**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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