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:

Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:57:23 -0400
From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>

apologies for crossposting, distribute as appropriate -jh

Call for Papers/Participation

Please join us in a workshop on learning and research in Second Life
on October 17, 2007 in Vancouver at Internet Research 8.0 (http://
wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=About_IR8.0)

Paper Deadline August 15th.

Second Life(R) is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab
which has captured the attentions of researchers and teachers from
around the world from a variety of disciplines.

This workshop aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a
Learning and Research environment. It will bring 35 researchers
together to collaborate, discuss and workshop diverse topics related
to research and learning in Second Life. We will pursue a full-day
schedule in which participants will discuss their work and interests
on four different topics: learning in Second Life, integrated
learning, the contributions of research to the community and ethical
research methods. How can we better enable learning in this sphere?
How can we better enable research?

As a highlight, Robin Linden will give a talk to the group, and
members of Linden Lab will participate throughout the day.

We encourage researchers to submit papers and short biography to