I am pleased to announce that Professor Seamus Ross will be
the keynote
speaker at the 2006 NHPRC Electronic Records Research
Fellows Symposium,
Friday, October 6, 2006 in Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel
Hill. This promises
to be a great beginning to a wonderful day. Following
Professor Ross, the
2005 Fellows will present the findings from their research
projects and the
2006 Fellows will give us a glimpse into what they will be
doing during the
upcoming year. Dr. Paul Conway will provide a critique of
the projects. This
event is free and open to the public but we encourage you to
register to
facilitate our planning for the event at: http://sils.unc.edu/n
ews/nhprc/
Please visit our website for more information:
http://www.ils.
unc.edu/nhprcfellows/.
Title: Uncertainty, Risk, Trust, and Digital Persistency
Author: Seamus Ross, Director HATII University of Glasgow
and Associate
Director of the UK's Digital Curation Centre
Digital preservation and curation is, in part, about the
management of
uncertainty and the engendering of trust. Management of
uncertainty
underpins mechanisms for ensuring the authenticity,
integrity, and
provenance of digital materials. The conversion of
uncertainties into
measurable and manageable risks involves an appreciation of
the preservation
pressure points and the methods, technologies, and processes
that can be
employed to ameliorate them. To manage risks associated
with the fragility
of digital objects auditable processes, workflows, and
methods need to be
supported by guidelines, metadata, a richer understanding of
the nature of
digital objects, and tools. Current research in digital
preservation and
curation is making strides towards better defining risks and
ways of
avoiding and managing them.
The discussion of approaches to measuring uncertainty and
managing risk in
digital curation is set against the backdrop of the work of
key European
projects in the area of digital preservation and curation.
These include
the work of The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in the UK,
DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), CASPAR (Cultural, Artistic
and Scientific
knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval), PLANETS
(Preservation and
Long-term Access through NETworked Services),
Digital Preservation Cluster of the DELOS Network of
Excellence in Digital
Libraries (DELOS-DPC), and ERPANET (Electronic Resource
Preservation and
Access Network). All these projects are contributing to the
global effort to
address the challenges which make long term accessibility of
digital
materials an uncertain activity and risks difficult to
assess and manage.
Seamus Ross, Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital
Curation, and
Director of Humanities Computing and Information Management
at the
University of Glasgow, runs HATII (Humanities Advanced
Technology and
Information Institute) (http://www.hatii.arts
.gla.ac.uk) of which he is the
founding director. He is an Associate Director of the
Digital Curation
Centre in the UK (http://www.dcc.ac.uk), a
co-principal investigator in the
DELOS Digital Libraries Network of Excellence (http://www.dpc.delos.ac.uk
),
and Principal Director of DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE)
(http://www.di
gitalpreservationeurope.eu). He was Principal Director
of
ERPANET a European Commission activity to enhance the
preservation of
cultural heritage and scientific digital objects (http://www.erpanet.org),
and a key player in The Digital Culture Forum (DigiCULT
Forum) which worked
to improve the take-up of cutting edge research and
technology by the
cultural heritage sector (http://www.digicult.info
). Before joining the
University of Glasgow he was Head of ICT at the British
Academy and a
technologist at a company specialising in knowledge
engineering. He earned a
doctorate from the University of Oxford. Some of his
publications are
available at http://eprints.erpanet.org
During 2005/6 Seamus Ross is
Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (University
of Oxford) and
Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College (Oxford).
-Helen
Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Professor
School of Information and Library Science
201 Manning Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
tibbo ils.unc.edu
Tel: 919.962.8063
Fax: 919.962.8071
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