[Asis-l] DigCCurr2007 - Registration Now Open

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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!!

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DigCCurr2007: An International Symposium on Digital Curation

Focus: "What Digital Curators Do and What They Need to Know?"

April 18-20, 2007
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007

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INTRODUCTION:

The School of Information and Library Science <http://sils.unc.edu>  (SILS)
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host DigCCurr2007,
an international symposium on Digital Curation, April 19 - 20, 2007. This
two-day event is part of the "Preserving Access to Our Digital Future:
Building an International Digital Curation" project funded by the Institute
of Museum of Library Services (IMLS). The National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) is a partner in this effort.

DigCCurr2007 will focus on what digital curators do and what they need to
know to carry out this work and each speaker is asked to address these
issues in his/her presentation.

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AUDIENCE:

Anyone interested in digital preservation and curation, especially those who
are building staff capacity in these areas.

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CONFERENCE SOCIAL EVENTS:

All-conference opening reception, 6:00 - 7:30 PM, Wednesday, April 18th
Working lunch, 12:15 - 1:45, Thursday, April 19th 
All-conference reception, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, Thursday, April 19th 
Working lunch, 12:15 - 1:45, Friday, April 20h 

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CONFERENCE LOCATION:

The opening reception will be held in The Wilson Library on UNC's main
campus.
All sessions, lunches, and the Thursday evening reception will be held at
The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located on Route 54 in Chapel Hill, NC.

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IMPORTANT DATES FOR CONTRIBUTORS:

750 word abstract: January 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2007
Full papers: March 15, 2007
Symposium: April 18-20, 2007

http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr 
TOPICS OF INTEREST:

While paper submissions on any aspect of digital curation are welcome, we
are particularly interested in the following areas and topics:

Designing Repositories - Where to Begin?
Repository Architecture
Ingest Services
User Services
Metadata
Standards and Standard Development
Policy Development
Programs for Working with Content/Data Providers
Intellectual Property Rights Issues
Information Industry Perspectives
Social Science Data Curation
Science Data Curation
Funding and Sustainability

We request that each paper include discussion of the skills, knowledge, and
perspectives individuals working in these functional areas and environments
or addressing these issues will find valuable.

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PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION:

Abstract and full papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files. Full
papers should be 6-8 pages in length and use a double column format such as
the ACM layout. Detailed formatting and submission instructions will be
available in the author instructions section of the conference Web site
soon. At this time electronic publication of the proceedings is planned but
may be followed with a print version.

Please submit abstracts to John Schaefer at: jschaefe at email.unc.edu by
January 1, 2007.

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Helen R. Tibbo, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
Christopher A. Lee, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel
Hill
John Schaefer, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill

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ADVISORY BOARD:

Advisory Board members include: 
Stephen Chapman, Harvard University; 
Adrian Cunningham, National Archives of Australia; 
Robin Dale, RLG/OCLC; 
Wendy Duff, University of Toronto; 
Philip Eppard, SUNY-Albany; 
Anne Gilliland, UCLA; 
Maria Guercio, University of Urbino; 
Hans Hofman, Nationaal Archief (National Archives) of the Netherlands and
ERPANET; 
Anne Kenney, Cornell University Library; 
Steve Knight, National Library of New Zealand; 
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information; Richard Marciano, San
Diego Super Computer Center; 
Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow; 
Don Sawyer, NASA; 
Kenneth Thibodeau, National Archives and Records Administration; 
Raymond van Diessen, IBM, The Netherlands; 
Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan.

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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please see: http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr.

Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Professor
School of Information and Library Science
201 Manning Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
tibbo at ils.unc.edu
Tel: 919.962.8063
Fax: 919.962.8071

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