Working Meetings on Electronic Records Research
1997 Pittsburgh
An invitational meeting for fifty researchers (25 US and 25 from around the world) to explore the state of current research in detail and workshop each others approaches. All participants were engaged in the workshops and had opportunities to present their own work. Participants contributed to, and received, full sets of the latest working papers and findings from each others projects.
The three very full days of activities including ten workshops directed by leading researchers, designed to clarify problem areas and examine alternative approaches in detail. Workshop reporters identified areas of consensus for the group which will become action items for the closing sessions.
- Background Materials have been published as Electronic Records Research 1997: Resource Materials (CD-ROM)
- Proceedings are published as a special issue of Archives and Museum Informatics, Volume 11, no. 3-4.
- A Report of the meeting, by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, is available in D-Lib Magazine.
1994 Pittsburgh
The 1997 meeting builds upon the discussions of a similar workshop held in 1994, reported in a special issue of Archives and Museum Informatics (Vol. 8, no. 4, 1994).