No. 125, July 31, 2014 . In this issue: *Working The GenealogyCenter.org Website *Leave No One Behind . . . Continued--Month Three *War of 1812 Resources *Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records *Technology Tip of the Month--More from the Big PowerPoint Book *Quick-Tip of the Month for Preservation--Vacation Memories *August's Digital Discoveries
Continue Reading...Digital Preservation 2014 July 22-23, 2014 Participants List This list does not include those participants who opted out of being listed publicly. FIRSTNAME LASTNAME AFFILIATION Leah Weinryb Grohsgal National Endowment for the Humanities Theron Westervelt Library of Congress Margaret White U.S. Senate Kathleen Williams National Historical Publications and Records Comm Anne Wootton Pop Up ...
Continue Reading...Digital Preservation 2014 . July 22-24 . #digpres14 . @ndiipp / @ndsa2 . Washington Marriott Georgetown Wi-fi Network . 1221 22nd St NW Name: Marriot Conference . Washington, DC 20037 Code: 0AAFD8. DAY 1 – Tuesday, July 22, 2014 . Time Agenda 8:30–9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00 Welcoming Remarks Robert Dizard, Jr., Deputy Librarian, Library of Congress 9:20 “Software ...
Continue Reading...Digital Preservation Costs – Worse than Counting Calories LIBER conference Riga 3rd July 2014 Yvonne Friese nestor working group on costs . Outline • about nestor and the working group • digital preservation costs: issues • use cases (selection) • Ingest (automated) • preservation planning • access & user support • legal advice to digital preservation • summary of findings ...
Continue Reading...Digital Preservation Group to create a list and description of the functional components of an ideal digital preservation environment and a matrix of the current stage of development against each component for each NSLA library. After defining underlying assumptions, the functional components were derived from the OAIS standard. A modified Capability Maturity Model was incorporated as a ...
Continue Reading...Digital Preservation, July 22-23, 2014, Washington DC Weights from Turker Assessment of Damage first: establish that Turkers can determine damaged vs. undamaged pages (81% of the time) second: find weights that match Turker's rankings of (real) differently damaged versions of the same page. Digital Preservation, July 22-23, 2014, Washington DC Good News: Although M is steady/increasing, D is ...
Continue Reading...Digital Preservation Awards 2014 Introduction In September 2013 the Board approved an outline plan for the Digital Preservation Awards 2014 with a view to announcing the awards programme in April 2014 and presenting the awards at or close to the DPC AGM in London in November. Several iterations of the plan have followed since then, benefiting from the views of a number of prospective judges. A ...
Continue Reading...Digital Preservation Advanced Practitioner Course 2014 After the success of last year's workshop, we are delighted to announce the return of this training event organised by APARSEN and presented in collaboration with TIMBUS. This week-long event in Vienna, will bring together practitioners and researchers at the leading edge of digital preservation. The training will aim to cover issues ...
Continue Reading...Initial policy drafted by the DCWG, 2014-2015 and approved by TOG on July 7, 2015. After the initial implementation (see Appendix C. Policy Implementation), the UGA Libraries Digital Preservation Policy will be re-evaluated and updated every 2 years by a committee appointed by the DCWG. The policy committee will include one representative from each relevant department. The committee will ...
Continue Reading...July & August 2014 Exploring data infrastructures for Horizon2020 and beyond: book your place at the third EUDAT conference Places are fast being booked up for the third EUDAT conference, taking place on 24-25 September in Amsterdam. Highlights of the conference programme, whose theme is Bringing data infrastructures to Horizon2020, include David Rosenthal of the LOCKSS programme at Stanford ...
Continue Reading...Kisigani, DR of Congo 06-10 June 2014 July 2014 International Poplar Symposium VI (IPS VI) Vancouver, Canada 20-23 July 2014 September 2014 5th International Conference on Mediterranean Pines (MEDPINE_5) Solsona, Spain 22 -26 September 2014 October 2014 XXIV IUFRO World Congress Salt Lake City, USA 05-11 October 2014 September 2015
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