Digital Curation Institute Conference, June 02010, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

From the announcement on ARCAN-L (02010-04-06):

Digital Curation Institute Conference

June 16th – 17th, 2010
iSchool, University of Toronto – Canada

The Digital Curation Institute at the University of Toronto's iSchool provides a rich, interdisciplinary environment for investigating principles and theory building related to the creation, management, use, interpretation and preservation of digital resources; conducting research on digital curation issues; and developing technologies and tools to support best practice in this area. The DCI promotes innovative multi-faceted research projects that involve collaboration among faculty, students, practitioners, and researchers both national, and internationality. It encourages research that utilize multi-methods approaches from the fields of critical information studies; library and information science; archives and record management; information systems, media, and design; cultural heritage; museum studies, knowledge management and information management.

The key objectives of this conference are to promote greater understanding of the issues of digital curation, advance research on digital curation, to refine a digital curation model and defining the Digital Curation Institute’s research agenda.

Topics include: approaches for digital curation research; modeling for digital curation; risk, trust and certification; curating creative objects, digital libraries and digital repositories; digital curation and government records; experimentation.

Speakers include: Ross Harvey (Simmons GSLIS), Hans Hofman (Nationaal Archief Netherlands), John MacDonald (information management consultant and educator), Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology), Seamus Ross (iSchool, University of Toronto), Raivo Ruusalepp, (Estonia Business Archives). Tom Hickerson, (University of Calgary) Anne Van Camp (Smithsonian Institute)

Registration: Registration fees include catered lunches, coffee break and a reception.
Register online at: http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca [(not active as of April 6, 02010)]
Pre-registration before June 10,

$150 General public
$100 University of Toronto faculty and staff
$50 Students
Onsite registration

$200 onsite

Contact:
Prof Wendy Duff
DCI Director iSchool, University of Toronto
wendy.duff@utoronto.ca Phone: 416-978-3152

New British Columbia Archival Network Service Coordinator and e-mail address

I was awarded the contract by the Archives Association of British Columbia as its new British Columbia Archival Network Service Coordinator effective April 1, 2010. My main work under the contract is management of the MemoryBC database of archival descriptions submitted by archival institutions in the province. MemoryBC was official launched in November 2009 as part of BC Archives Week and is the rebranded successor to the British Columbia Archival Union List.

I've set up a new e-mail address on Gmail specifically for this work. The address is aabc.bcans@gmail.com. Please use this address rather than info@aabc.ca.

Into the Pixel, ongoing juried exhibit of video game artwork

Curious about what some of the upcoming video games will look like or how some existing games differ from their original concept art? Check out Into the Pixel, an ongoing, juried exhibit of video game artwork sponsored and hosted by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. The exhibits date back to 2004.

What's New, Issue 24 (02010)

DPC and DCC are delighted to announce the publication of 'What's New 24' http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new-issue-24.html

This latest edition marks a new initiative between the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) which pools our efforts and produces a more frequent and more interactive news bulletin for those interested in all matters of digital curation and preservation. It is a successor of the DCC's monthly Curation News Round-up and the DPC's quarterly bulletin 'What's new in Digital Preservation?'

Each month, this publication will feature a snapshot of what's on and what's new, a topical discussion paper, a practitioner profile and an update from one of our partners overseas. In addition, readers are invited to share comments and debate current issues (simply add your comments at the bottom of the page on the DPC website).

The third issue of the joint publication includes an interview with Anusha Ranganathan, Oxford University Library Services, an overview of recent developments from Inge Angevaare, Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation, a listing of forthcoming events and an editorial section from the DPC Executive Director William Kilbride.

Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02010 04 01

Worldwide disappearance of pixels, global emergency declared

The worldwide disappearance of pixels from computer screens everywhere, that is, on a global scale, has led to the implementation of worldwide emergency measures. If you are able to read this, then your pixels are all right for the time being. If you are unable to read this, then it's time to clean your computer monitor, because today is April 1 and it's time for a bit of spring cleaning before your pixels really do disappear.