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5th Conference on Archival Information Databases, 4th-6th June, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The website for the 5th Conference on Archival Information Databases is now available. The Conference is promoted by the Brazilian Archivists Association and will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the 4th - 6th June, 2013. There will be simultaneous translation from Portuguese and from English.
http://www.aab.org.br/v_encontro_2013
Overseas colleagues are especially invited to look at the programme and consider the call for papers:
http://www.aab.org.br/v_encontro_2013/programme.htm
http://www.aab.org.br/v_encontro_2013/call_for_papers.htm
The principal theme of the conference is "Different Views of Online Archives: Digitisation, Memory and Access".
This theme will be discussed throughout the event by considering three topics:
- Digitisation: the dilemma between access and the challenges of managing and preserving collections.
- Archives and memory in the World Wide Web era.
- The impact of free access to information.
The website is also available in Portuguese: http://www.aab.org.br/v_encontro_2013/home-pt.htm