DIGITAL LIBRARY FEDERATION

SPRING FORUM 2006

AUSTIN, TX

APRIL 10 – 12, 2006

The Driskill Hotel
604 Brazos Street
Austin, Texas 78701
(800) 252-9367
Floor Plan

PRECONFERENCE: Monday, April 10

8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group Meeting—for project participants (Governor's Boardroom)

DLF Aquifer Services Working Group Meeting—for project participants (Maximilian Room)

DLF Aquifer Technology/Architecture Working Group Meeting—for project participants (Chisholm Trail Room)

DAY ONE: Monday, April 10

10:30a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Registration (Mezzanine)

11:30a.m. – 12:15 p.m. First-time Attendee Orientation (Driskill Ballroom)

12:45 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Opening Remarks (Driskill Ballroom)

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Session 1: PANEL: Developers' Forum Panel: Global Identifier Resolution. (Driskill Ballroom)

Tim DiLauro, Moderator, Johns Hopkins University; John Kunze, California Digital Library; Eva Müller, Uppsala Universitet [Sweden]; and Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library

Session 2: PANEL: Implementing the PREMIS Data Dictionary. (Citadel I and II)

Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation; Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Stanford; Marcus Enders, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen; and Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break (Mezzanine)

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Session 3: PANEL: Libraries and Publishing—Reports from the Field. (Driskill Ballroom)

Maria Bonn, University of Michigan; David Millman, Columbia University; Catherine Mitchell, California Digital Library; and David Ruddy, Cornell University

Session 4: PANEL: The LC/NSF Digital Archiving and Long-term Preservation Research Program (Digarch): Results and Prospects. (Citadel I and II)

William LeFurgy, Library of Congress; Ardys Kozbial, University of California, San Diego; Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan; and Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University

4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Break (Mezzanine)

5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Session 5: Metadata Strategies (Driskill Ballroom)

A) Development and Testing of Schema for Expressing Copyright Status Information in Metadata: Recommendations of the Rights Management Framework Group, California Digital Library.

Karen Coyle, California Digital Library, and Sharon Farb, University of California, Los Angeles

B) Truth and Consequences, Texas: The University of Texas Libraries' Metadata Registry Project.

Alisha Little and Erik Grostic, University of Texas at Austin

C) Sharing Resources by Collection: OAI Sets and Set Descriptions.

Muriel Foulonneau and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Caroline Arms, Library of Congress

Session 6: Dynamic Digital Environments (Citadel I and II)

A) The Evolution of a Digitization Program from Project Based to Large Scale at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries.

Aaron Choate, University of Texas at Austin

B) DAR: A Digital Assets Repository for Library Collections.

Mohamed Yakout and Magdy Nagi, Bibliotheca Alexandrina

C) Contextualizing the Institutional Repository within Faculty Research.

Deborah Holmes-Wong, Janis Brown, and Sara Tompson, University of Southern California

7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. POSTERS (Mezzanine)

1) Digital Imaging at the University of Texas at Austin. Aaron Choate, University of Texas at Austin

2) WolfPack: A Distributed File Conversion Framework. Christopher Kellen, Carnegie Mellon University

3) Navigating a Sea of Texts: Topic Maps and the Poetry of Algernon Charles Swinbure. John Walsh and Michelle Dalmau, Indiana University

4) Implications of the Copyright Office's Recommended Legislation for Orphan Works. Denise Troll Covey, Carnegie Mellon University

7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Reception (Mezzanine)

DAY TWO: Tuesday, April 11

8:00a.m. – 9:00a.m. Breakfast (Mezzanine)

9:00a.m. – 10:30a.m.

Session 7: Managing Digital Library Content (Driskill Ballroom)

A) Everything Old Is New Again: Repurposing Collections at the University of Michigan through Print on Demand.

Terri Geitgey and Shana Kimball, University of Michigan

B) The Next Mother Lode for Large-scale Digitization?

John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania

Session 8: Remodeling Digital Library Content (Citadel I and II)

A) SRU: Version 1.2 and Beyond.

Robert Sanderson, University of Liverpool

B) Archiving Courseware Websites to DSpace, Using Content Packaging Profiles and Web Services.

William Reilly and Robert Wolfe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:30a.m. – 11:00a.m. Break (Mezzanine)

11:00a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Session 9: PANEL: Surfacing Consistent Topics Across Aggregated Resource Collections (Driskill Ballroom)

David Newman, University of California, Irvine; Martin Halbert, Emory University; Kat Hagedorn, University of Michigan; and Bill Landis, California Digital Library

Session 10: (Citadel I and II)

A) Video Preservation: The Truth Is Out There.

Rick Ochoa and Melitte Buchman, New York University

B) Automated Risk Assessment for File Formats.

