2016 Conference

Dear Member,

We are pleased to announce that all presentations and papers for the SASA Conference sessions are now available online at Past SASA events

Attendee, speaker, and service provider engagement as exhibitors,  helped make this year’s Conference to be one of our best. This year, attendees experienced  brilliant new and returning speakers sharing their experiences who were also readily available to network with conference goers. Furthermore, there were many fellow experienced Archive and Records Manager attendees networking, sharing experiences, and learning from and with each other.

It was a great success!

While you may not have been able to attend the SASA Conference Experience, you can view all the sessions online athttp://saarchivist.co.za/past-events. Here you can view sessions to:

1. Review content of interest
2. Sample our speakers and content for its quality
3. Consider whether attending next year’s SASA Conference (Western Cape)  with many more interesting speakers and papers.

The delivery of these papers fulfils the SASA’s annual commitment that all sessions are posted on our website, and available for our profession’s ongoing study.

Planning for next year’s SASA Conference Experience is already underway and promises to be an extraordinary conference.

Delegates Invitation 2016

SASA call for papers - 2016 Conference_

SASA_2016_Conference_-_Invitation_letter

SASA_Conference_Registration_form_-_2016

SASA2016 Conference Registration

2016 Conference Papers

2017 Conference

SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY OF ARCHIVISTS 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The South African Society of Archivist (SASA), held the Annual Conference on 4-6 July 2017, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

The conference theme for 2017 was: “Archives, records and innovation in the digital era”

The rapid pace of technological innovation in information handling, such as digital technology, has created new opportunities and challenges for Archivists and Records Managers. Long-term preservation and management of digital records is a major concern facing the profession. Creating, managing and preserving digital records involves various challenges, such as policies, standards, new roles and relationships, copyright, meta-data and other technical issues. Lack of skills in this area is also one of the major challenges. The impact of technology is transforming not only the nature of the record but also the way in which people and organizations behave, communicate, and carry out their business. The very nature and role of the record and the archival institution is coming into question. What are the implications for the profession? Are we ready for this rapidly evolving digital world?

The conference provided an opportunity to learn and share innovative ideas, experiences, and latest research on this thought provoking theme.

Conference Sub-themes

• Technology
• Equipment
• Policies, Standards, Legislation
• Hybrid archives and records management
• Project management
• Education and training
• Born digital records
• Collaboration and cooperation
• Access
• E-signatures
• Social media
• Open data, Big data, Data governance

The 2017 conference theme and sub-themes proved to be interesting. with much food for thought.

2017 Conference presentations

2017 Pre-conference workshop