Core Concepts
VALA’s purpose is to cultivate innovative and sustainable use of technology in the information community by:
- Inspiring communities of practice
- Facilitating exchange of information and the exploration of new ideas
- Recognising and celebrating excellence
VALA2022 has a focus on the future of technology in the information community. Submissions with a strong technology, R&D or future focus will be favourably considered. Nine Core Concepts further inform the program:
- Technology and sustainability
- harvesting
- remote access
- ubiquity of internet coverage
- privacy
- apps
- why don’t our systems play nice?
- GLAM tools and discovery
- user experience
- search result visualisations
- data provenance
- development of cultural heritage tools
- Digital preservation and digitisation
- intellectual property/copyright
- storage
- access
- who pays?
- Storytelling with data: open data, research data, data visualisation
- data security
- data provenance
- data ownership
- Future-thinking: emerging technologies and digital disruption
- semantic web
- linked open data
- are libraries truly digital?
- data provenance
- data security
- blockchain
- Creating a learning culture
- professional development
- career development
- digital skills
- training
- learning from failure
- Being agile: lessons from crises
- warp speed project set-up
- fast-tracking programs
- workflow reinvention?
- change management
- Diversity and representative collections
- accessibility
- ethics
- historical “baggage”
- Open access – why aren’t we there yet?
- creative commons
- open educational resources
- learning objects
- copyright