Future Proof II. Deutsches Museum, Munich, 20-22 April 2005
Programme
Wednesday 20 April
9.15-10.00
Registration
10.00-11.00
Welcome to Munich
Wilhelm Füßl, Deutsches Museum, Munich
‘Double Helix: The Munich Way of Research in the History of Science and Technology’
Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum, Munich > ABSTRACT
Introduction to the conference
Peter Harper, Director NCUACS, Bath > ABSTRACT
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00
Preserving scientific archives: national, institutional and disciplinary strategies
German and Swiss perspectives
‘Distributed Collecting? Strategies for archive networking in Germany’
Michael Klein, Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Bonn > ABSTRACT
‘Acquisition of personal papers in the Archives for the History of the Max Planck Gesellschaft’
Marion Kazemi, MPG, Berlin > ABSTRACT
‘The setting-up of the Archives of the History of Nuclear Energy in Switzerland (ARK) – A model project for the archiving of historical scientific records/holdings?’
Angela Gastl, ETH, Zürich > ABSTRACT
13.00-14.30 Lunch in the Restaurant of the Deutsches
Museum
14.30-15.15
Preserving scientific archives: national, institutional and disciplinary strategies
Polish perspectives
‘The most important problems with private papers in Polish science archives’
Adam Cieslak, Jagiellonian University, Krakow and Hanna Krajewska, Archives of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
15.15-15.45 Afternoon break
15.45-17.00
Preserving scientific archives: national, institutional and disciplinary strategies
The role of the national science academy
‘How can the Center for History of Science at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences play a role in the formation of a (national) collection strategy for scientific archives?’
Maria Asp Romefors and Anne Miche de Malleray, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm > ABSTRACT
‘The role of the Royal Society of London’
Joanna Corden, Royal Society, London
17.30-19.30
Reception in the Academy Collection, Deutsches Museum,
Words of Welcome by Wolfgang M. Heckl, General Director, Deutsches Museum
Thursday 21 April
9.30-11.00
Preserving scientific archives: national and institutional strategies
French and Spanish perspectives
‘History of physics and physics archives of Strasbourg University (1945- Present)’ Sebastien Soubiran, Strasbourg > ABSTRACT
‘French provincial observatories and their scientific archives’
Françoise Le Guet Tully, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice and Jean Davoigneau, Direction de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris > ABSTRACT
‘Spain’s new Scientific Archives Service:
building on the Catalan Servei d’Arxius de Ciència’
Jordi Sequero, UAB, Barcelona > ABSTRACT
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00
Preserving scientific archives: national, institutional and disciplinary strategies
‘Documenting the Work of Physicists in Industrial Laboratories’
R. Joseph Anderson, American Institute of Physics, College Park, Maryland > ABSTRACT
‘An Asian perspective: Initiatives in the archives of science and technology in Taiwan’
Timothy E. Powell, NCUACS, Bath > ABSTRACT
13.00-14.30 Lunch in the Restaurant of the Deutsches Museum
14.30-15.15
Historical connexions
‘German science in London: August Wilhelm von Hofman and the Royal College of Chemistry’
Anne Barrett, Imperial College London > ABSTRACT
15.15-17.00
Tour of the museum, Walter Rathjen, Deutsches Museum
Friday 22 April
9.30-11.00
The electronic environment
‘Archiving SLD Records in SRB: The Persistent Archives Test-bed (PAT) Project at SLAC in 2004’
Jean Deken, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, California > ABSTRACT
‘A joint digital university archives. – Swedish collaborative project on digital preservation of digital scientific data’
Renata Arovelius, Swedish Agricultural Sciences University and Eli Hjorth Reksten Linköping University > ABSTRACT
‘The preservation of research data in the Netherlands Archival law and digital archives’
Menno Polak, University of Amsterdam > ABSTRACT
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00
The electronic environment
‘Digital manuscripts: capturing scientific information and the historical moment by adapting existing scientific techniques’
Jeremy Leighton John, Department of Manuscripts, British Library, London > ABSTRACT
‘All is Digital: Scientists’ records in a connected information universe’
Gavan McCarthy, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, University of Melbourne > ABSTRACT
13.00-14.30 Lunch in the Restaurant of the Deutsches Museum
14.30-15.15
International collaboration
‘Archiving anthropological field notes: towards an observatory of practices’
Marie-Dominique Mouton, University of Paris X > ABSTRACT
15.15-17.00
Closing Remarks followed by:
Treasures of the Archives of the Deutsches Museum, Wilhelm Füßl, Deutsches Museum
The Future Proof II meeting is sponsored by the Co-operation on the Archives of Science in Europe (CASE) Group, the Bibliography and Documentation Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science Division of History of Science and the Deutsches Museum