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STEWARDSHIP OF DIGITAL ASSETS
A two-day workshop on sustaining digital collections

The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), in conjunction with PALINET, SOLINET, Amigos Library Services, and OCLC Western Service Center, is pleased to announce Stewardship of Digital Assets: Sustaining Digital Collections. This lecture and exercise-based workshop is designed to provide Participants with tools and methods to assess their institution's digital preservation needs, and develop plans and policies to sustain their digital collections.

STEWARDSHIP OF DIGITAL ASSETS will be taught by a faculty of nationally known digital experts: Liz Bishoff, Tom Clareson, Robin Dale, and Katherine Skinner.

This hands-on workshop will be presented at four locations across the country from Fall 2007 - Fall 2008. SPACE IS LIMITED TO 35 PEOPLE FOR EACH WORKSHOP.

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REGISTER NOW FOR:

STEWARDSHIP OF DIGITAL ASSETS, PHILADELPHIA, PA
PALINET headquarters, Sponsored by PALINET

Wednesday, November 14 - Thursday, November 15, 2007

REGISTER ONLINE for the Philadelphia workshop at: http://www.palinet.org/ep_workshops_wsdesc.aspx?WSID=378

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STEWARDSHIP OF DIGITAL ASSETS AT OTHER LOCATIONS:

This day-long symposium will explore the current state of managing,
sharing, and preserving digital assets.

Date: Monday, September 24, 2007

Location: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Cost: No registration fee

Who should attend? Museum, library, and archive professionals;
students; anyone who produces, uses, and/or manages digital assets.

Join us in considering questions about digital assets such as:

• Can we plan for 50 years and 5 years at the same time?
• What makes a 'quality, useful, and/or trustworthy' asset?
• What are the hot-button rights issues?
• Where are the innovative, creative, and/or resourceful solutions?
• How can we stay ahead of the technological curve(s)?

Partial list of speakers:

• Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies LLC
• Patricia Cruse, California Digital Library
• Gary Fong, Genesis Photo Agency
• Hannah Frost, Stanford University Libraries
• Sue Grinols, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
• Wendy Levy, Bay Area Video Coalition
• Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
• Angelo Sacerdote, Bay Area Video Coalition

Updated information will be distributed in early September. For more
information, contact the SFMOMA Collections Information and Access
Department at collections@sfmoma.org.

[posted by Marla Misunas to the MCN list]