[Asis-l] PASIG*DC -- Register for May 22-24 Conference and May 21 Workshops

[Richard Hill]

[Apologies for prior blank message.  ASIST is managing this meeting.  Dick
Hill]

PASIG, the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, will be
holding its next international meeting from May 22-24, 2013 at the
Washington Court Hotel in Washington DC. Conference registration and
discounted hotel rooms are available via the conference web site:  

http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/events/2013/PASIGDC2013.html

Agenda
PASIG meetings are highly interactive, highly-rated, single-tracked events,
designed to identify and drive the exchange of designs and best practices in
digital preservation and archiving. The three day agenda will feature
presentations, panel discussions, lightning talks and ad hoc working groups
from practitioners, researchers and industry experts on...

• Digital Preservation Bootcamp 
• Long-term Digital Preservation Storage Futures  
• Preservation Research, Breakthroughs and Futures  
• Practitioners Knowledge Exchange 
• Audiovisual Media Preservation -- A Deep Dive 
• Fixity: Moving Beyond Theory to Evidence-Based Best Practices 
• Emulation & Virtualization as Practical Methods for Digital Preservation 
• Federal Initiatives in Digital Preservation 
• Preservation of Research Data 
• Ad Hoc Lightning Talks, Matchmaking, Working Group & Breakout Sessions

You will find a full agenda for the meeting, below. 


Workshops
On Tuesday, May 21st, there will be three, free workshops. Full agendas for
each one, are below. 

1) Oracle Technology Day: This is a free, full-day event and is open to
Oracle customers, prospects, employees, and partners. It will focus on
Oracle a) products relevant to PASIG attendees, b) positioning, c) tiered
architectures, d) Big Data, records, and unstructured content management
solutions, and e) database features for permanent access. 

2) Islandora Workshop (Half day, morning): Islandora provides integration
between Fedora and Drupal, with custom solution packs to address the needs
of multiple data types and collections. This session will review the
project's development and current features, examples of productions sites,
an update on the community and membership, as well as provide guidance for
basic installation and configuration.

3) The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) (Half day, afternoon) is being
built to serve as a preservation backbone for digital information for
research and scholarship. This half-day session will provide a deep dive
into the DPN design, architecture and service model. DPN Member
organizations are especially encouraged to send technical representatives to
this interactive workshop, to review, discuss and help season the emerging
framework with DPN's core technical team. 


Sponsors
This community event is driven by the members of PASIG, particularly the
steering group and speakers, and is made possible in part by the support
of sponsors Oracle, discoverygarden and E-Vault. If you want to contribute
or sponsor, please contact Art Pasquinelli (art.pasquinelli at oracle.com) and
Tom Cramer (tcramer at stanford.edu) asap.

Register at: 

http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/events/2013/PASIGDC2013.html

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Full Agenda

PASIG Day 1: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
8:00 AM 
Registration 

8:30 AM 
Digital Preservation Bootcamp -- Optional Session
Training in concepts, issues, tools, strategies & approaches for Digital
Preservation and Archiving. This half day block of training sessions will
focus on an introduction to the field and needs in digital preservation, and
give attendees a foundation of concepts, terminology, standards and tools
used broadly in the field. This half day of “Digital Preservation 101” is
open to practitioners of all levels, but will be targeted specifically for
those looking to gain exposure to the field. 

- Digital Preservation 101: The Theory and Practice -- Tom Cramer, Stanford
University
- Digital Preservation Trends and Issues -- Leslie Johnston, Library of
Congress
- Best Practices in Preserving Common Content Types
	-  Images: Robert Buckley, University of Rochester
	-  Media: Kara Van Malssen, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
	-  Office documents: Jay Gattuso, New Zealand National Library
- Design Principles for Digital Preservation Systems – Stephen Abrams,
California Digital Library
- PREMIS: Practical Strategies for Preservation Metadata -- TBA

Noon
Registration & Lunch 
1:00 PM
PASIG Begins: Welcome
- Welcome & Introduction to PASIG -- Art Pasquinelli, Director, Digital
Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle 
- Agenda Review and Invitation to Participate -- Tom Cramer, Stanford
University

1:15 PM 
Long-term Digital Preservation Storage Futures 
A state-of-the-art review of storage technology and industry trends with a
focus on applying these developments to the unique needs of digital
preservation and archiving, and systems at scale. This session will feature
a nuts-and-bolts review of the realities of integrating with cloud-based
stores for digital preservation systems: what are the realities of getting
content in, managing it once there, and then getting it out again.  

