32nd Annual Meeting of ECCHRD
OSA hosts the 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Coordination Committee on Human Rights Documentation (ECCHRD) on May 30-31, 2011. The event is co-organized with The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Lund).
The meeting brings together documentalists, archivists, librarians, and information managers working on human rights documentation in various European NGOs, IGOs and academic institutions, among them HURIDOCS, ODIHR/OSCE, Council of Europe, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Amnesty International, the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, the Rehabilitation and Research Center for Torture Victims, and the Norwegian Centre For Human Rights. The topics discussed generally concentrate on how the development of information technology and the emergence of new information management tools can be used to better the work of human rights information specialists.
Agenda
Monday, May 30, 2011
09.30-09.40 - Opening of the meeting
09.40-10.00 - Opening address – István Rév, Director, Open Society Archives (OSA)
10.00-10.10 - Adoption of the agenda and election of chairperson
10.10-11.00 - Presentation of participants and their organizations, interests and motivation
11.00-11.05 - Minutes of the 31th meeting (Vienna 2010)
11.05-11.30 - Coffee break
11.30-12.30 - Future of the ECCHRD and Report back from ECCHRD Secretariat
12.30-13.30 - Lunch
13.30-15.00 - Creating on-line libraries: sharing of experiences – Bert Verstappen (HURIDOCS)
15.00-15.30 - Coffee break
15.30-16.30 - KOHA at OSA: Experiences and the road ahead – Katalin Dobó and József Gábor Boné
Open Floor (15 minutes for presenting projects and activities)
Tour of the Open Society Archives (30 min)
19:00 - Dinner at a local restaurant (TBA)
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
09.30-11.00 - Reducing Enthropy: Information and Documentation Practices in the Human Rights Centre of the University of Sarajevo – Saša Madacki (Human Rights Centre, University of Sarajevo)
11.00-11.30 - Coffee break
11.30-12.30 - Presentation of the work of Documenta – Vesna Teršelič (Documenta, Zagreb)
12.30-13.00 - An update on the work of HURIDOCS – Bert Verstappen (HURIDOCS)
13.00-15.00 - Meetings of the special interest groups; market place and lunch
15.00-15.30 - Report back from the special interest groups
15.30-15.45 - Date and place of next meeting and closing of the meeting