Presentations - Wednesday 26 September

Day 1: 26 September 2012 - Day 2: 27 September 2012 - Day 3: 28 September 2012

• Opening Ceremony of the 'Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation'
  By Jānis Kārkliņš, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO
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• Wrestling with shape-shifters: Perspectives on preserving memory in the digital age
  By Ken Thibodeau, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
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• The economics of digital creation, curation and preservation
  By Seamus Ross, University of Toronto, Canada
• Trust and conflicting rights in the digital environment
  By Luciana Duranti, University of British Columbia, Canada
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• Digitization and preservation: Global opportunities and cultural challenges
  By Anne Thurston, International Records Management Trust, United Kingdom
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Intellectual Property Infrastructure Initiatives for Digital Heritage

• Intellectual rights and the HathiTrust Collection
  by H. Christenson, University of California; J. Wilkin, HathiTrust, United States
• The Durationator copyright experiment: A tool for the world
  by E. Townsend Gard, Tulane University, United States
• Beyond a legal framework: When the expectations of indigenous peoples collide with copyright law
  By J. Franklin, University of Washington, United States
• Digital heritage and local cultural property rights discourse
  By K. Hennessy, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Preservation Infrastructures: Current Models and Potential Alternatives

• An example to follow: An insfrastructure for interoperability and governance in the Tuscan public system for digital preservation
  By I. Pescini, W. Volpi, Regione Toscana, Italy
• The road to providing access to Kenya's information heritage - Digitization project in the Kenya National Archives
  By F. G. Mwangi, Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service
• A preservation infrastructure built to last: Preservation, community, and HathiTrust
  By J. York, HathiTrust, United States
• "Archiving-as-a-Service": Influence of Cloud computing on archival theorty and practice
  By H. Stancic, I. Milosevic, University of Zagreb, Croatia; A. Rajh, Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices, Croatia

The CODATA Mission: Preserving Scientific Data for the Future

• Recovering the Forgettery of the World
  By E. Griffin, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Canada; and the CODATA DARTG Team
• Tide gauge data rescue
  By P. Caldwell, National Oceanographic Data Center, United States
• Environmental data through time: Extending the climate record
  By S. Del Greco, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, United States
• The map as a fundamental source in the Memory of the World
  By D. R. F. Taylor, T. Lauriault, Carleton University, Canada

Preserving Tradition and Performing Arts in Digital Form

• Life at the edge of the Internet: Preserving the digital heritage of indigenous cultures
  By Ravi Katikala, Kurt Madsen and Gilberto Mincaye Nenquimo Enqueri
• Digital madness, archival theory and the endangered sound archives of Radio Botswana
  By L. Kenosi, The University of Botswana
• Editing historical music in the age of digitization
  By J. Langdalen, the National Library of Norway
• Developing and implementing a digital video repository for legacy dance documentation: Dance Heritage Coalition's secure media network
  By L. Sorensen, Bay Area Video Coalition, United States; T. Jones, New York Public Library, United States

• The Archivematica Project: Meeting Digital Continuity's Technical Challenges
  By P. Van Garderen, C. Mumma, E. McLellan, Artefactual Systems, Canada; P. Jordan, T. Hoote, International Monetary Fund

Beyond Access: Digitization to Preserve Culture (SI)

• Safeguarding the Portuguese language documentary heritage: The Lusophone digital library
  By F. M. Melo Alves, J. A. Moreiro Gonzalez, Universidades Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; J. M. Matias, International Association of Lusophone Digital Libraries, Portugal
• Réseau francophone numérique (French Digital Network)
  By B. Ferland, T. Muller, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Canada
• The World Digital Library
  By J. Van Oudenaren, Library of Congress, United States

Strategies for Building Digital Repositories

• A persistent digital collections strategy for UBC Library
  By B. Sprout, S. Romkey, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Building the business case for digital preservation
  By N. Grindley, Joint Information Systems Committee, United Kingdom
• Requirements for a remot repository
  By K. Bradley, National Library of Australia

Digital Forensics for the Preservation of Digital Heritage

• Accountability in preserving the Memory of the World
  By W. Liu, Florida State University, United States
• Automated redaction of sensitive data in collections: Toward responsible stewardship of digital heritage
  By C. Lee, K. Woods, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
• Shared perspectives: Digital forensics and ancestral computing
  By C. Rogers, University of British Columbia, Canada; J. L. John, The British Library, United Kingdom

Giving a Permanent Digital Voice to the Silenced

• Archiving large amounts of individually-created digital content: Lessons from archiving the Occupy Movement
  By H. Besser, New York University, United States
• Phoenix's new jacket: Digitizing German-Jewish historical archives
  By R. V. Lewin, Israel
• For the children taken... The challenge to Truth Commissions in building digital collections for research and long term preservation
  By T. Reilly, Canadian Truth Commission