- A Report on the Annual Library of Congress Storage and LOoC Storage
Directions -- Thomas Youkel, Library of Congress
- Storage Trends and LTFS -- Chris Wood, Director, Axiom Product Management,
Oracle
- Modelling Cloud Storage: Technical and Economic Issues -- Tom Creighton,
FamilySearch
- Glacier Unveiled -- Andrew Woods, DuraSpace
- Cloud Preservation Services -- Amar Kapadia, Senior Director, E-Vault
- Open Q&A 
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM 
BREAK 

3:30 PM 
Preservation Research, Breakthroughs and Futures 
Current developments and trends in digital preservation research and
practice; an opportunity to engage in technology transfer from researchers
to practitioners and industry. 

- Information Retention: A Database Perspective -- Kevin Jernigan, Sr.
Director Product Management, Oracle 
- The Digital Preservation Network (DPN): Architecture and Preservation
Services -- Sebastien Korner, Univ. of Michigan
- Organizing Knowledge Initiative, IASA-OK -- Guy Marechal, Senior Advisor,
TITAN

4:30 - 5:30 PM
Introductions, Matchmaking & Breakout Scheduling
“Minute Madness” introductions of attendees (optional), laying out who is
participating in the meeting, what they’re hoping to get out of the meeting,
and some on-the-fly matchmaking of attendees with like interests. 

6:00 PM
Evening Reception

PASIG Day 2: Thursday, May 23, 2013
9:00 AM
Preservation & Archiving Architectures and Operations: Practitioners
Knowledge Exchange
Structured presentation and comparison of preservation systems design and
operation. Detailed overviews of PASIG community members' systems, operating
practices, and lessons learned, with an emphasis on digital preservation
from different vertical domains (e.g., education, research, energy, health
care, aerospace, etc.)
- Preservation and Access Infrastructure: A Case Study of Major League
Baseball -- Dirk Van Dall, VP, MLB Advanced Media
- USC Digital Repository -- Sam Gustman, Assoc. Dean and CTO, USC Libraries
and USC Shoah Foundation Institute
- Architecture for Data Integrity -- Scott Rife, Library of Congress

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM 
BREAK 

10:45 AM 
Lightning Talks 
Participatory presentations on late breaking developments, compelling
breakthroughs or burning issues from the PASIG Community 

11:30 AM 
BREAK / Poster Session Mixer

Noon
Lunch

1:00 PM
Audiovisual Media Preservation: A Deep Dive
An exploration into the unique requirements and successful strategies of
media preservation. The long-term preservation of digital audiovisual media
presents a range of complex technological, organisational, and
standards-related issues. This recurring PASIG session organized by the
PrestoCentre Foundation, will focus on research efforts, technological
solutions and practical challenges in audiovisual preservation. The session
targets both media owners and service providers. 
- Marius Snyders, Managing Director, PrestoCentre Foundation
- Reconsidering Checksums for Audiovisual Preservation -- Dave Rice,
Archivist, City University of New York
- The Cost of Inaction -- Chris Lacinak, President, AudioVisual Preservation
Solutions
- Islandora as a Video/Audio Preservation Framework -- Mark Leggott,
Islandora Founder & Univ. Librarian, University of Prince Edward Island

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
BREAK 

3:00 PM 
Fixity -- Moving Beyond Theory to Evidence-Based Best Practices
Fixity services are fundamental to digital preservation—they underpin bit
level preservation. Proven best practices in fixity auditing and repair are
much harder to identify, though, and best practices vary based on storage
media (disk, tape or cloud). This panel will give an overview of different
approaches and identify best practices best on actual operating
experiences. 
(4x12 min with 12 min discussion)

- Facilitator: Tom Creighton, CTO, Family Search
- Securing and Scaling Fixity Checking -- Mike Smorul, Lead Programmer,
ADAPT Project, UMIACS, U. of Maryland
- Jay Gattuso, Digital Preservation Analyst, New Zealand National Library
- Tom Wultich, Director, Tape Product Management, Oracle
4:00 PM
Emulation & Virtualization as Digital Preservation Strategies
Format migration dominated the early years of digital preservation planning.
Virtualization technology made leaps and bounds in the last decade, though,
and leveraging emulation for digital preservation has moved from a
theoretical possibility to a practical reality by a few pioneering
institutions. This presentation set will provide a 1.) demonstration of
emulation in action, 2.) overview the track record of developments
(especially from Europe) on emulation-for-preservation frameworks, and 3.)
explore current efforts and emerging opportunities in emulation for all
practitioners.
  
