Apologies if this has already come to your attention but this announcement from colleagues at UKOLN might interest members of the list.
All best
William
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Dr William Kilbride FSA
Executive Director
Digital Preservation Coalition
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http://www.dpconline.org/
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From: Michelle Smith [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 April 2010 09:43
To: William Kilbride
Subject: email to send
Survive or thrive: making the most of your digital content Conference
http://www.surviveorthrive.org.uk/
Dates: 8-9 June 2010
Location: Macdonald Hotel, Manchester
Background
The growth of digital content and use of content on the Web has been
rapidly changing over the past decade. The digital deluge provides
opportunities but how can these best be exploited? Are you making the
most of your content? What are the technical and strategic approaches
required to thrive in today’s environment?
Question this conference will start to address:
* How do we exploit the value of distributed resources? – linked data,
geospatial tagging and metadata etc?
* In terms of scale what are the issues and barriers? What does working
at web scale mean and offer? How can the crowd be exploited?
* What are the issues and opportunities for opening up content?
* How do we effectively and efficiently meet the needs of users and
taking the best advantage of the available technologies? For example
personalisation?
* How do sectors work together? Education, the cultural heritage sector,
engaging business and community and the public and private sectors? What
role should strategic agencies play?
Aim
The aim of the conference is to bring together community of experts to
provide a focus on the above questions. This will allow us to identify
the key approaches that universities, colleges, the cultural heritage
and public sectors can pursue to support education, research and the
wider knowledge economy.
Outcomes
It will provide a *Position Paper*, based on the workshop discussion
that gives direction to content providers in the networked environment.
Also the outcomes of the workshop will help to inform JISC programmes
and service approaches, in particular the resource discovery and access
strategies that JISC pursues; for example the JISC and Research
Libraries UK Resource Discovery Task Force vision
<http://rdtf.jiscinvolve.org/> and the JISC’s Strategic Content Alliance
<http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/> <http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/> as appropriate.
*Audience *
This event is aimed at people who have a stake in providing content for
learning teaching and research. This includes policy makers, senior
managers, information specialists and technical managers/developers,
from the public and commercial sectors.
Registration
Your registration includes all refreshments, lunch and dinner at the
event. It also includes a night's B & B accommodation. T&Ss are not
included.
To book ASAP please click on the link as:
http://asp.artegis.com/SurviveorThriveopeninvitation
We look forward to seeing you at the event.
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards
Natasha Bishop and Michelle Smith
UKOLN Events Team
Tel: 01225 384488
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