CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections
January 6, 2012 in Chapel Hill

WHAT: The DigCCurr 2012 Public Symposium Presents CurateGear! a highly
interactive day-long event focused on digital curation tools and
methods. See demonstrations, hear about the latest developments, and
discuss application in professional contexts.

WHEN: Friday, January 6, 2012, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

WHERE: Friday Center, UNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

HOW TO REGISTER: Go to: http://tinyurl.com/3m8ajrm
COST: $100 ($125 for late registration beginning December 1st); STUDENT
COST: $50.

Registration includes continental breakfast, morning and afternoon
breaks, lunch, and free parking.

PRESENTERS include:

Jonathan Crabtree, Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
Mark Evans, Tessella
Barbara Guttman, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Carolyn Hank, McGill University
Chien-Yi Hou, University of North Carolina
Greg Jansen, UNC Libraries
Cal Lee, University of North Carolina
Matt Kirschenbaum, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
Nancy McGovern, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social
Research
Richard Marciano, University of North Carolina
Mark Matienzo, Yale University
Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
David Pearson, National Library of Australia
Doug Reside, New York Public Library
Seamus Ross, University of Toronto
Seth Shaw, University Archives, Duke University
Mike Thuman, Tessella
Helen Tibbo, University of North Carolina
William Underwood, Georgia Tech
Bram Van der Werf, Director of the Open Planets Foundation
Peter Van Garderen, Artefactual Systems
Doug White, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Kam Woods, University of North Carolina

Agenda:

Welcome and Introductions
* Helen Tibbo

Overview of the Day’s Topics
* Cal Lee

Curation Needs and Behaviors
* Carolyn Hank - The Blog Archiving Landscape: Services and Approaches
for Personal Blog Preservation
* Matt Kirschenbaum – More than Words: Literary Authorship and Word
Processing
* Doug Reside – On Becoming a Digital Curator for the Performing Arts

Repository Management Environments
* Jon Crabtree – SAFE Archive
* Mark Evans and Mike Thuman – Safety Deposit Box
* Chien-Yi Hou and Richard Marciano – Policy-Driven Data Management
* Peter Van Garderen - Integration of BitCurator knowledge and tools
into Archivematica

Demo and Discussion Session - Repository Management Environments
Presenters from the previous session will provide demonstrations and
discuss with CurateGear participants.

Metadata and Documentation
* Barbara Guttman and Doug White – The NSRL and Its Potential Role in
Digital Curation
* Mark Matienzo – Accessioning-based Metadata Extraction and Iterative
Processing: Notes From the Field
* David Pearson - NLA Digital Preservation Knowledgebases for Formats,
Software and associated levels of support
* Seamus Ross – DRAMBORA and the Data Audit Framework

Demo and Discussion Session – Metadata and Documentation
Presenters from the previous session will provide demonstrations and
discuss with CurateGear participants.

Data Transformation, Processing and Access
* Greg Jansen – Curator’s Workbench
* Trevor Owens - Viewshare.org: A free open platform for creating
interfaces to cultural heritage collections
* Seth Shaw – Accessioning Evolution @ Duke
* Bill Underwood - Tools for File Format Identification, Validation and
Characterization
* Kam Woods – BitCurator

Demo and Discussion Session – Data Transformation, Processing and Access
Presenters from the previous session will provide demonstrations and
discuss with CurateGear participants.

Observations and Implications
* Nancy McGovern, Seamus Ross, Helen Tibbo, Bram van der Werf

Sponsored by: the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, and the School of Information and Library Science