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09:00 GMT

Archaeology starts in your own backyard Main Hall / AuditoriumWill Prentice • Anthony Allen • Petr Ferenc • Filip Šír The historical importance of old African popular music recordings Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomLynn Johnson • John Collins Tutorial 2: Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers (IASA-TC 05) Room 2: Prof Ernest Aryeetey Seminar RoomDietrich Schüller Poster Session Foyer Registration Foyer

09:30 GMT

Sound mapping as a tool for connecting communities to sound recordings Main Hall / AuditoriumWill Prentice • Diana Chester Panel: Audiovisual documentation and preservation of ceremonial celebrations and oral narratives: the Ghanaian experience Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomLynn Johnson • Fidelia Serwaa Ametewee • Moses Nii Dortey • Okle, Selina Emma • Edward Nanbigne • Judith Opoku-Boateng

10:00 GMT

Accessibility to music heritage field recording collections: right of communities of origin? Main Hall / AuditoriumWill Prentice • Diane Thram

10:30 GMT

Refreshments Foyer

11:00 GMT

Incidental archiving of indigenous knowledge: a re-reading of Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost Main Hall / AuditoriumDr. Sarah Dorgbadzi Training and Education Committee meeting Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomPio Pellizzari Tutorial 3: The composition of digital audio and video files Room 2: Prof Ernest Aryeetey Seminar RoomJennifer Vaughn

11:30 GMT

Early Gold Coast recording pioneers in the 1920s Main Hall / AuditoriumRainer Lotz

12:00 GMT

Exploring the Dunbar Music Archive Main Hall / AuditoriumDr. Minnita Daniel-Cox Unlocking our Sound Heritage: training a nation to care for its collection Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomPio Pellizzari • Will Prentice

12:30 GMT

Lunch break TBA

13:30 GMT

Access and accessibility: the role of the archivist in the age of global information exchange Main Hall / AuditoriumDavid Larsen • Gila Flam Activist farmers on film: preserving the recordings of the National Farmers Organisation Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomNeil Garner • Rosie Rowe Tutorial 4: Disaster preparedness: approach and recovery Room 2: Prof Ernest Aryeetey Seminar RoomPio Pellizzari Poster Session Foyer

14:00 GMT

A study of the media asset management system field selection based on copyrighted material collection Main Hall / AuditoriumDavid Larsen • Fang Han Film digitization: a collaboration between National Records and Archive Services of Malawi and REI Foundation Limited Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomNeil Garner • Bright Joshua

14:30 GMT

Open access: the case of the National Cultural Audiovisual Archives of India Main Hall / AuditoriumDavid Larsen • Irfan Zuberi Perished Diamonds: the effects of lost film archives on cultural heritage and creativity in Ghana Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomNeil Garner • Anita Afonu

15:00 GMT

Refreshments Foyer

15:30 GMT

Ancestral Voices, Traditional Knowledge Labels; Archive-Comunity Collaborations Main Hall / AuditoriumTommy Sjoberg • Judith Gray • Guha Shankar National Archives Section meeting Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomRichard Ranft Tutorial 5: Multilingual indexing with the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) Room 2: Prof Ernest Aryeetey Seminar RoomJennifer Vaughn

16:00 GMT

The Magnetic Tape Alert Project: safeguarding the documents proper of cultural and linguistic diversity Main Hall / AuditoriumTommy Sjoberg • Dietrich Schüller

16:30 GMT

Challenges of appreciating and preserving sound and audiovisual resources at a university centre: a case of Arewa House Nigeria Main Hall / AuditoriumTommy Sjoberg • Abubakar Sule New audiovisual legal deposit law in West Africa: innovations and challenges in the digital age Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomRichard Ranft • Oké Félicien Hounwanou