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Events currently being held

Digital preservation - The Planets Way
09 - 11 Feb 2010 , British Computer Society, London
PLANETS Project
(United Kingdom)
This 3 day training event will examine the need to preserve digital content, the action that needs to be taken and the Planets approach to addressing these issues.
http://www.planets-project.eu/events/london-2010/

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2010

February

New Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive and Knowledge Work in the Humanities: A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University
19 - 20 Feb 2010 , Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (United States of America)
This international interdisciplinary symposium for graduate students will explore how databases and digital technologies are impacting on research in the humanities. Topics include digitisation, digital archives, databases and preservation and the implications for humanities research .
http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp/
ICDL 2010: International Conference on Digital Libraries : Digital Libraries - Shaping the Information Paradigm
23 - 26 Feb 2010 , New Delhi, India
TERI
(India)
This conference organized by TERI ( The Energy and Resources Institute) will focus on the strengths and potential of digital libraries and their role in education, cultural, social and economic development.
http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl/
IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010: Digital Preservation and Access to News and Views
25 - 28 Feb 2010 , Indira Ghandi National Centre for the Arts , New Delhi
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
(India)
This conference jointly organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and IFLA Newspapers Section, aims to share knowledge on how newspaper and media libraries can tackle the duel challenges of preserving print newspapers and dealing with new technologies for managing print and online newspapers. Digital preservation of digital and print resources are included as sub-themes.
http://www.ignca.nic.in/ifla2010/ifla2010.htm

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March

New Workshop Verbesserter Zugang zu historischen Texten - Erfahrungen aus Forschung und Praxis im Rahmen des Projekts IMPACT
Mar 2010 , Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Friedrich-von-Gärtner-Saal
Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ)
(Germany)
This workshop (in German language) for the EU-funded IMPACT (IMProving ACcess to Text) project, is hosted by the MDZ (Munich DigitiZation Centre) and will present the challenges of full-text digitisation and the benefits of OCR and full-text extraction for libraries, museums and archives.
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=vmdz&vcontent=info&l=de
IADIS International Conference e-Society 2010
18 - 21 Mar 2010 , Porto, Portugal
IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society)
(Portugal)
This conference aims to cover the issues related to the information society including both technical and non-technical aspects. Broad areas of interest are eSociety and Digital Divide, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, New Media and E-Society, Digital Services in ESociety, eGovernment /eGovernance, eHealth, Information Systems, and Information Management.
http://www.esociety-conf.org/
Best papers to be published in IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet ISSN: 1645-7641

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April

ECA 2010: 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving : 8. Europäische Konferenz über digitale Archivierung
28 - 30 Apr 2010 , International Conference Centre, Geneva
Swiss Federal Archives
(Switzerland)
This conference organised by the Swiss Federal Archives and European Regional Branch and Professional Associations Section of the Inter-national Council on Archives (ICA) is in the series European Conference on Archives and will focus on digital archiving. Topics include: 1. Archival profile: professional competence in the digital age; 2.What to keep: how to mirror the information society; 3.E-Archiving: reorganisation of processes and business models; and, 4. Online access: solutions and implications.
http://www.bar.admin.ch/eca2010/

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May

26th IEEE (MSST2010) Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies
May 2010 , Incline Village, Nevada, USA
IEEE Computer Society
(United States of America)
This symposium sponsored by the Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee will explore the 21st century drivers and requirements for massive storage. It will look at new storage system architectural ideas, advances in data management techniques and emerging technologies.
http://storageconference.org/
Future Perfect: Digital Continuity Conference 2010
03 - 05 May 2010 , Wellington, New Zealand
Archives New Zealand
(New Zealand)
This conference dedicated to the theme of digital continuity, preservation and long-term public sector information issues will include conference papers, workshops and masterclasses with international presenters from Australasia, North America and Europe.
http://www.archives.govt.nz/advice/digital-continuity-action-plan/futu
re-perfect-digital-continuity-conference-2010
Joint Technical Symposium JTS 2010 : Digital Challenges and Digital Opportunities in Audiovisual Archiving
03 - 05 May 2010 , Klingenberg Kino, Oslo (Norway)
This conference organised by FIAF, The Norwegian Film Institute and The National Library of Norway provides an international forum for organisations and individuals involved in the preservation and restoration of original image and sound materials.
http://www.jts2010.org/
LIDA 2010: Libraries in the Digital Age
24 - 28 May 2010 , University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (Croatia)
This international conference themes are 1. Digital scholarship: support by digital libraries and 2. Digital natives: challenges and innovations in reaching out to digital generations.
http://web.ffos.hr/lida/
African Digital Scholarship & Curation 2010
25 - 27 May 2010 , University of Botswana New Conference Complex, Botswana (Africa)
This 3-day conference jointly organised by the Universities of Botswana and Pretoria (South Africa) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR (South Africa) will address various issues of digital scholarship, digital curation and emerging technologies within the theme ‘Mapping and Demystifying Digital Scholarship: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities ‘ .
http://www.ais.up.ac.za/digi/digitalscholarship2010.htm

