The National Archives and Records Administration and the University of Maryland
Partnerships in Innovation II: From Vision to Reality and Beyond
October 7- 8, 2008, College Park, Maryland
CONFERENCE DAY 1 OCTOBER 7, 2008: NATIONAL ARCHIVES AT COLLEGE PARK (ARCHIVES II AUDITORIUM), COLLEGE PARK, MD
7:30 - 8:45 REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST, Auditorium Reception Area and Lecture Rooms B through E
8:45 - 9:00 WELCOME TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION (NARA)
- Prof. Allen Weinstein, The Archivist of the United States
- Dr. C. Dan Mote, Jr., President of the University of Maryland
9:00 - 9:15 Introduction
- Dr. Michael J. Kurtz, Assistant Archivist for Records Services, NARA, and Adjunct Professor, iSchool, University of Maryland, College Park
- Martha Morphy, Assistant Archivist for Information Services, NARA
9:15 - 10:30 SESSION #1: THE ERA SYSTEM: ARCHITECTURE, IMPLEMENTATION, AND ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT
Description: A demonstration of NARA's newly released Electronic Records Archives (ERA) System's initial operating capabilities, and the impact of implementing a large and complex system on the agency's business processes and stakeholder communities.
Chair:Kenneth Thibodeau, Director, ERA Program, NARA
Panelists:
- David Kepley, ERA Transition Officer, NARA,
Presentation: "The Electronic Records Archives(ERA) System: From the User's Perspective"
- Rick Rogers, President, Fenestra Technologies
Presentation: "The Electronic Records Archives (ERA) System: Architectural, Implementation and Organizational"
10:30 - 11:00 REFRESHMENTS HOSTED BY NARA
11:00 - 12:30 SESSION #2: STANDARDS AND POLICIES FOR TRUSTED DIGITAL REPOSITORIES
Description: Insights into standards and approaches underlying the ERA System and other trusted digital repositories to instill community and user confidence in digital repositories; how ERA was built to these standards; and how various agencies, organizations, and groups are encouraging widespread use of such policies and standards.
Chair: Bruce Ambacher, Visiting Professor, iSchool, University of Maryland, College Park
Panelists:
- Don Sawyer, VIE,. Inc (Retired Senior Scientist, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Presentation: "Standards for Building Trust in Digital Repositories"
- Mark Conrad, ERA Research Program, NARA
Presentation: "STANDARS AND POLICIES FOR TRUSTED DIGITAL REPOSITORIES - ERA Research and Development"
- David Giaretta, IP Coordinator, Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval (CASPAR) Project, Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Science and Technology Facilities Council, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, United Kingdom. Presentation: (file pending)
12:30 - 1:30 LUNCHEON IN THE ARCHIVES II LECTURE ROOMS
1:30 - 3:00 SESSION #3: INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES: LESSONS LEARNED
Description: Discussion of electronic records repositories such as DSPACE, Fedora, Portico, and the Federal Digital System.
Chair: Helen R. Tibbo, Professor, School of Information and Library Science (SILS), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Panelists:
- Scott Leonard, State Records Manager, Kansas City Historical Society (DSPACE)
Presentation: "The Kansas State Publications Archival Collection: Lessons Learned"
- Eliot Wilczek, University Records Manager, Tufts University (Fedora) Presentation: (file pending)
- Evan Owens, Chief Technology Officer (Portico)
Presentation: "Digital Preservation at Scale: A Case Study from Portico"
3:00 - 3:30 BREAK
3:30 - 5:00 SESSION #4: PARTNERSHIPS IN RESEARCH
Description: An update of ERA research partners and current projects, highlighting NARA's Transcontinental Persistent Archives Prototype (TPAP).
Chair: Robert Chadduck, Principal Technologist, ERA Research Program, NARA Panelists:
- Reagan Moore, Director, Center for Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE), Renaissance Computing Institute and the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ERA Research Project: Independent Rule Oriented Data System (iRODS)
Presentation: "Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype"
- Joseph JaJa, Professor, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Maryland, College Park. ERA Research Project: Producer-Archive Workflow Network (PAWN)
Presentation: "ERA Project: Research Testbed and Related Outcomes"
- David Giaretta, See Session #2, above. DCC Research Project: CASPAR Presentation: (file pending)
CONFERENCE DAY 2 OCTOBER 8, 2008: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, STAMP UNION, COLONY BALLROOM, COLLEGE PARK, MD
7:30 - 8:45 REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST RECEPTION
8:45 - 9:00 WELCOME TO UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AND DAY 2 INTRODUCTION
- Dr. Nariman Farvardin, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Maryland, College Park
- Ms. Adrienne Thomas, Deputy Archivist, NARA
9:00 - 10:30 SESSION #5: TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Description: Discussion of the latest tools and technologies being developed to manage, preserve, and access digital information. In particular, panelists will discuss recent progress in dealing with the format obsolescence problem, capturing essential characteristics for engineering designs, and indexing and searching archival materials.
Chair: Joseph JaJa, Professor, UMIACS and ECE, University of Maryland, College Park Panelists:
- Adil Hasan for Paul Watry, Project Manager, Special Collections and Archives, University of Liverpool Library, Sydney Jones Library
Presentation: "SHAMAN Project: Tools and Technologies"
- John Ockerbloom, Digital Library Planner and Architect, iTadd, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, The University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Presentation: "Promoting Discovery and the use of Repository Content, an architectural perspective"
- William C. Regli, Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering,
Drexel University
Presentation: "Digital Preservation of CAD Artifacts"
- Douglas W. Oard, Associate Professor, iSchool and UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park
Presentation: "Creating Search Technology for E-Discovery"
10:30 - 11:30 REFRESHMENTS HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND WITH POSTERS AND TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS
11:30 - 12:30 SESSION #6: DATANET: A DIGITAL PRESERVATION NETWORK FOR THE FUTURE
Description: Highlights of the National Science Foundation's digital preservation network, DataNet, focusing on the preservation and access to critical science data.
Chair: Robert Chadduck, Principal Technologist, NARA ERA Research Program Panelists: DataNet Co-Directors:
- Lucy Nowell, Program Director, Data, Data Analysis, and Visualization, Office of Cyber Infrastructure, The National Science Foundation
Presentation: "Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners(DataNet)"
- Sylvia Spengler, Program Director, Information Integration & Informatics (III) Cluster,
- The National Science Foundation
1:00 CONFERENCE CLOSING
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