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"For architectural archives, digital files are not just a new kind of datacarrier as was the case with microfilm. Digital materials require much more attention to be handled, described and stored in a consistent, safe and persistent way than paper or film. The awareness that our digital heritage is much more fragile than paper archives slowly starts to pervade the cultural heritage community. While some institutions are already testing e-repository test beds, most organisations are still searching for technical solutions for the new hybrid environment in which paper archives are accompanied by digital files.Research and experiencesThe conference will be a continuation of the Gau:di conference held in Paris from 8 to 10 November 2007 “Architecture and Digital Archives. Architecture in the Digital Age: a question of memory”. The conference is meant for architects, architectural museum staff, staff from cultural heritage institutions, architectural historians and researchers. The main purpose of the meeting is to map the development of research and experiences in creating, consuming and using digital architectural archives. The conference focuses on bringing together experts in the fields of architecture (the creators), architectural archives and museums (the keepers: preservation and access) and researchers (users).Hybrid environmentThe specific problems with permanent storage, access and retrieval of digital architectural archives are gradually revealing themselves. What are the consequences for organizations in a hybrid environment and what choices do we have to face?With regard to digitising paper archives: should we digitise complete archives or parts of it retrospectively and describe them in the same way as our paper archives? How can we create a useful multi language thesaurus and vocabulary necessary to find the requested information? How should we present digital information and what will be the surplus value for users compared to the original paper drawings. How can users and providers make the most of this new digital content?With regard to born digital archival material: how do we address the problem of authenticity when the digital original is the same as the copy on the web? What are the specific inherent qualities of digital designs? How do we preserve the functionalities of an architectural design produced by interactive software once the material is in a repository?Conference themesThe questions above have been translated into the following themes:Acquiring and processing digital archives in repositoriesProducing digital archives in architectural practicesArchitectural archives on the webUsers: expectations and useMultilingual architecture thesauri and vocabulariesWednesday June 1014.15Departure by bus from the NAi to the Open Model Storage15.00Tour Open Model Storage16.15 Departure by bus from the Open Model Storage to the Town Hall17.00Welcome Reception at the Town Hall RotterdamThursday June 11Auditorium National Library, The Hague8.30 Registration9.30Welcome by the Director of the National Library9.45Introduction by Patricia Alkhoven, conference chair and Head of Collections, NAI10.00Keynote 1 Yola de Lusenet10.20Keynote 2 Marcel Ras The KB E-Depot10.40 Coffee and tea11.15Session 1 Producing Digital Archives in Architectural PracticesPaper 1 David Peycere Producing Digital Archives in Architectural PracticesPaper 2 Berthold Scharrer Save the BubblePaper 3 Gijs Joosen (Oosterhuis Architecten) Architecture = Information12.30  Lunch13.30 Tour National Library and National Archives14.15 Session 2 Acquiring and Processing Digital Archives in Repositories (chaired by David Peycere)Paper 1 Sophie De Caigny Building a Fedora Repository For Architectural ContentPaper 2 Henk Vanstappen Connecting the Digital With the Physical LAM (Library-Archive-Museum) ApproachPaper 3 Josje Everse cs. Connection Between E-depot And Project Construction Drawings15.30 Coffee and tea16.00Session 3 Multilingual Architecture Thesauri and Vocabularies (chaired by Riccardo Domenichini)Paper 1 Andrea Bocco Archiwordnet, a Bilingual ThesaurusPaper 2 Ezio Arlati, Elena Bogani, Andrea Cammarata The PiacenzaLabs Repository, a MACE ApplicationPaper 3 Stefan Boeykens Connecting Digital Architectural Archives With MACE17.15 Discussion19.00Dinner in restaurant Garoeda, The HagueFriday June 12Auditorium Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam9.15  Welcome by Ole Bouman, Director NAi9.30Session 4 Users: Expectation And UsePaper 1 Kristine Fallon Defining And Encoding Architectural Information For Digital ArchivesPaper 2 Eduardo Aguirre Leon, Mauricio Ramírez Molina New Interfaces, New ScenariosPaper 3 Bernd Kulawik Distributed Web-portal For World-wide Contribution Among Architectural Archives And Historians10.45Coffee and tea11.15Session 5 Three Dimensional Issues (chaired by Patricia Alkhoven)Paper 1 Dennis Derycke, David Lo Buglio Digital Archiving For Inside Elevations By OrthophotographyPaper 2 and 3 Jean-Yves Blaise, Iwona Dudek, Livio de Luca 3D As Content And As Metaphor: Spatial Cognition.12.30Lunch13.30Tour NAi Collection Department14.30Session 6 Architecture On The Web (chaired by Henk Vanstappen)Paper 1 Helga Kusolisch Nextroom, European Hub for Contemporary ArchitecturePaper 2 Emmanuelle Cadet, René Pelfresne Mediation of Heterogeneous Digital Information on Modern Architecture in the Mediterranean (Musomed)Paper 3 Paola Ricco Image ARCHIVE, an Operating Space for Architecture Videos15.45Coffee and tea16.15Wrap up, discussion and conclusion17.15Reception in Foyer NAi "Link to conference: http://conference.nai.nl