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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