EAD at 10: A Symposium, August 31, 02008, San Francisco, CA, USA

From the announcement on the Archives & Archivists list (02008 06 27): EAD at 10: a symposium Sunday, August 31st [02008], 9 am – 4 pm, Hilton San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 1998 was a year that saw the introduction of Viagra, the iMac, and Euro coins. John Glenn returned to space via the Space [...]

DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects, April 02009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

From the announcement on the Archives & Archivists mailing list (02008 06 13): DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects April 1‐3, 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/ 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 [...]

Call for Papers: 3rd Annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium, November 02008

From the announcement on the DIGLIB mailing list (02008 06 11): DHCS Colloquium, November 1st – 3rd, 2008 Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2008 The goal of the annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities [...]

Web 2.0 Expo past and future

The Web 2.0 Expo is “co-produced by TechWeb and O’Reilly Media, is a conference and tradeshow for the rapidly growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies.” The most recent Web 2.0 Expo was held in San Francisco, California, [...]

Call for papers: Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age, October 29, 02008, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 04 20): The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance and Media@McGill invite submissions of abstracts for the presentation of papers at the inaugural Media in Motion Symposium. The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together graduate students across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences in [...]

Fourth DELOS Summer School on Digital Libraries and Data Archives: Making Sense of Digital Curation and Preservation

The 4th DELOS Summer School on Digital Libraries and Data Archives: Making Sense of Digital Curation and Preservation is being held June 8 to 14, 02008 at the Grand Hotel Continental Tirrenia, Tirrenia, Italy. The DELOS Association on Digital Libraries, Digital Curation Centre (DCC), DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), and the Feltrinelli Foundation are delighted to announce that [...]

Fourth International Digital Curation Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, December 02008

Here’s the announcement on various mailing lists (02008 04 09) about the 4th International Digital Curation Conference, “Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?”: In partnership with the National e-Science Centre we are holding our 4th International Digital Curation Conference on 1-3 December 2008 at the Hilton Grosvenor Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland. The DCC invites the submission of [...]

8th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 02008, Denmark

The 8th International Web Archiving Workshop will likely be held on September 18 and 19, 02008 in Aarhus, Denmark. The call for papers is out and can be found on the IWAW 2008 Web site.

International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2008), September 02008, British Library

From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 03 19): The fifth annual International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPres) 2008 will take place at the British Library Conference Centre on 29 and 30 September this year. iPres 2008 is the fifth in a series of international conferences dedicated to promoting understanding and best practice in [...]

Project PLANETS Upcoming Events calendar

This page of Upcoming Events at the European Project PLANETS (Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services) will help you plan your digital preservation meeting attendances.

WebWise 02008 Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World, March 02008, Miami Beach, FL, USA

The WebWise 02008 Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World takes place March 5, 6 and 7, 02008 in Miami Beach, FL, USA. Registrants can access a wiki and a blog. Why both are blocked from being viewed anonymously is beyond me. The theme for this year’s conference is “WebWise 2.0: The Power [...]

ASIS&T Social Computing Summit, April 02008, Miami, FL, USA

From the announcement on PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU (02008 02 26): The First Annual ASIS&T Social Computing Summit will bring together researchers and practitioners of social computing for two days of discussion and exploration in Miami, Florida. The event will directly precede the 2008 Information Architecture Summit, providing attendees a complimentary opportunity to learn about and discuss emergent [...]

International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (ICHORA4), University of Western Australia, August 02008

The University of Western Australia in Perth will host the fourth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (ICHORA4) between August 3 to 5, 02008.

Call for Papers: Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, October 02008

From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 02 130: Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity A Seminar to be held in conjunction with CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008: New Directions in Text Analysis A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Seminar and Conference at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008 “Digitizing [...]

Digital Humanities Summer Institute, May 02008, University of Victoria, BC, Canada

The University of Victoria in BC, Canada, plays host again to the international Digital Humanities Summer Institute from May 26 to 30, 02008. According to the announcement submitted to various mailing lists (02008 02 13), The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new [...]

LIFE Project tackles digital preservation costing

Update for 02008 02 14: The LIFE2 Project, which is examining the lifecycle costs for digital collections, will be holding a project conference at the British Library on 23 June 2008. (hyperlink to conference page added 02008 05 28) Update for 02007 11 05: A revised model for life cycle costing of digital objects is [...]

