2018年会议纪要

DRAFT MINUTES

JOINT WORKING SESSION of

5 MoW KNOWLEDGE CENTERS

and

MoW SUB-COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Nov. 11, 2018

Suzhou, China

 

 

Participants:

Prof. Papa Momar Diop,	Vice-Chair of the International Advisory Committee and Member of the Sub-Committee on Education and Research (SCEaR), UNESCO Memory of the World Programme
Prof. Dr. Lothar Jordan,	Chair of the Sub-Committee on Education and Research (SCEaR), UNESCO Memory of the World Programme
Ms. Wang Hongmin,	Director of the International Cooperation Department, the National Archives Administration of China (NAAC)
Prof. Dr. Zhang Bin,	Dean of the School of Information, Renmin University
Mr. Lee Sangho,	Chief of the Documentary Heritage Center of the Korean Studies Institute (Andong); Responsible for the Korean Memory of the World Knowledge Center
Mr. Bo Seung Kang,	Official of the Korean Studies Institute; Staff of the Korean Memory of the World Knowledge Center
Dr. Helen H.K. Ieong,	President, Macao Documentation and Information Society; Director of the MoW Knowledge Centre-Macau
Mr. Bu Jianmin,	Deputy Director of the MOW Knowledge Center-Suzhou
Mr. Yan Zixin,	Division Director, Fujian Provincial Archives; Representative of the MOW Knowledge Center-Fujian
Ms. Li Wendong,	Division Director, International Cooperation Department, the National Archives Administration of China (NAAC)
Ms. Xu Xiuying	Doctoral Candidate, the School of Information Renmin University

 

 

I. Speech by Mr. Lothar Jordan

First of all, Mr. Jordan expressed his thanks to the Director of Suzhou Silk Archives for gathering this meeting. Mr. Jordan said in 2014 he had the concept of establishing an international network of MoW Knowledge Centres with strong partners, as the SCEaR has no budget. In 2016 Macao was a pioneer. Only two years later, we have 5 MoW Knowledge Centers – none in Europe. Macao gave a good example to the world. Taking this opportunity, all 5 centers should exchange experiences and ideas. Mr. Jordan proposed to consider how the centers can cooperate with each other in the future.

Mr. Jordan said that these centers should communicate continuously all the time: on developments, what kind of help centers need, something like getting and taking, etc. Centers could think about whether they could work through networks, like internet, not isolated from each other. Of course, each of the centers has its own contacts, e.g. political contacts. Institutions have to fulfil some local or national requirements. Nonetheless the centers have nearly the same tasks. Mr. Jordan pointed out that the centers were impacting the world and at the same time were effective in their own country, in their local community. He hoped that they should have an impact on all levels. But what did that mean for the world? Through their cooperation the centres could strengthen the idea of a network for MoW education and research. He highlighted that the focus of today’s meeting was to collect ideas from the centres how they could and want do that. Not only how the centres could play a strong role in their local community, but how they could improve international cooperation. As Chair of the Sub-Committee of Education and Research Mr. Jordan invited all centers’ representatives to give some ideas. Macau started.

 

I. MoW Knowledge Centre-Macau

Ms Helen Ieong said that as this centre was the first MoW Knowledge Centre, it got great support from their government and the international community. As she had mentioned many times in different locations: they were happy to see more centers to be established. It was a good idea to join hands together.

Ms. Ieong emphasized that first of all it was important to collect publications on MoW and the documentary heritage like registered items, electronically and including paper, and to create a database; they could join together in the internet or in a website and cooperate in collecting. Since their Knowledge Centre is located in a library, they hope they could have some publications from other centers at least on registered items, archives, management, and MoW, etc. for the benefit of users.

Secondly, Ms. Ieong mentioned promotion. They promoted MoW in Macao, Hongkong and Taiwan, and introduced MoW to schools. They invited students to their centre and gave assignment to them. It was important to offer a MoW program for Master Degree students. Students needed to work on some projects or some aspects related to MoW, such as the Macao Memory project, etc. Some of their professors have already done some research on MoW and published in important journals in China.

One other important point: they hoped that they could get some directions from MoW or UNESCO on how their centre could work together with others. Maybe they could have a working session every year or second year, for example: first year in Korea, second year in Beijing, to share experience.

Finally: because their centre is located in a university library, they often made exhibitions. They were helped by the Historical Archives of Macao and the First Historical Archives of China. They hoped that they could hold an education programme on Archives.

 

II. MoW Knowledge Center-Beijing

The centre of Beijing introduced that they were establishing a website. Therein they wanted to bring all the materials together. They asked for archives and pictures of all the registered items of the MoW Register, MOWCAP Registers and Chinese National Registers.

