------ Forwarded Message From: Tom Cramer <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:07:19 -0500 To: Tom Cramer <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Jan 11 - 13 PASIG in Austin -- Agenda & Registration: Early Bird Special Registration coming to a close PASIG, the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, will January 11-13, 2012 in Austin at the AT&T Conference Center on the campus of University of Texas at Austin. This meeting represents the reincarnation of PASIG as an independent, community-led organization--open to and welcoming of practitioners, researchers, industry experts and vendors in the digital preservation and archiving field. We're excited by the depth of speakers and topics, and the energy from the community in putting together this exchange. The early registration discount expires this Wednesday, 11/30. Registration is $200 through November 30, 2011, and $325 thereafter. The room block at the AT&T Executive Conference Center is available on a first come, first served basis. Alternative hotels are listed on the web site. Conference registration and hotel information is online at: http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/registration/ Speakers and Agenda The meeting will feature the best elements of past meetings, with a heavy emphasis on practitioners' concerns of preservation strategies, best practices, storage, engineering, architectures, and operation of preservation and archiving systems, at scale. The Austin meeting will feature keynotes by: * Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research * Jay Boisseau, Director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) * Jay Verkler, CEO of Family Search * Mike Wash, CIO of NARA and in depth sessions on... * Digital Preservation Bootcamp -- an optional, introductory session on digital preservation issues, concepts and tools * Longterm Digital Preservation Storage Futures * Preservation Research, Breakthroughs and Futures * Practitioners Knowledge Exchange * Lightning Talks "from the Field" * Domain Deep Dive: Media Preservation * Research Data: Management, Preservation and Archiving * Governance, Audit, Standards & Maturity Models * Supercomputing & Digital Preservation * Cloud-Based Preservation Services A full agenda for the meeting is below. The Oracle Storage Archive Manager (SAM) User Group will be holding a separate, free meeting on Tuesday, January 10 at the conference center. Contact Art Pasquinelli <[log in to unmask]> for details. Sponsors Special thanks to our sponsors for making this vendor-independent PASIG possible (Family Search, Microsoft Research, Tessella, and Oracle), as well as the conference hosts, University of Texas Libraries, Texas Digital Library, and Stanford University. I look forward to seeing you in Austin, - Tom Cramer | Tom Cramer | Chair, Preservation & Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) | Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director | Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources | [log in to unmask] PASIG Austin - Full Agenda as of November 28, 2011 Final times and speakers to be confirmed. Day 1: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:00 AM Registration 8:30 AM Bootcamp Welcome Digital Preservation Bootcamp Training in concepts, issues, tools, strategies & approaches for Digital Preservation and Archiving. This half day block of training sessions will focus on an introduction to the field and needs in digital preservation, and give attendees a foundation of concepts, terminology, standards and tools used broadly in the field. This half day of "Digital Preservation 101" is open to practitioners of all levels, but will be targeted specifically for those looking to gain exposure to the field. Led by William Kilbride (Digital Preservation Coalition) and Don Post (IMERGE Consulting) with Tom Cramer, David Giaretta, Mark Evans, and other invited tutors. Digital Preservation -- Things I wish someone had told me before I started Digital Preservation in theory and practice The Same But Different: data storage, business continuity management and preservation OAIS and Emerging Standards: what does success look like? Round Table Wrangling Digital Chaos: characterisation and ingest Preservation Metadata: it's not just for finding things How to Avoid Reinventing the Wheel: procurement and outsourcing Round Table discussion Noon Registration & Lunch 1 PM - PASIG Begins PASIG Welcome & Introduction to Steering Group Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist - Stanford University 1:15 PM Long-term Digital Preservation Storage Futures A state-of-the-art review of storage technology and industry trends with a focus on applying these developments to the unique needs of digital preservation and archiving, and systems at scale. Speakers will include: Raymond Clarke, Introduction & Chair Senior Enterprise Storage Consultant/Long-term Digital Preservation Strategist - Oracle Corporation Inaugural Vice Chair and on-going Board Member of the former SNIA Data Management Forum Leah Schoeb Chair, SNIA Green Storage Initiative Performance Specialist & Sr. Technical Marketing Manager - VMware, Inc Michael Petersen Founder, past President and Chief Strategy Advocate for SNIA Cloud Long-term Retention Standards Strategists Information Services Consultant, Author - Imerge Consulting Chris Wood Marketing Analyst and Author Senior Product & Solutions Development Specialist - Oracle Corporation Gary Francis Senior Director, Storage - Oracle Corporation 3:45 PM Preservation Research, Breakthroughs and Futures Current developments and trends in