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Events currently being held

2009

November

EVA/MINERVA Jerusalem 2009 Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
10 - 11 Nov 2009 , Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem (Israel)
This 2 day conference is "focused on how advanced technologies are applied to augment the preservation, access, and the dissemination of cultural heritage through advancing education and training in information and communication technologies (ICT). ... projects will be presented relating to the digital preservation of cultural heritage being carried out in Europe and in Israel."
http://www.minervaisrael.org.il/evaminerva2009.html
2009 Conference and Members' Meeting of the TEI Consortium: Text Encoding in the Era of Mass Digitization
11 - 15 Nov 2009 , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
TEI Consortium
(United States of America)
This conference is organized around the theme 'text encoding in the era of mass digitization'. It will feature keynote lectures, parallel sessions, the annual TEI business meeting, a poster session/tools demonstration and slam, and special interest group (SIG) meetings.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/teimeeting09/
Digital Preservation - the Planets Way
17 - 19 Nov 2009 , Swiss Federal Archives, Bern, Switzerland
PLANETS Project
(Switzerland)
This 3 day outreach and training event is organised by the Planets project will explore the case for preservation of digital objects, the actions required, and the Planets solutions to the issues through lectures discussions and workshops.
http://www.planets-project.eu/events/bern-2009/
IADIS International Conference WWW/INTERNET 2009
19 - 22 Nov 2009 , Rome
IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society)
(Italy)
This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to Internet developments. Topics may include Web 2.0, Services, architectures and Web development, Semantic Web and XML, Applications and uses (including digital libraries), and Research issues.
http://www.internet-conf.org
IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2009
19 - 21 Nov 2009 , Rome
IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society)
(Italy)
This conference addresses technical aspects of applied computing.
http://www.computing-conf.org/
2009 National Digital Forum Conference : Being Online Now: Culture Creativity and Community
23 - 24 Nov 2009 , Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington (New Zealand)
This conference will explore opportunities for the creative and cultural sectors to cross traditional boundaries and collaborate on solutions to address issues facing communities being online now and also how creating and accessing New Zealand digital content benefits all parts of society: business, education, cultural organisations, local communities.
http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/2009-conference.htm
Alliance for Permanent Access Annual Conference 2009: Keeping the Records of Science Accessible: towards a sustainable science data e-infrastructure!
24 Nov 2009 , Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), The Hague
Alliance for Permanent Access
(Netherlands)
This conference will "focus on developments in scientific communities (social sciences, earth observation and high energy physics). In addition cross-communities topics among others R&D and technical tools, funding and sustainable business models, certification / accreditation mechanism will be addressed."
http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.eu/
Re:live09 : Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
26 - 29 Nov 2009 , Melbourne (Australia)
http://www.mediaarthistory.org/

