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The ALCTS PARS Digital Preservation Interest Group invites speakers to participate at the Digital Preservation Interest Group session at the ALA Annual Meeting in Chicago on Sunday, June 30, 2013 from 8:30-10:00 AM. Our theme for the session at ALA Annual will be repository ingest workflows. We invite session proposals that address the workflows surrounding ingest processes and the tools used to support these workflows. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Workflows to prepare the contents of a SIP (Submission Information Package) for storage and management - Creating and deriving metadata (e.g. descriptive and technical) needed to manage and identify digital objects or disk images - Disk imaging practices - Management of logical and physical disk images - Validation of digital objects - Dealing with digital objects on media of unusual types, formats, ages, and conditions - Dealing with multiple versions of digital objects - Dealing with encrypted or password-protected digital objects - Redaction practices and policies - Dealing with digital objects created using special applications or software versions - Normalization of file formats - Digital preservation tools that support ingest processes Presentations should be approximately 20-30 minutes in length. Additional time will be allowed for questions and discussion. Please send abstracts of proposals to co-chairs by Friday, May 3, 2013. If you have questions, please contact us. We look forward to hearing from you! Sibyl Schaefer Assistant Director, Head of Digital Programs, Rockefeller Archive Center [log in to unmask] Meghan Banach Bergin Coordinator, Bibliographic Access and Metadata Unit, University of Massachusetts Amherst [log in to unmask] ****************************************** Meghan Banach Bergin Coordinator, Bibliographic Access and Metadata Unit Information Resources Management Department/W.E.B. Du Bois Library University of Massachusetts 154 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 Telephone (413) 545-6846 Fax (413) 545-6494 E-mail [log in to unmask] "If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less."--General Eric Shinseki, former U.S. Army Chief of Staff ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-ALL list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/scripts/wa-DIGITAL.exe?SUBED1=NDSA-ALL&A=1