I wanted to share the announcement for the upcoming SUN PASIG meeting that will be taking place in San Francisco October 7-9, immediately following the iPres conference. I've participated in  several of these meetings, and they are in my experience quite unique: they deal with serious large scale digital preservation and archiving issues from a very pragmatic, systems engineering-oriented perspective. I'd urge CNI-announce readers interested in these topics to at least take a look at the agenda (which is at https://meeting-reg.com/sunpasig/ ) to get a sense of the meeting. I'll be giving a short talk on Friday, October 9 (not yet on the agenda, as just very recently confirmed).

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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The Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting will be taking place October 7-9, 2009 in San Francisco. Thought-leaders and solution providers in the areas of data curation, data management of eScience content, preservation, repositories, and storage technologies will be presenting Wednesday and Thursday. Collaborative working groups are scheduled on Friday.

Approximately 150 attendees are expected at this event which follows immediately after the iPres conference in San Francisco, of which Sun is a Platinum sponsor. The  meeting will be held at the Westin Saint Francis.

For more information on the Sun PASIG, past conference materials, webinar series information, or to register for the October meeting, please go to www.sun-pasig.ning.com. To be placed on the community email alias, please email art.pasquinelli@sun.com.