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This posting contains four messages:
1. DigCCurr2007-Call for Papers, an International Symposium on Digital
Curation, Chapel Hill, USA, 18-20 April 2007
2. Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2007 - Call for contributions,
Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia, 28 May - 1 June 2007
3. 21st Annual NARA Preservation Conference: "Managing the Intangible
Creating, Storing and Retrieving Digital
Surrogates of Historical Materials", Adelphi, USA
4. Digital preservation using emulation: statement by Emulation Expert
meeting of 20 October 2006
posted by the ECPA Secretariat, with apologies for cross-posting.
1. DigCCurr2007-Call for Papers, an International Symposium on Digital
Curation, Chapel Hill, USA, 18-20 April 2007
Message forwarded from DIGLIB-L, discussion list for digital libraries
researchers and librarians.
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From: tibbo at email.unc.edu
Date: 11/17/06 06:17am
Subject: DigCCurr2007-Call for Papers
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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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
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IMPORTANT DATES:
750 word abstract: January 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2007
Full papers: March 15, 2007
Symposium: April 18-20, 2007
http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr
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INTRODUCTION:
The School of Information and Library Science <http://sils.unc.edu>
(SILS) at the University of No rth Carolina at Chapel Hill will host
DigCCurr2007, an international symposium on Digital Curation,
April 19 - 20, 2007. This two-day event is part of the "Preserving Access
to Our Digital Future: B
uilding an International Digital Curation" project funded by the Institute
of Museum of Library Ser vices (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 wo rk 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 cap acity in these areas.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST:
While paper submissions on any aspect of digital curation are welcome, we
are particularly interest ed 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 individual s working in these functional areas and
environments or addressing these issues will find valuable.
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PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION:
Abstract and full papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files.
Full papers should be 6-8 p ages in length and use a double column format
such as the ACM layout. Detailed formatting and submi ssion instructions
will be available in the author instructions section of the conference Web
site soon. At this time electronic publication of the proceedings is
planned but may be followed with a print version.
Please submit abstracts to John Schaefer at: jschaefe at email.unc.edu by
January 1, 2007.
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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:
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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 Frida y 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
tibbo at ils.unc.edu
Tel: 919.962.8063
Fax: 919.962.8071
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2. Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2007 - Call for contributions,
Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia,
28 May - 1 June 2007
Message forwarded from IFLA-L, the listserve of the International
Federation of Library Assocations
and Institutions.
____Forward header_____
From: "Marica Sapro-Ficovic" <msapro at dkd.hr>
Date: 11/17/06 10:36am
Subject: LIDA 2007 - Call for contributions
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Annual International Course and Conference
LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2007
Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia
28 May - 1 June 2007
Web site: http://www.ffos.hr/lida/
Email: lida at ffos.hr
The general aim of the annual international conference and course
Libraries in the Digital Age (LID A), started in 2000, is to address the
changing and challenging environment for libraries and infor mation
systems and services in the digital world, with an emphasis on examining
contemporary proble ms, advances and solutions. Each year a different and
'hot' theme is addressed, divided in two part s; the first part covers
research and development and the second part addresses advances in applica
tions and practice. LIDA seeks to bring together researchers,
practitioners, and developers from al l over the world in a forum for
personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made easier by being
held in memorable locations.
Themes LIDA 2007:
Part I: Users and Use of Digital Libraries
The goal of the first part of LIDA 2007 is to explore the behavior, place,
and role of users of dig ital libraries and the reasons, ways, and means
related to their use of digital libraries. Special attention will be on
users' information behavior and moreover, on the role of users throughout
the process of design, development, and evaluation of digital libraries.
The general aim is to concentr ate on works that increase our
understanding of the needs, interests, and experiences of users in t he
context of digital libraries. Many research approaches and understanding
users could be examined , e.g., behavioral, cognitive, affective,
organizational, social.
