CurateGear 2016: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections

January 14, 2016
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education

Suggested hashtag: #curategear

About the Symposium
CurateGear 2016 was an interactive day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods. Participants saw demonstrations, heard about the latest developments, and discussed application in professional contexts. The event was sponsored by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (through the BitCurator Access project).

See a CurateGear 2016 notes document authored by Mark Ames, Moriah Neils Caruso, Connor Casey, Elizabeth Charlton, Blake Graham, Jeremy Heil, and Margy Jessup

Program

Break

8:00-8:10	Welcome, Introduction and Overview of the Day's Topics [Redbud AB]	Cal Lee and Helen Tibbo
8:10-9:30	Professional Needs and Strategies [Redbud AB]	Carolyn Hank - The Impact of Digital Curation Tools and Projects in the Classroom Alex Nelson - Navigating Unmountable Media with the Digital Forensics XML File System Matthew Kirschenbaum - Researching the Literary History of Word Processing: Lessons Learned Susan Malsbury and Don Mennerich - Documentation of Born Digital Collections in a Centralized Processing Environment Dorothy Waugh - Teaching Files: Incorporating Born-Digital Materials into Instruction Bradley Glisson - Global Positioning System Evidence: Its Impact and Implications for Digital Curation Mark Evans - Integration of Collections Management and Digital Preservation
9:30-9:45	Break
9:45-10:00	Data and Repository Management [Redbud AB]	Jon Crabtree and Don Sizemore – Using iRODS Policies to Support Preservation Actions Nancy McGovern – Digital Preservation Management Tools Erin Clary - Human Subjects Data in an Open Access Repository: Considerations and Challenges
10:00-10:45	Demo and Discussion Session - Data and Repository Management	Presenters from the previous session provide demonstrations and discuss with CurateGear participants. Jon Crabtree and Don Sizemore– Using iRODS Policies to Support Preservation Actions [Redbud AB] Nancy McGovern - Management Tools for Digital Curation and Preservation [Bellflower AB] Erin Clary - Human Subjects Data in an Open Access Repository: Considerations and Challenges [Windflower AB]
10:45-11:00	New Processes and Workflows [Redbud AB]	Matthew Farrell - Providing Remote Access with Docker: A Proof of Concept Josh Schneider - Using ePADD to Process and Provide Access to Email Archives Terrell Russell - iRODS Pluggable Rule Engine
11:00-11:45	Demo and Discussion Session – New Processes and Workflows	Presenters from the previous session provide demonstrations and discuss with CurateGear participants. Mathew Farrell - Providing Remote Access with Docker: A Proof of Concept [Redbud AB] Josh Schneider - Using ePADD to Process and Provide Access to Email Archives [Bellflower AB] Terrell Russell - iRODS Pluggable Rule Engine [Windflower AB]
11:45-12:45	Lunch
12:45-1:00	Collection Management and Description [Redbud AB]	Kari Smith - Organizational Considerations for Implementing Archivematica Carl Wilson - VeraPDF and JHOVE Brad Westbrook - Enhancing the ArchivesSpace Public Interface
1:00-1:45	Demo and Discussion Session – Collection Management and Description	Presenters from the previous session will provide demonstrations and discuss with CurateGear participants. Kari Smith - Organizational Considerations for Implementing Archivematica [Bellflower AB] Carl Wilson - VeraPDF and JHOVE [Windflower AB] Brian Hoffman and Brad Westbrook - Enhancing the ArchivesSpace Public Interface [Redbud AB]
1:45-2:00	Hosted and Distributed Services [Redbud AB]	Sam Meister and Katherine Skinner - Preservation as a Process: The MetaArchive Cooperative and Distributed Digital Preservation Jack O’Sullivan - Preservica: New Access Options, Workflows and Ways to Eliminate Duplicate Work Klaus Rechert - Local Usage of Emulation as a Service - Docker, Live-System and More
2:00-2:45	Demo and Discussion Session – Hosted and Distributed Services	Presenters from the previous session will provide demonstrations and discuss with CurateGear participants. Sam Meister and Katherine Skinner - Preservation as a Process: The MetaArchive Cooperative and Distributed Digital Preservation [Bellflower AB] Jack O’Sullivan - Preservica: New Access Options, Workflows and Ways to Eliminate Duplicate Work [Windflower AB] Klaus Rechert - Local Usage of Emulation as a Service - Docker, Live-System and More [Redbud AB]
2:45-3:00	Break
3:00-3:15	Media and Disk Images [Redbud AB]	Doug White - Game Cartridge ROM Capture Dianne Dietrich - Vintage Forensics: Wrangling HFS Metadata into DFXML Kam Woods - BCA-Webtools: Accessing and Visualizing Disk Images in a Web Browser
3:15-4:00	Demo and Discussion Session – Media and Disk Images	Presenters from the previous session provide demonstrations and discuss with CurateGear participants. Doug White - Game Cartridge ROM Capture [Redbud AB] Dianne Dietrich - Vintage Forensics: Wrangling HFS Metadata into DFXML [Bellflower AB] Kam Woods - BCA-Webtools: Accessing and Visualizing Disk Images in a Web Browser [Windflower AB]
4:00-4:30	Break
4:30-5:00	Observations and Implications [Redbud AB]	Elizabeth Charlton, Cal Lee (moderator), and Helen Tibbo