digital preservation research and practice. SCAPE -- Scalable Preservation Environments Bram Van der Werf, Executive Director - Open Planets Foundation New Formats for Preservation Microsoft Research Preservation Best Practices - Now and Future Don Post - iMerge Consulting 4:45 - 5:30 PM PASIG Keynote Plenary - Jay Boisseau, Director of TACC - Texas Advanced Computing Center Under Jay Boisseau's leadership, TACC has grown in size and stature to become one of the leading academic advanced computing centers in the US. Boisseau initiated a strong and growing research and development program at TACC while enhancing the computational resources to provide world-class capabilities, culminating in the recent award to TACC of the largest NSF award in UT Austin history: $59 million to acquire one of the most powerful computing system in the world in 2007 and to support US open research for four years. Evening Reception, AT&T Executive Center Day 2: Thursday, January 12 8:30 AM Jay Verkler, Family Search (TBC) "Putting it all together for content that matters." 9:15 AM Preservation & Archiving Architectures and Operations: Practitioners Knowledge Exchange. Structured presentation and comparison of preservation systems design and operation. Detailed overviews of PASIG community members' systems, operating practices, and lessons learned. Family Search - Preservation Systems at Scale Library of Congress - NAVCC - Carl Watts Novant Health Care - Robert Dick The French National Library (BnF) SPAR: From Design to Operations Thomas Ledoux - Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) 11 AM Lightning Talks Participatory presentations on late breaking developments, compelling breakthroughs or burning issues from the PASIG Community (archives & industry; practitioners and thought-leaders). Noon Lunch 1 PM Domain Deep Dive: Media Preservation Preservation of Audiovisual Material as the National Cultural Heritage Institute Ernst Van Velzen, CIO - Dutch Sound and Vision Institute Technical, Structural and Preservation Metadata for Digital Media Preservation Kara van Malssen, Senior Consultant - AudioVisual Preservation Solutions (AVPS) Media Preservation at Indiana: Splicing Together the Scholarly Data Archive, AV Materials and Institutional Infrastructure Jon Dunn, Kurt Seiffert - University of Indiana 2:00 PM Research Data Management, Archiving and Preservation Data Management Planning Reagan Moore - University of North Carolina UCSD's Research Cyberinfrastructure for Curation and Preservation David Minor - San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego Commodity Services for Hosting Research Databases: A Case Study in BRISSkit (Biomedical Research Infrastructure Software Services) Dr. Jonathan Tedds, Senior Research Liaison Manager Astronomical Surveys & e-Research, University of Leicester Data Management Planning and Digital Curation Services California Digital Library 3:45 PM Governance, Audit, Standards and Maturity Don Post, Introduction & Session Chair Measuring Capacity for Digital Preservation: A Maturity Model Dr. Charles Dollar Standards and Best Practices for Digital Preservation: What's Next David Giaretta - Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science Network 4:30 PM Closing Plenary Mike Wash - NARA CIO 6:30 - 9 PM Dinner, Texas State History Museum Day 3: Friday, January 13 8:30 AM Plenary - Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research. Gordon is a principal researcher in the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Laboratory, working in the San Francisco Laboratory. His interests include extreme life-logging, digital lives, preserving everything in cyberspace, and cloud computing as a new computer class and platform. He proselytizes Jim Gray's Fourth Paradigm of Science. 9:15 AM Digital Preservation & Supercomputing The intersection and opportunities of supercomputing facilities and services with digital preservation and archiving. CINES: Ensuring Long-term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data Olivier Rouchon - Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Supérieur (CINES) Scientific Data Repositories and Cyberinfrastructure at NERSC Jason Hick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Supercomputing for Mass Digitization and Preservation Jozef Dzivak, Director and CIO, Conservation and Digitalization Center - National Library of Slovakia Digital Preservation and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) Dan Stanzione - TACC 11 AM Cloud-Based Preservation Platforms and Services Tapping cloud-based services for local preservation needs in storage, computing and services. DuraCloud Direct-to-Researcher (DTR) Preservation Services Jonathan Markow, Chief Strategy Officer - DuraCloud Cloud-based Services for Preservation Natasha Milic-Frayling - Microsoft Research Cloud Services Implementation -- A Proof of Concept Mark Evans, Tessella SDSC Cloud Storage Services Richard Moore, Deputy Director - San Diego Supercomputer Center SNIA's Cloud Archive & Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) Mark Carlson, Chair, SNIA Technical Working Committee Cloud Technology Standards and Strategies Consultant - Oracle Corporation 12:30 PM Lunch 1:30 PM Optional Open Sessions & Parallel Tracks - Working Groups for Domains - Continued discussions in Media, Research Data, Formats, Storage - Self-organizing working groups for Medical, Government, Corporate archives - Vendor Product Demos & Consultations - PASIG Steering Group Wrap Up & Future Plans ------ End of Forwarded Message ############################ 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