Invited are contributions (types described below) covering the following
topics:
a.. reasons for and approaches to use of digital libraries; related
experiences of various catego
ries of users. Why and how do users interact with digital libraries?
b.. users' experience with digital library content in various forms of
presentation (text, audio,
visual) and accessibility (mobile, handheld, wireless, wearable, etc.)
c.. usability evaluation of digital libraries; methodologies for and
results of usability studies
d.. impact of digital libraries on various categories of user
populations and in various contexts
(within specific cultures, countries, disciplines, professions, age
groups; with various technolog
y use levels, access problems, etc.)
e.. cross-cultural and international studies of the opportunities and
barriers to development and
use of digital libraries
f.. use of various digital library services, such as virtual and chat
reference g.. users as interactive creators of a new generation of
digital libraries h.. application of various theories and models in
study of users and use of digital libraries and
associated human information behavior
i.. relating such theories and user information needs assessments to
design and development of di
gital libraries.
Part II: Economics and Digital Libraries
The goal of the second part of LIDA 2007 is to address economic factors:
costs, resources, sharing,
consortia, and the nature and control of expenditures. Digital libraries,
like all other libraries
, have costs that must be paid. In addition to the familiar costs of
providing services, digital li braries assume a responsibility to serve as
portals, for their complex communities of users and to the exponentially
expanding resources of the World Wide Web. Finally, the costs of
conversion from older forms such as paper and microfiche, to new digital
forms, are of vital importance because, in creasingly, materials that have
not been converted will not be used. Invited are contributions (types
described below) covering the following topics:
a.. application of library performance measures to the digital realm, to
new forms of service, an
d to new methods of delivery
b.. methods for measuring or estimating the costs of digital operations
in a scalable and general
izable fashion
c.. real world experience of moving from a non-digital situation to a
fully digital one, with reg
ard to some area of service, with particular focus on the costs, both
tangible and intangible, of t he transition. This can be from the
perspective of a library, a publisher, or an Internet firm
d.. case studies of governmental intervention to accelerate the
digitization of national resource
s, or of more specialized collections
e.. other issues related to the economics of digital libraries - novel
approaches, are particular
ly welcome.
Submissions should be sent in electronic format (as an email attachment)
to Prof. Tatjana Aparac at
taparac at ffos.hr. Inquires can also be addressed to the Co-Chair of the
conference Prof. Tefko Sara
cevic and Program Chairs (for Part I Prof. Sanda Erdelez. and for Part II
Prof. Paul Kantor). Full contact information is provided at the
conference web site: http://www.ffos.hr/lida/ All submissions will be
refereed.
Deadlines:
For papers and workshops: 15 January 2007. Acceptance by 15 February 2007.
For demonstrations and posters: 1 February 2007. Acceptance by 1 March
2007. Final submission for all accepted papers and posters: 15 March 2007.
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3. 21st Annual NARA Preservation Conference: "Managing the Intangible
Creating, Storing and Retriev ing Digital
Surrogates of Historical Materials", Adelphi, USA
Message forwarded from the Conservation DistList (Instance: 20:27,
Saturday, November 18, 2006) _____Forward header_____
Date: 17 Nov 2006
From: Richard Schneider <richard.schneider [at] nara__gov>
Subject: NARA Preservation Conference
"Managing the Intangible Creating, Storing and Retrieving Digital
Surrogates of Historical Material s"
The 21st Annual National Archives Preservation Conference
Marriott Inn and Conference Center at the University of Maryland's
University College, Adelphi, Mar yland
April 30-May 1, 2007
In 2003, the National Archives (NARA) hosted a preservation conference to
examine analog versus dig ital reformatting methods and to debate whether
the latter is an acceptable preservation medium. In
2006, we find that the debate is indeed over, for national and
international organizations have en
dorsed digital surrogates as an accepted preservation option and have
begun digitizing a wide varie ty of historical materials. Questions
however, abound.
This conference will give attendees an opportunity to hear a comprehensive
discussion on the essent ial components of the digital preservation
reformatting process. It will benefit attendees involved
with any and all media types, for there are common issues that have
implications on reformatting d
ecisions and the approaches taken. This conference will also benefit
institutions that are contempl ating entering, or have just entered, the
digital arena by providing a forum to examine reformattin g in its
entirety instead of focusing just on a narrow slice of the process.
The conference will be organized in a two-day format. The first day will
be devoted to more formal presentations while the second will be a
combination of panel discussions and venues allowing for m ore interaction
between attendees and presenters.
The conference has undergone many changes this year which are designed to
enhance your experience. The location is in a hotel rather than a
National Archives facility, permitting us to expand the pr ogram and
permit more interaction with other attendees, NARA staff, speakers and
vendors supplying goods and services to the digital preservation field.
The registration fee for this 2-day conference is $275.00 for a standard
registration and $175.00 f or a student registration. The fee includes
lunch, breaks and beverage service for both days. There
will also be an evening reception after the first day's program. For
those coming from outside of
the DC Metropolitan area, you may consider staying at the Marriott hotel
that is adjacent to the co nference facility. Both of these are on the
campus of the University of Maryland at College Park.
For more information, please contact me directly at
richard.schneider [at] nara__gov or at 301-837-3617.
You should also check
<URL:http://www.archives.gov/preservation/conferences/2007/> on a regular
bas is for registration forms and updates on the program. I hope to see
you in April,
Richard Schneider
Conference Coordinator
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4. Digital preservation using emulation: statement by Emulation Expert
meeting of 20 October 2006
Message forwarded from the UK digital-preservation-list
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From: remco.verdegem at nationaalarchief.nl
Date: 11/17/06 02:51pm
Subject: Digital preservation using emulation
*** Apologies for cross-posting ***
In 2005, the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands and the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek, National Library
of the Netherlands have started a project to develop a modular hardware
emulator for digital prese
rvation. In order to review the first results of our project (see project
description at the bottom
of this email) and, more generally, to identify different approaches of
emulation and to discuss r
elated issues in the field of digital preservation, the Nationaal Archief
and the National Library of the Netherlands have organised an Emulation
Expert Meeting. This event took place Friday 20 Octo ber 2006 and was
attended by 16 international experts in the area of emulation and/or
digital prese rvation. At this meeting, we also discussed topics such as
future user aspects, long-term platform independency and how to create a
(distributed) service that will offer access through emulation.
At the end of the expert meeting the participants formulated and endorsed
a statement concerning th e use emulation for digital preservation
purposes:
"Emulation is a viable preservation strategy that has a number of unique
advantages:
*
It preserves and permits access to each digital artifact in its original
form and format; it may b
e the only viable approach to preserving digital artifacts that have
significant executable and/or interactive behavior.
*
It can preserve digital artifacts of any form or format by saving the
original software environmen
ts that were used to render those artifacts. A single emulator can
preserve artifacts in a vast ra nge of arbitrary formats without the need
to understand those formats, and it can preserve huge cor puses without
ever requiring conversion or any other processing of individual artifacts.
*
It enables the future generation of surrogate versions of digital
artifacts directly from their or
iginal forms, thereby avoiding the cumulative corruption that would result
from generating each suc h future surrogate from the previous one.
*
If all emulators are written to run on a stable, thoroughly-specified
"emulation virtual machine"
(EVM) platform and that virtual machine can be implemented on any future
computer, then all emulato rs can be run indefinitely.
In order to develop a practical, off-the-shelf preservation strategy based
on emulation, a number o f additional steps are required, including:
*
Create and demonstrate example emulators suitable for long-term
preservation.
*
Develop fidelity criteria for each behavioral dimension of digital
artifacts (e.g., display, sound
, timing) and develop validation test suites, which evaluate these
criteria and verify that the log ical behavior of an emulator matches that
of its target computer.
