Events

From Nicky Whitsed, Director of Library Services, The Open University

London, UK  The First European MOOCs and Libraries Conference, "MOOCs and Libraries: the good, the bad and the ugly", will be held on Friday July 12th, 2013 at the Pullman Hotel in Central London.

This one day event hosted by the Open University Library in partnership with OCLC Research  and Jisc will focus on the challenges MOOCs pose to the traditional delivery of library services, and the opportunities they offer for libraries to rethink and revitalise their proposition. Participants will be brought up to speed with the latest MOOC developments around the world, but with a particular emphasis on developments in the UK. Speakers will share their experience of or thoughts about the impact MOOCs are having on library services across many sectors, on publishers, and on the higher education landscape.

Opening the conference:
Prof Belinda Tynan, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Learning and Teaching, The Open University

Confirmed speakers include:
Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer , OCLC Research
Prof Hugh Davis, University Director of Education at the University of Southampton
Prof Charles Cockell, Director of the UK Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh

The event builds on a highly successful workshop held in Philadelphia in March, sponsored by OCLC Research and the University of Pennsylvania at which the Open University was the only institution from outside North America.

The objectives of the day are as follows:
1. To raise awareness among librarians of the impact of MOOCs on their environment
2. To share experience of libraries involved in MOOCs
3. To discuss the strategic way forward for libraries in this changing landscape and develop a strategic roadmap

If you would like to register your interest in this event or would like further information please email Library-Services

Attendance at the event will cost £65.00, the full programme will be available online shortly. http://www.open.ac.uk/library/training-and-events/moocs-and-libraries-event

Valletta, Malta  A one-day workshop  on "Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets" will be held in Valletta, Malta, on September 26, 2013. The workshop is sponsored by OpenAIREplus (www.openaire.eu) and EuroCRIS (www.eurocris.org) and is being offered In conjunction with TPDL 2013 (www.tpdl2013.info).

Web site: http://lcpd2013.research-infrastructures.eu/

Workshop Objectives

The goal of this workshop is to provide researchers and practitioners in the fields of Digital Libraries, e-Science, and e-Research, with a forum where they can constructively explore foundational, organizational and systemic challenges in contexts having publishing, interlinking, preservation, discovery, access, and reuse of publications and datasets as focal points. It expects to contribute to the actual picture of the state of the art approaches and solutions that researchers and practitioners active in these fields have investigated and realized.

Invited speaker

Soren Auer, Universitat Leipzig (http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer). Dr. Soren Auer research interest are in social and semantic web technologies, knowledge engineering, usability, as well as databases and information systems. Soren is leading the European Union's FP7-ICT flagship project LOD2 comprising 15 partners from 11 countries. He is co-founder of several high-impact research and community projects such as DBpedia, SlideWiki.org, LinkedGeoData and OntoWiki, organiser and co-programme chair of renowned scientific conferences, area editor of the Semantic Web Journal, serves as an expert for industry, EC, W3C and advisory board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Workshop topics

The workshop welcomes submissions reporting on theoretical, systemic, and foundational work targeting popular topics of linking and contextualizing datasets and publications. The topics of this workshop are of interest to, but not limited to, the following research avenues:

• Metadata formats for publications and datasets: interlinking or contextualizing research outputs.
• Metadata access services: exporting/discovering metadata to facilitate interlinking or contextualizing research outputs.
• Data models expressing relationships between publications, datasets and other information apt for re-use, contextualization, etc.
• Aggregation services: robust and scalable collection, integration, storage, interlinking, and visualization of heterogeneous objects and metadata from publication, dataset, and contextual content data sources
• Linking and contextualization services: processing/mining interlinked objects and metadata relative for enrichment, disambiguation, annotation
• Future publication models and services: novel concepts and management of "enhanced publications", "research objects", "executable papers".

For more on these topics, please visit the workshop website.

Important Dates

Research paper submission: June 24th, 2013 Notification of acceptance: July 29th, 2013 Camera ready version: August 31st, 2013.

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. Submitted manuscripts will have to be limited to 8-12 pages, following the guidelines for the LNCS format provided by Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Preferred formats are PDF or Microsoft Word. Submission is on line at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcpd2013 (EasyChair on-line system: you need to register an account to submit).

Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a single-blind peer-review process by Program Committee members. To be published on the proceedings, accepted contributions should be revised according to the reviews and at least one author is required to register and present the paper at the workshop.

Proceedings, including abstracts from the invited speakers and the revised papers, will become a publication (the organisers are in the process of arranging the publication with Springer in CCIS series).

Workshop Organisers

• Lukasz Bolikowski, Centre for Open Science, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland
• Paolo Manghi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI), National Research Council - (CNR), Pisa, Italy
• Nikos Houssos, EKT, National Documentation Centre, Greece
• Jochen Schirrwagen, Bielefeld University Library, Germany

From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

Redwood City, CA  The next Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) webinar will be held on June 11 at 11:30am EST. The webinar is free for ASIS&T members and $20 for non-ASIS&T members. Register here:

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-6-11-2013-registe...

