Subject: The Information Ecosystem: Managing the Life Cycle of Information for Preservation and Access
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:19:49 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130514b0d956c4c7f1@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:19:49 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: The Information Ecosystem: Managing the Life Cycle of Information for Preservation and Access
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
January 7, 1998
THE INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM:
MANAGING THE LIFE CYCLE OF INFORMATION FOR PRESERVATION AND ACCESS
March 10-13, 1998
<http://www.nedcc.org/calendar.htm>
Below is information on a four-day course offered by the Northeast
Document Conservation Center at the National Archives, College Park.
Designed for those who manage cultural or natural resources, it aims to
teach how to create, manage, adapt, and reuse information, particularly
electronic information, in a project setting.
David Green
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>Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 09:45:55 -0500
>To: david@cni.org
>From: "Gay Tracy" <tracy@nedcc.org>
>Subject: please post to NINCH
The Information Ecosystem: Managing the Life Cycle of Information for
Preservation and Access
March 10-13, 1998
at Archives II, College Park, Maryland
Sponsored by the National Park Service Museum Management Program and
National Register of Historic Places, the National Archives and Records
Administration
Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center
What is the Information Ecosystem? A course that teaches managers how to
create, manage, adapt, and reuse information, particularly electronic
information, in a project setting. Attendees will learn answers to:
* What is the ecology of information?
* Who are the stakeholders in the information ecosystem?
* How do you create long-lived information effectively? What are the
payoffs?
* What information systems exist? How can you adaptively reuse their
contents?
* How do you plan for effective information management in the 21st
century?
* How do you integrate legacy data into your systems?
* What new and endangered species do we have in the information
ecosystem?
* What are the special challenges and opportunities of digital
projects?
* What are the legal constraints on information use?
* What are the best research sources, strategies, tools, and help
sources?
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Middle and upper managers of cultural and natural resources who are
responsible for supervising the creation, management, use and/or
adaptive reuse of information. Program heads, division and department
directors, park superintendents, information officers, records managers,
librarians, archivists, state historic preservation officers, and
others from the federal and state government, nonprofit organizations,
and corporations will be interested in attending.
WHAT WILL THE COURSE COST?
The fee for the conference is $285 including lunches. Participants will
be responsible for their travel and lodging costs. The number of
participants is limited.
DO I REGISTER OR GET MORE INFORMATION?
For more information on The Information Ecosystem: Managing the Life
Cycle of Information, contact: Gay Tracy, Northeast Document
Conservation Center, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810,
Fax 978-475 6021, email <tracy@nedcc.org>. The registration deadline
is 2-27-98.
This conference was made possible, in part, with special funding by the
National Park Service through its Cultural Resource Training Initiative
and by the Northeast Document Conservation Center.
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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
www-ninch.cni.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax
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