[dcc-associates] Blue Ribbon Task Force UK Symposium - 6th May

[Neil Grindley]

** Apologies for cross-posting **
JISC and The Blue Ribbon Task Force on sustainable digital preservation and 
access would like to invite you to a one day free symposium on Thursday 6th May 
2010 at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre in London.
The UK Symposium will be highlighting the final report by the Blue Ribbon Task 
Force "Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to 
Digital 
Information".<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/blueribbontaskforcefinalreport.aspx>
This report is the results of a two year international initiative focusing on 
the challenge of preserving digital information so that it can be accessed in 
the future for collective use. The report provides an economic framework and 
practical recommendations for ensuring the future sustainability of digital 
preservation and access.
The symposium will bring together the international group of digital 
preservation and access experts who are behind the Blue Ribbon Task Force with 
colleagues from UK and European organisations.

The symposium sessions will cover the heritage sector, public broadcasting, 
research, national libraries and archives as well as discussing collaboration, 
sustainability and funding of digital preservation and access to digital 
information.

During the day there will be presentations from a range of organisations 
including; the BBC, The Natural History Museum, The British Library, European 
Bioinformatics Institute, European Commission and JISC, who will be 
highlighting their perspectives on preservation and access.

The symposium will be of interest to senior managers and policy-makers within 
education; research; libraries and archives; cultural heritage; government; and 
industry. In addition, anyone who has an interest in access to information in 
the near or long term would find the symposium and the Blue Ribbon Task Force 
report indispensable.

Find out more about the symposium and to book a place please visit: 
www.jisc.ac.uk/brtf<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/brtf>
To find out more about the report and to listen to a JISC Podcast on the topic 
please visit: 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2010/03/podcast102chrisrusbridge.aspx

Kind regards
Neil Grindley (JISC)
on behalf of the Blue Ribbon Task Force