Digital Preservation: Planning Today for Tomorrow’s Resources NISO forum, Washington, DC, March 14, 02008

From the announcement on WEB4LIB (02008 01 28): The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will host a forum on “Digital Preservation: Planning Today for Tomorrow’s Resources,” to be held March 14, 2008 in Washington, DC. With the increasing number of digital objects—both those born digital and those that have been converted to digital formats to [...]

Museums and the Web 02008 Conference

The 12th annual Museums and the Web Conference for 02008 is being held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 9 to 12. The regular registration deadline is January 31, 02008 and the deadline for Best of the Web nominations is February 1, 02008. Papers from all the past conference are also online at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum

Annual Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) Conference

From the front page of the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2008 Conference: The annual international conference and course Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. Since its inception in 2000, LIDA has emphasized the examination of contemporary [...]

Short notice: One more step towards the European digital library international conference, 31 January and 1 February 02008

The European Digital Library is holding an international conference, One more step towards the European digital library, on 31 January and 1 February 02008 at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Except for getting there and other living expenses while visiting, there is no cost to participate.

Call for papers on digital preservation by IFLA for 74th World Library and Information Congress, Quebec City, Canada, August 02008

For the 74th World Library and Information Congress, Quebec City, Canada, August 10 to 14, 02008, the IFLA Section on Preservation and Conservation, IFLA CDNL Alliance on Bibliographic Standards (ICABS), IFLA Information Technology Section, IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation (PAC) and IFLA Law Libraries Section have jointly organized two sessions on digital preservation: [...]

Preserving the right digital stuff workshop, British Library, April 02008

The JISC, British Library and Digital Preservation Coalition announced this joint workshop on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02007 11 26): What to preserve? Significant Properties of Digital Objects Date: 7th April 2008 Venue: British Library Conference Centre Significant properties are essential characteristics of a digital object which must be preserved over time for the digital object to remain [...]

Digital Government Society of North America

The Digital Government Society of North America is an organization of government employees, scholars and other interested parties that’s promoting digital government. They’re holding their ninth annual international conference on digital government research in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in May 02008.

First DIGMAP Workshop, December 7, 02007, Lisbon, Portugal

According to the announcement on DIGLIB (02007 11 23), the first DIGMAP Workshop is being held in Lisbon, Portugal, on December 7, 02007. The announcement states that DIGMAP is proposing to develop solutions for georeferenced digital libraries, especially focused on historical maps and in the promoting of our cultural scientific heritage. The final results of [...]

WePreserve, joint Web site from Euro leaders in digital preservation

From the front page of WePreserve: … the window on the synergistic activities of DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval (CASPAR), and Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services (PLANETS).

Digital Futures: From Digitization to Delivery, London, England, UK, April 02008

From the announcement on DIGLIB (02007 10 29) and other mailing lists: Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery 7th – 11th April 2008, London, UK. King’s College London is pleased to announce the Digital Futures 5-day training event for 2008. http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/ Led by experts of international renown, Digital Futures focuses on the development, delivery and [...]

International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2007)

Presentations from the 02007 International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2007) held October 11-12, 02007, at the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, are available. The conference’s theme was “Digital Preservation: Sustainable Programs and Best Practices.”

Practices and Challenges in Preservation and Access for Scientific and Scholarly Digital Repositories joint workshop, November 02007

From the announcement on various mailing lists (02007 10 11): “The Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Digital Preservation Europe (DPE), Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER), and Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources (nestor) are delighted to announce that they will be delivering a joint workshop on the long-term curation of [...]

UNESCO launches public consultation on World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

Update for October 27, 02007 : Here is the URL for UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage as presented by the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations. Original post, June 6, 02006: From the announcement on IFLA-L (02006 06 01) via the nestor mailing list (02006 06 06): “UNESCO has launched a public consultation on [...]

Open Repositories 2008: Call For Papers & Panels

The Open Repositories 2008 conference organizers are looking for papers and panel submissions. Here’s part of the conference CFP blurb from the diglib@infoserv.inist.fr announcement (02007 10 04): “Repositories are being deployed in a variety of settings (research, scholarship, learning, science, cultural heritage) and across a range of scales (subject, national, regional, institutional, project, lab, personal). The [...]