Wednesday, August 2, 2017

8:30-10:30	Registration
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-11:30	Welcome
11:30-12:30	Session I Gerald A. Urban University of Freiburg, Germany Engineering meets humanities – benefits from an interdisciplinary adventure Andreas Manz KIST Europe, Germany 1,000,000 years into the future – a clock, some teaching and what?
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	Session II Claudio Pescatore Former PA with OECD, Linnaeus University, Sweden Towards robust strategies for preserving records, knowledge and memory across generations Hans-Joachim Gehrke Former president of DAI, University of Freiburg, Germany Cultural transformation and dark ages in historical science Rolf Bergmeier Supervisory board Giordano Bruno Foundation, Germany Cultural break and Interruption of Information flow in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
15:30-16:00	Coffee
16:00-17:00	Session III Moderated discussion Human document – why should we keep our data and knowledge for long?
17:00-19:00	Welcome reception

Thursday, August 3, 2017

8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-10:30	Session IV Laura Welcher The Long Now Foundation, USA The Long Now 10,000 Year Library (tend.) Leon Abelmann KIST Europe, Germany and University Twente, the Netherlands Carriers for ultra-long storage Melissa Guzman NASA, USA SPACE ETERNAL MEMORY storing information in space for a very long time (tend.)
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-12:30	Session V Peter G. Kazansky University of Southampton, UK Achieving information immortality with 5D memory crystal Christian Keitel Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Germany How to select data and documents for about 1200 years? Reto Schölly University of Freiburg, Germany THE ABOMINABLE TRUTH (How Verifiable Information Can Destroy Knowledge)
12:30-14:00	Coffee
14:00-15:30	Session VI Johann-Mattis List MPI for the Science of Human History, Germany Storing our knowledge of linguistic diversity: Towards the standardization of cross-linguistic data formats Gerhard Schneider University of Freiburg, Germany Digital long‐term archiving – how to keep your assets valuable Martin Kunze MOM, Austria Memory of Mankind - MOM - aims to preserve an overall image of our time
15:30-16:00	Coffee
16:00-17:00	Session VII Xárene Eskandar Artist Is Artificial Intelligence the future of immortality? Moderated discussion Selection criteria – what should be preserved?
17:00-19:00
19:00	Dinner (Schlossbergrestaurant Dattler)

Friday, August 4, 2017

8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-10:30	Session VIII Stephen Quake Stanford, USA Biological encoding of data (tend.) Matthias Razum Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany Long-term preservation of research data: how long is long? Sarah Hadry Bayrisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Germany Microfilming: A traditional technique as the ultimate "Back-up" for unique archival information
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-12:00	Session IX University Library Freiburg University of Freiburg Tba Sabina Schrimpf Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Germany Preservation of digital media at the German National Library
12:00-12:15	Closing
12:15-13:00	Lunch
13:00-16:00	Visit to the Barbarastollen underground archive Bernhard Preuss & Sarah Hadry Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance & Bayrisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Germany Participation in the guided tour needs preregistration Bus transfer to the Barbarastollen starting in front of the lecture hall Please bring appropriate clothing – you have to expect 10 °C (50 °F)!