From matt.schultz at metaarchive.org Thu Sep 5 11:31:46 2013 From: matt.schultz at metaarchive.org (Matt Schultz) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 11:31:46 -0400 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Call for Posters, ANADP II Action Assembly, November 18-20, Barcelona Message-ID: Please excuse cross-posting *************** *Call for Posters: Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation II Dates: November 18-20, 2013 Location: Biblioteca de Catalunya (Barcelona) Conference Website: http://educopia.org/events/ANADPII * We are pleased to announce a Call for Posters for the ?Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation II? Action Assembly. This event will assemble digital preservation leaders from a variety of backgrounds (including national libraries, academic libraries and archives, research centres, public libraries, information science/management programs, archives, corporations, and funding agencies) to carry out international alignment activities to support the preservation of our collective digital memory. ANADP II offers the opportunity to showcase posters addressing the conference theme--alignment within the digital preservation community. Posters will be exhibited throughout the event on the historic patio of the Biblioteca de Catalunya. The top three posters? presenters will each get three minutes at the main podium to share their posters? concepts with the plenary audience. Full poster proposal guidelines are attached. The Submission Deadline is September 30, 2013, and Acceptance Notification will be made by October 16, 2013. *About the ANADP II Event:* ANADP II will be a highly participatory event in which stakeholders will engage in facilitated discussions and action sessions to produce a set of concrete outcomes for the extended digital preservation community in three areas: Community Alignment, Resource Alignment, and Capacity Alignment. *Keynotes:* Opening Keynote: Clifford A. Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information) Closing Keynote: Adam Farquhar (The British Library) *Panel Chairs:* Joy Davidson (Digital Curation Centre) Rachel Frick (DLF) Neil Grindley (JISC) Martin Halbert (University of North Texas) Tyler Walters (Virginia Tech) *Speakers include:* Llu?s Anglada (Consorci de Biblioteques Universit?ries de Catalunya/MetaArchive Cooperative) Juan Bicarregui (Research Data Alliance) Luciana Duranti (InterPARES/CISCRA) Kostas Glinos (Head of Unit, C1 e-Infrastructure, European Commission) Chris Greer (RDA, NIST) Cathy Hartman (International Internet Preservation Consortium, UNT) Michele Kimpton (DuraSpace Foundation) Ross King (SCAPE, OPF) Steve Knight (National Library of New Zealand) Christopher (Cal) Lee (UNC-Chapel Hill) Liz Lyon (UKOLN) Nancy McGovern (MIT, DPM Workshop) Gail McMillan (Virginia Tech) Mr. Ferran Mascarell (Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia) Mary Molinaro (University of Kentucky, DPOE/NDSR) Laura Molloy (DigCurV) Maureen Pennock (The British Library) Oya Y. Rieger (Cornell University) Eug?nia Serra (Director of Biblioteca de Catalunya) Matt Schultz (MetaArchive Cooperative) Sabine Schrimpf (nestor) Katherine Skinner (Educopia Institute) Aaron Trehub (Auburn University/ADPNet) Paul Wheatley (SPRUCE Project) Martha Whitehead (Education and Training Sub-Committee of Research Data Canada) Tom Wilson (The University of Alabama/ADPNet) Jeremy York (HathiTrust/University of Michigan) Eld Zierau (Royal Library of Denmark) *Registration and conference information:* http://www.educopia.org/events/ANADPII/registration -- Matt Schultz Program Manager Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative http://www.metaarchive.org matt.schultz at metaarchive.org 616-566-3204 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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As a memory- and a research institution or a data center we are strongly interested in what you do to preserving these kind of objects and what you undertake to guarantee digital rights now and, of course, in the future. You will find the survey here: http://tiny.cc/aparsen-drm Data Policies and Governance Structures The goal of this activity is devising a methodology for implementing governance structures and data policies based on current best practice regarding digital preservation. We are strongly interested in your opinion, in your data repository, on data policies and governance structures. You will find the survey here: http://tiny.cc/aparsen-data-policies Please take some time to help us taking a good snapshot of the common approach of dealing with digital rights and data policies. You are welcome to complete either or both of the surveys. Your input is appreciated before September 30th 2013. 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Reviewers now have the option of requesting a PDF for offline reading (more info below). http://publishing.educopia.org/chronicles/ *About the Guidelines* The *Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness *seek to address digital preservation standards and digital newspaper technical guidelines/practices across a spectrum of readiness options. The * Guidelines *are geared toward improving preservation readiness for both digitized and born-digital newspaper content. We hope they will be helpful for a wide range of stakeholder institutions (including commercial news publishers), particularly traditional memory stewards such as libraries, archives, and historical societies. *How to Review* Interested digital preservation practitioners and experts/curators working in the area