Conf.: National Approaches to Digital Preservation (Tallinn)

[Adrienne Muir <A.Muir@lboro.ac.uk>]

List members may be interested in the legal panel of this
conference, which will address copyright issues in digital
preservation and the orphan works issue.

Conference Announcement:
Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation

Date: May 23-25, 2011
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Conference Website:
http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP<http://www.educopia.org/events/ANADP>

Ensuring long-term access to digital resources is a task few
institutions or even countries can take on by themselves.
Cooperation is key to successful digital preservation:
cooperation between individual institutions, sectors, and
countries.

For this reason we are pleased to announce the "Aligning National
Approaches to Digital Preservation" conference. While there are
many annual events that support and encourage information
exchange across national boundaries, no event has yet attempted
to set a strategic direction across the range of topics
represented here: Organizational, Technical, Legal, Standards,
Economic, and Education alignment. This conference intends to
provide a participatory forum for information exchange and
focused work on these topics for the purpose of building
international collaborations to support the preservation of our
collective digital memory.

The outcomes for the event will be a strategic alignment of
national approaches to enable new forms of international
cooperation and an edited volume that documents an action plan
for building collaboration among interested digital preservation
initiatives.

Keynotes and Panel Chairs include:

  *   Laura Campbell - (U.S. Library of Congress)
  *   Gunnar Sahlin - (National Library of Sweden)
  *   Inge Angevaare - (Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation)
  *   Joy Davidson - (HATII, University of Glasgow)
  *   Maurizio Lunghi - (Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale)
  *   Adrienne Muir - (Loughborough University)
  *   Raivo Ruusalepp - (Tallinn University)
  *   Michael Seadle - (Berlin School of Library and Information
Science, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin)

Confirmed Panel Speakers include:

  *   Sheila Corrall - (University of Sheffield)
  *   George Coulbourne - (U.S. Library of Congress)
  *   David Giaretta - (Alliance for Permanent Access to the
Records of Science)
  *   Stephane Goldstein - (Research Information Network - RIN)
  *   Neil Grindley - (Joint Information Systems Committee - JISC)
  *   Martin Halbert - (University of North Texas, Educopia
Institute, MetaArchive)
  *   Nancy McGovern - (Inter-University Consortium for Political
and Social Research - ICPSR)
  *   Wilma Mossink - (SURFfoundation)
  *   Andreas Rauber - (Technical University of Vienna)
  *   Mihkel Reial - (National Library of Estonia)
  *   Sabine Schrimpf (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek/nestor)
  *   Bodhana Stoklasova - (National Library of Czech Republic, Prague)
  *   Aaron Trehub - (Auburn University, ADPNet)
  *   Matthew Woollard - (UK Data Archive)

Current Sponsors include:

  *   U.S. Library of Congress
  *   University of North Texas Libraries
  *   EQUELLA Pearson
  *   ProQuest
  *   Auburn University Libraries
  *   Council on Libraries and Information Resources
  *   Internet Archive
  *   DuraSpace/DuraCloud

Please visit http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP to register or
to get more information on participating in or sponsoring this
conference.

Immediately following the conference, on May 26th, the ESDI
Roundtable Workshop
(http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP/ESDI_Roundtable) will be
held to provide an international forum to discuss the
implications of the Blue Ribbon Task Force conclusions and
recommendations, focus on new work in this area, and hear from a
range of participants about the various national actions that are
being taken to ensure an economically sustainable digital future.
Places at this meeting are very limited and some will be filled
by targeted invitation. Please contact Neil Grindley at JISC
(n.grindley@jisc.ac.uk) to inquire about participation.