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Canadian Archives Summit

Tracey P. Lauriault
Would love to hear T.H.B Symons who is a Great Canadian Thinker (http://www.iccs-ciec.ca/pages/6_prizes/govgenaw/1998thbsymons.html), his work on To know ourselves (http://archivists.ca/sites/default/files/Attachments/About_Us_attachments/Governance/to_know_ourselves.pdf) was ground breaking and helped solidify the idea that Canadians could study themselves and that Canadian culture mattered.  Why say that here?  Well he had lots to say about the census and the Atlas of Canada for the education of Canadian citizens.

I think it is important that we consider, in the open data community, the importance of data in digital and non digital forms, and the institutions that maintain and disseminate those data, namely cultural institutions such as archives, libraries and museums.  These institutions are under attack in Canada, and while we are all happy about a portal here and there, and formats, and apps, science and other data producing entitites, and data management entities are being destroyed in Canada.

The speaker's list is pretty awesome here, and if you are in Toronto and can make it, you should.  Symons and Gaffield alone are rock stars!

Cheers
t

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btw the papers are available in french and in english here - http://archivists.ca/content/resources-canadian-archives-summit


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
Would love to hear T.H.B Symons who is a Great Canadian Thinker (http://www.iccs-ciec.ca/pages/6_prizes/govgenaw/1998thbsymons.html), his work on To know ourselves (http://archivists.ca/sites/default/files/Attachments/About_Us_attachments/Governance/to_know_ourselves.pdf) was ground breaking and helped solidify the idea that Canadians could study themselves and that Canadian culture mattered.  Why say that here?  Well he had lots to say about the census and the Atlas of Canada for the education of Canadian citizens.

I think it is important that we consider, in the open data community, the importance of data in digital and non digital forms, and the institutions that maintain and disseminate those data, namely cultural institutions such as archives, libraries and museums.  These institutions are under attack in Canada, and while we are all happy about a portal here and there, and formats, and apps, science and other data producing entitites, and data management entities are being destroyed in Canada.

The speaker's list is pretty awesome here, and if you are in Toronto and can make it, you should.  Symons and Gaffield alone are rock stars!

Cheers
t



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