Elpub 2008 - Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0
June 25th 2008 - June 27th 2008
Toronto, Canada
http://www.elpub.net/
As with previous ELPUB meetings, we look forward to a diverse contribution of original papers, workshops and tutorials, poster presentations as well as demonstrations. Highly distinguished and interna... [More]

Archiving 2008
June 24th 2008 - June 27th 2008
Bern, Switzerland
http://www.imaging.o...ences/archiving2008/
The IS&T-"Archiving 2008-Conference” brings together a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss ... [More]

Metadata for You & Me: A Workshop on Shareable Metadata
June 24th 2008 - June 25th 2008
INCOLSA, Indianapolis, IN
http://images.librar...jects/mym/index.html
Metadata aggregations such as OAIster and the IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project have shown that metadata designed for diverse local environments may fall short in providing the information ... [More]

The LIFE2 Project Conference
June 23rd 2008
British Library, London, UK
http://www.life.ac.uk/
The conference will cover the results from the project’s case studies which examined the lifecycle costs for: Digital repositories Primary data Digitised newspapers Other topics will include m... [More]

LIFE2 conference
June 23rd 2008
British Library, London, UK
http://www.life.ac.uk/2/conference.shtml
- Keynote address by Paul Courant (University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, University of Michigan) - A panel discussion on future digital preservation costing activities - Presentation on the ... [More]

Education for Digital Stewardship: Librarians, Archivists or Curators?
June 20th 2008
Pittsburgh, PA USA
http://www.jcdl2008....ops/wrkshop-edu.html
The large-scale digital repositories that are emerging today and expected to increase exponentially during this century will require information managers with the skills to acquire, manage, organize, ... [More]

Hypertext 2008 - The Nineteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
June 19th 2008 - June 21st 2008
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
http://www.sigweb.org/ht08/
The web, the semantic web and the Web 2.0 are all manifestations of the success of the link. The Hypertext Conference provides the forum for research that considers links, their semantics, their prese... [More]

RSP Summer School for managers of HE institutional repositories across England and Wales
June 18th 2008 - June 20th 2008
Thornton Manor, The Wirral, Cheshire, UK
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/SummerSchool2008/
The RSP Summer School is an intensive three day residential course which aims to deliver a comprehensive programme to address the practical challenges and solutions to effective repository development... [More]

JCDL2008
June 15th 2008 - June 20th 2008
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
http://www.jcdl2008.org/
Topics of the sessions and workshops will cover such aspects of digital libraries as infrastructure; institutions; metadata; content; services; digital preservation; system design; implementation; int... [More]

DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections (The NEW School for Scanning)
June 10th 2008 - June 12th 2008
Jacksonville, FL
http://www.nedcc.org/about/news.ddfl.php
This revitalized version of the three-day School for Scanning conference presents the essentials of digitization and is geared toward participants with a beginning or intermediate level of digital kno... [More]

LIDA 2008 - Libraries in the digital age
June 2nd 2008 - June 7th 2008
Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia
http://www.ffos.hr/lida/
The annual international conference and course Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital ... [More]

ESWC 2008 - The 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference
June 1st 2008 - June 5th 2008
Tenerife, Spain
http://www.eswc2008.org/
The 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. ESWC 2008 will also feature a tutorial program, s... [More]

SIEDL 2008 - First Workshop on Semantic Interoperability in the European Digital Library
June 1st 2008
Tenerife, Spain
http://multimedia.semanticweb.org/siedl/
To be held as part of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (1-5 June 2008). One of Europe’s current most important initiatives is the construction of the European Digital Library (EDL), which a... [More]