Keynotes, Sessions, Agenda for Preservation & Archiving Special Interest Group Jan. 11-13, 2012

From Tom Cramer, Chair, Preservation & Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG), Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director, Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources

Palo Alto, CA PASIG, the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, will January 11-13, 2012 in Austin at the AT&T Conference Center on the campus of University of Texas at Austin. This meeting represents the reincarnation of PASIG as an independent, community-led organization--open to and welcoming of practitioners, researchers, industry experts and vendors in the digital preservation and archiving field. We're excited by the depth of speakers and topics, and the energy from the community in putting together this exchange.

Early registration discounts expire TODAY Wednesday, 11/30. Registration is $200 through November 30, 2011, and $325 thereafter. The room block at the AT&T Executive Conference Center is available on a first come, first served basis. Alternative hotels are listed on the web site. 
 

Speakers and Agenda

The meeting will feature the best elements of past meetings, with a heavy emphasis on practitioners' concerns of preservation strategies, best practices, storage, engineering, architectures, and operation of preservation and archiving systems, at scale. The Austin meeting will feature keynotes by: 

and in depth sessions on...

• Digital Preservation Bootcamp -- an optional, introductory session on digital preservation issues, concepts and tools
• Longterm Digital Preservation Storage Futures
• Preservation Research, Breakthroughs and Futures
• Practitioners Knowledge Exchange 
• Lightning Talks "from the Field"
• Domain Deep Dive: Media Preservation
• Research Data: Management, Preservation and Archiving
• Governance, Audit, Standards & Maturity Models
• Supercomputing & Digital Preservation
• Cloud-Based Preservation Services

A full agenda for the meeting is below. 
 

The Oracle Storage Archive Manager (SAM) User Group will be holding a separate, free meeting on Tuesday, January 10 at the conference center. Contact Art Pasquinelli <art.pasquinelli@oracle.com> for details. 

 

Sponsors 

Special thanks to our sponsors for making this vendor-independent PASIG possible (Family Search, Microsoft Research, Tessella, and Oracle), as well as the conference hosts, University of Texas Libraries, Texas Digital Library, and Stanford University. 
 

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PASIG Austin - Full Agenda as of November 28, 2011

Final times and speakers to be confirmed.

Day 1: Wednesday, January 11, 2012
 

8:00 AM

Registration

8:30 AM
Bootcamp Welcome

Digital Preservation Bootcamp
Training in concepts, issues, tools, strategies & approaches for Digital Preservation and Archiving. This half day block of training sessions will focus on an introduction to the field and needs in digital preservation, and give attendees a foundation of concepts, terminology, standards and tools used broadly in the field. This half day of “Digital Preservation 101” is open to practitioners of all levels, but will be targeted specifically for those looking to gain exposure to the field. 

 

Led by William Kilbride (Digital Preservation Coalition) and Don Post (IMERGE Consulting) with Tom Cramer, David Giaretta, Mark Evans, and other invited tutors. 

 

Noon
Registration & Lunch

1 PM - PASIG Begins

PASIG Welcome & Introduction to Steering Group

1:15 PM 
Long-term Digital Preservation Storage Futures
A state-of-the-art review of storage technology and industry trends with a focus on applying these developments to the unique needs of digital preservation and archiving, and systems at scale. Speakers will include:

3:45 PM 
Preservation Research, Breakthroughs and Futures
Current developments and trends in digital preservation research and practice.  

4:45 - 5:30 PM
PASIG Keynote
Plenary - Jay Boisseau, Director of TACC - Texas Advanced Computing Center
Under Jay Boisseau's leadership, TACC has grown in size and stature to become one of the leading academic advanced computing centers in the US. Boisseau initiated a strong and growing research and development program at TACC while enhancing the computational resources to provide world-class capabilities, culminating in the recent award to TACC of the largest NSF award in UT Austin history: $59 million to acquire one of the most powerful computing system in the world in 2007 and to support US open research for four years.

 

Evening Reception, AT&T Executive Center
 

Day 2: Thursday, January 12

8:30 AM
Jay Verkler, Family Search (TBC)
“Putting it all together for content that matters.” 
 

9:15 AM
Preservation & Archiving Architectures and Operations: Practitioners Knowledge Exchange.
Structured presentation and comparison of preservation systems design and operation. Detailed overviews of PASIG community members' systems, operating practices, and lessons learned.

11 AM
Lightning Talks
Participatory presentations on late breaking developments, compelling breakthroughs or burning issues from the PASIG Community (archives & industry; practitioners and thought-leaders).

Noon 
Lunch

1 PM
Domain Deep Dive: Media Preservation

2:00 PM 
Research Data Management, Archiving and Preservation

3:45 PM
Governance, Audit, Standards and Maturity
    

4:30 PM
Closing Plenary
Mike Wash - NARA CIO 

6:30 - 9 PM 

Dinner, Texas State History Museum

Day 3: Friday, January 13

8:30 AM 
Plenary - Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research.
Gordon is a principal researcher in the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Laboratory, working in the San Francisco Laboratory. His interests include extreme life-logging, digital lives, preserving everything in cyberspace, and cloud computing as a new computer class and platform. He proselytizes Jim Gray’s Fourth Paradigm of Science.

 

9:15 AM 
Digital Preservation & Supercomputing
The intersection and opportunities of supercomputing facilities and services with digital preservation and archiving.

11 AM
Cloud-Based Preservation Platforms and Services
Tapping cloud-based services for local preservation needs in storage, computing and services.

12:30 PM
Lunch

1:30 PM
Optional Open Sessions & Parallel Tracks