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ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers June 17-18, 2004 University College Cork Co-Sponsors University College Cork Digital Curation Centre (UK) MINERVA Focus The persistent identification of electronic resources can play a vital role in enabling long-term access and re-use and can positively impact on an object's authenticity. This seminar aims to provide an overview of current activity in the field of persistent identifiers and an understanding of the various persistent identification strategies being used and developed. Individual experiences with persistent identifiers will be explored through presentations from the library community, the higher and further education community, the scientific community and the publishing community. The seminar will also provide an update from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) working group on persistent identifiers. Who will benefit from attending? The seminar will bring together a wide range of participants from a variety of sectors from all over Europe. This training seminar will benefit anyone who creates or manages access to digital resources - including librarians, archivists, scientists, publishers and staff from higher and further education and government institutions. Dates Thursday, June 17 and Friday, June 18, 2004 Venue The seminar will be held in the Main Quadrangle Building (Lecture Theatre W5), University College Cork. More information about the UCC is available on their website http://www.ucc.ie. ERPANET is extremely grateful to the University College Cork for providing the venue for this training event. Programme (TBC) The seminar features presentations by: -Kathrin Schroeder, Die Deutsche Bibliothek -Robin Wilson, The Stationary Office (TSO) -Stuart Weibel, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) -John Kunze and/or Mary Heath, California Digital Library (CDL) Details of these and other presentations will be available on our website soon. Further information A briefing paper, travel and accommodation information, and an extensive list of background documentation are available from the ERPANET site (http://www.erpanet.org). Abstracts, papers and the seminar report will be accessible via the ERPANET site following the event. To register The registration fee is 100 Euros. Please go to http://www.erpanet.org and follow the links to register. For additional information, please contact [log in to unmask] http://www.erpanet.org