[Dspace-general] New England DuraSpace Community: Preservation and Archiving Seminar & Networking Reception on December 10, 2009

[Valorie Hollister]

Apologies for the cross posting....

New England DuraSpace Community: Preservation and Archiving Seminar & 
Networking Reception, Northeastern U, December 10, 2009
Friday, November 20th, 2009 9:57 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris

Mountain View, CA Register today to join Sun Microsystems Preservation 
and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) and host Northeastern 
University for an information-packed day focused on open computing 
solutions and best practices in the digital preservation and archiving 
space.

Duraspace will lead two breakout sessions–one focused on the DuraCloud 
service, and one about DuraSpace Solution Communities that provide 
leadership, tools and coordination around critical community issues to 
establish the conditions in which collaboration can flourish to provide 
durable access to our digital heritage.

The day will focus on finding topics of mutual co-operation in the areas 
of Repositories, Digital Libraries, Data Curation, Management of 
eScience content, and Long-Term Preservation. Experts from Harvard 
University, Columbia University, MIT, Sun Microsystems, and other local 
institutions will discuss their projects and new technologies, including 
open storage, sustainable preservation architectures, and new reference 
architectures.

Agenda items will include:

Sun PASIG focus an global trends

Sun in education

Use cases presented by local institutions

Sun technology overview and reference architecture

Breakout sessions discussing partner solutions, Storage Archive Manager 
(SAM) and Infinite Archive System (IAS)

Sun’s PASIG (http://www.sun-pasig.ning.com/) community provides support 
for organizations challenged with preserving and archiving important 
research and cultural heritage materials. Founding members include The 
Alberta Library, The British Library, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins 
University and other leading global libraries and universities. This is 
the second PASIG-related regional conference directed at fostering local 
collaboration. Ideas and input from this conference will be incorporated 
into the semi-annual global PASIG events.

Space is limited and people must register to attend: 
https://www.suneventreg.com//cgi-bin/register.pl?EventID=2965