This is an excellent workshop that is greatly beneficial for anyone tasked with
preserving digital information.
Alice Platt
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Southern New Hampshire University
Apologies for cross-posting
Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems
Location: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Dates: June 13-18, 2010
We are very pleased that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will
host the five-day Digital Preservation Management workshop June 13-18, 2010 in
Cambridge MA.
Who Should Attend?
The intended audience for the workshop series is managers at organizations of
all kinds who are or will be responsible for managing digital content over
time. The workshop begins on Sunday evening with an opening session, continues
Monday -Thursday 9am - 5pm, and concludes on Friday at noon. Additional
information about the workshop content and logistics is available at:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/fiveday.html.
Instructors and Keynote Speaker
Nancy McGovern is the lead instructor for the workshop. Also see brief bios
for the current instruction team at:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/instructors.html. The Keynote speaker
for the June workshop is Patricia (Trisha) Cruse, the Director of Preservation
for the California Digital Library.
Application for Registration
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/registration.html.
Workshop participants apply and are then accepted into the workshop - a
two-step process. The form for applying to participate in the workshop will be
available by 9am ET on Monday, April 5, 2010 and remain open until the
workshop is full (28 participants). Applicants will be notified within 48hrs if
they are accepted for the June workshop. We have already had a very high level
of interest in the workshop and encourage early application.
About the Workshop
The Digital Preservation Management workshop was originally developed at
Cornell University Library by Anne R Kenney and Nancy Y McGovern and was hosted
at Cornell from 2003-2006. Since 2006, Nancy McGovern has continued curricular
development and directing the workshop from ICPSR at the University of
Michigan. The workshop series has been developed with funding from the
National Endowment for the Humanities. This is the final scheduled workshop in
this series funded by the NEH. The DPM workshop team intends to offer a
five-day workshop in Spring 2011 - location to be determined.
If you have questions, please contact us at:
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Lance Stuchell
Project Coordinator, Digital Preservation Management Workshops
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