[Asis-l] EU Collaborative Digital Preservation Events - Lisbon, Portugal

[Joy Davidson]

EU Collaborative Digital Preservation Events 
4 September-8 September, 2007 
Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo 
Lisbon, Portugal 

To foster an environment of collaboration and cooperation between multiple
stakeholders the European Commission, DPE, PLANETS, CASPAR, and the e-SciDR
teams are delighted to announce that they have been working together to
deliver a series of consecutive digital curation and preservation events.
The events will all be held at the Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais / Torre
do Tombo in Lisbon, Portugal. For more information on the venue and its
location, please see http://www.iantt.pt/. The events will take place the
week beginning 4 September 2007 and run through to 8 September 2007.  

Events:

Towards a European e-Infrastructure for e-Science digital repositories
(e-SciDR) Workshop
4 September 2007
http://www.e-scidr.eu/
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. This workshop will review the
study's draft findings and recommendations. Anybody interested in attending
the workshop should contact alison at d-archiving.com. 


DPE, PLANETS, and CASPAR Second Annual Conference:
Progress towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges
5-6 September 2007
http://www.wepreserve.eu/events/fp6-2007/
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. 


Disclosure and Preservation
Fostering European Culture in the Digital Landscape
7-8 September 2007
http://bnd.bn.pt/seminario-conhecer-preservar/index_eng.html
This international seminar has been organised in the framework of Portuguese
EU Presidency 2007. The seminar is aimed at the promotion and development of
the online availability of European digital content, this seminar will
provide an up-to-date overview and discussion of the matters most relevant
to the subject - the need for harmonization, cooperation, and coordination
among different stakeholders, member states and their institutions.

Best regards,

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