Dont miss the New England National Digital Stewardship Alliance regional meeting on Thursday, October 30th, hosted by the Five College Digital Preservation Task Force at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The day will include presentations by: National Digital Stewardship Residency program in Boston with Nancy McGovern (MIT) & Andrea Goethels (Harvard University) http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/ndsr_boston Dataverse with Eleni Castro, Research Coordinator, Data Acquisition and Archiving, Data Science IQSS, Harvard University Taxonomy Development and Management Process, Kathryn Gronsbell (AVpreserve) The Five College Digital Preservation Task Force Achivematica Pilot A draft agenda is available here: http://hamp.it/ndsa There is limited room available and RSVPs are required. Please register to attend here: http://bit.ly/1Ea6511 The National Digital Stewardship Alliance is a consortium of organizations that are committed to the long-term preservation of digital information. The mission of the NDSA is to establish, maintain, and advance the capacity to preserve our nation's digital resources for the benefit of present and future generations. For more information see the NDSA website: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/ ****************************************** 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