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FIRST
CALL FOR PAPERS
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DigCCurr2007: An
International Symposium on Digital Curation
Focus:
“What Digital Curators Do and What They Need to Know?”
April
18-20, 2007
Chapel Hill, North
Carolina
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IMPORTANT DATES:
750
word abstract: January 1, 2007
Notification of
acceptance: February 1, 2007
Full papers: March 15,
2007
Symposium: April 18-20,
2007
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INTRODUCTION:
The
School of Information and Library Science <http://sils.unc.edu> (SILS) at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host DigCCurr2007, an
international symposium on Digital Curation, April 19 – 20, 2007. This two-day
event is part of the “Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building
an International Digital Curation” project funded by the Institute of
Museum of Library Services (IMLS). The National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) is a partner in this effort.
DigCCurr2007
will focus on what digital curators do and what they need to know to carry out
this work and each speaker is asked to address these issues in their
presentation.
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AUDIENCE:
Anyone
interested in digital preservation and curation, especially those who are
building staff capacity in these areas.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST:
While
paper submissions on any aspect of digital curation are welcome, we are
particularly interested in the following areas and topics:
Designing
Repositories –
Where to Begin?
Repository Architecture
Ingest Services
User Services
Metadata
Standards and Standard
Development
Policy Development
Programs for Working
with Content/Data Providers
Intellectual Property
Rights Issues
Information Industry
Perspectives
Social Science Data
Curation
Science Data Curation
Funding and
Sustainability
We
request that each paper include discussion of the skills, knowledge, and
perspectives individuals working in these functional areas and environments or
addressing these issues will find valuable.
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PAPER FORMAT &
SUBMISSION:
Abstract
and full papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files. Full papers
should be 6-8 pages in length and use a double column format such as the ACM
layout. Detailed formatting and submission instructions will be available in
the author instructions section of the conference Web site soon. At this time
electronic publication of the proceedings is planned but may be followed with a
print version.
Please
submit abstracts to John Schaefer at: [log in to unmask] by January 1,
2007.
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Helen
R. Tibbo, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
Christopher A. Lee,
School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
John Schaefer, School of
Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
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ADVISORY BOARD:
Advisory
Board members include:
Stephen Chapman, Harvard
University;
Adrian Cunningham,
National Archives of Australia;
Robin Dale, RLG/OCLC;
Wendy Duff, University
of Toronto;
Philip Eppard,
SUNY-Albany;
Anne Gilliland, UCLA;
Maria Guercio,
University of Urbino;
Hans Hofman, Nationaal
Archief (National Archives) of the Netherlands and ERPANET;
Anne Kenney, Cornell
University Library;
Steve Knight, National
Library of New Zealand;
Clifford Lynch,
Coalition for Networked Information; Richard Marciano, San Diego Super Computer
Center;
Seamus Ross, University
of Glasgow;
Don Sawyer, NASA;
Kenneth Thibodeau,
National Archives and Records Administration;
Raymond van Diessen,
IBM, The Netherlands;
Elizabeth Yakel,
University of Michigan.
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CONFERENCE SOCIAL
EVENTS:
All-conference
opening reception, 6:00 – 7:30 PM, Wednesday, April 18th
Working lunch, 12:15
– 1:45, Thursday,
April 19th
All-conference
reception, 5:00 – 7:00 PM, Thursday, April 19th
Working lunch, 12:15
– 1:45, Friday,
April 20h
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CONFERENCE LOCATION:
The
opening reception will be held in The Wilson Library on UNC’s main
campus.
All sessions, lunches,
and the Thursday evening reception will be held at The William and Ida Friday
Center for Continuing Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
located on Route 54 in Chapel Hill, NC.
FOR
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Please
see: http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr.
Dr. Helen
R. Tibbo, Professor
School of Information and Library Science
201 Manning Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
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Tel: 919.962.8063
Fax: 919.962.8071