UCL-DIS Research Symposium: Open data and information governance:
recordkeeping roles?
Wednesday 20 May 2015 at UCL (see maps at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps )
The symposium is free to attend but places are limited. To register please go to:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucl-dis-research-symposium-open-data-and-informationgovernance-recordkeeping-roles-tickets-16081989664
10.30 Arrival/ registration (UCL Roberts Engineering Building room 110)
11.00 UCL Roberts Engineering Building room 106
Welcome by chair: Professor Elizabeth Shepherd, UCL DIS.
Keynote: Regulating Information
Professor Patrick Birkinshaw, Professor of Public Law, University of Hull
11.45 Making Transparency Stick: The Complex Dynamics of Open Data
Dr Ben Worthy, Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London
12.15 At the heart of information policy: using The National Archives' policy levers to manage the
record in the public interest
Malcolm Todd, Head of Information Policy, The National Archives
12.45 short discussion
13.00 break for lunch: delegates are free to go for lunch in local cafes, lunch is not provided
14.00 Chair: Professor Luciana Duranti, Director, InterPARES Project; Corinne Rogers, UBC.
Papers on work in progress by researchers from Interpares Trust, Team Europe
14.10-14.25
Open data in a digital archival strategy: a Swedish case study, Karen Anderson, Mid
Sweden University, Tove Engvall, Mid Sweden University and Elisabeth Klett, Stockholm City
Archives
14.25-14.40
Achieving Interoperability of Governmental e-Services between EU Countries, Hrvoje
Stancic, University of Zagreb
14.40-14.55
Declassification in International Organisations, Julia Kastenhofer, International
Atomic Energy Agency
14.55-15.10
Implications for Records Managers of the Open Government agenda in the UK Public
Sector, Andrew Flinn, UCL
15.15 Civil Society Advocacy for Records as Evidence in the Open Government Partnership Process
James Lowry, IRMT
15.45 Round table panel discussion (speakers and ITrust researchers)
16.15 End of day
If you have any questions please contact Professor Elizabeth Shepherd, Department of Information Studies,
UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6 BT, email: e.shepherd@ucl.ac.uk