**Apologies for cross posting**

Only a few places left for this event - final call to register:

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*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*

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Dear Colleagues

I'm delighted to say that Bill Thompson from the *BBC* and Dan Greenstein 
form *California Digital Library* will be doing key note presentations at 
this event. Plus there will be speakers from Digital New Zealand, Eduserv, 
The National Archives, Talis. National Centre for Textmining, Research 
Libraries UK, Sero Consulting and EDINA.

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*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 vision 
http://rdtf.jiscinvolve.org/, and the JISC?s Strategic Content Alliance 
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 one night's B & B accommodation. T&Ss are not 
included.

To book ASAP please click on the link as:

http://asp.artegis.com/SurviveorThriveopeninvitation

Final registration will be on the *Friday 28th May*.

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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