CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections

WHAT: The DigCCurr 2012 Public Symposium Presents CurateGear! a highly
interactive day-long event focused on digital curation tools and
methods. See demonstrations, hear about the latest developments, and
discuss application in professional contexts.

WHEN: Friday, January 6, 2012, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

WHERE: Friday Center, UNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

HOW TO REGISTER: Go to: http://tinyurl.com/3m8ajrm COST: $100 ($125 for
late registration beginning December 1st); STUDENT COST: $50.

Registration includes continental breakfast, morning and afternoon
breaks, lunch, and free parking.

8:00-8:15	Welcome and Introductions	Helen Tibbo
8:15-8:30	Overview of the Day’s Topics	Cal Lee
8:30-9:00	Curation Needs and Behaviors	Carolyn Hank – The Blog Archiving Landscape: Services and Approaches for Personal Blog Preservation Matt Kirschenbaum – More than Words: Literary Authorship and Word Processing Doug Reside – On Becoming a Digital Curator for the Performing Arts
9:00-9:20	Break
9:20-10:00	Repository Management Environments	Jon Crabtree – SAFE Archive Mark Evans and Mike Thuman – Safety Deposit Box Chien-Yi Hou and Richard Marciano – Policy-Driven Data Management Peter Van Garderen – Integration of BitCurator knowledge and tools into Archivematica
10:00-11:00	Demo and Discussion Session – Repository Management Environments	Presenters from the previous session will provide demonstrations and discuss with CurateGear participants.
11:00-11:20	Break
11:20-12:00	Metadata and Documentation	Barbara Guttman and Doug White – The NSRL and Its Potential Role in Digital Curation Mark Matienzo – Accessioning-based Metadata Extraction and Iterative Processing: Notes From the Field David Pearson – NLA Digital Preservation Knowledgebases for Formats, Software and associated levels of support Seamus Ross – DRAMBORA and the Data Audit Framework
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:00	Demo and Discussion Session – Metadata and Documentation	Presenters from the previous session will provide demonstrations and discuss with CurateGear participants.
2:00-3:00	Data Transformation, Processing and Access	Greg Jansen – Curator’s Workbench Trevor Owens – Viewshare.org: A free open platform for creating interfaces to cultural heritage collections Seth Shaw – Accessioning Evolution @ Duke Bill Underwood – Tools for File Format Identification, Validation and Characterization Kam Woods – BitCurator
3:00-3:20	Break
3:20-4:20	Demo and Discussion Session – Data Transformation, Processing and Access	Presenters from the previous session will provide demonstrations and discuss with CurateGear participants.
4:20-5:00	Observations and Implications	Nancy McGovern, Seamus Ross, Helen Tibbo, Bram van der Werf