[Web4lib] Make a Friday Date with Digital Preservation

[Gina Minks]

** Please excuse any cross-posting.

So - Do you have big plans for Friday?  No?  It's not too late to register for the online conference
Digital Preservation:  What's Now, What's Next?

When: Friday, August 12, 2011   **Tomorrow!!**
What time:  9:00 a.m. - 4:00 CDT
Where: Online - The comfort of your office



Don't miss our latest one-day online conference, Digital Preservation: What's Now, What's Next The conference will cover a variety of topics including experience on workflow and adaptation of metadata, understanding current trends in digital preservation, personal digital archiving, and community-driven digital preservation.



Presented by speakers well known in the digital preservation community, two concurrent sessions will run throughout the day. Among the scheduled sessions are:

  *   Email: the Problem that Dare not Speak its Name
     *   presented by Christopher J. Prom
  *   The Ship Hasn't Left Without You:  Current Trends in Digital Preservation
     *   presented by Liz Bishoff and Tom Clareson
  *   Fundamentals of Digitizing Audio and Video
     *   presented by George Blood and Cassandra Gallegos
  *   Protect Future Access Now: Preserving E-Books and Other Digitized Content
     *   presented by Amy Kirchhoff
  *   Personal Digital Archiving:  Basic Advice to Preserve Your Digital Memories
     *   presented by William LeFurgy
  *   Core Principles in Digital Preservation
     *   presented by Jacob Nadal
  *   Strategic Planning for Digitizing Success:  A Case Study
     *   presented by Luke Rosenberger, Andrea Schorr, John Weed and Eric Willman
  *   Protect Future Access Now:  Preserving E-Books and Other Digitized Content
     *   presented by Amy Kirchhoff
  *   Organized Chaos:  Using a Workflow to Maintain Control over Digital Material
     *   presented Jennifer Brancato
  *   Designing Preservation Policies and Rules within a Multi-Member Organization
     *   presented by Michelle Reilly
  *   Adapting Preservation Metadata to the Dublin Core Schema
     *   presented by Devhra BennettJones
  *   Community-Driven Approaches to Digital Preservation
     *   presented by Martin Halbert & Katherine Skinner

For registration and schedule information, visit the http://digpres.amigos.org



If you have any questions, please contact:
Gina L. B. Minks
Imaging & Preservation Service Manager
Amigos Library Services, Inc.
14400 Midway Road
Dallas, TX  75244-3509
Tel: 972-340-2825
Toll free:  800-843-8482
Fax: 972-991-6061
minks at amigos.org

Digital Preservation: What's Now, What's Next?
An Amigos ONLINE Conference
August 12 ** Register at http://digpres.amigos.org/

The  Amigos Imaging & Preservation Service is funded through generous support from
the National Endowment for the Humanities.