[Update: Recordings of the day are available on CARL’s YouTube channel.]
The MC for the day will be Jonathan Bengtson, University Librarian at University of Victoria & Chair of CARL Advancing Research Committee’s Digital Preservation Working Group.
Simultaneous interpretation will be available for all presentations throughout the day.
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Coffee and light breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.
Welcoming remarks
- Maureen Clapperton, Directrice générale de la Bibliothèque nationale, BAnQ
9:15 – 10:15 a.m.
Keynote – The New Challenges of Stewardship in the Digital Age
- Clifford Lynch, Director, Coalition of Networked Information
10:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Networking/health break – coffee and refreshments
10:45 – 11:45 a.m.
Presentation – Results of the CARL Digital Preservation Working Group’s Survey on Current State and Future Needs in Digital Preservation in Canada
- Grant Hurley, Digital Preservation Librarian, Scholars Portal (see slides; Phase 1 and Phase 2 interim reports)
Followed by table discussion then panel response:
- Lisa Goddard, Associate University Librarian, Digital Scholarship & Strategy, University of Victoria
- Geoff Harder, Associate University Librarian, University of Alberta
- Mireille Laforce, directrice du dépôt légal et de la conservation des collections patrimoniales, BAnQ
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Panel – “At Scale” Digital Preservation in Canada – Working at the Institutional vs. Regional vs. National Level – introduced and moderated by Carole Urbain, Steering Committee member, National Heritage Digitization Strategy and Vice-présidente, Association pour l’avancement des sciences et des techniques de documentation (ASTED) – (see slides describing NHDS)
- John Richan, Digital Archivist, Records Management & Archives, Concordia University (see slides)
- Steve Marks, Digital Preservation Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries
- Corey Davis, Digital Preservation Coordinator, Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries coppul.ca/digitalpreservation (see slides)
- Kate Davis, Co-Director, Scholars Portal
- Pascale Montmartin, Analyste d’affaires en préservation et diffusion des collections numériques, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (see slides)
- Faye Lemay, Digital Preservation Manager, Library & Archives Canada (see slides)
12:45 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (provided)
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Lightning presentations – ‘A Sampling of Current Canadian Initiatives in Digital Preservation’ (Moderator Corey Davis)
- Sarah Dupont (University of British Columbia) – Pragmatic Audio Preservation with Aboriginal Peoples – indigitization.ca (see slides)
- Lisa Goddard (University of Victoria) – Endings: Building Sustainable Digital Humanities Projects (see slides)
- Karin MacLeod (Library & Archives Canada) – Digital Preservation Starts with Acquiring Digital Content (see slides)
- Annie Murray (University of Calgary) – Rock Music: A Digital Preservation Gateway Drug (see slides)
- Mireille Nappert (Canadian Centre for Architecture) – Preserving Software for Long-term Access to CAD Files (see slides)
- Umar Qasim (University of Alberta & Portage Preservation Expert Group) – Portage’s Federated Approach to Preserve Canadian Research Data (see slides)
- Tim Walsh (Concordia University) – Bulk Reviewer: A software application for managing sensitive information in digital archives (see slides)
- Jess Whyte (University of Toronto) – FloppyCapture.py – automating forensic disk imaging for accuracy, efficiency, and data reuse (see slides)
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Networking/health break – coffee and refreshments
3:15 – 4:00 p.m.
Table discussion & plenary reporting (Moderator Jonathan Bengtson)
4:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Wrap-up and closing remarks: Clifford Lynch & Jonathan Bengtson
