Digital Preservation
Colleagues:
Early bird registration ends
September 11 for the International Preservation conference, iPRES 2009, held
this year October 5-6 in San Franciso. Also, note that hotel group rates are
only guaranteed if reserved by early September.
The premiere conference for
people working to preserve the world's cultural and scholarly digital heritage,
from local to national and international levels, this sixth annual event in the
iPRES series follows meetings in London and Beijing. The conference will
present a strong program,
http://www.cdlib.org/iPres/confsched.html
with highlights that include
* David Kirsch giving a
keynote address entitled: "The Public
Interest in Private
Digital Records and Why We Should Care if
Corporations have the
Right to be Forgotten."
* Micah Altman giving a
keynote on Harvard’s premier data archive.
* Members of the Blue
Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital
Preservation and
Access hosting a keynote panel: "Perspectives
on the Economics of
Sustainable Digital Preservation."
* Henry Lowood on
"Memento Mundi: Are Virtual Worlds History?"
* Martha Anderson on
"The National Digital Stewardship
Charter: Enabling
Collaboration to Achieve National Digital
Preservation."
* A panel discussion
with Tyler Walters, Liz Bishoff, Emily Gore,
Mark Jordan and Thomas
Wilson on "Distributed Digital Preservation:
Technical,
Sustainability, and Organizational Developments."
Expect leading researchers
and practitioners in digital preservation to discuss current and future
projects, developments and trends. It will be unofficial "digital
preservation week" in
http://www.cdlib.org/iPres/schedule.html
with the following related
events occurring around the same time:
1. PREMIS Implementation
Fair
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/premis-implementation-fair2009.html
2. JHOVE2 workshop
http://confluence.ucop.edu/display/JHOVE2Info/JHOVE2+Workshop%2C+October+7%2C+2009
3. Sun-PASIG (Sun
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group)
http://sun-pasig.ning.com/events/pasig-san-francisco-oct-79
4. International Internet
Preservation Consortium (IIPC) open meeting:
"Active Solutions
for Preserving Internet Content"
http://netpreserve.org/events/index.php
Thanks again to our sponsors
for their generous support of iPRES 2009:
Sun (Platinum level); Isilon
Systems, ExLibris, and IMLS (Gold level); Tessella and JISC (Silver level);
NetApp, Filetek and NDIIPP (Bronze level); and DuraSpace (Sponsor).
Have a look at our Social
Networking page and join us on Facebook, Twitter (hashtag #ipres09), Crowdvine
and Flickr.
October brings
Trisha Cruse and the iPRES 2009 Program
Committee
Patricia Cruse
Director, Digital Preservation Program
University of
510/987-9016