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Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems

Venue: ICPSR, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Dates: October 11-16, 2009

We are pleased to announce that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will host the next five-day workshop June 13-18, 2010 in Cambridge MA. The October 2009 workshop is the final scheduled 5-day workshop in Ann Arbor for this series and the June 2010 is the final workshop in the series. 

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will host the October 2009 Digital Preservation Management workshop, originally developed at Cornell University Library by Anne R Kenney and Nancy Y McGovern.   See brief bios for the current instruction team at: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/instructors.html.

The intended audience for the workshop series is managers at organizations who are or will be responsible for digital preservation. The workshop begins on Sunday evening with an opening session, continues Mon-Thursday 9am - 5pm, and concludes Friday at noon. Additional information about the workshop content and logistics is available at: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/fiveday.html.  Please watch the Web site for updates on topical workshops to be held in 2010 and for the scheduling of future five-day workshops. 

Registration: The application form for the workshop will be available by 9am ET on Aug 3, 2009 and be available until registration is full (24 participants): http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/registration.html. Applicants will be notified within 48hrs if they are accepted for participation.

The workshop series has been developed with funding from NEH. 

If you have questions, please contact us at: [log in to unmask]

Nancy Y McGovern

Director, Digital Preservation Management workshops