Blue Ribbon Task Force on sustainable digital preservation and access : JISC

Blue Ribbon Task Force on sustainable digital preservation and access

Sustainable economics for a digital planet: Ensuring long-term access to digital information

The Blue Ribbon Task Force will be presenting their final report Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information at this one day free symposium.

The report provides an economic framework and practical recommendations for ensuring the future sustainability of digital preservation and access.

The symposium will allow UK and European stakeholders to respond to this report through a mixture of panel and audience discussions and presentations from the senior figures.

During the day there will be presentations from a range of organisations including; the Blue Ribbon Task Force, the BBC, The Natural History Museum, The British Library, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Commission and JISC, who will be highlighting their perspectives on preservation and access.

The symposium is the companion event to a meeting taking place on 1 April 2010 in Washington DC. Conference tag BRTF

Press Release: Making the business case for digital preservation

Listen to the podcast with Chris Rusbridge (Duration 14:27)

Programme

Time	Activity
09.30	Registration
10.00	Welcome & Announcements Neil Grindley JISC, Digital Preservation Programme Manager
Session 1 - Paul Ayris, University College London (Chair)
10.05	Introduction & Scene Setting Paul Ayris University College London, Director of Library Services
10.10	Summary of Blue Ribbon activity & recommendations Chris Rusbridge Independent consultant
10.25	Summary of the Washington meeting Brian Lavoie OCLC, Research Scientist Download presentation (PDF)
10.40	Discussion - What has the Task Force achieved?
11.10	Break
Session 2 - Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information (Chair)
11.30	A view from the heritage sector - the Natural History Museum Graham Higley Natural History Museum, Head of Library and Information Services Download presentation (PDF)
12.00	A view from public broadcasting - BBC John Zubrzycki BBC Research, Principal Technologist and Archives Research Section Leader Download presentation (PDF)
12.30	Lunch
13.30	The Data Manager's perspective - UK Data Archive Matthew Woollard UK Data Archive, Director-Designate Download presentation (PDF)
14.00	The national library perspective - The British Library Adam Farquhar The British Library, Head of Digital Library Technology Download presentation (PDF)
14.30	Discussion - How feasible is cross-domain collaboration?
15.00	Break
Session 3 - Brian Lavoie, OCLC (Chair)
15.20	Tackling the sustainability challenge - European Commission Pat Manson European Commission, Acting Director, Digital Content and Cognitive Systems
15.50	Building sustainable digital preservation - context and challenges - JISC Sarah Porter JISC, Head of Innovation
16.20	Discussion - Where do we go from here?
16.55	Closing remarks Chris Rusbridge Independent consultant Download closing remarks map (PDF)
17.00	Drinks reception
18.00	Finish

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