of managing and preserving digital news and newspapers are encouraged to review and supply online comments at their leisure between July 22-September 30, 2013. We encourage all comments to be submitted via the CommentPress form in the right sidebar (name and email address are required). Reviewers may also request a PDF for offline reading using the form on the online cover page. As the Introduction to the *Guidelines* states: We need content curators to help us understand what we?ve missed (we know > there are gaps!) and what we?ve nailed. We want to know where you need more > guidance and where you need less description. We want you to point us > towards other resources in the field we may have missed, and above all, we > want you to engage with us and with each other to make the final * > Guidelines* as useful as they can possibly be. > *Chronicles in Preservation Partners* The Chronicles in Preservation project is being led by the Educopia Institute (host for the MetaArchive Cooperative), along with the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the libraries of University of North Texas, Penn State, Virginia Tech, University of Utah, Georgia Tech, Boston College, and Clemson University. -- Matt Schultz Program Manager Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative http://www.metaarchive.org matt.schultz at metaarchive.org 616-566-3204 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As soon as these digital publications become obsolete, but are still deemed to be of value in the future, they have to be transferred smoothly into appropriate AIS where they need to be kept accessible even through changing technologies. This focused issue arises from issues covered by the SDA workshop series (http://sda2013.dke-research.de/) and invites submissions from all researchers. The workshop series has shown that both the library and the archiving community have made valuable contributions to the management of huge amounts of knowledge and data. However, both are approaching this topic from different views which shall be brought together to cross-fertilize each other. The Semantic Web is another research area that provides promising technical solutions for knowledge representation and management. At the forefront of making the semantic web a mature and applicable reality is the linked data initiative, which already has started to be adopted by the library community. Semantic representations of contextual knowledge about cultural heritage objects will enhance organization and access of data and knowledge. In order to achieve a comprehensive investigation, the information seeking and document triage behaviors of users (an area also classified under the field of Human Computer Interaction) are also important to provide a comprehensive investigation of the research topic. This special issue will solicit high quality papers that demonstrate exceptional achievements on Semantic Digital Archives, including but not limited to: * Archival Information systems (AIS) and Archival Information Infrastructures (AII) in general * Architectures and Frameworks for AIS and AII * Contextualization of digital archives, museums and digital libraries * Ontologies & linked data for AIS, AII, museums and digital libraries * Logical theories for digital archives & digital preservation * Knowledge evolution * Semantic temporal analytics * (Semantic) provenance models * CIDOC CRM and extensions * Semantic long-term storage & hardware organization for AIS & AII & digital libraries * Semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies tailored for AIS & AII & digital libraries * Implementations & evaluations of (semantic) AIS, AII, semantic digital museums & semantic digital libraries * Preservation of scientific and research data * Preservation of work flow processes * Appraisal and selection of content * Semantic search & information retrieval in digital archives, digital museums and digital libraries * User studies focusing on end-user needs and information seeking behavior of end-users * User interfaces for (semantic) AIS, AII, digital museums & semantic digital libraries * formalizations for changes in (designated) user communities * Semantic multimedia AIS, AII, multimedia museums & multimedia libraries * Web Archives * Specialized AIS & AII for specific services like Twitter, etc. * (Semantic) Preservation Processes and Protocols * Semantic (Web) services implementing AIS & AII * Information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries) * Trust for ingest & data security/integrity check for long-term storage of archival records * Migration strategies based on Semantic Web technologies * Legal issues Submission Details Important Dates Paper Submission deadline: November 30, 2013 First notification: February 28, 2014 Revision submission: April 30, 2014 Second notification: June 30, 2014 Final version submission: August 1, 2014 Guest Editors * Thomas Risse, University of Hannover & L3S Research Center, Germany (contact person) * Livia Predoiu, University of Oxford, UK * Annett Mitschick, University of Dresden, Germany * Andreas N?rnberger, University of Magdeburg, Germany * Seamus Ross, University of Toronto, Canada Paper Submission Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to http://www.springer.com/799. At the beginning of the submission, under "Article Type", please select the appropriate special issue. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above. Papers will be reviewed following the journal standard review process. Please address inquiries to risse at L3S.de. ________________________________ Dr Angela Dappert Senior Project Officer DPC c/o The British Library, Floor 5, Room 14, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Digital Preservation Coalition, Innovation Centre, York University Science Park, Heslington, YORK YO10 5DG Phone: +44 (0) 20 7412 7028 angela at dpconline.org [cid:image001.png at 01CEB54B.92170580] ________________________________ The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent and does not constitute legal advice. We cannot accept any responsibility for viruses, so please scan all attachments. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the DPC. 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This position will involve designing and building software to integrate these three systems as well as coordinating with each of the technical teams to ensure that the strategy for interoperability works well for all involved. *Why you want to take this position:* * * ? You will have the opportunity to play a major role in the development of systems which will provide the underpinning of a nationwide digital preservation network. ? You will have the opportunity to be engaged with the project from architecture and design through to development and deployment. ? Your work will be instrumental in ensuring that culturally relevant digital materials are preserved for future generations. ? You will have the opportunity to work for DuraSpace, a small not-for-profit with a collaborative and collegial culture. ? You will work with top Research Universities from around the USA, and be part of a vibrant multicultural group of software developers. *Basic Qualifications* ? Bachelor?s degree in Computer Science or related field ? Minimum of four years of professional software development experience ? Proficiency and experience developing web applications in Java ? Proficiency in the design and analysis of software systems ? Demonstrated experience working effectively in a team environment and the ability to interact effectively with stakeholders. ? Excellent verbal and written communication skills *Preferred Qualifications* ? Experience building open source software ? Experience building web application front ends using HTML5, CSS, Javascript ? Experience managing the storage and transfer of large data sets ? Familiarity with digital library concepts and standards ? Experience with agile development methods ? Experience interacting with RESTful web services ? Experience using messaging systems, familiarity with AMQP a plus ? Comfortable working in a Linux environment, scripting expertise a plus ? Experience working with remote teams *About DuraSpace* DuraSpace (duraspace.org) is a software not for profit 501(c)3 company. We work with academic and cultural heritage institutions around the world to develop and deploy open source software solutions for managing and providing long term access to their digital cultural materials. Our mission is to provide leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital content. DuraSpace was born out of two academic open source software projects, DSpace (dspace.org) and Fedora-commons (fedora-commons.org). We work with a community of vibrant open source developers from all over the world. We offer a number of services to our community based on our open source technologies to help them advance their goals of making materials persistent and available to all. *About Chronopolis* Originally funded by the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), the Chronopolis digital preservation network has the capacity to preserve hundreds of terabytes of digital data?data of any type or size, with minimal requirements on the data provider. Chronopolis comprises several partner organizations that provide a wide range of services. The project leverages high-speed networks, mass-scale storage capabilities, and the expertise of the partners in order to provide a geographically distributed, heterogeneous, and highly redundant archive system. More information about Chronopolis can be found at chronopolis.sdsc.edu. *About the Digital Preservation Network (DPN)* The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) was formed to ensure that the complete scholarly record is preserved for future generations. DPN uses a federated approach to preservation. The higher education community has created many digital repositories to provide long-term preservation and access. By replicating multiple dark copies of these collections in diverse nodes, DPN protects against the risk of catastrophic loss due to technology, organizational or natural disasters. More information about DPN can be found at dpn.org. DuraSpace is an equal opportunity employer. We offer health and retirement benefits. Salary is commensurate with experience. We are headquartered in the Boston MA area, however most of our employees work virtually and are located around the USA. We are a true believer of the virtual office, and use several online tools to facilitate our ability to work as a team irrespective of physical location. Please send a letter of interest and cv/resume to jobs at duraspace.org. To Apply: A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position, include your salary requirements, and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position. Please send a letter of interest and cv/resume to jobs at duraspace.org. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Cinda.May at indstate.edu Thu Sep 19 16:10:55 2013 From: Cinda.May at indstate.edu (Cinda May) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:10:55 -0400 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Personal DIgital Archiving 2014 Conference Call for Papers Message-ID: **Please excuse cross-postings** Call for Papers Personal Digital Archiving 2014 "Building Stronger Personal Digital Archiving Communities" 10-11 April 2014 Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Indiana SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 2, 2013 Personal Digital Archiving 2014 explores the intersections between individuals, public institutions, and private companies engaged in the creation, preservation and ongoing use of the digital records of our daily lives. The conference reflects upon the current status of personal archiving, its achievements, challenges, issues, and needs as evidenced through research, education, case studies, practitioner experiences, best practices, the development of tools and services, storage options, curation, and economic sustainability. There is also interest in the role of libraries, archives and other cultural heritage organizations in supporting personal digital archiving through outreach or in conjunction with developing community history collections. The PDA 2014 Program Committee invites proposals on a full range of topics relevant to personal digital archiving from everyone who seeks to ensure long-term access and preservation for personal collections and archives. Case studies that illustrate effective ways to help users and institutions manage personal digital archives are especially encouraged. Presentations might also address materials and format challenges including family archives of photographs and home movies, personal health and financial data, scrapbooking, social network posts, genealogy, blogs, email and other correspondence. Presentations might explore how personal digital archives are being used in the research conducted within various scholarly disciplines and how such use impacts research methodologies. Themes that unite digital archives, including interface design for archives; institutional practices; community outreach; tools; and funding models are welcomed. Additionally the program committee encourages proposals exploring the following questions: * What social contexts shape what people decide to preserve and make accessible about their lives over time? * How do we preserve the ability to access digital content over time when every app/community/network has a lifecycle that involves the end of its existence? * Is there too much fragmentation and reinvention of the wheel in the PDA field? Are there collaborative models to consider to encourage greater efficiency? * How should libraries, museums and archives collect personal digital materials? How do we better share our knowledge and communicate about our work (including the failures as well as the successes)? * How are archivists, curators, genealogists using born-digital and/or digitized material in their research? * What are some practical strategies for helping libraries, museums and archives conduct personal archiving outreach to their communities? * How can individuals be encouraged to undertake personal digital archiving activities? * What are effective strategies and best practices for personal digital archiving in social media and ecommerce settings? * What is the best way to integrate scanning of analog materials into personal digital archiving while recognizing that digitization isn't digital preservation? * What tools and services now exist to help with personal archiving? What do we need to make the process easier or more effective? * What storage options are currently available; how do they compare with one another; and what can we expect to see in the near future? How do we address scalability issues? * What are viable existing economic models that can support personal archives? What new economic models should we evaluate? * What are the key issues associated with digital estate planning and "the digital afterlife"? * How can users work with social media companies for better APIs and/or download services to get usefully formatted export of personal data? * How do Terms of Service vary for social media networks and cloud-based services, particularly in connection with ownership, copyright, privacy and liability? The conference program will include three types of presentations: 20-minute papers, 5-minute lightning talks, and posters (including demos). To submit a proposal please visit the PDA 2014 website located at: http://visions.indstate.edu/pda2014/index.html. Submissions should include the title of your project, paper or presentation and * For 20-minute paper presentations, a 300-word abstract * For lightning talks and posters, a 150-300 word abstract * A brief biographical sketch or CV (no more than 2 pages) PDA 2014 IS SPONSORED BY [cid:image001.jpg at 01CEB552.D20C72E0] [cid:image002.png at 01CEB552.D20C72E0] [cid:image003.jpg at 01CEB552.D20C72E0] IN COLLABORATION WITH [cid:image004.png at 01CEB552.D20C72E0] Cinda May Chair, Special Collections Project Director, Wabash Valley Visions & Voices Cunningham Memorial Library Indiana State University 510 North 6 ? Street Terre Haute, IN 47809 812-237-2534 Cinda.May at indstate.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Call for Papers is out http://www.ndpp.in/APA-DPDTR-2014/ and registration is due to open on the 31st October when all the papers and keynote speakers will be detailed.? There will be an early bird registration fee discount so please ensure you book early to secure your place as we expect this conference will be very well attended.? We have confirmed speakers representing both the Indian and UK governments and large institutions like CERN in Switzerland and STFC in the UK as well as large commercial organisations like ORACLE. ? As a joint conference, this is a great opportunity for the digital preservation community in Europe and the US to engage with the Indian digital preservation groups and exchanging knowledge and ideas that will benefit all parties.? The APA is heavily involved in broadening its membership and we have been actively engaging with the Indian community -C-DAC is an APA member - and developing our relationship with government and commercial organisations.? ? ? We will be sending out further information and a detailed programme in the coming weeks and look forward to welcoming you to New Delhi in February 2014. ? ? Dr David Giaretta, MBE? ???????????????????????????????? ????Dr Dinesh Katre Director ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??Associate Director & HOD Alliance for Permanent Access, EU?????????? ???? ???C-DAC, Pune, India ? ? ? ? ----- Forwarded Message ----- From:?Dinesh Katre To:?"pasig-discuss at mail.asis.org" ? Sent:?Friday, 2 August 2013 3:27 PM Subject:?2nd Call for Papers APA International Conference on Digital Preservation and Development of Trusted Digital Repositories, 5-6 February 2014 2nd?Call for Papers ? The Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation, C-DAC, India and Alliance for Permanent Access (APA), EU are pleased to announce the APA International Conference on Digital Preservation and Development of Trusted Digital Repositories to be held at New Delhi, India, during 5-6 February 2014. ? Conference Website http://www.ndpp.in/APA-DPDTR-2014/ ? The organizers of this conference invite research papers, case study papers and position papers based on the following thematic areas which have to be submitted before 01 October 2013. ? Thematic Areas - Digital preservation in various domains such as e-government, scientific and research data, geospatial information, electronic health records, audio and video, media archives, government and cultural archives, corporate data archives, etc. - Domain specific adaptation of Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model - Digital disasters and recovery - Digital forensic for authenticity of information - Technological infrastructure development for trusted digital repositories - Trusted digital repositories in cloud - Digital preservation for legal compliances - The challenges and techniques for maintaining trust in electronic records over long?period - Integrating e-record management with e-government - Approaches for long term sustainability of digital repositories??? - Data mining and repurposing of digital information stored in digital repositories - Long term storage solutions with techniques for optimization and efficacy - Preparing for audit and certification of digital repositories - Design of domain specific digital preservation policy framework - Curriculum design for digital preservation ? We invite three types of papers - Case studies & work in progress (6 to 8 pages)? - Full research papers (max 10 pages)? - Position papers (4 to 6 pages) ? Download paper template with format specifications For submissions to the working conference, the authors must use the LNCS templates and style files available from: ? http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CSProceedings_AuthorTools_Word_2003.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-1124637-0 ? All papers should be in the specified conference publication format and sent as both pdf and MS Word files to?dinesh at cdac.in?and?director at alliancepermanentaccess.org?by 31st October 2013. ? Important Dates ? Last date of paper submission: ?01 October 2013 Acceptance notification:?05 November 2013 ? Conference:???5-6 February 2014 ? General Conference Chairs Dr. Dinesh Katre, Associate Director & HOD, C-DAC, Pune, India Dr. David Giaretta, Director, Alliance for Permanent Access (APA), EU ? Advisory Committee Dr. Luciana Duranti, Director, InterPARES, University of British Columbia, Canada Prof. John Wood, Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK Dr. Juan Bicarregui, Head of Data Services Division, Scientific Computing Department, STFC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK Monica Marinucci, Director for Research, Oracle (Europe, Middle East and Africa) S. A. Kumar, Director, R & D in IT Division, Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India Renu Budhiraja, Senior Director, National e-Governance Action Plan (NeGP), DeitY, New Delhi, India Dr. Gautam Bose, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, India Dr. Mukul Sinha, Managing Director, Expert Software Consultants Pvt. Ltd, Noida, India Bill LeFurgy, Digital Initiatives Manager, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, USA Dr. Reagan W. Moore, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Prof. Matthias Hemmje, Fern Universit?t Hagen, Germany Dr. Jussi Nuorteva, Director General, The National Archives of Finland ? Programme Committee Carlo Meghini,? Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche- Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy Dr. Anne Thurston OBE, Director, International Records Management Trust, UK Dr. Peter Doorn, Data Archiving and Networking Services (DANS), Netherlands? Abhishek Jee, Director, e-Governance and Green IT, NASSCOM, Bangalore Vakul Sharma, Cyber Law Expert & Advocate, New Delhi, Supreme Court, India Dr. Ramesh Gaur, Head-Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India Prof. Makhlouf Shabou Basma, University of Geneva, Switzerland Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi, Librarian, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India Richard Rinehart, Digital Media Director, Bucknell University, USA Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Deputy Director, National Resource Centre, NIFT, New Delhi, India Pratapanand Jha, Director, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, India R. Venkata Kesavan, DGM & Head Times Archives & Knowledge Centre, The Times Group, India Dr Jeremy Leighton John, Curator of eMSS, The British Library, London, UK Barbara Sierman, Digital Preservation Manager, National Library of Netherlands Jason R. 