Title: Stewarding Research Data with Fedora and Islandora

The interest in stewarding research data is undergoing an exponential increase, encouraged by funder mandates as well as the recognition by researchers that data sharing leads to greater discovery and innovation. The Islandora community is actively working on solutions for managing the diversity of data in virtually any domain. In one example at the University of PEI, Islandora tools are being built to sync data from systems like DropBox and Google Drive to Fedora, providing immediate preservation services for any arbitrary collection of data. This Physical Data Model is intended to provide a quick and seamless integration with Islandora where the researchers can subsequently add enrichment and optionally choose to share the data with others. In another example the Smithsonian is applying a set of Intellectual Data Models to steward research output from a variety of projects. In this case data is ingested into Islandora against a domain-specific data model that applies specific metadata forms, data transformations and data viewers to make the data more accessible immediately on ingest. The Webinar will highlight these and other approaches to research data management and preservation.

Speaker

Mark Leggott is the University Librarian at the University of PEI, President of discoverygarden Inc. and founder of the open source Islandora project. Mark has been involved with things open and digital for most of his career, and together with the team at the University of PEI is working on a digital archive of the complete cultural and heritage history of the Island. As founder of the Islandora project Mark collaborates with global institutions interested in stewarding digital information for the long-term.

Winchester, MA  Join the DuraCloud team online for the fourth brown bag session of 2013 TOMORROW, May 29th at 12:30pm ET.  May's brown bag session will detail the new integration between DuraCloud and Amazon Glacier, specifically discussing the unique qualities of Glacier cloud storage, use cases best suited for using Glacier, and also give a brief demonstration of how to backup content into Glacier via DuraCloud.
 
Tune in to the "DuraCloud Brown Bag Series" for short, 30-minute demonstrations and/or discussions of new features, common use cases, or topics presented by guest speakers with an additional 15 minutes reserved at the end of each session for questions.
   
There is no need to register to attend, simply connect to the session if you are available.
 
To join the event:
 
1. Log in to http://educause.acms.com/duraspace/.
2. On the welcome page, click to "Enter As Guest" and enter your name and institution.
3. Click "Enter Room" and the session will launch.
 
Before the event:
• Audio for the webinar will be presented through your computer speakers.
• Please be sure to run a system test before logging in:
http://educause.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm.
 
For the complete list of upcoming Brown Bag topics or to submit a suggested topic, please visit: http://duracloud.org/brown_bag_series
or contact Carissa Smith: csmith@duraspace.org
 
All DuraCloud brown bag sessions are recorded and posted within a few days to the DuraCloud YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/user/duracloudvideos 

West Lafayette, IN  The Data Information Literacy Symposium at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN will be held on September 23-24, 2013.

Program

This symposium will explore roles for practicing librarians in teaching competencies in data management and curation to graduate students.  With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, librarians from Purdue University, Cornell University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Oregon have investigated this topic through developing and implementing ?data information literacy? (DIL) instruction programs for graduate students in a range of science and engineering disciplines.

Members of the DIL project will share their experiences in working with faculty and graduate students, with a primary focus on the practical applications of their work.  Keynote speakers will provide additional perspectives on teaching data literacy competencies.  A portion of the conference will be devoted to further exploration of selected topics of interest as determined by attendees.

Outcomes

Attendees will acquire an understanding of current issues in teaching data management and curation competencies to students.  Through presentations, discussions and hands-on activities, attendees will develop strategies for creating their own instructional programs suitable for the needs of their students and faculty.

Intended audience

Academic librarians and others who are providing research data management instruction for students, or librarians who are interested in doing so.

Poster Session

Attendees who have developed educational initiatives, crafted resources, or conducted research in this area are invited to submit materials for a poster session, which will be held at the pre-symposium reception on Sunday, September 22nd. Attendees will be provided with information on how to submit a poster after they have registered for the symposium.

Registration

Registration for the event is now open at:

http://www.conf.purdue.edu/data. There is no registration fee, but the attendance is limited to the first 80 individuals who register.  After that, you may request to be placed on the waiting list.

To follow the event on Twitter and all updates from the DIL project, please search the hashtag #datainfolit.  Updates from the event will be posted throughout the day September 23-24.

More information about the Data Information Literacy Project can be found at the projects website: http://datainfolit.org

Please contact Jake Carlson, Data Services Specialist at Purdue University with any questions: jakecarlson@purdue.edu.

Ann Arbor, MI  The Digital Directions Conference will be held July 21-23, 2013 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Join a faculty of national experts, experienced digital collections curators, and colleagues from institutions large and small as we come together to explore the challenges, considerations, and choices surrounding digital collections care.

AFFORDABLE AND CONVENIENT:
This year's conference fee has been reduced from last year's rate by $130! The 2 ½ day schedule allows for easy travel and the Sunday start-time eases the burden on limited staff and lone-arrangers.

LEARN MORE and read comments by past participants at: http://www.nedcc.org/enewsletters/2013/05/13/reminder-digital-directions/

From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

Redwood City, CA  The next Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) webinar will be held on May 15 at 11:30am EST. The webinar is free for ASIS&T members and $20 for non-ASIS&T members.

To register, go to:

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-5-15-2013-register.html

Title: Challenges of Digital Media Preservation in an Active Archive

Preserving digital audio and video files present their own unique challenges, which become particularly difficult in an archive that is constantly in use. WGBH has been attempting to manage this problem for over 10 years. With producers currently delivering born digital files, trying to keep up with the technology keeps the archive scrambling. New workflows, file naming, organizational standards, and flexible systems to accommodate a wide range of incoming media are all needed. WGBH, with the support from NEH, is currently looking at utilizing an open source system called Hydra to help solve some of the challenges.

Speakers:

Karen Cariani is the Director of the WGBH Media Library and Archives. Since the founding of the department in 1990, the Media Library has provided access to the WGBH Archives by providing research services, rights clearances, and licensing services.  In 2003, the Media Library and WGBH Archives merged to form the Media Library and Archives (MLA) which encompasses circulation, accessioning, and preservation activities. Karen has worked at WGBH since 1984 in television production and archival-related roles.  

She has 20 plus years of production and project management experience, having worked on numerous award-winning historical documentaries including MacArthur, Rock and Roll, The Kennedys, Nixon, and War and Peace in the Nuclear Age. She has been project director for WGBH's Teachers' Domain, an online collection of multimedia resources for K-12 classrooms; WGBH Open Vault, a digital library for the WGBH Archives; WGBH Mellon Digital Library prototype project, IMLS funded WGBH Vietnam digital library, and for development and implementation of the WGBH DAM system. She also worked with the WNET, PBS, NYU and WGBH Preserving Public Television partnership as part of the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Project. She served two terms (2001-2005) on the Board of Directors of Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA).  She was co-chair of the AMIA Local Television Task Force, and Project Director of the guidebook "Local Television: A Guide To Saving Our Heritage," funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. She is currently co-chair of the LOC National Stewardship Digital Alliance for the Infrastructure working group. AMIA Copyright Committee and AMIA Open Source Committee.  She also serves on Digital Commonwealth executive committee. Recent projects include managing the American Archive Inventory project for CPB, and project director of PBCore development and Boston Local TV News Digital Library project.

David W. MacCarn is Chief Technologist, WGBH Educational Foundation. He is responsible for long term planning, investment and adoption of new technologies for use in production, post-production, information technology, interactive systems, and accessible media. David serves as new-technology advocate and researcher, working with WGBH departments to conceptualize innovative applications of new media to serve existing and new audiences. He is in-house expert on media formats and containers and advises on their preservation.

David is creator of the Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary Project (PBCore.org), a metadata standard for the exchange of Public Broadcasting content and has served as director of the version 2 standards work. He continues work on large-scale digital asset management (DAM) initiative; having worked with technology partners to create the DAM Reference Architecture: an innovative hardware and software solution that allows different components to work together to

manage a complete digital library of video, audio, text, and other assets. Mr. MacCarn has been with WGBH since 1985, starting as director of engineering.

From Alexander Garcia and Alex Garcia-Castro

Montpellier, France  The upcoming "Jailbreaking the PDF" hackathon (http://scholrev.org/hackathon) will be held Monday, May 27 in Montpellier, France at the Agence Bibliographique de l'enseignement Superieur (ABES):

http://www.abes.fr/Connaitre-l-ABES/Presentation-de-l-ABES.

Currently, the bulk of peer-reviewed scientific knowledge is locked up in PDF documents, which are difficult to get information.

We want to change that.

If you’re interested in hacking on PDFs and exploring ways to access scholarly data in modern ways, this hackathon is for you. There is no registration fee–the event is free.  Bring yourself your favorite laptop, and we'll supply the food, drinks wifi,

repository, and everything else necessary to hack away.

Future announcements will be posted at http://scholrev.org/hackathon.

Winchester, MA  Traveling to the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication in Geneva June 19-21, 2013? Consider attending a DSpace User Group meeting that will take place just before the OAI8 Conference on June 18. The meeting is being sponsored by DuraSpace and @mire and is free to any OAI8 attendee who wishes to participate. Please be sure to register by June 1: http://indico.cern.ch/internalPage.py?pageId=4&confId=211600

From Louisa Kwasigroch, Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources

Washington, DC  The 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum is seeking proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions.

The Digital Library Federation is a robust and diverse community of practitioners who advance research, teaching, and learning through the application of digital library research, technology, and services. The Forum is a working meeting where DLF members come together to discover better methods of working through sharing and collaboration. It serves as a resource and catalyst for collaboration among digital library developers, project managers, and all who are invested in digital library issues.

Participation is open to all those interested in contributing to and playing an active part in the successful future of digital libraries, museums, and archives services and collections. In that spirit, and to maximize the Forum’s benefit and better facilitate the community’s work, the Forum’s schedule will provide many opportunities to actively engage and network.

For the 2013 DLF Forum, the Program Planning Committee is requesting proposals within the broad framework of digital collections and their effect on libraries, museums and archives services, infrastructure, resources, and organizational priorities. Proposals should strive to contribute to the following topics:

Digital technology design
Management and assessment
Data
Collaboration

We welcome proposals on these and other areas from current community members and non-members who are interested in joining the DLF community. For more detailed examples, please see the 2012 DLF Forum schedule: http://www.diglib.org/forums/2012forum/2012-dlf-forum-schedule/.

Session genres include:

• Presentations and Panels: Traditional lecture format with question-and-answer sessions. Speakers are requested to use only half of the allocated time for the presentation, including how they wish to engage the DLF community in their work. The second half of the session should focus on conversations about next steps, engagement with the community, and clarification of points raised during the presentation.

• Workshops: In-depth, hands-on training about a tool, technique, workflow, etc. You can recommend a topic or trainer, or you can volunteer to share your own expertise.

• Research Updates: An opportunity for those working in digital collections research to present their preliminary findings for community feedback and discussion.

• Working Sessions: Creative problem solvers, including project managers, developers, and/or administrators, gather to address a specific problem. This does not have to be a computational problem. The approach can be applied to workflow issues, metadata transformations, or other complex problems that would benefit from a collective, dynamic solution approach.

• Community Idea Exchange: A modified poster session. Presenters will have the opportunity to interact with Forum participants to discuss their current research projects, and/or demonstrate tools or services they have developed or are using in their digital library environment. Demos must include a poster element.

Proposal Submission Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures

Complete proposals should be submitted using the online submission form by 11:59 PM on June 28, 2013. Proposals must include a title, session leader, session genre, proposal description (maximum 300 words), and proposal abstract (maximum 100 words).

After an initial review by the Program Planning Committee, all proposals will be posted on the DLF website for community polling. The community vote will be taken into consideration, and the Program Planning Committee will make the final decisions. Those that submitted complete proposals will be notified of their status by August 9, 2013. Presenters will be guaranteed a registration place.

The 2013 DLF Forum will be held in Austin, TX at theAT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, November 3–6, 2013. More information about the 2013 DLF Forum can be found at http://www.diglib.org/forums/2013forum.

From Jon Dunn, Sarah Shreeves (Program Co-Chairs) and Mark Leggott (Conference Chair)

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, CA  The Eigth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2013) is just around the corner–July 8-12 in beautiful Prince Edward Island. We had an awesome response to the request for proposals. An initial list of sessions is available at:

http://or2013.net/content/accepted-sessions

We are also getting final details in place for the Hackfest and Developer Challenge, but in the meantime we have an initial information page available at:

http://or2013.net/content/or-2013-dev-challenge-event

The Conference team is working hard to make sure the facilities are ready and that attendees will have an engaging set of social activities to meet with colleagues around, and have fun.

We want to encourage you to take advantage of our Early Bird registration, valid until May 10, after which the fee will go from $450 to $500. We also encourage you to book your flights and accommodation as soon as you can to make sure you get a front row seat for what is shaping up to be a great conference.

http://or2013.net/content/loc/accommodations

We look forward to seeing you in PEI!

Winchester, MA  Join the DuraCloud team online for a brown bag session TOMORROW, April 24th at 12:30pm ET led by Tim Donohue, DSpace Technical Lead. Tim will provide details about how to preserve DSpace content with DuraCloud that will include short demonstration of how to backup content from a DSpace instance to DuraCloud via the Replication Task Suite  DSpace component add-on.

Tune in to the "DuraCloud Brown Bag Series" for short, 30-minute demonstrations and/or discussions of new features, common use cases, or topics presented by guest speakers with an additional 15 minutes reserved at the end of each session for questions. The Brown Bag series takes place on the last Wednesday of every month from 12:30-1:15pm
ET.

There is no need to register to attend, simply connect to the session if you are available.

To join the event:

1. Log in to http://educause.acms.com/duraspace/.
2. On the welcome page, click to "Enter As Guest" and enter your name and institution.
3. Click "Enter Room" and the session will launch.

Before the event:

• Audio for the webinar will be presented through your computer speakers.
• Please be sure to run a system test before logging in:
http://educause.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm.

For the complete list of upcoming Brown Bag topics or to submit a suggested topic, please visit: http://duracloud.org/brown_bag_series 
or contact Carissa Smith: csmith@duraspace.org [mailto:csmith@duraspace.org?]. All DuraCloud brown bag sessions are recorded and posted within a few days to the DuraCloud YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/user/duracloudvideos 

São Paulo, Brazil  On online DSpace workshop will be held on April 30, UTC -3:00. No experience is necessary.

BIREME/PAHO/WHO with the Center for the Study of Bioethics and Health Diplomacy - NETHIS, will hold an online workshop to be conducted in Portugues for sharing experiences using DSPACE. The aim of the workshop is to share experiences with national institutions about DSPACE use and implementation of institutional repositories.
 
We are pleased to invite you to participate in this virtual meeting, the topics to be explored in the presentations will be: the politics of creating institutional repositories and interoperability, metadata and customizations of DSPACE. The time for each speaker will be 20 min.

Pelo virtual link: http://bit.ly/9RLj3p

From Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, Library of Congress
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIPP)

Washington, DC  The deadline for submitting a proposal for Digital Preservation 2013 is April 26. The meeting will be held July 23-25 in the Washington DC area and will bring the the broad, diverse digital preservation and stewardship community together to share achievements in the areas technical infrastructure, innovation, content collection, standardization, and outreach and education efforts.

We are looking for your ideas, accomplishments and projects that highlight, contribute to, and further the community conversation. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Discussions of 'big data' challenges, especially regarding the management, search, and access of data for use
• Innovative methods of digital preservation, especially regarding sustainable practices, community approaches, and software solutions
• Collaboration successes and lessons learned highlighting a wide-range of digital preservation activities, such as best practices, open source solutions, and emerging tools
• Practical examples of research and scholarly use of stewarded data or content
• Educational trends for emerging and practicing professionals

You are invited to express your interest in any of the following ways:

• Panels or presentations
• 5-minute lightning talks
• Demonstrations
• Posters

To be considered please send 300 words or less describing what you would like to present to Erin Engle (eengle@loc.gov<mailto:eengle@loc.gov>) by April 26. Accepted proposals will be notified on or around May 10.

The last day of the meeting, July 25, will be a CURATEcamp. We are focusing this camp around the topic of exhibition, and the use (and reuse) of content. We'll be talking more about the camp in the coming weeks.

We are lining up thought-provoking speakers and panels, and we are pleased to announce that Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist at Bit.ly, will be one of our keynote speakers.  We look forward to your contributions.

From Bram Luyten, @mire

Is your institution using the DSpace Manakin XML User interface (XMLUI)? Are you challenged by the XMLUI learning curve? Our free developer bootcamp can give you the kickstart you need. Changing colours, moving around page elements and more: we got it covered.
               
@mire is hosting a DSpace developer bootcamp on May 28th in Ghent, Belgium. This 6 hour session is being organized as a Pre conference for the annual European Library Automation Group (ELAG) conference. Entirely free of charge, the event is even open to people who are not attending the actual conference. Click here to register. Make sure to select "BC2 - Customizing the DSpace Manakin XML User Interface" from the Pre conference dropdown. Sign up soon, the bootcamp is limited to 30 participants.

Is this the right event for you?
Bootcamps are active learning events. Therefore, presentations are kept at a minimum and will be aimed at introducing Apache Cocoon and how this framework is exactly implemented in DSpace. You will be able to commit most of your time developing and learning at your own pace, with assistance from coaches and other participants.

Together we will touch on technologies including XSLT, JAVA and CSS. Prior experience with any of these is not a formal requirement to enter the bootcamp but will surely help. You will achieve the best results if you think about the specific modifications you would like to implement and questions you want to get answered. We are not planning to cover DSpace Installation. Make sure to install DSpace on your laptop beforehand and bring it with you to the bootcamp.

The envisioned outcome of this bootcamp is that you should get a good sense on “what goes where”. The coaches will explore the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches towards customization of DSpace.

Coaches
Kevin Van de Velde
@mire development team lead
Kevin has been with @mire since 2007. Together with Mark Diggory, he implemented the first faceted browse and search interface in DSpace called Discovery, based on Apache SOLR. Over the years he worked on more than 30 different implementations of DSpace including the World Bank's Open Knowledge Repository. In September 2011, Kevin joined the ranks of the DSpace Committers.

Bram Luyten
@mire Co-Founder
Bram is responsible for @mire's marketing and sales initiatives. As a committer and member of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT), he plays an active role in the open source community. He co-organized and presented at several DSpace User Group Meetings and worked together with over 50 repository managers around the globe.

