Event: DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects

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DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects
April 1‐3, 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Conference program now available at http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/schedule

REGISTER HERE: http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/registration Regular Registration Ends 3/14/09! See details below.

ALERT: Reserve your hotel rooms NOW - they are going fast! Also, see website for conference discounts from American Airlines and Avis Rental Cars. http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/travel_hotels

Following the success of DigCCurr2007, the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina is pleased to announce our second digital curation curriculum symposium. DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects is part of the Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCurr) project.

DigCCurr 2009 will host over 100 speakers from a dozen countries. Keynoter, John Wilkin from the University of Michigan will lead us off with a presentation entitled: “Building the Universal Library: The promise and challenges of HathiTrust.” This will be followed by two days of papers, panels, digital curation tool demonstrations, poster presentations, receptions and a conference dinner. Speakers will report on best practices, current experiences, and tools available for digital curation tasks today. DigCCurr2009 will focus on current practice and research surrounding digital curation with a look toward the future, and trends in preparing digital curation professionals. Day 1 session titles include:

• Funders’ Perspectives
• Gaps and Persistent Challenges
• Distributed Custodial Frameworks for Archival Preservation
• Digital Curation of Humanistic, Multimedia Materials: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
• Digital Curation Vignettes: Personal, Academic, and Organizational Digital Information
• Education for Digital Curation
• Curation of Scientific Datasets: Trends, Current Initiatives, and Solutions
• Technology Learning for Digital Curators
• Metadata

See the schedule for what’s in store for Day 2: http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/schedule

Conference Fees:

• Regular $350 online registration 1/15/09 - 3/14/09
• +$20 for Thursday dinner
• Late $400 online registration after 3/15/09
• +$20 for Thursday dinner
• Student Regular $200 online registration 1/15/09 - 3/14/09
• +$20 for Thursday dinner
• Student Late $250 postmarked after 3/15/09
• +$20 for Thursday dinner

Cancellations

* Refund minus $100 processing fee if cancellation request received by March 1, 2009

* No refund after March 1, 2009

* Cancellations or substitutions must be made to Rachael Clemens rclemens@unc.edu

Sponsors

• Institute of Museum and Library Services
• Coalition for Networked Information
• National Archives and Records Administration
• School of Information and Library Science
• University of North Carolina
• UNC University Libraries
  

Planning Committee

• Rachael Clemens
• Dr. Wendy Duff
• Dr. Maria Guercio
• Carolyn Hank
• Dr. Cal Lee
• Dr. Seamus Ross
• Dr. Ken Thibodeau
• Dr. Helen Tibbo, Chair
• Dr. Elizabeth Yakel

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