2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Radisson Hotel & Suites Austin Downtown
111 Cesar Chavez at Congress
Austin, TX 78701
Dates: May 7 – 8, 2013
Keynote Speakers: Nancy McGovern & Michele Kimpton
Nancy McGovern
Nancy Y. McGovern has been the Head of Curation and Preservation Services at MIT Libraries since February 2012. Her responsibilities include ensuring longterm access to the digital and physical assets of the Libraries and developing appropriate long-term strategies for an expanding range of digital content. Before MIT Libraries, she was the Digital Preservation Officer (DPO) and a Research Assistant Professor at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a social science data archive at the University of Michigan that was established in 1962.
Opening Keynote Session on May 7, 2013
“Curation and Preservation Service: Adapting Frameworks and Tools to Enable Sustainable Programs“
Since 1996, the digital preservation community has been developing and refining standards and practice. For more than a decade, organizations responsible for managing digital content over time have been adapting and adopting the results of those community efforts. This paper looks at organizational examples of using community documents such as Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities, Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model, and Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification(TRAC), and other community documents as frameworks for developing and sustaining digital curation and preservation programs. The backdrop for this work is the organizational developmental model developed by Kenney and McGovern for the Digital Preservation Management workshop series that has been running since 2003.
Michele Kimpton
As CEO of the DuraSpace Foundation, Michele Kimpton is the project director for the DuraCloud project and provides overall leadership for all DuraSpace initiatives, activities, and partnerships. She has been named a Digital Preservation Pioneer by the NDIPP program at the Library of Congress and is also Project Director for the DuraCloud project.
Closing Keynote Session on May 8, 2013
“Making the Commitment to Preserve our Digital Scholarship: Can we and will we?”
Ensuring digital scholarship produced today is available for future generations will be seen as one of the key accomplishments or failures of our time if we do not get it right. There is an ever increasing amount of content produced natively in digital form, that if actions are not taken today to proactively manage and preserve the content we risk losing it forever. Digital data is being produced in record quantities in many new formats ,which makes it daunting for any single institution to tackle preservation alone. There are many projects and collaborations underway to begin to collectively work on finding viable, sustainable solutions across a broad spectrum of use cases. DuraSpace, as well as Texas Digital Library, are players in this pursuit to develop common, scalable solutions for preserving and providing access to scholarship. The focus of the talk will examine the landscape of preservation focused projects and discuss how each of us can and must take part in this process to ensure robust, diversified and sustainable solutions. We can not leave the job of ensuring long term access of our digital scholarship to others, it is our problem to solve and our legacy to leave.
Conference Proceedings
The 2013 TCDL Conference Proceedings are available in the Texas Digital Library (TDL) repository.
TCDL 2013 Announcements
TCDL 2013 Planning Committee
Chair: Amy Rushing, University of Texas at Austin
Jim Brewer, Texas Tech University
Jeanne Hazzard, Texas State University
Billie Peterson-Lugo, Baylor University
Leslie Reynolds, Texas A&M University
About the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Since 2007, the Texas Digital Library has hosted the annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). TCDL covers topics relevant to the creation, promotion, dissemination, and preservation of research, scholarship, and cultural heritage digital materials. The goal of TCDL is to bring together those working on digital projects — including outreach librarians, repository managers, catalogers, faculty members, technical staff, and others — in order to build a practical, usable, and sustainable model for digital libraries.
TCDL encourages and welcomes participation from students, scholars, librarians, researchers, faculty, and users from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. All are welcome!
Read TCDL’s Code of Conduct and Land Acknowledgement.