From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Tue Dec 2 13:18:58 2014 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:18:58 -0500 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] CALL for OR2015 Scholarship Programme Applicants Message-ID: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2015 Read it online: http://www.or2015.net/scholarship-programme/ The Tenth International Conference on Open Repositories ( http://www.or2015.net/) , OR2015, will take place on June 8-11, 2015 in Indianapolis (Indiana, USA). The organizers are pleased to invite you to apply to the 2015 Scholarship Programme. The Open Repositories Steering Committee is delighted to announce that for OR2015 we will again be running our Scholarship Programme. This programme will enable us to provide support for a small number of full registered places for the 2015 conference in Indianapolis. The programme is open to librarians, repository managers, developers, and researchers in digital libraries and related fields. Applicants submitting a paper for the conference will be given priority consideration for funding (please provide details of your submission in the application form). Two questions in the application form ask 'What is it about Open Repositories that interests you' and 'What do you expect to gain from attending the conference?' You may wish to prepare answers to these before completing the form, as the responses to these will be critical to the success of your application. Please note: the Scholarship provides funding only for a full conference registration (including dinner and the poster reception). It does not cover other costs such as accommodation, travel, and subsistence. It is anticipated that the applicant's home institution will provide financial support to supplement the OR Scholarship Award. Application Form http://goo.gl/Vv03F4 (via GoogleDocs) The deadline for applications is 30 January 2015. LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: OPEN REPOSITORIES AT THE CROSSROADS OR2015 is the tenth OR conference, and this year's overarching theme reflects that milestone: Looking Back/Moving Forward: Open Repositories at the Crossroads. It is an opportunity to reflect on and to celebrate the transformative changes in repositories, scholarly communication, and research data over the last decade. More critically however, it will also help to ensure that open repositories continue to play a key role in supporting, shaping, and sharing those changes and an open agenda for research and scholarship. OR2015 will provide an opportunity to explore the demands and roles now expected of both repositories and the staff who develop, support, and manage them - and to prepare them for the challenges of the next decade. We welcome proposals on this theme, but also on the theoretical, practical, organizational, or administrative topics related to digital repositories. 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This significant release signals the effectiveness of an international and complex community source project in delivering a modern repository platform with features that meet or exceed current use cases in the management of institutional digital assets. Fedora 4 features include vast improvements in scalability, linked data capabilities, research data support, modularity, ease of use and more. Fedora 4 features were collaboratively chosen and developed by a virtual team of developers and stakeholders from around the globe. With DuraSpace support this committed team has ensured that Fedora Repository software will meet the emerging needs of the academic research community now and for the next decade. ? DOWNLOAD Fedora 4: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads ? RELEASE NOTES: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0.0+Release+Notes ? DOCUMENTATION: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA40/Fedora+4.0+Documentation ? VIDEO: http://youtu.be/Mg_QFDAspoE *Community Kudos* Robin Ruggaber, Chair of the Fedora Steering Group and Library Chief Technology Officer at the University of Virginia commented on Fedora?s achievements: ?The success of the Fedora community today is rooted in the way it operates. The community members govern, fund, shape and produce the solution to meet global repositories? needs and performance requirements. The development is based on what product owners need and is managed so that everyone in the community can contribute without individually exhausting human or financial resources. We are maximizing the power of distributed development and ownership and are rewarded with a sustainable, low risk, moderate cost solution.? Stefano Cossu, Director of Application Services, Collections at The Art Institute of Chicago offered his reasons for adopting Fedora 4: ?We have searched far and wide for a system that could store our large and diverse collection of art objects and their related assets, integrate in a complex architecture of legacy applications and data sources, and make our digital resources available in a wide variety of ways. We have adopted Fedora 4 very early for its scalability and flexibility in all its aspects, its adhesion to solid standards, the project's long-sighted goals and the extremely talented and motivated community around it.? *Fedora 4 support for linked data?what it means for you* The broad concept of linked data is the idea that the semantic web can connect everything. Fedora 4 makes that concept real. With built-in linked data support Fedora 4 offers the ability to develop discovery tools in compliance with the W3C Linked Data Platform specification. The long-held linked data promise of broad and deeply faceted discovery on the open web is based on the concept that information can be exchanged using the resource description framework (RDF) as a standard model. The ability to share data openly and take advantage of the semantic web means that content is not ?inside a silo? that can only be discovered and re-used if repository software adheres to standardization and interoperability. With Fedora 4 the ?Web is a repository? providing new kinds of digital collections and data sources for services and applications. *Scalability?how big is big* As larger data sets, larger files, research data and multimedia use cases have emerged in the community Fedora 4 is set to meet the challenge of improved scalability. Fedora 4 repositories can manage millions and millions of digital files along with extremely large files of any type running on top of back-end storage systems. This means that petabytes of storage are available to you because Fedora can potentially operate on top of any storage system via a pluggable, expandable connector framework. *Flexibility and extensibility?plugging into what works* The strength of Fedora repository software lies in it?s native flexibility and extensibility. Fedora 4 architecture builds on a lightweight core model with multiple, pluggable components and a standard set of robust APIs. *Security* Fedora 4 provides a pluggable, extensible security framework capable of supporting a variety of authorization systems. Two initial systems have been implemented?role-based authorization and XACML. A third, based on the emerging W3C Web Access Control standard, is currently being planned. By decoupling security from the repository core, Fedora 4 supports existing authorization standards rather than maintaining a custom security framework. *Clustering* Clustering connects multiple Fedora 4 nodes in a network providing horizontal repository scaling for high-availability use cases. By configuring two or more replicated Fedora 4 nodes to run behind a load-balancer, you can evenly distribute web traffic between the nodes to maximize performance. *Fedora 3.8?a solid release to cap off the 3.0 line* Fedora 3.8 has always been planned as a part of Fedora 4 development. The aim was to cap off the 3.0 line with a solid release for the user community. The Fedora 3.8 release features an improved REST API interaction with correct headers returned for better caching along with performance improvements and bug fixes. ? DOWNLOAD Fedora 3.8: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA38/Downloads ? DOCUMENTATION: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA38/Fedora+3.8+Documentation *The Fedora 4 Community of Contributors* *Members* Arizona State University Libraries Brown University Library Case Western Reserve University Libraries Charles Darwin University Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) Columbia University Library Cornell University Docuteam GmbH Durham University Duke University Libraries FIZ Karlsruhe George Washington University Ghent University Library Gothenburg University Library Indiana University ICPSR Johns Hopkins University Libraries La Trobe University London School of Economics & Political Science LYRASIS Macquarie University National Library of Medicine National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Research Council of Canada Northeastern University Libraries Northwestern University Libraries Ohio State Oregon State Pennsylvania State University Princeton University Rutgers University Libraries Smithsonian Institution, Office of Research Infomation Services Stanford University State and University Library of Denmark The Art Institute of Chicago Tufts University University of Alberta University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Santa Barbara University of Cincinnati University of Connecticut Libraries University of Hull University of Lausanne University of Manitoba University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries University of New South Wales University of Notre Dame University of North Carolina University of Oklahoma Libraries University of Oxford University of Pittsburgh University of Prince Edward Island University of Rochester Libraries University of Texas Libraries Austin University of Toronto University of Virginia University of Wisconsin University of York Uppsala University Library Yale University York University *Contributors* *Sprint Developers* Adam Soroka (University of Virginia) Andrew Woods (DuraSpace) Anusha Ranganathan (University of Oxford) Benjamin Armintor (Columbia University) Ben Pennell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Chris Beer (Stanford University) Eddie Shin (Digital Curation Experts) Eric James (Yale University) Esme Cowles (University of California, San Diego) Giulia Hill (University of California, Berkeley) Greg Jansen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Jared Whiklo (University of Manitoba) Jonathan Green (discoverygarden inc.) Jon Roby (University of Manitoba) Kevin S. Clarke (University of California, Los Angeles) Longshou Situ (University of California, San Diego) Michael Durbin (University of Virginia) Mike Daines (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed (University of Maryland) Nigel Banks (discoverygarden inc.) Osman Din (Yale University) Paul Pound (University of Prince Edward Island) Scott Prater (University of Wisconsin) Vincent Nguyen (Centers for Disease Control) Ye Cao (Max Planck Digital Library Yinlin Chen (Virginia Tech) Yuqing Jiang (discoverygarden inc.) *Community Developers* Aaron Coburn (Amherst College) Chris Colvar (Indiana University) Frank Asseg (FIZ Karlsruhe) Kai Sternad (Independant) Nikhil Trivedi (Art Institute of Chicago) Rob Sanderson (Stanford University) Robin Taylor (University of Edinburgh) *How Does DuraSpace Help?