http://www.personalarchiving.com/2010/11/call-for-participation-for-pda-2011/

and there is registration information at

http://pda2011.eventbrite.com/

CNI was heavily involved in the 2010 edition of this meeting, and I’m delighted to be part of the program commitee for the 2011 meeting. This is a genuinely strategic meeting that explores key issues surrounding evolving social practices that will reshape everything from the future of special collections to the practice of public and social history in the next decade or two. You can find a great deal of information about last year’s meeting through the links on the personalarchiving.com page, including presentation videos.

I hope that your organization will consider attending if this is relevant to your strategic planning.

We’ll also have a session at the Spring CNI member meeting summarizing the outcomes of this meeting.

My thanks to Jeff Ubois and the Internet Archive for their leadership in helping to advance work on this profoundly important set of issues.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

Associate Director Joan Lippincott discusses coordination between space planning initiatives and curriculum and learning objectives, and PKAL’s new program, the Learning Spaces Collaboratory. Listener queries have to do with the proposed budgetary cuts to higher education in the UK, and the organization The Quilt.

About CNI Conversations

CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to talk to CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Questions and discussion are invited and encouraged. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

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IS&T is pleased to announce the Archiving 2011 Call for Papers.

The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2011 to be held May 16-19, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is October 17, 2010. A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/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 2011 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 October 17th deadline.

Proposed program topics include:
· Preservation of and Access to Digital Assets
Strategies and tools for dealing with file format obsolescence
Metadata for preservation and discovery
Collaboration and cooperatives in digital preservation
Digital curation micro-services and modularity
Design, development, audio and certification of trusted repositories
· Technical Processes: Imaging, Metadata Creation, Workflow
Effective imaging methodologies & processes
Indexing items for specialized audiences
Crowd-sourcing metadata creation
Archival file formats and compression
Color management in capture and display
· Digital Curation
Prioritizing collections for digital archiving
Intellectual property rights management
Models for funding and sustaining digital collections
Digital curation education and training
Content authentication of digital assets
Please feel free to contact me with any questions. We hope to see you there.

Best regards,

Diana Gonzalez
IS&T Conference Program Manager
archiving2011
703/642-9090 x 106

http://www.law.columbia.edu/kernochan/symposia/digital-archives

My thanks to Jim Michalko at OCLC for the pointer to this, which includes a nice presentation by Ricky Erway of RLG Programs at OCLC on work they’ve been doing in this area.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

http://www.personalarchiving.com/

I’ll be running a break-out session at the Spring CNI meeting to try to summarize and further develop some of the ideas coming out of this meeting. My thanks to Jeff Ubois, who has done the community a great service by pulling this meeting together.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI