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Digital Preservation Seminar, Paris, February 14/15 2002
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- From: Howard Flack <Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:41:59 GMT
Dear All, Please find attached the Programme for the above event, which is being organised by ICSTI with support from CODATA and ICSU. I hope as many of you as possible will be able to be represented at the seminar which is the latest manifestation of an activity ICSTI started already in early 2000 and for which we have developed a significant interest amongst the wide range of bodies concerned with the topic. In addition, the Winter Meeting of ICSTI will take place on February 16/17 also in Paris and I hope that you will be staying over for that. Finally, I would be grateful for your assistance in publicisng the event through copying it to lists, etc. Digital Preservation is an issue which affects all those involved in the developing the record of Science and is an area where ICSTI can be seen to be making a major contribution and raising our profile in the Science community. Thank you in advance for your assistance Barry Mahon --------------- Word file transformed to text by HDF ---------------------- Seminar on Digital Preservation of the record of Science- state of the art Paris, France, February 14-15 2002 Introduction ICSTI, the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, has been encouraging discussion, debate and actions on ensuring that the record of Science continues to preserved. With the progressive movement towards digital production and distribution of scientific information there is a risk that the record represented by this material will be lost. Although many of the parties concerned with digital production and distribution have taken measures to preserve the material the effort is diffused and overall co-ordination may be necessary. In February 2000 ICSTI held a seminar, with support from UNESCO, during which the issues were discussed and contact was established between a number of groups active in the area of digital preservation. It was suggested then that a further meeting be held at a later date to review the situation and to formulate any actions deemed necessary. Many other bodies in the Science community, such as CODATA, IUPAP, ICSU, interests from the international standards arena, those concerned with the creation of "open archives" as well as the scientific publishing community both the traditional and the newer actors, are all involved in one sense or another with preservation. In addition the library community and the representatives of the history of science community are intimately concerned. While, as noted, many activities and initiatives are under way and research programmes are in progress, the cost of digital preservation can be significant and the need to avoid duplication of effort is paramount. The need for a federal approach to both the preservation process and access to the archives has been suggested; this requires co-ordination. The objectives of the meeting in February are: · To ensure all the interests in digital preservation in Science are aware of all current activities in the field · To evaluate the needs for co-ordination of the efforts. · To create any necessary structures and work programmes to ensure co-ordination of the activities. The proposed meeting, which has received the support of UNESCO, will deal with the following issues, and any other topics the attendees may raise. · What are the varieties of S&T information that must and will be archived · What are the likely future uses for this information · What is the minimum amount of information (data fields) needed to locate and identify different kinds of information · Who is creating what kinds of standards related to location and basic identification · What kinds of "business" and "information" models are relevant in a situation where there might be multiple owners, managers, driving forces and multiple standards (or what is a federated model of archiving and archiving standards) · If a federated model is not appropriate, what model is · What are the appropriate structures to get the various groups involved in digital preservation to work together to develop workable solutions (assuming there is agreement that workable solutions are needed). · Specifically - what additional issues related to scientific factual data need to be addressed. · How will future access to digitally archived information be arranged · What are the common issues with preservation of cultural archives, apart from the record of Science and how can these be accommodated Who should attend? The topics to be discussed will be of interest to: · authors and publishers of scientific information, in particular developers of newer digital methods; · those concerned with the short and long term storage and distribution of this material, librarians and archivists; · developers of computer systems for digital archiving; · those involved in the creation of national and international standards, as well as subject or data-type oriented codes of practise; · national and international representatives from the Science community, specifically the professional and other bodies with interests in science subjects; · representatives of the scientific data community. In addition, representatives of the history of Science and those concerned with the preservation of cultural artefacts in published form should be present. The Venue The meeting will be held at the premises of UNESCO, with the kind permission of the Assistant Director General for Science. There is no fee for attendance but neither UNESCO nor ICSTI is in a position to offer support for travel or accommodation. Registration: Please complete the attached application form and send it by email to icsti@icsi.org or fax to +33 1 42 15 12 62 Seminar on Digital Preservation of the record of Science- state of the art Paris, France, February 14-15 2002 Application Form for attendance Name: .. Organisation: .. Address 1: Address 2: . City: . Country: .. Email: Telephone: . Fax: Will attend the seminar in Paris, representing the following interest(s) in digital preservation: . Confirmation of the reservation will be made to the above email address unless an alternative address is specified below: .. Seminar on Digital Preservation of the record of Science- state of the art UNESCO Paris Feb 14 - 15 2002 Programme Thursday Feb 14 2002 09.00 Registration 09.30 Welcome - UNESCO representative 09.45 Introduction Kurt Molholm, President ICSTI 10.15 The CODATA interest, CODATA activities and developments William Anderson, US Representative, CODATA Data Archiving Working Group 10.45 Questions/Clarifications 10.50 Coffee 11.15 ICSU activities and developments Sir Roger Elliot, Chairman, ICSU Press 11.45 Digital Preservation; overview of current developments Gail Hodge, Independent Consultant 12.30 IUPAP Initiatives, report from the Lyon Workshop Franck Laloλ and/or Marty Blume 13.00 Lunch 14.00 STM Members; viewpoint and developments Bob Campbell, Blackwell Publishers 14.30 Developments in related fields Metadata and pre-print archives Herbert van de Sompel, British Library Deposit Libraries TBA Digital Object Identifiers Norman Paskin, DOI Foundation. 15.30 Tea 16.00 Specific Examples and issues JSTOR Kevin Guthrie, JSTOR Preservation of Cultural materials UNESCO representative 17.00 Discussion and Close of day 1 Feb 15 2002 10.00 Review of Day 1 10.30 Research Projects underway and planned Neil Beagrie, UK JISC Digital Preservation Focus 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Next steps - Standardisation activities Gail Hodge Metadata and preservation Deborah Woodyard, British Library Liaison between different interest groups Sally Morris, APLSP Guidelines for digital preservation actions: TBA The requirements for guidelines 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Proposed Actions Establishing Working parties: Guidelines development Liaison between different interests Others 16.00 Tea 16.30 Timetable for further actions and wrap-up 17.30 Close -- VISITING GENEVA? See http://www.unige.ch/crystal/ahdf/geneva02.html Howard Flack http://www.unige.ch/crystal/ahdf/Howard.Flack.html Laboratoire de Cristallographie Phone: +41 22 702 62 49 24 quai Ernest-Ansermet mailto:Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland Fax: +41 22 702 61 08
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