* DuraSpace (duraspace.org) works collaboratively with organizations that use Fedora to advance the design, development and sustainability of the project. As a non-profit, DuraSpace provides business support services that include technical leadership, sustainability planning, fundraising, community development, marketing and communications, collaborations and strategic partnerships and administration. *About Fedora* Fedora (fedorarepository.org) is an open source project that provides flexible, extensible and durable digital object management software. First released in 2004, it has hundreds of adopters worldwide, with deep roots in the research, scientific, intellectual and cultural heritage communities. It is supported by its community of users, and stewarded by DuraSpace. -- 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 rappel at brynmawr.edu Thu Dec 4 15:33:03 2014 From: rappel at brynmawr.edu (Rachel Appel) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 15:33:03 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Pasig-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Reminder=3A_Let=E2=80=99s_Map_the_Curre?= =?utf-8?q?nt_Landscape_of_Born-Digital_Access_in_Archival_Repositories?= Message-ID: <437011699.28973283.1417725183337.JavaMail.root@zimbra-mailbox> Just a reminder about this survey. Many thanks to all the people who have responded so far. Help us map the landscape of born-digital access! If you work with born-digital archival materials, you are invited to participate in this survey on how archival repositories are endeavoring to provide access to born-digital content. As part of the survey, you will also be invited to opt-in to be interviewed about born-digital access in more detail. Anonymized data from the study will be made available to the profession, along with analysis of current trends and possibilities for future research. Take the survey (roughly 20 minutes): https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://utexas.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID%3DSV_3W60pBQgnp2iIGV&k=Zn6W9g0QMlyJSNRckEnWug%3D%3D%0A&r=UfEqiqrqZhjs3C5Jj7vTklm%2BwUKMivD%2BJ2n%2BUmYg5G0%3D%0A&m=CHcAP7XISRnTyG54M70OYNKKY5cV77KRAaSTrqs9%2Fec%3D%0A&s=9699a65c21ea6f4b1d44404416b43437cafa36994669aaa530e7788144ca6a21 The survey will close on December 18, 2014. Questions? Contact: rappel at brynmawr.edu Thank you in advance for contributing your insights! Rachel Appel, Digital Collections Librarian, Bryn Mawr College Alison Clemens, Archivist, Yale University Wendy Hagenmaier, Digital Collections Archivist, Georgia Institute of Technology Jessica Meyerson, Digital Archivist, University of Texas at Austin From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Thu Dec 4 16:12:48 2014 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 21:12:48 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Announcing DigCCurr Professional Institute 2015-2016 - REGISTER TODAY! Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A645163AF76B7B@ITS-MSXMBS5M.ad.unc.edu> Please excuse cross postings************************************ DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle May 31 - June 5, 2015 & January 4-5, (One price for two sessions) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Visit http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/institute.html for more information. REGISTRATION LINK: http://tinyurl.com/oms2mny The Institute consists of one five-day session in June 2015 and a two-day follow-up session in January 2016. The summer event begins at 6 PM on Sunday, May 31 with a welcome and opening event. Each day of the summer session will include lectures, discussion and hands-on "lab" components. A course pack and a private, online discussion space will be provided to supplement learning and application of the material. An opening reception dinner on Sunday, Continental breakfast, break time snacks and coffee, and a dinner on Tuesday will also be included. This institute is designed to foster skills, knowledge and community-building among professionals responsible for the curation of digital materials. Registration: * Regular registration : $1,150 * Late registration (after April 15, 2015): $1,300 If you are a grant recipient working on a digital project, we recommend that you check with your program officer to request approval to use available grant funds to attend the institute. Institute Instructors Include: * From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Drs. Helen Tibbo, Cal Lee, and Kam Woods. * Dr. Nancy McGovern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. * Dr. Carolyn Hank, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. * Dr. Lorraine Richards, Drexel University. May 2015 Institute Components include (order and session titles may vary somewhat from those listed): *Overview of digital curation definition, scope and main functions *Where you see yourself in the digital curation landscape *Digital curation program development *Digital curation stakeholders and digital curation landscape *Case Study on developing a digital repository *Procedural accountability - policies, submission agreements, rules *LAB -Transforming policy statements into rules *Overview of digital preservation challenges and opportunities *Roles and responsibilities for curation *LAB - Matching skills and roles *Characterization of digital objects *Overview and Characterization of Existing Tools: Placing the Tools in a Larger Industry Context *File formats *LAB - File format robustness *Managing in response to technological change *Digital forensics *Ethical issues *LAB - Media and content *Workflows, humans, and tools *Lab - Workflows *Evaluating curation programs requirements and assessment *LAB - Evaluating curation programs: TRAC/ISO 16363 Review * Characterizing, analyzing and evaluating the producer information environment *Economics of digital curation - costs and resource commitments *LAB - Economics of digital curation *Cloud computing *Web archiving * Formulating your six-month action plan - task for each individual, with instructors available to provide guidance * Summary of action plans * Clarifying roles and expectations for the next six months January 4-5, 2016 Participants in the May event will return to Chapel Hill in Jan. 2015 to discuss their experiences in