Courtesy of M. Matienzo: ________________________________ CREW: Collecting Repositories and E-Records Workshop Chicago, Illinois - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Organized by AIMS Project Partners (University of Virginia, Yale University, Stanford University and University of Hull) Funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ABOUT THE WORKSHOP As part of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded AIMS Project ("Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship"), the project's partners are organizing a workshop regarding born-digital archival material in collecting repositories. The workshop will provide an opportunity for archivists and technologists to discuss issues related to collection development, accessioning, appraisal, arrangement and description, discovery and access, and preservation of these materials. We also hope to provide hands-on opportunities for investigating some of the tools and software that the AIMS Project has used. The workshop is being scheduled to coincide with the week of the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists in Chicago, Illinois. The workshop will also complement the AIMS Project partners' special focus session during the SAA annual meeting, to be held on Saturday, August 27, at 8:00 AM (Session 502: "Born-Digital Archives in Collecting Repositories: Turning Challenges into Byte-Size Opportunities"). AUDIENCE Potential attendees at this workshop should have some experience working in a collecting repository with contemporary collections, and ideally have some knowledge of or experience with electronic records. Registration will be available to anyone, on a first come, first served basis. There will be no charge for registration. TIME & LOCATION Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM Hotel Palomar Chicago 505 N. State Street Chicago, IL 60654 Hotel Palomar is located a half-mile from the Hyatt Regency Chicago on the Riverwalk, which is the location of the Society of American Archivists meeting. REGISTRATION A link to registration will be sent in advance of the event. There will be no charge for registration. ABOUT THE AIMS PROJECT The University of Virginia Library, in partnership with Stanford University, the University of Hull, and Yale University have been funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for "Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship (AIMS). Over a two-year project period (October 2009 - October 2011), project partners will create an inter-institutional framework for stewarding born-digital content. The group plans to process and preserve thirteen born-digital collections of noteworthy individuals and/or organizations and make them discoverable via Hydra, a Fedora-based solution, which can easily be installed and implemented by other institutions. A cohort of digital archivists has been established with a mandate to engender a digital archivist community of professionals both nationally and internationally, and they will disseminate broadly the lessons learned from the real work of processing and preserving a varied range of born-digital collections. More information on the AIMS Project can be found on the project's website at <http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/aims/> and on Born-Digital Archives, the project's blog, at <http://born-digital-archives.blogspot.com/>. ############################ To unsubscribe from the DLF-ANNOUNCE list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://lists.clir.org/SCRIPTS/WA-CLIR.exe?SUBED1=DLF-ANNOUNCE&A=1