Archives Records Association Ireland in conjunction with the Irish Society Archives and the Information and Records Management Society Ireland will be hosting a training event focusing on Medical Records - Content, Management, Access and Use.
If you are working as a records manager or archivist concerned with digital preservation, you may be interested in a workshop organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition in association with the Digital Repository of Ireland, on behalf of the APARSEN project.
The consortium of the EU-funded (within the ICT Policy Support Programme) project APEx – Archives Portal Europe Network of Excellence – organises a conference to discuss the major challenges archives face on their path into the digital world. It aims at debating the major questions in respective professional fields by evaluating the broad scope of methods and approaches and by gathering experiences and perspectives from related projects conducive to obtaining new insights and visions regarding the further development of the Archives Portal Europe.
Caroline Williams (President, ARA) is scheduled to talk in PRONI to update membership about the new ARA competency framework.
The Annual General Meeting of ARAI will take place on Thursday, 14 March 2013, at 6.00pm at the Freemasons’ Hall, Molesworth street, Dublin 2.
The Public Record of Northern Ireland is hosting an open event on 24 June 2013, titled,
Archives for Learning and Education Section Annual Conference - Bridging the Gap: Archives for HE/FE Students
Increasing user participation and reaching out to new audiences rank high in the archives agenda for the 21st century. However, how are archivists ensuring that university and further education students, one of their traditional user-groups, are also part of this inclusive approach?
You are invited to attend the Irish region's next business meeting, to be held at the unusually early hour of 4.30pm, on 13 June, at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks. Please find attached a notice for the event, the agenda, and the minutes of the last business meeting (12 October 2012).
The Royal Irish Acedemy is hosting the Open Access to Humanities Data for the Digital Repositery Of Ireland
The details for this event are:
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Location: Royal Irish Academy
Data being made available online is growing at a rate of 50% per annum, and this includes data at the heart of the Humanities -- data which forms a critical part of our cultural and social heritage.
The Irish Society for Archives is hosting a Lecture on Tuesday April in the Dublin City Library with Brian Donnelly From the National Archives Ireland spaeking about the St Brendan's Mental Hospital Archive. View the Lecture Notice.
The Archives and Records Association (Ireland), in conjunction with the National Library of Ireland, are are holding a training day on the new indexing guidelines and the use of the Irish Archives Resource portal. It will be held on Thursday 14th March 2013 at the National Library on Kildare Street.