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December

International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities
01 - 02 Dec 2009 , Taipei, Taiwan
Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University
(Taiwan)
This conference organised by the Research Center for Humanities, National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Library, aims to explore the ways and methodologies IT impacts and may enhance scholarship in the humanities disciplines. Topics may include: digitalization for preservation and access to cultural heritage; creation of digital collections; cultural impacts of digital archives; applications of text mining; acquisition and analysis of digital data; GIS; and computer based studies in art, music, literature culture and heritage.
http://www.digital.ntu.edu.tw/DADH/indexEN.php
PV 2009 : Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data
01 - 03 Dec 2009 , European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid
European Space Agency
(Spain)
This conference theme is "Standards for archives and interoperability enabling new added value services". The main topics will be Ensuring long-term data preservation; Adding value to data; Lessons learnt; and Future prospects.
http://www.sciops.esa.int/index.php?project=CONFERENCE&page=pv2009
IDCC 2009: 5th International Digital Curation Conference : Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity
02 - 04 Dec 2009 , Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London
Digital Curation Centre
(United Kingdom)
This conference jointly organised by the Digital Curation Centre and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has themes of multi-scale, multi-discipline, multi-skill and multi-sector, relating to the creation, curation, management and re-use of research data. Research data is broadly defined to include the digital subjects of all types of research and scholarship (including Arts and Humanities, and all the Sciences).
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2009/call-for-papers/
Papers to be published in the International Journal of Digital Curation.
DISH 2009 : Digital Strategies for Heritage
08 - 10 Dec 2009 , de Doelen in Rotterdam (Netherlands)
This conference will cover digital heritage and the opportunities it offers to cultural organisations under five themes: Strategies for Innovation; Strategies for collaboration; Strategies for the unwired future; Business strategies and Management strategies and will include papers and workshops from professionals in archives, museums, libraries and other heritage institutions. The main organisers are the Netherlands Institute for Heritag and the DEN Foundation.
http://www.dish2009.nl/
GL11 : Eleventh International Conference on Grey Literature: The Grey Mosaic Piecing It All Together
14 - 15 Dec 2009 , Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
TextRelease
(United States of America)
"The Eleventh Conference in this series will endeavor to piece together traditional features inherent to grey literature with more recent elements both technology and policy driven." Themes include: Impact of Grey Literature on Net Citizens; Corporate Governance of Grey Literature; Uses and Applications of Subject based Grey Literature; Grey Literature Repositories Revisited and Open Access to Grey Literature.
http://www.textrelease.com/gl11callforpapers.html
Cultural Heritage Online : Empowering Users : An Active Role for User Communities
15 - 16 Dec 2009 , Florence, Italy
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale
(Italy)
"This conference aims to explore, analyze, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communities and cultural contents on the web from an international perspective, and bring together academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners, providing a forum for the discussion and dissemination of selected themes." Main topics: Cultural Heritage & interactive Web; Digital Libraries; Cooperation among museums, archives, libraries; and, Digital preservation. Conference organised by Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale with Ministerio per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali and the Library of Congress. Satellite events include tutorials "Long Term Preservation of Digital Assets: Basic Concepts and Practices" and "Dublin Core - Building Blocks for Interoperability".
http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference-2009/Conference2009-Pro
gramme.pdf

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2010

February

New IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010: Digital Preservation and Access to News and Views
25 - 28 Feb 2010 , Indira Ghandi National Centre for the Arts , New Delhi
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
(India)
This conference jointly organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and IFLA Newspapers Section, aims to share knowledge on how newspaper and media libraries can tackle the duel challenges of preserving print newspapers and dealing with new technologies for managing print and online newspapers. Digital preservation of digital and print resources are included as sub-themes.
http://www.ignca.nic.in/ifla2010/ifla2010.htm

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March

IADIS International Conference e-Society 2010
18 - 21 Mar 2010 , Porto, Portugal
IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society)
(Portugal)
This conference aims to cover the issues related to the information society including both technical and non-technical aspects. Broad areas of interest are eSociety and Digital Divide, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, New Media and E-Society, Digital Services in ESociety, eGovernment /eGovernance, eHealth, Information Systems, and Information Management.
http://www.esociety-conf.org/
Best papers to be published in IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet ISSN: 1645-7641

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April

ECA 2010: 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving : 8. Europäische Konferenz über digitale Archivierung
28 - 30 Apr 2010 , International Conference Centre, Geneva
Swiss Federal Archives
(Switzerland)
This conference organised by the Swiss Federal Archives and European Regional Branch and Professional Associations Section of the Inter-national Council on Archives (ICA) is in the series European Conference on Archives and will focus on digital archiving. Topics include: 1. Archival profile: professional competence in the digital age; 2.What to keep: how to mirror the information society; 3.E-Archiving: reorganisation of processes and business models; and, 4. Online access: solutions and implications.
http://www.ica.org/en/2010/04/28/8th-european-conference-digital-archi
ving-geneva-2010
ECA 2010 : 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving
28 - 30 Apr 2010 , Geneva, Switzerland
Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (Swiss Federal Archives)
(Switzerland)
This conference hosted by the Swiss Federal Archives (Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv) and organised in collaboration with International Council on Archives' (ICA) European Regional Branch (EURBICA) and Section on Professional Associations (SPA) will deal with public and private archives in the information society.
http://www.bar.admin.ch/eca2010/index.html?lang=en

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May

26th IEEE (MSST2010) Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies
May 2010 , Incline Village, Nevada, USA
IEEE Computer Society
(United States of America)
This symposium sponsored by the Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee will explore the 21st century drivers and requirements for massive storage. It will look at new storage system architectural ideas, advances in data management techniques and emerging technologies.
http://storageconference.org/
Joint Technical Symposium JTS 2010 : Digital Challenges and Digital Opportunities in Audiovisual Archiving
03 - 05 May 2010 , Klingenberg Kino, Oslo (Norway)
This conference organised by FIAF, The Norwegian Film Institute and The National Library of Norway provides an international forum for organisations and individuals involved in the preservation and restoration of original image and sound materials.
http://www.jts2010.org/
New LIDA 2010: Libraries in the Digital Age
24 - 28 May 2010 , University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (Croatia)
This international conference themes are 1. Digital scholarship: support by digital libraries and 2. Digital natives: challenges and innovations in reaching out to digital generations.
http://web.ffos.hr/lida/
African Digital Scholarship & Curation 2010
25 - 27 May 2010 , University of Botswana New Conference Complex, Botswana (Africa)
This 3-day conference jointly organised by the Universities of Botswana and Pretoria (South Africa) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR (South Africa) will address various issues of digital scholarship, digital curation and emerging technologies within the theme ‘Mapping and Demystifying Digital Scholarship: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities ‘ .
http://www.ais.up.ac.za/digi/digitalscholarship2010.htm

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June

New Archiving 2010
01 - 04 Jun 2010 , Koninklijke Bibliotheek, This conference Den Haag, Netherlands
Society for Imaging Sciences and Technology
(Netherlands)
This IS&T conference to be held at the Koninlijke Bibliotheek will focus on creating and managing digital collections, technical processes imaging and workflows, and long-term access stratregies.
http://www.imaging.org/IST/conferences/archiving/
Archiving 2010 Workshop on Archiving in Digital Cartography and Geoinformation
10 - 12 Jun 2010 , Berlin
CODATA Germany, the German National Committee on Data for Science and Technology
(Germany)
This workshop is organised by DGfK Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kartographie, Sektion Berlin-Brandenburg in cooperation with CODATA Germany, the German National Committee on Data for Science and Technology.
http://www.codata-germany.org/Archiving_2010/
New ELPUB 2010: 14th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Publishing in the Networked World Transforming the Nature of Communication
16 - 18 Jun 2010 , Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland (Finland)
This conference hosted by the Hanken School of Economics, will focus on key issues in electronic publishing such as the methods by which research documents and user-generated content can be published through formal channels as well as through social networks.
http://conferences.aepic.it/elpub2010/

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July

I-CHORA 5 : Fifth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives : Records, archives and technology: interdependence over time
01 - 03 Jul 2010 , London
The National Archives (UK)
(United Kingdom)
This conference has the themes: 1. Early technologies and the origins of recordkeeping; 2. Technology, records and the growth of bureaucracy; 3. Creating and using records in the workplace; 4. Responding to technological change
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ichora5

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September

New IPRES 2010: 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects
19 - 23 Sep 2010 , Vienna, Austria
Vienna University of Technology
(Austria)
This conference jointly organised by the Austrian National Library, the Technical University of Vienna and Austrian Computer Society will further strengthen the link between digital preservation research and practitioners in memory institutions and scientific data centres.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/ipres2010/

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November

SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010
08 - 09 Nov 2010 , Baltimore, Maryland
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/index.shtml
(United States of America)

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