Coming Apri 1, 2010 in DC: Blue Ribbon Task Force Hosts Symposium on Economics of Sustaining Digital Information
From the Announcement:
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (BRTF-SDPA) will hold a one-day symposium convening a diverse group of speakers from the academic, private, and public sectors to discuss one of the most pressing issues of the Information Age: identifying practical solutions to the economic challenges of preserving today’s deluge of digital data.
Called “A National Conversation on the Economic Sustainability of Digital Information”, the symposium will be held April 1, 2010 at The Fairmont in Washington, D.C. Scheduled to speak is a spectrum of national leaders from the Executive Office of the President, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Smithsonian Museum, Nature Magazine, Google, and other organizations for whom digital information is fundamental for success.
The symposium will also provide a forum for discussion of the recommendations in the Blue Ribbon Task Force’s Final Report on economically sustainable digital preservation practices, to be issued in mid-February. When released, the report can be found online at http://brtf.sdsc.edu.
Please visit http://brtf.sdsc.edu/symposium.html for a preliminary agenda for the BRTF-SDPA symposium. Seating is limited. General registration opens February 1 and will be on a first-come first-served basis by visiting http://brtf.sdsc.edu/symposium_reg.php. There are a limited number of spaces reserved for accredited media.
The list of scheduled speakers is quite impressive.
+ William G. Bowen– President Emeritus, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
+ Daniel E. Atkins – Former Director of the National Science Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure
+ Wayne Clough – Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
+ Thomas Kalil – Deputy Director for Policy in the Office of Science & Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States (Keynote Speaker)
+ Timo Hannay – Publishing Director, Nature.com, Nature Publishing Group
+ Chris Lacinak – Founder and President, Audiovisual Preservation Solutions
+ Derek Law – Board Chair, JISC Advance
+ George Oates – Lead, Open Library at Internet Archive
+ Brian E. C. Schottlaender – The Audrey Geisel University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego
+ Hal R. Varian – Chief Economist, Google
Sessions in the BRTF-SDPA symposium will focus on four key areas of digital information: research data, scholarly discourse, collectively produced web content such as blogs, and commercially owned cultural content such as movies and music. The symposium is aimed at policy- and decision-makers in the private and public sectors, federal agencies, major libraries and archival institutions, and the general public.
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