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Subject: Registration Now Open: DCC Workshop on Long-term Curation
within Digital Repositories
**With apologies for cross-posting**
DSpace/Digital Curation Centre meetings, Cambridge, July 2005
Registration is now open through the same site for the Digital Curation
Centre workshop taking place at the University of Cambridge on Wednesday 6
July 2005.
See http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/registration.htm
Registration is also now open for the 2nd DSpace Federation User Group
meeting,
taking place at the University of Cambridge on Thursday-Friday, 7-8 July
2005.
Programme details for the DCC workshop are available at
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/drworkshop.html or
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/DCC.htm.
Programme details for the DSpace meeting will be available in the next few
days at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/programme.htm
We regret the unforeseen delay in opening the registration process and look
forward to receiving your registrations. Please note that places for both
the DCC workshop and the DSpace meeting are limited and so prompt booking is
advisable.
If you require any further information about registration, please use the
contact details at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/contact.htm
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/online_reg.htm
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Original Announcement:
Dear Colleagues,
Dates for your diary: 6/7/8 July 2005 at the University of Cambridge
This is an initial announcement to let you know of two related meetings that
you might wish to attend.
The Digital Curation Centre is planning to hold a DCC workshop in the UK at
the University of Cambridge on Wednesday 6 July 2005.
Immediately following this, a second DSpace Federation User Group meeting
will be held, also at the University of Cambridge, on Thursday-Friday, 7-8
July 2005.
The DCC workshop will be a training event on the long-term curation and
preservation of institutional repositories (regardless of software
platform). The DSpace meeting will focus on issues specific to the use of
the DSpace repository platform. As some participants will want to attend
both events, the organisers of the two meetings will co-ordinate
registration and other arrangements as far as
possible.
Some preliminary information on the two events follows below.
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Digital Curation Centre workshop
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) was launched in November 2004 following a
recommendation in the JISC Continuing Access and Digital Preservation
Strategy (October 2002). The current partners of the DCC are the University
of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, UKOLN and the Council for the Central
Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC). The DCC is not itself a data
repository, nor do we attempt to impose policies and practices of one branch
of scholarship upon another. Rather, based on insight from a vibrant
research programme that addresses wider issues of data curation and
long-term preservation, we will develop and offer programmes of outreach and
practical services to assist those who must curate data. Rather than
duplicate effort, we seek to complement and contribute to the endeavours of
related organisations.
Curation and preservation issues are integral to all digital repositories -
regardless of platform. As such, the DCC are cooperating with DSpace to
convene a one-day workshop to examine some of the major issues involved with
the long-term access to and re-use of data held within digital repositories
from a range of perspectives - including the HE/FE and e-science
communities. Themes for this event may include:
· workflow and business models for the long-term curation and
sustainability of digital repositories
· certification of digital repositories
· roles and responsibilities
· interoperability
· metadata
· policies
These issues will be explored through a mixture of panel discussions,
presentations, case studies and breakout sessions. The DCC is committed to
nurturing strong community relationships and a major aim for this event is
to create a forum for the sharing of experiences and ideas between a wide
range of stakeholders.
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2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting
The 1st DSpace Federation User Group meeting was held in Boston, USA, in
March 2004. Organised by the DSpace team at MIT Libraries, it was a very
successful open 2-day meeting and was attended by approximately 120
delegates drawn from ten different countries. It included several plenary
sessions and two parallel tracks, one focussing on technical issues and the
other on organisational policy. (For presentations and a summary report,
see http://dspace.org/conference/conference.html)
In the post-meeting evaluation it was concluded that many of the policy
issues were essentially platform-independent and not specific to DSpace
users, and that future discussion of such topics would be more appropriate
in a broader forum of those interested in digital repositories. It followed
that future meetings of the DSpace Federation - the international community
of DSpace code contributors and users - should focus on issues that were
more specific to the architecture and functionality of the DSpace platform.
The 2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting is now being planned with this
in mind. MIT Libraries have passed organisational responsibility for the
meeting to colleagues at Cambridge University working on the
DSpace@Cambridge project, a joint Cambridge-MIT initiative funded by the
Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI). The July 2005 meeting, which will be partly
sponsored by CMI, will reflect both the need for a DSpace-specific agenda
and the international character of the DSpace Federation.
The formal Call For Papers and invitation to register will be issued
shortly.
--
Peter Morgan
Project Director, DSpace@Cambridge
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9DR
UK
email: [log in to unmask]
tel: +44 (0)1223 333130
fax: +44 (0)1223 339973
Joy Davidson
DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.erpanet.org
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