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ANADP II will be a highly participatory event in which digital preservation stakeholders will engage in facilitated discussions and action sessions to produce a set of concrete outcomes for the extended digital preservation community in three areas: Community Alignment, Resource Alignment, and Capacity Alignment. *Keynotes:* Opening Keynote: Clifford A. Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information) Closing Keynote: Adam Farquhar (The British Library) *Posters:* ANADP II offers the opportunity to showcase posters addressing the conference theme--alignment within the digital preservation community. Posters will be exhibited throughout the event on the historic patio of the Biblioteca de Catalunya. The top three posters? presenters will each get three minutes at the main podium to share their posters? concepts with the plenary audience. Full poster proposal guidelines are available: http://www.educopia.org/events/ANADPII. *The Submission Deadline is September 30, 2013, and Acceptance Notification will be made by October 16, 2013.* *Panel Chairs:* Joy Davidson (Digital Curation Centre) Rachel Frick (DLF) Neil Grindley (JISC) Martin Halbert (University of North Texas) Tyler Walters (Virginia Tech) * Speakers include:* Llu?s Anglada (Consorci de Biblioteques Universit?ries de Catalunya/MetaArchive Cooperative) Juan Bicarregui (Research Data Alliance) Luciana Duranti (InterPARES/CISCRA) Kostas Glinos (Head of Unit, C1 e-Infrastructure, European Commission) Chris Greer (RDA, NIST) Cathy Hartman (International Internet Preservation Consortium, UNT) Michele Kimpton (DuraSpace Foundation) Ross King (SCAPE, OPF) Christopher (Cal) Lee (UNC-Chapel Hill) Liz Lyon (UKOLN) Nancy McGovern (MIT, DPM Workshop) Gail McMillan (Virginia Tech) Mr. Ferran Mascarell (Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia) Mary Molinaro (University of Kentucky, DPOE/NDSR) Laura Molloy (DigCurV) Maureen Pennock (The British Library) Oya Y. Rieger (Cornell University) Eug?nia Serra (Director of Biblioteca de Catalunya) Matt Schultz (MetaArchive Cooperative) Sabine Schrimpf (nestor) Katherine Skinner (Educopia Institute) Aaron Trehub (Auburn University/ADPNet) Paul Wheatley (SPRUCE Project) Martha Whitehead (Education and Training Sub-Committee of Research Data Canada) Tom Wilson (The University of Alabama/ADPNet) Jeremy York (HathiTrust/University of Michigan) Eld Zierau (Royal Library of Denmark) * Registration and conference information:* http://www.educopia.org/events/ANADPII/registration -- Matt Schultz Program Manager Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative http://www.metaarchive.org matt.schultz at metaarchive.org http://www.mattgschultz.com @mattgschultz 616-566-3204 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Mon Sep 23 07:13:05 2013 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 07:13:05 -0400 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] POSITION AVAILABLE: VIVO Project Director at DuraSpace Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Sept. 23, 2013 Contact: jobs at duraspace.org Read it online: http://duraspace.org/jobs *Project Director, VIVO* * * DuraSpace is seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial Project Director for the open source VIVO project (www.vivoweb.org), a world-wide community focused on creating software tools, ontologies, and services. The VIVO Project Director will have the opportunity to play a major role in a collaborative movement that will shape the future of research. VIVO is an open source semantic web application for integrating and sharing information about researchers and their activities and outputs at a single institution while supporting discovery of related work and expertise across a distributed network of institutions. The VIVO Project Director is a new, full-time position. The Project Director, accountable to the VIVO Executive Committee and employed by DuraSpace, will lead the VIVO community in accomplishing its goals by fulfilling the following responsibilities: *Primary Responsibilities* * * *Provide strategic vision* ? Work closely with the international VIVO community to develop and articulate amstrategic vision for VIVO, conveying its value and impact ? Guide the VIVO community in the development of near-term and long-term strategic goals ? Help develop and gain support and participation among stakeholders for a business model that will sustain the work of the VIVO project ? Actively promote VIVO and the wider cause of research discovery and access to the international scholarly community and other key stakeholders ? Be an effective spokesperson for the project through outreach, public speaking, and ?advocacy. *Oversee operations* ? Build and oversee a dynamic and effective core team, augmented by contributors from collaborating institutions, government agencies, and commercial enterprises ? Oversee projects and staff to ensure timely implementation of products and services ? Plan and manage budgets, fundraising, and business