JCDL Institutional Repository Workshop

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JCDL 2006 - Chapel Hill, NC, USA

This is an open call to participate in the Workshop on "Digital Curation & Trusted Repositories: Seeking Success"
Thursday, June 15, 2006. 8:30 A.M. -5:00 P.M.
Workshop website: http://sils.unc.edu/events/2006jcdl/digitalcuration.html
Workshop registration required for participation but is independent of conference registration. Register on the JCDL2006 website. (www.jcdl2006.org).

**Important Dates**

Early registration deadline: May 15, 2006 Regular registration deadline: May 25, 2006


Preservation of access to digital assets stands as one of the grand challenges of the early 21st century. A decade of work in digital preservation and access has resulted in many projects, numerous metadata and encoding standards, open institutional repository platforms such as DSpace and Fedora and the OAIS Reference Model. The Research Libraries Group (RLG) and OCLC have described the attributes and responsibilities of such trusted repositories, and RLG and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) have drafted an audit checklist for certifying digital repositories as trustworthy (http://www.rlg.org/en/pdfs/rlgnara-repositorieschecklist.pdf) . Guidelines, such as those provided by RLG and NARA, offer technical and managerial attributes for a trusted digital repository, but will adherence to such a checklist, by itself, ensure a successful digital repository, especially the institutional repositories emerging on university campuses today? What are the most promising approaches for implementing the attributes?  What does “trust” really mean in the context of a contributor-based repository and will individuals or organizations contribute to a repository just because they trust that it will preserve digital assets over time? What incentives and assistance are needed? What is the role of the archivist vis-à-vis the digital life cycle and the stewardship of digital assets over time. What, indeed, constitutes a “successful” digital repository and how can we ascertain and measure such success?

This workshop will serve as a forum for discussion as to how the emerging principles of digital curation, "the active management and appraisal of data over the life-cycle of scholarly and scientific interest" (Digital Curation Center, http://www.dcc.ac.uk/about/), can work with technical and managerial models to produce not only trusted, but successful repositories that will house rich digital assets over the long-term.

*****Objectives*****

•       Presentation of digital curation principles.
•       Exploration of what constitutes success and excellence in digital curation and digital repository management.
•       Discussion of how to identify and define criteria for success, including exploration of a shared lexicon for describing digital repository attributes.

•       Examination of strategies for measuring and evaluating success criteria.
•       Discussion of next steps, potential collaborations, and needed research in the application of digital curation to repository development.

*****Who Should Attend*****

•       Digital repository developers and curators
•       Digital archivists and electronic records managers
•       Institutional repository developers
•       Institutional administrators and policy developers
•       Digital librarians
•       Scholars engaged in research intended to benefit the above
•       Researchers and administrators charged with preserving research data

*****Organizers/Program Committee*****

 Philip Eppard, SUNY-Albany; Christopher Lee, UNC-Chapel Hill;  Karen Markey, Univ. of Michigan; Soo Young Rieh, Univ. of Michigan; Helen Tibbo, UNC-Chapel Hill; Elizabeth Yakel, Univ. of Michigan.


Hope to see you all in Chapel Hill in June!

-Helen



Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Professor
School of Information and Library Science
201 Manning Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
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Tel: 919.962.8063
Fax: 919.962.8071

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