Register today
Click here to register. Make sure to select "BC2 - Customizing the DSpace Manakin XML User Interface" from the Pre conference dropdown. Sign up soon, seats are limited.

@mire DSpace Training
More depth is provided during @mire's on-site DSpace training programs for administrators and developers. Find out more and request a quote for your region on the page DSpace Training.

From Robert McDonald on behalf of the JCDL 2013 Planning Committee

Indianapolis, IN  Registration is now open for the 2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). This year's conference, "Digital Libraries at the Crossroads," will be held July 22-26 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

http://jcdl2013.org/registration

Main Early Registration -- Deadline May 27, 2013

• ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $600

• Non-ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $750

• ACM/IEEE/SIG Student - $380

• Lifetime Members - $360

• Non-member Student - $450

Main Late/Onsite Registration

• ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $720

• Non-ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $900

• ACM/IEEE/SIG Student - $475

• Lifetime Members - $475

• Non-member Student - $550

For more information of registration, including information on this years pre- and post-conference workshops and tutorials, please visit http://www.jcdl2013.org/.Members of the SPARC IR Community may also be interested in the DLF sponsored CurateCamp and in the 2nd International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP 2013) to be held in conjunction with JCDL 2013. Additionally we will also host a part of the DataCite Annual Meeting in conjunction with JCDL.

The JCDL is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical and social issues. This year's conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN from July 22-26.  We welcome submissions on the wide range of topics of interest in Digital Libraries worldwide.

From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle
Redwood City, CA The final agenda for the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) Conference to be held May 22-24, 2013 at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, DC is available. Any further revisions will be posted on the registration website:

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

The early bird special PASIG Conference rate is $345.00 prior to April 12 and $395.00 afterwards. Please note that there is a very limited block of contracted rooms still remaining at the Washington Court Hotel for the negotiated $239 room rate.

We would like to thank the speakers, agenda steering committee members, and the sponsoring organizations; Oracle, EVault, and Discovery Garden. If you want to contribute as a sponsor, please contact Art Pasquinelli (art.pasquinelli@oracle.com) and Tom Cramer (tcramer@stanford.edu) asap.

I. Workshops:

There will be free workshops on Tuesday, May 21 at the
hotel which can be signed up for on the registration website:

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

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

Speaker Bio: Mark Leggott is the founder of the Islandora project and the University Librarian for the University of Prince Edward Island. He has spoken at a number of conferences and is the founder of the SAAS company (Discovery Garden Inc.), providing services around Islandora software. Agenda:

8:00 AM- 9:00 AM- Continental Breakfast and Introductions
9:00 AM- 9:30 AM- Introduction to the Islandora Project
9:30 AM- 10:30 AM- Islandora and Digital Library Collections: PDF,
Images, Audio, Video
10:30 AM- 11:00 AM - Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 AM - Islandora - Preservation and Research Data Platform

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

II. Participating organizations include:

North America

AudioVisual Preservation Solution
The American Institute of Architects
California Digital Library
City U. New York
discoverygarden
Drexel U
DuraSpace
E-Vault
FamilySearch
HBO
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
ITHAKA
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Library of Congress
Major League Baseball
Microsoft
National Science Foundation
University of Oklahoma Libraries
Oracle
Princeton U.
Rhizome
RPI
UC San Diego
Smithsonian Institution
Stanford U.
SUNY Binghamton
Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC)
Truman Technologies
USC Digital Repository
U. Chicago Library
U. Maryland
U. Prince Edwards Island
U. Rochester
U. Virginia
U. Wisconsin
Virginia Tech

International

FIZ Karlsruhe
Municipality of Matungao
New Zealand National Library
TITAN
Open Planets Foundation
PrestoCentre Foundation

III. PASIG Agenda

PASIG Day 1: Wednesday, May 22, 2013

8:30 AM

Digital Preservation Bootcamp -- Optional Session

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

Digital Preservation 101: The Theory and Practice - Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford University

Digital Preservation Trends and Issues - Leslie Johnston, Acting Director, National Digital Information infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), Library of Congress

Best Practices in Preserving Common Content Types
• Images: Robert Buckley, University of Rochester
• Media: Kara Van Malssen, Senior Consultant, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
• Preservation of Legacy Wordstar Documents: Jay Gattuso, Digital Preservation Analyst, National Library of New Zealand
• Systems Design Principles for Digital Preservation Systems - Stephen Abrams, Associate Director, UC Curation Center, California Digital Library
• PREMIS - Preservation Actions and Metadata Action - TBD

Noon, Registration & Lunch

1:00 PM

PASIG Begins: Welcome

Welcome & Introduction to PASIG -- Art Pasquinelli, Director, Repositories and Preservation, Oracle

Agenda Review and Invitation to Participate -- Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford University

1:15 PM

Long-term Digital Preservation Storage Futures

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

• A Report on the Annual LoC Storage Meeting and LoC Storage Directions - Thomas Youkel,
Library of Congress
• Storage Trends and LTFS - Chris Wood, Director, Axiom Product Management, Oracle
• Storage Modelling for the Cloud, Technical and Economic Issues - Tom Creighton,
CTO, FamilySearch
• Glacier Unveiled, Andrew Woods, DuraSpace
• Cloud Preservation Services, Amar Kapadia, Senior Director, E-Vault

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM, BREAK

3:30 PM

Preservation Research, Breakthroughs and Futures

Current developments and trends in digital preservation research and practice; an opportunity to engage in technology transfer from researchers to practitioners and industry.

• Information Retention: A Database Perspective - Kevin Jernigan, Oracle
• The Digital Preservation Network (DPN): Architecture and Preservation Services in a National Network - TBD
• Organizing Knowledge Initiative, IASA-OK - Guy Marechal, Senior Adviser, TITAN

4:30 - 5:30 PM

Introductions, Matchmaking & Breakout Scheduling

"Minute Madness" introductions of attendees (optional), laying out who is participating in the meeting, what they're hoping to get out of the meeting, and some on-the-fly matchmaking of attendees with like interests.

6:00 PM Evening Reception

PASIG Day 2: Thursday, May 23, 2013

9:00 AM

Preservation & Archiving Architectures and Operations: Practitioners Knowledge Exchange

Structured presentation and comparison of preservation systems design and operation. Detailed overviews of PASIG community members' systems, operating practices, and lessons learned, with an emphasis on digital preservation from different vertical domains (e.g., education, research, energy, health care, aerospace, etc.)

• Architecture for Data Integrity - Scott Rife, Library of Congress
• U. Southern California Digital Repository - Sam Gustman, Associate Dean and Chief Technology Officer, USC Libraries and USC Shoah Foundation Institute
• Preservation and access Infrastructure Case Study of Major League Baseball - Dirk Van Dall, VP Multimedia Technology Development, MLB Advanced Media

10:15 AM -- 10:45 AM BREAK

10:45 AM

Lightning Talks

Participatory presentations on late breaking developments, compelling breakthroughs or burning issues from the PASIG Community

11:30 AM BREAK / Poster Session Mixer

Noon Lunch

1:00 PM

Domain Deep Dive: Audiovisual Media Preservation

An exploration into the unique requirements and successful strategies of media preservation. The long-term preservation of digital audiovisual media presents a range of complex technological, organizational, and standards-related issues. This recurring PASIG session organized by the PrestoCentre Foundation, will focus on research efforts, technological solutions and practical challenges in audiovisual preservation. The session targets both media owners and service providers.

• Marius Snyders, Managing Director, PrestoCentre Foundation
• Reconsidering Checksums for Audiovisual Preservation - Dave Rice, Archivist,
City University of New York
• The Cost of Inaction - Chris Lacinak, President, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
• Islandora as a Video/Audio Preservation Framework - Mark Leggott, Islandora Founder
and University Librarian, University of Prince Edward Island

2:30 PM  - 3:00 PM BREAK

3:00 PM

Deep Dive: Fixity Best Practices

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

• Facilitator: Tom Creighton, CTO, FamilySearch
• Securing and Scaling Fixity Checking - Mike Smorul, Lead Programmer, ADAPT Project,
UMIACS, U. Maryland
• Jay Gattuso, Digital Preservation Analyst, National Library of New Zealand
• Tom Wultich, Director, Tape Product Management, Oracle

4:00 PM

Digital Forensics,& Virtualization and Emulation as Feasible and Practical Digital Preservation Solutions

Format migration dominated the early years of digital preservation planning. Virtualization technology made leaps and bounds in the last decade, though, and leveraging emulation for digital preservation has moved from a theoretical possibility to a practical reality by a few pioneering institutions. Using these new solutions will avoid potential format integrity issues associated with format migrations. This presentation
set will provide a 1)demonstration of emulation in action, 2) overview the track record ofdevelopments (especially from Europe) on emulation-for-preservation frameworks, and 3) explore current efforts and emerging opportunities in digital
forensics and emulation for all practitioners.

• Overview - Bram Van Der Werf, Executive Director, Open Planets Foundation
• Effective and Easy Emulation - Ben Fino-Radin, Digital Conservator, Rhizome
• Complex Objects - Natasa Milic-Frayling, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Digital Forensics - TBD

Day 3: Friday, May 24, 2012

9:00 AM

Federal Initiatives in Digital Preservation

This panel will review the current practices at three major federal institutions in digital preservation, and provide a thought on where each is going individually, and the direction of digital preservation on a national scale. With invited speakers from the Library of Congress, the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian.

