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Events currently being held

2008

May

dgo2008: 9th International Digital Government Research Conference. Partnerships for Public Innovation
18 - 21 May 2008 , Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal, Canada (Canada)
http://www.dgo2008.org
11th Annual Open Forum for Metadata Registries: Metadata DownUnder - Metadata, Semantics and Interoperability in Practice
19 - 22 May 2008 , Sydney, NSW Australia (Australia)
This forum will exchange information across a range of metadata application areas, including metadata standards in use, current standards developments, standards research and emerging needs. Application areas include transport systems, health manufacturing, statistics, government, defence and e-commerce.
http://www.metadataopenforum.org/
New Digital Preservation Summit
, Indiana State University Indiana State University (United States of America)
http://library.indstate.edu/digital/
IASSIST 2008. 34th International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) Annual Conference: Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation
27 - 30 May 2008 , Stanford University, Stanford California (United States of America)
This conference will examine the role of technology and tools in various aspects of the data life cycle.
http://stanford.edu/group/ADS/cgi-bin/drupal/node/9

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June

New Archiving 2008
Jun 2008 , Berne, Switzerland (Switzerland)
This conference is the fifth archiving conference sponsored by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. It will bring together experts in digital archiving, imaging, and digital preservation.
http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2008/
SIEDL 2008. First International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability in the European Digital Library
1 Jun 2008 , Tenerife, Spain (Spain)
Workshop to be held as part of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference, will focus on how the late advances on Semantic Web technologies can facilitate the way that European digital libraries exchange information within the framework of the web.
http://multimedia.semanticweb.org/siedl/
ETD 2008: Spreading the Light: 11th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations
04 - 07 Jun 2008 , Aberdeen Scotland (United Kingdom)
Organised by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), Robert Gordon University and the University of Nottingham, this conference will "present research outcomes and demonstrate new developments and initiatives in the field of electronic theses and dissertations, and encourage even more universities around the world to become a part of the NDLTD and to promote free, open and long-term access to online scholarship".
http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/library_edocs/etd08/home.htm
ACA 2008 Annual Conference: Stemming theTide: Archives and the Digital World
12 - 14 Jun 2008 , Fredricton, New Brunswick
Association of Canadian Archivists
(Canada)
http://archivists.ca/conference/
JCDL 2008: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2008 - Bridging Culture Bridging Technology
15 - 20 Jun 2008 , Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA (United States of America)
International forum focused on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues.
http://www.jcdl2008.org/
LIFE2 Project Conference
23 - Jun 2008 , British Library (United Kingdom)
"The conference will cover the results from the LIFE2 Project’s case studies which examined the lifecycle costs for Digital repositories, Primary data and Digitised newspapers. Other topics will include mapping digital and analogue lifecycles, as well as an updated LIFE costing model and how to go about using the LIFE model in your own institutions. The conference will be of interest to the digital preservation community and repository managers, as well as anyone with an interest in the costs associated with digital collections."
www.life.ac.uk
New Collaboration in the Digital Age
24 - 25 Jun 2008 , Denver, Colorado
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
(United States of America)
"The second in a series of four national conservation forums that are part of the Connecting to Collections initiative. “Collaboration in the Digital Age” responds to the needs of museums and libraries by helping them think strategically and collaboratively about digitization and digital preservation. Speakers will review the fundamentals of digital content creation and preservation, emphasizing practical approaches to planning digital projects, increasing access to collections, enabling digital resources to serve multiple purposes, and protecting digital investments."
http://www.imls.gov/collections/tour/denver.htm
ELPUB2008 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing. Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0
25 - 28 Jun 2008 , Toronto Canada (Canada)
This conference "will focus on the future of scholarly communications resulting from the intersection of semantic web technologies, the development of cyberinfrastructure for humanities and the sciences, and new dissemination channels and business models."
http://www.elpub.net/

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July

New WIPO International Workshop on Digital Preservation and Copyright
, Geneva, Switzerland World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) (Switzerland)
WIPO, in cooperation with the International Digital Preservation and Copyright initiative (IDPC), will organize this one-day workshop to survey recent developments and trends at the intersection of digital preservation and copyright. The workshop aims at contributing to the debate among stakeholders and policy makers on how to develop and improve policies and practices that support digital preservation of copyrighted content.
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/2008/cr_wk_ge/

