First paper by Modianne CATHALINA (National Archives of the Netherlands Antilles) will make a case for the continued relevance of traditional archival principles in the 21st century using the case study of the Netherlands Antilles. She will be presenting about the unique challenges that the National Archives of the Netherlands Antilles has faced with respect to the communities of outlying island areas that have demanded repatriation of their heritage that exists within our archival holdings in Curaçao. She will take this case as an example to raise some theoretical questions on the continued relevance of archival principles such as "respect du fonds" and "provenance" with respect to political and ethical concerns about repatriation, cultural property, collective ownership, access, custodianship, intellectual property and she will share the practical approach that the Netherlands Antilles have adopted to negotiate these issues.

Second paper by Louis Philippe RÖMER (National Archives of the Netherlands Antilles) will explain how National Archives of the Netherlands Antilles plans to meet the challenges presented by the recent demands for improved access to archival holdings on Curaçao from the outlying islands of the Netherlands Antilles (i.e. Bonaire, St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius) as well as to Aruba, a former island member of the Netherlands Antilles. Louis will explain how the National Archives will be using standardization and digitization as a crucial strategy to assuage the increasing demand for access to holdings in Curaçao from the outlying island areas of the Netherlands Antilles. Furthermore, Louis will show how Netherlands Antilles plans to get all parties involved in the process of adopting the best practices and standards for digitization. Finally, Louis will situate these strategies within a larger effort to redefine the future of archival practice in the Netherlands Antilles. Louis-Philippe will argue that an integral overhaul of archival practice is needed in order for the strategy to succeed. Traditional ideas on core competences need to be rethought in order to adapt archival practices to the new realities of the information age.

Third paper by NOR ZILA (National Archives of Malaysia) presents an account from the perspective of National Archives of Malaysia's (ANM) experience on using archival materials in dealing with boundary disputes. The paper will highlight on the research for archival materials with/of evidential, historical and legal intrinsic values. The paper will also discuss on the ways and means of making the right research and to locate evidence. However, in doing the research, some problems may be encountered which will hindered the research efforts and thus, resulted in waste of time and resources. Nevertheless, ANM foresees the need to enhance its future role in handling the boundary archives research.