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The 2014 Personal Digital Archiving Conference will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 10-11, 2014. (Note that the dates have changed from the originally announced April 17-18). I’ve attached the call for papers for this important conference below. The Web site for the meeting at

http://visions.indstate.edu/pda2014/index.html

also has some additional information, as well as links to materials from previous conferences in the series. Once again, CNI is very pleased to be a collaborating organization in this event.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Call for Papers
Personal Digital Archiving 2014
“Building Stronger Personal Digital Archiving Communities”
10-11 April 2014
Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Indiana

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 2, 2013
Personal Digital Archiving 2014 explores the intersections between individuals, public institutions, and private companies engaged in the creation, preservation and ongoing use of the digital records of our daily lives. The conference reflects upon the current status of personal archiving, its achievements, challenges, issues, and needs as evidenced through research, education, case studies, practitioner experiences, best practices, the development of tools and services, storage options, curation, and economic sustainability. There is also interest in the role of libraries, archives and other cultural heritage organizations in supporting personal digital archiving through outreach or in conjunction with developing community history collections.
The PDA 2014 Program Committee invites proposals on a full range of topics relevant to personal digital archiving from everyone who seeks to ensure long-term access and preservation for personal collections and archives. Case studies that illustrate effective ways to help users and institutions manage personal digital archives are especially encouraged. Presentations might also address materials and format challenges including family archives of photographs and home movies, personal health and financial data, scrapbooking, social network posts, genealogy, blogs, email and other correspondence. Presentations might explore how personal digital archives are being used in the research conducted within various scholarly disciplines and how such use impacts research methodologies. Themes that unite digital archives, including interface design for archives; institutional practices; community outreach; tools; and funding models are welcomed. Additionally the program committee encourages proposals exploring the following questions:

• What social contexts shape what people decide to preserve and make accessible about their lives over time?
• How do we preserve the ability to access digital content over time when every app/community/network has a lifecycle that involves the end of its existence?
• Is there too much fragmentation and reinvention of the wheel in the PDA field? Are there collaborative models to consider to encourage greater efficiency?
• How should libraries, museums and archives collect personal digital materials? How do we better share our knowledge and communicate about our work (including the failures as well as the successes)?
• How are archivists, curators, genealogists using born-digital and/or digitized material in their research?
• What are some practical strategies for helping libraries, museums and archives conduct personal archiving outreach to their communities?
• How can individuals be encouraged to undertake personal digital archiving activities?
• What are effective strategies and best practices for personal digital archiving in social media and ecommerce settings?
• What is the best way to integrate scanning of analog materials into personal digital archiving while recognizing that digitization isn’t digital preservation?
• What tools and services now exist to help with personal archiving? What do we need to make the process easier or more effective?
• What storage options are currently available; how do they compare with one another; and what can we expect to see in the near future? How do we address scalability issues?
• What are viable existing economic models that can support personal archives? What new economic models should we evaluate?
• What are the key issues associated with digital estate planning and “the digital afterlife”?
• How can users work with social media companies for better APIs and/or download services to get usefully formatted export of personal data?
• How do Terms of Service vary for social media networks and cloud-based services, particularly in connection with ownership, copyright, privacy and liability?

The conference program will include three types of presentations: 20-minute papers, 5-minute lightning talks, and posters (including demos).
To submit a proposal please visit the PDA 2014 website located at: http://visions.indstate.edu/pda2014/index.html.
Submissions should include the title of your project, paper or presentation and

• For 20-minute paper presentations, a 300-word abstract
• For lightning talks and posters, a 150-300 word abstract
• A brief biographical sketch or CV (no more than 2 pages)

On November 18-19, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is going to be hosting an interesting Data Science Symposium that is focusing on benchmarking, measurement, reference datasets and related issues. Many of the goals of this symposium echo the ideas that have led NIST to play such a key role in advancing work in information retrieval through programs like TREC over the years.

