[Asis-l] DPE, PLANETS, and CASPAR Second Annual Conference - Registration now open

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

DPE, PLANETS, and CASPAR Second Annual Conference:
Progress towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges
5-6 September 2007
Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo
Lisbon, Portugal 
http://www.wepreserve.eu/events/fp6-2007/register

DPE, PLANETS, and CASPAR are delighted to announce their second annual joint
conference to introduce participants to a range of tools and resources and
to explain how these fit into the evolving context of the international
curation and preservation landscape. This event is being held in cooperation
with the European Commission and the e-SciDR project* and will be held at
the Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo in Lisbon, Portugal on
the 5th and 6th of September, 2007. 

DPE, PLANETS, and CASPAR extremely grateful to the Instituto dos Arquivos
Nacionais (http://www.iantt.pt/)and the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
(http://www.bn.pt/) for their assistance with the organisation of this
conference. 

Benefits of Attendance
Collaboration is a key objective for all of these projects and this
conference will present participants with a forum for networking and
bridge-building between these and other international initiatives. The event
will provide an insight into leading-edge research and development activity
from a number of EC-funded projects including CASPAR, PLANETS, and DPE. 

For more information on DPE, PLANETS, and CASPAR please see:

•DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE)
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/
•Preservation and Long-term Access through  NETworked Services (PLANETS) 
http://www.planets-project.eu/
•Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and
Retrieval (CASPAR)
http://www.casparpreserves.eu/

Registration
To register for this event, please go to
http://www.wepreserve.eu/events/fp6-2007/register.
Registration for PLANETS, DPE, and CASPAR Consortium members is 50 Euros.
All other registrants will be charged 100.00 Euros. This fee includes all
workshop materials, coffee and tea, dinner on day one, and lunch on day two.
**Please be sure to indicate your membership on registration page**. 

Venue
Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo in Li
Alameda da Universidade, 
Campo Grande, 
1649-010 
Lisboa
Portugal
http://www.iantt.pt/

Travel Options 
Buses: 
Cidade Universitária: 31-35-38-68
Campo Grande: 1-3-7-17B-33-36-36A-46A-47-56

Underground: Cidade Universitária station

* The e-SciDR study (www.e-SciDR.eu) on e-Science Digital Repositories will
be running a workshop on Tuesday, 4th September 2007 in Lisbon to review the
study's draft findings and recommendations.  Anybody interested in attending
the workshop should contact alison at d-archiving.com.  The e-SciDR study has
been commissioned by the European Commission to formulate policy
recommendations with regard to digital repositories and a European
e-infrastructure to support them.


Joy Davidson
DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu
british.editor at erpanet.org