WebWise 2007: Stewardship in the Digital Age

The 2007 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World was held March 1-2 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The conference was co-hosted by IMLS, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and OCLC Online Computer Library Center. The theme for 2007 was "Stewardship in the Digital Age: Managing Museum and Library Collections for Preservation and Use."

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Full-text papers of many of the presentations appear in the July issue of the online journal First Monday, which has been publishing WebWise papers in a special issue each year since the first conference in 2000.

WebWise 2007 Agenda and Proceedings:

Pre-Conference Workshops—Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Pre-Conference #1: Preserving Digital Collections

Preserving Digital Collections
Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director, Florida Center for Library Automation
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Preserving Government and Political Information: The Web-at-Risk Project
Valerie Glenn, Hoover, AL
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Public Television: Preserving Digital Programs
Mary Ide, Director of Archives, WGBH Educational Foundation
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The Romance of Lost Causes: Preserving Digital Art
Rick Rinehart, Digital Media Curator, UC Berkeley Art Museum
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Pre-Conference #2: Sharing Images and Data: Making Access to Collections Easier and Bette
Moderator: Ken Hamma, Executive Director, Digital Policy, J. Paul Getty Trust

Search Interoperability, OAI-PMH, and Metadata
Sarah Shreeves, IDEALS Coordinator, University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign
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Sharing Images and Data: The Museum Perspective
Erin Coburn, Manager, Collections Information, J. Paul Getty Museum

Shareable Metadata for Nonbibliographic Materials: Implications for Libraries and Archives.
Murtha Baca, Head, Getty Vocabulary Program, Getty Research Institute
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Case Studies: New Implementations of OAI-PMH
Günter Waibel, Program Officer, RLG Programs, OCLC
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Barbara Thompson, Witt Librarian, Witt Library, Courtauld Art Institute, London
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Cathryn Goodwin, Collections Data Specialist, Princeton University Art Museum

Michael Jenkins, Manager, Met Images, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pre-Conference #3: Producing Broadcast-Quality, Preservation-Worthy Video
Moderator: Tim Lorang, Director for National Production Services, ResearchChannel

Louis Fox, Associate VP, Computing & Communications, University of Washington

Jennifer Locke Jones, Chair and Curator, National Museum of American History

Nate McQueen, Systems Architect, ResearchChannel

Marsha Semmel, Deputy Director for Museums and Director for Strategic Partnerships, IMLS

Selma Thomas, Principal, Watertown Productions

Conference Day One—Thursday, March 1, 2007

Moderator: Liz Bishoff, Head of Sponsored Programs, University of Colorado at Boulder, University Libraries

Welcome to WebWise
Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice, IMLS Director; Mr. Jay Jordan, OCLC CEO and President; and Dr. Ken Hamma, Executive Director, Digital Policy, J. Paul Getty Trust

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Keynote Address: Envisioning American Art 2.0
Dr. Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Session #1: The Challenge of Preservation Today
Moderator: Günter Waibel, Program Officer, OCLC/RLG Programs

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From the Heritage Health Index: The State of our Physical and Digital Collections
Kristen Overbeck Laise, Vice President, Collection Care Programs, Heritage Preservation
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Exit Art Digital Archive: The Challenge of Preserving Contemporary Experimental Art
Jodi Hanel, Associate Curator & Audrey Christensen, Archivist, Exit Art

Overview of Preservation in the Digital Age
Steve Puglia, Preservation and Imaging Specialist at the National Archives and Records Administration
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Session #2: Digital Preservation Readiness: Are We Ready to Preserve Our Digital Assets?
Moderator: Tom Clareson, Program Director for New Initiatives, PALINET, Inc.

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Surveying the Digital Readiness of Institutions
Ann Russell, Executive Director, Northeast Document Conservation Center
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Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories: Best Practices and Next Steps
Robin Dale, Program Officer, OCLC/RLG Programs
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Alabama Digital Preservation Network: A Statewide Solution to Preserving Locally-Created Digital Collections
Sue Medina, Director, Network of Alabama Academic Libraries
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Washington Update: Update on Federal Research & Development of Digital Preservation Programs
Moderator: Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

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Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives/Chief Information Officer, Library of Congress
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Ken Thibodeau, Director, ERA Program, National Archives and Records Administration
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Chris Greer, Senior Advisor for Digital Data, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, NSF

Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Directory for Library Services, IMLS

Session #3: Documenting Cultural Heritage: Case Studies in Cultural Heritage Preservation
Moderator: Liz Bishoff, Head of Sponsored Programs, University of Colorado at Boulder, University Libraries

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Stewarding Potential
Jane Sledge, Associate Director for Museum Assets and Operations, National Museum of the American Indian
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The Olympic Peninsula Community Museum Project: A Window Into a Community
Anne Graham, Senior Computer Specialist, Libraries Digital Initiatives Programs, University of Washington Library
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American Languages: Documenting Cultural Heritage through Language Preservation
Mark Louden, Professor, Department of German/Max Kade Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Conference Day Two—Friday, March 2, 2007

Moderator: Liz Bishoff, Head of Sponsored Programs, University of Colorado at Boulder, University Libraries

Keynote Address: Digitization for Access AND Preservation: Strategies of the Library of Congress
Dr. Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress

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Session #4: Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities
Moderator: Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, IMLS

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Our Cultural Commonwealth: Report of the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Steven Wheatley, Vice President, American Council of Learned Societies
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Digital Humanities and the IMLS/NEH Advancing Knowledge Partnership
Brett Bobley, Director, Digital Humanities Initiative, National Endowment for the Humanities
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Scholarly Collaboration with Museums and Libraries in the Digital Era
Roy Rosenzweig, Director, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
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Discussion and Wrap-up
Diane M. Zorich, Cultural Heritage Information Management Consultant

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Previous WebWise Conferences:

WebWise 2006: Inspiring Discovery: Unlocking Collections
February 15-17, 2006

WebWise 2005: Libraries and Museums in the Digital World
February 2005

WebWise 2004: Sharing Digital Resources
March 2004