlo De Carlo et Pierre Riboulet).
As well as the presentation of these studies, the conference will be the opportunity to compare them to other experiments conducted elsewhere, and also to lay out the general data of the issue (the longterm preservation of plan files), and to evaluate the consequences for historical research and their restitution into the public domain.
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