Hannah Frost and Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Stanford University

12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Break for Lunch [Individual choice]

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. POSTERS (Mezzanine)

1) Digital Imaging at the University of Texas at Austin. Aaron Choate, University of Texas at Austin

2) WolfPack: A Distributed File Conversion Framework. Christopher Kellen, Carnegie Mellon University

3) Navigating a Sea of Texts: Topic Maps and the Poetry of Algernon Charles Swinbure. John Walsh and Michelle Dalmau, Indiana University

4) Implications of the Copyright Office's Recommended Legislation for Orphan Works. Denise Troll Covey, Carnegie Mellon University

2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Session 11: PANEL: DLF Aquifer: Bringing Collections to Light.. (Driskill Ballroom)

Katherine Kott, DLF Aquifer Director; Perry Willett and Kat Hagedorn, University of Michigan; Jon Dunn, Indiana University; Thornton Staples, University of Virginia; and Thomas Habing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Session 12: Tools (Citadel I and II)

A) The XML Submission Tool: A System for Managing Text Collections at Indiana University.

Dazhi Jiao, Tamara Lopez, and Jenn Riley, Indiana University

B) The Archivists’ Toolkit: Streamlining Production and Standardizing Archival Information.

Bradley Westbrook, University of California, San Diego; Lee Mandell, Archivists' Toolkit; and Jason Varghese, New York University

4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Break (Mezzanine)

4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. BIRDS OF A FEATHER 1

1) DLF Aquifer MODS Implementation Guidelines: Overview/Discussion of Comments and Changes (Driskill Ballroom)

Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Laura Akerman, Emory University; John Chapman, University of Minnesota; Melanie Feltner-Reichert, University of Tennessee; Bill Landis, California Digital Library; David Reynolds, The Johns Hopkins University; Jenn Riley, Indiana University; Liz Milewicz, Emory University; and Gary Shawver, New York University

2) Global Identifier Resolution: Developers' Forum. (Maximilian Room)

Tim DiLauro, Organizer, Johns Hopkins University, and John Kunze, Organizer, California Digital Library

3) Electronic Records Archives: Systems and Metadata Architectures. (Austin Room)

Quyen Nguyen and Dyung Le, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

4) Update of Activities of the DLF Services Framework Working Group. (Jim Hogg Parlor)

Geneva Henry, Rice University

5:15 p.m. – 5:25 p.m. Break

5:25 p.m. – 6:25 p.m. BIRDS OF A FEATHER 2

1) DLF Aquifer MODS Implementation Guidelines. (Driskill Ballroom)

Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John Chapman, University of Minnesota; Bill Landis, California Digital Library; David Reynolds, The Johns Hopkins University; Jenn Riley, Indiana University; Liz Milewicz, Emory University; and Gary Shawver, New York University

2) Archivists' Toolkit. (Maximilian Room)

Bradley Westbrook, University of California, San Diego

3) DLF Inter-institutional Communication. (Austin Room)

Michael Pelikan, Pennsylvania State University, and David Seaman, Digital Library Federation

4) Central Repository for a DL How-to. (Jim Hogg Parlor)

Jewel Ward, University of Southern California, and Barrie Howard, Digital Library Federation

DAY THREE: Wednesday, April 12

8:00a.m. – 9:00a.m. Breakfast (Mezzanine)

9:00a.m. – 10:30a.m.

Session 13: Digital Library Services (Driskill Ballroom)

A) Recommendations and Ranking: Experiments in Next Generation Library Catalogs.

Brian Tingle, California Digital Library

B) Unbundling the ILS: Deploying an E-commerce Catalog Search Solution.

Andrew Pace and Emily Lynema, North Carolina State University

Session 14: Packaging and Performance (Citadel I and II)

A) The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI).

Perry Roland, University of Virginia

B) METS Profile Development at the Library of Congress: An Update.

Morgan Cundiff, Library of Congress

C) Automated Generation of METS Records for Digital Objects.

Nate Trail, Library of Congress

10:30a.m. – 11:00a.m. Break

11:00a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Session 15: PANEL: The Open Content Alliance, Introduction and Progress Report. (Driskill Ballroom)

Rick Prelinger, the Internet Archive; Robin Chandler, California Digital Library; and Merrilee Proffitt, RLG

Session 16: PANEL:Listening to Users: How User Communities Can Inform Design. (Citadel I and II)

Ellen Meltzer, Felicia Poe, and Tracy Seneca, California Digital Library

12:30 p.m. Adjourn

POST-CONFERENCE: Wednesday, April 12

12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

METS Community Meeting—open to all (Driskill Ballroom)

1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Developers' Forum—open to all (Chisholm Trail Room)

2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

METS Editorial Board Meeting—for participants only (Driskill Ballroom)

POST-CONFERENCE: Thursday, April 13

8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

METS Editorial Board Meeting (Austin Room)