REGISTER for the 2014 OCUL Digital Curation Summit!
Date: November 21st from 9:30 to 4:30
Location: Robert H. Blackburn Room (room 4036) at Robarts Library, University of Toronto
Register by Friday, October 24th. Please coordinate a maximum of 3 people per institution for the time being, as space is limited.
What?
Please join your OCUL colleagues for the OCUL Digital Curation Community's 2014 Summit, in partnership with the University of Toronto. The Digital Curation Summit will introduce attendees to various digital curation tools through practical workshops conducted by expert community members.
Participants will learn about:
- digital preservation policies
- digitization work-flows and digitization support in Ontario
- linked data in digital curation
- digital curation tools such as Archivematica, Islandora, and Omeka
Where?
Robert H. Blackburn Room, room 4036
4th floor of Robarts Library
University of Toronto
130 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5
Webcast
Can't make it in person? The University of Toronto's Media Production department will record the event! A URL for the webcast will be distributed after the event.
Catering
Morning and afternoon snacks and lunch will be provided to registrants.
Laptops and Wifi
Please bring your own laptop. Wifi will be available.
Schedule
Time | Topic | Presenter(s) | Abstract |
9:30 – 10:00 | Practical Implementation of Digital Preservation Policies | Steve Marks Nick Ruest | How do organizations make consistent and rigorous decisions about their day-to-day preservation activities? Through policy, of course! What's the best thing to talk about first thing in the morning? Policy creation implementation! This session will talk about how you can create policies and make them work for you so that you can do all the cool things that will be talked about later in the day. Steve Marks is the Digital Preservation Librarian at OCUL's Scholars Portal. Nick Ruest is the Digital Assets Librarian at York University. |
10:00 – 10:45 | Digitization Work Flows + Digitization Services in Ontario | Sara Allain | |
10:45 – 11:00 | Break |
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11:00 – 11:30 | Linked Data in Digital Curation | Jenny Jing | Linked Data is a hot topic in the library world. What is Linked Data and why it is important for us? How can we use linked data in digital curation in general and linked data applications/tools? Linked Data impact and sample sites using Linked Data in digital preservation tools, such as Islandora. Jenny Jing is the Information Systems Librarian at Queen's University. |
11:30 – 12:00 | Digital curation tools | Gabriela Mircea | What are the general functionalities of digital curation tools? What are the key tools in use in academic libraries? What is the trend for long-term preservation? And a case study using McMaster's digital curation station and BitCurator. Gabriela Mircea is the Digital Repository Librarian at McMaster University. She has over ten years of experience in digital preservation work in libraries. |
12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch |
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1:00 – 2:00 | Archivematica | Jeremy Heill | |
2:00 – 3:15 | Islandora | Nick Ruest Kirsta Stapelfeldt | |
3:15 – 3:30 | Break |
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3:30 – 4:30 | Omeka | Kelli Babcock Leslie Barnes Rachelann Pisani | This presentation will offer an introduction to Omeka, an open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. The presentation will also cover how Omeka can be used as a presentation layer alongside Islandora's preservation work flows using the example of the University of Toronto's Collections U of T and Exhibits websites. Kelli Babcock is a Digital Initiatives Librarian in the University of Toronto Library's Information Technology Services department. Leslie Barnes is a Digital Scholarship Librarian in the University of Toronto Library's Information Technology Services department. Rachelann Pisani is a Digital Curation intern in the University of Toronto Library's Information Technology Services department. |