Digital Curation Centre Workshop on Unique Identifiers

[Adrian Rissone]

Some of you may be interested in this workshop to be held in Glasgow, UK,
at the end of June 2005:

>From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:MCG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On Behalf Of Joy
>Davidson
>Sent: 19 May 2005 15:47
>To: MCG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers - Registration now open
>
>
>**Apologies for Cross-Posting**
>
>DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers
>30 June ­ 1 July 2005
>Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow
>http://www.dcc.ac.uk/piworkshop.html
>
>Registration is now open at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/piregistration.html
>
>The Digital Curation Centre is pleased to announce that it will be
>delivering a two-day workshop on long term-curation and persistent
>identifiers. This event will be held in Glasgow from 30 June ­ 1 July 2005.
>This event is being held in cooperation with the Electronic Resource
>Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET), the National Information
>Standards Organization (NISO), the Centre for Educational Technology
>Interoperability Standards (CETIS) and UKOLN.
>
>The persistent identification of digital information can play a vital role
>in enabling its long-term accessibility and re-use. In recent years, there
>have been fragmented attempts to define a set of basic requirements for
>persistently identifying digital information. While workshops by CETIS and
>ERPANET have helped to highlight some of the major issues involved with
>persistent identification over time, widespread agreement on basic
>requirements has yet to be achieved. In an attempt to build upon the
results
>of these two events and to help coordinate future efforts, the DCC,
ERPANET,
>NISO, and CETIS are working together to deliver a series of related events
>which aim to establish wider agreement of some common requirements for
>creating globally unique, persistent identifiers. The results of this event
>will be used as a starting point for the upcoming NISO pre-standards
>workshop on the same topic (to be held in September 2005).
>
>Benefits of Attendance
>The workshop will benefit anyone who creates or manages access to digital
>resources — including librarians, archivists, scientists, publishers and
>staff from higher and further education and government institutions.
>Participants will help to set the agenda for the future development of
>persistent identifiers and help to draft an initial model for the
assignment
>and long-term maintenance of persistent identifiers.
>
>Dates
>This workshop will be held over two days starting on Thursday 30 June and
>finishing on Friday 1 July 2005.
>
>Format
>The workshop will provide a series of focused case studies, presentations
>and interactive breakout sessions. A handbook of additional resources will
>be made available to participants outlining international projects, tools
>and identification systems.
>
>Key themes include:
>-Shared understanding key terms and concepts
>-Use cases from a range of perspectives
>-Developing workflow and conceptual models for the assignment and
>maintenance of persistent identifiers
>-Ensuring persistence over time
>
>Speakers for this event include:
>-Peter Buneman, DCC Associate Director - Research, School for Informatics,
>University of Edinburgh
>-Charles Duncan, Director, Intrallect
>-David Giaretta, DCC Associate Director - Development, Space Data, Space
>Science and Technology Department, CCLRC
>-Stefan Gradmann, Head of the Virtual Library Unit at Hamburg University
>-John Kunze, Preservation Technologies Architect, California Digital
Library
>-Michael Lautenschlager, Director, World Climate Data Centre at the
>Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
>-Norman Paskin, Director, International DOI Foundation (IDF)
>-Andy Powell, Assistant Director and Team Leader, Distributed Systems and
>Services Team, UKOLN
>-Sean Reilly, Research Scientist, Corporation for National Research
>Initiatives (CNRI)
>-Rick Rodgers, National Library of Medicine
>-Mackenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology, MIT Libraries
>-Henry Thomson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh and
>W3C Team
>-Stuart Weibel, Consulting Research Scientist, Online Computer Library
>Centre (OCLC)
>
>Programme Committee:
>-Peter Burnhill, Director, EDINA, UK
>-Joy Davidson, Training Coordinator, Digital Curation Centre (DCC), UK
>-Lorna Campbell, Assistant Director SIGs and Content, CETIS, UK
>-Pat Harris, Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO),
>USA
>-John Kunze, Preservation Technologies Architect, California Digital
>Library, USA
>-Lawrence Lannom, Director of Information Management Technology Corporation
>for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), USA
>-Norman Paskin, Director International DOI Foundation, UK
>-Rick Rodgers, National Library of Medicine, USA
>-Seamus Ross, DCC Associate Director Services, UK
>-Stuart Weibel, Consulting Research Scientist, Online Computer Library
>Center (OCLC), USA
>
>Venue
>This event will be held at the Wolfson Medical Building, University of
>Glasgow. Travel information, campus and city maps may be found at
>http://www.gla.ac.uk/general/maps/index.html.
>
>Registration
>Registration fees for this two-day workshop are £75 for DCC Associate
>Network members and £125 for non-members. These fees include all workshop
>materials and handouts, lunch and refreshments for both days. Membership of
>the DCC Associates Network is free and more information on becoming a
member
>can be found at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/network.html.
>
>Register for this Workshop at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/piregistration.html.
>
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>Joy Davidson
>DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor
>Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
>George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
>University of Glasgow
>Glasgow G12 8QJ
>Scotland
>Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
>Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
>http://www.dcc.ac.uk
>http://www.erpanet.org