#BDCH23 ABOUT THE EVENT
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#BDCH23 Is the third iteration of the Born Digital Cultural Heritage conference series. The first and second iterations—in 2014 and #BDCH22 in 2022—brought together academics and practitioners from across the world to consider issues in the field of born-digital cultural heritage from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

A notable feature of this conference series has been the deliberate attempt to establish dialogue between those working in different professional fields. We recognise that born-digital heritage reaches into all disciplines and that it takes people from a range of disciplines and professions working together to address challenges and break down professional silos and other barriers that inhibit the discussion and sharing of questions and know-how.

#BDCH22 was an online event designed to support collaboration and research during a challenging period and embrace the possibilities provided by Zoom.  This conference was a major outcome of the ARC funded project, Play it Again: Preserving Australian Video Game History of the 1990s. Recordings of the panels were made available on the conference site and our Vimeo channel. The Popular Memory Archive is another outcome of this project as is the collaboration with ACMI to make playble a curated selection of videogames using emulation.

#BDCH23 expands the disciplinary fields that characterised earlier iterations to include architecture and design and the focus on computer games to include media arts, software, websites, networking and other relevant domains. We not only address what is most urgent now; #BDCH is also an opportunity to consider that the practices of preservation need not be limited to legacy technologies, can include contemporary platforms such as apps, VR, AR, and even extend to the futures of preservation, access, exhibition and re-imagination. 

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