Now on their website they were holding three online exhibitions including Yang Shilei etc. They also established a column on education and research, preservation and conservation. They stressed that they were facing problems with collecting information about registered items.  

Since the Beijing Center is located in Renmin university, they invited Mr. Lothar Jordan and other experts to give lectures in the future. Mr. Jordan thanked for the invitation and said that he accepted it with pleasure.

The centre also mentioned about the use of logo. The Chair of the SCEaR explained that it is a difficult matter to be resolved now.

The Beijing Knowledge Centre kindly offered to hold the first session next year. All participants were thankful for this offer.

 

III.  Korean MoW Knowledge Center

The Korean MoW Knowledge Center agreed on the idea of cooperation and holding seminars, and suggested to have a bureau meeting or secretariat meeting to share experience easily. They stressed that they had many on-going projects now.

Mr. Jordan invited everyone to read their paper disseminated in Fuzhou.

 

IV. MoW Knowledge Center-Suzhou

Mr. Bu Jianmin said that they had prepared for the establishment of the MoW knowledge centre since the beginning of this year.

One of the works they were doing now was to build up archives for the juveniles. Another project was to bring the MoW program into schools. They would invite experts and guests to attend the opening ceremony of the MoW program entering the 10^th High School and other related activities.

Mr. Bu said that he would give a presentation in tomorrow’s seminar.  He had already discussed with Mr. Zhang Bin, Dean of the Information School of Renmin University, about the collaboration of these centers. This time the Suzhou centre invited 13 institutions who had included registers to attend the seminar on Nov. 11. Mr. Bu also expressed his agreement for holding seminars in turn and conducted further research on included registers.

Also Mr. Bu thought about publishing books and publications regularly.

Mr. Bu also hoped to exchange exhibitions among centers, for example they could hold exhibition on silk archives in Macao and Macao could held their archives exhibitions to Suzhou.

Suzhou centre had set up a special room at the 3^rd Floor of the Industrial and Commercial Archives Centre as the appointed place for the exchanges.

Mr. Bu also expressed their willing to hold the seminars in the future and welcome all the guests to be back to Suzhou.

Mr Jordan thanked for Mr. Bu’s speech, and pointed out that the Suzhou and Korea centres focus on the young people, other knowledge centres like Macau focus on higher level like universities. So Suzhou and Korea could exchange ideas on working on young people as well as Macao and other centre could promote research on university level. This is also the aim of UNESCO to promote MoW both to young people (school children) and university students and professors.

 

V. MoW Knowledge Center-Fujian

Mr. Yan Zixin from the MoW Knowledge Center-Fujian said that he agreed to conduct regular exchanges among the 5 knowledge centers, like holding seminars.  

He suggested the centers might cooperate on one project, for example the National Archives Administration of China or the SCEaR could assign a project to each centers in China; or centers joined hands to raise one project and sent the project to the SCEaR for approval.

He suggested to take each centre as core and spread the work to different memory institutions in order to build up cooperation with them. In every year or second years each centre might organize discussions or seminars on different themes.

He also shared his ideas of collecting materials, building databases, training and exchanging of staffs among centers.

Mr. Yan hoped that they could hold promotion activities, such as holding exhibitions and shooting film documentaries.

 

VI. Conclusion

Finally, Mr Jordan concluded that all centres beside their general tasks had their own identities, their own tasks. Their local work was the most important part and so their national tasks. Each centre could promote their special project or part of their work at the local media. But that only showed a part of their programme. If they wanted to promote the MoW work on the international level, all centres needed to work together and be good examples to show other parts of the world how to build up a MoW Knowledge Centre.

 

Mr. Jordan summarized that all the centres agreed to do as follows:

1. To improve collections and start the establishment of websites.  

2. To have meetings, academic lectures or seminars on the high level every two years.

3. To have meetings of the secretariat of each centre and disseminate the result to the world.

4. The Beijing centre is kindly asked to prepare an agenda for the first meeting next year. The meeting would be a good platform for future cooperation.

5. To consider publishing a joint yearbook, including an annual report of each centre and the results and presentations of their meetings; and could include articles on education and research on one special theme or a special item of the Mow Registers.  The yearbook could be a brochure, modestly printed with a small budget, or a coffee table book, so more people could see it. The year book could be electronically and/or a paper edition with 80 to 100 pages for the start.

 

Mr Diop said that he as Vice-Chair of the MoW IAC fully agrees with the activities and proposals for future work and is ready to foster them.