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Aaron Trehub
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Auburn University Libraries
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Conference Announcement:
Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation

Date: May 23-25, 2011
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Conference Website: http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP 

Ensuring long-term access to digital resources is a task few
institutions or even countries can take on by themselves. Cooperation is
key to successful digital preservation: cooperation between individual
institutions, sectors, and countries. 

For this reason we are pleased to announce the “Aligning National
Approaches to Digital Preservation” conference. While there are many
annual events that support and encourage information exchange across
national boundaries, no event has yet attempted to set a strategic
direction across the range of topics represented here: Organizational,
Technical, Legal, Standards, Economic, and Education alignment. This
conference intends to provide a participatory forum for information
exchange and focused work on these topics for the purpose of building
international collaborations to support the preservation of our
collective digital memory. 

The outcomes for the event will be a strategic alignment of national
approaches to enable new forms of international cooperation and an
edited volume that documents an action plan for building collaboration
among interested digital preservation initiatives.
Keynotes and Panel Chairs include:
Laura Campbell - (U.S. Library of Congress) 
Gunnar Sahlin - (National Library of Sweden) 
Inge Angevaare - (Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation) 
Joy Davidson - (HATII, University of Glasgow) 
Maurizio Lunghi - (Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale) 
Adrienne Muir - (Loughborough University) 
Raivo Ruusalepp - (Tallinn University) 
Michael Seadle - (Berlin School of Library and Information Science,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) 
Confirmed Panel Speakers include:
Dwayne Buttler - (University of Louisville) 
Sheila Corrall - (University of Sheffield) 
George Coulbourne - (U.S. Library of Congress) 
David Giaretta - (Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of
Science) 
Stéphane Goldstein - (Research Information Network - RIN) 
Neil Grindley - (Joint Information Systems Committee - JISC) 
Martin Halbert - (University of North Texas, Educopia Institute,
MetaArchive) 
Nancy McGovern - (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social
Research - ICPSR) 
Wilma Mossink - (SURFfoundation) 
Andreas Rauber - (Technical University of Vienna) 
Mihkel Reial - (National Library of Estonia) 
Adam Rusbridge - (HATII, University of Glasgow) 
Sabine Schrimpf (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek/nestor) 
Bohdana Stoklasova - (National Library of Czech Republic, Prague) 
Aaron Trehub - (Auburn University, ADPNet) 
Matthew Woollard - (UK Data Archive) 
Current Sponsors include:
U.S. Library of Congress 
University of North Texas Libraries 
EQUELLA 
ProQuest 
Auburn University Libraries 
Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) 
Internet Archive 
DuraSpace/DuraCloud 
Guardtime
Please visit http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP to register or to get
more information on participating in or sponsoring this conference.
 
Immediately following the conference, on May 26th, the ESDI Roundtable
Workshop (http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP/ESDI_Roundtable) will be
held to provide an international forum to discuss the implications of
the Blue Ribbon Task Force conclusions and recommendations, focus on new
work in this area, and hear from a range of participants about the
various national actions that are being taken to ensure an economically
sustainable digital future. Places at this meeting are very limited and
some will be filled by targeted invitation. Please contact Neil Grindley
at JISC ([log in to unmask]) to inquire about participation.

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Matt Schultz
Collaborative Services Librarian
Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
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