Full information on the symposium is below.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (NIST)
DATA SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM
www.nist.gov/itl/iad/data-science-symposium-2013.cfm
NOVEMBER 18-19, 2013
(CO-LOCATED WITH TREC, TAC)

· Registration for the inaugural NIST Data Science Symposium is now open!
· For those wishing to give presentations, participate as symposium panelists, or present posters at the symposium, NIST is accepting technical abstractsuntil Oct 4, 2013 (see details below).

SUMMARY:
Given the explosion of data production, storage capabilities, communications technologies, computational power, and supporting infrastructure, data science is now recognized as a highly-critical growth area with impact across many sectors including science, government, finance, health care, manufacturing, advertising, retail, and others. Since data science technologies are being leveraged to drive crucial decision making, it is of paramount importance to be able to measure the performance of these technologies and to correctly interpret their output. The NIST Information Technology Laboratory is forming a cross-cutting data science program focused on driving advancements in data science through system benchmarking and rigorous measurement science.

BACKGROUND:
A variety of tools and methods are emerging that process, analyze, and derive knowledge from large amounts of complex data in order to provide new insights that underpin key decisions. This has spawned the creation of Big Data technologies and an emerging data science discipline spanning new large-scale analytic tools and methods. Several approaches have emerged that combine many component technologies in multi-stage flows, which include machine-driven data transformation & processing, as well as human interactions and decision points. These approaches often lack the necessary measures for understanding: 1) the quality and context of the analyzed data, 2) the rigor of the analytic process and tools employed, 3) the impact of the human in the analytic process, and 4) the strength of the conclusions derived, questions answered, hypotheses tested, and discoveries made that emerge from the analytic process. The NIST Data Science program seeks to engage in benchmarking and the development of measurement methods to help advance the performance and efficiency (resource utilization, speed, etc.) of Big Data analytic components?-both independently and in the context of end to end systems and workflows.

SYMPOSIUM DESCRIPTION:
The inaugural NIST Data Science Symposium will convene a diverse multi-disciplinary community of stakeholders to promote the design, development, and adoption of novel measurement science in order to foster advances in Big Data processing, analytics, visualization, interaction, and lifecycle management. It is set apart from related symposia by our emphasis on advancing data science technologies through:
· Benchmarking of complex data-intensive analytic systems and subcomponents
· Developing general, extensible performance metrics and measurement methods
· Creating reference datasets & challenge problems grounded in rigorous measurement science
· Coordination of open, community-driven evaluations that focus on domains of general interest.

Why You Should Attend:
This event will be of interest to data science researchers, technologists, and data providers, as well as data science stakeholders in Industry, Government and Academia. The symposium will:
· Establish a broad multi-sector community of interest including researchers, end-users, and solution providers focused on advancing data science and Big Data technologies
· Contribute to the formulation of challenge problems to advance research and tools in data science
· Facilitate availability of reusable common reference datasets necessary to systematically compare approaches and measure performance improvements at all levels in Big Data analytic systems
· Foster advances in data science by formulating new measurement methods and benchmarks (e.g., accuracy, generalization, resource usage, cost, speed, etc.)
· Foster sharing of knowledge in a collaborative community-based forum with the goal of accelerating progress and eliminating gaps in data science methods and tools
REGISTRATION:
· Registration to attend the NIST Data Science Symposium is now open
· Registration is free, but it is necessary to register in order to attend
· The deadline for registration will be on or before Monday, November 11. Registration may close once the capacity of the venue is reached. Please note that only registered participants will be permitted to enter the NIST campus to attend the workshop.
To register, please go to: https://www-s.nist.gov/CRS/conf_disclosure.cfm?conf_id=6631

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
Participants who wish to give presentations of their technical perspectives or present posters (potentially with technical demonstrations) that address symposium topics should submit a brief one-page abstract and brief one-paragraph bio to datascience by October 4th, 2013. Submitters will be notified whether their perspectives have been selected for plenary or poster presentation by October 18th.
Speakers, panelists, and poster presenters will be selected by the organizers based on relevance to symposium objectives and workshop balance. Due to the technical nature of the workshop, no marketing will be permitted.

