Tackling the Preservation Challenge: Practical Steps for Repository Managers
December 12th 2008
Digital Preservation Coalition
London
http://www.dpconline...12RepMngrsWkshp.html
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The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), the Repositories Support Project (RSP), the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the JISC are organising a joint workshop on the 12th December at the Novotel Hot... [More]

DLM Forum Conference
December 10th 2008 - December 12th 2008
Toulouse, France
http://dlmforum.typepad.com/
The DLM Forum is a community of archives and interested parties in archive, records and information management throughout Europe. It is supported by the European Commission and was the origin of MoReq... [More]

2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence (WI '08)
December 9th 2008 - December 12th 2008
Sydney, Australia
http://datamining.it...html/wi/?index=about
(WI) has been recognized as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g., knowledge repre... [More]

Persistence of Memory: Sustaining Digital Collections
December 9th 2008 - December 10th 2008
The Northeast Document Conservation Center
Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.nedcc.org.../pom2008/pombroc.php
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Two-day conference on digital longevity provides information about the latest developments in digital preservation to help you with the life-cycle management of your institution's collections. Conf... [More]

Adding value to data - Digital Repositories in the e-Science world Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science
December 7th 2008 - December 12th 2008
Indianapolis, USA
http://escience2008.iu.edu/
Session chairs are: * Andreas Aschenbrenner - University of Goettingen * Tobias Blanke - Centre for e-Research, King's College London * Mark Hedges - Centre for e-Research, King's College London ... [More]

Workshop "Archiving in Digital Cartography and Geoinformation"
December 4th 2008 - December 5th 2008
Berlin State Archive, Germany
http://www.codata-germany.org/Archiving_2008/
The fields of cartography and geoinformation, like other fileds of Science and Technology, face a growing neeed for preservation and archiving policies, methodologies, procedures and practices. This ... [More]

3rd International Conference on Semantic And Digital Media Technologies
December 3rd 2008 - December 5th 2008
Koblenz (Germany)
http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de/
The conference has been installed in 2006 in order to tackle this problem by recurring to the semantics and pragmatics of multimedia generation, management and access. The conference targets to attrac... [More]

Workshop on cross-media information analysis, extraction and management
December 3rd 2008
Koblenz (Germany)
http://www.dcs.shef....media-workshop-2008/
This workshop aims at being a forum to discuss the advances and challenges of cross-media information analysis and extraction methods that can enhance state-of-the-art single-media analysis approaches... [More]

9th Conference on Archives, Libraries and Museums in the Digital World
December 3rd 2008 - December 4th 2008
Association of Library and Information Professionals of the Czech Republic
Prague (Czech Republic)
http://skip.nkp.cz/akcArch08.htm
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The 9th Conference on Archives, Libraries and Museums in the Digital World ("9.konference Archivy, knihovny, muzea v digitalnim svete" in the Czech language) is focused on issues of cooperation betwee... [More]

ICADL 2008: 11th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information
December 2nd 2008 - December 5th 2008
ICADL
Bali (Indonesia)
http://www.icadl2008.org/
The ICADL meetings draw researchers and professionals from library and information science, computer science, social science, information systems, law and policy, education and learning, and various o... [More]

4th International Digital Curation Conference - "Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?"
December 1st 2008 - December 3rd 2008
Hilton Grosvenor Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2008/
The first day of the conference will focus on three key topics: * Radical sharing, new ways of doing science e.g. large scale research networks, mass collaboration, dynamic publishing tools, wi... [More]