Fall Forum 2003

Schedule At A Glance

Monday 17 November

1:00-2:00:         REGISTRATION.  Foyer to Alvarado Room.

2:00-3:30: BREAKOUT SESSION 1: PRESERVATION.    Alvarado Room ABC.

Digital Formats: Factors for Sustainability, Functionality, and Quality. Caroline Arms and Carl Fleischhauer. Office of Strategic Initiatives, Library of Congress.

Digital Object Format Validation. Stephen L. Abrams, Digital Library Program Manager, Harvard University Library

2:00-3:30: BREAKOUT SESSION 2: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.  Alvarado Room D.

The DLF E-Resource Management Initiative: Project Report. Tim Jewell, University of Washington; Ivy Anderson, Harvard; Adam Chandler, Cornell; Sharon Farb, UCLA; Kimberly Parker, Yale;  Angela Riggio, UCLA; Nathan Robertson, Johns Hopkins.

3:30-4:00:         Break: Foyer to Alvarado Room.

4:00-5:30:         BREAKOUT SESSION 3: ARCHITECTURES. Alvarado Room ABC

MPEG-21 DIDL, the OAI-PMH, and the OpenURL as building blocks for representing, storing and disseminating complex digital objects.  Jeroen Bekaert, Patrick Hochstenbach, Herbert Van de Sompel. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, Prototyping Team.

Update on the Fedora Open-Source Project.  Sandy Payette, Cornell University

4:00-5:30:         BREAKOUT SESSION 4: PRESERVATION.  Alvarado Room D

LOCKSS Implementation: technology, collections, and access.  Tom Robertson, Technical Manager, LOCKSS Program, Stanford University;  Perry Willett, Head, Library Electronic Text Resource Service, Indiana University; Martin Halbert, Director for Library Systems, Emory University.

6:30-9:00:         Reception. The Franciscan Ballroom, Sheraton Old Town.

Tuesday 18 November

8:00-9:00:         Continental Breakfast.  Foyer to Alvarado Room.

9:00-10:30:       BREAKOUT SESSION 5: TOOLS.  Alvarado Room ABC.

Responding to Digital Data Needs:  The DEWI System. Ron Nakao and Chris Bourg, Stanford University Libraries

Building Collections with Greenstone Digital Library Software. Tod A. Olson, Programmer/Analyst Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago Library

9:00-10:30: BREAKOUT SESSION 6: METADATA AND PRODUCTION.  Alvarado Room D.

Metadata Tradeoffs in High-Production Digitization Environments.  Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich.  Metadata Coordinator, Stanford University Libraries / Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR)

The Union Catalog of Art Images (UCAI):  Aggregating and Standardizing Diverse Legacy Metadata. Esme Cowles (Database Developer) and Linda Barnhart (Project Coordinator), Union Catalog of Art Images

10:30-11:00: Break: Foyer to Alvarado Room.

11:00-12:30: BREAKOUT SESSION 7:  PRESERVATION.    Alvarado Room ABC.

Preservation-Worthy Digital Video; or, How to Drive your Library into Chapter 11.  Jerry McDonough.  New York University

California Digital Library's Digital Preservation Program. Patricia Cruse, Director, Digital Preservation Program, California Digital Library

11:00-12:30: BREAKOUT SESSION 8: USER PERSPECTIVE AND ASSESSMENT.  Alvarado D.

Digital Scholarship in the Academy: What Scholars Need.  Ann Lally, Head, Digital Initiatives, University of Washington Libraries

The Evolution of an Interface from the User Perspective: From End User Testing to a Usage Log Analysis.  Sarah Chandler, Cornell University

12:30-2:00: Lunch. Franciscan Ballroom.

2:00-3:30:         PLENARY. Alvarado Room ABC

Introduction.   David Seaman, DLF

A rose is a rose by any other name; what's a DODL? Michael Keller, Stanford University

3:30-4:00: Break: Foyer to Alvarado Room.

4:00-6.00: BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS

a) Elizabeth A. S. Beaudin (Yale): UNICODE: The Right Tools, but how to use them?     Alvarado Room ABC.

b) John Kunze (CDL): Persistent Identifiers:  What's left to be done?  Alvarado Room D.

c) Jerry McDonough (NYU): METS Implementers.  Potters Room.

d) Perry Willett (Indiana): The Text Encoding Initiative and the revision of the DLF "TEI in Libraries" Guidelines.  Weavers Room

e) Mackenzie Smith (MIT): Global Digital Format Registry.  Fireplace Room.

Wednesday 19 November

8:00-9:00: Continental Breakfast: Foyer to Alvarado Room.

9:00-10:30: BREAKOUT SESSION 9: PRESERVATION.  Alvarado Room ABC.

The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Clay Shirky and Laura Campbell

9:00-10:30: BREAKOUT SESSION 10: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.  Alvarado Room D.

LibData: a library web management system. Paul F. Bramscher, Shane A, Nackerud, and John T. Butler, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

NAND: A New Tool for an Old Problem. Charles Blair, Elisabeth Long, and Keith Waclena, The Digital Library Development Center, The University of Chicago Library

10:30-11:00: Break: Foyer to Alvarado Room.

11:00-12:30: BREAKOUT SESSION 11: NATIONAL SCIENCE DIGITAL LIBRARY.  Alvarado Room ABC.

NSDL Projects Update.  Martin Halbert, Director for Library Systems, Emory University

11:00-12:30: BREAKOUT SESSION 12.  Alvarado Room D.

Data Mining Library Collection Silos: An Opportunity for Cooperative Collection Management of Print and Electronic Books.   Lynn Silipigni Connaway.  OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Office of Research.

From aggregation to commerce: the next phase for the RLG Cultural Materials Alliance.  Ricky Erway, Digital Resources Manager, RLG

12:30-1:00:    

                Closing remarks. David Seaman, DLF.  Alvarado Room ABC.

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