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Welcome to ARA Conference: the lead event in the UK & Ireland for archives, conservation, digital preservation and records management. Join us in Bristol for #ARA2025

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ARA Conference @araconference.bsky.social · Apr 9

The programme for our 2025 Conference: be ‘Next Generation: Innovation and Imagination in Record- Keeping' is now live! We have some amazing speakers and more are yet to be added - check it out here: openingdoors.eventsair.com/ara2025/prog...

Programme - ARA 2025 - Next Generation: Imagination and Innovation in Recordkeeping - Delta Hotels Bristol City Centre

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Is Lauterjung @islauter.bsky.social · Aug 29

Final day of #ARA2025 has started with a truly inspiring keynote "Archives for All!" from purpleSTARS, all about multi sensory approaches to heritage collections. Something we should really incorporate a lot more of where possible and seek opportunities!

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ARA Preservation and Conservation @arapcg.bsky.social · Aug 29

B8 Panel Session at #ARA2025 is focusing on ‘Life After Hanwell’, hosted by Elizabeth Stettler, Pedro Maximo Rocha, Rhiannon Griffiths and Richard Aitken

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ARA International @arainternational.bsky.social · Aug 29

Going live soon!

Join us for Forming International Connections at #ARA2025 Session D9 at 2:05 PM BST. Let’s talk about building a stronger global archives community. 🌍

#InternationalArchives #ARAConference

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ARA Conference @araconference.bsky.social · Aug 29

Why records surveys matter - Fiona Bourne from RCN sums it up record surveys = knowledge-organisational mapping, departmental analysis, records discovery, management, retention #ARA2025

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Morwenna @morwanneg.bsky.social · Aug 29

@araconference.bsky.social beginning of day 3!

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ARA Conference @araconference.bsky.social · Aug 29

Starting with a great sensory exercise from PurpleStarz to get us going this morning. Our description of this paper: glossy, clicky, paper #ARA2025

A small piece of paper on a dark tablecloth

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ARA Preservation and Conservation @arapcg.bsky.social · Aug 29

The final day of #ARA2025 is underway, with Dr Kate Allen, Ajay Choksi, Samantha Walker and Victoria Stevens leading an interactive keynote: ‘Archives for All! A Multisensory Approach to Archive Collections’

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ARA Conference @araconference.bsky.social · Aug 28

Enjoying a dip in the conservation stream! These are favourite, can't do without and wish list kit #ARA2025 sewing machine, box maker, buffalo Koran spatula, magnets, cats whiskers, porcupine quills, hobo Bluetooth data loggers, large sheets of perspex (and Instagram - sorry Bluesky!)

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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is really practical and promising. (But if anyone's ever tried to manage files on a 1990s Plasmon Data Store, do let Jan know, that one is... going to take some time.) #ARA2025

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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · Aug 28

Oldham was an early user of the kit, setting up DAR and finally able to access born-digital material on hard drives blocked under IT policies #ARA2025

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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · Aug 28

Kits sat with each partner for a month for familiarisation and confidence building: not trying to fix everything at once, but to create support and experience #ARA2025

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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · Aug 28

Created (with TNA resilience funding) shared travelling digital preservation kits: accessing redundant media, open source software, and partnership support with some central resources. #ARA2025

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Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social · Aug 28

Two papers this afternoon reinforce messages from earlier that there needs to be active intention to create genuine inclusively of archives & for the users of archives - looking at intergenerational practices as well as radical softness & "slow archives" speakers: Chloe Lee & Nella McNicol #ARA2025

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Anne-Grethe Jensen @daneanne.bsky.social · Aug 27

The inspiration from day one of #ARA2025 is this slide and the idea that an empty shelf in an archive is a silent history. We were urged to be change-makers, to go out and find the missing records to give those silent histories a voice.

A slide stating: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Silence serves no one.

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Is Lauterjung @islauter.bsky.social · Aug 28

A sunny start to a second day at #ARA2025 and looking forward to to sessions all around outreach, engagement, and appraisal. Have tried to attend talks on AI as well to perhaps broaden my cynical mind a bit! 🌄

A sunny sky with a few clouds photographed through a window.

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ARA Preservation and Conservation @arapcg.bsky.social · Aug 28

It’s Day 2 at #ARA2025! Great to have a conservation themed Keynote this morning from Professor Christina Young

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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · Aug 28

I've made it to #ARA2025 and said hello to a few people, which is a good start. Sitting in on sessions in the big room (for Reasons) which means a lot of AI today.

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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · Aug 28

One of the things that comes up at conferences is international perspectives you might not otherwise pick up. Hearing about the Czech National Archives' role across Czechia in digital preservation, drawing in records management transfers nationwide (born-digital only so far). #ARA2025

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Royal Berkshire Archives @berksarchives.bsky.social · Aug 28

Day 2 of the ARA conference and our archivist Rosie has been busy attending talks on workplace transferable skills, trauma-informed approaches to support staff and AI solutions for indexing. She has another busy day today, we can't wait to hear more about it! #ARA2025

Archives and Records Association display and panel.

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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · Aug 28

RM across public bodies is (still) based on MoReq which is recognised to be very rigid but otoh makes for highly structured SIPs in transfers from very diverse organisations. #ARA2025

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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · Aug 28

Opportunities to develop further are coming with a full system redesign, looking at needs, desires, opportunities, more flexibility #ARA2025

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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · Aug 28

And now RM and use of AI (potentially) in public hospitals in Tswane, if staff will implement. The context, in which RM is not taken seriously but is a key driver of why patients may experience long delays in treatment, is depressingly familiar #ARA2025

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ARA Conference @araconference.bsky.social · Aug 28

Another great keynote at #ARA2025 from Christina Young - creating accessibility- struck by effectiveness of literally opening up spaces- eg doing conservation in the public gallery etc

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ARA Conference @araconference.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just been in a great session with a strong theme of collaboration and co creation featuring speakers from Gloucestershire Archives, V&A and Institute of International Visual Art #ARA2025

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ARA Preservation and Conservation @arapcg.bsky.social · Aug 28

Day 2 of #ARA2025 has kicked off with another great session of talks in the Track B:
✒️ Dr Paul Garside on ‘Treatment Decisions for Iron Gall Ink’
🔌 HVAC group update with Amy Sampson and Sirpa Kutilainen
🖥️ Julie Bon on conservation metadata
🔗 mechanical strength of Asian adhesives by Jiwon Jeong

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