operations such as managed services providing revenue for the project. Provide regular status and financial reports to the executive team, DuraSpace, and sponsors. Fund raising is especially important at this stage of VIVO?s evolution ? Seek out and engage in collaborations that will leverage resources and expertise for the advancement of the project. *Community Management* ? International outreach to institutions, government organizations, sponsors, funding agencies, and others ? With the Executive Committee and DuraSpace, solicit new institutional and corporate sponsors as well as providers of services to the VIVO community ? Help recruit new adopters and contributors. *Oversee Software Projects* ? Help project leads to gather requirements, understand use cases, plan successful projects ? Help prioritize work ? Substantially contribute to and articulate the vision for the VIVO software and ontology and related applications ? Help establish and communicate the long-term roadmap. *Marketing and Communications* ? Key role in developing marketing strategy and materials for the project ? Key role in communications with stakeholders, contributors, sponsors, partners, service ?providers, etc. ? Coordinate representation for VIVO community at key conferences and workshops. Skills and Competencies *Required* ? A Masters degree with at least 7-10 years of progressively increasing responsibility in a research discipline and/or business, or equivalent work experience ? Experience working with technology project teams; ability to communicate effectively with technical staff ? Excellent management skills and demonstrated success managing teams working in disparate locations ? Entrepreneurial skills, especially the ability to successfully promote innovative concepts and enroll stakeholders in new solutions ? Strong ability to think and act strategically, and demonstrated success at bringing concepts to realization ? Able to communicate effectively both in person and virtually using a variety of media and technologies. *Preferred* ? Experience working with VIVO ? Experience in the areas of research discovery, collaboration, and open access ? Experience communicating with an international community of users, stakeholders, sponsors, and partners ? Analytical skills in crafting successful funding and business models for innovative projects ? Fund raising skills in a non-profit domain. DuraSpace (duraspace.org) is a small not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open source technologies that promote durable, persistent access to our digital culture. We collaborate with academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future generations may discover and access our collective digital heritage. DuraSpace is an equal opportunity employer. Non-traditional applicants are welcome. We offer health and retirement benefits. Salary is commensurate with experience. We are headquartered in the Boston MA area, but most of our employees work virtually and are located around the USA. We are a true believer in the virtual office and use a variety of online tools to facilitate our ability to work as a collaborative and collegial team. Extensive travel is expected for this position, both within the US and internationally. To Apply: A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position, include your salary requirements, and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position. Please email the cover letter and resume to vivojobs at duraspace.org. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From art.pasquinelli at oracle.com Tue Sep 24 16:21:51 2013 From: art.pasquinelli at oracle.com (Arthur Pasquinelli) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:21:51 -0700 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Oracle Requests: Oracle Customer Advisory (CAP) Invitation and Fedora/Solaris/SAM Users In-Reply-To: <523D287E.4020807@oracle.com> References: <523D287E.4020807@oracle.com> Message-ID: <5241F45F.30001@oracle.com> Oracle is looking to get feedback from PASIG members via inclusion in the Oracle Customer Advisory Panel (CAP). Any Oracle customers wanting to have influence on product directions might want to take advantage of this opportunity. Questions can be directed to Brian Zents at Oracle (brian.zents at oracle.com). In addition to the below invitation, we are immediately looking to make contact with PASIG members that are using Solaris and/or Storage Archive Manager (SAM) with Fedora/Islandora. We are looking at developing a discussion community. ------------------------------- *CAP Invitation* Dear PASIG Members, As you know, your data management requirements often require the latest technologies to keep pace with your annual growth rates. Oracle would like to ensure that our future development efforts match your expectations, so we would like to invite you to join the Oracle Customer Advisory Panel. Oracle conducts surveys and polls across its customer base as part of our Oracle Customer Advisory Panel program -- providing feedback to Oracle executives, product development teams, and various Oracle lines of business. As a member of the Oracle Customer Advisory Panel program, you will be invited to participate in very short highly targeted web-based surveys no more than once a month. You may pre-select which topics you are interested in receiving surveys about. Each invitation will describe the study topic, and you can decide to participate as frequently as you want. In return, Oracle will provide valid customers with invitation-only access to Oracle's Customer Connect community, the premier place to network with other Oracle customers and view results from recent customer panels. Oracle Advisory Panel Opt-In Form Thank you for your time, and we look forward to your valuable feedback and insights! ------------------------------- Art Pasquinelli Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation Oracle Phone +1 650 607 0035 | Mobile: +1 650 430 2441 art.pasquinelli at oracle.