SYMPOSIUM TOPICS:
Below is a summary of the topics that will be addressed at the symposium. For a more complete list, please visit: http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/data-science-symposium-2013.cfm
· Measurement methodologies, benchmarking, and common reference datasets needed to accelerate data science research and improve performance of Big Data analytic systems.
· Primary challenges in and technical approaches to complex workflow components of Big Data systems, including ETL, lifecycle management, analytics, visualization & human-system interaction.
· Generation of ground truth for large datasets and performance measurement with limited or no ground truth.

POINTS OF CONTACT:
Ashit Talukder (NIST/ITL; Chief, Information Access Division), Craig Greenberg (NIST/ITL)
In case of questions or if you would like to be added to our mailing list, please send email to datascience.

Here is information on a helpful recently-released study from the SURF Foundation in the Netherlands that looks at the state of play for research data across Europe, including some comparative national data. See

http://www.surf.nl/en/actueel/Pages/EuropeanLandscapeStudyofResearchDataManagement.aspx

for a summary of the project, and

http://www.sim4rdm.eu/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/SIM4RDM%20landscape%20report%20vs1%204_14.08.13.pdf

for the report proper.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

A recent talk by Clifford Lynch, Cloud Architectures & Cultural Memory, a keynote address presented at the 4th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World (IMCW2013) in Limerick, Ireland, is now available online:

In this talk, Lynch explores some of the challenges of provisioning various types of access and use of cultural materials in meaningful ways, and the ways in which cloud storage and computational utilities interact with these challenges.

CNI is pleased to be serving as a cooperating organization for this conference again this year.
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IS&T is pleased to announce the release of the Archiving 2014 Call for Papers. The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2014 to be held May 13-16, 2014 in Berlin, Germany is December 2, 2013. A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/archiving.

Please note carefully the new submission rules and templates that can be found at www.imaging.org/archiving.

The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss and explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. Attendees from around the world represent industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field. Archiving 2014 is a blend of invited focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit oral and interactive presentations by the December 2nd deadline.

Proposed program topics include:

· Preservation of Digital Assets

• Web harvesting and archiving
• Migration of digital content
• Managing privacy rights for digital information
• Preserving e-Government information
• Innovative projects and activities
• Capacity building, continuing education, and professional development

· Technical Processes and Workflow

• Distributed preservation models
• Automated metadata generation during image capture
• Cooperative partnerships for digitization and archiving
• Authenticating digitized government and legal information
• Innovative approaches to digitization, including multispectral scanning
• Applications of crowd sourcing and share economy

· Digital Curation

• Cost models for digital archiving and long-term preservation
• Digital forensics and data recovery
• Managing databases and large data sets
• Employing metadata as a curation strategy
• Detection of manipulated image/video content
• Storage media and systems, including cloud storage

Please feel free to contact me with any questions. We hope to see you there.

Best regards,

Diana Gonzalez

IS&T Conference Program Manager

archiving

703/642-9090 x 106

The University of California is hosting a Symposium titled “Reclaiming Open Learning” in Irvine on September 26-27; it is free and open to the public, and many of the sessions will be offered as live streamed video as well. Many of the sessions are structured as conversations rather than presentations, and the opening keynote at 5pm (Pacific) on the 26, featuring John Seely Brown and Amin Saberi in conversation, looks particularly interesting. This symposium is part of the overall Digital Media and Program supported by the MacArthur Foundation (there is more information on this linked to the web page below).

Full information can be found at

http://dmlhub.net/reclaim-open-learning-symposium

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

The report “Out of Cite, Out of Mind” produced by the US CODATA group and the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI), covering current practices and policies on data citation is now available. I have included the announcement below with full information.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Dear Colleague:

The U.S. CODATA and the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) is pleased to announce the publication of a new report: Out of Cite, Out of Mind: The Current State of Practice, Policy, and Technology for the Citation of Data . The report was authored by the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation Standards and Practices and edited by Yvonne M. Socha. The project was directed by the staff of the US CODATA/BRDI.

The report was published by the CODATA Data Science Journal on 13 September 2013 and is available freely and openly online at:https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/12/0/12_OSOM13-043/_article. The document is available electronically only and was not published in print form.

