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April 1 Symposium Discussing Sustainable Digital
Preservat
Over the past two years I've been a part of the so-called Blue
Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access; we
issued an interim report last December and are now in the final stages
of preparing our final report, which should be out within the next
month (I will put out an announcement on CNI-announce when this is
ready). On April 1, 2010 the Task Force will be hosting a symposium to
discuss the report findings. We have some superb speakers lined up.
I've included the announcement below. My understanding is that space
is very limited, so I'd urge those who want to attend to register
early. I'll be doing some summary remarks at the end of the day at the
symposium.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Blue Ribbon Task Force to Host Symposium
on Economics of Sustaining Digital Information
Government, Industry, Academic Leaders Featured in Public
"Conversation"
April 1, 2010, in Washington, D.C.
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation
and Access (BRTF-SDPA) will hold a one-day symposium convening a
diverse group of speakers from the academic, private, and public
sectors to discuss one of the most pressing issues of the Information
Age: identifying practical solutions to the economic challenges of
preserving today's deluge of digital data.
Called "A National Conversation on the Economic Sustainability of
Digital Information," the symposium will be held April 1, 2010, at
The Fairmont in Washington, D.C. Scheduled to speak is a spectrum of
national leaders from the Executive Office of the President, the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Smithsonian Museum,
Nature Magazine, Google, and other organizations for whom digital
information is fundamental for success.
Sessions in the BRTF-SDPA symposium will focus on four key areas
of digital information: research data, scholarly discourse,
collectively produced Web content such as blogs, and commercially
owned cultural content such as movies and music. The symposium is
aimed at policy- and decision-makers in the private and public
sectors, federal agencies, major libraries and archival institutions,
and the general public.
The symposium will also provide a forum for discussion of the
recommendations in the Blue Ribbon Task Force's Final Report on
economically sustainable digital preservation practices, to be issued
in mid-February. When released, the report can be found online at http://brtf.sdsc.edu.
A preliminary agenda for the BRTF-SDPA symposium and link to
panelists' bios is available at http://brtf.sdsc.edu/symposium.html. Seating is limited.
General registration opens February 1 and will be on a first-come
first-served basis by visiting http://brtf.sdsc.edu/symposium_reg.php. There are a
limited number of spaces reserved for accredited media.
Participants scheduled to speak at the April 1 BRTF-SDPA symposium in
Washington include:
Daniel E. Atkins - Former Director of the National Science
Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure
William G. Bowen - President Emeritus, The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation
Wayne Clough - Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Thomas Kalil - Deputy Director for Policy in the Office of
Science & Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of
the United States (Keynote Speaker)
Timo Hannay - Publishing Director, Nature.com, Nature Publishing
Group
Chris Lacinak - Founder and President, Audiovisual Preservation
Solutions
Derek Law - Board Chair, JISC Advance
George Oates - Lead, Open Library at Internet Archive
Brian E. C. Schottlaender - The Audrey Geisel University
Librarian at the University of California, San Diego
Hal R. Varian - Chief Economist, Google
About the BRTF-SDPA
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and
Access was formed in late 2007 to explore one of the most urgent
issues of the Information Age: identifying economically sustainable
solutions to the challenges of preserving the ever-growing amount of
digitally based data. The Task Force is funded by the National Science
Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in partnership with
the Library of Congress, the Joint Information Systems Committee of
the United Kingdom (JISC), the Council on Library and Information
Resources (CLIR), and supported by Task Force member institutions.
Media contact:
Jan Zverina, 858 534-5111 or jzverina@sdsc.edu
Event contact:
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