There will be opportunity for discussion around the theme of “Putting the message across: where do we go from here?”.Sessions and speakers include:
Record Publishing: Where do we go from here?
John Chandler (VCH Gloucestershire/Wiltshire Record Society) ‘Stuck in a Groove? What future for the traditional record society?; Paul Dryburgh (The National Archives) ‘Aspects of editing local records’; Adam Chapman (VCH) ‘Surveying the present: what are local societies doing?’
Open Access
Peter Mandler (President, RHS) ‘What are the latest developments in Open Access?’; Jane Winters (IHR) title tbc;
Digital Publishing
Catherine Clarke (University of Southampton) ‘City Witness, Medieval Swansea: Creating and using a digital resource’; Jane Golding (English Heritage/BALH) ‘Social media tools for publishing and sharing’.
http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/events/county-societies-symposium