Past Events

from: 18-04-2007   to: 20-04-2007

The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host DigCCurr2007, an international symposium on Digital Curation, April 18-20, 2007.

from: 19-04-2007   to: 19-04-2007

The scientific purposes of the workshop are: In what concern are artistic contents good objects/processes to anticipate complexity of industrial/scientific future objects ? - Is there any specificity of cultural domains as far as intangible heritage preservation is concerned? - What should be the interesting experiments coming from other domains like for instance medicine, industry or defence? - What has to be kept or archived? Objects, processes, or instructions/environment/technical framework to reproduce/re-product them? - …

from: 20-04-2007   to: 21-04-2007

The conference entitled “The Challenge: Longterm Preservation” aims to present and discuss the current technical and organisational status of measures being taken for the long-term preservation of digital media in various countries in Europe. The goal here is jointly to identify different methods and strategies and to sound out the feasibility of a European alliance of the individual national alliances devoted to preventing digital data loss.

from: 25-04-2007   to: 26-04-2007

Today science data archives face increasing challenges to meet the needs of their users. They have also become highly distributed. NSSDC will sponsor a workshop to improve communication among the practitioners supporting science data centers, archives, and repositories. A first workshop, scheduled for 25-26 April 2007, will be held at the University of Maryland University College, Inn and Conference Center, with a specific focus on facilitating communication and eliciting best practices and outstanding challenges from practicing science data managers, with an emphasis on good stewardship of NASA's Heliophysics, Planetary, Astrophysics, and Earth science data as well as perspectives from other science archives in the US and internationally. Goals: One goal will be to establish the level of commonality of problems and best practices, as seen by the practitioners, and their interest in continuing to communicate on such matters. Another goal will be to identify broadly based techniqu

from: 27-04-2007   to: 27-04-2007

Running from 11.00am to 4.00pm, this practical tutorial will provide a contextual overview of the need for an evidence based evaluation of digital repositories and offer an overview of the DCC pilot audits to date. The tutorial will then move on to demonstrate how institutions can make use of the DRAMBORA toolkit to design, develop, evaluate, and/or refine new or existing trusted digital repository systems and workflows. This will involve a walk-through of the criteria checklist with practical examples based on the pilot audits. Participants will be encouraged to draw upon and share their own experiences during this discussion.

from: 01-05-2007   to: 03-05-2007

In its 10 year history, School for Scanning has gained a reputation for providing current information on creating and managing digital collections. This popular three-day conference takes digitization from theory into practice and is geared toward participants with a beginning or intermediate level of knowledge. More experienced participants will benefit from the program's discussions on the latest developments in digital curation.

from: 21-05-2007   to: 25-05-2007

Led by experts of international renown, Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting five days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management issues of developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery.