Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) to Meet in Austin, Jan. 11-13, 2012

Ithaca, NY The next meeting of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) will be held Jan. 11-13 in Austin, Texas at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center.

Meeting web site: http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/
Registration (early registration ends on November 30): http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/registration/
Preliminary agenda: http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/program/

PASIG is co-sponsored by Stanford University and is open to institutions and commercial organizations interested in sharing practical experiences, successes, pain points, and potential topics for more collaboration. Topics include:

• Comparison of high-level OAIS architectures, services-oriented architecture work, and use cases
• Sharing of best practices and software code
• Cooperation on standard, open, ‘in-a-box’ solutions around repository technologies
• Review of storage architectures and trends and their relation to preservation and archiving architectures and eResearch data set management
• Discussion of the uses of commercial third party and community-developed solutions