*
Research and develop device-independent input/output mechanisms to allow
unmodified programs to be
have and interact appropriately with users on future computer platforms. *
Develop methods for capturing and preserving contextual information
describing the logical, physic
al, organizational, and social environments in which digital artifacts
were originally used, as wel l as documentation describing how they were
used and what they were used for. *
Develop methods for describing, managing, and automatically interpreting
information about the ver
sions and configurations of software and hardware needed to render digital
artifacts under emulatio n.
*
Define and develop a long-lived emulation environment to enable emulators
to be run indefinitely.
This environment could be equivalent to an emulation virtual machine
(EVM) platform, though it may be implemented as a long-lived programming
language along with a stable set of program library fac
ilities. This environment should:
- Enable using old digital artifacts by running their original
software under emulation on
unforeseen future computers;
- Provide automatic configuration of emulators, software
environments, and applications to
render old digital artifacts;
- Provide documentation, active user help, and/or automatic
reinterpretation of old interac
tion modes into future equivalents, to help future users utilize old
digital artifacts under emulat ion;
- Provide mechanisms to facilitate (or, ideally, automate) the
future generation of surroga
te versions of digital artifacts directly from their original forms.
*
Develop network-based services for providing remote access to old digital
objects via emulation, w
ithout requiring remote users to load and run an emulation environment on
their local systems."
This statement is endorsed by all participants of the Emulation Expert
Meeting: Geoffrey Brown, Indiana University, USA
Raymond van Diessen, IBM Netherlands N.V., The Netherlands
Hans Hofman, Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Jeffrey
van der Hoeven, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands
Vincent Joguin, ACONIT, France
Bram Lohman, Tessella Support Services plc., The Netherlands
Gregory Miura, Bibliothčque Nationale de France, France
Bill Roberts, Tessella Support Services plc., The Netherlands
Jeff Rothenberg, RAND corp., USA
Jacqueline Slats, Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Tobias Steinke, Die Deutsche National Bibliothek, Germany
Dirk von Suchodoletz, University of Freiburg, Germany
Remco Verdegem, Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Randolph Welte, University of Freiburg, Germany
Richard Wilkinson, Tessella Support Services plc., United Kingdom
Hilde van Wijngaarden, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands
This statement together with a short overview and presentation slides will
be made available on the
project websites of Digitale Duurzaamheid (Digital Longevity) and the
Koninklijke Bibliotheek:
http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/index.cfm?paginakeuze=327
<http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/in dex.cfm?paginakeuze=327>
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_projecten/projecten_emulatie-en.html
<http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_project en/projecten_emulatie-en.html>
Emulation project - background information
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The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) and the Nationaal Archief of the
Netherlands are both facing the s ame challenges keeping all kinds of
digital material accessible for the long term. Therefore, both
organisations are closely working together in this field by developing an
emulator for digital pres ervation. Both the KB and Nationaal Archief
strongly believe that emulation is the only way to reta in access to
digital objects for which preservation of functionality is important. By
using an emul ator, these objects should be kept alive in their original
environment.
In April 2005 the Nationaal Archief and KB started the emulation project
and chose Tessella Support
Services plc. to develop an emulator which should be flexible and durable
for the long term. Key i
ssue in this development is the conceptual model of the Modular Emulator,
which was defined by the KB in cooperation with Jeff Rothenberg at the
end of 2004. Jeff is also joining the project team du ring design and
development of the emulator.
More information: see references above.
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Remco Verdegem
Senior Advisor Digital Longevity
Project Manager Modular Emulation
Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands
e: remco.verdegem at nationaalarchief.nl
t: +31 (0)70 331 55 43
w: www.nationaalarchief.nl <http://www.nationaalarchief.nl/>
w: www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl <http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/>
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European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA)
c/o KNAW, P.O. Box 19121, NL-1000 GC Amsterdam
visiting address: Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29,
NL-1011 JV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
tel. ++31 - 20 - 551 08 39 fax ++31 - 20 - 620 49 41
URL: http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/
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