Registration Open for Digital Preservation Management Workshop
Event: Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems Workshop
Dates: May 3-8, 2009
Place: ICPSR, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Registration is now open for the Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems Workshop, now hosted by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) after originally being developed at Cornell by Anne R. Kenney and Nancy Y. McGovern.
The application form for the workshop is now available, and will remain available until registration is full (24 participants).
The intended audience for the workshop series is managers at organizations who are or will be responsible for digital preservation. The keynote speaker for the May 2009 workshop is Richard Pearce-Moses, the Director of Digital Government Information at the Arizona State Library and Archives and the Principal Investigator on the Library of Congress-supported Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS) Project. Martha Anderson, the Director of Program Management for the Library's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program will be the keynote speaker for the October 2009 workshop.
Additional information about the workshop series and future dates are available at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/fiveday.html. The workshop series has been developed with funding from National Endowment for the Humanities.
