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3rd Annual New England NDSA Regional Meeting
September 25th, 2015 at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
http://brown.edu/go/NENDSA

Proposal Deadline: August 7th.

About:

The 3rd Annual New England NDSA Regional Meeting will take place at the UMass Dartmouth in the Claire T. Carney Library on September 25th, 2015. The meeting will include a series of 10-15 minute presentations in the morning and “unconference” break-out groups in the afternoon.  Registration is free and opens on August 14th, when the schedule is announced. Unconference directions will be distributed when registration opens.

Proposal instructions:

Presentation proposals should be submitted at http://brown.edu/go/NENDSASubmit by 5PM EST, August 7th, 2015.

We invite submissions on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:

  • Internally and Externally Collaborative Digital Preservation Initiatives: Successes and Failures
  • Trusted Repositories: Risk Analysis, Planning, Audit and Certification
  • Scalability and Automation
  • Metadata Issues for Preservation Processes
  • Business Models and Cost Estimation
  • Personal Archiving
  • Innovation in Digital Preservation: Novel Approaches and Scenarios
  • Training and Education
  • Domain-specific Challenges: Web, GIS, Primary/Scientific/Sensor Data, Governmental & Medical Records
  • Case Studies and Best Practice Reports: Systems, Workflows, Use Cases
  • Data Management and Curation in relation to the long-term preservation and access of data
  • Ontologies and Taxonomies

Best,
Zac Painter, UMass Dartmouth
Kevin Powell, Brown University