The Future of the Past
Digitisation of Rare and Special Materials
Rare Books & Special Collections Group Conference 4th – 6th September
2013, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, Canterbury
Wednesday 4th Planning for Digitisation
12-1pm Registration
1-2pm Lunch
2.15-3pm Simon Tanner, Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services
(KDCS) – Keynote address, Avoiding the Digital Death Spiral – how
measuring value and impact can preserve our Special Collections in the
digital age.
3-3.45pm Sian Prosser, Academic Services Development Manager at
University of Warwick, Planning the digitisation of medieval manuscript
fragments
3.45-4.15pm Break
4.15-5pm Rowena Willard-Wright, Senior Curator at English Heritage,
Digitising Dover Castle
5.30-7pm Reception at King’s School Library, St Augustine’s Abbey
7.30-9pm Dinner
Thursday 5th Implementing Digitisation Projects
8-9am Breakfast
915-9.45am AGM
10-10.45am Melissa Terras, Director of UCL Centre for Digital
Humanities, and Reader in Electronic Communication in the Department
of Information Studies at University College London (UCL), Rare and
Special in the Digital Environment: Trust, Digitisation, and
Computational Analysis of Heritage Material
10.45-11.15am Break
11.15-12pm Dr Alixe Bovey, Senior Lecturer, Department of History,
University of Kent at Canterbury, Pixilating the past
12-12.45pm Catherine Richardson, Reader in Renaissance Studies,
School of English University of Kent at Canterbury and Dr Richard
Guest, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering and Digital Arts at the
University of Kent, 'How to digitize an archive: university/archive
collaboration in the DocExplore project'?
1-2pm Lunch
2.15-3.15pm Visit 1*
4.00-5pm
Visit 2*
6.30-8pm Drinks Reception – Campanile Mound
8-10pm Conference Dinner, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge.
After dinner speaker: James P. Carley, Associate Fellow at the Pontifical
Institute of Mediaeval Studies in the University of Toronto and Professor
of the History of the Book, University of Kent, Not a brothel open to all
comers: Robertson Davies and the library at Massey College in Toronto
Friday 6th Sustainability and Outreach
8-9am Breakfast
9-9.45am Anne Welsh, Lecturer in Library and Information Studies,
Digital Identity Manager, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, From
digital graveyard to digital libraries: sustaining sites beyond the research
project
9.45-10.30am Professor Nicholas Pickwoad, Director of the Ligatus
Research Centre, Digitising Historic Bookbindings
10.30-11am Break
11-11.45am Dr Geoff Browell, Senior Archives Services Manager,
King’s College London, Digitisation for publication and dissemination:
what next?
12-12.30pm Conference Round up/Open forum
12.30- 2pm Lunch
2pm Conference Closes
Visits
 Canterbury Cathedral Archives

Canterbury Cathedral Library
 UKC Special Collections and British Cartoon Archive
 The University of Creative Arts
 Roof Tour of the Cathedral
*Places on each tour have already been allocated and details of which
tour you are booked on will be displayed at the conference reception area.
Unfortunately places at each venue are strictly limited, and some venues
have asked for names prior to the visit, so please could you make sure
you attend the tours as advised.
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