2010 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center
1900 University Avenue
Austin, TX 78705
Dates: May 17 – 18, 2010
Theme: Collaboration
In the digital age, scholars and researchers are finding new ways to collaborate, share findings, and discuss ideas with each other and the general public. New technologies have removed barriers to disseminating scholarly work, while new publishing and partnership models can provide easier access to published scholarship.
The Texas Digital Library works together with its member institutions to provide tools and expertise that make the advancement of scholarly communications in the 21st century possible. TCDL 2010 will give TDL members and other interested parties the opportunity to share innovative work being done in these areas. Among the questions the conference seeks to explore are:
- How can institutions navigate the changing landscape of scholarly communications with new business models, new tools for communication and collaboration, and new institutional policies?
- How can partnerships across institutional, even international, boundaries aid in advancing scholarly communications?
- How can institutions of higher learning realize the full benefits of new communications tools (like electronic journals and other online publishing technologies) to share data, journal articles, book-length works, and other – perhaps new – kinds of scholarship?
- How can non-peer-reviewed outlets like blogs and wikis be used effectively for scholarly pursuits?
- How can various policies regarding Open Access, copyright, and Creative Commons licensing promote collaboration and the creation and dissemination of scholarly work?
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Leslie Carr & Dr. Reagan Moore
Dr. Leslie Carr
Leslie Carr is a senior lecturer in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group (1AM) in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. He is also the technical director of the EPrints Repository software team and the manager of the ECS repository. Dr. Carr writes about repositories and repository management on the blog RepositoryMan.
Opening Keynote Session on May 17, 2010
“Directions for Digital Repositories“
The Internet provided a platform for global digital communication; the Web added document browsing and repositories have added persistence and curation. What have we achieved with this multilayered platform in the last decade? And what scope have we for achieving new things? The newly emerging discipline of Web Science tells us that the Web isn’t a thing but an activity: the creation of a network of information by a network of individuals. The Web wasn’t invented by Tim Berners Lee, it is being invented by all of us as we gradually adapt our tools and change our practice. In this presentation Dr. Carr discusses some of the changes that have occurred in the UK and European experience, the changes that we have embodied in the EPrints repository plat form, and some of our hopes for changes yet to occur.
Dr. Reagan Moore
Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina, coordinates research efforts in development of policy-based data management systems that are used to support data grids, digital libraries, processing pipelines and persistent archives. Moore is the principal investigator for the development of the integrated Rule Oriented Data Sys tem (iRODS). The iRODS technology automates the application of management policies, automates validation of assessment criteria, and minimizes the labor required to manage massive distributed data collections. Moore has a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (1967), and a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of California, San Diego (1978).
Closing Keynote Session on May 18, 2010
“Virtualization of the Data Life Cycle“
The emergence of policy-based data management systems has made it possible to consider preservation as one of the stages of a data life cycle. Each stage represents a consensus by a user community on the purpose of the collection, the policies that will be used to control desired collection properties, the procedures that will enforce the policies, and the metadata or state information that is needed for a self-consistent system. Virtualization of the data life cycle corresponds to tracking the evolution of the policies, procedures, and state information and providing mechanisms for each new user community to re-purpose the collection. Long term sustainability then corresponds to re-purposing of a collection for use within a new institution, and uses the same mechanisms that support evolution between data life cycle stages.
Conference Proceedings
The 2010 TCDL Conference Proceedings are available in the Texas Digital Library (TDL) repository.
TCDL 2010 Announcements
TCDL 2010 Planning Committee
John Leggett, Texas A&M University
Mark McFarland, University of Texas at Austin
Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library
Ryan Steans, Texas Digital Library
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.