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June

Archiving 2010
01 - 04 Jun 2010 , Koninklijke Bibliotheek, This conference Den Haag, Netherlands
Society for Imaging Sciences and Technology
(Netherlands)
This IS&T conference to be held at the Koninlijke Bibliotheek will focus on creating and managing digital collections, technical processes imaging and workflows, and long-term access stratregies.
http://www.imaging.org/IST/conferences/archiving/
Archiving 2010 Workshop on Archiving in Digital Cartography and Geoinformation
10 - 12 Jun 2010 , Berlin
CODATA Germany, the German National Committee on Data for Science and Technology
(Germany)
This workshop is organised by DGfK Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kartographie, Sektion Berlin-Brandenburg in cooperation with CODATA Germany, the German National Committee on Data for Science and Technology.
http://www.codata-germany.org/Archiving_2010/
ELPUB 2010: 14th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Publishing in the Networked World Transforming the Nature of Communication
16 - 18 Jun 2010 , Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland (Finland)
This conference hosted by the Hanken School of Economics, will focus on key issues in electronic publishing such as the methods by which research documents and user-generated content can be published through formal channels as well as through social networks.
http://conferences.aepic.it/elpub2010/
Joint JCDL/ICADL International Digital Libraries Conference
21 - 25 Jun 2010 , Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia (Australia)
For the first time JCDL (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) is being organised jointly with ICADL (International Conference of Asia Pacific Digital Libraries) and will be hosted by the University of Queensland. The theme for JCDL 2010 is "Digital Libraries- 10 years past, 10 years future, 2020 vision" and for ICADL 2010 "The role of digital libraries in a time of global change".
http://www.jcdl-icadl2010.org/
39th LIBER Annual General Conference: Re-inventing the Library: Challenges in the new Information Environment
29 Jun - 02 Jul 2010 , Aarhus, Denmark
LIBER
(Denmark)
The 2010 Liber Annual General Conference is being organised by the State and University Library, Aarhus. Themes include: The Library in the context of e-Science; The Library in the context of e-Education; Making collections digitally available; and, Library management.
https://togather.eu/handle/123456789/409

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July

I-CHORA 5 : Fifth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives : Records, archives and technology: interdependence over time
01 - 03 Jul 2010 , London
The National Archives (UK)
(United Kingdom)
This conference has the themes: 1. Early technologies and the origins of recordkeeping; 2. Technology, records and the growth of bureaucracy; 3. Creating and using records in the workplace; 4. Responding to technological change
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ichora5

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August

World Library and Information Congress: 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly: Open Access to Knowledge - Promoting Sustainable Progress
10 - 15 Aug 2010 , Gothenberg, Sweden
IFLA
(Sweden)
http://www.ifla.org/en/ifla76

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September

New ECDL 2010: 14th European Conference on Digital Libraries
06 - 10 Sep 2010 , Glasgow, UK (United Kingdom)
This conference organised by the University of Glasgow is a European scientific forum on digital libraries and associated technical, practical and social issues.
http://www.ecdl2010.org
Proceedings to be published as a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series.
IPRES 2010: 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects
19 - 23 Sep 2010 , Vienna, Austria
Vienna University of Technology
(Austria)
This conference jointly organised by the Austrian National Library, the Technical University of Vienna and Austrian Computer Society will further strengthen the link between digital preservation research and practitioners in memory institutions and scientific data centres.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/ipres2010/
2nd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World: The Impact of Technological Convergence and Social Networks on Information Management
22 - 24 Sep 2010 , Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Hacettepe University
(Turkey)
This conference aims to discuss the impact of technological convergence and social networks on current information management practices in libraries, archives and museums and their implications for education for library and information science. The influence of convergence on scholarly electronic publishing, open access and institutional archives, digitization of cultural heritage and the socialization of information are also of interest. Digital preservation of cultural heritage is one of the topics.
http://by2010.bilgiyonetimi.net/english.html

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November

SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010
08 - 09 Nov 2010 , Baltimore, Maryland
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/index.shtml
(United States of America)

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2011

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