implementing what they have learned in their own work environments. Participants will compare experiences, lessons learned and strategies for continuing progress. Accommodations for January will be the responsibility of the attendee. For more information, contact Dr. Helen Tibbo (tibbo at email.unc.edu) for Institute questions or Herrison Chicas (chicas at email.unc.edu) for payment or registration questions. The Digital Professional Institute was initiated as part of the DigCCurr II project, supported by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (Grant Award #RE-05-08-0060-08) and is partially supported by the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. LODGING: Participants are responsible for their own lodging. A DigCCurr 2015-16 room block has been reserved at the Aloft Hotel $119/night. Please indicate "DigCCurr2015" when making reservations. You may reserve your hotel room by calling the hotel at 919-969-6989 or by clicking on this link: https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/DigCCurr2015 Reservations must be received by 05/01/2015. See the Accommodations page for more information (http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/institute_accom.html) We look forward to seeing you there! -Helen Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President, 2010-2011 & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall, CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-962-8071 tibbo at ils.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I read Wilhelm Research's report called the myth of UV protection, but this research was for color prints.?Does anyone think I should just not bother with UV protection for the permanently installed fiber photo works? Additionally, any input on best practices for mounting the images to archival board would be appreciated. What board is durable and archival? (I hear sintra is not archival.) What mount technique is best, spray or tissue? Thank you for your insights! Vanessa Albury??????O????????O????????O????????O????????O????? www.vanessaalbury.com & alburyarcticart.tumblr.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More critically, however, it will also help to ensure that open repositories continue to play a key role in supporting, shaping, and sharing those changes and an open agenda for research and scholarship. The organizers invite you to review the full call for proposals here: http://www.or2015.net/call-for-proposals/, and to submit your proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/or2015/ by January 30, 2015. There are several different formats provided to encourage your participation in this year's conference, all described on the OR2015 website. *CODE OF CONDUCT* The Open Repositories Steering Committee is pleased to announce the release of the new Open Repositories Code of Conduct http://www.or2015.net/code-of-conduct/. The Open Repositories Code of Conduct underscores the OR Conference core value of openness by providing a welcoming and positive experience for everyone, whether they are in a formal session or a social setting, or are taking part in activities online. *KEY DATES* ? 30 January 2015: Deadline for submissions and Scholarship Programme applications ? 27 March 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference ? 10 April 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to Interest Groups ? 8-11 June 2015: OR2015 conference The conference system is now open and is linked from the conference web site: http://www.or2015.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Tue Dec 16 12:53:33 2014 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:53:33 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Register Today for "CurateGear 2015: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections" Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A645163AF7EA02@ITS-MSXMBS5M.ad.unc.edu> Limited Seats Remain for "CurateGear 2015: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections" Following the success of CurateGear 2012, 2013, and 2014, please join us for CurateGear 2015, a day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods. See demonstrations, hear about the latest developments, and discuss applications in professional contexts. CurateGear will be an interactive event focused on digital curation tools and methods. The symposium will take place on January 7, 2015 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Homepage: CurateGear 2015 - http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/curategear2015.html Registration: http://tinyurl.com/pg2lvut. Registration Fee: $150; students: $50. Speakers will include: * Erika Farr, Emory University * Matthew Farrell, Duke University * Carolyn Hank, University of Tennessee * Cal Lee, University of North Carolina * Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries * Don Mennerich, New York University * Peter Murray, LYRASIS * Alex Nelson, Prometheus Computing * Michael Olson, Stanford University * Klaus Rechert, University of Freiburg * Doug Reside, New York Public Library * Dan Ryan, Carnegie Mellon University * Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute * Kari Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Angela Spinazz?, LYRASIS * Helen Tibbo, University of North Carolina * Bradley Westbrook, ArchivesSpace * Doug White, National Institute of Standards and Technology * Carl Wilson, Open Preservation Foundation * Kam Woods, University of North Carolina Happy Holidays and I hope to see you in January! -Helen Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President, 2010-2011 & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall, CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-962-8071 tibbo at ils.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Tue Dec 16 17:09:30 2014 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:09:30 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Earlybird ends Dec. 20: Workshop on ISO 16363 for Managers of Digital Repositories; Pasadena, USA - 26-30 January 2015 Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A645163AF7F43F@ITS-MSXMBS5M.ad.unc.edu> Apologies for any duplicate posts. Early bird pricing ends December 20! I am pleased to announce that the authors of the OAIS, ISO16363, and ISO16919 standards, including myself, have collaborated under the umbrella of PTAB (Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body) to hold a training course for Managers of Digital Repositories in Pasadena, USA from 26-30 January 2015. Please register your interest on the PTAB website (http://www.iso16363.org/courses/future-courses/pasadena-january-2015/) in this course as soon as possible if you or any of your colleagues wish to take part as places are limited - see details below. Regards ..Helen High Level Training Course on ISO 16363 for Managers of Digital Repositories Pasadena, USA - 26-30 January 2015 The Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body (ISO-PTAB) plays a major role in training auditors and repository managers. There are three important ISO standards: * ISO 14721 (OAIS - a reference model for what is required for an archive to provide long-term preservation of digital information) * ISO 16363 (Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories - sets out comprehensive metrics for what an archive must do, based on OAIS) * ISO 16919 (Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of candidate trustworthy digital repositories - specifies the competencies and requirements on auditing bodies) These three standards form a closely-related family and an understanding of their principles and use will become increasingly important in establishing an internationally recognised and certified set of trustworthy digital repositories. The authors of these standards will be running a 5-day training course in Pasadena from 26-30 January 2015. The cost is $2000 with a 10% 'early bird' discount available until 20 December 2014. Places for this course are limited so please register your interest on the PTAB web site as soon as possible and we will forward further information and logistics, including registration and payment details - see http://www.iso16363.org/. Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President, 2010-2011 & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall, CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-962-8071 tibbo at ils.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dminor at ucsd.edu Tue Dec 16 02:00:53 2014 From: dminor at ucsd.edu (Minor, David) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 07:00:53 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Registration for PASIG 2015 is now open Message-ID: The 15th PASIG meeting will be held March 11-13, 2015, on the campus of UC San Diego! Come to the premier practioner-driven digital preservation event. We'll be bringing together an international group of experts in a wide range of fields, dedicated to providing timely, useful information. Registration is now open! Early-bird registration fee of $150 is available until January 31. We've also reserved a block of reasonably-priced rooms at a hotel within walking distance of the event venue. All registration and hotel information, and well as the meeting agenda, can be found on the event website: https://libraries.ucsd.edu/chronopolis/pasig The agenda is still being finalized, but it will include: Wednesday, March 11: Optional Digital Preservation 101 An afternoon session drilling into the nuts and bolts of digital preservation, with an eye to infrastructure services. Thursday, March 12: Practitioners Knowledge Exchange Day A detailed look at where we are as a community, highlighting practical issues and solutions. We'll have presentations from archives and museums, public and university libraries from around the world. Friday, March 13: Service Providers and Vendors Day A range of case studies from preservation service providers and storage vendors, showing how their systems have been deployed in the real world. Note that PASIG is immediately following the 5th RDA Plenary. Come to beautiful San Diego in March and attend two amazing events! David. David Minor Program Director for Research Data Curation Chronopolis Program Manager UC San Diego Library From achass at email.unc.edu Wed Dec 17 11:49:01 2014 From: achass at email.unc.edu (Chassanoff, Alex) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:49:01 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Register now, BitCurator User Forum! Message-ID: 2015 BitCurator Users Forum Date: Friday, January 9, 2015 Location: Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Conference Website and registration: http://educopia.org/events/BUF2015 Hashtag: #BUF15 Join BitCurator users from around the globe for a hands-on day focused on current use and future development of the BitCurator digital software environment. Hosted by the BitCurator Consortium (BCC), this event will be grounded in the practical, boots-on-the-ground experiences of digital archivists and curators. Come wrestle with current challenges-engage in disk image format debates, investigate emerging BitCurator integrations and workflows, and discuss the "now what" of handling your digital forensics outputs. Panels and Panel Chairs include: * Choosing a Disk Image Format: Erika Farr (Emory University), Euan Cochrane (Yale University), Brian Dietz (North Carolina State University) * Workflow Exchanges: Matthew Farrell (Duke University), Walker Sampson (University of Colorado, Boulder), Kari Smith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Integrations and Future Work: Christopher (Cal) Lee (UNC), Kam Woods (UNC), Zach Vowell (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo), Brad Westbrook (LYRASIS) * The BitCurator Community: Katherine Skinner (Educopia Institute), Alex Chassanoff (University of North Carolina), Christopher (Cal) Lee (University of North Carolina), Kam Woods (University of North Carolina) Please see the official program for full descriptions of the panels: http://educopia.org/sites/educopia.org/files/BitCurator_Users_Forum_2015_Program_0.pdf Alexandra Chassanoff Doctoral Candidate, UNC SILS BitCurator Access Project Manager http://achass.web.