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DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects

April 1‐3, 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Conference program now available at http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/schedule

 REGISTER HERE: http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/registration  Regular Registration Ends 3/14/09! See details below.

ALERT: Reserve your hotel rooms NOW – they are going fast!  Also, see website for conference discounts from American Airlines and Avis Rental Cars.   http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/travel_hotels

Following the success of DigCCurr2007, the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina is pleased to announce our second digital curation curriculum symposium. DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects is part of the Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCurr) project.

DigCCurr 2009 will host over 100 speakers from a dozen countries. Keynoter, John Wilkin from the University of Michigan will lead us off with a presentation entitled: “Building the Universal Library:  The promise and challenges of HathiTrust.” This will be followed by two days of papers, panels, digital curation tool demonstrations, poster presentations, receptions and a conference dinner. Speakers will report on best practices, current experiences, and tools available for digital curation tasks today. DigCCurr2009 will focus on current practice and research surrounding digital curation with a look toward the future, and trends in preparing digital curation professionals. Day 1 session titles include:

Funders’ Perspectives

Gaps and Persistent Challenges

Distributed Custodial Frameworks for Archival Preservation

Digital Curation of Humanistic, Multimedia Materials: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

Digital Curation Vignettes: Personal, Academic, and Organizational Digital Information

Education for Digital Curation

Curation of Scientific Datasets: Trends, Current Initiatives, and Solutions

Technology Learning for Digital Curators

Metadata

See the schedule for what’s in store for Day 2: http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/schedule

Conference Fees:

Regular $350 online registration 1/15/09 - 3/14/09

                        +$20 for Thursday dinner

Late $400 online registration after 3/15/09

                        +$20 for Thursday dinner

Student Regular $200 online registration 1/15/09 – 3/14/09

                        +$20 for Thursday dinner

Student Late $250 postmarked after 3/15/09

                        +$20 for Thursday dinner

Cancellations

·       Refund minus $100 processing fee if cancellation request received by March 1, 2009

·       No refund after March 1, 2009

·       Cancellations or substitutions must be made to Rachael Clemens [log in to unmask]

Sponsors

Institute of Museum and Library Services               
Coalition for Networked Information            
National Archives and Records Administration           
School of Information and Library Science              
University of North Carolina

UNC University Libraries               


Planning Committee             
Rachael Clemens
Dr. Wendy Duff
Dr. Maria Guercio
Carolyn Hank
Dr. Cal Lee
Dr. Seamus Ross
Dr. Ken Thibodeau
Dr. Helen Tibbo, Chair
Dr. Elizabeth Yakel 

Dr. Helen R. Tibbo

School of Information and Library Science

201 Manning Hall CB#3360

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360

Tel: 919-962-8063

Fax: 919-962-8071

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