• Planning for Archiving, Thornton Staples, Smithsonian Museum
• Federal Agency Digitization Guidelines Initiative - Carl Fleischhauer, Library of Congress
• National Science Foundation Update - Myron Gutmann, NSF_/*

*/_10:00 AM --- 10:30 AM BREAK

10:45 AM

Preservation of Research Data

Demonstration of current live projects of preserving research data in action.

• Preservation and Curation of University Research Data - David Minor, Interim Head,
Research Data Curation Program UCSD Library
• A Multi-Campus Infrastructure for Research Data Management, Preservation and
Access - Chris Jordan, Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC)
• Datanet Project Update - Jim Myer, SEAD RPI
• Preserving Research Data, Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computers

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Oracle Technology Day will be held on May 21, 2013, Washington Court Hotel, Washington, D.C.

From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

Redwood City, CA  The next PASIG webinar will be "An Introduction to the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and its Digital Preservation Initiatives" by Leslie Johnston of the Library of Congress on Monday, April 15 at 11:30am EST.

To register go to:
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-Johnston-4-15-2013-register.html

This presentation will provide an introduction to the work of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) at the Library of Congress and its recent initiatives, including the National Digital Stewardship Alliance and guidelines for Personal Digital Archiving. The presentation will also briefly cover the problems that members of the NDIIPP community find themselves facing, and how collaborative and distributed efforts can help the community find solutions.

Biography

Leslie Johnston has over twenty years experience in digitization and digital conversion, setting and applying metadata and content standards, and overseeing the development of digital content management and delivery systems and services.  She is the Acting Directory of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, and until recently was
the Chief of Repository Development at the Library. Previously, she served as the Head of Digital Access Services at the University of Virginia Library; Head of Instructional Technology and Library Information Systems at the Harvard Design School; the Academic Technology Specialist for Art for the Stanford University Libraries; and as Database Specialist for the Getty Research Institute.  She has also been active in the museum community, working for various museums and teaching courses on museum systems.

From Thomas Krichel on behalf of The The OAI Organizing Committee

Geneva, Switzerland  The OAI8 Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication is taking place in the University of Geneva and in CERN, Geneva, on June 19-21, 2013. The Programme can be found at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=211600.

There are six plenary sessions on:

• Technical developments
• Metrics
• Semantic Indexing
• Research Data
• Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
• Gold Open Access Infrastructures

The Tutorials, which start the Workshop, are devoted to:

• Research Data Services
• OJS, beyond editorial tradition
• The NISO/OAI ResourceSync Synchronization Framework
• Open Access Café 2013
• Metrics
• Metadata for the Research Lifecycle

Five Breakout Groups have been arranged so far for group discussions:

• Altmetrics
• Open Access Policy developments
• How to make your university a monograph publisher
• Open Annotations
• Gold Open Access infrastructures

There will also be 20+ posters in the timetabled poster session.

OAI Workshops are prominent European OA events in the year in which they are held. Places are still available and registration is open at http://indico.cern.ch/confRegistrationFormDisplay.py/display?confId=3D211600.

The OAI Workshops provide a space for all those interested in developments in Scholarly Communication to come together to learn from each other, to exchange ideas, and to hear papers from leading experts in the field.

From Ian Dolphin, Executive Director, Apereo Foundation Patty Gertz, Associate Director, Apereo Foundation Jim Helwig, Planning Committee Chair Alan Regan, Program Committee Chair

San Diego, CA  Registration is now open for the inaugural Open Apereo 2013 Conference "Open Minds for Open Solutions". The Conference will be held in San Diego, California June 2-7. Early bird pricing is available until May 3 at $595 for Apereo Foundation Members and $725 for Non-Members. The fee includes breakfast (Monday-Thursday), lunch (Monday-Wednesday), two receptions, and 3 1/2 days of conference presentations. Hands-on pre-conference workshops may require an additional fee. This is a great opportunity to come and learn about our new organization.

The program is being finalized but it will be sure to include over 100 sessions on all the Apereo projects (Sakai CLE, Sakai OAE, CAS, uPortal, uMobile, Bedework, Open Registry). Find out the latest updates and see how your peers are using these tools to improve teaching, learning and research on their campus. Talks will focus on leadership, advocacy, analytics, teaching and learning, identity management and technology.

On Tuesday, June 4th, 2013, conference attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a number of fun and exciting social events. Each event offers a unique opportunity to experience some of the culture and cuisine of southern California while getting to mingle with a group of fellow attendees. See the options at http://conference.apereo.org/events.

Quick links:
• Conference Web Site: http://conference.apereo.org
• Conference Registration: http://bit.ly/apereo13registration
• Hotel Registration: http://bit.ly/apereo13hotel

Schedule:
• June 2: Pre-conference workshops June 3-6: Main conference • June 6-7: Post-conference project collaboration time

Register today for the best rates and stay tuned for publication of the full program!