I wanted to share the announcement of the next Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) and related events taking place in September 2014.
You can contact Arthur Pasquinelli <art.pasquinelli@oracle.com> for additional information.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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The registration for the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) September 16-18, the RADAR Conference September 15-16, and the free Oracle Technology Day the morning of September 16 is now open. Please note that the hotel accommodation information will be available via the website in the next several days. The URL is at:
http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/events/.
Summary Overview:
The conference begins with a free, optional Oracle Storage Technology session the morning of Tuesday, September 16. This is followed by an afternoon PASIG introductory session, Preservation 101. This is usually attended by 80%-90% of the PASIG conference attendees. The next two days will be made up of panels, lightning rounds, and collaboration time. Session focus areas are:
– Managing and Preserving Research Data
– Infrastructure to Support Preservation at Scale
– Audiovisual and Media Archiving and Preservation
– Database & Business Process Preservation
Schedule Overview:
Monday, September 15: “Research Data Management Conference – Organizational, Technical, and Legal Challenges” (fka RADAR Conference)
Legal Issues
Organizational Issues
Best Practices
Infrastructure for Data Management
Tuesday, September 16:
AM: RADAR Workshop & Oracle Technology Day
8:30am – 1:30pm Oracle Day: Focus on Tiered Storage and Cloud Technologies, includes Lunch.
PM: PASIG Digital Preservation 101 2:00pm-5:30pm
Preservation 101
Wednesday, September 17: PASIG and Dinner
Thursday, September 18: PASIG
No activities on Friday
PASIG Draft Agenda (as of June 8):
Day 1
The Oracle Technology Day, September 16 (Tuesday morning, 8:30am-1:30pm): This will overview Oracle technology and products, but it is designed to act as a broad infrastructure primer for attendees. The meeting will focus on disk and tape, tiered storage technologies, cloud vs on-premise archiving economics, and hierarchical storage systems. Customers will present and we also review audience projects, goals, and issues related to infrastructure.
Detailed Schedule
Digital Preservation 101 (Tuesday Afternoon, 2:00pm-5:30pm)
Digital Preservation 101
Tom Cramer, Stanford
Neil Jefferies — Oxford
Tiered Storage — Oracle
- TBC
- TBC
Day 2
Research Data (Wednesday Morning)
“Small Sciences”
Research Objects – Workflow4Ever/MyExperiment/Nano-publications — TBC
F1000, Methodological Publication – Open Data, Open Access — Neil Jefferies, Oxford
Fedora 4 for Research Data — David Wilcox, Fedora Project Manager
Long-tail Data Access/RDA — TBC
“Big Data”
KIT / CERN T1 Datacenter – Jos van Wezel
TBC
TBC
Mass Preservation / Scaling Using the Web
Case Studies in Preservation at Scale
SCAPE/E-Ark: Ross King
The National Archives on Cloud Storage and Digital Preservation: Neil Beagrie
The Digital Preservation Network — Tom Cramer, Stanford, David Minor, UCSD
Lunch break
Infrastructure to Support Preservation at Scale
Moderator: Thorsten Lange/PresenterOracle — TBC
Microsoft Azure — Alex Wade, Microsoft
Arkivum — Matthew Addis
Preservica — Mike Quinn, Tessella
Archiving Research Data / Tiered Storage – Jason Goodman, Cray Research
Economics of Preservation
Cost Model for Tiered Storage –Thomas Ledoux, BnF
TBD
Lightning Rounds (Wednesday Afternoon)
Dinner (Wednesday Evening)
Day 3
Audiovisual / Media (Thursday Morning)
Overview — TBC
Dutch Sound and Vision Institute — Ernst van Velzen
TBC
TBC
TBC
- Lightning Rounds
Database & Business Process Preservation (Thursday afternoon)
- Database Archiving in E-ARK Project — Janet Delve, U. Portsmouth
Business Process Preservation: TIMBUS — Angela Dappert, DPC
Neal Fitzgerald, Queensland State Archive
Discussions on Needs and PASIG Directions (Late Thursday)