RSP Professional Briefing and Networking event series
February 29th 2008
Repositories Support Project
Bournemouth University, Dorset
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/ProfBrief.php
The UK has one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of institutional repositories. UK repository teams can tap into this accumulating pool of experts at a series of briefing and networking e... [More]

Communities and memories: a global perspective : The third international conference of the UNESCO Memory of the World programme
February 19th 2008 - February 22nd 2008
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
http://www.amw.org.au/mow2008/mow2008.htm
The conference will explore key issues such as: * How does the Memory of the World Program relate to traditional knowledge and oral rather than written cultural traditions and expressions? Ho... [More]

RSP Professional Briefing and Networking event series
February 13th 2008
Repositories Support Project
University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/ProfBrief.php
The UK has one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of institutional repositories. UK repository teams can tap into this accumulating pool of experts at a series of briefing and networking e... [More]

SIG meeting for the Metadata and Digital Repositories
February 12th 2008
Birkbeck, University of London
http://wiki.cetis.ac...ary_2008%2C_Birkbeck
for more information see the website [More]

WSDM 2008 - First ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
February 11th 2008 - February 12th 2008
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
http://www.wsdm2008.org/
WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is a brand new ACM conference intended to be complementary to the World Wide Web Conference tracks in search and data mining. The pace of innovation in these areas has rea... [More]

PREMIS Metadata Tutorial: An Overview of the Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata with Implementation Case Studies
February 11th 2008
SDSC Chronopolis
UC San Diego Geisel Library, Seuss Room, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
http://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/premis.html
This one day tutorial provides an introduction to PREMIS and its data model, a walk-through of the Data Dictionary, examples of PREMIS metadata in real situations, and implementation considerations, p... [More]

RSP Professional Briefing and Networking event series
February 6th 2008
Repositories Support Project
Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/ProfBrief.php
The UK has one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of institutional repositories. UK repository teams can tap into this accumulating pool of experts at a series of briefing and networking e... [More]