Speakers include:

Elizabeth Charlton, Marist Archives (New Zealand)
Erin Clary, Drexel University, Metadata Research Center
Jonathan Crabtree, Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University
Mark Evans, History Associates
Matthew Farrell, Duke University
Bradley Glisson, University of South Alabama
Carolyn Hank, University of Tennessee
Brian Hoffman, ArchivesSpace
Matt Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland
Cal Lee, University of North Carolina
Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries
Susan Malsbury, New York Public Library
Sam Meister, Educopia Institute
Don Mennerich, New York University
Alex Nelson, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jack O'Sullivan, Preservica
Klaus Rechert, University of Freiburg
Terrell Russell, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
Josh Schneider, Stanford
Don Sizemore, Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute
Kari Smith, MIT Libraries
Helen Tibbo, University of North Carolina
Dorothy Waugh, Emory University
Brad Westbrook, ArchivesSpace
Doug White, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Carl Wilson, Open Preservation Foundation
Kam Woods, University of North Carolina

Accommodations
Please see the list of nearby hotels below.

Courtyard by Marriott Chapel Hill 100 Marriott Way (off NC Highway 54 East), Chapel Hill 0.3 mile walk to the Friday Center Tel 919.883.0700 Toll-free 800.321.2211

The Carolina Inn 211 Pittsboro Street (on the UNC Campus), Chapel Hill, NC 27516 3 miles to the Friday Center (free shuttle to Friday Center) Tel 800.962.8519

Hampton Inn & Suites Chapel Hill/Durham 6137 Farrington Road (at I-40 and Hwy 54), Chapel Hill, NC 27514 2.2 miles to the Friday Center (free shuttle to Friday Center) Tel 919.403.8700

Holiday Inn Chapel Hill 1301 N Fordham Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514 4.3 miles to the Friday Center (free shuttle to Friday Center) Tel 919.929.2171

Holiday Inn Express Chapel Hill 6119 Farrington Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27517 1.7 miles to the Friday Center (free shuttle to Friday Center) Tel 919.489.7555

Previous Symposia

2010 Public Symposium: Engaging Communities for the Curation of Digital Products of Scholarly Endeavors
2011 Public Symposium: Curate Me: Stewardship of Personal Digital Archives
2012 Public Symposium: CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections
2013 Public Symposium: CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections
2014 Public Symposium: CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections
2015 Public Symposium: CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections

CurateGear 2016: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections

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