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DIGITAL LIBRARY FEDERATION SPRING FORUM 2008 MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA APRIL 28 – 30, 2008 Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
1300 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403
+1-612-370-1234
DAY ONE: Monday, April 28
PRECONFERENCE 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Board of Trustees Meeting (Mirage Room, Second Floor)
Developers' Roundtable (Skyway Suite AB, Second Floor) John A. Kunze, chair (California Digital Library)
DLF/TEI-C Joint Meeting—for project participants (Minnehaha, Second Floor)
Aquifer Services Working Group Meeting—for project participants (Board Room, First Floor)
JHOVE Meeting—for project participants (Greenway I, Second Floor)
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Registration (Greenway Promenade, Second Floor)
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
First-time Attendee Orientation (Greenway C – H, Second Floor) Barrie Howard, Digital Library Federation
Introduction 1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Greetings and Welcome. (Greenway C – H, Second Floor)
Keynote Address 1 1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Giving Maps a Second Life with Digital Technologies (Greenway C – H, Second Floor) David Rumsey, David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Break (Greenway Promenade, Second Floor)
Keynote Address 2 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
The Invisible Computer Revolution: Information Opportunities in the Developing World (Greenway C – H, Second Floor) Joel Selanikio, DataDyne
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Break (Greenway Promenade, Second Floor)
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Session 1 (Greenway C – E, Second Floor)
A) GIS in Service of Historical Bibliography
B) Digital Content Management at Scale: A Case Study from Portico.
Session 2 (Greenway F – H, Second Floor)
A) The Disappearing Data Problem: Preserving Today’s Geospatial Data to Meet Tomorrow’s Temporal Analysis Needs.
B) A Multi-Tiered Architecture for Distributed Data Collection and Centralized Data Delivery.
C) An OAI-ORE Aggregation for the National Virtual Observatory.
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Evening Reception (Nicollet D1/D2, First Floor)
DAY TWO: Tuesday, April 29
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast (Regency Room, Second Floor)
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Session 3 (Greenway C – E, Second Floor)
A) Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution.
B) Self-Archiving Legacy Toolkit.
Session 4 (Greenway F – H, Second Floor)
A) Library Integration with the Campus Enterprise and Beyond.
B) Transforming the Student's Experience as Scholar.
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Break (Greenway Promenade, Second Floor)
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Session 5 (Greenway C – E, Second Floor)
PANEL: Implementing Preservation Metadata in Digital Library Applications: Using PREMIS in METS
Session 6: (Greenway F – H, Second Floor)
A) The Challenges of Applying Traditional Cataloging Standards to Non-Traditional, User-Created Descriptive Metadata in Digital Library Projects.
B) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Corralling an Okay Text Corpus from a Whole Heap o' Sources.
12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Break for Lunch and Networking [Individual choice]
12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Aquifer Technical Advisors Meeting—for participants only (Greenway I, Second Floor)
Bird-of-a-Feather Sessions 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
1) Considering the DLF Web Site. (Greenway C – E, Second Floor)
2) Asset Actions Next Steps: Atom/OAI-ORE and Zotero. (Greenway F – H, Second Floor)
3) Open Access Mandates: Opportunities for DLF Institutions. (Greenway A, Second Floor)
4) Implementing the ILS-Discovery Interface Recommendations. (Greenway B, Second Floor)
5) ARTstor — A Platform for Broad-scale Sharing of Digital Images (Greenway J, Second Floor)
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Break (Greenway Promenade, Second Floor)
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Session 7 (Greenway C – E, Second Floor)
A) Mitigating Preservation Threats: Standards and Practices in the National Digital Newspaper Program.
B) DLF Environmental Scan: Issues and Solutions for Archives in a Digital World
Session 8 (Greenway F – H, Second Floor)
A) Towards a Social Science Data Network.
B) MobiLIB: A Mobile Library Service at North Carolina State.
C) XTF 2.1: Powerful Search and Display without the Headaches.
DAY THREE: Wednesday, April 30
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast (Regency Room, Second Floor)
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Session 9 (Greenway C – E, Second Floor)
PANEL: Implementing User-centered Design with Agile Software Development.
Session 10 (Greenway F – H, Second Floor)
A) DSpace Foundation: Charting a course to support the Dspace community and advance the DSpace open source software platform.
B) Building a Large-Scale Preservation Repository Based on aDORe.
C) Experiment to Investigate the Scalability of a DSpace-based Archive.
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Break (Greenway Promenade, Second Floor)
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Session 11 (Greenway C – E, Second Floor)
A) Introducing BibApp 1.0.
B) The NEW IUScholarWorks at Indiana University: repositories, journals, and scholarly publishing.
Session 12 (Greenway F – H, Second Floor)
A) Turning the Pages 2.0—One Year On.
B) HarvestChoice: Developing Biblio-spatial Integrations for Search.
12:30 p.m.
Adjourn
POST-CONFERENCE 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
METS Open Meeting—open to all (Greenway A, Second Floor)

SouthComb Meeting —for project participants (Greenway B, Second Floor)
Thursday, May 1
POST-CONFERENCE 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
METS Editorial Board Meeting—for project participants (Lake Nokomis, Fifth Floor)
DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force—for project participants (Lake Minnetonka, Fifth Floor)

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