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August

2008 Annual Conference of the Australian Society of Archivists
08 - 09 Aug 2008 , Perth, Western Australia (Australia)
http://www.archivists.org.au/2008-conference-perth
World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council. Libraries Without Borders: Navigating Towards Global Understanding
10 - 14 Aug 2008 , Quebec City, Canada (Canada)
Will have two sessions on digital preservation: digital objects on physical carriers and preservation infrastructures.
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/index.htm
New DAPS 2008 : Workshop on Digital Archive Preservation and Sustainability
, Baltimore, Maryland (United States of America)
This workshop is to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Mass Storage Systems & Technologies Conference MSST 2008.The "workshop will explore the inherent tensions in minimizing cost while ensuring sustainability, increasing governance controls while collection sizes grow, and improving integrity and authenticity assertions as the number of records increases. It will also explore existing and emerging digital preservation requirements and evolution of architectures."
http://storageconference.org/daps/index.html

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September

Adopting and Adapting : 25th International Convention, Records Management Association of Australia
07 - 10 Sep 2008 , Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney Australia (Australia)
http://www.rmaa.com.au/natcon2008/
E-Government and Digital Archives Workshop
11 Sep 2008 , Munich (Germany)
This workshop will be held as part of the German Computer Science Conference Informatik 2008.Topics may include models and standards for long term archiving, workflows, file formats, metadata, cooperation between communities and experiences with digital archives.
http://www.hauptstaatsarchiv.hessen.de/egovda
IASA 2008: International Association of Sound and Visual Archives Annual Conference: No Archive is an Island
14 - 19 Sep 2008 , National Maritime Museum, Sydney Australia (Australia)
http://www.iasa2008.com/
ECDL 2008: 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
14 - 19 Sep 2008 , Aarhus, Denmark (Denmark)
This conference "focuses on research and development supporting information access and exploration from a technology perspective as well as in different application domains such as science, e-government, cultural heritage, etc."
http://www.ecdl2008.org/
CIDOC 2008. The Annual Conference of the International Documentation Committee of the International Committee of Museums: The Digital Curation of Cultural Heritage
15 - 18 Sep 2008 , Athens, Greece (Greece)
This conference will "review and discuss the applicability of standards- and good practice-related work in the context of managing digital cultural information; ... identify and explore the issues, methods and challenges involved with the development of new genres and contexts of virtual exhibition, e-learning and technology-enhanced services for scholarship and research".
http://www.cidoc2008.gr/
IWAW 2008 : 8th International Web Archiving Workshop
18 - 19 Sep 2008 , Aarhus Denmark (Denmark)
Workshop to be held in conjunction with ECDL 2008 will provide "a cross domain overview on active research and practice in all domains concerned with the acquisition, maintenance and preservation of digital objects for long-term access, with a particular focus on web archiving and studies on effective usage of this type of archives".
http://www.iwaw.net/08/
iPRES 2008 Fifth Annual Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects: Joined Up and Working: Tools and Methods for Digital Preservation
29 - 30 Sep 2008 , British Library Conference Centre, (United Kingdom)
The theme of this years’ conference is: Joined up and Working: tools and methods for digital preservation. Papers will present new results, show novel applications of work or contribute to conceptual foundations of digital preservation.
http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/

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October

New Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age
, McGill University, Montreal Quebec, Canada (Canada)
This symposium on media arts preservation is to be held in conjunction with the Annual International DOCAM Summit (on October 30-31, 2008, at McGill University) by the DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance and Media@McGill (http://www.docam.ca/enhttp://www.docam.ca/en).
http://www.docam.ca/en/?cat=17

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December

4th International Digital Curation Conference : "Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?"
01 - 03 Dec 2008 , Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland
Digital Curation Centre
(United Kingdom)
Main themes are Research Data Infrastructures, Curation and e-Research, Sustainability - balancing costs and value of digital curation and preservation, Disciplinary and Inter-disciplinary Curation Challenges, Challenging types of content, Legal Issues, and Capacity building.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2008/
GL10 : Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature: Designing the Grey Grid for Informational Society
08 - 09 Dec 2008 , Science Park Amsterdam, Netherlands (Netherlands)
This conference considers the infrastructure required to support the grey grid -a model for a changing information society. This infrastructure needs to take into account social, political and organisational factors, with interoperabilty an essential requirement.
http://www.textrelease.com

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2009

May

New African Digital Scholarship & Curation 2009
12 - 14 May 2009 , CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa (South Africa)
"Identification of opportunities, strategies and practical examples for new forms of research and scholarship and for the management of the digital content of these activities by academics, researchers, scientists, information professionals and IT experts"
http://www.ais.up.ac.za/digitalscholarship.htm

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