- Facilitator: Bram Van Der Werf, Executive Director, Open Planets
Foundation
- Effective and Easy Emulation -- Ben Fino-Radin, Digital Conservator,
Rhizome
- Preserving and Providing Access to Complex Objects -- Natasa
Milic-Frayling, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
- Digital Forensics -- Cal Lee, Associate Professor, University of North
Carolina

Day 3: Friday, October 19, 2012
9:00 AM 
Federal Initiatives in Digital Preservation
This panel will review the current practices at three major federal
institutions in digital preservation, and provide a thought on where each is
going individually, and the direction of digital preservation on a national
scale. 
- Planning for Archiving -- Thornton Staples, the Smithsonian
- Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) -- Carl
Fleischauer, Library of Congress
- Digital Preservation and the National Science Foundation -- Myron Gutmann,
NSF

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM 
BREAK

10:45 AM
Preservation of Research Data
Demonstration of current live projects of preserving research data in
action.  
 -Preservation and Curation of University Research Data -- David Minor,
Interim Head, Research Data Curation Program, UCSD Library
- A Multi-Campus Infrastructure for Research Data Management, Preservation
and Access -- Chris Jordan, Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC)
- SEAD: Sustainable Environment - Actionable Data, A Datanet Project -- Jim
Myer, RPI
- Preserving Research Data -- Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computers

12:00 PM Adjourn


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Tuesday, May 21st -- Workshops

Islandora Workshop (Half day, morning)
The Islandora project (islandora.ca) is growing steadily, with new
functionality added with each release. The project has also grown beyond the
traditional library borders, especially when it comes to the stewardship of
research data. Islandora provides integration between Fedora and Drupal,
with custom solution packs to address the needs of multiple data types and
collections. This session will review the project's development and current
features, exmples of productions sites, an update on the community and
membership, as well as provide guidance for basic installation and
configuration.

Speaker Bio: Mark Leggott is the founder of the Islandora project. As the UL
for the University of Prince Edward Island, and the projects major
architect. He has spoken at a number of conferences, and is the founder of
the SAAS company (discoverygarden Inc.) providing services around Islandora
software.


The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) (Half day, afternoon) 

DPN is being built to serve as a preservation backbone for digital
information for research and scholarship. It knits together a handful of
large-scale preservation repositories, which provide reciprocal, "dark"
archiving services to each other.  Together, the DPN Nodes form a
heterogeneous network of secure, trustworthy digital archives, each operated
under diverse geographical, organizational, financial, and technical
regimes. Robust (bit) auditing and repair functions ensure the fixity of
content over time. Intellectual property agreements ensure the succession of
rights to use of the content through the Network in the event of dissolution
or divestment of content by the original depositor and/or archive. This
half-day session will provide a deep dive into the DPN design, architecture
and service model. DPN Member organizations are especially encouraged to
send technical representatives to this interactive workshop, to review,
discuss and help season the emerging framework with DPN's core technical
team.

Oracle Technology Day - May 21, 2013, Washington Court Hotel, Washington,
D.C.
8:30am - 9:00am - Registration
9:00am - 9:45am
Introductions, Oracle's Long-term Data Retention Positioning - Art
Pasquinelli, Director, Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation
Storage Overview and Update
9:45am - 10:20am 
Oracle Storage Overview and Positioning - Chris Wood, Director, Axiom
Product Management
10:20am - 10:35am 
Break
10:35am - 11:35am 
Tape Overview and Directions and Optimization - Michael O'Donnell, Director
Hardware Development, Tom Wultich, Director, Tape Product Management

11:35am - 12:00pm 
Storage Archive Manager (SAM) Product Update and Directions - Dan Deppen,
Senior Product Manager

12:00pm - 1:00pm - Lunch

Customer Participation Session
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Customer/Partner Presentations Session and Audience Input
This will include several short presentations by thought-leaders such as
FamilySearch, Library of Congress, Bibliotheque nationale de France and then
open audience discussion on projects and issues.

Designing Architectures
2:30pm - 3:10pm
Oracle Disk Product Overview and Big Data Architectures - Kevin Kalmbach,
Lead Storage Architect

3:10pm - 3:30pm - Break 

3:30pm - 4:00pm 
Information Retention and the Oracle Database - Kevin Jernigan,  Senior
Director, Database Performance Product Management, System Technologies
Division
 
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Content, Repository, and Records Management with WebCenter Content
Management 11g - Marc Kelberman, Principal Sales Consultant

4:30pm - 5:00pm 
Optimized Solutions: Putting It All Together - Donna Harland, Principal
Product Manager

5:00pm - 5:30pm 
Insights from the Day and Wrap Up Discussion - RB Hooks, Hardware CTO,
Office of the CTO, Oracle National Security Group


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Richard Hill
ASIS&T Executive Director
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