The report discusses the current state of data citation policies and practices, its supporting infrastructure, a set of guiding principles for implementing data citation, challenges to implementation of good data citation practices, and open research questions. This is the second report on data citation issues that has been published by the collaboration of the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group and the US CODATA/BRDI. The first report, For Attribution-Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards (2012), is freely and openly available from the National Academies Press online at:http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13564.

We are especially grateful to the volunteers who participated in the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group and the reviewers of the report, as well to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, CODATA, and Microsoft Research for their financial support of this activity.

Questions or comments about the report and the project are welcome and may be directed to my attention at puhlir . Please feel free to pass this information along to others who may be interested. (Apologies for cross-posting).

Sincerely yours,

Paul F. Uhlir
Director
Board on Research Data and Information

The Digital Preservation Network: A Report and Discussion on DPN’s Emerging Architecture, System Protocol & Service Model, a project briefing from CNI’s spring 2013 member meeting by Tom Cramer and James Simon of Stanford University, is now available on CNI’s video channels:

YouTube:

The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) is a nationwide initiative to create a preservation backbone for digital information of interest to the academy. DPN comprises a handful of large-scale preservation repositories, which together form a heterogeneous network of secure, trustworthy digital archives, each operated under diverse geographical, organizational, financial, and technical regimes. Robust (bit) auditing and repair functions ensure the integrity and security of content over time. Intellectual property agreements among depositors, repositories and the university members of the Network ensure succession of rights to use content in the event of the dissolution of the original depositor or archive. Since late 2012, a technical team from the five initial nodes has been working on an initial implementation of the network. This presentation describes that group’s work, which includes basic design principles, functional requirements and system specifications; the Network’s high level architecture and protocols for content replication and auditing; and framing of detailed service and policy questions that will drive the Network’s overall design and operation.

More information is available at http://www.cni.org/go/dpn-pb-s13/

In this recent podcast interview from EDUCAUSE, Wake Forest University e-Learning Librarian Kyle Denlinger talks about how the Wake Forest Library experimented with massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) as a new way to sell the concept of librarians as experts. To do this, ZSRx was created; it is a free, four-week, open, online course targeting Wake Forest parents and alumni, designed to help them use the Web more effectively while having fun, connecting with others, and learning about new tools.

Listen to the interview with Denlinger:
http://www.educause.edu/blogs/gbayne/cni-2013-podcast-information-literacy-moocs-wake-forest-university

More information about the project briefing on this topic at CNI’s Spring 2013 Membership Meeting, ZSRx: An Information Literacy MOOC, is at http://www.cni.org/topics/teaching-learning/zsrx-an-information-literacy-mooc/

We posted the announcement of registration for this conference on Data Information Literacy and the conference reached its registration cap very quickly; I know some of you were disappointed that you would not be able to attend in person. The conference organizers recently announced that they will be live streaming the sessions – see below – so you will have another mode for access. The conference will be hosted at Purdue University.
–Joan Lippincott
CNI
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**Update added 9/13/13**

Here are details for watching the upcoming Data Information Literacy (DIL) symposium hosted by the Purdue University Libraries on Sept 23rd and 24th.

Watch Live Stream: http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/i82md
Twitter hashtag: #datainfolit
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From the conference organizers:
We are pleased to announce that much of the Data Information Literacy (DIL) symposium hosted by the Purdue University Libraries on Sept 23rd and 24th will be streamed live on the internet.

We’re still finalizing the URL information, but in the means time you can track updates via our Twitter (@datainfolit) and Facebook pages (www.facebook.com/datainfolit).

The DIL symposium will explore roles for practicing librarians in teaching competencies in data management and curation to graduate students. With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, librarians from Purdue University, Cornell University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Oregon have investigated this topic through developing and implementing “data information literacy” (DIL) instruction programs for graduate students in a range of science and engineering disciplines.

More information about the DIL Symposium can be found at: http://wiki.lib.purdue.edu/display/ste/Symposium

The schedule for the symposium is available at: http://wiki.lib.purdue.edu/display/ste/DIL+Symposium+Schedul