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jay.Gattuso at dia.govt.nz Wed Sep 25 22:29:29 2013 From: Jay.Gattuso at dia.govt.nz (Jay Gattuso) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 02:29:29 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Job advertisement: Digital Preservation Manager Message-ID: <1173783182.54085.1380162594319.JavaMail.root@s111-0006-lnv01> The National Library of New Zealand is looking for an experienced Digital Preservation Manager to lead its digital preservation programme. You will be responsible for the operational management of the Library's digital preservation programme. This is a formative role in the context of developing a long term digital preservation programme for the ongoing safekeeping of the Library's digital collections and New Zealand's digital patrimony. You will lead a team of 6 staff within the Preservation Research & Consultancy team and be responsible for: * championing digital preservation issues in the Department as well as nationally and internationally. * contributing to the development of the strategic direction of the National Library with particular emphasis on the Library's digital collection building, preservation and access roles. * working closely with digital preservation teams in the National Library and Archives New Zealand, with related teams within the department and with vendors responsible for infrastructure (hardware and software), storage and systems. You will have substantial practical experience with digital preservation (with particular emphasis on digital collections in libraries, museums, archives or special collections). You will be an experienced people manager and ideally you will have a tertiary qualification in information technology, computer science or information science or its equivalent. Applications close: 5pm, Friday 18 October 2013 For more information please contact: Steve Knight (Programme Director Preservation Research) National Library of New Zealand (steve.knight at dia.govt.nz). Job description: To review the full job description, please click here Job advert URL: http://www.bfound.net/detail.aspx?jobId=119350&CoId=164&rq=1 Jay Gattuso | Digital Preservation Analyst | Preservation, Research and Consultancy National Library of New Zealand | Te Puna M?tauranga o Aotearoa PO Box 1467 Wellington 6140 New Zealand | +64 (0)4 474 3064 jay.gattuso at dia.govt.nz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From heikki.helin at csc.fi Mon Sep 30 10:32:11 2013 From: heikki.helin at csc.fi (Heikki Helin) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:32:11 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Reminder: APARSEN invites opinions about DRM and Data Policies Message-ID: <71cf2f1e.00001cac.00000211@HHELIN-T420.windows.csc.fi> Dear colleagues, for several weeks now, the two surveys about . Digital Rights and Access Management and . Data Policies and Governance Structures of the European Network of Excellence for digital preservation, APARSEN, are open. We are convinced that you input is strongly important and valuable for APARSEN and the long term preservation community. The survey duration has been extended to October 14th 2013. Here you find the information to participate: Digital Rights and Access Management The goal of this activity is to find out how you deal with DRM protected digital objects and their associated digital rights. We are strongly interested in what you - as a memory institution, a research institution, a data center or any other kind of organization - do to preserve these kind of objects and what you undertake to guarantee digital rights now and, of course, in the future. You will find the survey here: http://tiny.cc/aparsen-drm All data submitted are treated as strictly confidential per default. At the end of the questionnaire you find additional the possibility to declare under what conditions you be willing to share the information with a wider community. If you interested in taking a first look at the complete questionnaire you find a word version here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o5pov8b82c8jg1x/APARSEN_WP31_DRM_survey.docx. But in order to answer the questions we would like recommend to use the online based version that you find above. Data Policies and Governance Structures The goal of this activity is devising a methodology for implementing governance structures and data policies based on current best practice regarding digital preservation. We are strongly interested in your opinion, in your data repository, on data policies and governance structures. You will find the survey here: http://tiny.cc/aparsen-data-policies If you interested in taking a first look at the complete questionnaire you find a pdf version here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/779cnkagu88p61d/APARSEN_DataPolicy_Survey.pdf. But in order to answer the questions we would like recommend to use the online based version that you find above. Please take some time to help us taking a good snapshot of the common approach of dealing with digital rights and data policies. You are welcome to complete either or both of the surveys. Many thanks the APARSEN team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: