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The Tectonics of Digital Curation
A Symposium on the Shifting Preservation and Access Landscape

May 25 – 26, 2010
The Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts

A conference presented by the
Northeast Document Conservation Center

Hosted by MIT Libraries

Keynote speaker: Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive

Ray and Maria Stata Center - MIT
Photograph Courtesy of Andy Ryan

Conference Description

This century’s new decade is exposing the features of a society increasingly dependent on cultural and scientific content that is created, networked, used, and preserved in digital form. The Tectonics of Digital Curation: A Symposium on the Shifting Preservation and Access Landscape explores the sustainability of curated cultural collections created for and maintained on the web. At this two-day symposium, a diverse faculty of national experts will explore the forces at play in our increasingly networked society and the challenges they present for sustaining our digital collections.

Conference topics include:
Divergence and complexity in information networking
Digital preservation repositories
Electronic copyright and intellectual property
Collaborative and commercial preservation models
Digital archiving strategies
Open access to scholarly communication
The networked self
Preservation of community-built digital creations

Conference faculty include:
Julie Cohen, Georgetown University
Paul Conway, University of Michigan
Martin Halbert, University of North Texas
Peter Hirtle, Cornell University
Gregory Jackson, EDUCAUSE
Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
Heather Piwowar, University of Pittsburgh
MacKenzie Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Megan Winget, University of Texas at Austin
Ann Wolpert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Who should attend? Librarians, archivists, museum professionals, IT professionals, chief information officers, administrators, scientists, and scholars— any decision-maker responsible for creating, managing, or preserving digital resources that are accessed via networked systems.

Registration deadline:  Friday, May 21, 2010

Conference cost:  $325; students: $275

Conference Hours:
Tuesday, May 25 • Check-in starts at 7:30 AM
Tuesday, May 25 • 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Wednesday, May 26 • 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Conference Venue / Hotel Accommodations

The conference will be held in the Kirsch Auditorium in the Ray and Maria Stata Center (Building 32, Room 123) on the MIT campus. The address is:

32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA  02139

For a map of the MIT campus, go to http://whereis.mit.edu/ and click on “stata center.”

Because the conference is being held at MIT, the Northeast Document Conservation Center has NOT reserved a block of rooms at nearby hotels. Conference participants are responsible for making their own lodging arrangements. Nearby hotels can be found by searching MapQuest, RoomAtlas, or MapMyEvent.

Spread the Word
If you would like to share information about the symposium
with your colleagues, you may download this announcement, ToDC 2010 Poster, to print and post. Many thanks!

Contact NEDCC

Questions about registration? Contact Ginny Hughes, ghughes@nedcc.org, (978) 470-1010, ext. 224 
Questions about conference content? Contact Lori Foley, lfoley@nedcc.org, (978) 470-1010, ext. 223  

NEDCC gratefully acknowledges support for its preservation services by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this conference do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.