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DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers
30 June – 1 July 2005
Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/piworkshop.html

Registration is now open at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/piregistration.html

The Digital Curation Centre is pleased to announce that it will be
delivering a two-day workshop on long term-curation and persistent
identifiers. This event will be held in Glasgow from 30 June – 1 July 2005.
This event is being held in cooperation with the Electronic Resource
Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET), the National Information
Standards Organization (NISO), the Centre for Educational Technology
Interoperability Standards (CETIS) and UKOLN.

The persistent identification of digital information can play a vital role
in enabling its long-term accessibility and re-use. In recent years, there
have been fragmented attempts to define a set of basic requirements for
persistently identifying digital information. While workshops by CETIS and
ERPANET have helped to highlight some of the major issues involved with
persistent identification over time, widespread agreement on basic
requirements has yet to be achieved. In an attempt to build upon the results
of these two events and to help coordinate future efforts, the DCC, ERPANET,
NISO, and CETIS are working together to deliver a series of related events
which aim to establish wider agreement of some common requirements for
creating globally unique, persistent identifiers. The results of this event
will be used as a starting point for the upcoming NISO pre-standards
workshop on the same topic (to be held in September 2005).

Benefits of Attendance
The workshop 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.
Participants will help to set the agenda for the future development of
persistent identifiers and help to draft an initial model for the assignment
and long-term maintenance of persistent identifiers.

Dates
This workshop will be held over two days starting on Thursday 30 June and
finishing on Friday 1 July 2005.

Format
The workshop will provide a series of focused case studies, presentations
and interactive breakout sessions. A handbook of additional resources will
be made available to participants outlining international projects, tools
and identification systems.

Key themes include:
-Shared understanding key terms and concepts
-Use cases from a range of perspectives
-Developing workflow and conceptual models for the assignment and
maintenance of persistent identifiers
-Ensuring persistence over time

Speakers for this event include:
-Peter Buneman, DCC Associate Director - Research, School for Informatics,
University of Edinburgh
-Charles Duncan, Director, Intrallect
-David Giaretta, DCC Associate Director - Development, Space Data, Space
Science and Technology Department, CCLRC
-Stefan Gradmann, Head of the Virtual Library Unit at Hamburg University
-John Kunze, Preservation Technologies Architect, California Digital Library
-Michael Lautenschlager, Director, World Climate Data Centre at the
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
-Norman Paskin, Director, International DOI Foundation (IDF)
-Andy Powell, Assistant Director and Team Leader, Distributed Systems and
Services Team, UKOLN
-Sean Reilly, Research Scientist, Corporation for National Research
Initiatives (CNRI)
-Rick Rodgers, National Library of Medicine
-Mackenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology, MIT Libraries
-Henry Thomson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh and
W3C Team
-Stuart Weibel, Consulting Research Scientist, Online Computer Library
Centre (OCLC)

Programme Committee:
-Peter Burnhill, Director, EDINA, UK
-Joy Davidson, Training Coordinator, Digital Curation Centre (DCC), UK
-Lorna Campbell, Assistant Director SIGs and Content, CETIS, UK
-Pat Harris, Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO),
USA
-John Kunze, Preservation Technologies Architect, California Digital
Library, USA
-Lawrence Lannom, Director of Information Management Technology Corporation
for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), USA
-Norman Paskin, Director International DOI Foundation, UK
-Rick Rodgers, National Library of Medicine, USA
-Seamus Ross, DCC Associate Director Services, UK
-Stuart Weibel, Consulting Research Scientist, Online Computer Library
Center (OCLC), USA

Venue
This event will be held at the Wolfson Medical Building, University of
Glasgow. Travel information, campus and city maps may be found at
http://www.gla.ac.uk/general/maps/index.html.

Registration
Registration fees for this two-day workshop are £75 for DCC Associate
Network members and £125 for non-members. These fees include all workshop
materials and handouts, lunch and refreshments for both days. Membership of
the DCC Associates Network is free and more information on becoming a member
can be found at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/network.html.

Register for this Workshop at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/piregistration.html.

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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
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.erpanet.org