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mwerla at man.poznan.pl Wed Dec 17 12:08:41 2014 From: mwerla at man.poznan.pl (Marcin Werla) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:08:41 +0100 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] TPDL2015 Conference, Sept. 2015 - Call for Contributions Message-ID: <5491B899.7040703@man.poznan.pl> Call for Contributions 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Pozna?, Poland, September 14-18, 2015 http://tpdl2015.info/ The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2015 will be organized by Pozna? Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) and it will be held in Pozna?, Poland on September 14-18, 2015. * Aims and scope * Valuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are created or transformed into digital form by all fields of scientific, educational, cultural, governmental and industry activities. For this purpose the digital libraries community has developed long-term and interdisciplinary research agendas, providing significant results, such as development of Digital Libraries, solving practical problems, accomodating research data and satisfying the needs of specific user communities. The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information with rich semantics is of particular interest in the community. Information providers inter-link their metadata with user contributed data and offer new services outlooking to the development of a web of data and addressing the interoperability and long-term preservation challenges. TPDL 2015 under the general theme "Connecting Digital Collections", invites submissions for scientific and research work in the following categories: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations, Workshops and Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity in a triple peer review process. The TPDL 2015 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Industry submissions are especially welcome, and a dedicated conference track is planned for them if many quality submissions are received. * Topics * General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics, *Connecting digital libraries:* - exploring semantic web and linked data - data mining and extraction of structure from networked information - multilingual information retrieval - metadata aggregation models - interoperability and information integration - ontologies and knowledge organization systems, networked information - applications of digital libraries *Practice of digital libraries:* - quality assurance in digital libraries - scalability and high availability of digital libraries - infrastructures supporting content processing - user studies for and evaluation of digital library systems and applications - large scale digital preservation infrastructures for cultural heritage - digital curation - multimedia information management and retrieval - user interfaces and user experience *Digital libraries in science*: - digital humanities - scholarly primitives - research data and virtual organizations - visualisation in digital libraries - digital libraries as source of big data for humanities *Users, communities, personal data* - social networking, web 2.0 and collaborative interfaces in digital libraries - social-technical perspectives of digital information - user mobility and context awareness in information access - personal information management and personal digital libraries - long term preservation in personal digital libraries - community-driven digital libraries *Special track*: Digital Libraries in the industry * Important Dates * - Full and Short papers, Posters and Demonstrations: March 20, 2015 - Panels, Workshops, Tutorials: February 28, 2015 - Notification of acceptance for Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations: May 22, 2015 - Notification of acceptance for Panels, Workshops and Tutorials: April 13, 2015 - Camera Ready Versions: June 12, 2015 - Doctoral Consortium Papers Submission Deadline: June 1, 2015 - Doctoral Consortium Acceptance Notification: June 22, 2015 - End of Early Registration: July 15, 2015 - Conference Dates: September 14-18, 2015 * Formatting Instructions * Full papers (12 pages), short-papers (6 pages), posters and demonstrations (4 pages) must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. The TPDL 2015 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Therefore all submissions should conform to the formatting instructions described in the "For Authors" webpage (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). For Doctoral Consortium, papers are expected to have a maximum of 8-10 pages, including references. Papers is recommended to be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines. In case your paper includes images or screenshots please ensure that you set image compression at 600dpi when you produce your PDF file. * Submission * All papers, short-papers, posters and demonstrations must be submitted in electronic format (PDF) via the conference's EasyChair submission page (TBA). According to the Registration Regulation for TPDL 2015, inclusion of papers in the Proceedings is conditional upon registration of at least one author per paper. * Organization * General Chairs: Cezary Mazurek, PSNC, Poland Marcin Werla, PSNC, Poland Program Chair: Sarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University, Greece Organizing Chair: Damian Niemir, PSNC, Poland -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3390 bytes Desc: Kryptograficzna sygnatura S/MIME URL: