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Subject: Digital Curator International Symposium at Chapel HIll
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:02:03 -0500
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*From:* Helen Tibbo [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
*Sent:* Saturday, January 13, 2007 8:34 AM
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*Subject:* DigCCurr2007 - EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS 1/15
Apologies for cross postings.
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS 1/15!
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DigCCurr2007: An International Symposium on Digital Curation
Focus: “What Digital Curators Do and What They Need to Know”
April 18-20, 2007
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Early Bird Register by January 15, 2007 $250.00 (US)
Regular Register January 16 - March 1, 2007 $275.00 (US)
Late Register March 2 - April 20, 2007 $300.00 (US)
http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/registration.html
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INTRODUCTION:
The School of Information and Library Science <http://sils.unc.edu>
(SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host
DigCCurr2007, an international symposium on Digital Curation, April 18 –
20, 2007. This two-day event is part of the “Preserving Access to Our
Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation” project
funded by the Institute of Museum of Library Services (IMLS). The
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is a partner in this
effort.
DigCCurr2007 will focus on what digital curators do and what they need
to know to carry out this work and each speaker is asked to address
these issues in their presentation.
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AUDIENCE:
Anyone interested in digital preservation and curation, especially those
who are building staff capacity in these areas.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST:
While paper submissions on any aspect of digital curation are welcome,
we are particularly interested in the following areas and topics:
Designing Repositories – Where to Begin?
Repository Architecture
Ingest Services
User Services
Metadata
Standards and Standard Development
Policy Development
Programs for Working with Content/Data Providers
Intellectual Property Rights Issues
Information Industry Perspectives
Social Science Data Curation
Science Data Curation
Funding and Sustainability
We request that each paper include discussion of the skills, knowledge,
and perspectives individuals working in these functional areas and
environments or addressing these issues will find valuable.
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Helen R. Tibbo, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
Christopher A. Lee, School of Information and Library Science,
UNC-Chapel Hill
John Schaefer, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
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ADVISORY BOARD:
Advisory Board members include:
Stephen Chapman, Harvard University;
Adrian Cunningham, National Archives of Australia;
Robin Dale, RLG/OCLC;
Wendy Duff, University of Toronto;
Philip Eppard, SUNY-Albany;
Anne Gilliland, UCLA;
Maria Guercio, University of Urbino;
Hans Hofman, Nationaal Archief (National Archives) of the Netherlands
and ERPANET;
Anne Kenney, Cornell University Library;
Steve Knight, National Library of New Zealand;
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information; Richard Marciano,
San Diego Super Computer Center;
Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow;
Don Sawyer, NASA;
Kenneth Thibodeau, National Archives and Records Administration;
Raymond van Diessen, IBM, The Netherlands;
Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan.
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CONFERENCE SOCIAL EVENTS:
All-conference opening reception, 6:00 – 7:30 PM, Wednesday, April 18th
Working lunch, 12:15 – 1:45, Thursday, April 19th
All-conference reception, 5:00 – 7:00 PM, Thursday, April 19th
Working lunch, 12:15 – 1:45, Friday, April 20h
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CONFERENCE LOCATION:
The opening reception will be held in The Wilson Library on UNC’s main
campus.
All sessions, lunches, and the Thursday evening reception will be held
at The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located on Route 54 in
Chapel Hill, NC.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Please see: http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr.
Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Professor
School of Information and Library Science
201 Manning Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
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Tel: 919.962.8063
Fax: 919.962.8071
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